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50 years of multiculturalism: We do it well … except when we don’t
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50 years of multiculturalism: It’s as Canadian as maple syrup
History
50 years of multiculturalism: Who is gatekeeping Canadianness?
History
50 years of multiculturalism: Where lived experiences make history
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50 ans de multiculturalisme au Canada : être musulman au Canada
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Caribou are vanishing at an alarming rate. Is it too late to save them?
After more than a million years on Earth, the caribou is under threat of global extinction. The precipitous decline of the once mighty herds is a tragedy that is hard to watch — and even harder to reverse.
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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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Our land, our strength
Reflecting on 20 years of Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut
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Why the North Pole matters: An important history of challenges and global fascination
In this essay, noted geologist and geophysicist Fred Roots explores the significance of the symbolic point at the top of the world. He submitted it to Canadian Geographic just before his death in October 2016 at age 93.
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Exploration
Jens Munk: An expedition ahead of its time
Two hundred years before Franklin and 300 years before Amundsen, a daring Dane came closer to finding the Northwest Passage than anyone had before
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November/December 2021
History
75 years after Viola Desmond’s stand against segregation, former theatre honours her legacy
On Nov. 8, 1946, Viola Desmond made history at the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, N.S. Seventy-five years later, the building’s exterior pays tribute to her life through art.
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Wildlife
Animal crossing: Reconnecting North America’s most important wildlife corridor
This past summer an ambitious wildlife under/overpass system broke ground in B.C. on a deadly stretch of highway just west of the Alberta border. Here’s how it happened.
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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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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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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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Environment
“There’s no coming back from this:” Why the global ocean crisis threatens us all
Ten years after the release of her seminal book Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchell again plumbs the depths of the latest research on the health of the world’s oceans — and comes up gasping
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Environment
They turned their farm into a forest. Fifteen years later, it’s thriving
In 2005, a federal government program aimed to convert underused farmland into forests to capture carbon dioxide. How have these ‘Forest 2020’ projects fared?
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Environment
Arctic permafrost is thawing. Here’s what that means for Canada’s North — and the world
Permafrost thaw is widespread, accelerating and irreversible. With it comes visible effects on the ecology, hydrology and landscapes, and communities of the North.
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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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Places
Places
McCallum, N.L., an outport community caught between staying and going
First settled in the 18th century, McCallum is home to just 45 people and only accessible by boat on the southern coast of Newfoundland
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Places
Snakes on a plain: Manitoba’s Narcisse Snake Dens
Each spring, a disquieting tangle of tens of thousands of gartersnakes emerges from their winter home, forming the world’s largest gathering of snakes
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Places
Celebrating 50 years of the Toronto Zoo
A spotlight on the conservation work being done to support, preserve and save at-risk and endangered species
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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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Après 50 ans de multiculturalisme : Qui est le gardien/la gardienne de l’identité canadienne ?
0250 ans de multiculturalisme: quand les expériences vécues font l’histoire
03The great equalizer? Remembering the promise of the Canadian Citizenship Act
04Le grand égalisateur? Se souvenir de la promesse de la Loi sur la citoyenneté canadienne.
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Environment
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The sixth extinction
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Study of 500 years of cod catch data shows collapse could have been avoided
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Oceans can be restored in the next 30 years, scientists say
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Valérie Courtois on what she hopes will come out of COP15: “to save the world”
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New research on Newfoundland seabirds is a window into thousands of years of change
Environment
Behind the Canadian Shield
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‘It’s been raining! In the High Arctic!’
The Canadian High Arctic Research Station is set to open in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, later this year. How will it affect our understanding and appreciation of the North and the rapid change occurring there?
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Science & Tech
How Canada is preparing for the next big earthquake
The last megathrust earthquake to strike Canada was in 1700, and the clock is ticking. How we’re preparing for the impact.
