Ontario and Canada needs to think about this.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

The Doug Ford government has sent public workers back to the office five days a week. In our latest video, @fatimabsyed.bsky.social + @lmbaechlin.bsky.social explain what that means for commuters around Toronto and beyond thenarwhal.ca/video-ontari...

In November 2021, photojournalist Amber Bracken was arrested while documenting tensions over the Coastal GasLink pipeline being built on Wet’suwet’en territory, where I live. More than 1,000 km from Vancouver, this place isn’t easy to get to — and the pipeline was even harder to access. 🧵

From Bill C-5 and the federal budget, to a pipeline deal with Alberta, the Carney government is working its way through a public list of requests from the oil and gas industry. thenarwhal.ca/build-canada...

Last month, @fatimabsyed.bsky.social reported on municipalities pushing back on agreements with Enbridge Gas that give the company free land for pipelines. Provincial law requires the agreements and the right of way. Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says Ontario isn't currently planning to change that.

Energy Minister Stephen Lecce said Ontario isn’t planning to change its law that prevents municipalities from charging gas providers, like Enbridge Gas, to build pipelines on public land — despite calls from municipalities to do so. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-ener...

It's a huge moment for Canadian journalism as today marks the beginning of a five-week trial in the B.C. Supreme Court where @thenarwhal.ca and Amber Bracken sue the RCMP for arresting Amber while she was doing her job, bearing witness. Learn more: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/

Next year will see a bit of a showdown between Enbridge Gas and two Ontario municipalities that are trying to resist a decades-old agreement that allows the fossil fuel company to build pipelines on public land free of charge. I really want you all to read about on Christmas Eve.

Today is the last day for Ontarians to weigh in on the Doug Ford government's plan to consolidate 36 conservations authorities into seven regional ones. Here's everything you need to know about it: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

DYK Ontario municipalities have to give Enbridge Gas, a for-profit fossil fuel company company, free access to build pipelines under public land? In 2026, there will be a local fight to change this. Guelph & Waterloo Region are resisting. Toronto & Ottawa have concerns thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbr...

There are so many reasons this is a hugely important story by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social, but right up there is that it's ultimately a debate over whether natural gas should still be considered a public good when so many alternative energy sources are now available. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbr...

DYK Ontario municipalities have to give Enbridge Gas, a for-profit fossil fuel company company, free access to build pipelines under public land? In 2026, there will be a local fight to change this. Guelph & Waterloo Region are resisting. Toronto & Ottawa have concerns thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enbr...

Worst news cycle in quite a while, please permit me to engage in a little hero worship, for a regular guy who stood and absolutely delivered. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Narwhal has become a leading publication covering energy and environment issues in Canada — thanks to the nearly 10,000 extraordinary people who give each year. Help us keep proving the naysayers wrong. Donations make twice the difference through Dec. 31. thenarwhal.ca/double-up

How many times has Israel violated the Gaza ceasefire? Here are the numbers aje.io/usdhib

Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Wapekeka First Nation came to Queen’s Park to demand protection for 3 million hectares of land, northwest of the Ring of Fire, saying 'Balance it out.' An hour earlier, Ford signed a road agreement. via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/ring-of-fire...

Chief Donny Morris said if Doug Ford was set on bringing mining to the Ring of Fire, he could “balance it out” by permanently preserving Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug and Wapekeka’s homelands. “That’s why we’re here, offering [Ford] an option to support us, walk with us. Let’s see how far we can go."

It's a wild time to be a climate reporter in Canada. Four reporters from The Narwhal — @meyer.bsky.social @drewanderson.bsky.social @sobittersosweet.bsky.social & me — will give you a primer to this moment in Canadian politics. Join us Tuesday. Bring questions about everything (pipelines included).

The Canada-Alberta deal pushes a pipeline AND - Allows Alberta to delay cutting methane emissions - Suspends clean energy regulations in Alberta - Loosens restrictions on tax breaks for clean tech to encourage more oil drilling - Allows oil tankers on the west coast thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...

The Canada-Alberta deal "is textbook Carney" @maxfawcett.bsky.social says He's "daring Danielle Smith to do the work required" to get a pipeline built, knowing she can’t do it. "But Smith’s concessions help advance his govt's climate agenda far more" www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...

The Canada-Alberta deal pushes a pipeline AND - Allows Alberta to delay cutting methane emissions - Suspends clean energy regulations in Alberta - Loosens restrictions on tax breaks for clean tech to encourage more oil drilling - Allows oil tankers on the west coast thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...

There's still no pipeline project or company to build a pipeline. Which seems kind of important to remind people today. #ableg #cdnpoli

It's a wild time to be a climate reporter in Canada. Four reporters from The Narwhal — @meyer.bsky.social @drewanderson.bsky.social @sobittersosweet.bsky.social & me — will give you a primer to this moment in Canadian politics. Join us Tuesday. Bring questions about everything (pipelines included).

