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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 

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People & Culture

Our Country: Nick Kypreos

The former NHL-er and hockey analyst recalls Sunday road trips to Niagara Falls, Ont.

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Places

Think fast: Canada Post’s newest distribution warehouse

The new Albert Jackson Processing Centre has opened in Scarborough, Ont. and honours Toronto’s first Black letter carrier 

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People & Culture

Losing track: The importance of passenger rail corridors

What does it mean for Canada if we continue to pull up train tracks? 

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History

Celebrating 50 years of the Little NHL

After five decades, the Little Native Hockey League tournament continues to thrive as the largest Indigenous youth tournament in Ontario 

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Travel

Wildlife

Wildlife

Bug Adventure: The six superpowers of bugs

The newest exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Nature invites visitors to experience the world from a bug’s perspective through immersive, sensory experiences

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People & Culture

Laval St. Germain: Mountains, oceans and the Arctic

Episode 78

The RCGS Fellow and extreme adventurer talks about his epic journeys across the globe from the middle of the Atlantic Ocean to the top of Mount Everest

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Environment

Environment

Excerpt from Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

Nature writer Jessica J. Lee combines memoir, history and scientific research in her newest book, exploring how plants and people come to belong 

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Environment

How four Manitoba First Nations are protecting one of the world’s remaining wild watersheds

An agreement with the government says nations can move forward with feasibility study for new Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area in the Seal River watershed

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Environment

Planting a network of mini forests across Canada

Six new mini forests were planted in cities across Canada in 2023 as part of a national pilot project to combat biodiversity loss and create new green spaces in urban areas — and the work is just beginning

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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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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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November/December 2023

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Wildlife

Guardians of the glacial past

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

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Travel

Getaways for less! Stretch your winter travel budget with FlightHub

Our top picks for winter travel, all for less than $1,000 return airfare

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People & Culture

Malaysian Chef Alex Chen makes Vancouver’s Michelin List

The Food Network Canada judge discusses how he found his passion for food, the backstory of his restaurant Boulevard and the key to his continued success as one of the country’s top chefs

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Mapping

Mapping water flow in the Peace-Athabasca Delta 

While most of the delta lies within the federally protected Wood Buffalo National Park, activity outside the park could threaten its future

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Travel

8 essential food and wine itineraries in Italy’s Piedmont region

Discover why Piedmont in northwestern Italy is a haven for gourmands

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Travel

The irony of “last chance” travel in the age of climate change

Seeing iconic landscapes before they fade away may be accelerating their demise. Can we square the circle on making these trips sustainable?

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Science & Tech

The light stuff: Canada’s aurora borealis

Shiny auroras will fly farther south over the next 18 months

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Travel

Negril, Jamaica: The “trip” you need to take

Microdosing psilocybin, plus three other ways to relax and unwind by the crystal-clear waters of western Jamaica

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History

Au nom de l’humanité : 75 ans depuis la proclamation de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme

Le 10 décembre 1948, les Nations unies adoptaient un document prometteur énonçant les fondements des droits de la personne et de la dignité humaine. Mais qui était le Canadien qui a contribué à la réalisation de ce document ?

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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. 

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Exploration

500 Days in the Wild: Walking the Trans Canada Trail with Dianne Whelan

Episode 72

The award-winning Canadian filmmaker, photographer, author and multimedia artist discusses her epic six-year journey across the world’s longest hiking trail 

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Environment

First-of-its-kind project is helping Canadian cities transition to net zero

Launched by the University of Waterloo, The Municipal Net-Zero Action Research Partnership (N-ZAP) is developing resources to support municipalities in their climate action plans

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Wildlife

Wildlife Wednesday: can the mighty muskox survive its greatest test yet?

Plus: a sea lion and an octopus fight to the death, new luminescence discovered in sea cucumbers, volcanic winters may have caused dinosaur extinction, and the white bison gene is revealed.

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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

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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

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Wildlife

Wildlife Wednesday: How a pandemic heli-ski shutdown expanded the range of B.C. caribou

Plus: orca don’t love metal music, orangutans get new home at Toronto Zoo, Dominica protects ‘carbon heroes’ of the sea, and crickets boost acoustic efficiency in surprising ways

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People & Culture

8 awesome things that happened at the 2023 RCGS Geographica Dinner — plus photos!

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s 94th annual Geographica Dinner was a celebration of the power of geography, exploration and the accomplishments of the past year

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Baffin Island and Greenland: Circling the Midnight Sun

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Scotland, The Faroe Islands, & Iceland: North Atlantic Saga with John Geiger

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People & Culture

Aviqtuuq: The world’s first Inuit-protected zone and conserved area with Jimmy Ullikatalik

Episode 71

The Inuit-run conservation zone is already being patrolled by locals and will provide important denning and winter habitat for Arctic mammals like polar bears and muskox

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People & Culture

Renewed Remembrance: Marking 70 years since the Korean War Armistice

On July 27, 1953, an armistice was signed ending the bloodshed of the Korean War — if not the war itself — but questions have since been raised surrounding the conflict’s remembrance in Canada and beyond

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