Alexandra Pope
Editor-in-Chief at Canadian Geographic
Editor-in-Chief, @CanGeo + @CanGeo_Travel. Mama. Watcher of clouds. Pitches/ideas: [email protected]
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4 weeks ago |
canadiangeographic.ca | Alexandra Pope
Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett Huson) is worried. From his home in Winnipeg, Huson, a research associate with the Prairie Climate Centre, has watched central and western Canada’s wildfire season roar to an early and extreme start. Nearly 200,000 hectares have burned so far this year in Manitoba alone — seven times the province’s 25-year average.
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1 month ago |
canadiangeographic.ca | Alexandra Pope
I can still hear the barking with my ears underwater. It’s April, and the waters of the Gulf of California are cold and turbid, churned by the seasonal windstorms that rake this narrow inlet of the Pacific Ocean between mainland Mexico and the Baja California peninsula. I’m too late to witness the region’s most iconic winter visitors: blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, which migrate to these highly productive waters each year to calve and feed.
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2 months ago |
canadiangeographic.ca | Alexandra Pope
Planting trees alone won’t stop global warming, and nature-based climate solutions are not a licence to keep emitting. That’s the underlying message of a paper published last fall in Nature by a multinational group of climate scientists, including Andrew Weaver, a professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria and former leader of the B.C. Green Party.
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Mar 20, 2025 |
canadiangeographic.ca | Alexandra Pope
I reached a parenting milestone this winter: my son’s first March Break since starting kindergarten this past fall. Huddled on our couch at home in Ottawa in the middle of snowbound and frigid January, my husband Jason and I researched sun destinations for a much-needed family getaway. Punta Cana emerged as a frontrunner. Visions of ocean waves, bottomless margaritas and on-resort babysitting danced in our heads.
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Feb 11, 2025 |
canadiangeographic.ca | Alexandra Pope
On the same day that Stephen Harper joined four other living former Prime Ministers in urging Canadians to rally around our national flag in the face of threats and insults from U.S. President Donald Trump, he also took to the stage at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society to launch his new book, Flags of Canada.
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