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 MEET THE BOOT FITTER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol32_BootFitting_Header-400x284.jpg)
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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![Explore by Topic IT’S A WET COLD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_WinterCamping_Header-400x284.jpg)
Like many Vancouver Island folk, I’ve made plenty of happy memories in Strathcona Provincial Park. In the summer ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: AVA THOMAS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_LittleValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
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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![Explore by Topic THE BLUE BUZZ](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_ColdWaterSwimming_Header-400x284.jpg)
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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![Explore by Topic THE GIFT OF MOTION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_GiftofMotion_Header-400x284.jpg)
Growing up in the Comox Valley, Mal Irvine, who uses they/them pronouns, often felt uncomfortable. They were ...
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![Explore by Topic RETHINKING ONIGIRI](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_Onigiri_Header-400x284.jpg)
Hornby Island local Jake Berman first encountered onigiri while visiting his sister in Japan in 2006. This ...
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![Explore by Topic GETTING THE DRIFT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol24_GettingTheDrift_Header-400x284.jpg)
Every poem tells a kind of story, but poems are not short stories. They are a unique medium which is concerned ...
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![Explore by Topic DROP INTO A DEEP READ](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_GNarrative_Header-400x284.jpg)
In 2015, on his way to Whistler, Duncan Hague flew over the Rocky Mountains and peered out the plane’s little oval ...
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![Explore by Topic IT TAKES A VILLAGE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CVC_Vol28_TakesAVillage_Header-400x284.jpg)
We’ve all heard the adage “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Now imagine we’re talking about your child. ...
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![Explore by Topic MUD, MESS, AND MAGIC](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol24_OutdoorEducation_Header-400x284.jpg)
I respectfully acknowledge that we are on the unceded traditional territories of the K’ómoks First Nation, and I ...
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![Explore by Topic MEET THE BOOT FITTER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol32_BootFitting_Header-400x284.jpg)
Not many people know this about me, but I’ve got a real penchant for fine, stiff Italian ...
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![Explore by Topic IT’S A WET COLD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_WinterCamping_Header-400x284.jpg)
Like many Vancouver Island folk, I’ve made plenty of happy memories in Strathcona Provincial ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: AVA THOMAS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_LittleValley_Header-400x284.jpg)
My name is Ava, and I am ten years old. I was born in Vancouver and moved to Cumberland with ...
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![Explore by Topic THE BLUE BUZZ](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_ColdWaterSwimming_Header-400x284.jpg)
If there is one truth the pandemic has disclosed, it’s that, as humans, we yearn for ...
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![Explore by Topic THE GIFT OF MOTION](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_GiftofMotion_Header-400x284.jpg)
Growing up in the Comox Valley, Mal Irvine, who uses they/them pronouns, often felt ...
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![Explore by Topic RETHINKING ONIGIRI](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_Onigiri_Header-400x284.jpg)
Hornby Island local Jake Berman first encountered onigiri while visiting his sister in Japan ...
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![Explore by Topic GETTING THE DRIFT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol24_GettingTheDrift_Header-400x284.jpg)
Every poem tells a kind of story, but poems are not short stories. They are a unique medium ...
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![Explore by Topic DROP INTO A DEEP READ](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol28_GNarrative_Header-400x284.jpg)
In 2015, on his way to Whistler, Duncan Hague flew over the Rocky Mountains and peered out the ...
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![Explore by Topic IT TAKES A VILLAGE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/CVC_Vol28_TakesAVillage_Header-400x284.jpg)
We’ve all heard the adage “It takes a village to raise a child.”
Now imagine we’re talking ...
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![Explore by Topic MUD, MESS, AND MAGIC](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol24_OutdoorEducation_Header-400x284.jpg)
I respectfully acknowledge that we are on the unceded traditional territories of the K’ómoks ...
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