Reading Time: 4 minutes 70 years of Smokey the Bear and aggressive wildfire suppression efforts filled the forests with a tinder load just waiting to blow
Tag: BC Life
Exploring the islands of B.C.’s Nuchatlitz lagoon
Reading Time: 4 minutes From sublime beauty to mysteries of an unknown world tucked away at the edge of the Pacific ocean
A B.C. coastal community orchestrates a new role in the global economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Powell River’s PRISMA on the Beach is part of a global movement of summer music festivals in towns that love to organize, fundraise and volunteer for the arts
Curating kindness: the acts of humanity that inspire daily life
Reading Time: 4 minutes Amidst the turmoil, simple acts of kindness: feeding a homeless man, art classes for apartment kids, and Wood Camp with Steve
Creative class millennials revolutionize small-town life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Big cities were going to be nirvana for artists, designers and technology freaks. But high costs are leading them to happy lives in rural settings instead
Where would you want to spend the apocalypse?
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the event the worst happens, the best place to weather a man-made disaster is probably far from crowded and chaotic urban centres
The things that we missed at home while on vacation
Reading Time: 4 minutes Returning to the bush after time away to find battling eagles, a new generation of ferries and the sad end to a magnificent sea lion bull
Earning the right to be considered a local
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fitting in to a small community requires loyalty, persistence, desire and a sense of the character – and characters – around you
Home is where both the coffee and wifi are ever-ready
Reading Time: 3 minutes Unlike in large cities, you don’t really have a favourite coffee shop in small towns; your locale is based on whom you are going to meet
The silver lining to the incessant grey clouds
Reading Time: 4 minutes A tall stack of books is slowly being winnowed down as the rain booms on the roof, and we read quietly to the crackling fire in the fireplace