Joan May Hollobon OC, (January 29, 1920 – April 3, 2024) was a Welsh-born Canadian writer and journalist best known for her progressive medical reporting for Globe and Mail.
[2] During World War II Hollobon volunteered as an administrative and press officer with the British Red Cross.
Plouffe recognized Hollobon's "just and accurate reporting" of police commission meetings at a send off from the newspaper, ahead of her departure for a position at The Globe and Mail.
[1]: 141 One of her early pieces covered remarks made by Jewish labour activist Kalmen Kaplansky at the Ontario Federation's of Labor's Human Rights Conference in December of that year regarding employment discrimination based on religion.
She told reporter Paula Arab that "[i]n those days, Canadian scientists and doctors considered it virtually unethical to talk to the press at all.
"[6] In 1962, Hollobon covered the Saskatchewan doctors' strike during which physicians vowed to close their practices if Medicare became law.