Bow Valley Insider is hiring an "AI-first reporter" with a counnfoudning job posting. Cover letters & resumes aren't accepted because they "are usually full of AI slop," but applicants must have their own ChatGPT subscription because "AI will be writing the stories." ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5...

Cumulatively, the Doug Ford government’s approach to nature is both confusing and contradictory. It’s valuable until it’s in the way. Natural spaces for the sake of nature isn't their goal. Here's me connecting some dots: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-prov...

This is a stunning story. I've been tracking the "greenhushing" narrative for a while now: this is the idea that strict regulations on fake climate claims spooks companies into total silence; therefore we shouldn't regulate them. @meyer.bsky.social asked for examples and the Carney gov't failed:

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

A credit to @fatimabsyed.bsky.social who spoke to a dozen folks that works for conservation authorities for this story on how Ontario's proposed changes are landing — or not landing — and what it means: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

Its been 7 months since the Liberals vowed to “immediately" introduce a First Nations drinking water bill. The minister says she's taking the time to get it right. Mikisew Cree, fighting against oilsands toxic waste, opposes reintroducing the bill that died last session thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...

ICYMI: I spoke to 12 staff from 12 conservation authorities (many of them anonymously for fear of government retribution) who say Doug Ford's plan to consolidate the unique agencies from 36 to 7 may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ over development & flood protections thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

Ford has been on a conservation authority hunt for six years. It’s wonky enough that Ontario won’t care (because they seem to care about … not much when it comes to this govt) but profound negative impact. On and on.

When the City of Toronto amalgamated, services for places like Scarborough noticeably got worse. This was in large part due to these peripheral communities having less representation and influence at a centralized city hall biased towards the old City of Toronto.

The Doug Ford government is setting its sites on conservation authorities for the fifth time, merging the watershed protection agencies. Staff tell @fatimabsyed.bsky.social it may ‘slow approvals, create confusion’ — not to mention it's leaving them with ‘whiplash.’ thenarwhal.ca/ontario-cons...

To quote @meyer.bsky.social: Nothing has been designated a federal project in the “national interest—so far Nothing has been designated to be “fast-tracked” by the federal Major Projects Office—so far Nothing has been given any special ability to avoid any federal permits or requirements—so far

I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social #ONpoli thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

Upon taking office, the Doug Ford gov't introduced a law to cut the "carbon tax" which also obliged the government to create a climate plan & emissions targets. Now, they’ve repealed that duty—Ontario’s government no longer has to consider climate action. thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...

Minister of Finance Peter Bethlanfalvy just responded by citing Prime Minister Mark Carney: "it's not about targets it's about results." To my knowledge, Canada still has emissions-reduction targets. Ontario no longer will.

A month ago, Ontario’s Auditor General told Doug Ford’s government to create a public, accountable climate plan with emissions-reduction targets — as courts have also ordered. Today, the government’s fall economic statement eliminates all legal obligation to do so. #onpoli

I've been on vacation and just came back to news the Doug Ford gov't is amalgamating 36 conservation authorities into 7. This is a HUGE change and just the latest in a long tense relationship b/w this government and the unique agencies. But first: LETS GO BLUE JAYS 💙 thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-o...

Piping plovers — tiny, lively and endangered birds — have visited Wasaga Beach every summer since 2007. But things may be changing — and what happens here could be a sign of what’s to come elsewhere in Ontario. #endangeredspecies #wasagabeach

A decade ago, Mark Carney gave a speech pointing out how biz and political leaders had no day-to-day incentive to address climate change, yet it was up to governments. Today, Carney is leading one, but finds himself consumed with responding to the many crises of the day thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

First Nations asked the Doug Ford gov't for oversight measures over special economic zones (law-free areas for trusted proponents & designated projects). They asked for a public registry, an appeals process on cabinet decisions and time limits. The government said no thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

A large drilling rig near the shore of Georgian Bay has some Meaford, Ont., residents concerned about what’s to come. @fatimabsyed.bsky.social went looking for answers. thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-dr...

ICYMI, read @fatimabsyed.bsky.social on Ford's plans for Wasage Beach Provincial Park

I’ve reported on the Doug Ford gov’t’s environmental record for 7 years and I remain concerned that Ontario’s only climate plan is a 2018 draft the auditor says isn’t evidence-based — and the gov’t now admits it won’t release a new plan or set stronger emissions-reduction targets

Super excited to be a part of this Cited Media panel with the incredible @fatimabsyed.bsky.social next Thursday, October 2nd! Click the link to grab tickets and to also see a photo of me from 10 years ago: citedpodcast.com/2025/09/19/o...