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The many benefits of the minuscule but mighty Miyawaki forests
Pioneered by a Japanese botanist, compact Miyawaki forests are beginning to replace backyard lawns on tiny plots around Canada
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All about bees: Common misconceptions, helping pollinators and how to actually ‘save the bees’
A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat Gardens for Native Pollinators is an inspiring and practical guide that will help gardeners create habitats full of life and learn about what is needed to take action to support and protect pollinators
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‘Frick, I Love Nature’: CBC Gem’s newest comedy/nature series you need to see to believe
Hosted by Gordie Lucius, this Edmonton-made series takes viewers on a grand adventure to understand all of nature’s most interesting (and questionable) gifts
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Citizen to scientist: Six apps that can help you make a difference
Whether you’re monitoring monarchs or searching for snakes, these mobile apps will allow you to become a scientist right from your backyard
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Timber poaching: The secretive crime decimating North America’s forests
Timber poaching has become “a problem in every national forest,” with an estimated $1 billion worth of wood poached yearly in North America
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The Essential Itinerary: Prague, Czech Republic
A three-day guide for where to stay, what to see and things to do in and around the Czech capital city of Prague, including day trips to the Giant Mountains and Bohemian Paradise
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Travel with Dr. Jean: Reevaluating luggage and COVID-19
It’s time to change your mind about your luggage and how to prevent (and prepare) for COVID-19
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Travel with Dr. Jean: Do I really need travel insurance?
Travel insurance is a must for anyone in this time of shifting public health restrictions, but especially if you’re over 65
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Outdoor adventure awaits Canadians in Virginia Beach
Sun, surf and fun: Our roundup of the best beach, outdoor and foodie experiences in Virginia Beach
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Cartographie des visites royales de la reine Elizabeth II au Canada
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Mapping Queen Elizabeth II’s royal tours of Canada
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Bison uncover centuries-old petroglyphs at Saskatchewan’s Wanuskewin Heritage Park
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Chief Perry Bellegarde on the treaty relationship
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Living on the edge: Becoming Toronto
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Skiing or snowshoeing? Enjoy the best of both worlds at this unique backcountry lodge
At British Columbia’s Purcell Mountain Lodge, guests can partake in skiing and snowshoeing and then end the day with a well-deserved three-course dinner
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Barons of the Prairies
A history of Alberta’s quirky Burger Baron restaurant chain
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10 things you absolutely must do in New Brunswick – according to my two-year-old
Discovering boats, buoys and deep-fried clams on an epic family road trip in the 2022 Chevrolet Traverse RS
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How to spend a weekend in Ottawa
A handy Bucket Listed tip sheet of what to see and do in the nation’s capital
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Bird or UFO? A summer road trip birdwatching and visiting a UFO launch pad in Alberta
Join travel writer Carol Patterson as she explores Cold Lake Provincial Park and the town of St. Paul, home of Canada’s first UFO landing pad
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Interview: Kimberly Murray on honour and justice for missing Indigenous children
The recently-appointed special interlocutor discusses the respectful treatment of unmarked graves and burial sites associated with former Indian residential schools
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Découverte John U. Bacon
Le journaliste parle de la Série du siècle de 1972 et de son impact sur la culture du hockey et sur l’évolution du jeu.
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Interview with John U. Bacon on the 1972 Summit Series and its impact on hockey culture
The best-selling author and journalist discusses the reinvention of the game and the pressure to win
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Interview with Melissa Lem on making nature more accessible and becoming a climate activist
The family physician advocates for outdoor time with the PaRx nature prescription program
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Our Country: Heather O’Neill on the McGill University campus
The award-winning author recalls her past and recent adventures around the McGill University campus
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An extraordinary presence: Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth II loved Canada. As proof, look no further than what she has bequeathed us: the possibility to keep evolving our system of government.
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Remembering Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada
The Queen passed away Sept. 8 at the age of 96 after an unprecedented 70 years on the throne. She is remembered as a highly visible and engaged monarch who visited Canada more than any other Commonwealth nation.
