Kevin Mackenzie
Kevin MacKenzie is a self-taught musician and multimedia artist who learned how to weld at a young age from his ...
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Jake Tinkler-Josephi
Jake Tinkler- Josephi is a photographer based in Courtenay, British Columbia (BC). Growing up in the country ...
Tot Farming
It’s 2:45 on Tuesday afternoon, a treasured day for my twoyear-old daughter, Emerson, and me. Just after the ...
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Art+Earth
Beginning in 2019, the Art+Earth Festival has been a series of interactive, public events that provides an ...
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Honouring Medicine and Pagan Traditions
On the territory of The We Wai Kai nation, the original peoples of this land have harvested medicines on Vancouver ...
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Aromatic, Craveable, and Savoury
I love fermented foods. Fermentation is one of the few processes that can make things tastier and healthier at the ...
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Steel Wool Photography
Are you the daredevil type with a fearless personality? Are you unafraid of flames? Does standing in a ring of ...
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Moutcha Bay Resort
When the nights grow cooler and the roads become less lively, the savvy local traveler packs their bags, knowing ...
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Carving a Niche
Working with wood has been a long-standing family tradition that I almost overlooked as a career choice. In fact, ...
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Innovation in Education
I wade into the Campbell River, fly rod in hand. The cold snap of the morning breeze matches the fall temperature. ...
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Cries of the Wild
It’s hard to say when the first beings took an interest in sliding down the slopes around Mount Cain. I’m sure it ...
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Writing a New Narrative
Wildflowers & Co. is an Indigenous business owned by Alissa Assu, who belongs to the Wet’suwet’en First ...
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Little River
My name is Madison Lucas, I am 11 years old, and I am from Huuayaht First Nations. My favourite hobby is soccer, ...
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For the Love of Flying
Bastian, a helicopter pilot at 49 North Helicopters in Campbell River, began paragliding in December of 2019. He ...
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Guardian, Steward, and Watchkeeper
We are standing on the Baikie Island Trail, about one kilometre down river from the Haig-Brown House where ...
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This Ain’t the Mainland
I don’t get island fever. Quite the opposite, actually. There is a feeling of safety that transpires with the last ...
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Pointing the Bow North
Spring brings variable weather and an itch to cast off the mooring lines. Except my itch goes beyond sailing. I ...
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The Future is Digital
When the global pandemic first hit the Strathcona region, the local performing arts community was faced with many ...
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River Magic
Life on Vancouver Island ebbs and flows with the life-cycle of the salmon. In the warmth of the late-September ...
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CLEVER CROW
Lia Cormick launched Clever Crow about three years ago at the Comox Valley Farmers’ Market selling herbs, spices ...
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BEER TASTING 101
Four ingredients: water, malt (usually barley), yeast, and hops. Beer. A simple recipe but such a complex ...
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JOY DISTRICT
Halfway through Joy District's set, the power to their bass, both guitars, and all four microphones cut out. On ...
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REACHING OUT WITH ROBOTICS
From a converted classroom on the second floor of NIC’s Discovery Hall, Albert Balbon is changing the way students ...
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WHY TEA?
Why not tea? Growing up on a farm on a Hornby Island farm with summers spent working on a commercial fish boat ...
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MUD, SWEAT, AND TEARS
It’s the last weekend in October, and like so many salmon to their spawning grounds I find myself once again in a ...
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REFLECTIONS
Spring rolls around and you find yourself back in the truck, bouncing along on your way to the cut-block. What ...
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POWELL RIVER
I moved to Powell River when I was 12. At that time it was just another mill town where the primary goals in life ...
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WIRED WATERSHED
“Colby is a Swiss army knife. He pretty much does it all. James is our IT guy,” explains Jason (‘action’) Jackson. ...
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GET ON BOARD
Get on Board is a Comox Valley based registered non-profit organization which uses board sports-surf/skate/snow ...
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GHOST CATS
The cats were intensely focused, only glancing at me before returning their focus to my dog Taz, a large German ...
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ECLECTIC TONES
We all have a virtual playlist running through our minds that gets us from one day to the next. Music can inspire ...
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NECESSARY BALANCE
The intrepid leader of the Pantuso Dance Studio is a professional dancer, singer and performer in his own right. ...
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AGRI-BALANCE
There are many reasons to make fun of the French–their philandering presidents, that air of cultural superiority ...
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PEDAL POWER
The Comox Valley enjoys a reputation for clean living, and rightly so. With inviting beaches meandering along vast ...
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LIVE / WORK IN TIN TOWN
Imagine no commute to work, more time for sleep and leisurely mornings, flexible hours, no boss, more family time, ...
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SQUEEGEE VALLEY
Screen-printing is enjoying a resurgence on a worldwide scale, in part because the industrial/functional side is ...
MEMORIES OF CHINATOWN
Walking along the old Wellington Railway trail where alder, hard hack and osier dogwood create a bower of ...
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A YOGA STATE OF MIND
It doesn’t matter whether you have tried yoga, or not. Whether you’re good at it, or not. Yoga isn’t really about ...
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CYCLE OF LIFE
I once met a witch in a cafe in Cairo who told me that I was a lot like the season autumn. She explained, that for ...
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MOVEMENT
Arguably one of the only constants that exist in our world is the reality that nothing is constant. Change itself ...
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