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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And now it's time for some goddamn PERREO
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 AM
And now it's time for some goddamn PERREO
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Called by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 1,360 kilometres through southern Ontario to retrace parts of the Underground Railroad. Here's what he learned about Black history in Canada, including the outdoor survival skills needed to escape enslavement. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...
Walking 1,300 km of Black history in Ontario | The Narwhal
Ken Johnston walked from Niagara Falls to Owen Sound, following the boggy, buggy Underground Railroad path of early Black settlers in Ontario
thenarwhal.ca
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Called by his ancestors, Ken Johnston walked 1,360 kilometres through southern Ontario to retrace parts of the Underground Railroad. Here's what he learned about Black history in Canada, including the outdoor survival skills needed to escape enslavement. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-nort...
Qué rico es ser latino... gracias, BB 🇵🇷
February 9, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Qué rico es ser latino... gracias, BB 🇵🇷
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Has your partner ever built you a home in a chimney? Or regurgitated food to save you all that tiresome chewing? If not, perhaps it’s time to look beyond the human dating pool. Check out the very first Narwhal quiz, and find your Canadian lovebird. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
Valentine’s Day quiz: discover your Canadian lovebird | The Narwhal
Take our Valentine’s Day quiz to find the nest-mate of your dreams — and get a card to share
projects.thenarwhal.ca
February 7, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Has your partner ever built you a home in a chimney? Or regurgitated food to save you all that tiresome chewing? If not, perhaps it’s time to look beyond the human dating pool. Check out the very first Narwhal quiz, and find your Canadian lovebird. projects.thenarwhal.ca/lovebirds-qu...
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Here's a story from Canada's National Observer about our press freedom case against the RCMP, which is underway right now in B.C.'s Supreme Court. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/a...
A historic fight for press freedom begins
Four years after a dramatic arrest, Amber Bracken and The Narwhal are turning the tables and suing the RCMP. The trial starts today.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Here's a story from Canada's National Observer about our press freedom case against the RCMP, which is underway right now in B.C.'s Supreme Court. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/a...
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In October, @amberbracken.bsky.social and I followed photographers Jim Elzinga and Roger Vernon deep inside the Athabasca Glacier. The duo is capturing the beauty of our glaciers before they disappear.
The experience was beautiful, impactful and heartbreaking.
The experience was beautiful, impactful and heartbreaking.
For years, Jim Elzinga and Roger Vernon have gone to the Columbia Icefield to photograph glaciers before they disappear. @amberbracken.bsky.social alongside reporter Sara King-Abadi rappelled deep into the ice to capture their work for this beautiful photo essay. thenarwhal.ca/photos-melti...
In photos: the melting glaciers of the Canadian Rockies | The Narwhal
Photographers Jim Elzinga and Roger Vernon venture into the melting glaciers of the Columbia Icefield to capture its vanishing beauty
thenarwhal.ca
January 12, 2026 at 6:17 PM
In October, @amberbracken.bsky.social and I followed photographers Jim Elzinga and Roger Vernon deep inside the Athabasca Glacier. The duo is capturing the beauty of our glaciers before they disappear.
The experience was beautiful, impactful and heartbreaking.
The experience was beautiful, impactful and heartbreaking.
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“As we stand outside this courthouse, stepping into five weeks of trial, we know the legitimate right of journalists to do their job, to perform their vital role in our democracy, is at stake.” — Narwhal co-founder Carol Linnitt on our case against the RCMP: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/
January 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
“As we stand outside this courthouse, stepping into five weeks of trial, we know the legitimate right of journalists to do their job, to perform their vital role in our democracy, is at stake.” — Narwhal co-founder Carol Linnitt on our case against the RCMP: thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom/
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The Narwhal is suing the RCMP to protect press freedom for all Canadians, and our case will be heard in a Vancouver courtroom beginning next week. We’re counting on your support as the case unfolds, so here’s what you need to know. 🧵
January 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
The Narwhal is suing the RCMP to protect press freedom for all Canadians, and our case will be heard in a Vancouver courtroom beginning next week. We’re counting on your support as the case unfolds, so here’s what you need to know. 🧵
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Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing Me Back To Hockey | Defector
I wasn’t sure, at first, that I wanted to read Heated Rivalry, or the rest of the novels in Rachel Reid’s best-selling “Game Changers” series. I had thoroughly enjoyed the first of Reid’s two standalo...
defector.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
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At The Narwhal, our goal is to tell stories beautifully, even when they're ugly. This year we sent photographers to the Arctic, West Coast provincial parks, Great Lakes beaches and more. Here are our favourite photos of 2025.
thenarwhal.ca/2025-best-ph...
thenarwhal.ca/2025-best-ph...
Our best photos of the year | The Narwhal
From a baby seal rescue in Vancouver, B.C., to oil and gas wells in rural Alberta, Icefields in Cambridge Bay, Nvt., and beyond, these images tell the story of the year that was at The Narwhal
thenarwhal.ca
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
At The Narwhal, our goal is to tell stories beautifully, even when they're ugly. This year we sent photographers to the Arctic, West Coast provincial parks, Great Lakes beaches and more. Here are our favourite photos of 2025.
thenarwhal.ca/2025-best-ph...
thenarwhal.ca/2025-best-ph...
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A group of blockaders built a camp in Kananaskis Country, Alta., this fall to protest logging in the area. Their aim was to create a culture of civil disobedience in the province.
An on-the-ground dispatch from @drewanderson.bsky.social and @amberbracken.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-l...
An on-the-ground dispatch from @drewanderson.bsky.social and @amberbracken.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-l...
Civil disobedience in the Rockies, in photos | The Narwhal
In Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, organizers set up a civil disobedience camp in response to logging plans
thenarwhal.ca
December 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A group of blockaders built a camp in Kananaskis Country, Alta., this fall to protest logging in the area. Their aim was to create a culture of civil disobedience in the province.
An on-the-ground dispatch from @drewanderson.bsky.social and @amberbracken.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-l...
An on-the-ground dispatch from @drewanderson.bsky.social and @amberbracken.bsky.social: thenarwhal.ca/kananaskis-l...
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Growing up as a teenage girl in northern Alberta, @trinamoyles.bsky.social learned to live with bears — and to navigate the hard-living culture of a resource-dependent town. Here's an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, which dives into those lessons: thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles...
Black Bear: Trina Moyles on coming of age in Alberta | The Narwhal
In an excerpt from ‘Black Bear,’ author Trina Moyles recalls lessons on surviving the many threats of a young life in rural Alberta
thenarwhal.ca
December 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Growing up as a teenage girl in northern Alberta, @trinamoyles.bsky.social learned to live with bears — and to navigate the hard-living culture of a resource-dependent town. Here's an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, which dives into those lessons: thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles...
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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...
thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
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 denise@thenarwhal.ca 💚
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 denise@thenarwhal.ca 💚
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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