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About Can Geo
Forest trail in Ottawa, Ontario
Can Geo staff summer adventures
What we’re reading during the COVID-19 pandemic
Introducing the newest Can Geo coworkers
Revealing the May/June 2020 Canadian Geographic cover
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Community
Survivor: The story of Phyllis Webstad and Orange Shirt Day
Excerpt from British Columbia in Flames: Stories from a Blazing Summer
10 photos of the West Coast wildfires from the Can Geo photo community
Long overdue, much welcomed: Two residential schools named National Historic Sites
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COVID-19
Seismic trackers record 50 per cent drop in noise during COVID-19
‘Absolutely catastrophic:’ Hit hard by pandemic, ecotourism needs help
Mapping Canada’s mask-mandatory businesses
How Canadian cities are adapting to COVID-19
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Education
students sitting in a circle learn about Métis culture
Featured Teacher: Chandrelle Marshall
Featured Teacher: Jennifer Leduc
Featured Teacher: Elliot Unger
Featured Teacher: Patrick Halford
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Environment & Nature
plastic bag in ocean
Plastics news: No more single-use plastics, “super enzymes” and more
Canadian ranchers protect native grasslands and species at risk
10 photos of fall from the Can Geo Instagram photo community
Excerpt from A Book of Ecological Virtues
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Events & Exhibits
Can Geo Talks: Virtual Series 2020
Can Geo Talks: Spring 2020
Can Geo Talks: Fall 2019
Can Geo Talks presents: Jill Heinerth
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Explore Podcast
Explore presents Wade Davis on the Magdelena River
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(3): Treasures of the fur trade
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(2): Blankets and moccasins
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 4(1): The Royal Charter
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Mapping
Canada's 75 biggest islands
Mapping Canada's 75 biggest islands
In their own words: an interactive map shares the stories of Sixties Scoop survivors
Exploring the new Winnipeg Food Atlas
Mapping the threat status of wild Atlantic salmon
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People & Culture
Coffee News, the tan community paper that became a Canadian curiosity
Colour the Trails
Tom Thomson — Painter of the True North
Excerpt from Slashburner: Hot Times in the British Columbia Woods
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RCGS
Remembering innovative Arctic research leader, RCGS Fellow Dr. Louis Fortier
Remembering former prime minister John Turner
Remembering internationally acclaimed researcher, RCGS Fellow Shelagh Dawn Grant
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the National Geographic Society join forces
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Science & Technology
Excerpt from Saved by Science: The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology
Cetacean seeker
Did meteorite impacts help create life on Earth and beyond?
Weather watchers encouraged to report tornadoes in Canada this summer
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The North
5 Polar Continental Shelf Program projects unlocking the mysteries of Canada’s North
Researchers find microplastics in nearly every sample taken in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
POLAR scientist shares insights on losing summer of Arctic research
Portraits of the North in isolation
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Travel & Places
Exclusive Q&A with Long Way Up's Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
The 49th parallel: Our defining line
When it comes to volcano tourism, is the reward worth the risk?
How the world came together to protect a B.C. inlet
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Wildlife
Punctuation's mark: Can we save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale?
Excerpt from Ice Walker: A Polar Bear’s Journey Through the Fragile Arctic
Photos: Bear witness
Conservationist teams up with local communities to save Earth’s largest scaled freshwater fish
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