Emma McIntosh
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About Emma McIntosh
Emma McIntosh has covered environment, energy and national news. She covered misinformation and disinformation in the 2019 federal election. She has reported for StarMetro Calgary, the Toronto Star and the Calgary Herald as well as Canada's National Observer. A former Seattle-ite and dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada, Emma graduated from Ryerson University's undergraduate journalism program in 2018.
She has focused on investigative journalism since 2017. Emma also covered the Alberta provincial election in April 2019. Projects she's worked on have been shortlisted for multiple national awards, including a National Newspaper Award, the Canadian Hillman Prize and CJF Jackman Award for Excellence.
A COVID-19 'reckoning' is coming for Alberta, Kenney says
Crude prices could go negative while Alberta's deficit is expected to triple. All this while the province battles a virus that officials expect could kill between 400 and 3,100 Albertans by the end of summer.
With U.S. blocking shipments, Ontario running out of COVID-19 supplies
“This is all that’s on my mind,” Premier Doug Ford said of the looming shortage. “I don’t sleep at night.”
Projections show 3,000 to 15,000 in Ontario could die from COVID-19
The modelling behind the projections is fluctuating and depends on what we do now, officials cautioned. But the numbers also show the pandemic could last up to two years, and the death toll could have been far worse if Ontario officials hadn't acted when they did.
Grassy Narrows, Ottawa sign agreement for mercury care home
For years, the northern Ontario First Nation has been asking the federal government to make good on its 2017 promise to fund the home. Grassy Narrows has dealt with the effects of mercury contamination for decades, after a nearby paper mill dumped it into the nearby river system in the 1960s.
Alberta relaxes environmental rules, citing COVID-19 pandemic
Companies must still notify the province of emergencies and record the information they would normally report, the order says.
How bad can COVID-19 get in Ontario? We’ll find out next week
Ontario is still working through a backlog of COVID-19 tests. Public health officials say they’ll have a better idea of worst-case projections once they have better infection data.
Alberta tweaks orphan well cleanup rules
Orphan wells with no financially viable owner have piled up in recent years due to lax cleanup rules and dampened crude prices. The Alberta government unveiled new rules aimed at helping fix the problem Tuesday.
Ontario's COVID-19 supplies could run out in two weeks, Ford says
"The hard truth is, the more time we have, the more lives we can save," said a visibly grim Premier Doug Ford.
Canadian oil selling for $5 per barrel as oilpatch awaits federal bailout
"For some companies, unfortunately, it will be a death blow," said Warren Mabee, the director of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy at Queen’s University.
How Ontario says it’ll fix its massive COVID-19 test backlog
The province has come under fire in recent days for not testing enough, while patients have reported waiting more than a week for test results that are supposed to take two days.