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Nunavut

Mapping

Découvrir Nuna, notre terre

Alors qu’on célébrera les 25 ans d’existence du Nunavut, les Inuits demandent de pouvoir décider de leur avenir.

  • 676 words
  • 3 minutes

Mapping

ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᓂᖓ ᓄᓇ

ᓄᓇᕗᑦ 25-ᕈᖅᑎᓪᓗᒍ, ᑕᐃᓯᔪᑦ ᐃᓄᐃᑦ ᐃᒻᒥᓂ ᐊᐅᓚᔪᓐᓇᓂᕐᒧᑦ ᓯᕗᓂᔅᓴᒥ ᓄᓇᕗᒻᒥ

  • 323 words
  • 2 minutes

Mapping

Knowing Nuna

As the territory turns 25, a call for an Inuit self-determined future in Nunavut

  • 592 words
  • 3 minutes

People & Culture

Passing the Mic, Part 3 — The students of Netsilik School, Taloyoak, Nunavut

Episode 77

Inuit youth from Canada’s most northerly community share their stories using their own voices and words

  • 18 minutes

People & Culture

Passing the Mic, Part 2 — Taloyoak throat singers and hunters

Episode 76

In the second of three episodes from Taloyoak, Nunavut, podcast host David McGuffin speaks with young throat singers Joyce Ashevak and Martha Neeveacheak, as well as their classmate, hunter Roger Oleekatalik

  • 27 minutes

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Wildlife Wednesday: bald eagles are nesting in Toronto for the first time in history

Plus: sturgeon-a-surgin’ in the Great Lakes, caribou -a-boomin’ on Baffin Island, orca for days in the open ocean, and “horrific” animal poison banned in Canada

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  • 4 minutes

Travel

January/February 2024

People & Culture

Head for the hills: skiing in the Canadian Prairies

As unexpected as they are unexpectedly popular: welcome to Canada’s prairie ski destinations 

  • 747 words
  • 3 minutes

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If Prince Harry can conquer the skeleton, you can too

Robin Esrock heads to Whistler to tick the world’s fastest sliding track off his Canadian bucket list with a special appearance from Olympic champion Jon Montgomery

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  • 7 minutes

People & Culture

Aki Kikinomakaywin: “learning on the land”

At the Aki Kikinomakaywin culture camp, Anishinaabe youth weave worldviews together, connecting with their culture and learning to see themselves in the Western sciences

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  • 5 minutes

People & Culture

Canadian Geographic’s Live Net Zero families take on their biggest challenge yet

The Home Improvement Challenge ran concurrently around all other themed challenges and had the potential to have the greatest effect on household emissions

  • 1755 words
  • 8 minutes

Travel

Snow, stars and schnitzels in the British Columbia interior

After a challenging ski season as a result of warmer weather, winter is alive and well at SilverStar Mountain Resort, along with a few surprises

  • 1444 words
  • 6 minutes

People & Culture

Inuit-developed app is helping Indigenous communities harness data to make their own decisions

Named after the Inuktitut word for “sea ice”, the mobile app SIKU is helping hunters, trappers and other land users in the North share environmental information

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  • 5 minutes

Wildlife

Documenting the herring run

Conservation photographer Kali Wexler marvels at the annual event in the coastal waters around Vancouver Island — and explains why it is so critical to the ecosystem

  • 823 words
  • 4 minutes

People & Culture

She who holds the canoe: a ceremonial pilgrimage along the Peacemaker’s Trail

Cayuga Elder Norma Jacobs follows the historic path of the Messenger of Peace — an exploration and discovery of the traditional territories, her culture and herself

  • 1822 words
  • 8 minutes

Exploration

Nominations open for Shackleton Medal for the Protection of the Polar Regions

Now in its third year, the prize recognizes individuals who are not only exploring Earth’s polar regions, but striving to protect them 

  • 500 words
  • 2 minutes

Wildlife

Death on the ocean floor: a great white shark mystery

Encountering the carcass of one of the ocean’s top predators and how studying its remains can help researchers save the living

  • 1547 words
  • 7 minutes

People & Culture

Robert Bateman on life, art and mice

At 94, Canada’s venerable naturalist painter reflects on a long career making art and keeping it real

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  • 5 minutes

People & Culture

Laws braided into belts: three Haudenosaunee Wampum Belts you should know

Cayuga Sub-Chief and Faithkeeper Jock Hill on how Wampum Belts came to be — and the knowledge they contain within their strands

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  • 9 minutes

Travel

Chasing auroras in Yellowknife

With solar activity expected to peak in 2024, there’s never been a better time to see the northern lights. Here’s how to do it in the “aurora capital of North America.”

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  • 7 minutes

Wildlife

Wildlife Wednesday: 14,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk reveals 1,000-km Yukon-Alaska migration

Plus: The silver-haired bat that sings, the whale that lives in human-like clans, the industry that could breathe life into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the new regulations that aim to protect Canada’s most valuable fish

  • 1082 words
  • 5 minutes

People & Culture

Our Country: Chantal Petitclerc

The Quebec senator and former Paralympian on the joy of skiing in Kananaskis, Alta.

  • 351 words
  • 2 minutes

Wildlife

Guardians of the glacial past

How ‘maas ol, the spirit bear, connects us to the last glacial maximum of the Pacific Northwest 

  • 2242 words
  • 9 minutes

Wildlife

The naturalist and the wonderful, lovable, very bold jay

Canada jays thrive in the cold. The life’s work of one biologist gives us clues as to how they’ll fare in a hotter world. 

  • 3599 words
  • 15 minutes

Science & Tech

The light stuff: Canada’s aurora borealis

Shiny auroras will fly farther south over the next 18 months

  • 379 words
  • 2 minutes
A fog bank moved in over an icy landscape cover in shallow pools of water.

Environment

Last bastion of ice

What the collapse of the Milne ice shelf and the loss of a rare Arctic ecosystem might teach us about a changing planet

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  • 12 minutes

Environment

Toronto high school students are shoring up urban biodiversity, one acorn at a time

The student-led Ravine Stewardship Team at Toronto French School is providing local acorns to neighbours and nurseries to increase the city’s native tree canopy

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  • 4 minutes

People & Culture

Layers of meaning: Francine McCarthy on the Anthropocene

The geology professor is a key mover and shaker in what is possibly the biggest geological announcement of our generation, with Ontario’s tiny Crawford Lake being chosen as the global ground zero Earth’s most recent geological time period

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  • 13 minutes

People & Culture

Un rappel à notre mémoire : souligner le 70e anniversaire de l’armistice de la Guerre de Corée

Le 27 juillet 1953, un armistice a été signé, mettant fin aux effusions de sang de la guerre de Corée – mais pas à la guerre elle-même. Depuis, des questions ont été soulevées quant à la commémoration du conflit au Canada et ailleurs.

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Travel

Hiking on the Gaspé Peninsula

A five-night, four-day adventure through Québec’s Gaspé Peninsula, full of mountain peaks, sweeping landscapes and close moose encounters 

  • 1902 words
  • 8 minutes

Exploration

The Northwest Passage: In the wake of Larsen and the St. Roch

Episode 74

Veteran sailor and polar explorer Ken Burton discusses the story of RCMP’s Henry Larsen and his journey through the Arctic

  • 45 minutes

People & Culture

A Canadian Geographic holiday tale: Christmas at the Devil’s Portage

Episode 73

Podcast host David McGuffin reads the story of Arctic explorer Charles Camsell, recalling a memorable Christmas along the trail to the Klondike in the 19th century 

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