INTO THE GREAT WHITE OPEN
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest of earth’s continents. Though it’s a region of extremes, it’s much ...
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ALL Volume 14
TREE OF LIFE
Every second week, a group of adults varying in age and background meets at the beautiful Abbey Studio, a ...
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GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE
Eric Greene’s mornings are different from most people’s. The New York city-based 36 year-old wakes before dawn, ...
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BAR CART BOUNTY
For many, spring means decadent chocolate Easter eggs and sunny daffodils. For others it’s the first taste of our ...
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SPIN IT TO WIN IT
When the days grow short and the nights grow long, the foggy village of Cumberland starts to slow down. But in a ...
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DEATH OF A WORKER’S FRIEND
Near the end of July 1918, the blackberries were just starting to ripen, a welcome development for the hungry ...
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GRAVITATIONAL PULL
Though the Comox Valley leaves little to be desired for the Island’s mountain biking community, our excitement ...
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LITTLE VALLEY: TAYLOR GRINDE
At 11 years old and growing up in the Comox Valley, I am lucky to be exposed to a lot of culture and experiences. ...
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THE PEACOCK BEAN PARADOX
Both of my parents emigrated from Europe to Canada soon after WW2. People of the Netherlands, like other ...
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THE TROUBLE WITH WOLVES
A herd of Roosevelt Elk browses willows in a bog near the Mount Cain turnoff. Nearby, a pack of wolves lie hunched ...
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FINDING YOUR SPARK
Blissful, haunting, enchanting, and tranquil are just words on this flat piece of paper in black and white. ...
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HOME VIDEO
We’re familiar with boom and bust on the west coast, with the effect of a fluctuating economy challenging us all. ...
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BRIDGING THE GAP
American sociologist Matthew Desmond said that housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. These days, ...
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A WILDERNESS RETREAT, REIMAGINED
High on the verdant slope of Forbidden Plateau rests a craftsman lodge overlooking the Salish Sea. Though the area ...
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THE NATIVE SONS HALL
Long known as “the cultural heart of Courtenay,” the Native Sons Hall is the most historical and iconic building ...
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TUNING THE VIBRATIONS OF WELLNESS
Bowen Technique involves a gentle yet dynamic system of muscle and connective tissue moves, which balance the body ...
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STRAIGHT AND TO THE POINT
A barefoot walk in the soft moss, slowly and with intent, senses heightened, just to witness the scampering of a ...
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THE DIRTY AND THE DEDICATED
To some, it’s the Village in the Forest, to others simply “Cumby.”
But to those of us who crave the mud ...
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CHOSEN ROADS
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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LETTING IN THE LIGHT
Open. It brings to mind not one singular definition but a refusal of its opposites. Stubbornness. Inflexibility. A ...
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