Emma McIntosh
Ontario Reporter
@EmmaMci 
Emma McIntosh is an investigative reporter with the Toronto Star and formerly The Narwhal's Ontario reporter based in Toronto. She started her career in newspapers, working for the Calgary Herald, the Toronto Star and StarMetro Calgary, followed by the National Observer. She won the 2019 Journalists for Human Rights/Canadian Association of Journalists Award for human rights reporting for a story about how a leak from the Alberta oilsands affected Fort McKay First Nation. Stories she's worked on have also been shortlisted for a host of other awards, including the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Jackman Award for excellence in journalism and the Canadian Hillman Prize. Her reporting on the Greenbelt for The Narwhal, alongside the Toronto Star, won the Michener Award for Public Service Journalism in 2023.
Stories by Emma McIntosh
Federal government advised Ontario to reroute Highway 413: documents
7 min. readAs an election gets underway in Ontario, documents show the federal and provincial governments at...
Ford, more years? How Ontario’s environment fared under the Progressive Conservatives
With an election campaign officially underway, we take stock in the Doug Ford government’s big...
Toronto-area national park to grow as feds scrap airport plan
After 50 years of contemplating an airport for Pickering, Ont., the Canadian government will instead...
A tip and a trip to northwestern Ontario
Ontario’s critical mineral boom unfolds as some First Nations fight for title over land they...
Life on the frontlines of Ontario’s critical mineral boom
The Doug Ford government is pushing for a prospecting rush across northern Ontario, leaving a...
Ontario’s Highway 413 to move ahead without federal review — again
As the federal government deals with a political crisis, it has quietly turned down a...
Rushed zoning orders, Ontario Place’s skyrocketing cost and a coyote hunting contest: auditor general’s environment notes
The watchdog dug up problems reminiscent of the Greenbelt scandal, from preferential treatment for developers...
Doug Ford’s Highway 413 and bike lane bill prompted internal warnings around Indigenous Rights and federal intervention
A leaked draft of a briefing document shows that before Bill 212 was tabled, bureaucrats...
Ontario’s Bill 212 passed: Highway 413 is in and bike lanes are out. What now?
The new law empowers Doug Ford’s government to move ahead with the highway without an...
