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 CHOSEN ROADS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_2-BMX_Header-400x284.jpg)
Do I love my mountain bike or dirt bike more?
When I was four years old, I saw a dirt bike in a book and became ...
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![Explore by Topic LETTING IN THE LIGHT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_1-Intro-400x284.jpg)
Open. It brings to mind not one singular definition but a refusal of its opposites. Stubbornness. Inflexibility. A ...
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![Explore by Topic ANCHORED IN ICELAND](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_15-Iceland-400x284.jpg)
In the late seventies, Sandra Dykstra skied into Skoki Lodge, an historical backcountry destination in the ...
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![Explore by Topic A COMMUNITY EMERGES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_13-Community_Header-400x284.jpg)
Nala'atsi is a word in the Kwak'wala language with more than one meaning, but one in particular conveys what we’re ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: INDI NEUFELD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_LittleValley-400x284.jpg)
My favourite things about living in Black Creek are that my house is close to my school, which is nice, and also ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYDAY INDULGENCES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_12-CheeseChocolate-400x284.jpg)
Hallucinations. Feelings of bliss or excitement. A turbo-charged memory. Chocolate and cheese, those classic ...
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![Explore by Topic READY AND ABEL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_11-Cain-400x284.jpg)
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” This is what Jeff Jones, the secretary of Mount Cain’s board, used to say. And then ...
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![Explore by Topic ON A SWELL AND A PRAYER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol13_10-Paddling-400x284.jpg)
What a difference a year makes. I’m watching a small train of two-foot waves roll through a pack of paddlers at ...
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![Explore by Topic POWER MOVE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol13_HipHop-400x284.jpg)
If you’re of a certain age, you’ve likely watched Flashdance. As a full-blown Gen Xer, I’ve watched this iconic ...
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![Explore by Topic KYE BAY MORNING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol13_9-KyeBay-400x284.jpg)
Calm gravity of a misty morning rise —
Waves tickle the shoreline into a smile.
Cricket song lingers, entangled ...
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![Explore by Topic CHOSEN ROADS](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_2-BMX_Header-400x284.jpg)
Do I love my mountain bike or dirt bike more?
When I was four years old, I saw a dirt bike ...
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![Explore by Topic LETTING IN THE LIGHT](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_1-Intro-400x284.jpg)
Open. It brings to mind not one singular definition but a refusal of its opposites. ...
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![Explore by Topic ANCHORED IN ICELAND](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_15-Iceland-400x284.jpg)
In the late seventies, Sandra Dykstra skied into Skoki Lodge, an historical backcountry ...
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![Explore by Topic A COMMUNITY EMERGES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_13-Community_Header-400x284.jpg)
Nala'atsi is a word in the Kwak'wala language with more than one meaning, but one in ...
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![Explore by Topic LITTLE VALLEY: INDI NEUFELD](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_LittleValley-400x284.jpg)
My favourite things about living in Black Creek are that my house is close to my school, which ...
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![Explore by Topic EVERYDAY INDULGENCES](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_12-CheeseChocolate-400x284.jpg)
Hallucinations. Feelings of bliss or excitement. A turbo-charged memory. Chocolate and cheese, ...
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![Explore by Topic READY AND ABEL](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol14_11-Cain-400x284.jpg)
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” This is what Jeff Jones, the secretary of Mount Cain’s board, used ...
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![Explore by Topic ON A SWELL AND A PRAYER](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol13_10-Paddling-400x284.jpg)
What a difference a year makes. I’m watching a small train of two-foot waves roll through a ...
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![Explore by Topic POWER MOVE](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol13_HipHop-400x284.jpg)
If you’re of a certain age, you’ve likely watched Flashdance. As a full-blown Gen Xer, I’ve ...
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![Explore by Topic KYE BAY MORNING](https://thecollectivemags.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CVC_Vol13_9-KyeBay-400x284.jpg)
Calm gravity of a misty morning rise —
Waves tickle the shoreline into a smile.
Cricket song ...
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