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We are so proud of our reporter, Matteo Cimellaro, who took home a coveted Covering Climate Now award for his fantastic series, Nations on the front lines of fire. The Justice award recognizes stories at the forefront of the climate crisis that connect climate change with unexpected systems of injustice.
You can read our writeup of Matteo's achievement here, and check out all the stories in the series below. The first three stories are those that were specifically recognized by Columbia Journalism Review for the award.
Once more: congratulations, Matteo!
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Zahra Khozema
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July 11th 2024
Covering Climate Now, a global journalism organization co-founded by the Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in association with the Guardian and WNYC, recognized Cimellaro in the justice category for his coverage of the outsized impact on First Nations of Canadian wildfires.
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More in today's news
Canada’s National Observer has spent the summer tracking how the country’s worsening wildfire seasons have affected First Nations over the past decade.
Matteo Cimellaro
Analysis, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| September 12th 2023
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In August, the devastating Bush Creek wildfire in B.C.'s Interior roared its way 21 kilometres into the valley where Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw sits. It destroyed 64 structures, including 34 community homes.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| November 14th 2023
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The health risks of wildfires and their disproportionate impacts on First Nations have left health experts calling on Ottawa to increase funding and centralize environmental health research.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| November 21st 2023
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In Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw First Nation, where last summer fires in B.C. destroyed homes and buildings, elders are smiling and laughing again.
Matteo Cimellaro
News
| May 1st 2024
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How the First Nations Emergency Services Society is changing the game in emergency management.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| December 22nd 2023
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The story of wildfire, and the communities ravaged by them, is also about the long and spiralling story of recovery.
Matteo Cimellaro
News
| December 20th 2023
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Ottawa continues to underinvest in disaster preparedness and mitigation on First Nations despite ballooning recovery costs from the worst wildfire season on record, according to documents shared with Canada’s National Observer.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| December 6th 2023
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Skwlāx te Secwepemcúl̓ecw has a message for other bands. Take a good look at your forest, especially within a 10-kilometre radius, and do what you can to clean it up and ensure the community is protected from the big one that can devastate the way the Bush Creek fire did.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| November 29th 2023
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As the ash settles on Canada’s record wildfire season, “business as usual from the federal government is not going to cut it,” NDP MP Niki Ashton told Canada’s National Observer.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| November 23rd 2023
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After Canada’s worst wildfire season on record, Ottawa’s mini-budget is scant on investments to protect First Nations and other communities from a new era of fire.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| November 21st 2023
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Gabe Jules is pulling back on his deer hunts. He has witnessed a drop in both the numbers and health of the deer population in his territory, which has been ravaged by two devastating wildfire seasons in three years.
Matteo Cimellaro
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| October 5th 2023
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After missed alerts and close calls, tools such as Facebook, satellite phones and door-knocks are being used by First Nations leaders in the country to keep their communities informed and maintain control over the messaging sent out.
Matteo Cimellaro, Pippa Norman
News, Urban Indigenous Communities in Ottawa
| October 3rd 2023
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