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Please do! Details about the fellowship and the link to apply can be found here: thenarwhal.ca/2026-indigen...

An important story by @rebeccaga0.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca today

Rural Albertans face growing problems with oil and gas wells | The Narwhal The Alberta government is pushing a new plan to deal with years of regulatory failure. Alberta landowners aren’t convinced

In Alberta, landowners can’t deny oil and gas wells on their properties, but they’re entitled to compensation. Some companies fail to pay those bills — and rural Albertans are tired of waiting. They're also tired of that repayment, eventually, coming from taxpayers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

Hello! The Narwhal is looking to talk to people in Canada who regularly send money home to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti or the Bahamas and might increase it in the wake of Melissa. I am at denise@thenarwhal.ca 💚

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📣 Job alert! 📣

The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!

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What does First Nations ownership mean for B.C. forestry? | The Narwhal More First Nations are buying B.C. forestry tenures. With old growth dwindling, can they nudge the industry to a more sustainable future?

For over a century, major companies liquidated forests from First Nations’ territories without consent. Now they're leaving.

In their wake, First Nations are working to reshape the industry that long excluded them, but it won't be easy.

My latest for @thenarwhal.ca

A really great read by @zoeyunker.bsky.social

Basia Bulat sings the western chorus frog’s praises | The Narwhal Montreal-based musician Basia Bulat dishes on her latest album and the tiny endangered amphibian she's fallen in love with

Montreal-based folk-pop musician Basia Bulat has fallen in love with a tiny, endangered amphibian. The celebrated singer-songwriter talks frogs, motherhood and the joy of her backyard garden in our latest Moose Questionnaire. thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...

Le premier article en français de @thenarwhal.ca — grâce à Caitlin Stall-Paquet et à un poisson québécois 🐟
English version here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...

The Narwhal's very first story translated into French! It's about one of the Carney government's "nation-building projects," which threatens an endangered fish found only in Quebec - the English version is here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...

Another beautiful caribou story by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca today

Bringing beavers back to syilx homelands | The Narwhal Building artificial beaver dams could restore B.C. Interior wetlands and encourage the return of native species — including the long-absent beaver

In syilx territory, humans are building beaver dams. It's part of an effort to recreate the benefits beavers have on wetland ecosystems, and hopefully encourage a resurgence of real beavers, too. A story first published by @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/wetlands-bea...

What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal A month-long closure ends Oct. 3. Here’s what Instagram-famous Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw, looks like when it’s quiet and closed to the public

For the last month, Joffre Lakes Park has been closed to the public, as Lil'wat and N'Quatqua members reconnect with their traditional territory. Here's what one of B.C.'s busiest parks looks like at rest. By @sevawood.bsky.social with photos by Paige Taylor White. thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...

What should happen to residential school sites? | The Narwhal Across Canada, Indigenous communities are deciding how to commemorate these residential school histories on the land

Across Canada, remnants of the residential school era — former school sites and buildings — stand as a painful testament to the past. For @thenarwhal.ca I spoke to survivors leading the complex work to reckon with those remnants, and preserve a record of that history thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...

What should happen to residential school sites? | The Narwhal Across Canada, Indigenous communities are deciding how to commemorate these residential school histories on the land

The last federally run residential school closed in 1997, but traces of the system are everywhere on the land. How to commemorate the dark, painful history of these places? Across Canada, survivors are taking the lead: thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...

Come hear me chat with three great writers about art and writing on Friday, Oct. 24 at @writersfest.bc.ca 📚

Glynnis Hood wants to change your mind about beavers | The Narwhal Ecologist and beaver expert Glynnis Hood shares her love of a divisive national icon and other reflections on Canada’s natural world

For ecologist Glynnis Hood, a beaver would make the ideal partner — “because it comes with a house.” The author and beaver expert takes our Moose Questionnaire and shares her love of Canada’s natural world:
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So much admiration for @jackiedives.bsky.social for the difficult and undoubtedly emotionally taxing work of seeing this matter through. We all benefit from being held to the standards of integrity, transparency and accountability our profession professes.

As AI continues to cannibalize artists’ and writers’ work and degrade copyright protections, the least we can do as colleagues is acknowledge each other’s work and properly attribute our sources. Our work and our readers are so much poorer when we don’t.

Lots of admiration for @jackiedives.bsky.social for the difficult, undoubtedly emotionally taxing process of seeing this through. It helps us all to be held to the standard of integrity, transparency and accountability our profession professes.

Really glad this has finally come to light.

I faced a similar situation last year with a Canadian magazine and instead of doing the ethical thing and acknowledging my borrowed work, they stonewalled me.

This happens too often.

I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it

Summer used to be the season we waited all year for, but this year Canada has faced drought, extreme heat and wildfire from coast to coast. Sadness at what's lost is understandable, @balkissoon.bsky.social writes. But what if we tapped into our rage — or love — instead? thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep...

Such a great, thoughtful piece, Zoë!

Inside Richmond’s Precedent-Setting Cowichan Tribes v. Canada Case | The Tyee The BC Supreme Court decision affirms Aboriginal title on private lands. What’s next?

Some things I learned while writing this story on Canada’s new “pillar” of Aboriginal Law, Cowichan Tribes v. Canada, for @thetyee.ca:

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J.B. MacKinnon on Why He’s Suing the AI Giants | The Tyee The Vancouver author leads class-action suits claiming firms used stolen, copyrighted Canadian works and covered it up. A Tyee Q&A.

“They needed this substrate of high-quality human expression and language. It looks to me like they just decided, well, we’re not going to pay for that supply.

When I think about it that way, it really makes … the taking much more naked.” — @jbmackinnon.bsky.social

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J.B. MacKinnon on Why He’s Suing the AI Giants | The Tyee The Vancouver author leads class-action suits claiming firms used stolen, copyrighted Canadian works and covered it up. A Tyee Q&A.

Today in @thetyee.ca, I speak with J.B. MacKinnon about suing the AI giants training their LLMs on #CanLit.

"“I have yet to meet a Canadian author whose work wasn’t used in that way." thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

‘Drill, baby, drill’ vs. Porcupine caribou | The Narwhal As the U.S. government mandates drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Gwich’in people in northern Yukon organize to protect Porcupine caribou

A beautiful feature in @thenarwhal.ca today about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Gwich’in people who are fighting to protect it and the caribou that call it home. By Trina Moyles: thenarwhal.ca/yukon-old-cr...

It's us! Happy @thenarwhal.ca debutante day, @quillpearson.bsky.social 🐋

loved editing this story by @leahbortskuperman.bsky.social about the Shawanaga First Nation species-at-risk program — a reserve with fewer than 200 residents, many of whom pitch in to monitor and support these nocturnal neighbours.