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Growing Up Trilingual

Growing up with three languages was beneficial, but also drove home how important it is to maintain a sense of your heritage

For The Love Of Farming

From father to sons, the tradition continues

A Lesson in Life & Basketball

We teach our kids life-lessons, and if we're lucky, they return the favour.

A Family Affair

Honouring a summer tradition more than five decades in the making.

‘An Almost Unknown Country'

How artist Paul Kane chronicled Indigenous people and landscapes during an epic journey across Canada

The Ultimate Canadian Geography Quiz Photo Edition

From northerly towns to southerly fiords, from satellite snaps to soaring skylines, 25 questions to test your photographic memory

The Holy Grail Of New World Archeology

How a dedicated West Coast team unearthed the oldest archeological sites in Canada.

The Curious, Extraordinary Life Of Anne Innis Dagg

Why the Canadian woman who was first in the world to study giraffes in the wild — and is still considered one of the planet’s foremost experts on the species — is only now getting her due

State Of The Marijuana Nation

FOR A TINY but revealing snapshot of Canada’s year-old legal marijuana industry, one would do well to travel to the village of Celista on the north shore of Shuswap Lake, just north of the Trans-Canada Highway in south central British Columbia. Like much of rural B.C., the Shuswap is a spirited dreamscape of towering evergreens, mountains under snow as late as June and alpine pastures strewn with lupins and wild rose. This epic tract of the planet is spotted not just with million-dollar homes and successful livestock operations, but with tumbledown homesteads littered with wrecked refrigerators and battered half-tons. The land supports rustic survivalists and self-taught artists and ecologists, many of them pot smokers who can roll a reefer with one hand and who store their paraphernalia not in a cigar box but in a 30-litre picnic cooler, with compartments for bud shears, a weigh scale and half a dozen versions of the vaporizer and bong.

Sharon Wood

The Canadian mountain climber talks about her new book and life after summiting Mount Everest.

Library Of Life

One year after its creation, the National Biodiversity Cryobank of Canada is ready to grow its collection of animal and plant DNA

How To Explore Like A Girl

As her new book, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, comes out, world-renowned Royal Canadian Geographical Society Explorer-in-Residence Jill Heinerth reflects on what led her to a path of adventurous discovery.

Candy Palmater

The comedian reminisces about her hometown in New Brunswick’s North Shore region

Canada's Coolest School Trip 2019

From teepee building to dancing Métis jigs, students from Teslin, Yukon, experience the best of Manitoba’s Parks Canada sites.

Wrongfully Accused

Six years ago, seven health care researchers were fired by the BC government for alleged misuse of data. They’re still trying to understand what happened

Will the Real Céline Dion Please Stand Up?

I went to Las Vegas to see Céline in concert. I found her everywhere

This Is A Scream

AUTHOR’S NOTE: For ages, the dictate has been not to write honestly about suicide —  not to mention even the word, never mind methods, lest, in referencing it directly, you prompt suicidal spirals in others. But you can’t tackle the endless abyss of wanting to die on tiptoes; that just leaves you with the half-hearted interventions we’ve pretended are the best society can do. I need to be faithful to the experience. This is how I felt, and this is how I acted; this is what people in despair are driven to do. These are the people we fail in myriad ways, and this is the cost of that failure.

The Hole Truth

Close encounters with the scientist who taught the world about black holes

Scene Change

Eight years after leaving Canada behind, playwright Wajdi Mouawad is back with a shattering production

Rock And Rovers

Scientists are studying Ontario limestone to learn about extraterrestrial life

Quebec Rewrites Its History

A controversial new textbook is highly selective about the province’s past

Manson And #MeToo

New films from Quentin Tarantino and Mary Harron reflect on the Charles Manson killings— and show starkly different sides of their industry

Welcome To Climbing Camp

Camaraderie, conversation and conservation are key at the Alpine Club of Canada’s annual General Mountaineering Camp

Treasured Island

New Brunswick’s Ministers Island is being restored to its former glory

Toxin Trackers

Atmospheric Readings In The High Arctic Shed Light On How Fires Affect Air Quality And Climate

Map Quest

Exploring the amazing cartographic connections behind video games

It's Official!

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society celebrates its new headquarters with an official VIP opening

Hero. Heretic. Nation Builder.

A celebration of the real Louis Riel, Métis leader and Manitoba founder, on the 150th anniversary of the Red River Resistance and the 175th of his birth

Guardians Of The Grasslands

How conservationists and ranchers in Saskatchewan are working to slow the loss of an endangered ecosystem

Andrea McCrady

Canada’s dominion carillonneur on keeping the bells ringing during Parliament’s renovations