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
Arctic Ocean acidification could reach levels far greater than predicted if emissions stay high: study
7 min. readThe cold waters of the planet’s north are highly susceptible to carbon absorption and under...
Unremediated Yukon asbestos mine poses health hazards, flood risk 42 years after closing
Clinton Creek doesn’t get the level of attention other major mine clean-ups in the territory...
Coastal erosion on Yukon’s only Arctic island exposes looming climate threat
‘The magnitude of change is enormous’: researchers track fast-eroding coastline of Herschel Island for a...
This Yukon First Nation wants to use native plants to help remediate abandoned mine sites
'We want to return our lands back to what they were'
‘A contaminated mess’: how a Yukon mine left behind a $35-million clean-up bill
The territorial government is on the hook to clean up the Wolverine mine after its...
Heavy fuel oil used by more than one-third of ships in Canadian Arctic waters, study finds
When burned, the controversial fuel emits black carbon, leaving soot on the icy landscape and...
Yukon gold mine forced to release 43 million litres of wastewater amid spring runoff
Meltwater from heavy snowpack combined with unseasonably warm temperatures caused Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Mine...
Permit applications to hunt big game in Yukon up 28 per cent this year
Local officials think increased interest could be result of people looking to keep busy and...
How Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation aims to revitalize critical salmon stocks in Yukon
As the First Nation considers an egg incubator to increase the Klondike River's Chinook population,...
