Paloma Pacheco
@palomahazel.bsky.social
Journalist. Assistant editor @thenarwhal.ca. Writing about art, culture and climate change.
https://www.paloma-pacheco.com/
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Paloma Pacheco
@palomahazel.bsky.social
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Paloma Pacheco
Paloma Pacheco is a writer and journalist based in Vancouver, BC.
www.paloma-pacheco.com
Alright, since it looks like I'll be on here more often in 2025, a little intro!
I'm a Vancouver-based freelance journalist who writes about art, culture, social issues, and how humans and the natural world interact.
You can find most of my recent work on my website: www.paloma-pacheco.com
I'm a Vancouver-based freelance journalist who writes about art, culture, social issues, and how humans and the natural world interact.
You can find most of my recent work on my website: www.paloma-pacheco.com
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Frank de Boon, a former conservation officer, has dealt with something most of us hardly think about: wildlife struck and killed by trains.
“We were seeing it all the time,” he told @thenarwhal.ca's @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social in her latest story.
projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...
“We were seeing it all the time,” he told @thenarwhal.ca's @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social in her latest story.
projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Frank de Boon, a former conservation officer, has dealt with something most of us hardly think about: wildlife struck and killed by trains.
“We were seeing it all the time,” he told @thenarwhal.ca's @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social in her latest story.
projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...
“We were seeing it all the time,” he told @thenarwhal.ca's @ainsliecruickshank.bsky.social in her latest story.
projects.thenarwhal.ca/collision-co...
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Our wee newsroom was never going to run the first Grand Bargain story, but @meyer.bsky.social and @drewanderson.bsky.social are absolutely the best at explaining what the pipeline of magical thinking means for the environment.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have signed an agreement to advance Alberta’s pipeline dreams — and weaken some pollution laws. Here’s what you need to know:
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
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Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal weakens climate policies | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ‘grand bargain’ isn’t just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies
thenarwhal.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Our wee newsroom was never going to run the first Grand Bargain story, but @meyer.bsky.social and @drewanderson.bsky.social are absolutely the best at explaining what the pipeline of magical thinking means for the environment.
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if you worry about the decline of media, the rise in AI slop and the rampant misinformation circulating online — one small but meaningful way to do something about it is to support @thenarwhal.ca in reporting factual, original, investigative stories. plus you get a toque & a hand-written note!
We’ve got a better idea for Black Friday…
Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
thenarwhal.ca/black-friday/
Will you swim against the consumer current this week? Our independent journalism is made possible by people like you — and we need to add 400 members to meet our 2025 goal.
Join today and we’ll send you a Narwhal toque!
thenarwhal.ca/black-friday/
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
if you worry about the decline of media, the rise in AI slop and the rampant misinformation circulating online — one small but meaningful way to do something about it is to support @thenarwhal.ca in reporting factual, original, investigative stories. plus you get a toque & a hand-written note!
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As B.C.‘s climate changes and wildfires increase, Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist wants to see the practice of prescribed burning expanded in the Interior.
An on-the-ground feature first shared by our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/cultural-bur...
An on-the-ground feature first shared by our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/cultural-bur...
Cultural burning is ‘a better way’: Secwépemc firekeeper | The Narwhal
As B.C. wildfires worsen, leading Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning ‘needs to be multiplied hundreds of times’
thenarwhal.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
As B.C.‘s climate changes and wildfires increase, Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist wants to see the practice of prescribed burning expanded in the Interior.
An on-the-ground feature first shared by our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/cultural-bur...
An on-the-ground feature first shared by our friends at @indiginews.bsky.social
thenarwhal.ca/cultural-bur...
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
"Then one night at the end of March, someone showed up with a gun. The birds were sleeping in their pens, some with upright necks, in the ostrich way."
Can't look away from the ostriches. A riveting longread, with great photos.
Can't look away from the ostriches. A riveting longread, with great photos.
After Canada ordered the culling of a flock of ostriches exposed to bird flu, a campaign to spare the birds erupted. @engber.bsky.social reports from British Columbia on the conspiracies, attempted arson, and bird executions that eventually followed:
All the Ostriches Must Die
How the plight of a few hundred birds in Canada became an all-out fight for freedom
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November 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"Then one night at the end of March, someone showed up with a gun. The birds were sleeping in their pens, some with upright necks, in the ostrich way."
Can't look away from the ostriches. A riveting longread, with great photos.
Can't look away from the ostriches. A riveting longread, with great photos.
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Please do! Details about the fellowship and the link to apply can be found here: thenarwhal.ca/2026-indigen...
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Please do! Details about the fellowship and the link to apply can be found here: thenarwhal.ca/2026-indigen...
An important story by @rebeccaga0.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca today
Hurricane Melissa's destruction has the Jamaican diaspora mobilizing to send money and aid. The effects of climate change are hitting developing countries hardest, putting pressure on immigrants in Canada to increase the billions they already send home every year. thenarwhal.ca/hurricane-me...
