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Explore: A Canadian Geographic podcast

Host David McGuffin talks to Canada’s greatest explorers about their adventures and what inspires their spirit of discovery.

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Sep 22, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026

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  1. Episode · Sep 22, 2026

    What black bears taught bestselling author Trina Moyles about coexistence (opens the original)

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    “I knew about bears in this abstract theoretical way, but I didn’t really know what it meant to live closely with them.” What happens when a mother black bear refuses to leave the hillside beneath your fire tower? For bestselling author Trina Moyles, the answer became the heart of Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival . While working at a fire tower in northern Alberta, Moyles found herself living in a black bear corridor, where a resident mother and her cubs returned to the nearby slo

  2. Episode · Sep 8, 2026

    The places that change us with Eric Weiner (opens the original)

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    “One of the main reasons we travel is to be different, hopefully better, versions of ourselves.” For Eric Weiner, travel has always been a way to pursue the big questions: What makes us happy, creative, wise, and fully alive? He has spent much of his career exploring the intersection of place and big ideas. A former NPR foreign correspondent, he reported from more than 30 countries before turning his attention to philosophical travel: journeys in search of happiness, faith, creativity, wisdom an

  3. Episode · Aug 25, 2026

    Echo Maker: James Raffan on the people and stories behind the Historical Map of Temagami (opens the original)

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    “To be in a relationship with a place is a very complex and beautiful dynamic.” Bestselling author, explorer and master storyteller James Raffan returns to Explore to discuss his new book, Echo Maker: Craig Macdonald and the Lives That Produced One of Canada’s Most Significant Historical Maps. The book tells the remarkable story of Craig Macdonald, a quiet and determined ethno-geographer who spent decades travelling through the Temagami region of northern Ontario and learning from Teme-Augama An

  4. Episode · Aug 11, 2026

    Encore — Paddling the Peel Watershed with Bobbi Rose Koe (opens the original)

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    "In my mind, when I want to relax, I take myself back to the Wind River." Tetlit Gwich'in means people of the headwaters, and Bobbi Rose Koe is on a mission to live up to her people's name. Born and raised in the Tetlit Gwich'in community of Fort McPherson, on the Peel River north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, Koe spent her childhood with her grandparents, who regularly took her hunting and fishing out on the land. When she reached her mid-20s, she translated those skills i

  5. Episode · Jul 29, 2026

    Encore — Newfoundland, Cod Collapse and saving the North Atlantic right whale with Jenn Thornhill Verma (opens the original)

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    Raised on Newfoundland’s west coast, Jenn Thornhill Verma grew up immersed in the life and lore of fishing communities and the rhythms of the North Atlantic. She is the author of the bestselling book Cod Collapse: The Rise and Fall of Newfoundland’s Saltwater Cowboys, a contributor to Canadian Geographic, and a fellow with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network, where she recently reported a series for the Globe and Mail on the endangered North Atlantic right whale. In this episode of Exp

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