Rachel Gilmore

Between 2020 and 2023, Rachel Gilmore was a parliamentary journalist in Ottawa for Global News. She reported on various issues, including the 2022 Freedom Convoy and the 2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election. She would equally lead Global News' presence on TikTok^[1]. She would gain notoriety around this time, and would face attacks, including from Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre.^[2] She was laid off in 2023, as part of broader layoffs at Global.^[3]

Gilmore has since pivoted her work to independent journalism, through her outlet Bubble Pop Media. Her investigations, which generally take the form of short-form videos, have focused notably on the far-right, and in particular active clubs, including one such instance where members of an active club in Montreal – Frontenac Active Club – managed to use a gym without the owner's knowledge. In March 2026, two members of said active club, Shawn Beauvais-Macdonald and Giulio Zardo, would show up, in March 2026, at an event to intimidate her following her investigation.^[4][5]

On March 2025, CTV hired Gilmore to host a weekly fact-checking segment for the 2025 Canadian federal election. She would be fired shortly after a conservative pressure campaign made her segment a "distraction" for the channel.^[6][7]

Gilmore is associated with feminist reporting. She has repeatedly spoken up in defense of women's rights, in particular denouncing embarrassment and misogyny targeting female journalists. In December 2025, she was invited to testify in front of the House of Commons of Canada's Standing Committee on the Status of Women on the effects of anti-feminist ideology.^[8][9]

Gilmore is regularly targeted by Internet harassment campaigns by far-right groups.^[10][11]

• White nationalism
• Canadian Anti-Hate Network