Alessia Simona Maratta
Alessia Simona Maratta focuses on how political decisions, regulations and conflicts ripple through communities, often pairing national and global stories with on-the-ground voices and detailed policy explanations. She is a digital reporter, producer and editor with Global News’ network news desk team, covering breaking news, crime, politics, public health, housing, labour, immigration, environment and climate, social issues, features and more. Her recent work spans Canadian and international politics, public health regulation, labour and technology, and human-interest features that ground complex issues in everyday experience.
Politics, policy and community impact
In her political reporting, Maratta connects high-level decisions to specific communities and individuals affected by them. She has covered the death of a Canadian in southern Lebanon, framing the story through statements from the foreign affairs minister and the victim’s community while situating it in the wider conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. She has reported on federal commitments of $1.55 billion to ensure equal services for First Nations children, highlighting how funding decisions intersect with long‑running debates over fairness in child and family services.
Her coverage of trade and diplomacy includes work on a U.S.–Canada dispute where French-language protections took a central role, as well as contributions to reporting on retaliatory tariffs in sectors such as steel and dairy. She has also examined contracts awarded by U.S. immigration authorities to a Quebec-based security firm linked to controversial detention facilities, underscoring the political and human rights dimensions of cross-border enforcement.
Alongside these stories, she has reported on politically charged protest imagery, including a mock hanging of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu that drew condemnation from politicians and community groups.
Public health and social issues
Maratta regularly covers how health policy and social norms are debated in legislatures and regulatory bodies. Her reporting on proposed tighter controls on Benadryl and other diphenhydramine-based medications in Quebec explains draft regulations that would move products behind pharmacy counters and require pharmacists to record sales in patients’ files. She has written about a provincial politician who spoke openly in the legislature about menopause symptoms, noting how candid discussion of women’s health can challenge stigma while drawing public attention to under-discussed issues. Across these pieces, the focus stays on how rules, language and institutional culture shape everyday experiences of health and care rather than treating policy as an abstract topic.
Labour, technology and regulation
Labour and regulation are another recurring strand in Maratta’s work, often at the intersection of technology, globalization and worker rights. She has reported on the adoption of AI “accent masking” tools in overseas call centres and the backlash from unions, using the story to surface concerns about discrimination, surveillance and the pressures facing workers in outsourced industries. Her coverage of immigration and security contracting, including new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contracts with a Quebec-based firm involved in high-profile detention operations, situates corporate decisions within broader debates over accountability and labour conditions in the security sector. These pieces reflect a consistent interest in how policy choices made far from the workplace can reshape the realities of employment and organizing.
Features and human stories
Alongside hard news, Maratta produces features that use individual narratives to illuminate wider historical or social themes.
One story follows a 95‑year‑old Canadian skier who remains on the slopes after eight decades, using the subject’s longevity to explore aging, resilience and the culture around lifelong sport. Another examines how DNA technology helped identify a New Brunswick woman decades after her death, explaining forensic advances while acknowledging the emotional weight of finally naming a victim. In a piece about a threat to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” she draws on Great Lakes history to show how place names carry centuries of Indigenous and regional meaning, and how political rhetoric can collide with that legacy. Taken together, these features show a preference for clear narrative arcs, accessible explanations of complex topics and attention to the people whose lives embody larger trends.
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