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1 month ago | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
Our Country: Tyler Johnston The Letterkenny star relaxes and recharges at mom’s house on Hatzic Lake, B.C. Mar 26, 2025 324 words 2 minutes (Illustration: Chelsea Peters) Expand Image My mom has a house out on Hatzic Lake in Mission, B.C., and it is just magical. It is a place I didn’t really know about growing up, even though I grew up about an hour and a bit away. My mom has lived there for maybe six years now.
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2 months ago | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
When it comes to judging a photo competition with thousands of entries, it’s most definitely a team effort. To bring you all behind the curtain, there are several rounds of prejudging that happen before the finalists make it to the final judging panel of Canadian Geographic’s photo competitions. All photos are judged blind — and each is given careful consideration by the Can Geo team, taking into account composition, technical execution, storytelling and more.
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2 months ago | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
Lightning strikes a canola field from a bruised sky. An octopus mother tenderly guards her eggs. Mountain bikes tumble through the summer air.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
Not many people have lived a life like the one biologist Karsten Heuer and filmmaker Leanne Allison have lived. From hiking 3,400 kilometres from Yellowstone National Park to Watson Lake, Yukon, to shadowing the porcupine caribou herd on their annual migration from Yukon to Alaska across the Arctic tundra, Heuer and Allison have undertaken incredible journeys to advocate for landscape-level conservation.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward |Michela Rosano |Thomas Lundy
A new study led by University of Chicago researcher Eyal Frank has found that where bat numbers drop, infant mortality in humans rises.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward |Ben Nguyen
The beams from our headlamps cast a soft red light as our footsteps crunch through the scrubby desert soil. Our eyes have been adjusting to the darkness for the past half hour, and any bright light would send us straight back to square one. Above our heads, the universe. More stars than I’ve ever seen before sprawl across the indigo darkness. Constellations cluster in the clouds of the Milky Way, which arcs shimmering through the sky like a river.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
Tofino is really special and important to me because it’s where I grew up and where my family and all my closest friends live. I love it there because it has so much nature — the most beautiful old growth forests and a rugged coastline. You’ll get incredible sunrises and sunsets over the mountains and over the ocean. It’s where I learned how to surf and where all my best memories are. Tofino makes me feel connected to the world around me. I get to go a little slower and take in every second.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward |David Wysotski
While we do know bumblebees need flowers, we don’t know much about where they nest, how far they fly to disperse or where exactly the queens overwinter. We also don’t know much about how pesticides affect bees’ movement. This lack of information, says Liczner, makes it tricky to provide specific conservation recommendations. Enter the backpacks.
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May 26, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
Les langues du territoire : Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams sur le nsnek̓wnúk̓wa7, la famille, la communauté Dans le huitième volet de la série numérique « Les langues du territoire », la professeure émérite Lil’wat d’éducation, de programmes et d’enseignement autochtones à l’Université de Victoria s’adresse au Canadian Geographic pour parler des relations communautaires, de la langue et de la responsabilité Lorna Wanosts'a7 Williams s'entretient avec Abi Hayward, rédactrice en chef adjointe de...
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May 25, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Abi Hayward
Lorna Wanosts’a7 Williams [is my name]. The way that we usually say it is that I’m Lil̓wat7úl — that’s where my family and community are — but I live currently on the lands of the Lekwungen speaking people in Victoria. On an important word in Ucwalmícwts, the Lil’wat languageWell, a word that always comes to me is nsnek̓wnúk̓wa7, because, in my language, it’s the word for family; it’s the word for friends; it’s the word for community; and it’s the word for a gathering of people like we had today.
