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Exploration
Meet Caroline Côté, the fastest woman to reach the South Pole
Breaking stereotypes, pushing boundaries and logging an extraordinary achievement
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Travel
Spaces within places: a stay at the DOUGLAS hotel
Inspired by the trees that line the misty mountains of Vancouver’s coastal rainforest, the DOUGLAS offers a multi-faceted city escape
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Wildlife
11 fun lagomorph facts for Lunar New Year
It’s the Year of the Rabbit! Here are Can Geo’s favourite facts on the taxonomic order that houses rabbits, hares and pikas
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- 3 minutes

Travel
Cloud wine: heli-touring the vineyards of the South Okanagan
A couple’s guide to taking in the wine, food and unique desert scenery of Osoyoos
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- 9 minutes

Can Geo Talks presents
Whit Fraser: Witnessing history in the North
Join Canadian Geographic in Ottawa for a special evening with Whit Fraser celebrating the re-issue of his memoir, True North Rising.
Conservation in Canada

Environment
Spotlight on conservation: Hastings Wildlife Junction
Hastings Wildlife Junction in eastern Ontario is an example of the scale of conservation needed in Canada
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- 2 minutes

Environment
Spotlight on conservation: Kootenay River Ranch
Thanks to contributions from donors like Kruger Products, the Nature Conservancy of Canada is restoring and protecting some of Canada’s most valuable ecosystems
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- 3 minutes

Environment
Spotlight on conservation: Fitzpatrick Island, Quebec
Thanks in part to a donation from Kruger Products, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, in collaboration with Kebaowek First Nation, is protecting this ecologically significant island in the Ottawa River
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Environment
“We did this:” Is there a way out of our intertwined climate and biodiversity crises?
As the impacts of global warming become increasingly evident, the connections to biodiversity loss are hard to ignore. Can this fall’s two key international climate conferences point us to a nature-positive future?
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Travel

Travel
Ice canoeing in Quebec City
Navigating chunks of ice in frigid temperatures, Robin Esrock recounts his thrilling experience ice canoeing on the St. Lawrence River
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- 4 minutes

Travel
Photos: Exploring majestic hidden glacier caves in the Canadian Rockies
Formed in varying shapes and sizes, these glacier caves create the “perfect playground for photographers”
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Travel
Bush cook meets chef: The unlikely duo behind the docu-series Moosemeat & Marmalade
Now on its sixth season, this popular cooking show combines Indigenous and French cuisine while exploring culture, tradition and good food
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Travel
Ringing in the lunar new year, Taiwan-style
Neil Ever Osborne gets into the line of fire at the 2017 Taiwan Lantern Festival
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Ocean life

Environment
Kelp: The sustainable superfood coming soon to a plate near you
Kelp’s potential as a commercial crop is finally being recognized — and, as kelp forests vanish worldwide, so is its importance in coastal ecosystems
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Wildlife
Beluga whistles and clicks could be silenced by an increasingly noisy Arctic Ocean
Sound is an integral part of a beluga’s life, so the quality of the underwater acoustic environment is very important for the health and survival of belugas
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Wildlife
Punctuation’s mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what can we do?
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Wildlife
What is a nudibranch? Meet the “high fashion models” of the ocean depths
The naked truth about nudibranchs, in British Columbia and beyond
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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition
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Winter stories

History
Lessons learned from the ice storm of 1998
It plunged five million people into the dark and cold — the recovery would take years
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History
Frozen in time: The remarkable legacy of Mary Vaux, amateur glaciologist
Mary Vaux’s groundbreaking 19th-century study of B.C.’s Illecillewaet Glacier created an invaluable record of the glacier’s recession
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- 17 minutes

Exploration
Last icy stand: Scaling Mount Logan
Four researchers team up to ascend Mount Logan, measuring change and resilience on Canada’s highest peak
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- 14 minutes

Science & Tech
The “frozen rainforest” within the ice
Glaciologist Joseph Cook on the vibrant life in the Arctic ice sheet
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- 7 minutes

Places
The cold edge of heaven
In the stillness of an Arctic midwinter night, an old church bell rang out, and I stopped breathing for a few seconds
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Magnificent mammals

Wildlife
Wildlife photographer spends five years following a wild wolf pack in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
In this beautifully illustrated photography book, Canadian wildlife photographer John E. Marriott documents a grey wolf pack throughout the seasons, showcasing the daily lives of the Kootenay wolves
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- 5 minutes

Wildlife
Think like a bear: learning to coexist
Human and bears sharing more landscapes now than ever before. As we continue to invade their world, will we be able to coexist?
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- 18 minutes

Wildlife
Into the wintry kingdom of the Canada lynx
In the boreal forest, where secretive lynx depend on the snowshoe hare to survive, climate change threatens to upset this longstanding predator-prey relationship
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- 5 minutes

Wildlife
The amazing sea wolves of the Great Bear Rainforest
First Nations and scientists work side by side to better understand — and protect — coastal wolves living in the Great Bear Rainforest
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- 7 minutes

Wildlife
The big bad wolf?
Exploring our love-hate relationship with the wolf
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- 10 minutes
Prairies

Travel
Barons of the Prairies
A history of Alberta’s quirky Burger Baron restaurant chain
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- 5 minutes

Places
The land holds memories
“All the mischiefs humans and the universe are capable of inflicting on an ecosystem have conspired to attack the prairies.”
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- 25 minutes

Places
Guardians of the grasslands
How conservationists and ranchers in Saskatchewan are working to slow the loss of an endangered ecosystem
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- 10 minutes

People & Culture
For the love of pronghorns
The story of a biologist’s lifelong study of an endangered species — and its future
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People & Culture
The boreal, biodiversity and Indigenous Guardians with Valérie Courtois
Episode 53
The Director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative discusses COP15, the importance of the boreal forest and the vital role of Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship
- 26 minutes

People & Culture
The Bay of Fundy: Sea and skies
Episode 52
Hop aboard the Polar Prince with David McGuffin as he sails Atlantic Canada’s Bay of Fundy with the scientists, students and researchers that make up this Students on Ice conservation expedition
- 27 minutes

Environment
Fundy Salmon – Back from the Brink
Episode 51
John Robinson of Parks Canada talks about the work being done to help bring back Fundy Atlantic salmon populations from the brink of extinction
- 26 minutes

People & Culture
Geoff Green – Students on Ice
Episode 50
Join Students on Ice President Geoff Green aboard the Polar Prince as he discusses his experience as an expedition leader and how he built Students on Ice to be the vital force that it is today.
- 39 minutes

People & Culture
The hidden kingdom of fungi – An autumn mushroom walk with Keith Seifert
Episode 49
Join fungi expert Keith Seifert and podcast host David McGuffin on an educational mushroom and fungi walk through Ottawa’s Gatineau Hills
- 33 minutes