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Rachel Gilmore, pictured on Dec. 1, 2022, taking part in a panel discussion hosted by Carleton University's school of journalism about online hate targeted at women journalists. Today, Gilmore describes herself as 'your least favourite person’s least favourite journalist.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

September 22, 2025

Independent Montreal-based journalist Rachel Gilmore says her investigative work on far-right extremism means she is regularly harassed and stalked—both online and off—particularly from members of the right-wing extremist militia network called Diagolon, some of whom wer...

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