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How One Man Saved a 19th-Century Cabin in Ontario

Building a big new house would have been easier and cheaper. But saving the 19th-century structure resulted in something better.

Scientists Choose Crawford Lake to Represent Start of Anthropocene Epoch

A scientific panel has picked Crawford Lake, Ontario, to represent the Anthropocene, a proposed, and hotly contested, new chapter in geologic time.

Canada’s Ability to Prevent Forest Fires Lags Behind the Need

Provincial firefighting agencies are stretched thin, there is no national agency and it’s hard to get approval for controlled burns — factors that have exacerbated recent outbreaks.

Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ Was An Unlikely Hit

Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 folk ballad told the true story of a shipwreck on Lake Superior. One of his old friends called it “a documentarian’s song.”

Storm Batters Canada, Leaving Thousands Without Power

Even Canadians accustomed to the vagaries of Arctic weather systems contended with a long list of extremes, including cold that “freezes flesh in minutes.”