Matteo Cimellaro
Journalist | Ottawa |
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About Matteo Cimellaro
Matteo Cimellaro is a Cree/settler writer and journalist who currently covers urban Indigenous communities in and around Ottawa thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative and the Government of Canada.
Honours & Awards
Finalist for the JHR / CAJ Emerging Indigenous Journalist Award for 2022 and 2023
Digital Publishing Awards' Best Topical Reporting: Climate Change 2024 nominee
Winner of the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards Justice category
Film interconnecting colonization and deforestation in the boreal screened for senators, ministers
Filmmaker Michael Zelniker says the film is not his story, but those of the Elders who shared their knowledge and stories with him. Now, Zelniker hopes politicians will listen to the Elders and act.
Carbon trading: A tool for reconciliation or colonization?
Can carbon markets bring affluence and autonomy to Indigenous Nations? Or further exploitation in a new era of green colonialism?
One-third of Canada’s mandatory minimums have been repealed, but advocates don’t believe it will lessen incarceration crisis
Progressive senators tried to pass an amendment to Bill C-5 that would have given judges the ability to pass conditional sentences for all offences, under exceptional circumstances. Without it, advocates worry the bill won't ease Canada's mass incarceration crisis.
Is the credibility of carbon credits at stake in negotiations at COP27?
If "confidentiality" stays in the final version of Article 6, regulators will have a severely limited scope when investigating a country's created carbon credits. The move could leave a backdoor for double-counting and fake emission cuts.
Canada spends more on responding to climate emergencies in First Nations than preventing them, auditor general says
The federal government is spending 3.5 times more responding to climate emergencies in remote Indigenous communities than preventing them, an auditor general report found.
‘We’re not in igloos anymore’: Seal Summit wraps with hope for a growing market for Inuit hunters
Reconseal is a co-operative started by Inuk and non-Inuk sealers. The two are teaching each other hunting techniques, worldviews and cultures in the spirit of reconciliation while providing seal to urban Inuit in the South.
Conditional sentencing limits threaten reconciliation in Canada’s criminal justice system, advocates say
All eyes turn to Parliament with the courts upholding the constitutionality on limits to conditional sentencing. Now it's a question if Bill C-5, which will remove some mandatory sentencing, will pass. But will the bill go far enough?
Will Supreme Court decision on conditional sentencing perpetuate Indigenous mass incarceration?
In a 5-4 split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last week that “tough-on-crime” legislation that restricts discretionary conditional sentences is constitutional.
What Canada’s fall fiscal update means for Indigenous nations
Will advancing reconciliation in Canada hit a dead end with the feds' critical minerals strategy? And how will changes to the Land Management Act impact First Nations and legislation? That and more in the fall economic statement.
Feds and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami establish an Inuit health research network, but ‘unacceptable reality’ of long travels remain
The funding that supports Inuit-led research could inform future health-care infrastructure priorities.