Jimmy Thomson
Jimmy Thomson is an environmental journalist and the managing editor of Canada's National Observer. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post, and he has won grants and awards including from the National Magazine Awards, Canadian Association of Journalists, the National Newspaper Awards, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and IJNR, among others.
Stories by Jimmy Thomson
An Inuk comes home through art
3 min. readThis is part one of Land Crafted: a five-part video series exploring entrepreneurship in northern...
Introducing Land Crafted
The stories of how their businesses began are often challenging in the ways that many...
Why Canada’s boreal forest is gaining international attention
As the world’s ecological crisis becomes better understood, the boreal forest is becoming somewhat of...
How can Canada’s North get off diesel?
Diesel generation has outstayed its welcome in the North. It costs hundreds of millions of...
Canada’s northern ‘zombie mines’ are a lingering multi-billion dollar problem
Experts examine subterranean snot, philosophize about how to warn future civilizations away from buried arsenic...
The world’s longest border is moving
Plant life in the tundra may be moving slowly, but for some species it’s a...
Gold seekers are flooding into the Yukon and wreaking havoc on its rivers
A growing gold rush of placer miners is wreaking havoc on the territory of the...
How Indigenous-led environmental assessments could ease resource, pipeline gridlock
A new concept is emerging in the world of environmental decision-making: that it’s not enough...
What the Trudeau government’s scaling back of the carbon tax means
Critics say new proposal designed to protect big polluters
