In The News: Connecting With Nature

2025-12-05

5 Tips to Attract Red Squirrels to Your Backyard

2025-12-05

As the vibrant hues of summer begin to fade into the rich golds and reds of fall, nature enters a period of transition.

2025-12-05

Slow and steady may help turtles win the race to find the perfect nesting site to breed, but humans have a vital role in ensuring they reach that finish line. With summer here, turtles are more mobile now as they search for partners and ideal grounds to lay their eggs.

2025-12-05

'Lull' in human movement due to COVID-19 is having unpredictable effect on wildlife

2025-12-05

Goodbye nosy neighbours! Adding climbing plants to your property can help to give you a little more privacy and make practical use of the vertical spaces in your backyard. But if you want visitors like birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects to visit your climbing plants, you’ll want to primarily plant native climbers. Here are five that you can train to drape over doorways and trellises, climb walls and hang from pots!

2025-12-05

Spending time outside to play, explore and learn is important. But if you are looking for a simple, affordable and nutritious way to engage kids with nature in a classroom or kitchen between your outdoor adventures, maybe sprouting is for you.

2025-12-05

Upamanyu Dasgupta immigrated to Saskatoon from India in summer 2020, in the midst of the pandemic. He attended Grade 12 at Evan Hardy Collegiate for the 2020-21 school year. Now, as his university career begins, he reflects back on his challenging first year in Canada.

2025-12-05

Approximately 10 per cent of the globe’s population have a fear of snakes. Admittedly no one would want to run into a Black Mamba or King Cobra in the wild. But there’s not much to fear here in Canada!

2025-12-05

Did you know that our native, wild prairie grasslands are at risk?

2025-12-05

They’ll Keep Your Garden Mosquito Free (or close to!) All Summer Long!