[1] After graduating, Poitras began his career in journalism as an intern staff writer for The Kingston Whig-Standard,[5][4] after which worked for the English weekly newspaper Prognosis, which was based in the Czech capital Prague.
[3] During the 2024 Atlantic Journalism Awards, Poitras, along with Danielle McCreadie and Vanessa Vander Valk, received the gold award under the "Audio" category's "Breaking News" section for their report on Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Dorothy Shephard resigning surrounding the events of Policy 713.
[28][29] The gives a three-decade long historical recount of politics in New Brunswick and additionally covers then-Premier Bernard Lord,[30] and was shortlisted for the Atlantic Booksellers' Choice Award.
[48] Michael Sobota of The Chronicle-Journal called the book an "industrial thriller," adding that Poitras' "narrative is well researched with facts, data and personal opinions from a full spectrum of those involved with or impacted by the project.
[50] On December 2, 2015, Poitras published an article about Eilish Cleary's sudden leave from her position as Chief Medical Officer of Health in New Brunswick, noting that Cleary had been studying glyphosate, a herbicide recently labelled as "probably carcinogenic to humans" by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, at the time.
[51] Two days later, Mary Keith of J. D. Irving released a "sharply worded" statement in response,[52] calling the article a "sensational story" and accusing CBC News of presenting "an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory as fact," further claiming that CBC "falsely implied that J. D. Irving, Limited (JDI) is or was involved in some sort of conspiracy against Dr. Cleary because JDI uses glyphosate".
[53] In their statement, Irving also demanded that CBC "immediately remove the story from their website, publish a full retraction, and apologize for their appalling behavior".
According to Enkin, restricting Poitras from writing about the Irvings or using his personal Twitter account "would amount to a form of censorship".