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 ...

*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 South Saskatchewan River is under unprecedented pressure. Now, a major irrigation project is set to expand. The South Saskatchewan River is beautiful. That’s the first thing you need to know about ...

Another reckoning is coming with climate change. How do we deal with our mental health — and ultimately find hope? I’m walking up a ridge of bedrock outside my house, talking to my brother 1,800 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Dresses hung on crosses along a roadside honour the children who died at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. It was announced in July 2021 that 215 probable graves had been found on the grounds of ...

From floods to fires, drought to coastal erosion, climate change is already having an impact on Canada's communities, landscapes and wildlife The Bow and Elbow rivers filled areas of downtown Calgary ...

The little-known story of the 1918 Spanish Flu and how we're preparing for the next great pandemic It started innocently enough, with sniffles and a cough. Then the fever pounced. Every muscle, every ...

The daughter of a hereditary Mohawk chief and an English immigrant, Johnson used her hard-won celebrity to challenge Indigenous stereotypes Pauline Johnson was Canada’s first performance artist. In ...

Lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in central Saskatchewan. (Photo: Shannon Bileski/Can Geo Photo Club) 1. As far as countries go, Canada is pretty much the coolest — literally. It vies with ...