Karen Howlett | The Canadian Encyclopedia

Karen Howlett

Karen Howlett is an award-winning Toronto-based journalist at The Globe and Mail, where she is a member of the investigations team. She has spent much of the past 1.5 years reporting on Canada's opioid crisis. Prior to joining the investigations team in 2013, she was based in The Globe’s Queens Park bureau, where she reported on federal-provincial relations and Ontario politics. She has also worked in The Globe’s British Columbia bureau and in The Globe’s Report on Business section, where she reported on financial services and securities regulation.

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