Tag: featured articles

three cross-country skiers moving on a wide, open, snow-covered path through a forested area

Forest Breathing

Western Canada’s winter forests are a perfect place to recharge and restore yourself. By Marla Barr for ZenSeekers, December 22, 2021

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high-resolution mycelium network, green and blue, root-like with bright green dots, black background

Mapping the Fungal Underground

Underground fungal networks are one of the biggest untapped levers in climate science...fungal mapping and climate change...By Watershed Sentinel staff, February 28, 2022

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cover of Gavin Larson book, kneeling ballerina with hands stretched overhead and flowing long hair, rose-coloured dress

From Being a Ballerina

“I was lucky enough to sustain only two fractures during my career, but oddly, both were to my ribs.” The rib-cracking episode...From Being a Ballerina by Gavin Larson for DI

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Close-up of songwriter's face, with wavy white makeup around her black-rimmed eyes, painted as a Japanese spirit called the Nure-onna

SASAMI Summons Fuzz and Distortion For An Emotional Exorcism

Songwriter Sasami Ashworth is indulging the monster within on her multidimensional sophomore album, Squeeze. By Fraser Hamilton for RANGE, February 22, 2022

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heavy farm equipment spraying fertilizer on a field

Soaring fertilizer prices add to cost pressures

Global demand and production constraints are contributing to a substantial increase in the price of fertilizer this year. By Peter Mitham for Country Life in BC, February 2022

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White ski-doo 850 E-TEC Turbo R snowmobile, light snow falling

Ski-Doo Snow PASS Grant Program Returns for Winter 2023

Ski-Doo Snow PASS contributed $580,000 to more than 100 snowmobile organization projects in Winter 2022. By Mountain Sledder, June 9, 2022

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Viking boat in silhouette on water against mountain backdrop

The Medicine of Belief

Before the existence of germ theory and the discovery of viruses, people in the past found different explanations... By Terje Oestigaard for Culturally Modified, Dec. 21, 2020, Issue 9

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street view of a family home with modern, clean lines and a low horizontal wood fence, flanked by two mature trees

Structural strategy

Many times, when building a home or doing a renovation, the owner opts to not use an architect, instead relying on a designer and/or contractor. By Shannon Moneo for Spruce.

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View of two people clasping hands between their thights with outstretched legs and bare feet

Harmony, Disharmony, Repair

When life gets busy and we have kids, it is easy to put our marriage on the back burner. By Dr. Allison Rees for Island Parent, May 28, 2022

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Car drving through a large puddle on a flooded urban road, spraying water

Prepping drivers for fire and flood season

In recent years, we’ve experienced extreme heat waves, droughts, forest fires, heavy rainfall, and floods. By the Insurance Corporation of BC for BC Broker, June 2022

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Black man and woman holding hands, sitting on ground with apples on their heads and stacks of books behind them

Holding Space for Beauty and Blackness

This show poses necessary and timely questions, while holding space for the beauty, diversity, and complexity of Blackness. By Ashley Marshall for Rungh, Vol. 9 No. 1

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A display of car paint colours, including greys, blues, greens, and more unusual colours.

Automotive Colours

Car colours can be influenced by trends in fashion, interior design, and many other factors. By Eli Greenbaum for Collision Quarterly, Winter 2021.

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Flat rural area with fencing, gravel road and trees in distance, the picture having grey overlays to frame parts. Credit Michel Huneault.

With a View

A photo essay by Michel Huneault for Geist. Border photography on the 45th parallel, between Lakes Champlain and Memphremagog, an area shared by Québec and the state of Vermont.

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Outraged on Your Behalf

By Carleigh Baker for issue 90 of subTerrain, "outlaw literature".

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Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros and Lexi Mellish Mingo by Part Of Studio

BIPOC Art Ecosystem

BIPOC art lights up the community. Karmella Cen Benedito De Barros and Lexi Mellish Mingo. Room Magazine.

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Victoria’s Project Zero expands across British Columbia

On a business incubator program for youth and women entrepreneurs. By Amanda Wilson for Douglas Magazine, January 11, 2022

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Pedro Chamale with face propped on hand and arm.

That Classic Immigrant Story

By Fiona Bramble for HERE Magazine, May 9, 2022

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Freshly picked nutmeg - Zanzibar - credit Linda Blair

A Look At Paradise

On the island of Zanzibar. By Linda A. Blair for INSPIRED 55+ Lifestyle Magazine, May 29, 2022

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BC Farm Count Shrinks

By 10% since 2016. By Peter Mitham for Country Life in BC, May 18, 2022

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Detail of an aerial view of some of the devastation in the Fraser Valley caused by B.C.'s atmospheric rivers.

The Great Canadian Airlift

General Aviation to the Rescue. By Steve Drinkwater for Canadian Aviator, Jan/Feb 2022.

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Vitasoy carton - illustration in white, black, red and blue

The Love of My Life

A story about dumplings and dates by Emily Yu for ricepaper, Feb. 25, 2022.

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DL Acken in sea with arms up

The Cold Water Cure

A personal story on healing and connection through swimming in the Salish Sea by DL Acken for FOLKLIFE Volume 4. 2021. Plus a poem by Georgia Acken, aged 13

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Dillon Johnson gifts a blanket to Kristen Van’t Schip, with Drew Blaney and Hegus John Hackett. Photo by Abby Francis, LJI.

New Names, New Relationships

Corporate overtures to Tla’amin are more than just a symbol: they’re a start. By Abby Francis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, for qathet Living, November 2021

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Morraine Lake, Alberta. Photo by Christy Chan,

Hello, Nature!

On hiking by a non-hiker. Photos & writing by Christy Chan for LINK Magazine, Nov. 19/21 and November 2021 issue.

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Drawing of prisoners vertically divided by blue left and pink right by Bug Cru

Trans Prisoners in BC Can’t Get their Day in Court

One woman’s story shows how BC Corrections discriminates against trans people. By Tessa Vikander for Asparagus, Summer/Fall 2020

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