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 Vertical Madness](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/students-sky-diving-400x284.png)
When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part warehouse, part ...
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![Explore by Topic Burrell’s Bog](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_5521-copy-2-940x470-1-400x284.jpg)
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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![Explore by Topic In Motion](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Oyster-Bay-Sunset-Summer-2021-EDITED-2-940x470-1-400x284.jpg)
Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road closures and ...
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![Explore by Topic WANTED: DEATH COMPANIONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol32_Death_Header-400x284.jpg)
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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![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 Vertical Madness](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/students-sky-diving-400x284.png)
When you walk into the cavernous room at Robron Centre in Campbell River—which feels part ...
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![Explore by Topic Burrell’s Bog](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/IMG_5521-copy-2-940x470-1-400x284.jpg)
Thanks be to Ron Burrell, a former provincial Forest Service Manager, who, in the early 1990s, ...
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![Explore by Topic In Motion](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Oyster-Bay-Sunset-Summer-2021-EDITED-2-940x470-1-400x284.jpg)
Stay home, we were told. Travel was not advised. Flooding closed highways. Fires forced road ...
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![Explore by Topic WANTED: DEATH COMPANIONS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CVC_Vol32_Death_Header-400x284.jpg)
The beginning of winter, with its transition from warmth to cold and from growth to decay, is ...
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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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