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‘A visceral way of connecting with your culture’: How Isaruit Inuit Arts brings country food to urban Inuit in Ottawa

For Ottawa’s urban Inuit, weekly drop-in meals at Isaruit Inuit Arts are a taste of home in the south 

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King and Queen visit Canada House in London to mark historic anniversary

Their Majesties explored a giant floor map of Canada created by Canadian Geographic Education in partnership with Parks Canada, one week before the King is set to open the new Parliamentary session in Ottawa

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Echoes in the ice: Inuit knowledge and the changing Arctic

For centuries, Inuit hunters in Canada’s north have co-existed with Arctic wildlife. Sharing their generational knowledge with visitors to the region is one way they are helping protect it.

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Sacred returns: the repatriation of Indigenous heritage

The uncertain future of thousands of artifacts as the Hudson’s Bay Company winds down

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Godspell 1972: the Toronto musical that gave us Martin Short, Andrea Martin and more

Episode 20

The true story of how a Toronto church basement became the launchpad for a generation of comedy legends

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Nunavut’s hunt for healthy food 

Across Nunavut, food insecurity continues to affect daily life. For many Inuit, the answer lies not in the grocery store, but on the land.

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Manitoba’s historic Dawson Trail with Pierrette Sherwood and Mimi Lamontagne

Episode 93

Highlighting the new interpretive trail featuring a series of permanent art exhibits and 15 wayfinding markers showcasing traditional place names and the Dawson Trail’s historical legacy

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Our Green Heart – The Soul and Science of Forests with Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Episode 92

The renowned botanist, biochemist and best-selling author on the wisdom of trees and her new book about the science of forests and the role trees can play in reversing the climate crisis

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Sugarcane: the documentary of St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School with Julian Brave NoiseCat

Episode 91

Directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s new film Sugarcane follows a very personal investigation into abuse and missing children at St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School that sparks a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve

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Paddling the Peel Watershed with Bobbi Rose Koe

Episode 88

With a passion for learning and a love for teaching, the Indigenous northerner talks about her experience guiding canoe trips and paddling through lands that her family has known for generations

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A solo canoe journey across Canada with Mike Ranta

Episode 87

The canoeing legend discusses his Canada-wide paddling adventures, connection with First Nations communities and a record-breaking feat 

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Trend meets tradition: the Hasidim of Outremont, Montreal

Episode 19

How a deeply religious community maintains its practices while testing the boundaries between faith and modern life

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Laval St. Germain’s journey to Afghanistan’s highest mountain

Episode 95

The renowned Canadian adventurer immerses readers in a thought-provoking discussion about the current state of Afghanistan and his experience on Mt. Noshaq

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Our Country: Emmanuel Jal 

The South Sudanese-Canadian artist, actor, DJ and political activist says it’s the people that make Toronto so special

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Our Country: Elladj Baldé

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

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ᓄᓇᕗᒐ : ᐳᔾᔫᑦ ᑯᓱᒐᖅ

ᐃᓪᓗᕋᓛᖅ ᖃᓂᒋᔭᖓᓃᑦᑐᖅ ᑲᖏᕐᖠᓂᖅ, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ, ᓄᓇᐅᔪᖅ ᓴᐃᓕᓂᕐᒧᑦ — ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓚᒌᓄᑦ ᑲᑎᓐᓂᐅᔪᓄᑦ

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Notre Pays : Pujjuut Kusugak

Une cabane près de Rankin Inlet, au Nunavut, est un lieu de paix – et de réunions familiales

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Our Country: Justin Trudeau on his love of canoeing

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sings the praises of paddling

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Behind the scenes of our 2024 Canadian Photos of the Year competition: Can Geo’s staff picks

An ode to the photos that made us laugh, reflect or just say “wow”

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Love affair with Lake O’Hara: On the trail of the Group of Seven’s J.E.H. MacDonald

A sweeping new exhibit at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies celebrates MacDonald’s “O’Hara Era” through paintings, diaries, letters and artifacts

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How Black matriarchs stitched quilting into the fabric of art history

Dating back hundreds of years, quilting was practiced by Black Nova Scotian matriarchs as a way of telling stories and continuing oral history