Disasters like Hurricane Melissa put pressure on immigrants | The Narwhal
Immigrants in Canada send billions home every year. Climate disasters like Hurricane Melissa, which devastated Jamaica, add to the pressure
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
An important story by @rebeccaga0.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca today
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In Alberta, landowners can’t deny oil and gas wells on their properties, but they’re entitled to compensation. Some companies fail to pay those bills — and rural Albertans are tired of waiting. They're also tired of that repayment, eventually, coming from taxpayers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
Rural Albertans face growing problems with oil and gas wells | The Narwhal
The Alberta government is pushing a new plan to deal with years of regulatory failure. Alberta landowners aren’t convinced
thenarwhal.ca
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In Alberta, landowners can’t deny oil and gas wells on their properties, but they’re entitled to compensation. Some companies fail to pay those bills — and rural Albertans are tired of waiting. They're also tired of that repayment, eventually, coming from taxpayers. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...
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Hello! The Narwhal is looking to talk to people in Canada who regularly send money home to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti or the Bahamas and might increase it in the wake of Melissa. I am at [email protected] 💚
October 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Hello! The Narwhal is looking to talk to people in Canada who regularly send money home to Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti or the Bahamas and might increase it in the wake of Melissa. I am at [email protected] 💚
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📣 Job alert! 📣
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
📣 Job alert! 📣
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
The Narwhal is offering a one-year fellowship for an Indigenous journalist in B.C., in collaboration with the Indigenous Journalists Association and IndigiNews. See the post for more details — applications are due Nov. 2. Spread the word!
thenarwhal.bamboohr.com/careers/40?s...
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For over a century, major companies liquidated forests from First Nations’ territories without consent. Now they're leaving.
In their wake, First Nations are working to reshape the industry that long excluded them, but it won't be easy.
My latest for @thenarwhal.ca
In their wake, First Nations are working to reshape the industry that long excluded them, but it won't be easy.
My latest for @thenarwhal.ca
What does First Nations ownership mean for B.C. forestry? | The Narwhal
More First Nations are buying B.C. forestry tenures. With old growth dwindling, can they nudge the industry to a more sustainable future?
thenarwhal.ca
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
For over a century, major companies liquidated forests from First Nations’ territories without consent. Now they're leaving.
In their wake, First Nations are working to reshape the industry that long excluded them, but it won't be easy.
My latest for @thenarwhal.ca
In their wake, First Nations are working to reshape the industry that long excluded them, but it won't be easy.
My latest for @thenarwhal.ca
A really great read by @zoeyunker.bsky.social
Who should decide how B.C.’s forests are managed? As old growth dwindles, more First Nations are taking the lead — and reshaping forestry in the process. thenarwhal.ca/bc-forestry-... #bcpoli
What does First Nations ownership mean for B.C. forestry? | The Narwhal
More First Nations are buying B.C. forestry tenures. With old growth dwindling, can they nudge the industry to a more sustainable future?
thenarwhal.ca
October 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
A really great read by @zoeyunker.bsky.social
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Montreal-based folk-pop musician Basia Bulat has fallen in love with a tiny, endangered amphibian. The celebrated singer-songwriter talks frogs, motherhood and the joy of her backyard garden in our latest Moose Questionnaire. thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
Basia Bulat sings the western chorus frog’s praises | The Narwhal
Montreal-based musician Basia Bulat dishes on her latest album and the tiny endangered amphibian she's fallen in love with
thenarwhal.ca
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Montreal-based folk-pop musician Basia Bulat has fallen in love with a tiny, endangered amphibian. The celebrated singer-songwriter talks frogs, motherhood and the joy of her backyard garden in our latest Moose Questionnaire. thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
Le premier article en français de @thenarwhal.ca — grâce à Caitlin Stall-Paquet et à un poisson québécois 🐟
English version here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...
English version here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...
L’expansion du Port de Montréal — un projet sur la liste de grands projets de Mark Carney — pourrait dégrader sévèrement l’habitat du chevalier cuivré, un poisson menacé qui ne se trouve qu’au Québec. thenarwhal.ca/chevalier-cu...
L’expansion du Port de Montréal met en péril un poisson québécois | The Narwhal
Un agrandissement prévu du Port de Montréal à Contrecoeur, un des projets prioritaires de Mark Carney, met en péril le chevalier cuivré
thenarwhal.ca
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Le premier article en français de @thenarwhal.ca — grâce à Caitlin Stall-Paquet et à un poisson québécois 🐟
English version here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...
English version here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...
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The Narwhal's very first story translated into French! It's about one of the Carney government's "nation-building projects," which threatens an endangered fish found only in Quebec - the English version is here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...
L’expansion du Port de Montréal — un projet sur la liste de grands projets de Mark Carney — pourrait dégrader sévèrement l’habitat du chevalier cuivré, un poisson menacé qui ne se trouve qu’au Québec. thenarwhal.ca/chevalier-cu...
L’expansion du Port de Montréal met en péril un poisson québécois | The Narwhal
Un agrandissement prévu du Port de Montréal à Contrecoeur, un des projets prioritaires de Mark Carney, met en péril le chevalier cuivré
thenarwhal.ca
October 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Narwhal's very first story translated into French! It's about one of the Carney government's "nation-building projects," which threatens an endangered fish found only in Quebec - the English version is here: thenarwhal.ca/copper-redho...
