Handsome and enormously talented, actor Adam Beach is a familiar face on Canadian television and movie screens. Born in Ashern, Manitoba on the Dog Creek First Nations Reserve, he has worked with A-list stars like Nicolas Cage (Windtalkers), Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig (Cowboys & Aliens) and Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers).

There is something special about unwinding in a tipi on the edge of the beautiful Bow River Valley near Calgary, Alberta, for a night of stars and storytelling.

The Nisga’a people of Northern BC once survived on salmon, oily oolichan fish and sea lion.

On the Canadian Prairies, it was buffalo meat and Saskatoon berries, dried over smoky fires and pounded together for pemmican. And in Québec, Huron hunters combed the boreal forest for caribou, wild onions and Labrador tea.

Hop on a qamutiq sled pulled by a team of trained dogs to try your hand at ice fishing, dropping a line through the frozen sea ice to catch an Arctic cod. Squint at the wintry landscape following your keen-eyed Inuit guide’s finger. Finally you spot them – a mother polar bear and cub!

Our beloved sea otters charmed millions by holding paws while floating on their backs at the Vancouver Aquarium.

With Milo’s death from lymphoma on Jan. 11, both have now moved on to bluer seas.

Canada’s west coast is undeniably bear country. White bears, black bears, grizzly bears – they’re all here in the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest coastal temperate rainforests in the world.

What do traditional First Nations in British Columbia have in common with Saxon princes of the Dresden court?

Not much, you’re thinking. But a fascinating cultural exchange happening right now proves you’re wrong. 

Frontiers North, who brought polar bear peeping tundra buggies to Churchill, is introducing a new big-beast safari in Nunavut.

Come winter at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers—known as The Forks—the sound of laughter, stones on stones and blades on ice carries up in the cold air as teams in thick, colourful sweaters square off in a curling bonspiel and others begin their gliding journey down the