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‘We’re going to create space for our animals’: B.C., feds commit $8 million for ecological corridors

By Ainslie Cruickshank and Aaron Hemens (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 9, 2025 5 min. read

Funding will help communities identify, plan and improve corridors that link vital patches of wildlife...

An illustration of a tree planters' tent camp in a forest at night, with a first aid tent to one side. A shadow looms over the tents, representing the threat of sexual violence.

Out of the shadows: confronting sexual violence in tree-planting

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 9, 2025 16 min. read

Drop a group of young people into a remote forest and some will find fun...

A gas pipeline station at sunset

Oil giant broke deal to deactivate thousands of pipelines and faced no penalty, documents reveal

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Zak Vescera

July 7, 2025 6 min. read

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. failed to deliver on a promise to deactivate thousands of inactive...

A plane from the BC Wildfire Service flies near a plume of smoke from a wildfire above Argenta

This B.C. company says it can change the weather to stop lightning and wildfires — but won’t say how

By Jesse Winter

July 2, 2025 8 min. read

The startup claims it can prevent wildfires by disrupting lightning before it strikes. Experts say...

Prime Minister Mark Carney stands at a lectern. He is wearing a dark blue suit with a dark blue checked tie and light blue collared shirt. His hands are clasped on top of the lectern. Members of his cabinet stand behind him, out of focus

Make Canada Build Again? Canadian politicians are suddenly in a rush to get shovels in the ground

By Shannon Waters

June 25, 2025 11 min. read

Prime Minister Mark Carney is the latest Canadian politician to push fast-tracking legislation. Why is...

Small dead fallen trees and limbs litter a vast clearcut.

There’s trouble in these headwaters

By Jacqueline Ronson

June 20, 2025

Trouble in the Headwaters, a new short documentary by filmmaker Daniel J. Pierce, traces the...

A vast, sprawling clearcut on a hillside, lightly covered in snow

Trouble in the Headwaters: the hidden impacts of clear-cut logging in B.C.

By Jacqueline Ronson

June 19, 2025 4 min. read

We’re thrilled to present a new documentary that follows a scientist on a mission to...

Anthropologist Gillian Staveley, Kaska Dena

‘This land holds everything we love’: hope grows for Indigenous conservation in northwest B.C.

By Ainslie Cruickshank

June 19, 2025 8 min. read

The Narwhal sat down with land stewardship director Gillian Staveley, to talk about the Kaska’s...

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Can Canada’s fast-tracking laws avoid the mistakes of the past?

June 12, 2025 11 min. read

Legal experts say a botched rollout could trash years of hard-won trust between Indigenous leadership...

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