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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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The project working to identify Indigenous people in Canada’s archives
Launched in 2002, Project Naming invites Canadians to engage in identifying Indigenous people from Library and Archives Canada to help tell the story behind every photograph
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Canadian Decoration for Bravery
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Profile in courage: The Canadian man who dove 12 metres into the sea to try and save a friend
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Profil de courage : L’homme canadien qui a plongé de 12 mètres dans la mer pour tenter de sauver un ami
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Profil de courage : L’homme canadien qui a sauvé son frère après une accident d’hélicoptère
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Profile in courage: The Canadian man who saved his brother after a helicopter crash
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Profile de courage : Le Canadien qui a sauvé une femme des crocs d’un ours polaire
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Profile de courage : La Garde côtière canadienne, qui a sauvé deux pêcheurs en détresse durant une tempête hivernale
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Global map depicts mammal movement between protected areas
Connecting protected areas allows wildlife to roam, and is a vital part of the conservation conversation
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A multination effort to restore the Great Lakes: A watershed moment
Fifty years after the landmark Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, what’s changed?
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Cod moratorium: How Newfoundland’s cod industry disappeared overnight
A bountiful cod industry is pictured on a 1920s map. Decades later, a moratorium would change everything.
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Marine protected areas in Canada may not be as protected as we think
Marine protected areas are widely considered to be an effective tool for ocean conservation. But are they living up to their full potential?
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Live Net Zero: Getting creative with commuting
From biking to “big epic walk days,” the families found fun and practical ways to cut down on their household vehicle emissions in their first challenge
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Thinking about Thanksgiving: How the Live Net Zero families modified their holiday habits
From cutting back on travel to preparing vegetarian meals, the Live Net Zero families made a concerted effort to reduce the environmental footprint of their Thanksgiving celebrations
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Why we’re challenging Canadian families to “live net zero”
Live Net Zero will follow five households from across the country this fall as they compete in bi-weekly challenges to lower their carbon emissions and spending on energy
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Inuit in Canada, U.S. seek greater involvement in climate change decision-making
Inuit food security and self-governance in a rapidly warming Arctic are at the centre of a new policy paper issued by the Inuit Circumpolar Council
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Native Shoes: The recyclable shoe for “Generation Do”
Vancouver-based Native Shoes is exploring innovative ways to reduce its footprint
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Electric Quebec: A carbon-neutral family roadtrip
Road tripping through Quebec while piloting an electric vehicle for the first time
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Two new Canadian books reveal the how and why of family travel
Despite the many challenges of family vacations, these two books explore why travelling with kids is a priceless experience that can create memories that will last a lifetime
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Ottawa’s Unofficial Museum campaign unveils 76 new museums in one day
In a city where culture is everything, why not turn everything into a museum?
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Behind the Scenes! Canadian Grand Prix returns to Montreal
Packed with excitement and adrenaline, the international spring event brought fans and drivers together after two years without celebration
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Do look up: The best places to stargaze in Canada this summer
Dark Sky Preserves are the more affordable face of modern astro-tourism.
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Guelph’s famous son: The legacy of John McCrae
For the 150th anniversary of his birth, we reflect on the life of the Canadian soldier and poet best known for writing the poem “In Flanders Fields”
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Wildlife Wednesday: what’s happening to Nechako River’s giant sturgeon?
