Trina Moyles

Audrey’s in Edmonton?

Opinion: As a professor of literature, I have serious concerns about the debates over books happening in Alberta Government’s move to eliminate ‘explicit sexual content’ may satisfy Danielle Smith’s conservative base, but risks harming others in doing so

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...

To quote Calgary-based author, Kit Dobson,

“It is my profound hope that Canadians are taking note of the censorious wave that is spreading across North America, and how this wave has descended with force upon Alberta.” Find his op-ed in the Globe.

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one of the most revealing arguments I've seen on this issue is from people who say they would not mind if the park is closed — as long as the First Nations are also prohibited from accessing their homelands, medicines and traditional foods

Have you picked up Miriam Towes new memoir yet? 5 pages in and I’m already awestruck. As a survivor of sibling suicide, I feel her prose, deeply.

This is a tough but important read. CW, and the below is a gift link.

Interesting, as always, read by @anthrodish.bsky.social on masculinity in so-called “ancestral eating” practices. I feel like trophy hunting culture taps into this dynamic, as well.

Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic - bioGraphic Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.

Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic

Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species.

by @judeisabella.bsky.social

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Feisty one! Moth larvae have been seen everywhere in the Whitehorse area over the past few weeks. This one is a bedstraw hawk moth caterpillar. The spiky “horn” acts as a defence mechanism, though it’s actually soft and fleshy. This one was returned safely to the bush after a brief meet and greet.

Ah that’s stressful! Glad you found Tacoma!

this shy critter appeared on our doorstep last night! advanced reader’s copies are out! pls get in touch if you’d like to review 💚 will be published in Jan 2026 with Knopf Canada and Pegasus Books in the U.S.

Old Crow renews fight to protect wildlife refuge | The Narwhal Old Crow, Yukon, gears up for a renewed fight to protect Porcupine caribou as Trump pushes for drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Trump’s push for Arctic drilling heralds the next chapter in a decades-long fight to protect caribou.

What does that look like in Old Crow, Yukon — a tiny fly-in community north of the Arctic Circle? Find out in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-o...

North America’s forests used to burn a lot more than present… So, is climate change really making wildfires worse today?

A good story about current and historical fire activity in Canada (and the US) though I may be biased

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This one was such a gem!

Trina Moyles Trina Moyles

Hello! My name is Trina Moyles and I’m a writer, journalist, and author of non-fiction books. My work is inspired by people’s relationships with land, wildlife, wildfire ecology, and climate change. Check out my writing at www.trinamoyles.com and get in touch if you’d like to collaborate 🦋

“Born Into This Fight” — Trina Moyles The Gwichin’s Multi-Generational Struggle to Protect the Porcupine Caribou Herd

Field notes from our travels to Old Crow, Yukon, to learn about how U.S. politics is threatening food security & cultural identity in Gwich’in communities across the border. Photography by Atsushi Sugimoto and Michael Code.

Two people, Christine Creyke and Randall Tetlichi, stand smiling and looking toward the left. A microphone is positioned in front of Tetlichi (on the right) and he holds a drum.

For decades, Gwich’in on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border have worked together to defend the herd and lobby U.S. policymakers against drilling. Now, they’re vowing to do it again. An emergency meeting to explore options is scheduled in Alaska on Sept. 4, 2025. (5/6)

A close-up image of a blackened can suspended above a bonfire.

This year, Caribou Days’ festive atmosphere gave way to sober discussions of new threats facing the herd. U.S. president Donald Trump has ordered increased oil and gas drilling in its Alaskan calving grounds, which the Gwich’in — and Western science — say would be devastating to the herd. (4/6)

About two-dozen people hold a circular trampoline and propel a person into the air. In the background, a frozen river.

A woman holding a knife hunches over partially skinned caribou heads lying on a table.

Each spring, Gwich’in people celebrate their bond with the caribou during Vadzaih Choo Drin, or “Big Caribou Days,” in Old Crow, Yukon. Hundreds of people attend from across the North for games and festivities as the herd’s migration passes through Old Crow. (3/6)

Four caribou stand at the shore of a river.

Christine Creyke shows off her caribou hides, which are hanging up inside a wooden structure.

For thousands of years, the Gwich’in in Yukon and Alaska have lived alongside the Porcupine caribou herd, whose approximately 200,000 animals migrate through Gwich’in territory every spring and fall. (2/6)

‘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

In Old Crow, Yukon, the Gwich’in people are organizing to resist U.S. president Donald Trump’s oil and gas ambitions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a biodiverse region providing crucial habitat for one of the last healthy caribou herds in North America. thenarwhal.ca/yukon-old-cr... (1/6)