There’s something that connects me to a greater world when I fire up the smoker. I can’t put my finger on it. ...
SIMPLE PRESERVATION TECHNIQUES PROVIDE FOOD SECURITY—AND FLAVOUR.
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By all accounts, Johnny Bannerman is a very nice young man. He’s a member of the Cumberland Volunteer Fire ...
At the close of World War I, the so-called Spanish flu claimed lives all over the world, even in the Comox Valley.
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Oh my god, this hurts so bad... Why does this hurt so bad?? Ohmygodohmygodohmygod. Uggggggghhhhhh, this burns so ...
Buddhist wisdom tells us that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Try telling your body that.
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Running a tourism business, especially in an area as remote as Kyuquot Sound, is challenging at the best of ...
COVID-19 has changed global tourism forever. Here on the island, local operators and residents need to imagine a new future for the industry.
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“I take a lot of my inspiration from the natural world around me,” says Gordon Hutchens, Denman Island’s ...
Award-winning potter Gordon Hutchens may be in his seventies, but he’s still got plenty of clay to shape, students to teach, and ideas to pursue.
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Richard Mravik was born in 1973 in the city of Nove Zamky, Slovakia. Of Hungarian descent, he was noted from a ...
Glynnis was raised on a hobby farm on Vancouver Island by parents who were "hippies" of the day. Their ...
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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“All along the way, where the deep green forest used to stand, lies a waste of mangled trunks and branches, enough ...
On a hot summer day in 1938, a few sparks from a locomotive caused Vancouver Island’s largest blaze.
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The third in our series imagining how the Comox Valley’s communities could look 20 years from now.How ...
Twenty years after the pandemic, a local historian looks back.
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