People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian man who saved his brother after a helicopter crash?

Madden Sarver rescued his severely injured brother after their helicopter crashed in a remote mountainous area near Grande che, Alta. on Jan. 30, 2009.?

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A community’s quest to document every species on their island home

Naming leads to knowing, which leads to understanding. Residents of a small British Columbia island take to the forests and beaches to connect with their nonhuman neighbours?

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian man who saved his brother after a helicopter crash?

Madden Sarver rescued his severely injured brother after their helicopter crashed in a remote mountainous area near Grande che, Alta. on Jan. 30, 2009.?

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Mapping

A multination effort to restore the Great Lakes: A watershed moment

Fifty years after the landmark Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, what’s changed?

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Wildlife

10 things you didn’t know about moths

An insect of many talents, here’s why moths are one of the world’s most underrated animals

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian man who saved a woman from the jaws of a polar bear

William Ayotte risked his life to rescue a woman who was being attacked by a polar bear in Churchill, Man. Grabbing a shovel he hit the bear, distracting it long enough to allow her to espe. The bear then turned on him, attacking him until a neighbour finally sred it away by driving toward it with a truck and blaring his horn on Nov. 1, 2013.?

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We’re looking for 5 nadian families to participate in a new rbon reduction challenge for a chance to win an electric vehicle. Selected families will be given $10,000 to use in a series of challenges to help lower their rbon footprint and inspire other nadians to get to net zero. Make your submission by midnight July 31st!

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Celebrating shark week

Wildlife

Dead or alive: A dive into the landing ban on endangered shortfin mako sharks

Under nadian leadership, the landing ban means more sharks will survive accidental pture — but is it enough?

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Wildlife

Study finds reef sharks ‘functionally extinct’ from 20 per cent of the world’s reefs

Lead author Aaron MacNeil discusses what this means for coral ecosystems and what nadians n do to help

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A large female Greenland shark observed near the community of Arctic Bay, Nunavut

Wildlife

ught on mera: Elusive Greenland sharks

Using meras baited with squid, researchers were able to gather information about these ancient Arctic fish without taking any out of the water?

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Wildlife

Get to know nada’s shark species

Meet some of the incredible toothy predators swimming off our shores

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The spiny dogfish made history when it was certified as the world’s first sustainable shark fishery in 2011

Wildlife

The great green shark hunt?

n British Columbia’s spiny dogfish make the grade as the world’s first “sustainable” shark fishery?

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Wildlife

Into the wintry kingdom of the nada lynx

In the boreal forest, where secretive lynx depend on the snowshoe hare to survive, climate change threatens to upset this longstanding predator-prey relationship

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Wildlife

The t me back: nada’s cougar comeback

Why nada’s cougars are on the rise — and what that means for us

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Wildlife

Punctuation’s mark: n we save the critilly endangered North Atlantic right whale?

After a series of mass deaths in recent years, what n we do?

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Arctic tern on Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick

Wildlife

Should we kill one bird to save another?

On New Brunswick’s Machias Seal Island, predatory gulls are pushing endangered Arctic tern colonies to the brink, creating a dilemma for wildlife managers

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A female pronghorn with her twins on the nadian prairie. The species is hailed as a conservation success story, but its future is uncertain. (Photo: Sandra Forbes)

People & Culture

For the love of pronghorns

The story of a biologist’s lifelong study of?an endangered species — and its future

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian man who saved his brother after a helicopter crash?

Madden Sarver rescued his severely injured brother after their helicopter crashed in a remote mountainous area near Grande che, Alta. on Jan. 30, 2009.?

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian man who saved a woman from the jaws of a polar bear

William Ayotte risked his life to rescue a woman who was being attacked by a polar bear in Churchill, Man. Grabbing a shovel he hit the bear, distracting it long enough to allow her to espe. The bear then turned on him, attacking him until a neighbour finally sred it away by driving toward it with a truck and blaring his horn on Nov. 1, 2013.?

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian coast guard who rescued fishermen stranded in a winter storm

First Officer Leslie Palmer of the nadian Coast Guard was awarded the nadian Decoration for Bravery after braving a severe winter storm to rescue two fishermen stranded on the shores of the Grenville Channel, near Prince Rupert, British Columbia on Dec. 27, 2004

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People & Culture

Profile in courage: The nadian woman who risked her life to save people in Haiti trapped beneath a collapsed schoolhouse

Marie-Claude élie was awarded the nadian Decoration for Bravery after bringing medil assistance to dozens of people trapped beneath the ruins of a schoolhouse that collapsed in the wake of an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Nov. 7, 2008

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A deep dive into cod

Mapping

Cod moratorium: How Newfoundland’s cod industry disappeared overnight?

