Michelle Cyca
Bureau chief, conservation and fellowships
Michelle Cyca is a journalist and editor from Vancouver, and a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6. Her reporting, essays and literary criticism can be found in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, IndigiNews, Quill & Quire and The Tyee, among other publications. She is also a contributing editor to Maclean’s and a contributing writer to The Walrus. From 2013 to 2018, she was the co-publisher of SAD Mag, a biannual print publication focused on art, design and storytelling from Vancouver.
Stories by Michelle Cyca
From Arctic ice to buffalo plains: highlights from The Narwhal’s on-the-ground storytelling
3 min. readThanks to the support of our readers, we can send journalists to the hard-to-reach places...
There’s more to the story on public access and Indigenous Rights in B.C.
First Nations in British Columbia are gaining ground on asserting their land rights. Anxieties about...
For people, for the land: a busy park has a moment to rest
An Instagram-famous park near Whistler, B.C., took a break from the crowds in recent weeks....
The Narwhal scores four Webster nominations for excellence in B.C. journalism
Reporting on carbon pricing, cultural burns and Indigenous-led conservation have been recognized
Reconciliation takes a hike in a picturesque B.C. park
Líl̓wat and N'Quatqua nations learned the limits of their partnership with BC Parks when the...
‘We must protect this sacred place’
Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stipulates the sale of oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic...
‘Only 10% is left’: Saskatchewan wildfires devastate proposed Indigenous protected area
Sakitawak was a dream to protect pristine boreal forest in Saskatchewan. Two years after half...
$300 million in federal funding for Indigenous-led conservation in the Northwest Territories arrives
The deal, which involves 21 Indigenous nations in the territory, will protect 380,000 square kilometres...
Meet Savannah Ridley, The Narwhal’s first-ever Indigenous editorial fellow
The Toronto Metropolitan University student and up-and-coming journalist is following in her grandmother’s footsteps and...
