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 A PLACE UPSTREAM](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol17_1-Intro-400x284.jpg)
The rivers of the Comox Valley are made in the winter. All season long, drop by drop, the rain falls and they ...
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![Explore by Topic WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-23_SouthAfrica-400x284.jpg)
Our trip to South Africa was twelve years in the making. In 2006, my mother returned to her native homeland to be ...
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![Explore by Topic THE GEM OF ISLAND MOUNTAINEERING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-22_MountainFoster-400x284.jpg)
Mt Colonel Foster is among the most impressive peaks on Vancouver Island. Its east face rises over 1000 metres and ...
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![Explore by Topic STANDING TALL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-20_Totems-400x284.jpg)
Driving on Comox Road along the Courtenay River estuary and through the K’ómoks Nation’s Number 1 reserve, it’s ...
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![Explore by Topic CREATIVE CONTROL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-21_Corwin-400x284.jpg)
Corwin Fox is very hard to get a hold of.
If you’ve emailed him recently, you’ve received an automatic reply ...
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![Explore by Topic ON THE RISE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-15_Baking-400x284.jpg)
The dough stretches and resists my hands as I roll it on the floured surface. As I work, the aroma of yeast ...
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![Explore by Topic VOTING FOR VITALITY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-15_Voting-400x284.jpg)
If there was ever a time to exercise your democratic right to vote, it's now. Across the globe, research has shown ...
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![Explore by Topic THINKING BEYOND BUSINESS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-13_SPL-400x284.jpg)
I enjoy a good local holiday, and one of the best things about living on Vancouver Island is the abundance of ...
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![Explore by Topic ON ANY GIVEN THURSDAY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-8_Horseshoe-400x284.jpg)
I came across a photo box recently containing pictures of a summer my family spent in a rented cottage at Penn ...
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![Explore by Topic THE CLARITY OF GLASS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-3_Glass-400x284.jpg)
I was sitting in a ceramics class attempting to blow into a hand-built vessel when the spark for glass blowing ...
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![Explore by Topic A PLACE UPSTREAM](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol17_1-Intro-400x284.jpg)
The rivers of the Comox Valley are made in the winter. All season long, drop by drop, the rain ...
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![Explore by Topic WITH CHILDLIKE WONDER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-23_SouthAfrica-400x284.jpg)
Our trip to South Africa was twelve years in the making. In 2006, my mother returned to her ...
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![Explore by Topic THE GEM OF ISLAND MOUNTAINEERING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-22_MountainFoster-400x284.jpg)
Mt Colonel Foster is among the most impressive peaks on Vancouver Island. Its east face rises ...
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![Explore by Topic STANDING TALL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-20_Totems-400x284.jpg)
Driving on Comox Road along the Courtenay River estuary and through the K’ómoks Nation’s ...
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![Explore by Topic CREATIVE CONTROL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-21_Corwin-400x284.jpg)
Corwin Fox is very hard to get a hold of.
If you’ve emailed him recently, you’ve received ...
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![Explore by Topic ON THE RISE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-15_Baking-400x284.jpg)
The dough stretches and resists my hands as I roll it on the floured surface. As I work, the ...
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![Explore by Topic VOTING FOR VITALITY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-15_Voting-400x284.jpg)
If there was ever a time to exercise your democratic right to vote, it's now. Across the ...
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![Explore by Topic THINKING BEYOND BUSINESS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-13_SPL-400x284.jpg)
I enjoy a good local holiday, and one of the best things about living on Vancouver Island is ...
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![Explore by Topic ON ANY GIVEN THURSDAY](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-8_Horseshoe-400x284.jpg)
I came across a photo box recently containing pictures of a summer my family spent in a rented ...
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![Explore by Topic THE CLARITY OF GLASS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol16-3_Glass-400x284.jpg)
I was sitting in a ceramics class attempting to blow into a hand-built vessel when the spark ...
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