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Singing Back the Buffalo with Tasha Hubbard

Episode 103

The award-winning filmmaker explores her new documentary and her work examining buffalo restoration, Indigenous knowledge and cultural renewal

  • 46 minutes

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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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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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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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Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre brings history home

Inuit Heritage Trust’s William Beveridge and Elder Sakiasie Sowdlooapik explain the importance of bringing Inuit artifacts home to Nunavut

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ᐊᖑᓇᓱᓐᓂᖅ ᓂᕿᑦᑎᐊᕙᓐᓂᑦ

ᓄᓇᕗᓕᒫᒥᑦ, ᓂᕿᓄᑦ ᐊᑦᑕᓇᐃᖅᓯᒪᖏᓐᓂᖅ ᐊᑦᑐᐃᓂᖃᖅᑎᑏᓐᓇᖅᑐᖅ ᖃᐅᑕᒫᑦ ᐃᓅᓯᕐᒥᑦ. ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᓐᓄᑦ, ᐊᒥᓱᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᓐᓄᑦ, ᑭᐅᔾᔪᑎᖓ ᓂᕿᓄᑦ ᓂᐅᕕᕐᕕᒥᐅᖏᑦᑐᖅ, ᑭᓯᐊᓂᓕ ᓄᓇᖔᖅᑐᓂᑦ

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People & Culture

Sécurité alimentaire : À la chasse aux aliments sains

Partout au Nunavut, l’insécurité alimentaire continue d’affecter la vie quotidienne. Pour de nombreux Inuits, la réponse ne se trouve pas à l’épicerie, mais sur le territoire

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Joni Mitchell honoured with RCGS gold medal

Under towering red cedars, the ceremony celebrating the iconic Canadian singer was a special occasion for those in attendance on Canada Day

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True, strong and free: On the freedom of being trans and Canadian

A personal story exploring what it really means to be trans and live freely in Canada 

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Trailblazing the sky: Mia Noblet’s art of extending highline possibilities

High above Squamish, this Canadian woman is walking her way into the highlining record books

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Featured Fellow: Mensun Bound

Shipwreck hunter Mensun Bound on the ice, the legend and the legacy of Shackleton’s Endurance

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North star: Reflections on Canada and being Canadian

Space, land, winter — these are the overwhelming realities of Canada, and they have shaped who we are

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Our Country: Tantoo Cardinal on belonging to the land

The Cree and Métis actress on coming to terms with the transformation 0f her hometown

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I interviewed The Beaverton’s Luke Gordon Field; he Replied with headlines

Episode 106

(Not true! This is a fun conversation!)

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Our Country: Tyler Johnston

The Letterkenny star relaxes and recharges at mom’s house on Hatzic Lake, B.C.

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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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What does being Canadian mean to you? 40 famous Canadians sound off

PBS interview program Canada Files has spent six years asking notable Canadians that question. This is what they had to say. 

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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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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

  • 43 minutes

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Storm chasing with Jaclyn Whittal

Episode 91

For more than a decade, meteorologist Jaclyn Whittal has been reporting on extreme weather across North America — learn about how she got into the field and what it takes to be a storm chaser

  • 41 minutes

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Was the Group of Seven really that great?

Episode 9

Award-winning NPR producer Scott Gurian takes us on an Ontario road trip to uncover the artists’ lesser-known story

  • 36 minutes
maple trees in a forest are tapped with spiles and buckets to collect sap

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On tap: celebrating the tradition of maple syrup in Canada

Each spring, as the freeze-thaw cycle takes hold of parts of the country, the sap in red and sugar maple trees starts to flow, marking the start of the sugar bush season

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ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐱᖁᑎᖏᓐᓂ ᓇᐅᔅᓯᑐᖅᑏᑦ ᖃᓂᓪᓕᓂᖅᓴᐅᔪᑦ ᐱᓪᓚᕿᐅᔪᒧᑦ

ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐱᖁᑎᖏᓐᓂ ᓇᐅᔅᓯᑐᖅᑎᒃᑯᑦ ᐅᐃᓕᐊ ᐱᐊᕗᕆᔅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓐᓇᑐᖃᖅ ᓴᑭᐊᓯ ᓴᐅᓪᓗᐊᐱᒃ ᐱᒻᒪᕆᐅᓂᖓᓄᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐱᖁᑎᖏᑦ ᐊᖏᕋᐅᔾᔭᐅᓂᖏᓐᓄᑦ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒧᑦ

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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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Haudenosaunee activist Dawn Martin-Hill on decolonization and water

The educator and activist on decolonization, social justice and why water is at the heart of everything

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On edge: an uncertain future for Canadian-U.S. border cities

United by geography yet split by a border, these cities grapple with new and potential changes as the trade war between Canada and the U.S. escalates

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How Canadians are growing resiliency in the face of U.S. threats

As food costs rise as a result of the U.S.-imposed trade war, some Canadians are pushing back by growing their own produce 

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Maggie Hodgson stands in the middle of a circle of people dancing at her 80th birthday party

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Maggie Hodgson: Healing spirits worldwide

A reflection on the life and work of Maggie Hodgson, a champion of improving Indigenous wellbeing in Canada and beyond

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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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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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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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The birth of a language speaker

In the first part of Canadian Geographic’s Discovery Language series, one Kanyen’kehá:ka family shares what it takes to raise a language speaker

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Introducing: Discovery Language

A new Canadian Geographic series in print and online will take readers on a linguistic journey across the lands and waters we now call Canada

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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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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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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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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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the milkway arcs in a blue and orange sky above a gently-lit abandoned building

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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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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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Tanya Talaga on her new book, The Knowing

The journalist and bestselling author shares a personal retelling of Canadian history 

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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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