Canadian Geographic articles from March 1999

Canadian Geographic archives from March 1999

Nature's cling-ons.(parasitic insects)
March 1, 1999... Of all God's creations, few are less appealing to humans than parasites. Like a doctor offering a second opinion to an overweight patient ("all right, you're ugly too"), we pile on the invective: repulsive, revolting, harmful, useless. You know...

Ice-age sleuth.(includes related article on Beringia)(paleontologist Dick Harington)
March 1, 1999... FOR THREE DECADES, DICK HARINGTON HAS PRIED THE SECRETS OF AN EXTINCT WORLD FROM THE YUKON MUD Dick Harington gazes along the smooth, curved length of the tusk. Weathered by the thousands of years of freezing winters and sudden arctic...

Hunting poachers: Ontario sets its sights on wildlife traffickers.(includes related article on a poacher's psychological profile, animals being poached and jail sentences)
March 1, 1999... Midnight, October 8, 1996, near the Gravel River Provincial Nature Reserve in Northern Ontario. There are only forest beasts and the gods to bear witness on this cool night as five pallbearers shuffle through a jack pine plantation, far from...

Field of opportunity.(includes related articles on uses of hemp and its industrial history)(hemp farming)
March 1, 1999... Legal again after 60 years, hemp farming makes a comeback It's May 1998 in southwestern Ontario and the sun has been shining warm and hard for two weeks straight. Farmers have thrown away their calendars, called it mid-June, and planted...

Peddling pot for health and wealth.(marijuana)
March 1, 1999... Growing cannabis was banned 60 years ago ostensibly to prevent the cultivation of marijuana. The prohibition clearly has not worked. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police now estimates that 750,000 Canadians use marijuana - or its stronger...

The vision of Grey Owl.
March 1, 1999... The most famous 'Indian' in the world in the 1930s may have been a fraud, but his life is the true story of an early Canadian conservationist The house lights went down, the stage was dark. A hidden gramophone played Beethoven's Moonlight...

Canada: A Journey of Discovery.(Review)(Brief Article)
March 1, 1999... By Michael Kluckner Raincoast Books 192 pp., $49.95 hardcover Those who explore this country often feel the need of a premise to simplify its complexity. Michael Kluckner, a British Columbia writer and watercolourist, begins and ends this...

The Mystery of the Blue Whale.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Imageries 52-minute video, $20.95 A blue whale is truly leviathan. A bowling lane would fit on an adult's broad back with room to spare; it can weigh as much as a half-kilometre line of bumper-to-bumper cars. Many great adjectives...

Antique journals go digital. (CD-ROM versions of Franklin's Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea (1819-22); Franklin's Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea.(1825-27))
March 1, 1999... FRANKLIN'S JOURNEY TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA (1819-22) FRANKLIN'S SECOND EXPEDITION TO THE SHORES OF THE POLAR SEA (1825-27) CD-Academia Books $69.95 (Vol. I), $59.95 (Vol. II) A new publisher, CD-Academia Books of Dartmouth,...

Titanic talk.
March 1, 1999... Steve Blasco continues to unravel the secrets of the ill-fated ship When people ask, as they invariably do, what it was like to be crammed into a miniature submersible for 17 hours, how he felt descending 3,800 metres to explore the sunken...

A canyon before the city.(Canyon City, Yukon, Canada)
March 1, 1999... A raven sitting atop even a short spruce would have no trouble keeping an eye on everything that moves within Canyon City, a flat clearing beside a quiet hundred-metre stretch of the Yukon River. The "city," about eight kilometres upriver from...