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The Alex Fraser Bridge: A critical link in British Columbia’s highway system
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Excerpt from Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World
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Excerpt from The Greatest Comeback: How Team Canada fought back, took the Summit Series, and reinvented hockey
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Wildlife photographer spends five years following a wild wolf pack in Canada’s Kootenay National Park
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Excerpt from A Season on Vancouver Island
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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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Travel
Excerpt from Gone Viking II: Beyond Boundaries
An excerpt from Bill Arnott’s follow up to best selling travelogue Gone Viking: A Travel Saga
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- 5 minutes
Science & Tech
Telling mining’s story, beyond “sourdoughs and gold pans”
An exclusive excerpt from a new book, Mining Country, which promises to document in detail for the first time an industry critical to Canada’s past, present and future
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People & Culture
Northern exposure: Tomson Highway recalls a childhood encounter with the sub-Arctic wind
Born into a nomadic, caribou-hunting Cree family in northern Manitoba, acclaimed playwright and novelist Tomson Highway pays tribute to the magical world of his childhood in Permanent Astonishment
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Excerpt from Gone Viking: A Travel Saga
Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings!
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The landscapes that inspired “Anne of Green Gables”
In giving Anne Shirley her own deep love of and connection to Prince Edward Island, Lucy Maud Montgomery reveals the way place can fire the imagination
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- 4 minutes
Exploration
The incredible true story of Canada’s Kon-Tiki
The Raftsmen tells the remarkable (and once nearly forgotten) story of how four French expats living in Canada became the first to cross the North Atlantic by raft
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- 5 minutes
Wildlife
Walking away from the wild side
In a new book, Max Foran denounces Canada's failures in protecting its wildlife from human exploitation
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- 8 minutes
Wildlife
New book explores the secret emotional lives of animals
In his new book The Inner Life of Animals, Peter Wohlleben offers a compassionate glimpse into the surprisingly complex emotional lives of creatures both wild and domestic
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Environment
On the trail of the “Kings of the Yukon”
Adam Weymouth's first book, Kings of the Yukon, sees him paddle the length of the Yukon River to trace the route of migrating chinook salmon
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