Savannah Stewart is a Montreal-based journalist. She joined The Rover as Managing Editor in 2023, and she’s particularly interested in community reporting, housing, justice, women’s rights and the environment. Her work can be found, in English and in French, in Pivot, The Eastern Door and Cult MTL.
Savannah looks at our readers’ requests for the issues they want coverage on and it gets her thinking about the challenges of reporting on the housing crisis.
As Quebec’s Laicity law makes its way through the courts, religious minorities and particularly Muslim women are dealing with the consequences — all while the province struggles to find qualified teachers.
Marisa Portolese grew up hearing about Goose Village, but it was destroyed before she was born in the lead-up to Expo 67. Now, she’s working to preserve what she can.