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
Key figure in Ontario Greenbelt scandal worked on Highway 413 and Bradford Bypass. But records are scarce
11 min. readBefore being linked to the protected area and plans to carve it up, Ryan Amato...
How Ontario’s new bill hits the gas on Highway 413 and puts the brakes on bike lanes
Legislation tabled by Doug Ford’s government seeks to do ‘anything and everything to get this...
Canada’s environment minister has 90 days to decide whether to review Ontario’s Highway 413 — again
The charity Environmental Defence has requested a federal impact assessment on the heels of a...
What the federal government really thinks about Ontario’s Highway 413
A document created though Canada’s since-cancelled environmental review of the project outlines concerns around species...
Should $700K in Ontario caribou recovery funding have gone to the forestry industry?
Ford government gave research money to a lobby group that disputes the role of habitat...
Doug Ford’s plans for bike lane limits and a highway tunnel will put more cars on Toronto roads
Decades of research show the Ontario government's plans to reduce gridlock won’t work. But they...
The lonely Lake Superior caribou and a lesson in limits
Ontario’s southernmost herd illustrates how hard it is to bring a species back from the...
Is Ontario’s Greenbelt really safe?
Take a walk down memory lane with our Ontario bureau — looking at the biggest...
A year after Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal, battles over proposed intrusions still simmer
The RCMP is investigating and key players have changed roles, but is the Greenbelt any...
