A festive feast of lobster at the Lobster Roll Off Competition. Only in Nova Scotia can a six-pound lobster named Lucy command an early morning audience of nearly 100 shivering spectators in February.

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 ...

Struggle and success in Atlantic Canada, where aquaculturists strive to overcome climate change and contamination while chasing a sustainable carbon footprint In the days before Hurricane Fiona hit ...

Master carpenter Gordon Macdonald on restoring an iconic B.C. bridge, the value of heritage infrastructure, and why he's set his sights on the Antarctic The historic Kinsol Trestle in the Cowichan ...

The South Saskatchewan River is under unprecedented pressure. Now, a major irrigation project is set to expand. The South Saskatchewan River is beautiful. That’s the first thing you need to know about ...

Niigaan Sinclair, author and associate professor in the University of Manitoba's department of native studies, on why the gray jay is important to the Anishinaabe people. Gwiingwiishi has lived with ...

*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 ...

As a child growing up on a wheat farm in southern Saskatchewan, my parents sat us down at the kitchen table one day with a wildlife biologist. The biologist had discovered some burrowing owls, an ...

The Vancouver Island marmot, burrowing owl, greater sage-grouse and northern leopard frog are thriving again thanks to the zoo’s efforts Sandie Black canoes down a lake in Lakeland Provincial Park, ...