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

In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from their bibs and clung ...
For BC’s fishers, it was the year of money
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A steady stream of people stops in front of a typical home in Courtenay’s Old Orchard neighbourhood. They come by ...
Take a book, leave a book
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As the editor of the Strathcona Collective, it is my privilege to help writers and community members throughout ...
Editor's introduction to Vol. 9
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A beautiful mosaicThis is my first time writing in my own magazine. Writing has never been a passion of ...
Creative Director's Introduction to Vol. 37
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SAMOAN SOULSitting on the start line of the World Long Distance Championships for outrigger canoeing in ...
Racing, roots, and reconnections
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Finding a family doctor or health care professional is difficult enough in urban centres, but it’s even harder for ...
A new program at NIC helps Island students pursue professions in health care.
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The ROAM team has selected some of their favourite winter items that we think everyone should know about. All are ...
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In the summer of 2023, approximately 70 local emergency services personnel from the Comox Valley were deployed to ...
What emergency service providers want you to know.
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The earliest inhabitants of the Comox Valley lived lightly on these lands for millennia and didn’t capture their ...

i will always choose the trees
if i have to choose
between society
or the forest.
it makes sense
to me in ...
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