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Winter night walks in Canmore Kananaskis

Making the most of Canadian winters with an evening adventure under a sea of stars

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People & Culture

Our Country: Elladj Baldé

The figure skater finds freedom on the wild ice of Lake Minnewanka, Alta.

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Travel

Winter charm along Calgary’s trails

Escape the hustle of city life and head for the trails to experience the best of solace and snow just minutes from Calgary’s downtown core

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Travel

A winter stay at Mount Engadine Lodge in Kananaskis Country

Tales of epic winter trails, mountain scenes, and delicious eats at this rustic Alberta getaway

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wild horses in the rocky mountain foothills

Wildlife

The politics of wild: where do Alberta’s wild horses belong?

Free-roaming horses have existed in Alberta for hundreds of years. Some say they’re a nuisance, while others believe they have their own place in the landscape. In the end, who gets to decide the horses’ fate?

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Inside the Calgary Stampede

Robin Esrock heads to Alberta to discover “The Greatest Show on Earth”

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Is it high time for Canadian cannabis tourism?

As the misunderstood plant emerges from almost a century of prohibition, tourism operators are seizing their chance to provide opportunities for the discovery and safe consumption of cannabis

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A greater sage-grouse flies above a brown prairie landscape

Wildlife

Hope grows for one of Canada’s most endangered species as greater sage-grouse are released into the wild

The prairie bird has come close to extinction in Canada, but a captive breeding and reintroduction program is helping to halt its decline

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Travel

Five places to savour a cocktail in Calgary

The birthplace of the Caesar is establishing itself as a surprising hub for craft cocktails

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RV’ing to Alberta’s Waterton Lakes National Park

Caving in the Canadian Rockies

The Essential Itinerary: Canmore and Kananaskis, Alberta

9 reasons why you don’t need skis to enjoy Banff

Saskatchewan

Environment

Bathtubs of the plains

Tiny hotspots of biodiversity, prairie potholes can ease the effects of climate heating — if we stop draining them

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Two wild boar piglets suckle their mother, who turns casually toward the camera with a

Wildlife

Can we beat back the boar?

Wild pigs have been wreaking havoc as they spread across Canada. Is their expansion inevitable, or can we put the brakes on this “ecological trainwreck?”

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7 cool places to learn about dinosaurs in Canada

If you’ve got a dinosaur-obsessed child — or a keen interest in paleontology yourself — add these fascinating museums and experiences to your travel bucket list

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4 of the best spas in Canada to warm up in this winter

Things are heating up at these four scenic spa retreats

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Travel

4 of the best spots for stargazing in Western Canada

Astronomer and author Alan Dyer shares his favourite places in Alberta and Saskatchewan to escape the city lights and take in the wonders of the night sky

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Banff

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Secret season in Jasper: 3 days of ice walking, ice skating and other winter adventures

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Banff Gondola launches immersive “Nightrise” experience

A crowd of tourist swarm on a lakeside beach in Banff National Park

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Smother Nature: The struggle to protect Banff National Park

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A laid-back mountain lodge with great glacier views

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The Banff zodiac

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The best larch hikes in Alberta

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Environment

Splendour and Awfulness

Stephen J. Pyne, the author of Awful Splendour: A fire history of Canada, says we are well beyond learning to live with fire — we now have to live with a fire age

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Places

The making of memories in Jasper National Park

Banff-based travel writer Meghan J. Ward reflects on her love of Jasper and the impact of the devastating wildfires

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Places

Magic Hours: Alberta’s small-town movie theatres in crisis

Documentary filmmaker Levi Holwell explores the world of struggling movie houses and the people sometimes letting go of these vital community spaces

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A fresh perspective: how changing the angle reveals a new face of the Canadian Rockies

Photographer Paul Zizka shares his process creating Aloft: Canadian Rockies Aerial Photography and the stories behind the shots

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Wildlife

Wildlife Wednesday: how sea otters are helping save marshes, one crab dinner at a time

Plus: blue and fin whales are mating ‘with porpoise,’ B.C. Court ruling finds an environment minister’s statement is ‘for the birds,’ hungry crustaceans chow down on live jellyfish, and why pigs wearing clothes is not the cute story you think it is

