"How I am supposed to show you the beauty of the world, and everything there is left to save, without burdening you with the grief of everything we have already lost." Shrouded in wildfire smoke, @amarapossian.bsky.social writes about how her first summer as a mother is not what she imagined.

"They’re probably thinking: how cute! 'It doesn’t help that social media is just exploding with these,' Dubois says; one Instagram account, Chloe the Serval, has more than 817,000 followers." @michellecyca.com for @thenarwhal.ca: thenarwhal.ca/bc-exotic-ca...

why would someone keep an African wild cat as a pet? and how many people in B.C. have them? it’s impossible to say — but probably more than you think! many questions, a few answers & some surprises in my new long read for @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/bc-exotic-ca...

OUT NOW! This month, we've rebranded in the spirit of our VANCOUVER PRIDE EDITION, featuring Kimmortal 🏳️‍🌈. In this issue 👇 ➡️ Pony Room giddies up ➡️ In COMEDY: Breanne Williamson won't quit now ➡️ In DANCE: The queer joy of afro-latin dance + more. Pick up your free copy at a newsstand near you.

This is my last piece of writing on staff at The Narwhal. It started with a question: how can we learn to sit with uncertainty? To me, it's a hopeful, if complicated, story and I hope you'll take some time to sit with it. Thanks to all who have read my words over these past six years.

When I first started writing about climate change, I was drawn to the topic because of how it illuminated our very human discomfort with uncertainty. Today in @thenarwhal.ca , @writermjs.bsky.social reflects on this in a beautiful essay — his last as a staffer. thenarwhal.ca/how-to-live-...

The Narwhal and Amber Bracken sued the RCMP in hope of clearing a path for all journalists in Canada to do their work without risk of police interference. The trial wraps up this week. Carol Linnitt, co-founder of The Narwhal, offered these reflections: thenarwhal.ca/support-fear...

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

🎉 🎉 🎉 We're celebrating today after winning two gold medals at the 2026 Digital Publishing Awards, including one for best climate change coverage! Thanks to @canadamediaawards.bsky.social for spotlighting Canadian journalism. thenarwhal.ca/2026-dpa-nma...

🚨 Last chance to apply 🚨 The Narwhal is hiring ... and the deadline is this Sunday, June 7! We're looking for two senior reporters to pursue ambitious journalism about the natural world in Canada, one based in B.C. and another based (almost) anywhere in the country. thenarwhal.ca/work-with-us/

Activist-turned-politician Steven Guilbeault’s resignation from the House of Commons marks the end of an era for Canadian environmental aspirations, writes @balkissoon.bsky.social. And it signals that climate action is radical again. thenarwhal.ca/steven-guilb...

The Narwhal is hiring! For two senior reporting positions! Come work with a great team to tell in-depth stories about Canada's natural world 🌿

In 2021, an atmospheric river in B.C. wiped out a segment of the Trans Canada Trail — part of the world's largest multi-use trail network. As the province weighs whether to repair it, larger questions around climate disaster recovery weigh on communities. thenarwhal.ca/trans-canada...

Today in @thenarwhal.ca: a gorgeous photo essay from The Narwhal and Room Up Front's 2025 BIPOC photojournalism fellow, Paula Razuri. Read it and delight 🐦‍⬛🪶

In January 2024, a cold snap devastated B.C.’s wine industry. To help, the government created a program that allowed B.C. wineries to import U.S. grapes. It saved the industry, but now that same lifeline is threatening to put some wineries out of business. thenarwhal.ca/bc-wine-taxes/

Has tax season left you with a headache? It certainly has for many B.C. winemakers. Government saved the wine industry after an extreme weather event in 2024, but high tax bills are now crushing some. Read more in the second story in our Who Pays? series. thenarwhal.ca/bc-wine-taxes/

Today @thenarwhal.ca is launching a series on the economic costs of the climate crisis, and it kicks off with this deeply important story by @meyer.bsky.social. Make time to read it.

The Narwhal is launching a cross-newsroom series today on the costs of climate change, and who is and isn’t covering their fair share. It’s called Who Pays?, and the first story is about the toll on human health: thenarwhal.ca/climate-chan...

Tomorrow The Narwhal is launching something special. Hint: it has to do with everyone's favourite subject — 💸 Stay tuned.

