Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast

"The boreal forest is the largest intact forest left on the planet, it holds a quarter of the world's wetlands. It is a climate regulator."

You could argue there is nothing that binds Canada together …

For our final episode on board the Polar Prince, sailing Atlantic Canada's Bay of Fundy, we're spending some time under the waves and looking to the skies, as we join a fascinating cross-section of s…

We're still riding the Bay of Fundy waves this episode with the Students on Ice - Ocean Conservation Expedition. 

Today we're leaving the sea and heading up the Point Wolf River in New Brunswick's Fun…

For our 50th episode, Explore is taking to the seas!

We join a Students on Ice expedition to the Bay of Fundy aboard the Polar Prince, on an Ocean Conservation Expedition led by RCGS Fellow and SOI Pr…

It's mushroom season, so we happily took up Keith Seifert on his offer to go on a mushroom and fungi walk in the Gatineau Hills.  

Keith is one of the world's leading experts on fungi, having spent ov…

"Many people have said this was genocide. Justice Sinclair says it's genocide. The former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has called it genocide. So how do we investigate that? What are the patter…

"More Canadians saw Paul Henderson's winning goal with 34 seconds left in game eight than saw the moon landing three years earlier. And they watched the moon landing, it's not like they didn't care a…

"I was in a small place in Uganda called Fort Portal. We were going to leave that day when the army showed up looking for me, and my husband would just not let them take me. So they took him. It was …

We’re thrilled to have Michelle Valberg with us on the podcast, just after her appointment to the Order of Canada for her photography and philanthropy, and her work raising awareness about the beauty…

“If the canoe is not on the Canadian flag, it is most certainly to be found in the Canadian imagination.” 

While Roy MacGregor wasn’t born in a canoe, growing up in and around Ontario’s Algonquin Park…

Now that we’re deep into summer paddling season, let's hop in a canoe with a genuine Canadian canoeing legend and ride some frothing, churning white water.

As the founder of Blackfeather Wilderness Ad…

Geologist Dr Gordon "Oz" Osinsky joins us on the pod to talk about his fascinating expedition with two astronauts to the massive Kamestastin meteor crater in remote northern Labrador. With NASA and t…

Trigger warning: This podcast contains discussions about the abuse of children and may not be appropriate for all listeners.

“Who has been held accountable for the things that have been done to us? No…

During the pandemic, it’s safe to say most of us spent some time self-isolating, but not quite in the way our guest today did.

Polar explorer and RCGS Fellow Sunniva Sorby spent over a year and a half…

Content warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence and abuse experienced by children.

This episode is about the incredible journey of a group of new Canadians. Former child soldiers who …

I'm thrilled to have Christian Stenner, one of Canada’s leading cave explorers and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, as our guest on this episode of Explore.

It's the International …

We’re thrilled to have Ray Zahab back on the podcast. He was our very first guest back in 2019. Give that one a listen if you want a great overview of his amazing career as an extreme athlete and exp…

When Moose Jaw, Sask. comedy duo “Leroy and Leroy” began posting their short video hot-takes on Instagram and TikTok in 2021, their hope was to get up to 10,000 followers. Just over a year later, the…

Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the new Executive Director of the David Suzuki Foundation, has been an environmental activist for almost as long as she can remember. That isn’t surprising when you consider tha…