investigative journalism

At Canada's National Observer,  we have a deep commitment to human rights, to democracy, to social justice, and to leaving behind a better planet for future generations. 

CEO and editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood shares why she started Canada's National Observer, how independent media is vital to preserving democracy and what to expect from us in 2021.

In conversation with Canada’s National Observer on Thursday evening, Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein flagged a tangential result of the past four years of Donald Trump: a deluge of hard-hitting, gobsmacking investigative journalism, Luke Ottenhof writes.

CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto says Canadians should brace for even more erratic foreign policy if Donald Trump returns to the White House in January.

National Observer has added a new journalist to its roster as part of our Election Integrity Reporting Project. Emma McIntosh will be reporting on online misinformation and disinformation from Toronto to help you identify what's real and call out propaganda and junk news.

National Observer reporters have earned three nominations from the Canadian Association of Journalists for investigative journalism and in-depth reporting on Indigenous affairs.

For years, amid troubling emission data and oil facility failures, they debated whether to share this information with the public. In the end, it was not shared. Until we published it.

Glenn Greenwald, along with filmmaker Laura Poitras, is famed for breaking the Edward Snowden story about the National Security Agency's warrantless mass surveillance program.

Canada is one of just a few developed democracies with no shield law for journalists. That needs to change, a group of Canadian editors say.

Investigative journalism is critical now. Will you support it?

National Observer took home three first place wins and one second place win in a competition that included Maclean's, Toronto Star, CBC, and other Canadian media titans.

The number of reporters who were subject to police surveillance in Quebec is growing.

National Observer named as finalist in three categories for the Canadian Online Publishers Awards, including 'Best News Website' in Canada.