About Can Geo
What we’re reading during the COVID-19 pandemic
Introducing the newest Can Geo coworkers
Revealing the May/June 2020 Canadian Geographic cover
Revealing Canadian Geographic’s November/December 2019 cover
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Canada 150
Clyde River, Nunavut
Video of the Week: A visual celebration of Canada
Photos: A voyage through the Northwest Passage
Video of the Week: Thompson, Man., howls its way into the record books
Manitoba farmer creates intricate Canada 150 corn maze
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Charting Change
Insights on artificial intelligence in the developing world
Reducing e-waste recycling risks in Ghana
Combating gender-based violence in Colombia
The math behind China’s fight against HIV
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Commemorate Canada
Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
Celebrating 100 years of the Group of Seven
The untold story of the Hudson’s Bay Company
Remembering Canada’s first Olympic hockey gold
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Community
Heartwarming tweets showcase dedication of Canada Post
Photo competition: What does home mean to you?
Fighting floods and fires while a pandemic rages on
Announcing the winners of the 2019 Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year Competition
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Contests
Help us choose the July/August 2020 Canadian Geographic cover!
Help us choose the May/June 2020 Canadian Geographic cover!
Help us choose the cover for Ultimate Canadian Instagram Photos Vol. 4
Announcing the winners of our 34th Annual Photo Competition
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COVID-19
Five conservation experts weigh in on the future for wildlife post-COVID-19
How Canada’s zoos are adapting to COVID-19 realities
Conservation efforts mostly halted during COVID-19 pandemic
Opinion: Nature didn’t drop this bomb. We dropped it on nature
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Education
Quebec students teach their school about recycling and composting
Announcing the winners of Canada’s Coolest School Trip 2020
Featured Teacher: Claudette Phillips
Featured Teacher: Michelle Parrish
Can Geo Education launches new Online Classroom
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Energy
PLAT-I tidal energy platform in Grand Passage, May 2019
Testing the future of tidal energy in Nova Scotia
Canadian teams win big at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas
Q&A with a team captain heading to the Shell Eco-marathon Americas
Alternative fuel sources get put to the test at Shell Eco-marathon Americas
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Environment & Nature
Maritime ringlet - a Canadian endemic found in only a few populations around the Baie des Chaleurs and Gaspesie.
Thinking big to conserve small but important species
Canadian Museum of Nature recruits citizen scientists to record data on Arctic plants
Canadian seahorse expert wins leading animal conservation prize
Gardening expert Mark Cullen answers your questions
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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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Exploration
Mount Saint Helens viewed from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (C Stenner Photo)
What Canada can learn from the eruption of Mount St. Helens
Vulnerable Sprague’s pipit spotted on Roberta Bondar avian migration expedition
Smaller companies helping shoot for the moon in new Canadian Space Agency push
Canada’s 90 Greatest Explorers: Innovation
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Explore Podcast
Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall by Frances Anne Hopkins
Explore presents HBC *Bonus episode* - Sir George Simpson
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 2: Early explorers
Explore presents the Hudson’s Bay Company - Part 1: Waskaganish
Explore: A Canadian Geographic Podcast presents David Saint-Jacques
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Gear Reviews
An Arctic explorer’s favourite pants
Five reasons we are excited for the new Apple Watch Series 5
Why your next vacation will probably be #ShotoniPhone
Gear Review: Justin Barbour puts a MEC life jacket to the ultimate test
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History
Throwback Thursday: The 1919 Stanley Cup final
Adventurer, turncoat, cannibal: the remarkable story of Pierre-Esprit Radisson
Flight of the Highlanders: The Making of Canada
Four flags that almost became Canada’s national flag
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Kids
Animal Facts: Great blue heron
Animal Facts: Pronghorn
Animal Facts: Beaver
Animal Facts: Moose
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Map archive
Chronicling “an almost unknown country”
The map that guided Canada’s D-Day clash
Confederation conflict
Canada’s first cold war
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Mapping
The New York Times COVID-19 map
Mapping COVID-19: How maps make us feel
Mapping Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope
Mapping COVID-19 cases in Canada per capita
What are maps really saying about COVID-19 in Canada?
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National & Provincial Parks
Dramatic cliffs in Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve
Four things to know about Thaidene Nëné, Canada’s newest national park reserve
Guardians of the grasslands
A sneak peek at Quebec’s newest provincial park
Photos: The parks beneath the sea
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Ocean Bridge
The view from Sleeping Giant Provincial Park on the North Shore of Lake Superior. (Photo: Connor Garrod)
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Connor Garrod
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Kayoung Heo
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Talen Rimmer
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Jordan Bertagnolli
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People & Culture
Gina Rae La Cerva wild meat trail DRC
Reclaiming our relationship with wild foods
How the RCMP uphold the law on the sea
Welcome to Flat Earth 101*
Interview: Princess Margriet of the Netherlands on her country’s enduring bond with Canada
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RCGS
Remembering Selma Barkham, who revealed the history of Basque whaling in Canada
An important message from the Governor General
Featured Fellow: Josée Kurtz
Statement on COVID-19 from RCGS CEO John Geiger
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Science & Technology
Gatineau, Que. tornado Sept. 21, 2018
Weather watchers encouraged to report tornadoes in Canada this summer
Analyzing ancient ecosystems using dinosaur teeth
Scientists find fragment of ancient continent in northern Canada
Returning calcium to lakes and oceans, one seashell at a time
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The Franklin Expedition
Franklin expedition epaulettes
Artifacts retrieved from Erebus wreck reveal snapshot of life on doomed ship
The imagined letters of Lady Jane Franklin
“The Terror” recap: Episode 8
“The Terror” recap: Episode 7
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The North
Shene Catholique Valpy and her daughter Sahᾴí̜ʔᾳ.
Portraits of the North in isolation
Indigenous, Inuit concerned about health systems, lost knowledge with COVID-19
RCGS Fellow Wayne Pollard wins prestigious award
Shamans, Spirits, and Faith in the Inuit North
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The Polar Blog
PEARL, North, Arctic, wildfire, spectrometer
Tracking wildfire impacts at the top of the world
The Canadian High Arctic Research Station comes online
The groundbreaking program that helped make Canada an Arctic science heavyweight
Unearthing clues to the mystery of the great Pleistocene extinction in Yukon
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The Terror
He's bruised and battered, but is Captain Francis Crozier (played by Jared Harris) beyond all hope in the tenth and final episode of The Terror? (Photo: Aidan Monaghan/AMC)
“The Terror” recap: Episode 10 – Season Finale
Five questions about “The Terror”
“The Terror” recap: Episode 9
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Travel & Places
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
Searching for Sasquatch, finding ourselves
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Wildlife
Canadian researchers uncover surprises through fish DNA analysis
Study shows birds build nests based on experiences in adolescence, not birth
Study shows wild and hatchery trout not mixing in Nova Scotia rivers
New research shows how climate change could affect alpine butterflies
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