Moira Welsh
Moira Welsh is a political reporter at the Toronto Star’s Queen’s Park bureau and a former investigative reporter. She has co-authored investigations that have won three National Newspaper Awards and a Michener Award for Public Service Journalism. Welsh was a finalist for the Justicia Award for Legal Reporting and the Canadian Hillman Prize. She is the author of Happily Ever Older, which accounts vibrant approaches to senior living from across North America and Europe. Welsh lives in Toronto.
Writers & Books
Award History
2026 - Finalist
Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
forThe Astonishing Lives of Older Women: How to Create Pleasure Over Peril in Peak Longevity
Jury Citation
“The Astonishing Lives of Older Women explores both the promise and the peril of growing older as a woman today. While poverty rates for seniors have fallen, those struggling in old age are disproportionately women. The gap between those with solid pensions and those without has never mattered more. For women who depend on Old Age Security and CPP alone, later life can mean real hardship. Journalist Moira Welsh calls this a “demographic time bomb,” a “policy morass” in which growing numbers of older women face mounting vulnerability at an increasingly unaffordable stage of life. But Welsh moves beyond finances to explore how loneliness, sexuality and intimacy, health, and housing shape a full life in older age. Grounded in rigorous research and real stories, the book combines data with deep empathy and raises a pressing question about what it truly means to age, especially for women, now and in the years ahead.”—2026 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Jury (Raymond B. Blake, Samantha Nutt, and Scott Young)Works Recognized by WT