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 ...

As Canada embarks on a process of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, the Métis are still without territory to call their own Historian Arthur J. Ray wrote* that many of Canada’s Indigenous people ...

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, ...

In British Columbia’s Bella Coola Valley, the next generation of Nuxalk culture-keepers and Guardian Watchmen is establishing a new paradigm for Indigenous rights On a May morning in British ...

First Canyon in Nahanni National Park Reserve, Northwest Territories. Cave entrances can be seen high in the cliffs. The incredible karst of the park reserve is one feature which led to its ...

Arctic permafrost is thawing. What does that mean for the North — and the rest of us? A geological time bomb is ticking beneath the Arctic ice — one that could be triggered by rapidly rising ...

A spirit bear walks the intertidal zone of Princess Royal Island, occasionally stopping to flip rocks in search of food underneath. I was about five when I first first encountered ‘maas ol (white bear ...

When it comes to home insulation, R-value is a crucial factor to consider. Although I knew it was a quantifiable way to measure insulation, I don’t know if I could ever explain what it was. R-value ...

*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 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 ...

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 ...

Footsteps crunch quietly on twigs, as Laurie Rousseau-Nepton makes her careful way through the forests surrounding Ashuapmushuan, Que. She pauses, she listens, she looks. It was her father who taught ...