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
Polar Bear Week highlights absence of Arctic sea ice due to climate change
5 min. readThe world’s southernmost population of polar bears might be waiting longer for sea ice to...
Narwhals could be at high risk of catching COVID-19: researcher
Frozen tissue samples from a narwhal harvested by Inuit subsistence hunters will soon arrive at...
Yukon’s climate plans rely on biomass. But is it actually good for the environment?
The territorial government wants to move from burning fossil fuels to wood in a bid...
Climate change driving Indigenous food insecurity in Canada: report
Although Indigenous Peoples are among the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions in the country,...
City of Whitehorse corporate emissions up 40 per cent in four years due to unlikely culprit
Lower than normal snowpack has left Yukon Energy with less hydroelectricity supply for the city’s...
Can Canada stymie the Trump administration’s plan to open an Arctic refuge to oil drilling?
Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was originally designed to be a … well, wildlife refuge....
First Indigenous-led biosphere reserve in the world featured in new Canadian TV series
The Tsá Tué Biosphere Reserve in the Northwest Territories takes centre stage in the first...
RBC becomes first major Canadian bank to refuse to fund oil drilling in Arctic refuge
‘We are looking to all major banks in Canada to come into the sunlight with...
Review of Baffinland mine expansion in Nunavut presses on, despite Inuit concerns
Federal minister recommended re-starting review process for Mary River Mine, citing signing of controversial benefits agreement
