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Trevor Jang

Trevor Jang is an award-winning journalist and writer with a passion for Indigenous issues. He was a recipient of the 2016 CBC Indigenous Fellowship through the Canadian Journalism Foundation and a finalist for the 2016 British Columbia Association of Broadcasters Excellence in News Reporting award. Trevor spent two years hosting a radio show on Canada’s First Nations Radio (CFNR) Network in northern B.C. which focused on First Nations culture, music and issues. He is a mix of Chinese-Canadian and Wet’suwet’en descent.

Trevor's Latest Articles

Why building a pipeline on Indigenous land is complicated even if you own it

By Lauren Kaljur & Trevor Jang ● Environment ● July 4, 2018 August 5, 2022

Experts say the Canadian public may have just spent $4.5 billion on a “worthless asset” if even one First Nation stops the Trans Mountain Expansion Project in court.

Tracking how Indigenous communities are affected by Trans Mountain

By Trevor Jang, Lauren Kaljur, Emma Paling, HuffPost Canada, Brenna Owen, Lucy Scholey, APTN News, Amber Bernard, Kendra Perrin, Caitlin Havlak & Jonathan von Ofenheim ● Environment ● May 25, 2018 August 5, 2022

The Discourse, APTN and HuffPost Canada launch #TrackingTransMountain, a database that digs into what’s really happening with Indigenous consultation for the controversial project.

Legal heroin needed to save lives and money, experts say

By Trevor Jang ● Health ● November 17, 2017 August 5, 2022

Canada’s health minister announced support for prescription heroin, but Ottawa still won’t consider decriminalizing hard drugs — a step that experts say would further reduce overdose deaths.

Q&A: Ojibway artist on what it’s like to visualize addiction and trauma

By Trevor Jang ● Health ● October 22, 2017 August 5, 2022

Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley, the illustrator for Discourse’s #KidsofAddiction series, talks his art and inspiration.

What happens when a child loses a parent to an overdose

By Trevor Jang ● Health ● October 12, 2017 August 5, 2022

One family’s struggle to find mental health support in the aftermath of addiction.

Illustration by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

Kids of addiction

By Trevor Jang ● Health ● October 11, 2017 August 5, 2022

What my father’s overdose death taught me.

Addictions expert Mark Haden: ‘It’s not a fentanyl crisis — it’s a policy crisis’

By Trevor Jang ● Health ● August 21, 2017 August 5, 2022

In this Q&A, Haden explains why regulating illegal drugs will reduce overdose deaths, and how psychedelics could help heal addiction.

Breaking tradition

By Trevor Jang ● Energy ● July 24, 2017 August 5, 2022

Why consent from the entire community is crucial when it comes to getting First Nations’ approval for resource projects

Dear young Indigenous writers, I owe you an apology

By Trevor Jang ● Urban Nation ● June 29, 2017 August 5, 2022

I’m an Indigenous journalist who wasn’t offended by the cultural “appropriation prize.” Here’s why.

Pacific Northwest LNG court battle: ‘At jeopardy is our whole tribal system’

By Trevor Jang ● Energy ● June 13, 2017 August 5, 2022

Interpreting Indigenous law in a western court system is like ‘trying to put a circle in a square,’ says the Gitwilgyoots Tribe, one of two governing systems for the Coast Tsimshian people.