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Canada’s National Observer plastics investigation up for Webster environmental reporting award
Canada’s National Observer has been nominated for the Jack Webster Foundation’s Environmental Reporting Award for Marc Fawcett-Atkinson’s “Canada is drowning in plastic waste — and recycling won’t save us.”
'Demigods' of journalism take prestigious award as National Observer's David McKie wins it for a second time
Canada’s National Observer’s deputy managing editor David McKie won a top award from the Canadian Association of Journalism (CAJ) Saturday evening.
Bill McKibben calls Trudeau 'a lucky guy' in wide-ranging interview
Veteran climate activist Bill McKibben joined Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood last week to talk about Canada's climate future.
Meet the columnists joining Canada's National Observer in 2021
Karyn Pugliese, a.k.a. Pabàmàdiz; Julian Brave NoiseCat; Max Fawcett; and Andrea Reimer join Canada’s National Observer as regular columnists in 2021.
We asked Michael de Adder to sum up 2020
As America is ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump squats with his eyes glued to his phone, tweeting. A petulant grin on his face, he seems oblivious to the virus spilling out all around him in this cartoon by Michael de Adder.
How disinformation threatened the 2019 federal election, and what journalists and governments did to fight it
Disinformation had already played an enormous role in the 2016 Brexit vote and in the U.S. presidential election held the same year. Canadian authorities were issuing warnings, but no one knew how the federal vote would play out.
Coming on Zoom: Former CSIS director on disinformation and national security
To celebrate five years of award-winning independent journalism, Canada’s National Observer is releasing an in-depth report on election disinformation, Digital Fractures: Disinformation, Democracy and the Media, and presenting a special six-part instalment of its Conversations series.
Join Minister Catherine McKenna in Conversations on Tuesday
Become a subscriber and you’ll get subscriber-exclusive access to submit questions for the minister ahead of time.