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Announcing the winners of the 2024 Canadian Photos of the Year competition

Canadian Geographic honours 14 photographers who captured some of the best shots of 2024

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Thirty years of Neskantaga First Nation’s boil water advisory

The trauma of an entire generation without access to safe drinking water has left its mark

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5 female chefs in B.C. forging the way for future generations

The culinary world has historically been a male-dominated space, but these women are breaking down gender barriers and reshaping Canada’s dining culture

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Le Centre du patrimoine inuit deviendra bientôt une réalité

William Beveridge, de la Fiducie du patrimoine inuit, et l’aîné Sakiasie Sowdlooapik parlent de l’importance de ramener les trésors inuits au Nunavut

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Remembering Michael de Pencier, the serial entrepreneur who transformed Canadian publishing

De Pencier, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and former co-owner of Canadian Geographic, died Oct. 6 at the age of 89 and is remembered as a “perpetual windmill of ideas”

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A life well lived: Karsten Heuer and Leanne Allison

As the conservation advocate reaches the chosen end of his life, Heuer and his partner in storytelling (and life) are recognized for their life’s work

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Life after death: the real Lucy Maud Montgomery

Celebrating the woman behind Anne of Green Gables as we approach the literary icon’s 150th birthday 

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Team Canada celebrates another successful year of the International Geography Olympiad

Ontario students bring back three medals and a collection of memories that will last a lifetime

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Last of the lookouts

In an age of advancing technologies, the art and science of watching for wildfires from lookouts is fading away. But fire lookout Bart Vanderlinde watches on.

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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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Book Excerpt: From a Square to a Circle: Haida Basketry 

Haida weaver Delores Churchill shares the stories of her life, her culture and the importance of passing cultural knowledge in this part memoir, part how-to guide

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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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Creatures of the night: a Montreal all-nighter 

It’s all Cirque, no Soleil as Canadian author Heather O’Neill and her daughter Arizona take in the Nuit Blanche festival and extol the virtues of an endless night

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Treaty 3: A community copy’s 150-year journey through ancestral hands

It’s been a century and a half since Treaty 3 was signed. Anishinaabe Elder Sherry Copenace, whose great-grandfather was a keeper of an original community copy of the treaty, discusses its history and continued importance.

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Traité no 3 : Le voyage d’une copie communautaire à travers les mains de ses ancêtres, pendant 150 ans

Cela fit un siècle et demi que le Traité no 3 a été signé. L’aînée anishinaabe Sherry Copenace, dont l’arrière-grand-père était signataire du traité, discute de son histoire et de son importance continue.

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Jenni Gibbons on her role in Canada’s return to the moon

The Canadian astronaut discusses her journey as an astronaut and next steps in space exploration

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Unearthing Indigenous roots with Coleen Rajotee

The Cree television host and gardener celebrates season three of Vitality Gardening, sharing her biggest lessons, giant discoveries, and larger-than-life tomatoes

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Roasting resilience: Nadine Umutoni’s coffee mission

A journey of coffee, culture, and compassion from Rwanda to Vancouver  

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Parler avec les mains : se réapproprier la langue des signes des Autochtones des Plaines

La langue des signes des Autochtones des Plaines a été utilisée pendant de nombreuses générations pour permettre aux peuples autochtones de communiquer entre eux malgré les idiomes et la distance qui les séparaient. Le temps est venu de se la réapproprier.

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Hand talk: Reclaiming Plains Indian Sign Language

Plains Indian Sign Language was used by generations of Indigenous Peoples to communicate across languages and landscapes. Now, it’s being reclaimed. 

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New museum exhibition celebrates women war artists 

As high-profile wars rage in Europe and the Middle East, the Canadian War Museum tackles how women perceive war. Outside the Lines: Women Artists at War opens May 24. 

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Gone Viking with Bill Arnott

Episode 83

Bestselling author Bill Arnott discusses his work as a writer tracing the voyages of Vikings around the world 

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Anne of Green Gables – a Japanese sensation?

Episode 6

Hear the surprising story of how this young freckle-faced PEI protagonist took by storm on another island half a world away

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