Zosia Bielski is The Globe and Mail's time use reporter, based in Toronto.
For the next year, her stories will explore our relationship with time: how we use our minutes, hours and days at paid work, unpaid labour, in community and at leisure, after the pandemic upended norms at home and on the job. Mining a growing arena of time-use research, her reporting has examined the staying power of hybrid work, the science of distraction and global pushback against a culture of busyness and overwork.
Previously, she reported on relationships and families, tracing the rise of "good divorces," couples living apart, grandchildless boomers, and the steep personal costs of eldercare. She frequently covered sexual health and sexuality, reporting on pioneering desire researchers in Canada, transgender youth alienated from their families, and governments slashing sex ed from school curriculums.
In 2018, she won the National Newspaper Award for beat reporting for her coverage of #MeToo's reverberations across courts, schools and health care settings in Canada – from victims of intimate partner violence looking beyond the legal system for amends, to the ethical dilemmas posed by dementia, intimacy, and consent inside nursing homes.
In 2021, she was part of a team nominated for Project of the Year at the National Newspaper Awards for the Globe’s L6P series, a look at the COVID-19 crisis in one racialized community, including gender roles buckling in multi-generational homes under lockdown. In 2024, she won a National Newspaper Award for explanatory work for her reporting on laws that criminalize HIV non-disclosure and put Canada out of step with modern science, leaving people living with HIV under threat of criminal liability.
Before joining The Globe and Mail in 2008, Zosia wrote about culture, education and urban affairs for the National Post.
