Analysis

‘Incredible alignment’: Canada is picking away at an oil and gas industry wish list

With a host of announcements and agreements last year, the Carney government is working its way through a public list of requests from fossil fuel industry lobbyists and execs

By Carl Meyer

Jan. 20, 2026 8 min. read

It's day seven of our trial against the RCMP

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, our five-week trial is underway in Vancouver.

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An RCMP officer aims a rifle into a one-room wooden home on Wet’suwet’en territory where land defenders gathered in November 2021 in opposition to construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

A monarch butterfly takes off from a bright yellow goldenrod flower

Opinion

Ontario cities are policing gardens and ignoring biodiversity

By Elaine Anselmi

Jan. 20, 2026 4 min. read

A woman will head to court in March after the City of Burlington fined her...

Don Pettit stands at the edge of the ridge on Bear Mountain, facing outward. Behind him a line of wind turbines stretches into the distance, interspersed with trees and other vegetation. There's a sunset glow across the scene

News

Is B.C. sidelining community power? Why co-ops struggle to compete in the energy sector

By Shannon Waters and Amber Bracken

Jan. 19, 2026 10 min. read

Community-owned energy projects can be resilient, responsive and efficient, research shows. So what’s holding them...

The Woodfibre LNG site, photographed from across Howe Sound in Squamish, B.C. Cranes and other industrial equipment are situated on shoreline.

News

Woodfibre LNG didn’t monitor salmon correctly. B.C. took 4 months to tell the public

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

Jan. 19, 2026 4 min. read

The August monitoring lapse didn’t make it into public records until December. One advocate says...

The Pickering Nuclear plant is in the horizon of a sunset sky as two people sit on the Lake Ontario shores

News

Nuclear waste site assessment begins in northern Ontario

By Matt Prokopchuk (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

Jan. 16, 2026 3 min. read

‘The more of the public that comments, the better,’ says one local, as regulators begin...

A stack of bottles with yellow caps and white labels hold cervid tissue samples that will be tested for chronic wasting disease

News

Canada ‘cash strapped’ in fight against wildlife diseases, national network says

By Ainslie Cruickshank

Jan. 15, 2026 7 min. read

A national wildlife disease network warns persistent underfunding is leaving Canada vulnerable as threats like...

A farmer's hands holding a dark green canola plant leaf, with a field of yellow canola flowers in the background.

Explainer

Canola, Carney and China: everything you need to know

By Sharon J. Riley

Jan. 15, 2026(Updated Jan. 16, 2026) 6 min. read

Canola is making headlines again. It’s been the centre of trade negotiations with China since...

A red-and-white striped smokestack emits a grey cloud a smoke into the air wintry air.

Explainer

Can Canada capture enough carbon to make a difference?

By Will Pearson

Jan. 14, 2026 9 min. read

Technology that stops industrial carbon emissions at the source, known as carbon capture, could play...

Huge flames rise from an industrial site at night. The air is full of smoke.

News

B.C. climate policy cuts threaten progress on lowering emissions

By Rochelle Baker (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

Jan. 14, 2026 7 min. read

Experts say the province should be doubling down, not pulling back, after a recent report...

On the ground

‘An intense conflict’: Canadian outdoor guides juggle safety, grief and joy as the climate changes

By Sara King-Abadi

Jan. 13, 2026 9 min. read

Guides in British Columbia and Alberta describe what it’s like to build a life in...

A photo illustration showing Mark Carney in the foreground, with various industrial-style projects in the background.

Carney’s major projects

Explore our reporting about projects on the federal government’s radar.

Illustration: Shawn Parkinson / The Narwhal. Mark Carney photo: Christopher Katsarov Luna / The Canadian Press

Featured story

A massive nickel mine, and the community that wants to love it

By Leah Borts-Kuperman

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Pipelines in Canada, explained

On the frontlines of an effort to save Arctic ice … by drilling into the ocean

Shorts

Carol Linnitt is the co-founder of The Narwhal. The Narwhal is suing the RCMP.

We’re fighting for our right to report — and your right to know

B.C. is flooding, again. We explain

B.C. says 1950s-style clear-cut logging isn’t happening anymore. Is that true?

Animals are getting killed on Canada’s railways

Piping Plovers on Wasaga Beach, in Ontario

Endangered plovers love this Ontario beach. Is the feeling mutual?

Any Ontario minister could soon have the power to create law-free zones — and decide what gets built there

POV: a reporting trip to Heiltsuk territory

Pipeline opposition took centre stage at Neil Young’s Burnaby, B.C., concert

Organic is barely a starting line, chef Michael Smith says

Chef Michael Smith keeps coming back home to P.E.I.

Could refreezing the Arctic help save its melting ice?

A screenshot of a video call for a Moose Questionnaire with ShawtyAstrology.

How do you reach people who don’t believe in climate change?

A beaver lodge animation and illustration. One beaver is inside of the lodge.

Two families of beavers live in Stanley Park…

Michelle Cyca talked about Indigenous sovereignty

Some people say Indigenous Rights are “racist,” but that’s not true

A screenshot of a video call for a Moose Questionnaire, with ShawtyAstrology in the top half and Narwhal editor Denise Balkissoon below.

“Ducks are very cute,” ShawtyAstrology says

Video thumbnail featuring Patrick Johnson, a Guardian Watchman.

Canada’s conservation goals depend on this

What’s going on around Grand Forks, B.C.?

How do you undo over 100 years of pollution?

Why are we seeing wildfires already? What causes them?

Here’s how cities can prevent flooding

North of North’s Anna Lambe is open to people growing

Here’s how one Mohawk community is dealing with a hungry beetle

There’s nothing inherently “critical” about critical minerals

Marrying a polar bear seems totally reasonable

What is the carbon tax?

Watch our in-depth explainer for more on the carbon tax

Anna Lambe has been pretty far north

Six dead birds? In this economy?

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We’re suing the RCMP to take a stand for press freedom.

All journalists in Canada should be able to do their work without risk of police interference. Help us defend the right to a free press by making a donation to The Narwhal’s legal fund today.

YES, I’LL PITCH IN