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Matteo Cimellaro

Matteo Cimellaro

About Matteo Cimellaro

Matteo Cimellaro is a Cree/settler writer and journalist who currently covers urban Indigenous communities in and around Ottawa thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative and the Government of Canada.

Honours & Awards

Finalist for the JHR / CAJ Emerging Indigenous Journalist Award for 2022 and 2023

Digital Publishing Awards' Best Topical Reporting: Climate Change 2024 nominee

Winner of the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards Justice category

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282 Articles

Churchill at a Crossroads: looking forward from the past

The prospective conservation area would stretch down the western edge of Hudson Bay on Manitoba’s Arctic coastline, producing an increase in resources, regulations and support to ensure a healthy coast in the sensitive low-arctic waters. Churchill, along with several First Nations, will decide the project's fate, government officials and environmental campaigners told Canada’s National Observer.