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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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273 Articles
a man in an orange jacket stands in front of the Victoria legislature

B.C. community groups and First Nation file court challenge against regulator over pipeline

A coalition of community groups and a First Nation in Northern British Columbia have launched a court challenge against the BC Energy Regulator (BCER). They say the regulator is bypassing legal requirements by allowing construction of a pipeline to begin without a complete and updated picture of the total environmental impact.