Meagan Gillmore is a journalist in Ottawa and is the Ottawa reporter for the national news site Canadian Affairs. Meagan’s reporting has included topics related to MAID and mental illness, including loneliness among seniors and youth, disability and poverty and the availability of various mental health treatments.
As a freelance journalist, she has reported extensively on disability issues, as well as covering euthanasia and assisted-suicide news in Canada, including for The Walrus, TVO.org, Accessible Media Inc and Christianity Today. Her reporting on disability concerns with euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Walrus won the 2023 Gary Corocan Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability from the National Centre on Disability and Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
Meagan’s reporting on disability has also appeared in Broadview, CBC, Chatelaine and Faith Today and has earned several national journalism nominations. She recently wrote a chapter about disability and the COVID-19 pandemic for the newly released book Breaking Canadians from University of Toronto Press.