Plus: polar bears lacking fat, lady beetles invading Quebec, rockfish conservation takes a hit and floating islands could clean feedlot runoff
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Wildlife Wednesday: how chaos theory can explain narwhals’ weird behaviour
Plus: size matters for female bighorn sheep, the hidden migration of North American dragonflies, helping trees move north and the great white who drew itself
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How Gimli, Manitoba, became the world’s biggest Icelandic community outside Iceland
Islendingadagurinn, the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba, celebrated its 133rd year in Gimli, Manitoba while recognizing Icelandic culture and heritage
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Wildlife Wednesday: The “wonderful net” protecting whales and dolphins from deep-sea brain damage
Plus: wolverine genome is sequenced for first time, Arctic fish species is found to produce antifreeze, dinosaur fossil discovered showing some skin and a pesky Canadian insect is feeling the heat
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Wildlife Wednesday: blue shark sightings boom in the Bay of Fundy
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Wildlife Wednesday: The land-to-sea evolution of the whale eye
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The accidentals: Mapping the bird “vagrants” that found themselves far from home
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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition
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Wildlife Wednesday: new technique produces much needed female wood bison calves at Toronto Zoo
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Wildlife photographer spends five years following a wild wolf pack in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
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Tuktoyaktuk community ice house
Carved deep into the permafrost, the 19-room underground freezer preserves food and tradition in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
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A discovery of colossal proportions: uncovering the ichthyosaur
Almost 30 years ago, paleontologist Elizabeth “Betsy” Nicholls discovered the ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like marine lizard that existed millions of years ago
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The Abbot Pass hut, an iconic mountain refuge, is dismantled — due to climate change
Built by Swiss guides high on the Continental Divide, a storied refuge will be dismantled just months ahead of its 100th birthday, a casualty of our warming planet
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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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Wildlife Wednesday: Baby bobcat rescued in Nova Scotia cold, wet, but alive
Plus: Mapping North America’s sea ducks, collecting Yukon’s mosquitos, celebrating Newfoundland’s pine marten success and a rebound for Antarctica’s fin whales
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Inuit-led project tells the story of Inuit connections with caribou
After a total hunting ban was issued on caribou in 2013, Inuit across Labrador are sharing their experience and thoughts about caribou-related change
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Wildlife Wednesday: Burgeoning hope for Alberta’s burrowing owls
Plus: skydiving salamanders, Canada’s returning monarch, orca blubber insights, and the woodpecker-wasp conservation dream team.
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Collision course: Making Canada’s cities more bird-friendly
How one grassroots organization in Toronto makes our glass landscapes less deadly for birds.
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History
Queen Elizabeth II’s geographical connections to Canada
From noble mountains to local elementary schools, the Queen’s reign and the bonds she’s forged with Canadians are reflected across the map of Canada
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10 things you didn’t know about moths
An insect of many talents, here’s why moths are one of the world’s most underrated animals
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5 things to do in Niagara Falls, Canada (that aren’t just chasing waterfalls)
Discover a city and region with fascinating geography, a unique place in Canadian history, and world-class wining and dining
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Crossing Ellesmere Island with Ray Zahab
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The extreme explorer shares why his attempted winter traverse of the High Arctic island was one of his most challenging — and special — expeditions yet
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Wildlife Wednesday: Perfectly preserved baby mammoth found in the Yukon
Plus: Colossal tree discovery in B.C., hope for Quebec’s musical frogs, what we can learn from ancient West Coast fish bones and Newfoundland’s Buddy Wasisname immortalized as ancient fossil!
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Wildlife Wednesday: SOS! Save our spirit bears!
Plus: muscle re-growing beetles, hitchhiking black widows, root farming pocket gophers and a 40th chick for the world’s oldest common loon
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Bonding with belugas and more summer adventures in Churchill, Manitoba
Encounter birds, blooms, bears and belugas on the shores of Hudson Bay
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Preserving the world’s most memorable cocktail
When it comes to the Sourtoe Cocktail, only the drinker is shaken and stirred
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Is Canada on the cusp of a tourism enlightenment?
What tourism’s shift to sustainability, reconciliation and regeneration means for the rest of us
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Bucket Listed: Canada’s grand railway hotels
Rival railway companies competed to attract visitors with hotels that recall Scottish castles, Bavarian fairy-tales, and the opulent French chateaux
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Adam Shoalts on his latest expedition following the birds to Canada’s North
Professional explorer and best-selling author, Adam Shoalts, discusses his three-month solo canoe journey travelling bird migration routes from southern Canada to the Arctic
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Wildlife Wednesday: what came first, the polar bear or the grizzly?
Plus, more news from the North: new polar bear population brings hope, Nunavik sentinel discovers new butterfly species, N.W.T. gets a new National Wildlife Area and Canada’s Arctic provides a blueprint for life on Mars.
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Canadian Geographic Photographer-in-Residence Michelle Valberg appointed to Order of Canada
Valberg was recognized for her photography and philanthropy raising awareness of Canada’s North
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Whales in the news! Are icebreakers ruining narwhals’ summer getaway?
Are icebreakers ruining narwhals’ summer getaway? Plus, Montreal’s whale-ward minkes, Canada’s first North Atlantic right whale visit of the year, a new K pod baby, and humpback and orca continue to clash
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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
Designed for adventure: Apple reveals new smartwatch
The science behind the new Apple Watch Ultra, created for explorers
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