Another beautiful caribou story by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca today
The Porcupine caribou herd travels more than 4,000 kilometres across the Arctic each year. But its migration is imperilled by climate change and oil and gas expansion. Scientists are rushing to count the animals amid the threat. @trinamoyles.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...
The biologists racing to count Porcupine caribou | The Narwhal
Scientists in Yukon and Alaska are tracking the size of the Porcupine caribou herd. It’s urgent work: the animals face environmental and political threats
thenarwhal.ca
October 8, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Another beautiful caribou story by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @thenarwhal.ca today
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In syilx territory, humans are building beaver dams. It's part of an effort to recreate the benefits beavers have on wetland ecosystems, and hopefully encourage a resurgence of real beavers, too. A story first published by @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/wetlands-bea...
Bringing beavers back to syilx homelands | The Narwhal
Building artificial beaver dams could restore B.C. Interior wetlands and encourage the return of native species — including the long-absent beaver
thenarwhal.ca
October 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In syilx territory, humans are building beaver dams. It's part of an effort to recreate the benefits beavers have on wetland ecosystems, and hopefully encourage a resurgence of real beavers, too. A story first published by @indiginews.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/wetlands-bea...
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For the last month, Joffre Lakes Park has been closed to the public, as Lil'wat and N'Quatqua members reconnect with their traditional territory. Here's what one of B.C.'s busiest parks looks like at rest. By @sevawood.bsky.social with photos by Paige Taylor White. thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...
What Joffre Lakes Park looks like at rest | The Narwhal
A month-long closure ends Oct. 3. Here’s what Instagram-famous Joffre Lakes Park, or Pipi7íyekw, looks like when it’s quiet and closed to the public
thenarwhal.ca
October 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
For the last month, Joffre Lakes Park has been closed to the public, as Lil'wat and N'Quatqua members reconnect with their traditional territory. Here's what one of B.C.'s busiest parks looks like at rest. By @sevawood.bsky.social with photos by Paige Taylor White. thenarwhal.ca/joffre-lakes...
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Across Canada, remnants of the residential school era — former school sites and buildings — stand as a painful testament to the past. For @thenarwhal.ca I spoke to survivors leading the complex work to reckon with those remnants, and preserve a record of that history thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...
What should happen to residential school sites? | The Narwhal
Across Canada, Indigenous communities are deciding how to commemorate these residential school histories on the land
thenarwhal.ca
September 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Across Canada, remnants of the residential school era — former school sites and buildings — stand as a painful testament to the past. For @thenarwhal.ca I spoke to survivors leading the complex work to reckon with those remnants, and preserve a record of that history thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...
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The last federally run residential school closed in 1997, but traces of the system are everywhere on the land. How to commemorate the dark, painful history of these places? Across Canada, survivors are taking the lead: thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...
What should happen to residential school sites? | The Narwhal
Across Canada, Indigenous communities are deciding how to commemorate these residential school histories on the land
thenarwhal.ca
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The last federally run residential school closed in 1997, but traces of the system are everywhere on the land. How to commemorate the dark, painful history of these places? Across Canada, survivors are taking the lead: thenarwhal.ca/truth-reconc...
Come hear me chat with three great writers about art and writing on Friday, Oct. 24 at @writersfest.bc.ca 📚
Christine Estima (Letters to Kafka), Martha Bátiz (A Daughter’s Place) and Thomas Schlesser (Mona’s Eyes) explore what it means to be human through acts of artistic expression, in this Oct 24 event moderated by Paloma Pacheco.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Come hear me chat with three great writers about art and writing on Friday, Oct. 24 at @writersfest.bc.ca 📚
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For ecologist Glynnis Hood, a beaver would make the ideal partner — “because it comes with a house.” The author and beaver expert takes our Moose Questionnaire and shares her love of Canada’s natural world:
thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
Glynnis Hood wants to change your mind about beavers | The Narwhal
Ecologist and beaver expert Glynnis Hood shares her love of a divisive national icon and other reflections on Canada’s natural world
thenarwhal.ca
September 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For ecologist Glynnis Hood, a beaver would make the ideal partner — “because it comes with a house.” The author and beaver expert takes our Moose Questionnaire and shares her love of Canada’s natural world:
thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
thenarwhal.ca/moose-questi...
Really glad this has finally come to light.
I faced a similar situation last year with a Canadian magazine and instead of doing the ethical thing and acknowledging my borrowed work, they stonewalled me.
I faced a similar situation last year with a Canadian magazine and instead of doing the ethical thing and acknowledging my borrowed work, they stonewalled me.
September 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Really glad this has finally come to light.
I faced a similar situation last year with a Canadian magazine and instead of doing the ethical thing and acknowledging my borrowed work, they stonewalled me.
I faced a similar situation last year with a Canadian magazine and instead of doing the ethical thing and acknowledging my borrowed work, they stonewalled me.
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This happens too often.
September 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This happens too often.