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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nickel Tailings #31 (detail) forms part of Edward Burtynsky’s Mines and Tailings, a series devoted to exploring the environmental aftermath of metal mining and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Editor Aaron Kylie gets a taste of classic Ukrainian fare at Baba's Homestyle Perogies “Perogies and Riders football are Saskatchewan,” says Rob Engel, who, along with his wife Chelsey and their ...

In this exclusive excerpt from Kenn Harper’s new book, the Arctic historian explores tales of Inuit and Christian beliefs and how these came to coexist — and sometimes clash — in the 19th and 20th ...