Selena Ross
About Selena Ross
Selena Ross is a Montreal-based reporter covering a range of Arctic-related stories for Canadian and American newspapers and magazines. She has previously written for The Globe and Mail, This American Life, The Guardian US, the Financial Post and other outlets. She holds two CAJ awards for investigative reporting.
For Hydro-Québec, selling to the United States means reinventing itself
Hydro Quebec wants to sell more power to Americans. But that means making changes at home.
Hydro-Québec: Impasse énergétique ou défi de taille?
Hydro-Québec veut vendre plus d'électricité aux Américains. Mais cela signifie faire des changements au pays.
Un satellite montréalais détecte le carbone depuis l'espace
L’intention de GHGSat, qui a lancé son premier satellite de démonstration en 2016, est d'aider d'autres entreprises dans divers secteurs à réduire leurs émissions.
Montreal-developed satellite pinpoints carbon from space
It’s the future in a major Canadian city. Streets hum with electric buses and every burger is made with lab-grown beef. Just after New Year’s Day, people gather around their televisions to watch the annual global carbon count. One by one, an envoy from each country on earth submits their emissions total, then waits nervously as the governing body checks that number against the official list.
Why Quebec leads in clean tech — so far
In a hangar-like space an hour from Montreal, workers in safety glasses carefully jockey huge aluminum arches into rows, like ribs, before switching on a whining drill to screw them into place.
Québec en tête des technologies propres — à date
Dans une province qui produit historiquement peu d’automobiles, Lion Electric mettra en service 300 autobus d’ici la fin de l’année.
Scheer portrays himself as anti-fascist
In a speech Tuesday laying out his foreign-policy platform, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer painted himself as Canada’s anti-fascist option—and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as weak against various authoritarian regimes, particularly China’s.
Trudeau visits his old Montreal school to deliver SNC-Lavalin counter-attack
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau picked his old school in Montreal as the setting as he began a counter-attack Wednesday evening in the SNC Lavalin affair — a setting that underlined some of the interprovincial tensions in the controversy, with many Quebeckers believing that government was right to use drastic measures to protect thousands of jobs in the province.
Quebec Inuit and the impossible dilemma
Leah was 17 when she first flew to Montreal, in early fall of 2002, and she was scared of heights. As the plane lifted above Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, she kept her eyes on her ten-month-old daughter, Katie. She had never had a bird’s-eye view of her town, built along the Koksoak River, but she couldn’t bear to look down.
For young Inuit, getting an education can mean choosing between cultures
When she graduated in June of this year, Patricia Deveaux won a Governor General’s Academic Medal for having the highest grades in her high-school class. Meanwhile, she had long since learned the ropes in the world of work, having talked her way into a job at a local hotel when she was 13. “She was always the one I looked up to,” says her 16-year-old sister, Lissa.