The song of a male red-winged blackbird takes on a visible form as it stakes out its territory on a cold spring morning. (Photo: Stanley Bysshe) Our planet has a soundtrack. There are the birds, of ...

The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces In some ways, there aren’t many streets like Toronto’s ...

Has there ever been a national symbol more loathed or misunderstood? Has there ever been a more important time for the beaver to flourish? At the turn of the 19th century, many people thought Canada’s ...

Over the last few weeks I’ve been sharing a selection of my favourite stats and feats from my new book Canadian Geographic Biggest and Best of Canada: 1000 Facts & Figures. If you enjoy trivia, ...

*It means “awake” in Beothuk, the language and people who once called present-day Newfoundland home for about 2,000 years. One young woman, believed to be the last living Beothuk, left a collection of ...

The last megathrust earthquake to strike Canada was in 1700, and the clock is ticking. How we’re preparing for the impact. Kate Moran sleeps with a pair of shoes and a flashlight by her bed in ...

Sailing up a craggy rock-walled fiord in northern Labrador. Watching humpback whales breach in the salty fresh air of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Walking with polar bears on the coast of Hudson Bay.

Arctic hares have a keen sense of smell which makes it easy for them to locate food beneath the snow. (Photo: Cameron Boyes/Can Geo Photo Club) Highly adapted to living in the cold, the Arctic hare ...

Master carpenter Gordon Macdonald on restoring an iconic B.C. bridge, the value of heritage infrastructure, and why he's set his sights on the Antarctic The historic Kinsol Trestle in the Cowichan ...

Niigaan Sinclair, author and associate professor in the University of Manitoba's department of native studies, on why the gray jay is important to the Anishinaabe people. Gwiingwiishi has lived with ...

Maps have long played a critical role in video games, whether as the main user interface, a reference guide, or both. As games become more sophisticated, so too does the cartography that underpins ...

A fog bank moves in over the Milne ice shelf. On a late July morning in 2020, as the world cycled through a revolving state of lockdowns and pandemic waves , Adrienne White, an ice analyst at the ...