Erin Anderssen

Erin Anderssen feels lucky to have landed a job at The Globe and Mail's Ottawa Bureau at age 25. Still based in Ottawa, she has gone on to cover social issues, crime, health policy, mental health and social science, working as a long-form feature writer. This has allowed her time to do what she considers the best parts of the job: in-depth conversations with Canadians and poring over academic papers.

Erin has spent months interviewing cancer patients for a special series on the Day in Life of Cancer in Canada, and has led special projects on mental health stigma, the lack of access to mental health care, and teenage suicide.

During the pandemic, she wrote about the personal impact of COVID-19 on families and healthcare professionals.

More recently, she has covered medical assistance in dying for The Globe, as well as the connection between a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-blue-jay-bean-seed-conservation/">human welfare and nature.

Occasionally, Erin is able to write pieces about her home province, Nova Scotia. And she will always make time for a good animal story, including this one, which forever changed how she views the octopus.