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Browse our growing collection of articles from current and previous issues of both the CV Collective and Strathcona Collective magazines by topic.

In a way, a farm is like the ocean, a fixture of the landscape, yet in constant motion. Every season brings a part ...
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When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part warehouse, part ...
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Thanks be to Ron Burrell, a former provincial Forest Service Manager, who, in the early 1990s, took on the job of ...
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Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road closures and ...
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The beginning of winter, with its transition from warmth to cold and from growth to decay, is a reminder of the ...
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Not many people know this about me, but I’ve got a real penchant for fine, stiff Italian boots. This confession ...
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Like many Vancouver Island folk, I’ve made plenty of happy memories in Strathcona Provincial Park. In the summer ...
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My name is Ava, and I am ten years old. I was born in Vancouver and moved to Cumberland with my mom and dad when I ...
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If there is one truth the pandemic has disclosed, it’s that, as humans, we yearn for connection to the elements. ...
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Growing up in the Comox Valley, Mal Irvine, who uses they/them pronouns, often felt uncomfortable. They were ...
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In a way, a farm is like the ocean, a fixture of the landscape, yet in constant motion. Every ...
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When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part ...
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Thanks be to Ron Burrell, a former provincial Forest Service Manager, who, in the early 1990s, ...
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Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road ...
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The beginning of winter, with its transition from warmth to cold and from growth to decay, is ...
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Not many people know this about me, but I’ve got a real penchant for fine, stiff Italian ...
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Like many Vancouver Island folk, I’ve made plenty of happy memories in Strathcona Provincial ...
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My name is Ava, and I am ten years old. I was born in Vancouver and moved to Cumberland with ...
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If there is one truth the pandemic has disclosed, it’s that, as humans, we yearn for ...
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Growing up in the Comox Valley, Mal Irvine, who uses they/them pronouns, often felt ...
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