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Emma McIntosh, wearing a teal jacket, peers through binoculars over a grassy landscape. The Toronto skyline is on the horizon.

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The Narwhal and Toronto Star earn Michener nomination for Greenbelt reporting

By Mike De Souza

April 30, 2024 2 min. read

The Michener Awards Foundation praised The Narwhal, Toronto Star and other media outlets for ‘inspiring’...

The Narwhal's Ontario bureau chief Denise Balkissoon, IndigiNews editor Cara McKenna, The Narwhal's Matt Simmons and The Narwhal's Emma McIntosh celebrate after winning National Newspaper Awards on April 29, 2024 in Toronto

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The Narwhal wins two National Newspaper Awards

By Mike De Souza

April 29, 2024 4 min. read

The Narwhal has earned its first wins at the National Newspaper Awards, sharing prizes with...

About 20 Narwhal staffers stand in a long line, posing for a group selfie. They are on a green field with trees and blue sky behind.

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13 national award nominations honour The Narwhal’s impactful work

By Mike De Souza

April 25, 2024 4 min. read

Investigations, photojournalism and other reporting from 2023 have been recognized by the Digital Publishing Awards...

Shannon Waters, The Narwhal's B.C. politics and environment reporter, sits on a bench in Victoria, B.C.

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Meet Shannon Waters, The Narwhal’s B.C. politics and environment reporter

By Lindsay Sample

April 23, 2024 6 min. read

With years of political reporting experience, Shannon is poised to bring fresh stories to the...

An illustration with a red background. Top left reads 'Paydirt,' a podcast miniseries from The Narwhal and The Big Story. Adjacent is a magnifying glass. Then next to it an illustration of four hands with black gloves reaching for different parcels of land — a depiction of the Ontario government's Greenbelt carveouts (which were subsequently reversed).

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The Narwhal teams up with The Big Story podcast for Paydirt, a miniseries about Ontario’s Greenbelt scandal

April 18, 2024(Updated May 6, 2024) 2 min. read

Tune as The Narwhal’s Emma McIntosh tells the story behind the story of the Greenbelt...

Matt Simmons, with The Narwhal, walks through an LNG Canada intertidal offset project in Kitimat, B.C.

The Narwhal snags 6 nominations for national journalism awards

By Mike De Souza

April 16, 2024 3 min. read

Investigations, photojournalism and other reporting from 2023 are being recognized by the Canadian Association of...

Director of operations and finance Atenas Contreras, in a forest, gazes out wearing glasses and a Narwhal toque and a sweater.

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Meet Atenas Contreras, The Narwhal’s director of operations and finance

By Karan Saxena

April 10, 2024 4 min. read

A nerd about numbers, organizing things and playing board games — have we been blessed...

A crowd of people gathered to witness the rematriation of the pole, all wearing Nisga'a regalia, some holding drums. One person looks at the camera.

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The Narwhal snags 3 National Newspaper Awards nominations

By Karan Saxena

March 18, 2024 2 min. read

The National Newspaper Awards celebrate some of the best journalism in Canada. This year, our...

A young child in a carrying sack is perched in the snow in front of a fire

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Announcing The Narwhal’s 2024 Indigenous photojournalism fellowship

By Michelle Cyca and Denise Balkissoon

March 18, 2024 5 min. read

We are excited to offer a new photojournalism fellowship for First Nations, Inuit and Métis...

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