Explore Collective Magazine Articles By Topic
Browse our growing collection of articles from current and previous issues of both the Comox Valley Collective and Strathcona Collective magazines by topic.
![Explore by Topic MAGIC IN THE DYE POT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_DyePot_Header-400x284.jpg)
When I was a kid growing up in the northern boreal forest, my mother took me and my siblings out foraging for ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS WRONG](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Intro_Header-400x284.jpg)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Â
I don’t ...
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![Explore by Topic WERE IT NOT FOR THE BIKE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Bikes_Header2-400x284.jpg)
This past January, I received an email from the organizer of the BC Epic thanking me for my registration.
Which ...
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![Explore by Topic ELDER VALLEY: RETIREMENT REDEFINED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_ElderValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
Opening up, embracing new ideas, and making time for wonder.
I spent most of my career trying ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: DAKOTA BLOMGREN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_LittleValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
Hi, my name is Dakota Blomgren. I was born in the Comox Valley and I am nine years old. I am a proud member of the ...
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![Explore by Topic THE DAY THE PRINCE CAME TO TOWN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_RoyalVisit_Header-400x284.jpg)
Over a century ago, on a Monday in late September, crowds of young and old thronged Vancouver’s sidewalks. Mothers ...
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![Explore by Topic ALTERED LANDSCAPE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Landscapes_Header-400x284.jpg)
My first home in Cumberland was on Camp Road, in a row of rough cabins that were built in 1888 when the coal mine ...
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![Explore by Topic FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_LINC_Header-400x284.jpg)
What an ugly night. It’s dark, pouring rain, and there are still remnants of slushy snow melting in the driveway, ...
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![Explore by Topic WHALE BREATH AND ANGEL WINGS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Tides_Header-400x284.jpg)
You don’t need to be an oyster farmer or sport fisherman for the daily ebb and flow of the ocean to impact your ...
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![Explore by Topic JUMP SCARES AHEAD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_JumpScaresAhead_Header-400x284.jpg)
Decades ago, I was sitting in a cinema seat in Toronto, gripping the armrests as the tension heightened, and ...
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![Explore by Topic MAGIC IN THE DYE POT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol31_DyePot_Header-400x284.jpg)
When I was a kid growing up in the northern boreal forest, my mother took me and my siblings ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYTHING WE KNOW IS WRONG](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Intro_Header-400x284.jpg)
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Søren Kierkegaard, ...
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![Explore by Topic WERE IT NOT FOR THE BIKE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Bikes_Header2-400x284.jpg)
This past January, I received an email from the organizer of the BC Epic thanking me for my ...
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![Explore by Topic ELDER VALLEY: RETIREMENT REDEFINED](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_ElderValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
Opening up, embracing new ideas, and making time for wonder.
I spent most ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: DAKOTA BLOMGREN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_LittleValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
Hi, my name is Dakota Blomgren. I was born in the Comox Valley and I am nine years old. I am a ...
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![Explore by Topic THE DAY THE PRINCE CAME TO TOWN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_RoyalVisit_Header-400x284.jpg)
Over a century ago, on a Monday in late September, crowds of young and old thronged ...
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![Explore by Topic ALTERED LANDSCAPE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Landscapes_Header-400x284.jpg)
My first home in Cumberland was on Camp Road, in a row of rough cabins that were built in 1888 ...
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![Explore by Topic FEEL LIKE A KID AGAIN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_LINC_Header-400x284.jpg)
What an ugly night. It’s dark, pouring rain, and there are still remnants of slushy snow ...
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![Explore by Topic WHALE BREATH AND ANGEL WINGS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_Tides_Header-400x284.jpg)
You don’t need to be an oyster farmer or sport fisherman for the daily ebb and flow of the ...
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![Explore by Topic JUMP SCARES AHEAD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/CVC_Vol31_JumpScaresAhead_Header-400x284.jpg)
Decades ago, I was sitting in a cinema seat in Toronto, gripping the armrests as the tension ...
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