Jimmy Thomson

Freelance journalist focusing on environmental and Indigenous stories

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Jun. 19, 2020

Whales Keep Dying Under Canadian Law That Gently Suggests Ships Slow Down

The Canadian government has kindly asked ships to slow down in the waters between Cape Breton and Newfoundland, in order to prevent them from killing endangered North Atlantic right whales. But most ships are ignoring that request, putting the very…

Mar. 30, 2020

A Couple Drove 5,000 KM to Yukon to Escape Coronavirus. Locals Were Furious

Old Crow, the northernmost community in Yukon, is seething after two uninvited guests showed up in spite of warnings not to come. At around 10 a.m. on Friday, an Air North flight brought two Quebeckers to the Arctic community. “We were busy dealing…

Jun. 27, 2014

The Former Owner of a Chain of Canadian Novelty Stores is Building His House on an Aboriginal Burial Ground

Protest photo via Christopher Roy. A long-fought battle over a tiny island came to a head over the weekend when hundreds of protesters descended on the rock off Ganges, Salt Spring Island, B.C. The protesters are concerned that the aboriginal burial…

Jun. 4, 2014

Verstümmelte Jugendliche aus Syrien bekommen neue Beine

Al-Masri vor der Klinik mit Saad und dem Techniker, der seine Prothese gemacht hat. Alle Fotos von den Autoren Muhammad Hamidu war 15 Jahre alt, als über seinem Dach in der Nähe von Idlib, einer 60 Kilometer von Aleppo entfernten Stadt im Nordwesten…

Jun. 3, 2014

A Visit to the Turkish Clinic Where Students Are Fitting Syrians with New Legs

Al Masri poses with Saad and the technician who made his leg outside the clinic. (All photos courtesy of the author) Muhammad Hamidu was 15 years old when a bomb dropped through his roof near Idlib, a city in Northwestern Syria, 59 km west of Aleppo.…

May. 13, 2014

Canadian Community Blockades Gulf Islands Territory Over Phallic Clams

This article originally appeared on VICE Canada. The Stz'uminus (Chemainus) First Nation has enacted a blockade that spans its traditional territory in the Gulf Islands of BC. They say they’ve been let down by a recent Department of Fisheries and…

Apr. 9, 2014

An Environmental Group Is Trying to Have B.C. Pipelines Voted on Through Referendums

The wood-lagging that protects the pipeline from damage, popular with Kinder Morgan, one of the pipeline giants with proposed projects set to launch in BC. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. With two major oil sands pipeline projects being proposed for…

Mar. 14, 2014

I Got Stranded on the Cannibal Rat Ship Long Before the Rats Arrived

Lyubov Petrovna Orlova is one of Soviet Russia’s great actresses, and the first real Soviet film star. Although she died nearly 40 years ago, her legacy lives on, with an asteroid and a ship named after her. The asteroid can be found on the far side…