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
War on the water: Charting Canada’s critical role in the passage of ships during the Second World War
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter
Manitoba celebrates its 150th anniversary
Celebrating 100 years of the Group of Seven
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Community
10 facts about Elections Canada on its 100th anniversary
Heartwarming tweets showcase dedication of Canada Post
Photo competition: What does home mean to you?
Fighting floods and fires while a pandemic rages on
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COVID-19
Cyclist prepares to cross bridge
How Canadian cities are adapting to COVID-19
Epidemiologist’s book on pandemics takes an interdisciplinary look at the spread of diseases
Five conservation experts weigh in on the future for wildlife post-COVID-19
How Canada’s zoos are adapting to COVID-19 realities
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Education
Manitoba teacher on a hike near her hometown
Featured Teacher: Louise Roberts
Hearts in the Ice: Biodiversity and our oceans
Burlington 9th grader takes top spot in 25th Annual Can Geo Challenge
Introducing the 2020 Can Geo Challenge national finalists
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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
Zhelevo oak tree Toronto
“If this tree could talk:” The fight to save Zhelevo, Toronto’s most iconic red oak
Saving the peatlands: Water loss in northern peatlands can accelerate global warming, scientists say
Harnessing the power of nature to fight climate change
From plastic trash to treasured art: Five artists invite us to rethink our relationship with plastic
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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
Items donated to HBC Collection by Julian Camsell
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
Explore presents HBC *Bonus episode* - Life at Fort Simpson
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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: Wolf
Animal Facts: Snowy owl
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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
map with arrows
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
Mapping COVID-19: How maps make us feel
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National & Provincial Parks
Great Slave Lake
Thaidene Nëné: Land of the ancestors
The Mingan Archipelago: A land shaped by time
National parks beginning to reopen across the country
Four things to know about Thaidene Nëné, Canada’s newest national park reserve
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Ocean Bridge
Clare with starfish on beach
Q&A: Ottawa’s Clare Stone on her journey to becoming an ocean conservation leader
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Connor Garrod
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Kayoung Heo
Ocean Bridge Diaries: Talen Rimmer
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People & Culture
Summer camps are cancelled due to COVID-19, but getting kids out in nature still important, advocates say
Five newly digitized Indigenous archival records
Growing food security in First Nations communities
Tom Longboat, Indigenous self-determination and discrimination in sport
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RCGS
Alex Trebek illustrated by Robert Carter
A special message from Alex Trebek
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the National Geographic Society join forces
RCGS, Roots team up to create non-medical face masks
How the British Trans-Arctic Expedition made the first crossing of the Arctic Ocean
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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
Tiny plastic particles on a fingertip
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
Indigenous, Inuit concerned about health systems, lost knowledge with COVID-19
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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
Red fox napping on car
Foxes are self-domesticating in the U.K, so why not Canada?
How a new birdsong “went viral” across Canada
Blurring the edges: A novel form of camouflage discovered with glass frogs
The strange way scientists are trying to save snakes in southwestern Ontario
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