
All of us who love the alpine have our own reasons for getting out there. A hiker I once passed in the Kweishun ...
Words & featured photo by
Eryn Tombu Haigh

My name is Farrah. I am eight years old and right now I am living in Granada, Spain. I started the third ...

Although Cumberland-based Black Cat Skateboards is a relatively new entity, its founder’s love of skateboarding ...

Terry Lewis sits in his home office, staring at a computer screen displaying a GIS map that’s a spider’s web of ...

40 Knots Winery is alive with potential energy. I sit in the glassed-in terrace across from Layne Craig, who owns ...

I remember the sweet satisfaction of pushing peas into the slowly warming spring soil of my first garden “plot,” a ...
Words & Art by
Sally Podmore

“Deputy Minister Department of Mines offers services of H. M. Laing of Comox [to] accompany Expedition … to act as ...

Introduced in 2018 by Comox Valley Nature (CVN), this event encourages Comox Valley residents to pay attention to ...

To call Hornby Island “ferry dependent” is not just a figure of speech. If you live on this idyllic Gulf Island, ...

The Comox Valley is known for its abundance of fresh seafood and farm produce. At the right time of year, shoppers ...

In 2017, I attended a Soldier On ski camp at Mount Washington that changed (and maybe even saved) my life.
It ...
Words by
Nick Holyome
Photos courtesy of
Soldier On

We live by stories. By stories we understand the world, and ourselves. Each culture has its cosmology: an ...

As a Canadian living in Hong Kong in the late 1970s, I was regarded as a gweilo, a “white devil.” Even though I ...

The merry month of May is highly anticipated in the Village of Cumberland. Since 1888, Villagers have gathered on ...

Many people might be surprised to learn that one of the most successful astronomy news sites on the Internet is ...
Words by
Ryan Stuart
Featured photo by
Sara Kempner

As we rounded the northern tip of Nootka Island, we were struck with sizable swell, wind, and refracting waves ...
Words & Photos by
Erica Keen

Strolling through Macdonald Wood Park, with its giant trees and verdant flora within town boundaries, is one of ...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIVING A LIFE:
PAY ATTENTION.
BE ASTONISHED.
TELL ABOUT IT.
– MARY OLIVER
In the ...

Bryan Walwork got serious about photography when he learned to develop film and print at age 12. In 2002, he ...

Julie Sabey's creative work has, until recently, only been viewed on screens. Her writing and directing career has ...

Keep a childlike curiosity in search of life’s miraculous delight.
I celebrated my 85th ...

When I was a Merville-raised teenager turning 19, my father wanted to take me for a beer on my birthday. Becoming ...

With stunning visuals and captivating words April Bencze is reconnecting humans with the natural world. Her ...
Interview & photo by
Ross Bodenmann