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Travel

A knight to remember: Medieval glamping in Alberta

Under a sea of stars

Photos: Exploring majestic hidden glacier caves in the Canadian Rockies

Barons of the Prairies

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People & Culture

Our Country: Chantal Petitclerc

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The 1903 Frank Slide: In the shadow of the mountain

People & Culture

Crossing time: Alberta’s last river ferries

Mapping

Digital map shows Alberta wildfires in near real-time

Places

Castleguard Cave recognized as a globally significant Key Biodiversity Area

Travel

Assiniboine Lodge: North America’s first backcountry ski lodge

People & Culture

Profil de courage : L’homme canadien qui a sauvé son frère après une accident d’hélicoptère

Madden Sarver a secouru son frère grièvement blessé après leur hélicoptère s’est écrasé dans une région montagneuse éloignée près de Grande Cache, Alberta le 30 janvier 2009.

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The Canadian man who saved his brother after a helicopter crash

Madden Sarver rescued his severely injured brother after their helicopter crashed in a remote mountainous area near Grande Cache, Alta. on Jan. 30, 2009.

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People & Culture

How South Sudanese child soldiers found a new life in Alberta

Episode 39

Former child soldiers who fought in Sudan during Africa’s bloodiest civil war eventually found refuge in Canada — many of them in Brooks, Alta. Anthropologist, author and journalist Carol Berger shares their stories.

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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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Alberta ministers and leaders stand together holding copies of the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada

People & Culture

Alberta government to distribute Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada to schools province-wide

The Alberta government has announced a plan to provide every junior and high school with a copy of the atlas

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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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Travel

7 of the most romantic escapes in Canada

Whether your idea of romance is roses and chocolate or cross-country skiing 11 kilometres through a UNESCO Heritage Park, this list has you covered

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Travel

8 amazing places to visit for epic views of the Canadian Rockies

You don’t have to spend days hiking up and down steep slopes to make the most of your mountain experience. Check out our picks for the most scenic and accessible spots in the Canadian Rockies.

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Travel

Canoeing in Alberta: A mystic trip down Milk River

A Southern Alberta paddling destination lined with fascinating geological formations and First Nations rock art

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Wildlife

A grizzly bear lies dead on the side of the road

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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Wildlife

Swift foxes return to Alberta

A photo posted to Facebook by an amateur wildlife photographer led to the discovery of a new swift fox den in southern Alberta for the first time in nearly a century

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Wildlife

Why won’t wolverines cross the road?

In shedding light on wolverines’ aversion to roads, new research suggests the key to their conservation in Alberta

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Wildlife

How citizen scientists solved a migration mystery

No one knew golden eagles in the Yukon and Alaska migrated along the Rockies’ front ranges, until an avid birder noticed something strange

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Barry Kaye holds a bison skull at his ranch near Wainwright, Alta.

Wildlife

Bodo Bison

A local rancher gives a tour of his bison herd

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A hundred years of rodeo

Capturing the spirit of the Calgary Stampede on the eve of its centennial

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Places

Photos: Inside the Royal Alberta Museum’s mammoth move

The Royal Alberta Museum has officially opened its downtown Edmonton building, capping a complex multi-year move that’s captured in this behind-the-scenes photo essay

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Boreal forest landscape near Fort McMurray, Alta.

Environment

Alberta creates new provincial park, adding to world’s largest stretch of protected boreal forest

The newly created Birch River Wildland Park joins a network of parks preserving an area of boreal wilderness twice the size of Vancouver Island

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A petroglyph believed to symbolize the circle of life (Photo: Callum Snape)

Travel

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park takes visitors back in time

First Nations history shines through petroglyphs and pictographs

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Environment

How artificial intelligence could help predict major forest fires

Researchers at the University of Alberta have trained a "self-organizing map" to identify high-risk days for fires

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An illustration of a handheld device that would use polymers to test drinking water quality

Science & Tech

University of Alberta researcher developing simpler way to test water quality

Michael Serpe's fieldwork is based in rural India, but he says Canadian First Nations communities could benefit from realtime water quality data as well