Outdoor Canada

Fall is trophy fish time, but it can also be the most challenging and perplexing season of the year for most anglers. Why? Because so many factors are changing so fast and so dramatically. Think about it: We enter the fall wearing T-shirts while we fish in glorious weather conditions, catching walleye, bass, muskies, pike, perch and crappies; then a few short weeks la...

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Decline since last year in breeding duck populations in the traditional survey areas of Canada and the U.S. Released in September, the 2026 Waterfowl Population Status Report recorded 33.44 million ducks, which also represents a six per cent drop below the long-term average.

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Hectares burned by wildfires across Canada this year as ...

William Blake Rodgers and the unicorn

A few years back, I had the opportunity to acquire an M1 Garand rifle, manufactured in 1942 by Springfield Armory in Massachusetts. Designed by Quebec-born Jean Cantius Garand, the semi-automatic M1 was the primary infantry rifle of the U.S. from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s. General George S. Patton called it “the greatest battle imp...

By the time the late season for white-tailed deer arrives, Mother Nature has already begun to spread her frozen blanket across much of Canada. It’s an exciting time for bowhunters, with the pressure on to fill their tags. It can also be tough going, however, as the temperatures continue to drop. That’s just one of the reasons I hunt from a ground blind at this time of...

I learned about Canadian geography through osmosis. Growing up as the son of an air force pilot, moving across the country became second nature to me. And later, as a young wildlife professional, I took jobs wherever I could find them across the country, biding my time until a permanent position presented itself. As a result, I’ve lived in five provinces over the year...