Fatima Syed

Freelance Journalist at Freelance

'A climate reporter, a reporter of MANY things' @thenarwhalca |VP @caj |Tweets=mine |Obsessions: space, sports, Springsteen, stuff |'too young'

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Articles

Broken trust and Bill 5: First Nations leaders at Queen’s Park

5 days ago | thenarwhal.ca | Fatima Syed

In a striped shirt and baseball cap, Mushkegowuk Council Grand Chief Leo Friday reminded a group of besuited government officials he had travelled almost 700 kilometres from northern Ontario to the provincial legislature in downtown Toronto. Slamming a hand on the table and gesturing at the door of the Queen’s Park committee room, Friday told the officials he knocked before coming in.
Thunder Bay waterfront drives and dives

2 weeks ago | thenarwhal.ca | Fatima Syed

We’re excited to announce that The Narwhal has partnered with filmmaker Daniel J.
Archives - Circle of Blue

2 weeks ago | circleofblue.org | Fatima Syed

Posted inGreat Lakes By Fatima Syed, The Narwhal My first glimpse of Lake Superior, in all its lore-and-song-inspiring glory, is a blurry one from the backseat of a taxi driving through Thunder Bay.
Thunder Bay is bringing its Great Lake shoreline back

2 weeks ago | bridgemi.com | Fatima Syed

My first glimpse of Lake Superior, in all its lore-and-song-inspiring glory, is a blurry one from the backseat of a taxi driving through Thunder Bay. Superior, or Gitchigumi, which means Great Lake in Anishinaabemowin, is the largest of those lakes, and the second largest lake in the world, containing 10 percent of the planet’s fresh surface water.
Thunder Bay is bringing its Great Lake shoreline back

2 weeks ago | michiganpublic.org | Fatima Syed

My first glimpse of Lake Superior, in all its lore-and-song-inspiring glory, is a blurry one from the backseat of a taxi driving through Thunder Bay. Superior, or Gitchigumi, which means Great Lake in Anishinaabemowin, is the largest of those lakes, and the second largest lake in the world, containing 10 per cent of the planet’s fresh surface water.
Ontario budget offers little for environment

3 weeks ago | thenarwhal.ca | Carl Meyer |Fatima Syed

Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Just over a month after almost one million Ontarians lost power in the midst of a destructive ice storm, the province is proposing to cut the meagre budget of emergency preparedness and response from$70 million to $66.2 million, even as it becomes a standalone ministry for the first time.
Ontario’s development and mining law, Bill 5, explained

3 weeks ago | thenarwhal.ca | Fatima Syed

Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Premier Doug Ford’s third term has begun with yet another attempt to build lots of things quickly in Ontario. As has become the pattern, one of the Progressive Conservatives’ first moves after winning the 2025 election was to introduce sweeping omnibus legislation: Bill 5, or the Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act.
What the federal election results mean for the environment

1 month ago | thenarwhal.ca | Fatima Syed |Shannon Waters

Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. Canada’s 2025 federal election campaign started on the heels of a prime minister stepping down and a tariff war brewing across the border. The dramatic twists upended what was an assumed Conservative win to instead keep the Liberals in power for their fourth consecutive term.
North of North's Anna Lambe on personal growth The Narwhal

1 month ago | thenarwhal.ca | Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood |Drew Anderson |Fatima Syed

For Inuk actor Anna Lambe, star of the hit Netflix comedy North of North, the north-est north is home. For real — she was born in Iqaluit but her family is from Grise Fiord, the most northern community in Canada. In North of North, Lambe’s character, Siaja, is starting a new path with dreams of reinventing herself after exiting her marriage.
Youth lead Anishinaabe culture camps on Georgian Bay

2 months ago | thenarwhal.ca | Leah Borts-Kuperman |Drew Anderson |Fatima Syed

Get the inside scoop on The Narwhal’s environment and climate reporting by signing up for our free newsletter. The Georgian Bay Anishinaabek Youth (GBAY) program in Parry Sound, Ont., is entirely led by Indigenous youth. They are dedicated to bringing land-based and cultural learning activities to other young people in their First Nations communities along the rivers and eastern shore of Mnidoo Gamii, one of the Anishinaabemowin names for Georgian Bay.