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Making sense of fire season: A selection of stories to help you understand the 2025 wildfire season

Indigenous history and environmental justice: What the passing of Ontario's Bill 5 could mean for First Nations and the Hudson Bay lowlands.

Here and There Podcast: Travel to Nelson, B.C., to explore how this counterculture haven became Canada’s slice of the Summer of Love.

Celebrate Ocean Week: Explore the mystery and fragility of the ocean, from communicating with whales to the threat of deep-sea mining.

Travel with us: Karibu Adventures: Paddle with orcas, explore Indigenous culture, and experience the wild beauty of North Vancouver Island.

MAKING SENSE OF FIRE SEASON

Canada's 2025 fire season has gotten off to an early and ferocious start. Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as destructive fires burn across western and central Canada, and drifting smoke has prompted air quality advisories for millions more. Explore a selection of stories that help explain why this is happening and what we can do about it.

Mapping 100 years of forest fires in Canada

THE GREAT TURNING
In the summer of 2023, wildfires forced Laurie Sarkadi, her family, the city of Yellowknife and surrounding Dene communities to evacuate. But beyond the fires themselves, and the climate change they're a symptom of, Sarkadi needed a safe space to talk about the darkness creeping into her head and heart as she thought about her grandchildren's futures inside an escalating climate crisis.

Our immensely popular Canadian Wildlife Photography of the Year competition is accepting entries until June 30, 2025.

As always, we’re looking for your best shots of wildlife in Canada — plus non-animal wildlife! The Canadian Wildlife Photographer of the Year will be selected from among entries to all four categories. Visit the competition website to read the full list of rules and read about the four categories.

Ontario has passed a bill that would create special economic zones where resource extraction projects could be approved more quickly, including in the critical mineral-rich "Ring of Fire." First Nations say the bill violates their inherent and treaty rights and will hasten the destruction of the sensitive Hudson Bay Lowlands. These stories highlight the converging issues in the region through an Indigenous lens

Thirty years of Neskantaga First Nation’s boil water advisory

The trauma of an entire generation without access to safe drinking water has left its mark

What’s at stake in Ontario’s Ring of Fire

The James Bay Lowlands in northern Ontario contain one of the largest potential mineral reserves in Canada. Now, the region’s economy and environment stand on the brink of massive transformation.

Our oceans are vast and mysterious, — yet they face growing threats from climate change. This Ocean Week, we are spotlighting stories that explore both the wonder of marine life and the urgent need to protect it.

Departs Aug. 11, 2025

There are few animals that elicit such a sense of awe as the killer whale. And there is no better place in the world to see them than in the famed Johnstone Strait and Broughton Archipelago off the remote, northeast coast of Vancouver Island.
This special edition six-day tour combines the best of the North Island. We spend three days kayaking the Inside Passage and some of the most wildlife rich waters in the world, on the look out for orca and humpback whales, Steller sea lions, dolphins, sea otters and more. We journey into the Great Bear Rainforest on the BC mainland, in search of grizzly bears fishing for salmon. And we take a deep dive into Indigenous culture and history, with a unique invitation into the lives and land of the Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw people.