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Joni Mitchell honoured with RCGS gold medal

Under towering red cedars, the ceremony celebrating the iconic Canadian singer was a special occasion for those in attendance on Canada Day

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Galicia uncovered: Exploring Spain’s secret green corner

Wild landscapes, Celtic traditions and quiet villages reveal a lesser-known side of Spain

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Joni Mitchell honoured with RCGS gold medal

Under towering red cedars, the ceremony celebrating the iconic Canadian singer was a special occasion for those in attendance on Canada Day

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Travel

Exploring Ontario’s historic Rideau Canal by houseboat: A scenic journey through Canadian history

Cruise through Canada’s past on a multi-generational houseboat adventure along the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal, where history, charming towns and slow travel collide

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Guiding change: how women are redefining leadership on Kilimanjaro

The Mountain Lioness project is empowering women to lead treks up Africa’s tallest peak — its success is breaking gender norms

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Our places, our voices

Our Country

For nearly 15 years, Canadian Geographic has been asking notable Canadians to share their favourite place in Canada. From lakeside family retreats to urban hideaways, the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains to the endless horizon of the Arctic tundra, the rocky shores of Newfoundland to the windswept beaches of western Vancouver Island, their answers highlight the geographic diversity of Canada and the love that unites us. These are our places. This is our country.

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People & Culture

On guard with thee: A rapprochement between French Quebec and English Canada

How Donald Trump sparked a new Canadian nationalism

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People & Culture

Manifest opportunity: Indigenous resistance in the age of Trump

Canadians could learn a thing or two about resistance from Indigenous Peoples

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People & Culture

North star: Reflections on Canada and being Canadian

Space, land, winter — these are the overwhelming realities of Canada, and they have shaped who we are

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People & Culture

This is Canada: A letter from the editor

Introducing Canadian Geographic’s “This is Canada” series

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People & Culture

What does being Canadian mean to you? 40 famous Canadians sound off

PBS interview program Canada Files has spent six years asking notable Canadians that question. This is what they had to say.

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Honouring one of Canada's most iconic singer-songwriters

Joni Mitchell awarded the RCGS Gold Medal

On July 1, 2025, Joni Mitchell was awarded the RCGS Gold Medal by John Geiger at Ruby Lake Resort, B.C., in an intimate Canada Day ceremony honouring her extraordinary cultural legacy.

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Exploring the Vjosa: Europe’s last great free-flowing river

Once threatened by dams, Albania’s Vjosa River has been preserved as a free-flowing ecosystem offering outdoor adventure — and delicious local produce

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People & Culture

From Jeju to Tofino: Korean chef adds new flavours to Vancouver Island — with a little help from his mother

A mother-son duo’s culinary journey from Korea to Canada’s West Coast

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Wildlife

Shark tales: Canada’s great whites

As white sharks make their presence known off the coast of Atlantic Canada, researchers and locals want to know: should people be worried?

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Travel

Canada’s non-alcoholic revolution

Robin Esrock investigates the growing trend of alcohol-free wine, beer and spirits

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Pride Month

Wildlife

Knowing nature for what it is with Connel Bradwell

The biologist and filmmaker on his latest documentary Animal Pride, an exploration of queer animal behaviour

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People & Culture

As the RCAF turns 100, Cyle Daniels begins their own journey with the storied service

A century after its creation, the RCAF is evolving to create space for Indigenous youth

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People & Culture

Our Country: Jazmyn Canning and Crystal Drinkwalter on their off-grid cabin in the Maritimes

The YouTuber duo known as the Vanwives sing the praises of off-grid living in Nova Scotia

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Places

Vivek Shraya’s favourite place in Canada

Edmonton’s River Valley is a space the musician, writer and artist can go to just be herself

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Environment

Inside the ambitious Indigenous-led plan to protect northwestern Ontario’s “Breathing Lands”

On the western shores of James and Hudson bays, a group of Omushkego Cree nations have been working to protect both water and land

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Environment

The great turning

Another reckoning is coming with climate change. How do we deal with our mental health — and ultimately find hope?

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Science & Tech

Into the storm: the Canadian transforming tornado science

Alberta-based computer scientist Mark Simpson can design anything he puts his mind to. So why has he chosen to chase tornadoes?

