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 THE SUSPENSE WON’T KILL US](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Covid_Header-400x284.jpg)
Running a tourism business, especially in an area as remote as Kyuquot Sound, is challenging at the best of ...
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![Explore by Topic ALL FIRED UP](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Potter_Header-400x284.jpg)
“I take a lot of my inspiration from the natural world around me,” says Gordon Hutchens, Denman Island’s ...
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![Explore by Topic FEATURED ARTIST: RICHARD MRAVIK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedArtist_Header-400x284.jpg)
Richard Mravik was born in 1973 in the city of Nove Zamky, Slovakia. Of Hungarian descent, he was noted from a ...
![Explore by Topic FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: GLYNNIS GREY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedPhotographer_Header-400x284.jpg)
Glynnis was raised on a hobby farm on Vancouver Island by parents who were "hippies" of the day. Their ...
![Explore by Topic FEATURED WORDS: DISTANCE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
The fire that forged the earth
holds the space between us
ancient atoms
in our blood and bones
pulled to the ...
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![Explore by Topic PLAYING WITH FIRE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CVC_Vol23_Fire_Header-400x284.jpg)
“All along the way, where the deep green forest used to stand, lies a waste of mangled trunks and branches, enough ...
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![Explore by Topic COURTENAY AFTER COVID](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Courtenay_Header-400x284.jpg)
The third in our series imagining how the Comox Valley’s communities could look 20 years from now. ...
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![Explore by Topic DRAWN TO THE FLAMES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Flames_Header-400x284.jpg)
Earth, air, water, fire. In the extreme, these elemental forces can be either ineffectual or catastrophic. They ...
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![Explore by Topic ART, A HARVEST, AND A BLESSING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_CVAG_Header-400x284.jpg)
Burning sage, summer heat, and the vegetal scent of the plants in the traditional Indigenous tea garden of the ...
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![Explore by Topic SWEAT IT OUT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Sauna_Header-400x284.jpg)
True story: my first-ever sauna experience included pitchers of gin Caesars and a waterslide—a really steep one. ...
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![Explore by Topic THE SUSPENSE WON’T KILL US](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Covid_Header-400x284.jpg)
Running a tourism business, especially in an area as remote as Kyuquot Sound, is challenging ...
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![Explore by Topic ALL FIRED UP](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Potter_Header-400x284.jpg)
“I take a lot of my inspiration from the natural world around me,” says Gordon Hutchens, ...
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![Explore by Topic FEATURED ARTIST: RICHARD MRAVIK](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedArtist_Header-400x284.jpg)
Richard Mravik was born in 1973 in the city of Nove Zamky, Slovakia. Of Hungarian descent, he ...
![Explore by Topic FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHER: GLYNNIS GREY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedPhotographer_Header-400x284.jpg)
Glynnis was raised on a hobby farm on Vancouver Island by parents who were "hippies" of the ...
![Explore by Topic FEATURED WORDS: DISTANCE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_FeaturedWords_Header-400x284.jpg)
The fire that forged the earth
holds the space between us
ancient atoms
in our blood and ...
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![Explore by Topic PLAYING WITH FIRE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CVC_Vol23_Fire_Header-400x284.jpg)
“All along the way, where the deep green forest used to stand, lies a waste of mangled trunks ...
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![Explore by Topic COURTENAY AFTER COVID](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Courtenay_Header-400x284.jpg)
The third in our series imagining how the Comox Valley’s communities could look 20 years from ...
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![Explore by Topic DRAWN TO THE FLAMES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Flames_Header-400x284.jpg)
Earth, air, water, fire. In the extreme, these elemental forces can be either ineffectual or ...
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![Explore by Topic ART, A HARVEST, AND A BLESSING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_CVAG_Header-400x284.jpg)
Burning sage, summer heat, and the vegetal scent of the plants in the traditional Indigenous ...
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![Explore by Topic SWEAT IT OUT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CVC_Vol23_Sauna_Header-400x284.jpg)
True story: my first-ever sauna experience included pitchers of gin Caesars and a waterslide—a ...
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