Jon Thompson

Jon Thompson is an award-winning journalist and author who belongs to northwestern Ontario, currently a Local Journalism Initiative reporter covering Indigenous Issues in northern Ontario. He's best known lately for his work on Canadaland's "Thunder Bay" podcast about anti-Indigenous systemic racism and police corruption, as well as the Crave documentary series by the same name. Thompson has reported for TVO, CBC, APTN, and local outlets in every medium across northwestern Ontario for 22 years. Email him at jon@ricochet.media. Sign up here for his newsletter, The Northwester, and never miss a story from Northern Ontario.

‘Milestone’ deal reached with 15 First Nations on Ring of Fire mining development

‘A bit of anger, a bit of sadness’: First Nations in Northwest Ontario don’t want Canada’s nuclear waste but will be getting it anyway (probably)

Indigenous News

November 29 2024

Tallying up the cost of mining on Indigenous land

Jon Thompson

‘Milestone’ deal reached with 15 First Nations on Ring of Fire mining development

1,300 people and 600 roaming dogs: How a northern Ontario First Nation is tackling its canine conundrum

One woman’s two-year search for her father in the streets of Thunder Bay

‘A bit of anger, a bit of sadness’: First Nations in Northwest Ontario don’t want Canada’s nuclear waste but will be getting it anyway (probably)

Tallying up the cost of mining on Indigenous land

Taking back the land where landback began

Failing bridge triggers state of emergency in Northern Ontario First Nation

‘Repeated indignities’: First Nation shuts down highway following discovery of early 15th century human remains

Ontario has never seen an MPP like Sol Mamakwa

First Nations say governments should give fewer subsidies to fossil fuels and far more to nature-based climate solutions

The growing movement of Indigenous leaders across Northern Ontario opposing nuclear waste dump

Northern Ontario First Nations collectively say no to nuclear waste project

‘We want the mill to shut down,’ Grassy Narrows First Nation to Ontario