Eight years ago, my friend Emma Gilchrist and I were tiiired of the natural world being an afterthought in Canadian journalism. So we started this little unicorn of a publication. Pretty soon, The Narwhal wasn’t just our thing; it became the thing that thousands of people joined in on, nurturing and caring for it as an antidote to hopelessness and dread.
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In November 2021, photojournalist Amber Bracken was arrested by the RCMP while on assignment for The Narwhal. So we launched a lawsuit to take a stand for press freedom. Now, we're in the middle of our trial.
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