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Jan 13, 2025 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Sara Johnson
Winter night walks in Canmore Kananaskis, Alta. Making the most of Canadian winters with an evening adventure under a sea of stars Jan 13, 2025 741 words 3 minutes (Photo: Alberta Tourism/Jaime Vedres) Expand Image Other than the crunch of our snowshoes, the night is silent.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Sara Johnson
The future of travel is female and Peru’s Alpaca Expeditions recently embraced the trend with the launch in June 2024 of its first women-only trek to Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes. The tour, a heady combination of daunting hiking and warm comradery, sees an all-female team of guides, cooks and porters showcase Peru’s celebrated cuisine and strong cultural traditions through a female lens.
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May 22, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Sara Johnson |Abi Hayward |Anabella Klann Harrington
WildlifePlus: mercury rising in the North Atlantic, borers hitting Vancouver, killer whales diving on a single breath, and falcons feeling the effect of banned chemicals Snow in May! The Toronto Zoo welcomed two new snow leopard cubs as three-year-old Jita gave birth overnight on May 13. The cubs, both healthy, came after a 97-day pregnancy and a few hours of labour.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Thomas Lundy |Sara Johnson |Madigan Cotterill |Kate Playfair
WildlifePlus: sturgeon-a-surgin' in the Great Lakes, caribou -a-boomin' on Baffin Island, orca for days in the open ocean, and "horrific" animal poison banned in Canada Birders and environmentalists have been flying high since mid March when they confirmed a pair of bald eagles are nesting in Toronto for the first time in documented history.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Sara Johnson
TravelMount Engadine Lodge is the perfect base for a slew of spectacular mountain trailsMar 19, 2024752 words4 minutesIt’s a balmy 10 degrees on this winter’s day, the chinook winds turning last week’s powdery trail into a sparkling, crystalline path — not great for snowshoeing, but ideal for strolling in spikes. The snow-topped peaks of the Rockies beckon, encouraging us ever upward. Curious spruce grouse pop out from the shadows and gregarious Canada jays swoop overhead.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Kali Wexler |Sara Johnson
For millennia, the annual spring herring spawn along the shores of Hornby Island has drawn seabirds and seals, porpoises, orcas and people. It’s both a spectacle and a feast: the seas turn milky turquoise as the tens of thousands of males release their milt to fertilize the females’ eggs, lapped by the waves and blanketing every square centimetre of rock and vegetation.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Thomas Lundy |Sara Johnson
WildlifePlus: the stolen 200-kilo polar bear, the bat that leapfrogs its way home, and the weird ancient tree straight out of The Lorax Fifteen is the new six! So says Gabby, the oldest living Great Lakes piping plover. Giddy birdwatchers recently spotted the banded bird foraging at her favourite winter home in Georgia after making the roughly 1,600-kilometre migration from her summer breeding grounds in the Great Lakes.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Thomas Lundy |Abi Hayward |Sara Johnson |Madigan Cotterill
WildlifePlus: experience life as a Toronto raccoon, red-throated loons learn an icy lesson, and orca use icebergs to scratch their itches Sqwemá:y, ske’-ha, sqʷəméy̓, sqwbaý, and q’əbəɫ. These are just a few of the names the Coast Salish woolly dog is known by among the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Thomas Lundy |Madigan Cotterill |Sara Johnson
Pika-poo! With apologies to the internet’s favourite Pokémon, the headlines write themselves. But the focus here is on the real-life American pika, that cute little rodent that lives in rock fields and mountainous grasslands above the treeline in B.C. and Alberta. Researchers from UBC Okanagan have been collecting its poop — and learning a thing or two about climate change in the process.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Sara Johnson |Madigan Cotterill |Thomas Lundy
Capable of diving at speeds of up to 300 kilometres per hour, the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on the planet. And according to new research out of Simon Fraser University in B.C., these birds are as fast in thought as they are in flight. Long theorized but hard to prove in practice, the Wolf-Mangel model suggests that prey must prioritize safety over food foraging when they feel the threatening presence of a predator.
