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.
The money trail: Developers who donated to Ontario Proud, PC party got the green light for projects
Developers linked to projects fast-tracked by the Ford government poured donations into the the Progressive Conservatives and Ontario Proud, a third-party group that supported the Tories in the 2018 provincial election.
Exclusive: Ford donors benefit as project approvals override environment
The Ford government has used ministerial zoning orders, or MZOs, to override environmental concerns in 14 cases, an analysis by Canada’s National Observer shows. In many cases, developers who benefitted donated thousands to the PCs and Ontario Proud.
Alberta inquiry commissioned reports downplaying climate crisis, critics say
The publicly funded inquiry, which is meant to examine an alleged foreign-funded campaign against Alberta oil and gas, spent approximately $97,560 commissioning the reports.
Top Tory adviser under fire for tweeting U.S. election misinformation
Nick Kouvalis, a veteran conservative operative, tweeted and retracted a false claim that "antifa" and Black Lives Matter activists were responsible for the Capitol riots. The office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford didn't answer when asked if Kouvalis is still doing work for the Progressive Conservatives.
Ontario’s endangered species changes could cause local extinctions
How well endangered species fare under the 2019 changes will depend on how the Ford government implements the new rules, some of which have “ambiguous” wording, researchers from Simon Fraser and Western universities say.
Ontario forming advisory group ahead of conservation authority changes
Amid backlash over a controversial bill that gutted conservation authorities’ powers, the Ontario government is appointing a working group to advise it on how the changes should roll out. The panel will be led by a conservation official, an apparent olive branch to the watershed management agencies.
Inside Toronto's COVID-19 isolation hotel
Hours after she was diagnosed with COVID-19, reporter Emma McIntosh entered an isolation hotel in hopes of keeping her loved ones from getting infected. "With the door shut behind me, I felt relieved. Like I was no longer a risk to anyone I love," she writes.
Ontario doubles down on controversial conservation authority changes
Municipal Affairs Minister Steve Clark said Monday the province would forge ahead with the legislation, which has sparked backlash from fellow Conservatives. He also announced new funding to restore wetlands, which critics said wouldn’t make up for the contentious changes.
Seven members of Doug Ford's Greenbelt Council resign in protest
David Crombie, a former Progressive Conservative MP and Toronto mayor, resigned as chair of the advisory board Saturday, saying the Ford government's changes to limit the powers of conservation authorities amount to "high-level bombing." Six more members followed suit and stepped down Sunday morning.
A clean energy strategy for Ontario?
The Ford government has cancelled green energy programs and tried to halt partially built wind farms. But now it’s announcing plans to reduce emissions through a new “hydrogen economy" as a way to boost the economy amid COVID-19.