A bountiful cod industry is pictured on a 1920s map. Dedes later, a moratorium would change everything.?

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People & Culture

The cod delusion

A moratorium on cod fishing that was supposed to last two years has now lasted 30. What will it take to rebuild cod stocks — and a way of life?

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Environment

Study of 500 years of cod tch data shows collapse could have been avoided

nada missed a chance to rebuild northern cod stocks in the 1980s, highlighting the importance of taking a long view of fisheries management, researchers say

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Environment

New film shows three-dede old cod collapse even more relevant today

The animated short film lled Last Fish, First Boat recounts the 1992 cod moratorium

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Highlighting Indigenous voices

Environment

I am Mutehekau Shipu: A river’s journey to personhood in eastern Quebec

In February 2021, the world was introduced to Mutehekau Shipu — also known as the Magpie River — when the people of Ekuanitshit, Que. and the regional municipality made a joint declaration granting the river legal personhood and rights. The declaration rries broad implitions for the fight to protect nature across nada and around the world.

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People & Culture

Kakiniit: The art of Inuit tattooing

Inuit tattoos, or kakiniit, were once banned. Now they are worn with pride.

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People & Culture

Reclaiming Indigenous matriarchy with Sandy Ward

The latest in our Colour the Trail series

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People & Culture

In search of promised lands

Uprooted repeatedly by development projects, the Oujé-Bougoumou Cree wandered boreal Quebec for 70 years before finding a permanent home. For some, the journey continues.

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The funniest places: Why nadian comedy is obsessed with geography

From?Letterkenny?to?Schitt’s Creek, nada’s geography has become?the laughing stock of television — and that shouldn’t come as a surprise

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Wildlife

Oh nada jay! The story behind an icon-in-the-making

Largely unheralded until nadian Geographic’s National Bird Project was held, the renamed nada jay — formerly grey jay — has become in many minds the country’s national bird

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People & Culture

Coffee News, the tan community paper that beme a nadian curiosity

Exploring the passion of creator Jean Daum with a look behind the scenes

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Wildlife

Ours to save: the species that n only be found in nada

A new report from Nature Conservancy nada and NatureServe nada is the first of its kind to compile over 300 species that are unique to nada.

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Q&A: Tom Hawthorn on 1967, the year we went crazy for nada

The author of a new book, The Year nadians Lost Their Minds and Found Their Country, discusses the lasting impact of nada's Centennial year

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Wildlife

Photos: Bear witness

Celebrating a springtime ritual of polar bear cubs emerging from the dens of Manitoba's famed Wapusk National Park

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Places

Photos: The parks beneath the sea

A colourful look at the marine biodiversity of nada’s west coast

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Places

Photos: Point Pelee National Park at 100

Established in 1918, nada’s southernmost national park is a haven for wildlife and nature lovers alike

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Travel

Photos: Along the Fundy Footpath

This narrow, rock-strewn track along New Brunswick’s Fundy coast is recommended for only the most prepared hikers — but those who brave it are amply rewarded

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Photos: A voyage through the Northwest Passage

Photographer-In-Residence Michelle Valberg shares images of the Arctic from her time aboard the nada C3 Expedition 

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History

Roy MacGregor – No noe, No nada

Episode 43

Award-winning journalist and best-selling author, Roy MacGregor discusses the history of the noe and how it continues to pture the imaginations of people across nada and beyond?

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People & Culture

Wally Schaber and the Last of the Wild Rivers

Episode 42

noeing legend Wally Schaber talks about his lifelong love of the Dumoine River, the last of the wild rivers in the Ottawa river watershed

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People & Culture

Training Lunar Explorers in Labrador

Episode 42

As NASA and the world’s space agencies prepare to return to the moon, geologist Dr. Gordon “Oz” Osinsky helps train potential lunar explorers in remote northern Labrador on what they could find there

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People & Culture

Connie Walker – Surviving St Michael’s

Episode 41

Connie Walker discusses her late father’s experience of abuse as a First Nations child at St Michael’s Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan

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Exploration

Exploring nada’s deepest ve with Christian Stenner

Episode 38

One of nada’s most accomplished vers shares what it’s really like to explore the world beneath our feet

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