Ontario Cooper’s hawks on the hunt, in photos
A pair of Cooper’s hawks made their home in one photographer’s backyard. Over the last 18 months, he’s watched these wild birds adapt their routines to urban living
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A Pride drag show gives new life to an old B.C. mine
Not all old mine sites get to sashay into a new life. Nestled into coastal mountains just north of Vancouver, the former Britannia Mine is now a museum, a clean-up site — and a stage for Pride
Family photo: parenting in the animal kingdom
From sandhill cranes and eagles to bears and foxes, a photographer captures a few of the things all parents have in common — and a few they do not
Meet the people preserving the practice of bird banding
Birds migrate across the world; so do the volunteers who come together for annual bird-banding efforts. But the impacts of U.S. funding cuts threaten to spread across the border, imperilling the future of conservation
Coyotes are intelligent, resilient and deeply misunderstood
Hundreds of thousands more people are bitten by dogs than coyotes every year in Canada. A photographer questions why his subject gets such a bad rap
A frozen Lake Erie, in photos
The southernmost Great Lake froze over almost completely this month — bringing people from near and far to have a look
A snapshot of life in Alert Bay, B.C.
‘Na̱mg̱is Chief Ho’miskanis, Don Svanvik, is on the phone when I walk off the little ferry in Alert Bay, B.C. “Standing water and wood is never good,” he says to the person on the other end. “I can come by after I drop my truck off, maybe tomorrow.” Svanvik, a hereditary chief and former elected...
Walking 1,300 km of Black history in Ontario
Moved by his ancestors, Ken Johnston retraced 1,300 kilometres of the Underground Railroad to learn about Ontario’s early Black settlers
In photos: the melting glaciers of the Canadian Rockies
For the last four years, Jim Elzinga and Roger Vernon have ventured into the Columbia Icefield to capture its vanishing beauty and raise awareness about climate change
Life with the bees
A Manitoba photojournalist reflects on an unusual summer spent at an apiary, up close with bees