Emma Gilchrist
The Narwhal
Victoria, BC, Canada
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Why The Narwhal is proud to be a founding member of Press Forward
Canada's independent news sector is a driving force in serving communities with public interest journalism. It's time for a national association that unites our country's media innovators → Read More
Welcome to
When I started reporting on the environment for the Calgary Herald back in 2007, it was hard to imagine the way Canada’s media landscape would be transformed in the next decade. Between 2010 and 2016, 225 weekly and 27 daily newspapers closed in Canada. But even before this latest downward spiral, Canadian journalism was in... → Read More
The Real Reason Canada is in Crisis Over the Kinder Morgan Pipeline
Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy to lose track of how on earth we ended up in this place of dysfunction. → Read More
B.C. Is Taking the Kinder Morgan Question to Court. Here’s What you Need to Know.
With the announcement on Wednesday that the B.C. government will file its reference case on the ability of the province to regulate the transport of diluted bitumen in the Court of Appeal by April 30th, it’s finally official: the much-debated constitutional question will be put to the test. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has repeatedly said that B.C.’s intention to regulate the transport of… → Read More
What's The ‘National Interest’ Anyways? Conflict Resolution Expert Adam Kahane on Canada’s Oil Pipeline Debate
As the national conversation about the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline goes thoroughly bananas, one thing is becoming crystal clear: this conflict is likely to get worse before it gets better. → Read More
That Time a Foreign-Owned Newspaper Called Out Environmentalists for Taking Foreign Money to Fight a Foreign-Funded Pipeline
On a certain level, Vivian Krause and her cadre are right when they accuse Canadian non-profits of taking foreign money. American philanthropists do give money to Canadian non-profits. → Read More
Why Canada’s Promise to Explore Charitable Status For News Organizations is a Very, Very Good Thing
A brief paragraph on page 186 of Tuesday’s federal budget held some of the best news for Canadian journalism in decades. → Read More
The New Battle of Alberta
For decades, the ‘battle of Alberta’ has alluded to the intense rivalry between Calgary and Edmonton, especially on the ice or the football field. → Read More
Here’s What Alberta’s Wine Boycott is Really About
No, it wasn’t a weird dream, Alberta actually announced a boycott of B.C. wine on Tuesday. → Read More
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells
If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. → Read More
How Canada is Driving Its Endangered Species to the Brink of Extinction
Canadian governments are sitting by and watching as endangered species disappear, in what one environmental lawyer calls a “slow moving catastrophe.” The latest blow comes as a deadline for provinces to outline plans to protect threatened caribou habitat blew by without a single province meeting the deadline. “This is 13 years after this species was listed as threatened. There’s been 13 years of… → Read More
Our Commitment To Our Readers in 2018
As a new year gets underway, we've been taking some time to reflect. → Read More
How Canada is Driving Santa’s Reindeer Toward Extinction
Not to be too glum just as the merry season hits its peak, but reindeer have been on my mind in more ways than one this week. → Read More
Can Reader-Funded News Save Canadian Journalism?
“Some newspapers dig. Some newspapers are a constant embarrassment to the powerful. Some manage to be entertaining, provocative, and fair at the same time. There are a few such newspapers in Canada.” → Read More
Why British Columbians Should Demand a Public Inquiry on the Site C Dam
For years British Columbians have been left in the dark about the most expensive public project in our history. → Read More
Site C Dam Over Budget, Behind Schedule and Could be Replaced by Alternatives: BCUC Report
A highly anticipated review of B.C.’s Site C dam has found the project is likely to be over budget and behind schedule and alternative energy sources could be built for an equal or lower unit energy cost. → Read More
TransCanada Cancels Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
Canadian pipeline company TransCanada announced today it will no longer be proceeding with its proposed Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects. → Read More
BREAKING: Site C Dam $600 Million Over Budget, Will Miss River Diversion Timeline, Says BC Hydro CEO
BC Hydro’s new CEO Chris O’Riley has written a letter to the B.C. Utilities Commission stating that the crown corporation will not meet the timeline for river diversion for the Site C dam, which will add $610 million to the project’s price tag. → Read More
DeSmog Canada Chosen As Finalist for Two Canadian Online Publishing Awards
Judges for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards have announced the 2017 finalists and DeSmog Canada has made the cut in two categories. → Read More
5 Things You Need to Know About B.C.'s Ban on Big Money
On Monday, the British Columbia government introduced new legislation that proposes to ban corporate, union and foreign donations in a move that will dramatically change B.C.’s political landscape and bring the province in line with other Canadian jurisdictions. → Read More