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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.
![Explore by Topic CAREMONGERING IN CAMPBELL RIVER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Caremongering_Header-400x284.webp)
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
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![Explore by Topic EVERYONE CAN (AND SHOULD) MEDITATE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Meditation_Header3-400x284.webp)
Cultivating stillness
We experience so much in our lives. Sometimes life’s momentum is so fast that we miss ...
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![Explore by Topic AT HOME WITH RODERICK HAIG-BROWN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Haig-Brown-400x284.webp)
“A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers ...
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![Explore by Topic GETTING TO KNOW THE AWAKENEERS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Awakeneers-400x284.webp)
The story of the Awakeneers starts more than 30 years ago on an off-grid homestead in the mountains of BC where ...
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![Explore by Topic CVOX: COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY RADIO](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Radio_Header-400x284.webp)
Our devices can bring music and news from almost everywhere in the world. But most of the content is ...
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![Explore by Topic REFLECTIONS OF A YARD CAR](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Cars_Header-400x284.webp)
When I first rolled off the assembly line decades ago, I couldn’t wait to hit the road for a life of adventure. ...
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![Explore by Topic HANDCRAFTING LINEN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Linen_Header-400x284.webp)
LIVING FROM LINEN
I’m Karla, and I create linen. That’s right, I start with a handful of unassuming flax ...
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![Explore by Topic HA̱’ME’ RESTAURANT REOPENS AT KWA’LILAS HOTEL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Hame-400x284.webp)
BEYOND THE PLATE AT HA’ME‘’S (RE)OPENING
The eagerly anticipated (re)opening of Ha̱’me‘ Restaurant, in its ...
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![Explore by Topic THE HERRING GOLD RUSH OF 1979](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Herring_Header-400x284.webp)
In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from their bibs and clung ...
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![Explore by Topic BUILDING COMMUNITY WITH LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CVC_Vol37_Library_Header-400x284.webp)
A steady stream of people stops in front of a typical home in Courtenay’s Old Orchard neighbourhood. They come by ...
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![Explore by Topic CAREMONGERING IN CAMPBELL RIVER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Caremongering_Header-400x284.webp)
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYONE CAN (AND SHOULD) MEDITATE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Meditation_Header3-400x284.webp)
Cultivating stillness
We experience so much in our lives. Sometimes life’s momentum is so ...
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![Explore by Topic AT HOME WITH RODERICK HAIG-BROWN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Haig-Brown-400x284.webp)
“A river is water in its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity ...
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![Explore by Topic GETTING TO KNOW THE AWAKENEERS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Awakeneers-400x284.webp)
The story of the Awakeneers starts more than 30 years ago on an off-grid homestead in the ...
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![Explore by Topic CVOX: COMOX VALLEY COMMUNITY RADIO](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Radio_Header-400x284.webp)
Our devices can bring music and news from almost everywhere in the world. But most of the ...
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![Explore by Topic REFLECTIONS OF A YARD CAR](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Cars_Header-400x284.webp)
When I first rolled off the assembly line decades ago, I couldn’t wait to hit the road for a ...
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![Explore by Topic HANDCRAFTING LINEN](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Linen_Header-400x284.webp)
LIVING FROM LINEN
I’m Karla, and I create linen. That’s right, I start with a handful of ...
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![Explore by Topic HA̱’ME’ RESTAURANT REOPENS AT KWA’LILAS HOTEL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SC_Vol9_Hame-400x284.webp)
BEYOND THE PLATE AT HA’ME‘’S (RE)OPENING
The eagerly anticipated (re)opening of Ha̱’me‘ ...
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![Explore by Topic THE HERRING GOLD RUSH OF 1979](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CVC_Vol37_Herring_Header-400x284.webp)
In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from ...
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![Explore by Topic BUILDING COMMUNITY WITH LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CVC_Vol37_Library_Header-400x284.webp)
A steady stream of people stops in front of a typical home in Courtenay’s Old Orchard ...
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