Sharon J. Riley
Managing editor
Sharon is an award-winning journalist based in Edmonton. Her writing has also been published by The Walrus, Harper’s, The Tyee and Maisonneuve, among others. Her work for The Narwhal has been nominated for a Canadian Association of Journalists award and a Digital Publishing Award. She was also named a finalist in the 2017 National Magazine Awards' Best New Magazine Writer category, was a 2017 recipient of the Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb Research Grant for literary arts and won the Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism in 2020. Sharon was born and raised in rural Alberta, and if she's not at her computer she's probably in the Rockies with her family.
Stories by Sharon J. Riley
Beware the winds of change in Alberta
In our latest newsletter, we celebrate our new tote-carrying Narwhal members. Then, we dive into...
Canada’s friendliest province — unless you’re the climate
Floods, extreme heat, droughts, wildfires: Manitoba has seen it all. In this week’s newsletter, reporter...
The Alberta government spent another $22 million on unpaid land rent for oil and gas operators in 2021
8 min. readWhen oil and gas companies are unable, or unwilling, to pay their land rent, the...
A tale at a Tim Hortons in Taber
In our latest newsletter, Prairies bureau chief Sharon J. Riley spills the beans on a...
Stonewalled: Alberta ignored warnings about oil and gas cleanup, ex-government scientist says
Data shows 95 per cent of oil and gas sites certified as reclaimed have never...
Carbon and caribou: why the Dene Tha’ are forging a plan to protect a northern Alberta lake
The nation is proposing the first Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area in the province to...
Teaching citizen scientists to hunt for ‘canary in the coal mine’ in Alberta’s rivers
In the face of ‘data deficiencies,’ training helps communities take water monitoring into their own...
Environmental groups release details of Alberta inquiry draft report and accuse commissioner of climate denial
Groups targeted in the so-called ‘anti-energy’ investigation allege the inquiry’s commissioner ‘lends his credibility’ to...
A bird’s eye view of coal leases on the eastern slopes of Alberta’s Rockies
Locals and advocates worry the myriad industrial pressures facing the eastern slopes put the area...
