Carrie Tait, a Calgary-based journalist with the Globe and Mail, was stalked and photographed by an unknown person who shared photos of her and details of her movements on an anonymous social media account.
Over several days, an anonymous Twitter (X) account published photos of Tait meeting in public locations with two former staffers in Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government, reported the Globe and Mail. Someone also spoofed Tait’s cell phone number and called several of her contacts, reported the Globe.
The account posted most of the photos on July 10, 2025. In an early post, the account promised to “start exposing Carrie Tait’s sources in the continuing health care saga,” according to the Globe.
Tait has written extensively about allegations that Smith’s office interfered in procurement processes at the Alberta healthcare agency and tried to steer contracts to specific companies.
The photos appeared to have been taken “surreptitiously” by someone following Tait, the Globe reported. One post from the account mentioned a “medication refill,” days after Tait said she had picked up a prescription from a pharmacy in Calgary. Tait and one of the staffers were tagged in one of the posts, according to the Globe.
The posts included photos of Tait meeting one of the former staffers in a park, and another at a Mexican restaurant.
A lawyer acting for the staffers told the Globe that they have received threatening texts. She described the situation as “extremely disturbing,” and that the “stalking” campaign appeared to be aimed at intimidating people connected to the government and preventing them from speaking with journalists.
Self-described political “fixer” David Wallace appeared to be aware of the photos days before they were shared publicly. He referenced the Mexican restaurant meeting in a video he posted two days before the photos were shared publicly, according to the Globe.
Wallace told the Globe that someone sent him the photos before they were posted online. He denied knowing anything about who had taken them.
In 2021, Wallace said he had been hired to dig up the phone records of a Canadian Press journalist and find her source for a story about a former Alberta justice minister. He also claimed in 2021 to have been approached by conservative activists hoping to entrap Calgary’s then-mayor Naheed Nenshi by engineering a bribery scandal.
Speaking to the Globe, the Canadian Association of Journalists described the stalking incident as a “bold-faced assault” on press freedom, and “stuff you would expect out of somewhere in Russia, or some tin pot dictatorship.”
Globe and Mail editor-in-chief David Walmsley said the incident was “an attack on the public’s right to know.”