Jeff Gray has covered Queen’s Park for The Globe and Mail since 2019. He has broken stories about the Ford government's controversial plans for its Ontario Place site on Toronto's waterfront and the province's increased use of special zoning orders to approve land developers' projects.
He has also reported extensively about the government's aborted move to allow housing on the protected Greenbelt area. And he compiled data to show that the province, acting on Premier Doug Ford's vow to appoint "like-minded" judges who would be tough on crime, had dramatically increased the number of former prosecutors elevated to the bench.
Jeff started at The Globe in 1998 as a summer intern. In 2000, he was named the paper's first online reporter/editor for its then-new breaking-news website. In 2002, he spent a year on leave in London working for the BBC and reporting for The Globe before returning to immerse himself in municipal politics in Toronto, reporting and writing a column from City Hall. He has also worked in the Report on Business, where he focused on white-collar crime as the section's law reporter.
In the fall of 2025, Jeff produced an exhaustively researched, definitive examination of the reasons behind the delays and cost overruns that plagued the province’s Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto, which has since finally opened after 15 years.
He lives in Toronto, where he coaches his kids in house league hockey, plays guitar (quite badly) and (mostly) rides his bike to work.
