Posts tagged with ‘magazine’ (42)
We asked our readers to help us chose between three covers for the June issue of Canadian Geographic.
Is it just me, or is it really annoying when you disagree with your boss, then he turns out to be right?
When it came to selecting the three options for Canadian Geographic’s June 2013 cover vote, our publisher, André Préfontaine, instantly gravitated to option one (above left), noting it was a surefire hit. (As regular Canadian Geographic followers know, in advance of each issue’s publication, we solicit your feedback to help us choose our cover image.) I gravitated to option three (above right), drawn by the sharp colour contrast.
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Posted by Aaron Kylie
on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Canadian Geographic welcomes our new editor, Aaron Kylie. Photo: Kayla Hannaford
Confession: In Grade 9, so many years ago, I was one of a three-student team that won the local school board’s regional Geopardy competition — a geography quiz game modeled after TV’s Jeopardy (in case that wasn’t obvious!). I mention this as it seems necessary to establish some nature of street cred as I introduce myself as the newest member of the Canadian Geographic team. (I now await the requisite taunts from my colleagues on my next trip to the water cooler.
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Posted by Claudia Goodine
in Energy
on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
A word cloud of book titles from the past decade, all relating to oil.
Claudia Goodine takes a glance at the past, courtesy of the Canadian Geographical Journal archives.
In just over 60 years, the way we speak about oil has dramatically changed.
In E.M. Holbrook's 1949 feature article, Oil from the Earth, pages from a not so distant history capture the height of our love affair with petroleum.
"What substance in the world is most useful to man?" Holbrook writes.
"Which portion of Nature's generous bounty is of the greatest benefit to civilization's constant ...
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Posted by Paul Politis
on Thursday, June 16, 2011
Canadian Geographic struck gold at the National Magazine Awards in Toronto in June, taking the top honour in the Editorial Package category for its October 2010 issue, which examined the expected impacts of climate change in Canada.Photographer Peter Sibbald won a silver in the Photojournalism & Photo Essay category for “Rarin’ to ride” (July/Aug 2010), a behind-the-scenes look at small-town rodeos in Ontario. His photo essay also garnered a Bronze Cube award from the Art Directors Club in New York ...
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Posted by Graham Lanktree
on Wednesday, January 19, 2011
In this short documentary from 1955, filmmaker Jean Palardy visits the three Quebec border towns of Rock Island, Stanstead and Beebe, and the Vermont town of Derby Line to see how residents and officials cope with a civic life that is cut down the middle by an international boundary.
And for a portrait of what life is like in Stanstead today, following security increases after 9/11, check out our feature on the bad case of insecurity that has been brought to this famously laid-back border town.
Photo: ...
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