Julia-Simone Rutgers
Manitoba Reporter
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Julia-Simone Rutgers is The Narwhal’s Manitoba reporter. Her position is part of a partnership with the Winnipeg Free Press. She joined The Narwhal after writing daily news for the Winnipeg Free Press and the Star Metro Halifax. She was also the first writer in residence at The Walrus, and has a smattering of bylines in The Globe and Mail, the Coast and the Discourse. Though she has lived on both coasts, she grew up in Calgary and feels most at home lounging on riverbanks under the wide-open Prairie skies. In her spare time, she dabbles in music making, visual art curation, writing poetry and exploring the forests, fields, lakes and rivers the province has to offer. Her role is made possible thanks to funding from The Winnipeg Foundation.
Stories by Julia-Simone Rutgers
How a trade war could hurt farmers on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border
10 min. readAgricultural trade between Canada and the U.S. is worth more than US$70 billion. As tariff...
What would a Pierre Poilievre government mean for Manitoba’s environment?
Here’s a how a provincial NDP government and the federal Conservative leader align — and...
Sio Silica is staging a comeback — with a push for First Nations support
A recording of a closed-door meeting shows Sio Silica’s latest tack: numerous promises to Brokenhead...
Some say plastic recycling is ‘hopeless.’ Others are determined to fix it
Plastics are everywhere — from containers to house paint — and are leaching into water...
Manitoba is getting a new ‘belt of greenspace’
Federal funds will kickstart work on an ecological corridor along the Little Saskatchewan River, aimed...
Councillors in Canada’s coldest city are split on whether to phase out fossil fuels to heat buildings
Natural gas heating accounts for 40 per cent of Winnipeg's emissions. The city's environment committee...
A dizzying bird’s-eye view of Manitoba’s hydro-electricity dams
Clearings as wide as 50 highway lanes make way for power lines that link massive...
Manitobans rally to oppose proposed new peat mining project
When peat is mined for horticulture, forests are removed and carbon-storing peatlands are dug up....
What an effort to preserve Cree homelands in northern Manitoba means to the people behind it
Kitaskeenan Kaweekanawaynichikatek, the land we want to protect: members of five Cree nations reflect as...
