Cara McKenna
@CaraMcK Cara McKenna is a journalist and storyteller based on Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. She was previously the editor of the Salish Sea Sentinel magazine and also worked at APTN National News, the Canadian Press and Nanaimo Daily News. She is currently a part-time editor at IndigiNews, and is working to complete a BFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
Stories by Cara McKenna
The dream behind a big, beautiful Buffalo story — in English and Cree
5 min. readHow common is it in journalism for four people, who have the same ancestral language...
Making awards history — and decolonizing journalism
IndigiNews editor Cara McKenna reflects on our shared National Newspaper Awards win — a Narwhal...
‘Welcome home, dear ancestor’: after nearly a century, a stolen totem pole returns to the Nisg̱a’a Nation
The long-awaited rematriation of the pts'aan offers a template for the return of Indigenous belongings
Sipekne’katik to request UN peacekeepers in anticipation of Nova Scotia lobster fishing conflicts
Following violent clashes last summer over Indigenous communities’ historic rights to fish, Chief Mike Sack...
‘It’s collapsing’: B.C. First Nations, Pacific Wild warn of herring population decline amid commercial fishery
Advocates are calling for a moratorium on the province's last-remaining commercial fishery for herring, a...
B.C. relying on the federal shoreline protections for Trans Mountain pipeline it previously called inadequate
In advance of granting new environmental certificates for the pipeline’s expansion project, the province has...
