Architectural photography reveals a place’s structure and soul
Precision and POETRY
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Small Can Be Beautiful
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Chef Ian: the heart behind the Berwick kitchen
Rhythm, precision, and passion
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Discovering Amman on an extraordinary gap year
Gap Year in Jordan
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Starting from Scratch
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Building a community that’s inclusive, accessible, and safe for all
Here and queer
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Svalbard
A land of Arctic dreams
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CVRD takes a bold step to help address housing affordability
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Featured Artist: David Besplug
Six decades of loving life in the Comox Valley
I dig it!
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A mayor revisits the path from past to bright future
Guided by Nature
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A home in The hills
For one young family, the design/build process began with connecting deeply to the landscape and taking their time
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Featured Photographer: Jackson Photografix
Embracing weirdness to live an honest life.
Digging into myself
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How an independent living retirement community empowers our elders
Pursuing Wonder Later in Life
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What we learned when designing our own hockey-inspired board game
Upping our game
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Featured Music: Ultraviolet
Threshold Choir eases The end of life with the gift of song
They’ll sing you home
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A freediver happens upon enchanting sights
Where sea lions dance
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Petals and Purpose
The gym life
It's about practice, hard work, and laughter
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Take It All Off (For a Good Cause)
20 years, 3,000 naked jumpers, $700,000 raised for mental health
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Found – Treasures And Troves In Nature
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A young Italian winemaker finds her place in the Comox Valley
Pinot and possibilities
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Read to your kids!
This family homework yields big results—and it's fun
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Exploring the gardens and grounds of Filberg Park
Island Oasis
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Seeking answers in seaweed
A strange and intriguing organism calls for research
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Opening Photo
A Pentlatch place
Profound history in the centre of Comox, written by the Valley’s first inhabitants
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Deep leadership at Croteau Lake
A wilderness retreat allows an entire company to connect as equals
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Three bags full
Friends don’t let friends’ fleeces go to waste.
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Levels of history
An Introduction to Vol. 44
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Quinny’s Quest and the Campbellton Loop
A journey of connection
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Nimbus Paddles
Made on the West Coast, coveted worldwide
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A holistic health practitioner reflects on years of service
Uncovering alignment beyond the physical
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Photographic adventures in a fabled landscape
Answering Patagonia’s Call
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Flipped Side Furniture: Skipping the landfill
A refreshing change
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The Strathcona Food Map
A new way for the culinary curious to explore that also increases food security
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Creativity and community
The Arts Alliance/CVAG have brought art to the Comox Valley for 50 years.
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The history of the Union Bay coke ovens
Here were dragons
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Bike & Brew
amily-friendly rides in the Comox Valley
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The Campbell River Craft Crawl
A creative hobby blooms into a holiday event
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Memoir and musings from my 75-year road trip
Big deal to reveal
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Featured Artist: Ron Bridge
Cortes Island Academy Offers a Nature-Based High School Alternative
Take it outside
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Making Our Old House a Home
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YANA’s Comox Valley-powered fundraising helps local families with medical travel
Better together
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Featured Photographer: Emily Palmer
The How Wild Contest: Photography that prioritizes the wild
Keep your distance
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One hundred days of silence
On a three-month Buddhist retreat, Marie Maccagno travels beyond words and back again
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Remembering Billy Proctor
Living in the real world
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Comox District Mountaineering Club celebrates 100 years with its 2028 Hiking Challenge
It's the climb
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The Hornby Island Free Store
Sharing the wealth
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In Mat Collings’ work, film and fun go hand in hand
Videos that connect
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Mucker’s Farm: Where quality is a way of life
Off-grid and growing
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Building or renovating a waterfront property is a tricky business. But it can be done.
A complicated dream
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Mystery Mountain: A historic first ascent and its modern-day re-creation
The Undiscovered Mountain
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Emily Thiessen blends beauty and resistance in her community-based art
The possibility of change
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From internal revelations to far-flung travels
An Introduction to Vol. 12
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A conversation with John Vaillant
From Fire Weather to a festival
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Healing through art
A story of loss and reclaiming beauty.
