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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 5d

Freelancers based on Vancouver Island or the BC coast, please get in touch if you're available over the next few weeks!

Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 13d

Today for @nationalobserver.com, I dig into the federal gov's off diesel goal by 2030 for remote Indigenous communities. That goal was stated as a commitment, but a briefing note we obtained shows the feds never believed it could meet the target — considering it, rather, as “directional.”

Ottawa knew getting the North off diesel by 2030 was impossible, despite promises

Experts say the federal goal was unrealistic from the start, but progress made so far shows a pathway forward if governments keep funding clean projects in remote Indigenous communities.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 21d

The map in this story uses never before seen data. The most recent national map of the WUI was created in 2016 by NRCan researcher Lynn Johnston. But in 2024, NRCan released nationwide fuel type data that is 70 times more detailed than its pre-existing data. See here:

Halifax WUI

A Flourish data visualization by Rory

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · 21d

New from @rorywh.bsky.social and I. The wildfire danger where homes meet forests is rising worldwide. Using new data, we built a detailed map of Halifax’s fire-prone forest edge — and explain what it says about the state of the wildland urban interface in Canada.

Building to the forest's edge fuels fire danger

As cities expand into forests already primed to burn, experts say Canada needs stronger maps, building codes and planning rules to keep people safe.

www.nationalobserver.com

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 28d

Just now speaking to the Liberal caucus, Carney offered more detail about this forthcoming climate competitiveness strategy. He said it will focus on “results over prohibition.”

The clearest signal yet the proposed oil and gas emissions cap will be killed. 4 years of government work down the drain.

John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 29d

Carney hinted he’ll soon release a ‘climate competitiveness strategy’ that insiders expect will boost industrial carbon pricing while cutting other emission reduction policies, echoing previously failed attempts at striking a grand bargain. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/09/a...

Carney insiders hint at climate strategy with industrial carbon price hikes

Prime Minister Carney hinted he’ll soon release a ‘climate competitiveness strategy’ that insiders expect will boost industrial carbon pricing while cutting other emission reduction policies, echoing ...

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · Aug 30

@cloelogan.bsky.social and I were working on a story about cuts to a program that monitors endangered whales. But we were stonewalled by Transport Canada for weeks. Frustrated and wanting to know why, I filed an ATIP.

I got nearly 400 pages of emails in response: the dumbest coverup I've ever seen.

Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · Aug 30

Again and again, well-intentioned experts in the government suggested clear answers and were immediately shut down by more senior — and more political — staff trying to cover for the government, which had cut funding for the program, @jameswsthomson.com recounts.

Inside Transport Canada's pointless coverup

What an Access to Information request into a weeks-long runaround to dodge a simple answer to a question about a North Atlantic right whale surveillance program reveals about the inner workings of the...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 20

You can listen to it here! @nationalobserver.com www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 20

I will be chatting with Markus Schwabe of CBC Sudbury's Morning North at 8:10 EST this AM about ice roads — highlighting my @nationalobserver.com series on winter roads in the James Bay region.

Morning North with Markus Schwabe | Live Radio | CBC Listen

CBC Radio's Morning North is a weekday news and current affairs program hosted by Markus Schwabe.

www.cbc.ca

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 19

Interview request! I am looking to speak to someone who lives in the Wildland Urban Interface of the Halifax area for a @nationalobserver.com story. Please dm me or shoot me an email at cloe[at]nationalobserver.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Aug 15

if Trump's order to keep open fossil fuel plants that are scheduled to be decommissioned is followed, it will cost US ratepayers between $3-6 billion per year earthjustice.org/press/2025/i...

Independent Report Finds that the Trump Administration’s Orders to Keep Coal-fired Power Plants Running Could Cost Consumers between $3-6 Billion a Year

Utility customers will pay the steep cost of the Department of Energy’s sham “emergency” orders to prevent coal-fired power plants from retiring as planned

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · Aug 13

As the Susies Lake fire burns and continued drought raises the prospect of still more fires, Tim Houston says he’s doing enough to address climate change

reported by me

As the Susies Lake fire burns and continued drought raises the prospect of still more fires, Tim Houston says he's doing enough to address climate change - Halifax Examiner

The Susies Lake fire has burned about 15 hectares and is still considered out of control, but it's not growing.

www.halifaxexaminer.ca

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Collab between Marc Fawcett-Atkinson and @joanbaxter.bsky.social. While the province of Nova Scotia has closed the woods to people, the same is not true for forestry operators, who have been granted special exemptions from the wildfire restrictions.

How industrial forestry and climate change created the NS wildfire problem

Nova Scotia's ban on entering the forest due to wildfire fears comes as the province deals with a moderate-to-severe drought, no rain in the forecast and a forest more susceptible to burn because of l...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 11

From @woodsideful.bsky.social. It has been 100s of days since Canadian oil company ReconAfrica was accused of human rights abuses + environmental destruction in Namibia. The CDN body responsible for the complaint received it in April 2024, but the position been vacant for months, the work frozen.

