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2 weeks ago | 
thenarwhal.ca | Ainslie Cruickshank |Carl Meyer |Elaine Anselmi |Matt Simmons |Emma McIntosh
For a few months, we’ve been asking noteworthy people across Canada to describe their relationship with the natural world in our Moose Questionnaire. It’s an effort to build community and celebrate how all of us have our own connection to the land and water. And I was so excited to give the questionnaire to Inuk actor Anna Lambe. The 23-year-old is known for True Detective and The Grizzlies, and she has a new show, North of North, which brings a humorous and honest take on life in the North.
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1 month ago | 
thenarwhal.ca | Drew Anderson |Fatima Syed |Emma McIntosh |Elaine Anselmi
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. With the Ontario election less than a week away, all four major parties have released platforms, offering a glimpse at their plans for the province.
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2 months ago | 
thenarwhal.ca | Leah Borts-Kuperman |Fatima Syed |Emma McIntosh |Elaine Anselmi
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. The leaders of Ontario’s major political parties went head-to-head in two debates bookending the Family Day weekend — and in both, they rarely touched on the environment. During a total of three hours of back and forth on stage, the environment took up some 20 minutes. That’s a bit higher than our tally during the last provincial election in 2022, but not by much.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Bradford Bypass |Elaine Anselmi |Emma McIntosh
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. In August 2020 a then-Ontario government staffer emailed his colleagues to say Premier Doug Ford was asking about rerouting a proposed highway. Ryan Amato would later be central to the Greenbelt scandal and leave his job in the midst of it.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Elaine Anselmi |Carl Meyer
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. When Toronto’s public transit agency became the first in North America to ban tobacco advertising on buses, subways and streetcars in 1980, an industry group accused it of “knuckling under” to the anti-smoking lobby. Scientific studies since the 1960s had exposed the public to the dangers of smoking.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Elaine Anselmi |Arik Ligeti
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. They say herding cats is hard, but have you tried organizing two dozen journalists scattered across a vast country? Kyla Fitzgerald has welcomed the challenge. Kyla is, and has been, many things: an oral historian, logistics wizard and lover of trash TV. The connective tissue, through it all, is people. “I’ve always been a people person,” she says.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Elaine Anselmi |Shannon Waters
As the BC NDP readies to govern with a razor-thin majority, BC Conservatives Leader John Rustad says one of his party’s first priorities will be pressuring Premier David Eby to get rid of the consumer carbon tax. Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Elaine Anselmi |Ainslie Cruickshank
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is blaming opposition parties for his last-minute absence from international negotiations in Colombia aimed at reversing the unprecedented decline of nature worldwide.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Amber Bracken |Elaine Anselmi
Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Every year, millions of eastern monarch butterflies travel 4,000 kilometres from the Great Lakes to the forests of the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico. They’ll only make the trip once, and it will be their descendents that return. It’s an arduous journey that only a few people have experienced even a portion of.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
thenarwhal.ca | Shannon Waters |Elaine Anselmi
There is often an elk outside Jacqueline Ronson’s home office window, keeping her company while she works. She lives in Youbou, B.C., in an area of Vancouver Island known for an abundance of the mostly friendly, but sometimes problematic — in case you missed our story on Bob the elk — ungulates. “It’s rare that a day goes by that I don’t see elk,” Jacqueline says. There was also that time a cougar faced her and her dog, Beyla, down.