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People & Culture

Haudenosaunee activist Dawn Martin-Hill on decolonization and water

The educator and activist on decolonization, social justice and why water is at the heart of everything

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People & Culture

Thirty years of Neskantaga First Nation’s boil water advisory

The trauma of an entire generation without access to safe drinking water has left its mark

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Making sense of fire season

Environment

“It potentially will get worse” — hot, dry summer predicted for fire-stricken central Canada

A persistent “heat dome” over the central United States this summer could have spillover effects in the Prairies and northwestern Ontario, worsening the outlook for areas already affected by fire and near-drought conditions

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Wildlife

After burn: The new face of fire puts wildlife on the hot seat

How Canada’s wildlife is struggling to cope with the human-induced forcings of climate change

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Environment

Mapping 100 years of forest fires in Canada

How exceptional is Canada’s 2023 fire season? Unprecedented, according to a map of the past century of fire activity

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People & Culture

Our new “century of fire”

Author John Vaillant on his new book Fire Weather — and the toxic relationship between fire and petroleum

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Environment

Quickfire decision: fighting wildfires

With wildfires on the rise, those who tackle them have to make choices about when to take action

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Listen to Here & There

People & Culture

How a king, a president, a railway empire and a hot dog helped save the free world

Episode 23

Here & There podcast host and producer Liz Beatty unravels the family thread that led to a world-changing BBQ

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People & Culture

Nelson, B.C. — Canada’s slice of the Summer of Love

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American draft dodgers and free-spirited young Canadians alike were drawn to B.C.’s Kootenay region in the late 60s and early 70s by cheap land and the chance to “turn on, tune in and drop out” amid the mountains and lakes

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Places

Manitoulin: The island that connected a continent

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Exploring Manitoulin Island, northern Ontario’s legacy as a vital hub for First Nations trade, travel and ideas

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People & Culture

Godspell 1972: the Toronto musical that gave us Martin Short, Andrea Martin and more

Episode 20

The true story of how a Toronto church basement became the launchpad for a generation of comedy legends

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People & Culture

Trend meets tradition: the Hasidim of Outremont, Montreal

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How a deeply religious community maintains its practices while testing the boundaries between faith and modern life

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Travel off the beaten track

Travel

Kayaking Hopewell Rocks after dark

How to paddle through New Brunswick’s most iconic landmark at night — if the Weather Gods allow

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Travel

Baja beyond Cabo: Loreto, Mexico is the Gulf of California’s best-kept secret

Hard to reach but easy to love, Loreto is the ultimate base for exploring land and sea on the Baja California peninsula

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Steps towards tomorrow: a solo hike along Japan’s Tōhoku Region

Painstakingly restored in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the Michinoku Coastal Trail offers a powerful walk through loss, resilience and hope

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Travel

Beyond the brochures: the other side of Jamaica

Step away from the tourist bubble and into Jamaica’s lesser-known, but equally as exciting, south coast

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Travel

Bedrock: travel that begins beneath your feet

UNESCO Global Geoparks chart a new course in sustainable tourism — one rock at a time

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Highlights from our recent issues

History

D’oh Canada: The Simpsons’ hidden Canadian connection

Before Springfield, there was Saskatchewan. As TV’s longest-running sitcom, The Simpsons has deep roots in this Prairie province.

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Travel

Without a paddle: a journey down Canada’s most renowned estuary

Two friends think, write songs and “sail” down the St. Lawrence, from Quebec City to Tadoussac — they hope

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People & Culture

The birth of a language speaker

In the first part of Canadian Geographic’s Discovery Language series, one Kanyen’kehá:ka family shares what it takes to raise a language speaker

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Science & Tech

New space mission to Venus could reveal signs of alien life

An ambitious, multi-stage mission seeks to find life in the acidic clouds of Venus

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Wildlife

Wildlife without borders: Conservation in the time of Trump

The breakdown of binational relations and gutting of U.S. science agencies brings uncertainty to current cross-border conservation efforts

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Great long reads

Wildlife

The good bear: Co-existence on Yukon’s Klukshu River

The ice bears of Klukshu have been living with people and salmon for millennia. Is this age-old balance under threat?

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People & Culture

Protectors of Aqviqtuuq

The northern tip of mainland Canada is a paradise of caribou, polar bears and Arctic char as yet undisturbed by mining. The residents of Taloyoak, Nunavut, are fighting to keep it that way.

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Environment

Last bastion of ice

What the collapse of the Milne ice shelf and the loss of a rare Arctic ecosystem might teach us about a changing planet

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Science & Tech

The hidden world of fungi

As fungi bloom into the mainstream, a research station hidden in the B.C. Rainforest aims to uncover some of the mysteries of mushrooms

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Science & Tech

Written in stone: What fossils can tell us about the future

How peering into our ancient past could transform our understanding of contemporary climate change

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Listen to Explore

People & Culture

The open road: George Stroumboulopoulos on music, motorcycles, movies and Canada

Episode 105

The veteran Canadian broadcaster on what it was like interviewing the biggest names in music, why motorcycles are his favourite escape, and what it’s like living as a Canadian in the U.S. right now