Complaints are piling up against a Canadian oil company — but there's nobody to hear them

Experts are dismayed at the lack of progress from the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), which received the complaint in April 2024. Part of the problem is the head position at t...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 6

The story has visuals on where splash pads are in cities, how many each ones has. The experts I spoke with said building and maintaining public cooling infrastructure is important – we can't ask people to stay in their homes all summer even if it's air conditioned, but especially if it isn't.

Splash Pads in Canada | Created with Datawrapper

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Aug 6

I wrote a fun (yet serious) article that narrows in on splash pads as cooling infrastructure. Includes: a panel that found the best splash pad in Canada + info about the increase of extreme heat in cities. It also features one of my best interviews of late-with a 7 year old splash pad connoisseur.

We found Canada's best splash pad — an urban cooling underdog

Hotter summers prompted us to consider the ways people interact with their urban environments in an age of extreme heat. Our research brought us to an oft-overlooked solution: splash pads.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · Jul 11

It's going to be another hot weekend across Canada. If you hit up your local splash pad to keep cool, snap some pictures and tell us why you like it — and aside from contributing to civic pride, you could also win prizes!

We're on the hunt for Canada's best splash pad

Canada’s National Observer is digging into splash pads in the age of unbearably hot summers and wants to hear from you about your local splash pad. Is there one keeping you and your family cooler? Wha...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Want to win a @nationalobserver.com water bottle + a free one-year subscription? We are digging into splash pads in the age of unbearably hot summers + want to hear from you about your local pad – we're on the hunt for the best one. Send your submissions: [email protected] by July 11.

We're on the hunt for Canada's best splash pad

Canada’s National Observer is digging into splash pads in the age of unbearably hot summers and wants to hear from you about your local splash pad. Is there one keeping you and your family cooler? Wha...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Nova Scotia government is renewing push for fossil fuels off the coast. The call for exploration bids includes 13 parcels along the central Scotian Shelf and Slope, one of the most fished areas of the Atlantic Ocean. Today for @nationalobserver.com

Nova Scotia pushes to develop offshore natural gas

The call for exploration bids includes 13 parcels along the central Scotian Shelf and Slope, one of the most fished areas of the Atlantic Ocean known for its abundance of marine life.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Enter splash pads, which serve primarily as a place for kids to play around during the hot summer months. But as those hot months get even hotter, they also serve as refuges for people in cities without air conditioning. Please share this link around, we're excited to see what you submit!

We're on the hunt for Canada's best splash pad

Canada’s National Observer is digging into splash pads in the age of unbearably hot summers and wants to hear from you about your local splash pad. Is there one keeping you and your family cooler? Wha...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jul 3

We are putting together an expert panel to review submissions while using this as an opportunity to dig into the way our urban environments do and don’t serve people during extreme heat.

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jul 3

Want to win a @nationalobserver.com water bottle + a free one-year subscription? We are digging into splash pads in the age of unbearably hot summers + want to hear from you about your local pad – we're on the hunt for the best one. Send your submissions: [email protected] by July 11.

We're on the hunt for Canada's best splash pad

Canada’s National Observer is digging into splash pads in the age of unbearably hot summers and wants to hear from you about your local splash pad. Is there one keeping you and your family cooler? Wha...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you to @metcalfuri.bsky.social for highlighting my recent series on ice roads! Being a fellow with the Metcalf Institute in 2023 was *such* an amazing experience. You can find the full series at the link below on @nationalobserver.com.

Metcalf Institute @metcalfuri.bsky.social · Jul 2

Metcalf alum @cloelogan.bsky.social hit the road – the ice road – to uncover how climate change, especially increased temperatures caused by the burning of fossil fuels, affects these important transportation routes in northern Canada.
Read the series online: ow.ly/7uom50WjoOH
📸 by Jesse Winter

Ice road photos by Jesse Winter and a photo of Cloe Logan and a quote on producing "Vanishing Lifelines" for Canada's National Observer: “One of the most valuable [Metcalf] workshops I participated in focused on decoding academic research. It included talking directly to researchers, figuring out what questions to ask, and learning how to identify where the most important nuggets of information are in a paper. That helped me gain a deeper understanding of statistics and language often present in climate research, but also made me think differently about the data I seek out for my stories.”

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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · Jun 27

“This website I’m quoting from, I don’t know a whole lot about… but I just thought their words were better than mine.” — Alberta councillor, citing a website with an AI chatbot pushing towns to quit net-zero programs.

Latest from @rorywh.bsky.social
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/n...

Misinformation-laden website almost convinces Alberta town to abandon climate program

The town of Cochrane, Alberta, came within minutes of withdrawing from a national net-zero framework based on arguments from an AI-powered misinformation campaign uncovered by Canada's National Observ...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · Jun 24

Note to freelancers: I'm open to pitches for @nationalobserver.com! We pay pretty well, and we're flexible with timelines for assigned stories. I don't need a long pitch — think 2 paragraphs — but please give an idea of what your story is.

Some recently published freelance pieces:

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Cloe Logan @cloelogan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Working on a story for @nationalobserver.com about municipally-owned utilities. Quite a few here in the Atlantic but am searching for ones in other parts of Canada - please send any good examples my way!

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