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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The turtles we keep as pets don’t belong in the wild Being a turtle these days is tough. With the constant threat of habitat loss, impacts from human development, and predators … It’s a daily fight ...

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, ...

Maggie Hodgson (right, in a purple skirt), is surrounded by friends and family, including her adopted brother Frank Large, at a round dance during her 80th birthday celebration in September 2024 in ...

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 ...

Indigenous archeologist Paulette Steeves shows us how an ancient world could have been more complex and more populated than we imagined Indigenous archeologist Paulette Steeves says that, based on her ...