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The Cumberland Forest
The threshold between a village and the great beyond
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Ayla Roberts: Music that will make you stop and think
Music that will make you stop and think
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Moon Dance
High above the forest floor, small creatures find bliss
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Original music blooms within a cozy circle of songwriters
Wisdom sung from the heart
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Vintage cameras draw memories from the shadows
A return to film
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Freediving in Comox Lake
Beyond breathing
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One bean at a time
An Introduction to Vol. 43
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Q&A with Denise Mitchell
Denise Mitchell Interiors: Discussion with Campbell River designer
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A trip to Okinawa, the birthplace of karate-do
Members of a Courtenay dōjō experience the culture of their traditional martial art
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The watery history of Lewis Park
The struggle for a beloved gathering place
The Dirt on Biochar
Black Gold
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A single lady at Maple Lake ponders life and the one that got away
Lonely Sam
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Featured Poet: Naveena Gill
Mysterious orange sky: a poem about a sunset over Goose Spit
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Just keep moving
Meet me in the park. We’ve got some walking to do
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Featured Artist: Judit Szilvasi
Featured Photographer: Damian Chudzinski, Comox Valley Landscape Artist
NIC Student Housing, tul’al’txw: Alive with Indigenous Culture
A house—and home—of learning
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Draw Together Strangers
How a global art initiative creates human connection
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Sandy Island Marine Park (Tree Island BC): Remote—and Right Next Door
Trees and sand
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How Ramona Gregory’s Slip Cast Porcelain Lamps Combine Form and Function
CRAFTING LIGHT
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Gwyn Sproule: Guardian of the forest and Cumberland history
A very engaging life
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The 1946 Vancouver Island Earthquake and Landslide Lake
When “bedlam” let loose
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Hollyhock — A Cortes Island oasis
Just across the water, magic awaits
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It’s not true BBQ until you add low heat, live fire, and flavourful smoke
The art of Smoke
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Sandra Viney of Courtenay’s Atlas Cafe
Thirty years of cuisine and community
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At the Royston Roasting Co. it’s a new era and a family affair
Boldly Brewing
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Summer skin, simplified
Beneath the surface
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A Young Author on Writing and Self-Discovery
Creating her own story
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Creativity and collaboration rule the world of Live Action Role Play (LARP)
Join the quest!
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Understanding food flows in the Comox Valley
Planning for a resilient, sustainable, edible future
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Compass Adventures: A Comox Valley water sports legacy
Riding the waves for 30 years
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Comox Valley paragliding offers pure, joyous flight
Frontier flying
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Easy from the outside
An Introduction to Vol. 42
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Walking two hundred clicks on the Camino Portugues
Two for the Road
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Reimagining Cumberland lake park tourism for community good
Sharing the wealth
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Exploring the ancient markets and cities in Morocco
Getting comfortable with going astray
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Life as a fishing guide in Campbell River
Fortune favours the fisherman
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IMMERSED IN THE ARTS
Dance, music, and theatre help one young resident to find his role in life and on stage
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It’s never too late for a big life change
Boldly Going
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THE VALUE OF SOIL
Considering the world beneath our feet
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FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: MIKEY PARSONS
FEATURED ARTIST: KEENAN MCCORMACK
THE COMOX VALLEY’S LEGION BRANCHES ARE OPEN TO ALL
Beyond Poppies
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FEATURED CREATIVE WRITER: AN ODE TO THE ISLAND COWBOY
Easy to love, hard to hold onto
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ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP IN BC GREEN BUSINESS
Making a difference
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FEATURED ARTIST: BRONWYN SCHUSTER
A TRIP TO THE SANCTUARY
A sufferfest leads to a Shangri-La deep in the backcountry
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FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: CHRISTOPHER LINDENAU
REINSTATING THE LIǦʷIŁDAX̌ʷ̌ LANGUAGE AROUND CAMPBELL RIVER
Names are bridges
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MAINTAINING GOOD DIGESTION
Love your guts
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PORT HARDY’S KYLE SCOW MEMORIAL SKATEPARK
An inclusive community hub for all ages
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386 KOMOX SQUADRON AIR CADETS
Learning to fly
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THE BEGINNING OF SONORA ISLAND’S BREAKWATER LODGE
Vision, grit, and beauty
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ESCAPE AT INNISFREE FARM
Exploring a whimsical, botanical playground
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REVIVAL VINTAGE
seller’s perspective on bringing a lost art back to life
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HEATHER GORDON MURPHY: HELPING PEOPLE DRINK LESS
WITH A GRANT FROM CAUDS, A PLAY STARTS A CONVERSATION
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WOLF BLOSSOM
CRAFTING LEATHER WITH PASSION, PURPOSE, AND A LITTLE WILD SPIRIT
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THE REINVENTION OF A HISTORIC PUB-TO-PUB TRAIL
Oyster River to Salmon Point
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CHRIS GIBBONS FINDS FUN IN HIS WORK AS AN ARBORIST
More than monkey business
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The Comox Strathcona Waste Management Service
Community initiatives
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Cycling Without Age offers free bike rides for seniors
Wind in their hair
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Upana Caves
one traveller finds more than they sought
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SEA LION SOLILOQUY
A poetic young pinniped and the art of storytelling.
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Engineering a new life at Surf Side Fungus Farm
How to quit your day job
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Feeding Futures School Food Programs
Yes, there can be a free lunch
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Art and loss
How individual practice and community engagement aid in the process of healing
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Karaoke. Why?
Because it’s damn fun to belt out a banger in public.
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EMERGING ARTIST – TENLEY PRATT
A young fibre artist/entrepreneur explores her creative possibilities
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Campbell River’s shifting trail running culture
The joy in being out there
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The World Through the Eyes and Soul of the Poet
The world needs more poets
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Get Lost!
Editor's introduction to Vol. 11
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When Roads were Roads
A Satirical Look at How Ryan Road is Resisting Change
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A Look At Our Beloved Canada Jay
Theft from above
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A Volkswagen Bus gets a makeover
Electrifying Results
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Ready to launch
An Introduction to Vol. 41
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The Story of Cortes Island Academy
A Crisis in Rural Education
A creative journey in France
Une grande aventure
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