Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Journalist | Vancouver |
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About Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson is a reporter and writer covering food systems, climate, disinformation, and plastics and the environment for Canada’s National Observer.
His ongoing investigations of the plastic industry in Canada won him a Webster Award's nomination in environmental reporting in 2021. He was also a nominee for a Canadian Association of Journalists's award for his reporting on disinformation.
Marc has previously written for High Country News, the Literary Review of Canada, and other publications on topics exploring relationships between people and their social and physical environments.
He holds an M.A. in journalism from the University of British Columbia and a B.A. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic.
Advocates ‘delighted’ as Canada gets school meals
The federal funding is a first for Canada. Unlike every other G7 country, Canadian students have long relied on a patchwork of programs advocates have criticized for leaving many children hungry.
Coalition sues Fortis for making false claims
The lawsuit alleges FortisBC has inaccurately promoted natural gas to consumers as a form of home heating that is always more affordable and sustainable than electric alternatives. The suit suggests that neither claim is true.
Gas giant Fortis loses a round
The BC Utilities Commission has dealt a blow to efforts by the province’s gas utility to expand natural gas infrastructure in the province.
New bill targets Canada’s ‘forever chemicals’
B.C. could soon become the first province to partially ban a group of cancer-causing chemicals used in everything from firefighting equipment to makeup. Tabled by BC Green MLA Adam Olsen, the proposed law would ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) chemicals in the firefighting equipment used by the province's professional and volunteer fire crews.
Sometimes what it takes is a ‘blue-collar truck driver’ from the Prairies to fight disinfo online
Monologues about the federal carbon tax abound on social media, but few are quite like Saskatchewan's Karl Hren's. Posted to TikTok on Monday, the clip shows the self-described "uneducated, white, blue-collar, oilpatch-working truck driver" clad in coveralls and nestled in the cab of his Kenworth truck ranting about the carbon tax.
Climate change — and efforts to fix it — harming farmers’ mental health
Canada's efforts to reduce the climate impacts from farms will be most effective if they consider how they affect farmers' mental health, advocates say.
Greenwashing death threats ‘show you who the Conservatives are,’ NDP leader says
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh slammed the federal Conservatives on Wednesday for spreading falsehoods that left his party's natural resources critic facing death threats and homophobic slurs.
MP gets death threats over greenwashing bill
MP Charlie Angus has been "inundated" with death threats, swearing and homophobic slurs over his proposal to curb greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry.
How a common — and contentious — pesticide is impacting Canada’s forests
A professor at the University of Northern British Columbia has been tapped to study the ecological impacts of glyphosate-based pesticides on forests.
Canada urged to act fast on toxic ‘forever’ chemicals
Environmentalists, Inuit and firefighters are urging the federal government to list a group of harmful chemicals as toxic under Canada's environmental protection laws because they can increase cancer risks and other health risks and linger in ecosystems for decades.