Exploration
Exploring beyond fear
In this excerpt from her new memoir, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, Jill Heinerth writes about learning to accept fear as a part of exploration
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Environment
Behind the Canadian Shield
To fully understand our national identity, we must consider Canada’s geology as well as its geography
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People & Culture
Speaking up for the spirit bears
A new children’s book from Kids Can Press tells the story of Vancouver native Simon Jackson’s efforts to raise global awareness of the importance of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest
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People & Culture
Living off-grid in Canada’s North
In her memoir, Voice in the Wild, journalist Laurie Sarkadi shares stories from her nearly 30 years living off-grid in the Subarctic, with wolves, bears and caribou as her neighbours
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Science & Tech
Sneak preview: Defying Limits, by astronaut Dave Williams
A new memoir that unpacks the life of one of Canada’s most accomplished astronauts, who’s also an aquanaut, doctor, CEO and cancer survivor
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Articles
Travel
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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People & Culture
Ed O’Loughlin’s winter mind
The Canadian-born author and newly-minted Fellow of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society on his Giller Prize-nominated third novel and the allure of maps
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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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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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