Me: maybe I'm too enthusiastic about suggesting @thenarwhal and @thetyee
Corporate media: FOIs now cost $20, but we've got some great AI-rewritten PR releases!
The Narwhal: FOI FOI FOI BAM https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-lng-carbon-pollution-break/
#TheNarwhal
"At least 16 #fossilfuel companies operating in #Canada’s oilsands allegedly broke rules requiring them to pay for environmental monitoring by independent #scientists, according to newly released data from the Alberta government...
"#Alberta’s #Environment and #Protected Areas Ministry released the data to #TheNarwhal in November, about a month after the #government lost a three-year battle to keep the names of 16 #oilsands companies secret."
What a surprise.
Wow! Good morning to my hundreds of new friends! I’ve been on Mastodon for just over two years, so I am delighted to welcome you all. This week, my podcast, Alberta Unbound, crossed the 40k download mark - so let me celebrate by sharing with you this week’s episode, a conversation about environmental journalism with Emma Gilchrist, editor of @thenarwhal. https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fP2zxaugOguvxryANnzCg?si=W1Z-jy5uTq6rAT5Ld8ojlw #Alberta #SenateofCanada #TheNarwhal #Canada #Jasper #introduction
This year, I have been making an effort to support independent journalists and authors.
My latest subscription is to The Narwhal. They are an ad-free, non-profit organisation and have received multiple journalism, newspaper, and digital publishing awards. The work of independent journalism not only informs us, but has meaningful impacts on our communities.
You can see how the Ministry of the Environment failed to protect the environment. It will take years: https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-green-for-life-waste-management/. What are they hiding?
And such is the result when criminals are voted into power.
When almost everything the Cons do has a money trail that leads to the same destinations, you know it's not in the name of public service.
This would probably be one more map among many, like one #thenarwhal drew out for the #greenbeltscandal showing all the business connections to Queen's Park.
@paulbusch and here we thought #kingFord 's #kleptocracy was just trying to torch the social support systems so they could be replaced by his #oligarch 's / private interest corporations' money machines.
And even with this report in hand, the Cons continued to justify & rationalize their attack on the #greenbelt - until clear evidence of #collusion was brought forward by #thenarwhal .
By directing the authors to minimize their findings and then sliding this report under the proverbial carpet, could the Cons try any harder to send #Ontario up in flames! 🤬
Ontario government confirms the "Get it Done Act" is real. https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1004187/ontario-protecting-people-from-the-high-costs-of-a-provincial-carbon-tax. To learn more about the Get it Done Act visit https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-expropriation-land-bill/. #onpoli #GetItDone #GetItDoneAct #PlanningAct #DougFordisoverparty #DougFord #UrbanBoundries #theNarwhal
The Tyee: This Is Not a Drill: Meta’s Ban on Canadian News Ramps Up https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/08/03/Meta-Ban-Canadian-News-Ramps-Up/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #CanadianHeritageMinisterPabloRodriguez #PrimeMinisterJustinTrudeau #FacebookCEOMarkZuckerberg #BillC-18OnlineNewsAct #CanadianJournalism #MetaCanadiannews #GoogleBillC-18 #JeanetteAgeson #PascaleSt-Onge #Canadiannews #MetaBillC-18 #Canadaland #TheNarwhal #TheBreach #CBCRadio
B.C. is weighing the merits of appointing a ‘chief ecologist,’ internal docs show
As species disappear and ecosystems collapse, the new role could help keep B.C. accountable on forthcoming biodiversity laws and policies
https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-chief-ecologist-role/@thenarwhal@mstdn.ca
@thenarwhal
#Canada #BritishColumbia #environment #ecology #biodiversity #TheNarwhal
Addendae 2
Chemicals are forever: a new factory opens near Lake Nipissing, where water is already contaminated
Industrial Plastics Canada's new North Bay factory is set to use fluoropolymers, part of a group of chemicals known as PFAS that Canada has been slow to regulate
https://thenarwhal.ca/pfas-factory-north-bay-ontario/
@thenarwhal ...
