Bred in 1916 by Isabella Preston, Canada’s first female horticulturist, the Creelman lily sits among other lost and found ...

Sky-piercing mountains stretch out across the landscape, their peaks crusted with ice and snow. The air is cool and fresh. And best of all, there’s an almost zen-like quiet out here. This is a typical ...

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 ...

It’s a sultry June evening in La Malbaie, a quaint town on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec’s Charlevoix region. On Richelieu Street, I’m several stops into Overture des Terrasses, ...

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 ...

The western world’s growth imperative is the wrong playbook. In 1972, The Limits to Growth used early computer models to show if worldwide economic growth continued without regard for environmental ...

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 ...

As interest in Ontario’s mineral-rich Ring of Fire region grows, caribou face threats on multiple fronts. New research could help chart a path to their conservation. For caribou in the far north ...

When Duncan McCue first approached the Penelakut First Nation’s leadership about creating a podcast about the notorious Kuper Island Indian Residential School on Penelakut Island in B.C.’s Southern ...

When Amanda Savoie shows people photos and videos from her dives in the Arctic Ocean off Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, they are invariably astonished by what they’re seeing. “The water in Cambridge Bay is ...

The massive ichthyosaur fossil is now housed at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alta. (Photo courtesy Royal Tyrrell Museum) On a summer day in 1989, paleontologist Don Brinkman sat waiting for ...