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Your West Coast Culture. A magazine about the people and places that make the Saanich Peninsula the little piece of paradise we call home.

The Golden Years – Love, Loss & Letting Go: A Daughter’s Journey

by Sherrin Griffin VP, Operations, Sidney SeniorCare -  This past July, I lost my Dad. After an 18-month-long odyssey encompassing a hip replacement at 89, severe incontinence, multiple cancer diagnoses and bad falls, countless stints in and out of the hospital, failing mobility, debilitating pain, anxiety and increasing dementia, my poor Dad is finally at [...]

The Golden Years – Love, Loss & Letting Go: A Daughter’s Journey

Rarity Fashion: Design through Generations

story by Kelly Finerty | photo by Sarah Hartley Photography -  In a world of Shirley Temple, Mary Poppins and the pages of European Vogue lives the inspiration to create fantasy heirloom children's fashions, so custom, so detailed, so fabric focused, you might call them a "rarity." The practical West Coast spin on the fancy

Rarity Fashion: Design through Generations

Weatherwit – Lost in Translation

by Steve Sakiyama -  One day my mother got lost while driving to an appointment (this was long before GPS, or maps for that matter). When she asked a stranger for directions, he pointed to where she needed to go while singing an old military song at the top of his lungs: "OVER THERE …

Weatherwit – Lost in Translation

NIȽ TU,O – in the beginning: NIȽ TU,O Collaboration to Centralize Coast Salish Law in Child & Family Care

by Katharina Stocker | photos courtesy NIȽ TU,O Child & Family Services -  As a Delegated Aboriginal Agency, NIȽ TU,O administers parts of the Child, Family, and Community Service Act, the main child protection law enacted by Canada's colonial government. NIȽ TU,O, however, is Coast-Salish-Led and recognizes Coast Salish laws governing the care of children

NIȽ TU,O – in the beginning: NIȽ TU,O Collaboration to Centralize Coast Salish Law in Child & Family Care

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