#Canada #PFAS #EnvironmentalHealth #ForeverChemicals #IndustrialPlasticsCanada #TheNarwhal
Indigenous-led conservation, and important stewardship work Indigenous Peoples have undertaken for millennia, is gaining public and global recognition.
* Related:
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwaii_Haanas_National_Park_Reserve_and_Haida_Heritage_Site
Had the great pleasure / honor of spending a day, there (serene; spiritual):
Ninstints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninstints
#TheNarwhal #stewardship #GwaiiHaanas #Haida #HeritageSite #Ninstints
The Narwhal wins 3 Canadian Journalism Foundation awards
Arctic photojournalism, B.C. reporting on Indigenous-led conservation; Ontario bureau’s innovation were recognized as The Narwhal took home the most awards
https://thenarwhal.ca/cjf-awards-2023/
* @thenarwhal congratulations, well done!! 🥳
* The Narwhal is an environmental magazine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_magazines)
* https://thenarwhal.ca/
* Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal
#TheNarwhal #IndependentJournalism #journalism #InvestigativeJournalism
* The article source - Grist (magazine) - is an environmental magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grist_(magazine)
https://grist.org/
Notable others in that category (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Environmental_magazines) are:
* High Country News, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Country_News
https://www.hcn.org/
* The Narwhal, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Narwhal
https://thenarwhal.ca/
#Grist #HighCountryNews #TheNarwhal #EnvironmentalMagazines #environmentalism
@thenarwhal
Hey #Canadians ! #TheNarwhal, an award-winning, #independent, unpaywalled, ad-free, #nonprofit, reader-supported #magazine is turning 5 today! To celebrate, I set up a monthly donation to support them. If you're already a fan, please join me! If you've never heard of them, but are interested in fearless #climate and #environment #journalism, check it out! I don't work for them (tho i'd love to!), they didn't pay me to write this, I just love #TheNarwhal!
https://thenarwhal.ca/
Bracken, alongside #environmental outlet #TheNarwhal are suing #RCMP for #violating their #CharterRights when Bracken was #arrested & #detained while #OnAssignment in November of 2021. Bracken had been #embedded with #Wetsuweten #LandDefenders at a #CoastalGasLink #pipeline #ResistanceCamp in Northern #BritishColumbia. She was arrested alongside #filmmaker #MichaelToledano — on assignment for #CBC
https://ricochet.media/en/3949/photojournalist-takes-on-rcmp-in-fight-for-press-freedom
#Indigenous #PressFreedom #HumanRights #BCNDP #lawsuit #PNW #NativeRights
#TransMountain #pipeline owned by #FederalCovernment is a #culprit in the #destruction of #endangered SpottedOwl #habitat #TheNarwhal learned of #NewTwist to 11th-hr #efforts to #save the #owl from #extinction in #Canada .
#BCNDP elected in 2017 on a platform that included using “every tool in [the] toolbox” to stop #TMX - #approved 24 new #cutblocks for TMX in #habitat federal #scientists deemed #necessary for owl’s #survival & #recovery, including #OldGrowth #forests
'#Documents obtained by #TheNarwhal explain the silence: after the mass #resignations , the #government changed the rules of the #GreenbeltCouncil to make its advice #confidential , and to #restrict its members’ ability to talk to #journalists .
The new rules were first laid out in a “#MediaRelations protocol” document for the council in March 2021, three months after the resignations, which was obtained by The Narwhal through a #FOI request.'
https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-muzzled-greenbelt-council/
If you're not reading The Narwhal, you really should. Also maybe throw some $$$ their way? I have a refferal link lol: https://sparklp.co/fdb665b8/
"Immigrants aren’t storming Ontario’s Greenbelt or other undeveloped areas begging for mansions to live in. Not only because they can’t afford it, but because they too want to live in complete communities, where they can re-establish a life, with access to all the things everyone wants: affordable housing, healthcare, education, community and access to nature." - Fatima Syed in https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-greenbelt-immigration/
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