Power of the People

Fiction Feature: From First Nations and fur traders to highways and hikers, Canada’s oldest tree has seen it all. A limber pine that’s stood on the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta for thousands of years old shares its memories.

Two centuries ago, much of the world was left in the cold during what became known as the Year Without a Summer. By Alan MacEachern

Who has been watching over the Arctic? How long have Canada and the U.S. been wrestling with the issue of sharing fresh water? Find out here.

The terrain is often forbidding and the climate harsh, but that hasn't discouraged some resourceful souls over the centuries from coaxing life out of Labrador's unyielding soil.