All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

When the police call for police to be taken off mental health calls - as police chiefs have done in Toronto, Victoria and elsewhere - we should listen, ask who responds instead, and where the money comes from to pay for that service. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How do we know our journalism makes a difference? Because we pay attention to how it influences governments, empowers people to hold power to account and otherwise ripples into the world. Check out a few highlights from another year of impactful reporting: thenarwhal.ca/our-impact-i...

Which province mandates that cities and towns allow a fossil fuel company to build pipelines on public land for free? Ontario! Incredible!

Nbd, just a provincial government apparently delaying publication of a scientific study showing long-term negative effects of coal mining on water quality. Oh and also seemingly preventing the lead scientist from talking to journalists - and local citizens - once it finally came out.

There is a pattern of domestic violence and sexual assault allegations against police in Canada, McDermott notes. Like former VPD Sgt. Jim Fisher, accused of forcibly kissing two teenage girls under 18, witnesses to a sex exploitation investigation... 6/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In late Nov. researcher @kwardvancouver.bsky.social pointed me to an OPCC investigation summary into now ex-VPD officer’s abusive relationship with a teenage girl. They met when he made a policing presentation at her high school & she expressed interest in being a cop. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... 1/

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

A paved pathway was built through a wetland in Severn, outside of Orillia, surprising the community and council. Across Ontario, flood-mitigating wetlands are losing protections - sometimes because developers pay experts that redraw protection maps, which the province just .. accepts?

LOL. No.

Unless you live in Toronto, in which case this is actually smug, depressing research

If you think a US-based company would ever *in a million years* put Canadian sovereignty and security even slightly ahead of their profitability upon receiving even the smallest pressure from Trump or any other US President, I have a JPG of an ape I'd like to sell you.

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

if you're a WNBA or NWSL social media team you probably have mixed feelings about the growing popularity of Heated Rivalry because on the one hand a rising gay tide lifts all gay boats but on the other you've been grinding in the gay mines for years when these beefy fellas just waltzed in yesterday

It's December 6 and I didn't notice until this minute. 💔

Look at this + listen to an episode of Criminal about anti-ICE grassroots work in Chicago and remember that many people are good thisiscriminal.com/episode-339-...

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Excellent basketball

what’s more virgin than a computer

This was a great panel with a very engaged audience - if you're interested in the national interest, please watch!

So happy my girl @supriya.bsky.social is out here opinionating again: "When Canada walks away from feminist policy, it abandons a key driver of poverty and strife. And when Canada appears to bow to bro-signalling ... it has joined the league of polite misogyny." www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Fast-track plans unclear Set to fast track Fast-tracking plans Designated for fast tracking The Major Projects Office is a plot against copy editors

Today at noon Eastern Time: join some Narwhal Nerds to talk policy, major projects and the prime minister.

Someone said this is Klay Thompson and Megan the Stallion

The prime minister promises he’ll solve climate change … right after he gets a new pipeline built. @balkissoon.bsky.social asks: haven’t we heard that one before?

Company given $2M from Skills Development Fund run by Ford family dentist: sources

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.

For example, pipelines

Doug Ford's government claims the province isn’t privatizing water. Experts aren't convinced. pressprogress.ca/ontario-clai...

This is an amazing piece of investigative journalism and probably the most upsetting grift story I've ever read. I understand why shitty reproductive care makes people vulnerable. I am so grateful Ontario integrated real midwives into the healthcare system. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

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:

At the Canadian Association of Journalists conference in March, a child exploitation researcher said Roblox and Fortnite are the worst for gaf about safety (Nintendo is best in his opinion). If it's free, your kid is the product. This interview didn't surprise me. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/p...

Major projects, major problems: anger at Carney’s unclear plans is the real shared national interest, @drewanderson.bsky.social writes: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-pipe...

When asked by @meyer.bsky.social the federal government couldn’t name specific examples of Canadian companies failing to advertise genuine enviromnmental efforts because of last year’s legal changes over misleading claims. But it's still walking back greenwashing laws thenarwhal.ca/greenwashing...

Join us for a free Zoom event on Dec. 2 to unpack the process, politics and potential impacts of Canada’s push to build major projects. Get the details on that, plus more fresh reporting from The Narwhal, in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-r...

when the fuck is this gonna end

While Alberta considers how to allow oilsands companies to release treated wastewater into the Athabasca River, the federal government has yet to table its own law around clean drinking water for First Nations. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oils...

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

This is horrifying. There's a defense of abusive Catholic priests in here, don't read if that might ruin your day

Short video. @drewanderson.bsky.social nailing it. Many Alberta oil & gas companies aren’t paying landowners or municipal taxes. The Regulator is opaque. MAGA Energy Ltd. Is one of hundreds of bad actors allowed to run wild at everyone else’s expense. youtube.com/shorts/GfSGO...

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...

Among other things, I think $37M of taxpayer money for student mental health would be better spent on ongoing care from human therapists vs an "AI-driven platform that facilitates behavioral health training and education while delivering measurement-based care" www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

I mean, they can't and it doesn't. don't print lies in the newspaper.

Why are we hearing about building more pipelines? Do they make sense for Canada's economy? And what about our emissions goals? We mapped 800,000 kilometres of pipelines in Canada and tried to get to the bottom of these questions in our latest explainer video. #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/video-pipeli...

Fiction recos please!

I recently met a researcher studying Indian farmers displaced for Big Solar. This ⬇️ is about Chinese solar on Uighur homelands. And of course Canada's energy transition has huge implications for Indigenous rights. Possibly it's "worth it" - but who decides? atmos.earth/political-la...

At some point embarrassment MUST come

Someone should do a nl "Crimes Meta is allegedly complicit in." Been less a week since this Star story on Facebook ads supporting a real illegal drug trade, being promoted to people trying to recover www.thestar.com/news/investi...