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Adrienne Tanner

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About Adrienne Tanner

Adrienne Tanner is Canada's National Observer's outstanding managing editor. She is the guiding light behind our daily news reporting, signature investigations and solutions-journalism reporting She is a highly valued member of our executive team.

She has been working as a journalist for more than 25 years, first in Alberta where she covered courts and the environment at small newspapers and civic and provincial politics at the Edmonton Journal. She moved to B.C. in the late 1990s to join The Province as an investigative reporter covering the immigration beat.

In 2001, she joined the Vancouver Sun as assignment editor.

She then became city editor where she helped transform the newspaper to a digital publication. She served as deputy editor from 2012 until 2017, overseeing the investigative team and political reporters.

She has also worked as a freelancer, filing for The Globe and Mail, Maclean's Magazine and Pivot Magazine.

12 Articles

Want to jump the queue for a mid-size electric vehicle? Get ready to pay big time

When it comes to electric vehicles, the array of options normally available to Canadians is scant, and there is nothing to do but wait, writes managing editor Adrienne Tanner.
Opinion | December 21st 2022

A special letter from our Managing Editor

When I was a kid, a long time ago now, the big environmental story imprinted on my impressionable mind was litter. Our teachers taught us it was wrong and could harm animals that ate or became tangled in pieces of discarded trash.
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Fawcett and Garossino nominated for Digital Publishing Awards for 'best columnist'

Max Fawcett and Sandy Garossino are in the running for National Media Awards Foundation, (NMAF) Digital Publishing Awards for best column.
News | May 5th 2022

Canada’s National Observer nominated for two journalism awards

Canada's National Observer has been nominated for two Canadian Association of Journalists awards in the human rights reporting and online media categories.
News | April 20th 2022

‘A story so hot, it sends a tingle up my spine’

Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, our food security reporter, got a tip about someone setting up Facebook groups that look for all the world like innocuous citizens’ community organizations — except for the anonymous attack ads taking nasty swipes at certain politicians.
Opinion | April 19th 2022

Supriya Dwivedi joins Canada's National Observer as columnist

Supriya Dwivedi is a sought-after political commentator who will be writing mostly about Ontario climate policy.
News | December 14th 2021

Alberta invited two Suncor oilsands executives to join COP26 guest list

Activists took aim at COP26 organizers for accrediting hundreds of oil and gas company lobbyists to attend the UN climate conference in Glasgow.
COP26: Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change
News | November 10th 2021

Tax the rich, save the planet

Taxes — particularly those on carbon —are the most equitable way to raise money for climate initiatives that impact poorest people and countries the most, say tax-justice advocates at the UN climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland.
COP26: Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change
News | November 9th 2021
Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson accepts award on behalf of cities organization at COP26. Photo by: Adrienne Tanner

Gregor Robertson accepts climate prize at COP26 on behalf of cities group

Cities do the heavy lifting when it comes to climate change mitigation and this prize money will help some disadvantaged cities move forward, Robertson said.
COP26: Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change
News | November 9th 2021

Plans are in for Canada's largest green renovation — all federal buildings in the Ottawa region

The Government of Canada hired Sustainability Solutions Group solutions to do a decarbonization action plan for federal buildings in Ottawa's capital region.
Race to a Safer World
News | November 4th 2021
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