Michelle Cyca
Senior editor
Michelle Cyca is an award-winning journalist and editor from Vancouver, and a member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation in Treaty 6. Her reporting, essays and literary criticism can be found in The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, IndigiNews and The Tyee, among other publications. She is a contributing writer to The Walrus, and received a National Magazine Award in 2024 for her columns. Her Maclean's cover story "The Curious Case of Gina Adams" also received a National Magazine Award in 2023 for investigative journalism. Michelle teaches reporting in Indigenous communities at the University of British Columbia, and serves as the board chair of tapwêwin media, an Indigenous-led nonprofit organization. Previously, she was the co-publisher of SAD Mag, a National Magazine Award-winning biannual print publication focused on art, design and storytelling from Vancouver.
Stories by Michelle Cyca
Meet Savannah Ridley, The Narwhal’s first-ever Indigenous editorial fellow
10 min. readThe Toronto Metropolitan University student and up-and-coming journalist is following in her grandmother’s footsteps and...
Fire guardians rekindle old flames on Blackfoot lands
Kainai Nation has a fledgling program to restore the cultural use of fire on its...
First Nations are closing B.C. parks. Should you be mad?
Two popular provincial parks have been temporarily closed to the public, igniting a backlash and...
The Right Honourable Mary Simon aims to be an Arctic fox
Canada’s first-ever Indigenous governor general doesn’t play favourites among our majestic natural wonders, but she...
Carney and Poilievre both vow to protect sovereignty … but whose?
As the top candidates for Canada’s next prime minister promise swift, major expansions of mining...
Will Canada’s next prime minister support Indigenous Rights and conservation projects?
The Conservative and Liberal parties diverge sharply on Indigenous issues. Here’s what that could mean...
Water is precious — and precarious — on First Nations reserves like this one
Boil-water advisories in Moose Factory, Ont., are frequent, expensive and ongoing — but not ‘long-term’...
In Canada, tariffs are in. Messing with our clocks twice a year should be out
B.C. and Ontario have been waiting for agreement from neighbouring states to do away with...
Tariff threats have unified Canadians around resource extraction — at the expense of Indigenous Rights
B.C. Premier David Eby and other political leaders shouldn’t use this moment to backtrack on...
