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A visit to Fort Chipewyan as First Nations seek answers on Imperial Oil spills

Amid the fallout from Imperial Oil’s tailings pond spill in northern Alberta, we headed up...

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The east gets the least: new TTC service cuts hit Scarborough hardest

One of Toronto’s busiest bus routes will see longer wait times with new TTC rush...

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Feds willing to delay Greenbelt development, even as provinces fight that power at Supreme Court

As Canada’s top court begins considering federal environmental powers, Guilbeault stops short of requesting a...

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Meet Michelle Cyca, The Narwhal’s newest editor

She joins the team to deepen our reporting on Indigenous-led conservation

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Giving forestry corporations what they want means sacrificing everything

How the relationship between forestry companies, unions and the government combined with the threat of...

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​​Should winter events reject fossil fuel funds? With Rideau Canal skating on thin ice, Ottawa locals weigh in

After the first season in 50 years without skating on the canal, locals consider doctors’...

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Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline destroys spotted owl habitat feds have vowed to protect

Even as federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault recommends an emergency order to protect the spotted...

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War for the Woods: behind the scenes of a new CBC documentary based on Narwhal reporting 

Nuu-chah-nulth people have famously defended their territory from old-growth logging for decades. Their story of...

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‘Legacy of bold resistance’: how the Tla-o-qui-aht declared 100% of their territory protected

Fighting American colonizers in the 1800s. Setting the foundation for Canada’s first major anti-logging action....

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How the Ontario government muzzled its Greenbelt Council

Documents show that a shrunken, ever-changing council was forbidden from speaking freely, as development encroaches...

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‘A really beautiful moment’: reporter Steph Wood reflects on her trip to Clayoquot Sound

The Narwhal’s Steph Wood linked up with David Suzuki for a CBC documentary about the...

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Old-growth spotted owl habitat removed from federal maps after talks with B.C., docs reveal

Federal scientists mapped core critical habitat for the endangered spotted owl. Almost half of it,...

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