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As seen in: The Narwhal, The Philanthropist Journal, Medium, MSN Canada, Flipboard, Consumer Reports, Matador Network, 24/7 Wall Street, Harper's Magazine, The Walrus Magazine, The Tyee, J-Source and
Prairies bureau chief @thenarwhalca. Words: @thewalrus, @harpers etc. Research: @typeinvestigate, @theintercept etc. Lover of longform & facts. sharonjriley.com

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Sharon is an investigative journalist, covering Alberta, Canada, for The Narwhal. Her essays, interviews, and long-form nonfiction have been published by The Walrus, Harper’s, The Tyee, and Maisonneuve, among others.

She is a finalist for the 2018 Canadian Association of Journalists Awards for her story Life After Coal (The Narwhal), was named a finalist in the 2017 National Magazine Awards' Best New Magazine Writer category, was a 2017 recipient of the Access Copyright Foundation's Marian Hebb…

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Life after coal | The Narwhal

Life after coal | The Narwhal

As Alberta moves away from burning coal for electricity, miners face an uncertain future. The Narwhal met wit…

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Rise of the Robots

Rise of the Robots

It's dusk and Robert Hermann is driving an eighteen-wheeler down a narrow road lined with fields and neat hed…

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[Weekly Review] | April 17, 2018, by Sharon J. Riley | Harper's Magazine

[Weekly Review] | April 17, 2018, by Sharon J. Riley | Harper's Magazine

US president Donald Trump, who recently announced that "very soon" the United States would be "coming out of …

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Rural Canada Faces its own Opioid Crisis

Rural Canada Faces its own Opioid Crisis

L ast winter was a brutal one around Stand Off, in southern Alberta, with snowdrifts taller than trucks and r…

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Many of Alberta's 'reclaimed' wells aren't actually reclaimed: government presentation | The Narw...

Many of Alberta's 'reclaimed' wells aren't actually reclaimed: government presentation | The Narw...

That's what Keith Wilson, a lawyer who has worked on surface rights issues for 30 years, says he heard at a p…

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Burning Bush

Burning Bush

Canada is experiencing an unprecedented number of wild fires. As Sharon J. Riley investigates, our obsession …

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Canadian non-profits are using AI in a way that risks losing public trust

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By Sharon Riley 
| The Philanthropist Journal
Stocksy/Marusya Wrobel Share Facebook Linkedin Email Sections Analysis Topics Technology ISSN 2562-1491 Original Link https://thephilanthropist.ca/2026/05/canadian-non-profits-are-using-ai-in-a-way-that-risks-losing-public-trust/ Download Choose Print or Save to PDF in the print dialogue and turn off “Header and Footers” Explore More Articles Just over three years ago, before the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, no one was using artificial intelligence daily. Talking about it? Yes.
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Oil, gas and cowboys

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By Sharon Riley 
| The Narwhal
Another week, another deluge of nominations for The Narwhal’s in-depth journalism about the natural world in Canada! Since last week’s newsletter, our reporting has been named a finalist for two National Magazine Awards and 11 (!) Digital Publishing Awards. We’re blushing — and honestly a tad overwhelmed! At the National Magazine Awards, Prairies reporter Drew Anderson’s deep dive into delinquent oil and gas companies is a finalist in the investigative journalism category.
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An oil and gas company just left behind an estimated $476M cleanup bill in Alberta

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By Sharon Riley 
| Flipboard
Now In a setback for federal efforts to thwart climate litigation, the judge ruled that the suit, which tried to block the state from suing oil companies, was too speculative. A federal judge has dismissed a highly unusual lawsuit, filed last year by the Trump administration, that sought to …
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