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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 7d

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] 💚

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 19d

📣 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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Zoë Yunker @zoeyunker.bsky.social · 20d

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

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?

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · 20d

A really great read by @zoeyunker.bsky.social

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 20d

Who should decide how B.C.’s forests are managed? As old growth dwindles, more First Nations are taking the lead — and reshaping forestry in the process. thenarwhal.ca/bc-forestry-... #bcpoli

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?

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 21d

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...

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

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · 26d

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 @thenarwhal.ca · 26d

L’expansion du Port de Montréal — un projet sur la liste de grands projets de Mark Carney — pourrait dégrader sévèrement l’habitat du chevalier cuivré, un poisson menacé qui ne se trouve qu’au Québec. thenarwhal.ca/chevalier-cu...

L’expansion du Port de Montréal met en péril un poisson québécois | The Narwhal

Un agrandissement prévu du Port de Montréal à Contrecoeur, un des projets prioritaires de Mark Carney, met en péril le chevalier cuivré

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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 26d

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...

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 26d

L’expansion du Port de Montréal — un projet sur la liste de grands projets de Mark Carney — pourrait dégrader sévèrement l’habitat du chevalier cuivré, un poisson menacé qui ne se trouve qu’au Québec. thenarwhal.ca/chevalier-cu...

L’expansion du Port de Montréal met en péril un poisson québécois | The Narwhal

Un agrandissement prévu du Port de Montréal à Contrecoeur, un des projets prioritaires de Mark Carney, met en péril le chevalier cuivré

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · 27d

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

The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 27d

The Porcupine caribou herd travels more than 4,000 kilometres across the Arctic each year. But its migration is imperilled by climate change and oil and gas expansion. Scientists are rushing to count the animals amid the threat. @trinamoyles.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...

The biologists racing to count Porcupine caribou | The Narwhal

Scientists in Yukon and Alaska are tracking the size of the Porcupine caribou herd. It’s urgent work: the animals face environmental and political threats

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28d

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...

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

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Oct 2

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 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

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Moira Donovan @moiradonovan.bsky.social · Sep 29

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

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Sep 29

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...

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

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Sep 26

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

Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · Sep 25

Christine Estima (Letters to Kafka), Martha Bátiz (A Daughter’s Place) and Thomas Schlesser (Mona’s Eyes) explore what it means to be human through acts of artistic expression, in this Oct 24 event moderated by Paloma Pacheco.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Sep 12

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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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

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Sep 3

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.

Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Christopher Cheung @bychrischeung.bsky.social · Sep 3

This happens too often.

Jackie Dives @jackiedives.bsky.social · Sep 2

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · Aug 20

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...

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

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Such a great, thoughtful piece, Zoë!

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Zoë Yunker @zoeyunker.bsky.social · Aug 19

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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thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

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?

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Aug 18

“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.

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Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

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.

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Paloma Pacheco @palomahazel.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

‘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

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