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Science & Tech
Humans inhabited North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought
New study out of the Université de Montréal finds that humans occupied the Yukon's Bluefish Caves 24,000 years ago
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Science & Tech
Canadian scientist joins NASA’s first mission to bring samples from Mars back to Earth
Chris Herd is the only Canadian on the Mars rover sample return team
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Science & Tech
Alouette anniversary
Celebrating 50 years of Canada’s role in space
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Exploration
Exploration
The pull of Everest
A century after a Canadian was instrumental in charting the world’s highest peak, a fellow Canadian reflects on the magnetism of Everest
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Exploration
Subterranean trailblazers
Caving: The ultimate underground sport
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Exploration
The cool calling: Glaciologist Alison Criscitiello is redefining the term explorer
She's also combining her knowledge and skills to uncover the secrets of climate change
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Exploration
Why cave exploration matters
2022 is the International Year of Caves and Karst. Here’s why you should care about the hidden worlds beneath our feet.
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Articles
People & Culture
Canada ranked 7th happiest country in the world
Canada outperforms all other G7 nations in new happiness ranking
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People & Culture
Crowdsourced art on Canadian identity
More than 800 sketches from across the country have been collected into a larger artwork on Canadian identity
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Mapping
RCGS releases new map in solidarity with Ukraine
Map shows the distribution of people of Ukrainian descent across Canada, highlighting the deep connection between the two countries
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Wildlife
Our fascination with mammoths
How the legacy of these woolly giants persists in pop culture, storytelling, ecology and even the controversial idea of de-extinction
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People & Culture
The cod delusion
A moratorium on cod fishing that was supposed to last two years has now lasted 30. What will it take to rebuild cod stocks — and a way of life?
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Wildlife
Wildlife
This 50-year study revolutionizes our understanding of bald eagles
Wildlife
Broughtons in the balance: As salmon runs fail, grizzlies are on the move
Wildlife
Muskoxen: the tundra’s ultimate survivors
Wildlife
The great green shark hunt
Wildlife
The politics of wild: where do Alberta’s wild horses belong?
Wildlife
Excerpt from Takaya: The Lone Wolf
History
History
The hatchery crutch: How we got here
From their beginnings in the late 19th century, salmon hatcheries have gone from cure to band-aid to crutch. Now, we can’t live without manufactured fish.
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History
The next 100 years
Now that a century has passed since the end of the First World War, is it inevitable that efforts to remember the events of the war will start to fade?
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History
Canoe love
Canadian Canoe Museum explores the link between paddling and romance
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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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Safety first, service always: The Canadian Coast Guard turns 60
A celebration of the Canadian Coast Guard’s renowned search-and-rescue capabilities — and more — as the special operating agency turns 60
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People & Culture
The Nunavut Quest dogsled race is revitalizing a once-threatened tradition
Inside the 500-kilometre dogsled race across the High Arctic with the qimuksiqtiit who are sharing their knowledge with the next generation
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People & Culture
A prayer not a protest
The South Saskatchewan River is under unprecedented pressure. Now, a major irrigation project is set to expand.
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People & Culture
In search of promised lands
Uprooted repeatedly by development projects, the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree wandered boreal Quebec for 70 years before finding a permanent home. For some, the journey continues.
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History
Celebrating 30 years of Franklin fascination
The re-release of Owen Beattie and John Geiger's Frozen in Time introduces a new generation to a captivating — and still unsolved — mystery
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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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Environment
We’re living in a new geological age
The start of the Meghalayan age 4,200 years ago brought about climatic shifts that toppled empires
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People & Culture
Toronto as Community: Fifty Years of Photographs
Toronto-based photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo chronicles Canada’s largest city over 50 years, documenting the daily lives of ordinary citizens through time
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People & Culture
Rekindling hope: Kanaka Bar’s climate evacuees
As wildfire seasons worsen, residents of British Columbia’s southern interior have been repeatedly evacuated. They may be climate evacuees, but this hasn’t stopped them finding solutions, Canadian Geographic writer David Geselbracht reports in his new book Climate Hope.
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People & Culture
Featured Fellow: Johanna Wagstaffe
The author and meteorologist discusses the need to understand how the world works and how climate change reporting has evolved throughout her career
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People & Culture
Amet*: Understanding the Beothuk
*It means “awake” in Beothuk, the language and people who once called present-day Newfoundland home for about 2,000 years. One young woman, believed to be the last living Beothuk, left a collection of maps and art that help us understand her people’s story.
