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A partnership between Miawpukek Horizon, Canadian Geographic, the Marine Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland and ...
This challenge is about taking action to improve your home’s energy efficiency – from quick, low-cost fixes to major upgrades. It’s also about understanding how your household action can spur bigger ...
Transportation is one of the biggest contributors to household carbon emissions and can be a source of stress, disconnection, and pollution in our communities. The good news? When we rethink how we ...
The history behind the Dundas name change and how Canadians are reckoning with place name changes across the country — from streets to provinces ...
*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 ...
Already gaining steam before the pandemic, interest in urban farming — and hunger for hyper-local food — has soared. A look at three Canadian takes on the urban farming phenomenon The early days of ...
How ‘maas ol, the spirit bear, connects us to the last glacial maximum of the Pacific Northwest ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most international borders adhere to some sort of logic. They follow coastlines or rivers, watersheds or natural barriers. They make sense. Not so the 49th parallel. The border from the Lake of the ...
Innu astrophysicist Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, who stars in the new documentary North Star, speaks stars, science and stories with Can Geo.