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.
Canadian weed growers are setting up shop in Colombia
A look inside a massive Canadian-owned grow-op in the valleys where Pablo Escobar got his start.
Alek Minassian charged with three more counts of attempted murder in Toronto van attack
Minassian is also facing 10 first-degree murder charges after he allegedly plowed a van into pedestrians on a busy Toronto street.
Kinder Morgan shareholders vote to improve the company’s climate change reporting
First Nations chief to investors: "Your company misinterprets Canadian law at your own peril."
Doug Ford wants to tie funds for universities to free speech
The Ontario Conservative leader also pledged to rewrite the province’s sex education curriculum.
MP Christine Moore suspended over allegations of sexual misconduct
Veteran accuses politician of giving him alcohol and spending the night with him while she was in a position of authority.
Canada’s big cell companies new data plans "suck," critics say
Regulators told Canada big three cell phone companies to offer cheaper mobile data plans but few are impressed with the new offers.
"No free ticket" for asylum seekers crossing into Canada, ministers say
No formal negotiations are underway to have the Safe Third Country Agreement amended to apply to the entire border, said ministers on Monday.
RCMP files say "violent aboriginal extremists" are undermining pipeline plans
This is what Carleton University researchers learned from police documents on government surveillance of Indigenous activists.
Why First Nation chiefs sign Trans Mountain pipeline deals
While Kinder Morgan equates benefit agreements to consent, chiefs say they are not.
Canada's press freedom threatened by demands to reveal confidential sources
A Supreme Court case involving VICE News reporter Ben Makuch highlights the lack of protection for correspondence between sources and journalists.
Canada’s parliament votes to ask Pope to apologize for residential schools
Other churches have apologized, but the Catholic Church remains stubborn.
Alleged Toronto van attacker highlights toxic links between incels and the alt-right
Charged with killing ten people, Alek Minassian is thought to be part of a violent, toxic online subculture with a hatred for women.