The Narwhal https://thenarwhal.ca Deep Dives, Cold Facts, & Pointed Commentary en-US Copyright 2026 The Narwhal hourly 1 Gold seekers are flooding into the Yukon and wreaking havoc on its rivers https://thenarwhal.ca/gold-seekers-flooding-yukon-wreaking-havoc-rivers/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:51:04 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=7828 Digging and scraping their way along riverbeds, a growing gold rush of placer miners is disturbing the territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation — all under the rules of a bygone era that leave both Indigenous and colonial governments out of the deal Jimmy Thomson In-Depth first nations Indigenous mining Placer mining politics sandy silver water wildlife yukon Yukon Government How Indigenous-led environmental assessments could ease resource, pipeline gridlock https://thenarwhal.ca/how-indigenous-led-environmental-assessments-could-ease-resource-pipeline-gridlock/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:29:06 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=7755 Federal court’s rejection of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion shows a new way of evaluating major industrial projects is not only an essential step toward reconciliation, but necessary for industry Jimmy Thomson Explainer Democracy environmental assessment Indigenous indigenous assessments Justin Trudeau Kinder Morgan oilsands pipelines politics Trans-Mountain If Doug Ford is serious about ‘polluter pay’ he should keep cap-and-trade in place https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cap-and-trade-conservative-approach-air-pollution/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 21:01:58 +0000 https://thenarwhal.ca/?p=6828 Ontario's cap-and-trade system is a conservative-friendly approach to air pollution Lindsay Wiginton and Sara Hastings-Simon Opinion cap and trade carbon tax climate change Democracy Doug Ford Ontario Pembina Institue politics polluter pay Wall Street Warns About Cost Of Doing Nothing On Climate Change https://thenarwhal.ca/wall-street-warns-about-cost-doing-nothing-climate-change/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 22:15:09 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/09/01/wall-street-warns-about-cost-doing-nothing-climate-change/ admin bank Citigroup Congress Economy financial Florida loss Money Policy politics Report Representative Senate US wall street Climate Change is Not a Left-Right Issue https://thenarwhal.ca/climate-change-not-left-right-issue/ Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:07:21 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/04/03/climate-change-not-left-right-issue/ Kai Nagata Opinion Bob Inglis Center Top Climate climate change Dogwood Initiative global warming left wing Manning Centre Opinion politics Right Wing Permission to Care: From Anxiety to Action on Climate Change https://thenarwhal.ca/permission-care-moving-anxiety-action-climate-change/ Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:59:16 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/01/26/permission-care-moving-anxiety-action-climate-change/ Renee Lertzman Opinion anxiety climate change dialogue environmentalism global warming motivation Opinion politics psychoanalysis psychology Renee Lurtzman Right Top solutions Do Non-Profits Hold the Key to Political Participation in Canada? https://thenarwhal.ca/do-non-profits-hold-key-political-participation-canada/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:30:15 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2015/01/15/do-non-profits-hold-key-political-participation-canada/ Alison Loat alison loat Canada charities Citizens' Academy Democracy Talks Engineers Without Borders James Watam Malton Women Council non-profit politics Samara Society trust Uzma Irfan Voting No, You’re Not Entitled to Your Own Opinion https://thenarwhal.ca/no-youre-not-entitled-your-own-opinion/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 17:16:44 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2014/08/25/no-youre-not-entitled-your-own-opinion/ admin Opinion dialogue discourse Mediawatch Opinion Patrick Stokes politics rhetoric Right Second the conversation There is No Scientific Debate on the Science, so Why is There a Public Debate on the Science? https://thenarwhal.ca/there-no-scientific-debate-science-so-why-there-public-debate-science/ Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:26:21 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2014/06/02/there-no-scientific-debate-science-so-why-there-public-debate-science/ Carol Linnitt and David Tracey Analysis Climate climate change climate science cultural cognition dan kahan denial polarization politics Right Second Last Week was Crucial for Climate Science, Not So for Climate Politics https://thenarwhal.ca/last-week-was-crucial-climate-science-not-so-climate-politics/ Sun, 11 May 2014 20:56:11 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2014/05/11/last-week-was-crucial-climate-science-not-so-climate-politics/ Chris Rose Australia Carbon carbon bubble clean energy Climate climate change coal fossil fuels greenhouse gas emissions insurance NCA report obama politics u.s. Greenpeace Complaint Against Ethical Oil Brings “Corrosive Effect of Oil on Our Politics” to Light https://thenarwhal.ca/greenpeace-complaint-against-ethical-oil-brings-corrosive-effect-oil-our-politics-light/ Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:06:32 +0000 http://localhost.com/narwhal/2014/04/09/greenpeace-complaint-against-ethical-oil-brings-corrosive-effect-oil-our-politics-light/ Carol Linnitt Alberta Climate conservative party ethical oil Greenpeace Canada Harper Government Keith Stewart oil and gas oilsands politics tar sands