Chris Arsenault
Managing Editor
chris.arsenault@vice.comChris Arsenault is the interim Managing Editor of VICE News Canada. Before joining VICE he was a senior producer for Al Jazeera English in Qatar and a correspondent for the Reuters Foundation covering Brazil and the Rome-based United Nations agencies. He has held the Wolfson Press Fellowship at Cambridge University and the inaugural Forestry Journalism Fellowship at the University of British Columbia. In 2015, he won gold at the UN Correspondents awards in New York for his investigative reporting on stolen food aid in Syria and land grabs in Mali.
Canada’s grizzly bears are being threatened by new roads, study says
Parts of rural B.C. are already considering road closures in light of new data, scientists say.
Beached whale rescued by Nova Scotian volunteers safely back at sea
“It was a time critical incident,” animal rescuer said after 100 volunteers joined the operation.
Canada won’t meet climate goals without cutting back on oil sands
Subsidies for oil industry clash with lofty environmental goals, OECD says
Canada’s spies are on the verge of new offensive powers for cyber attacks
Proposed bill shows an "abject disregard for privacy rights," University of Toronto researchers say.
Protests mark Nestlé extracting one billion litres of water on expired permits
The company says it wants dialogue after protesters marched to one of its wells in rural Ontario.
We fact-checked the Trump administration's critiques of NAFTA
It certainly isn't "the worst deal in history" but team Trump is right on a couple of points.
Afghanistan just had a record poppy harvest — expect more heroin on street near you
An area larger than Rhode Island now used for poppy cultivation and the price of heroin is expected to drop markedly
Nestlé is extracting water from Canadian towns on expired permits
The company is bottling about 5 million litres a day from sites where permission has expired and environmentalists want it to stop
Government announces $750m in compensation for ‘60s scoop’ of Indigenous kids
An estimated 20,000 children taken from their parents are eligible to receive up to $50,000 for loss of language, culture and family ties.
TransCanada cancels its $15 billion Energy East pipeline
Low oil prices, regulatory hurdles and fears project would contaminate nearly 3,000 lakes and rivers seen as reasons for axing the plan.
Government fund backs UK mining firm blacklisted for human rights abuses
The world’s biggest state investor won’t touch Vedanta, but Canada’s EDC is happy to finance firm accused of poisoning Indian communities.
B.C. official accidentally publishes ‘embarrassing’ costs of hydro dam
B.C. official accidentally publishes ‘embarrassing’ costs of hydro dam