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

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Inside the Doug Ford government’s mining push | The Narwhal Ontario says its ‘one project, one process’ (1P1P) framework will speed mining approvals. Many First Nations leaders have questions

The Ford government introduced a new bill to use AI as part of its "one project, one process" — or 1P1P — system for fast-tracking mining and development projects. Here's a story about how that process works, by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p...

How conservation authority changes could affect Ontario's drinking water | The Narwhal Ontario drinking water committees, formed following the Walkerton tragedy, face an uncertain future as conservation authorities amalgamate

ICYMI: @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and Matt McIntosh spoke to a dozen sources, received a leaked document and interviewed Ontario’s environment minister for this story on the little-known water protection committees, tied up in the conservation authority changes: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour...

Ontario's plans to protect drinking water amidst the conservation authority amalgamation are "a work in progress."

@fatimabsyed.bsky.social and Matt McIntosh have the story:

How conservation authority changes could affect Ontario's drinking water | The Narwhal Ontario drinking water committees, formed following the Walkerton tragedy, face an uncertain future as conservation authorities amalgamate

We @thenarwhal.ca spent a month investigating what Doug Ford's conservation authority consolidation means for drinking water protections. 12 sources & a leaked doc reveal the system built to prvent another Walkerton crisis is in flux—and experts are worried.

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour... #onpoli

“The government has proposed permitting communal wells for private development… a new subdivision, for example, could draw from its own well… communal wells aren’t currently overseen by source protection committees.”

Concerning when considering potential contamination or overuse.

Are you concerned about tap water safety?
"The Narwhal spoke to 12 people, including lawyers, members of three source protection committees and several conservation authority staff, many of whom spoke anonymously (...) these experts worry about the loss of local input, knowledge and protections."

How conservation authority changes could affect Ontario's drinking water | The Narwhal Ontario drinking water committees, formed following the Walkerton tragedy, face an uncertain future as conservation authorities amalgamate

We @thenarwhal.ca spent a month investigating what Doug Ford's conservation authority consolidation means for drinking water protections. 12 sources & a leaked doc reveal the system built to prvent another Walkerton crisis is in flux—and experts are worried.

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-sour... #onpoli

I'm moonscrolling

Watching our close personal friends on Artemis II wait to be let out is basically an astronaut's version of being stuck in a plane after landing with no gate available.

Hello 👋🏽
Reporter Carl @meyer.bsky.social wants to talk to people about health and climate-driven extreme weather. If you've dealt with asthma triggered by wildfire smoke or air pollution, heat exhaustion or evacuation-related mental health distress, he's at carl@thenarwhal.ca. We appreciate it.

Confusion over Carney’s Canada Water Agency cuts | The Narwhal $5M in cuts at the Canada Water Agency coincide with a mandate to create Canada’s first National Water Security Strategy

Internal documents show the Canada Water Agency wasn’t quite sure what to make of Carney’s budget cuts — or how to explain them to the media. thenarwhal.ca/canada-water...

Inside the Doug Ford government’s mining push | The Narwhal Ontario says its ‘one project, one process’ (1P1P) framework will speed mining approvals. Many First Nations leaders have questions

In case you missed it before the long weekend, on Thursday we published this piece by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social delving into the Ford government's plans to speed up mining development, and how different groups affected by that plan are feeling about it. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p...

Inside Ontario’s push to speed up mining | The Narwhal Ontario says its ‘one project, one process’ (1P1P) framework will speed mining approvals. Many First Nations leaders have questions

"In early March, dozens of digital billboards across Toronto’s Union Station repeatedly flashed four words that have become synonymous with economic survival for the Doug Ford government: 'one project, one process.' " @fatimabsyed.bsky.social on Ontario's mining push:
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p...

With incredible art from @jaketobin.bsky.social that I can't wait to frame in our office.

Inside Ontario’s push to speed up mining | The Narwhal Ontario says its ‘one project, one process’ (1P1P) framework will speed mining approvals. Many First Nations leaders have questions

I've been trying to understand what it means to speed up mining approvals in Ontario. Here's the story of a huge internal shakeup that has excited industry and left First Nations feeling concerned about what might be lost when you speed everything up.

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-1p1p... #onpoli

Rare, great opportunity to come join The Local as a permanent full-time reporter! Looking for someone who knows and loves Peel Region to join the team.

"If they really, really cared about the assessment, they would work with the federal government. By not providing any information or any data to the process, they are essentially muzzling the process itself,” said NDP MPP @solmamakwa.bsky.social #onpoli

‘Muzzling the process’: Ontario didn’t participate in Ring of Fire assessment | The Narwhal A report on the impacts of mining and other development in the Ring of Fire, produced by First Nations and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, reveals Ontario was absent

There are several areas where Ontario holds valuable info that a regional assessment of the North needs. But the province hasn't been at the table, raising questions about whether it's blocking public servants from participating. From @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and I: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-fede...

‘Muzzling the process’: Ontario didn’t participate in Ring of Fire assessment | The Narwhal A report on the impacts of mining and other development in the Ring of Fire, produced by First Nations and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, reveals Ontario was absent

For all it's talk about the Ring of Fire, Ontario has not been involved in the federal government’s regional assessment of the region, withholding scientific data and funding needed to understand the impact of mining development.

Story by @meyer.bsky.social & me

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-fede...

The Local Fellowship 2026 | The Local Our fellowship program provides training and mentorship to emerging journalists from communities underrepresented in Canadian media. Applications are now open.

Last call to apply for The Local Fellowship 2026! Applications are due tomorrow. thelocal.to/local-fellow...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

Warplanes, drones & missiles have killed thousands of people, levelled infrastructure and turned the Middle East into "a gigantic environmental sacrifice zone"

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

No one will ever compare

I don’t even know anymore. War, the senseless murder of civilians, pedophiles in power, just a whole lot of fuckshit.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
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hiii, we're shutting down this fundraiser for Trent Ernst & Tumbler Ridgelines today. If you'd like to support him, feel free to donate before 11 pm ET. After that, you can support him directly through his website Patreon! Love to see Canadian media supporting each other!

A girl in black jacket and black toque sits on a frozen lake on a foggy day. In the background is a ship and people walking around.

Frozen lakes are cool because you can sit on them??!?!!!?!! Still mindblown that I did this on Lake Ontario

@shawnmicallef.bsky.social you'll especially love this!

One of the most incredible things we've witnessed this winter are frozen Great Lakes, and none have frozen more than Lake Eerie. These pictures by Carlos Osorio will leave you in total awe.