As space junk accumulates, astronomer Sam Lawler explains why we should be concerned about the rapid proliferation of private satellites in low orbit: thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-f...

Grizzly bears are considered locally extinct in the North Cascades region, which extends across the B.C.-Washington border. But a First Nations-led effort to reintroduce the species to the area is gaining momentum. thenarwhal.ca/north-cascad...

Applications for @thenarwhal.ca's new reporting fellowship are due Friday! Apply! 📯

I think sometimes socially when we talk about resilience we are talking about someone’s ability to remain functional for others at great personal cost

Journalism job alert: The Narwhal’s Ontario bureau is excited to announce a new position for a reporting fellow to cover Queen’s Park and the ways policy affects people in racialized communities. Learn more and apply:

Food systems are on the edge in West Moberly First Nations' territory, but they have plan to change that. Their geothermal-powered greenhouse could be Canada's first, drawing on hot water trapped inside an ancient seafloor to grow food for the northeast. My latest for @thenarwhal.ca

I never get to do BREAKING NEWS, but here's some: B.C. is scrapping the time change, which reams of scientific research and anecdata from exhausted parents can tell you is a good thing. here's an update to my reporting from last year, which now has a more celebratory tone:

a feel-good story from @sevawood.bsky.social with photos of some extremely cute lil goats

And now it's time for some goddamn PERREO

Called by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 1,360 kilometres through southern Ontario to retrace parts of the Underground Railroad. Here's what he learned about Black history in Canada, including the outdoor survival skills needed to escape enslavement. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...

Qué rico es ser latino... gracias, BB 🇵🇷

Has your partner ever built you a home in a chimney? Or regurgitated food to save you all that tiresome chewing? If not, perhaps it’s time to look beyond the human dating pool. Check out the very first Narwhal quiz, and find your Canadian lovebird. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...

Here's a story from Canada's National Observer about our press freedom case against the RCMP, which is underway right now in B.C.'s Supreme Court. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/a...

In October, @amberbracken.bsky.social and I followed photographers Jim Elzinga and Roger Vernon deep inside the Athabasca Glacier. The duo is capturing the beauty of our glaciers before they disappear. The experience was beautiful, impactful and heartbreaking.

“As we stand outside this courthouse, stepping into five weeks of trial, we know the legitimate right of journalists to do their job, to perform their vital role in our democracy, is at stake.” — Narwhal co-founder Carol Linnitt on our case against the RCMP: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/

The Narwhal is suing the RCMP to protect press freedom for all Canadians, and our case will be heard in a Vancouver courtroom beginning next week. We’re counting on your support as the case unfolds, so here’s what you need to know. 🧵

Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.

At The Narwhal, our goal is to tell stories beautifully, even when they're ugly. This year we sent photographers to the Arctic, West Coast provincial parks, Great Lakes beaches and more. Here are our favourite photos of 2025. thenarwhal.ca/2025-best-ph...

A group of blockaders built a camp in Kananaskis Country, Alta., this fall to protest logging in the area. Their aim was to create a culture of civil disobedience in the province. An on-the-ground dispatch from @drewanderson.bsky.social and @amberbracken.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-l...

Growing up as a teenage girl in northern Alberta, @trinamoyles.bsky.social learned to live with bears — and to navigate the hard-living culture of a resource-dependent town. Here's an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, which dives into those lessons: thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles...

Frank de Boon, a former conservation officer, has dealt with something most of us hardly think about: wildlife struck and killed by trains. “We were seeing it all the time,” he told @thenarwhal.ca's @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social in her latest story. projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...

Our wee newsroom was never going to run the first Grand Bargain story, but @meyer.bsky.social and @drewanderson.bsky.social are absolutely the best at explaining what the pipeline of magical thinking means for the environment.

if you worry about the decline of media, the rise in AI slop and the rampant misinformation circulating online — one small but meaningful way to do something about it is to support @thenarwhal.ca in reporting factual, original, investigative stories. plus you get a toque & a hand-written note!

As B.C.‘s climate changes and wildfires increase, Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist wants to see the practice of prescribed burning expanded in the Interior. An on-the-ground feature first shared by our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/cultural-bur...

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...

"Then one night at the end of March, someone showed up with a gun. The birds were sleeping in their pens, some with upright necks, in the ostrich way." Can't look away from the ostriches. A riveting longread, with great photos.

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

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 [email protected] 💚

📣 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! thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...