Julien Gignac
Julien Gignac was The Narwhal’s Yukon correspondent, based in Whitehorse. Of Mohawk and French descent, he has a penchant for writing about Indigenous and environmental issues. He’s worked at several newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and, most recently, Yukon News, where he covered politics. He likes a good landscape.
Stories by Julien Gignac
The delicate art of stabilizing Yukon’s Fortymile caribou herd
8 min. readOnce considered to be in dire straits, Yukon’s Fortymile caribou herd is now on the...
Scotiabank becomes fifth major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge
‘I think the financial institutions have sent a very large signal to the rest of...
Yukon wetlands pushed to tipping point by placer mining, First Nation and conservationists say
The Yukon Water Board is asking the public to weigh in as the territory considers...
First Nation warned Yukon the ATAC resource road would ‘impair the process of reconciliation’
The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun said the controversial all-seasons road would have ‘fundamentally...
Yukon cancels 65-kilometre ATAC resource road into Beaver River watershed
The proposed access route, controversially approved without a land use plan, would have opened up...
Nunavut ‘repeatedly refused’ to disclose impacts of Baffinland’s Mary River mine expansion on caribou: mayor
A plan to double production at one of the world’s northernmost mines involves building a...
Canada gives $1.4 million to support Nunavik Inuit’s management of Arqvilliit Indigenous Protected Area
Federal partnership to aid Indigenous-led monitoring and research of 24,000 hectares of remote Arctic islands...
‘Mining at any cost’: Yukoners say territory needs major mineral development overhaul
'People are generally unsatisfied with the status quo'
‘It kind of defeats the purpose’: Yukon won’t pause mineral staking for Dawson land use planning
Valuable, roadless wilderness in the Dawson region could become protected under a new land use...
