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Close finish for 2026 Canadian Geographic Challenge

20 students from across the country attend finals in Ottawa where a new champion was crowned

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Science & Tech

Scientists measured Toronto’s winter air pollution. Some of their findings were surprising

A massive study of winter air pollution conducted by more than 100 scientists is shedding light on our exposure to everything from microplastics to metals

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Wildlife

Caribou people: The story of conserving the Porcupine caribou herd is a story about working together

Amid oil and gas threats to the ancient calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd and startling population declines, people on both sides of the border are coming together to protect them

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People & Culture

A riveting journey to the frontlines of Canada’s most devastating wild fires

In this captivating excerpt from Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze, award-winning journalist Jesse Winter invites readers into a detailed scene from a Canadian wildfire, while introducing some of the valiant individuals facing the devastating inferno

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Places

How swimming returned to downtown Ottawa

Once considered too polluted for bathers, the capital’s River House and Dow’s Lake swimming areas give city swimmers new places to beat the heat

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Ocean Week Canada

Science & Tech

This is what it’s really like to do science at sea

Technical glitches, seasickness and wonders never before seen: a journalist’s diary of a scientific expedition on the Southern Newfoundland Slope reveals the challenges and payoffs of trying to understand the ocean

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People & Culture

“It’s almost like a treasure hunt:” investigating deepsea corals off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks

Deepsea canyons along the Southern Newfoundland Slope shelter ancient cold-water corals and rich marine biodiversity. Scientists are racing to uncover and protect this fragile ecosystem before it’s lost.

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Wildlife

Partners in protection

Combining ecological and cultural values, and nearly two dozen planning partners, British Columbia’s Great Bear Sea is a model of conservation cooperation

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Environment

Wonder and loss: the deep ocean and its future

Though it’s the largest ecosystem on Earth, we know less about the deep ocean than the surface of the moon. As the threat of mining looms, will its fate be decided before we know enough to make such a far-reaching choice?

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Go Habs Go

People & Culture

Elbows Up! Hockey, politics and patriotism with Roy MacGregor

Episode 101

The award-winning journalist explores the intersection of hockey, politics and patriotism, highlighting Canada’s 2025 4 Nations Face-Off victory over the U.S. amid tensions from Trump’s tariff war

28 minutes

People & Culture

Go Habs Go — A hockey story about much more than hockey

Episode 13

Hockey is more than just a game in Montreal; it’s a window to Quebec culture whether you’re a hockey fan or not

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People & Culture

Excerpt from The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada fought back, took the Summit Series, and reinvented hockey

Through fresh reporting and new perspectives, best-selling author John U. Bacon captures some of the best moments in Canadian sports history

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History

Remembering Canada’s first Olympic hockey gold

Winning gold 100 years ago in Antwerp, Belgium, Canada’s team set a standard for Olympic hockey dominance that would last for three more successive Games

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Exploring protected areas in Canada

Wildlife

By the numbers: Protected landscapes and the birds that live there

National wildlife areas and migratory bird sanctuaries form a vast conservation network across the country. Here are a few surprising facts about these protected landscapes and the bird species that live there

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Places

A visit to Quebec’s Baie de L’Isle-Verte National Wildlife Area, where life moves with the tides

A team of volunteers and scientists has carefully nurtured this landscape, making it a sanctuary for wildlife on the St. Lawrence

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Places

It used to host heavy industry. Now, Big Glace Bay Lake, N.S. is flourishing as a home for wildlife

The 2022 designation of Big Glace Bay Lake as a national wildlife area is a key step in a decades-long effort to help piping plovers recover and thrive. It also protects crucial fall migration habitat for many species of waterfowl.

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Mapping

For the birds! Mapping Canada’s 92 migratory bird sanctuaries

These federally protected areas are located along avian superhighways — also known as flyways — traversed by millions of birds on their annual migrations. They provide vital stopover sites and breeding grounds.

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Wildlife in focus

Wildlife

Are smooth greensnakes really as rare as they seem to be — or just crazy hard to find?

Researchers in P.E.I. enlist the help of citizen scientists to get closer to a definitive answer

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Wildlife

The long climb back: Saving the Vancouver Island marmot

A small army of scientists, conservationists and volunteers cooperate to ensure the successful rebound of Canada’s most endangered mammal

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Wildlife

When the wild goes quiet

“Winter has a way of softening the forest”

Do not disturb: Practicing ethical wildlife photography

Wildlife photographers on the thrill of the chase — and the importance of setting ethical guidelines

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Calling all wildlife photographers

Enter the 2026 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition!

Canadian Geographic’s highly-anticipated Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition is back and we’re looking for your BEST shots!

Whether it’s wings in flight, life beneath the surface, wildlife on the land, or the world of flora and fungi, we want to see what you’ve got.

The Competition ends at 11:59 p.m. ET July 3, 2026.

Enter now!

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Environment

Scientists discovered the same fungus 40 years and an ocean apart. A mycologist explains how

For mycologist Greg Thorn, the two chance discoveries reveal how little we know about fungi

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Places

Troubling signs of climate change are showing up on Nova Scotia’s remote Sable Island

Despite its isolation, tiny Sable Island is a microcosm of the broader environmental forces reshaping our world

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Science & Tech

Fearfully great lizards: A brief history of how we know what we know about dinosaurs

Technology is radically changing our understanding of how dinosaurs looked and behaved, revealing a far more dynamic prehistoric world than we ever imagined

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People & Culture

“It’s almost like a treasure hunt:” investigating deepsea corals off Newfoundland’s Grand Banks

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Science & Tech

Hard core: How scientists drilled a record ice core in the Canadian High Arctic

An ice core from the Canadian Arctic’s Axel Heiberg Island, the deepest drilled in the Americas, is a record of ancient sea ice past

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Discovery Language

People & Culture

Pitewey and cookies: a Mi’kmaw auntie’s fight to revitalize her language

Katrina Clair is teaching Mi’kmaw to ensure kids like her children always have access to the language

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People & Culture

Inuktuusuunguvit? (Do you speak Inuktut?)

Ottawa is home to a booming Inuit community reclaiming their language and culture

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People & Culture

Unspoken: The Cree code talkers of the prairies

nêhiyawak soldiers bent their language to help secure the Allied victory in the Second World War, but their service is often forgotten

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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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Our places, our voices

Our Country - Notre Pays

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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Exploration

Retracing a historic fur trade route across Quebec with Bruno Forest

Episode 128

For 97 days, this team of six paddled 1,200 kilometres in hand-built canoes from Tadoussac to Waskaganish, Que. while tracing a historic fur trade route

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People & Culture

At the edge of the world with Louise K. Blight

Episode 127

The conservation scientist and seabird researcher shares her insights on studying Adélie penguins in Antarctica and what it’s like to live in one of Earth’s most remote research stations

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Exploration

Into the Carpathians: Skiing Ukraine’s highest peaks with Laval St. Germain

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The Canadian explorer highlights the impacts of war on wildlife as well as people, what Kyiv is like today, and Ukraine’s shifting landscape

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Exploration

The hidden life of Canada’s frozen lakes with Andrew Budziak and Andy Bramburger

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In the frigid underwater ecosystems of Canada’s frozen lakes, these explorers are revealing what lies beneath the ice. Plus, climate impacts, citizen science, and what it’s really like to dive below the surface.

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Shipwrecks

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Finding Quest

Inside the expedition that found famed explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s famed last ship

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Chasing storms and shipwrecks on the Oregon Coast

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