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On the first Saturday of August, near the Tyne Valley United Church, dozens of members of the Hardy family are dressed in rags, faded fishing bibs and painted head to toe as zombies. The family staggers in unison as they practise their carefully choreogra

Photo: Leah Borts-Kuperman / The Narwhal If you ask an economist why everything is so expensive these days, you will likely get an answer explaining how oil - the lifeblood of the global economy - is currently facing supply bottlenecks in the Strait of Ho

Video: L. Manuel Baechlin / The Narwhal This story is part of a series called Shockwave: Rising energy demand and the future of the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is in the midst of a seismic energy shakeup, from skyrocketing data centre demand and a

The sound of cars passing is a constant hum, so constant it's almost meditative. Every so often one bleats out a honk of support. On the shoulder of the highway stands a man, holding a sign that reads: "Save the Salmon." Cheeks ruddy from the cold, he clu

Photo: Don Johnston Starting next month, Ontario hunters will have a shot at sandhill cranes - for the first time in a century. The long-legged, grey birds with a nearly two-metre wingspan are widespread across Ontario from the Great Lakes as far north as

Photo: Province of B.C. / Flickr On Aug. 6, with much of southern B.C. blanketed in wildfire smoke, Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix kicked off a Campbell River press conference by thanking wildfire fighters and the BC Hydro employees w

Photo: Mike Graeme / The Narwhal Editor's note: After The Narwhal published a piece about Alberta wildland firefighters forming a peer-support network, we received an email from Matthew Brackenreed. "I've been meaning to send this out for a while now - th

Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal The price tag to clean up orphan oil and gas wells in Alberta increased by nearly 50 per cent since last year, bringing the estimated total to $1.66 billion, according to the latest annual report from the Orphan Well Ass

Photo: L. Manuel Baechlin / The Narwhal Canada's large oil companies are raking in record profits during an energy crisis. We've been here before - but unlike last time, Ottawa isn't prodding the industry to use more of the money to clean up its act. In s

Photo: Darry Dyck / The Canadian Press The wildfire that tipped B.C. into a state of emergency this August was described as "a bomb going off" to Premier David Eby by a fire official. Flames from Bald Range, in the interior of the province, grew to height