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.
Critics blast Ford’s environmental record after blistering watchdog reports
Ontario’s auditor general released four reports on the state of the environment in the province Wednesday, finding that the Ford government is failing to follow the rules. While opposition parties slammed the Progressive Conservatives, Environment Minister Jeff Yurek said he was “proud” of his ministry’s work.
Ford government failing to obey environmental laws, auditor general finds
Ontario is allowing resource extraction in protected areas, failing to collect enough data to even know if it’s meeting its environmental responsibilities and not abiding by the rules, the province’s auditor general found in a series of scathing reports.
Ontario Greens choose new deputy leader
Dianne Saxe was the Ontario environmental commissioner from 2015 until 2019, when the Ford government eliminated her position. On Friday, Canada's National Observer reported that Saxe would run for the Greens in 2022.
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-environmental commissioner to run for Ontario Greens
Dianne Saxe held the non-partisan watchdog role from 2015 to 2019, when the Ford government eliminated her position. She was often critical of the province's weakening of environmental policy. "I feel truly horrified by the unrelenting attacks by the Ford government on our natural environment, on the institutions that protect it," she told Canada's National Observer.
Ford to permanently exempt logging industry from endangered species law
Environmental advocates say the change will push endangered species in Ontario closer to extinction. The Ontario government says other layers of protection are enough, and the move would help create jobs.
Ford government to take powers away from conservation authorities
Conservation authorities oversee Ontario watersheds. The changes to how they work could allow developers to circumvent checks and balances brought in after hurricane Hazel in 1954, which destroyed houses built on flood-plains.
No plans for green recovery in Doug Ford’s 2020 budget
Ontario's Progressive Conservative government delivered a budget focused more on COVID-19 than the deep cuts it served up in 2019. But clean energy and green infrastructure were nowhere in sight, with recovery plans centred on tax cuts.
Ford wants university status for school that questioned climate science
“Is global warming Earth worship?” asked a course advertisement for Canada Christian College. The Ford government attempted to expand the evangelical school’s ability to grant degrees last month.
Member of Ford’s Greenbelt Council resigns over wetland destruction
The Ford government has fast-tracked a development project in Pickering, Ont., that would destroy a sensitive wetland. “This has been my life's work, environmental protection," said Linda Pim, who resigned Wednesday. "I just decided I had to take a stand."
How the outcome of the U.S. election could impact Canada
Climate policy, the border, disinformation and hate — the results of the vote will shape many aspects of life in Canada. Catch up while you wait for the final tallies to roll in.