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Connecting to 6,000 years of history at Wanuskewin Heritage Park
The cultural site near Saskatoon is working to connect non-Indigenous and Indigenous people to 6,000 years of the region’s First Nations heritage
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People & Culture
State of the marijuana nation
One year post-legalization, a look at Canada’s changing relationship with pot
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People & Culture
The truth about polar bears
Depending on whom you ask, the North’s sentinel species is either on the edge of extinction or an environmental success story. An in-depth look at the complicated, contradictory and controversial science behind the sound bites
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People & Culture
With old traditions and new tech, young Inuit chart their changing landscape
For generations, hunting, and the deep connection to the land it creates, has been a mainstay of Inuit culture. As the coastline changes rapidly—reshaping the marine landscape and jeopardizing the hunt—Inuit youth are charting ways to preserve the hunt, and their identity.
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People & Culture
Remembering Alex Trebek
While best known as the host of Jeopardy!, the Honorary President of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society was one of the planet's biggest champions of geographic knowledge and education
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People & Culture
Kahkiihtwaam ee-pee-kiiweehtataahk: Bringing it back home again
The story of how a critically endangered Indigenous language can be saved
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People & Culture
Renewed remembrance: Marking 70 years since the Korean War Armistice
On July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed ending the bloodshed of the Korean War — if not the war itself — but questions have since been raised surrounding the conflict’s remembrance in Canada and beyond
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People & Culture
Losing track: The importance of passenger rail corridors
What does it mean for Canada if we continue to pull up train tracks?
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People & Culture
The cowboy exclaims: The ballad of an ageing vaquero and his troubled horse, Bunny
The ultimate goal of vaquero horsemanship is to produce a “finished” horse: an exceptionally responsive animal that is a true partner to its rider
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Environment
What’s at stake in Ontario’s Ring of Fire
The James Bay Lowlands in northern Ontario contain one of the largest potential mineral reserves in Canada. Now, the region’s economy and environment stand on the brink of massive transformation.
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History
In the name of humanity: Recognizing 75 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted an aspirational document articulating the foundations for human rights and dignity, but who was the Canadian that helped make it possible?
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Environment
Canada’s dirty secret
Canada leads the developed world in per capita production of garbage. What’s behind our nation’s wasteful ways?
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Wildlife
The illegal wildlife trade is a biodiversity apocalypse
An estimated annual $175-billion business, the illegal trade in wildlife is the world’s fourth-largest criminal enterprise. It stands to radically alter the animal kingdom.
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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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Wildlife
Giving Bambi the boot
Our love of deer runs deep. But as their numbers surge and damage mounts, it may be time for a reckoning.
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Wildlife
Dead or alive: A dive into the landing ban on endangered shortfin mako sharks
Under Canadian leadership, the landing ban means more sharks will survive accidental capture — but is it enough?
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Science & Tech
Canadian rover set to land on moon within five years
The unmanned vehicle will collect imagery and data of the surface the moon
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Travel
Six years, 470 hours of film, 100 journals, 24,000 kilometres: Tracing the Trans Canada Trail
Filmmaker Dianne Whelan has become the first person to complete the Trans Canada Trail in its entirety. Here, she shares insights from her epic cross-country journey.
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Wildlife
Alberta bison celebrate a wild Mother’s Day for the first time in 140 years
The Banff National Park project seeks to reintegrate the keystone species into the natural ecosystem
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Wildlife
Infographic: Cicadas to emerge after 17 years underground
After spending the past 17 years underground, a brood of cicadas will soon emerge en masse in the northeastern United States.
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Wildlife
Plankton thought to be extinct has come back to life
It looks like a lone twig at the end of a once bushy branch on a family tree.That’s how Brock University geologist Martin Head describes his latest find of a species of…
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Commemorate Canada
Learn about defining moments in Canadian history through stories and videos / Apprenez sur les moments marquants de l’histoire du Canada à travers des histoires et des vidéos
Cunard: The official luxury cruise line of the RCGS
The official luxury cruise line of the RCGS