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Tu Thanh Ha
StaffReporterToronto, Canada
tha@globeandmail.com

Area of Expertise

Long-term care, healthcare, adaptation to climate change, courts, crime, politics, science.

Tu Thanh Ha is a reporter who works on The Globe and Mail’s investigative team. He has written on a wide range of topics, from the impact of COVID-19 on nursing homes to serial killers to obituaries of Holocaust survivors.

Before moving to Toronto, he spent 12 years as a correspondent for The Globe in Montreal, reporting on Quebec politics, organized crime, space flights, and natural disasters. He also covered politics as a reporter in The Globe's Parliamentary Bureau and as a legislature reporter in Quebec City for Montreal's The Gazette.

'As a former refugee I am lucky that my parents had the fortitude and resourcefulness to escape from a war and start a new life in a new land.'

38

Years in Journalism

32

Years at The Globe and Mail

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Journalism and Computer Science, Concordia University, 1990

DEC, Science, Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, 1981

Honours & Awards

Winner, Atlantic Journalism Awards for Enterprise Reporting (print), 2025

Finalist, Michener Award for meritorious public service journalism, 2024

Winner, National Newspaper Awards for Explanatory Work, 2021: "How Quebec’s response to COVID-19 left 4,000 dead in long-term care homes"

Winner (team), National Newspaper Awards for Sustained News Coverage, 2020: The devastation inside Canada’s long-term care homes from the spread of COVID-19

SABEW Gold for Breaking News category, 2018 (team) - The murders of Barry and Honey Sherman

Runner-up (team), National Newspaper Award in Breaking News category, 2017: The Quebec mosque attack

Runner-up, National Newspaper Award in Breaking News category, 2005

Languages spoken

Vietnamese, French, English

Tu Thanh Ha abides by The Globe and Mail Editorial Code of Conduct

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