What Canadians expect from Ottawa this fall
Housing, cost of living, health: our journalists held out the microphone from sea to sea. The answers paint a country closer together than we think.
News from across the country
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Lunenburg, the heritage town that still lives off the sea
Shipyards, fishing and tourism: in this UNESCO World Heritage port, everything still faces the Atlantic.
In Nunavut, young people are mapping their elders’ land
Inuktitut place names, hunting routes and family stories: a school project becomes a living map.
The Rideau Canal in fall, before the skaters
Between the locks and the maples, Ottawa enjoys the last weeks of the boating season.
Montreal and its staircases, before the first snow
The Plateau’s outdoor staircases, symbol of a city that lives outside, even in winter.
Fall colours, from the Outaouais to Madawaska
Red maples and country roads: the colour season draws visitors from both sides of the provincial border.
Hopewell Rocks: walking on the ocean floor at low tide
In the Bay of Fundy, the highest tides in the world sculpt these stone “flowerpots.”
On the Prairies, the harvest is also decided on world markets
From Saskatchewan fields to the ports of Vancouver, the journey of a grain of wheat tells the story of a whole economy.
In Churchill, polar bear season begins
Every fall, the bears wait on the coast for Hudson Bay to freeze. Visitors, meanwhile, arrive from all over the world.
On the Pacific coast, the return of herring brings a bay back to life
In Vancouver’s harbour, fishers, scientists and First Nations are closely following the return of the little silver fish.
In the Okanagan, the grape harvest is in full swing
Between lake and mountains, the valley’s vineyards are enjoying the last warm days of fall.
Under the Yukon’s northern lights, night becomes a laboratory
In Whitehorse, researchers, guides and photographers watch together a sky that fascinates people far beyond the North.
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From a Saskatchewan farm to a Newfoundland wharf
“Here, we watch the sky to know whether the harvest will hold. Where you are, I believe, it’s the sea you keep an eye on.” Marie-Claire Dubois, a Fransaskois farmer, writes every week to Owen Walsh, a fisherman in Bonavista.
In St. John’s, colourful houses tell the city’s story
The “Jellybean” rows have become the symbol of a capital that keeps reinventing itself.
The Rockies’ glaciers, seen from the sky
Flying over Alberta’s icefields, where glacier retreat is measured from one season to the next.
The Island’s red cliffs retreat a little more each winter
Storms and shore ice are eating away at the red sandstone. Municipalities are looking for ways to protect roads and homes.
Toronto: when an office tower becomes an apartment building
Remote work emptied entire floors. Developers are trying to turn them into apartments: a real engineering puzzle.
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