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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.

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The Ghosts of D’Arcy Island

Just off the coast of our peaceful seaside community, unquiet ghosts rage against the gods in the morning mist. Our wild West Coast beauty harbours a very ugly piece of human history. D’Arcy Island was a leper colony from 1891 to 1924. It housed society’s untouchables: the soiled and diseased ones – shoved away into […]

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Human To Human

Is proper communication dead? A recent email nightmare gives me cause for concern. Someone with limited communication skills decided to get very annoyed with me by email. I was flattened to see an online message full of bold red letters followed by multiple exclamation marks. It left me wondering: Have emailing, texting, tweeting and Facebook

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The Tao of Self-Love

When is the last time that you saw a movie or heard a song about our most important love affair of all – the one with ourselves? Every second of the day we are brainwashed and inundated with songs, media messages and films about the desperate need to be loved by others. There are millions

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The Skinny on Stress

Many experts believe that psychological stress plays a part in many illnesses. Psychological stress decreases immunity and makes people more susceptible to disease. In my personal opinion, chronic unmanaged stress can have a very damaging effect on a person’s mental and physical health. It is crucial to learn ways to mitigate stress in our personal

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Heroes: The Real Deal

“You are a pig!” Those ugly mean words from a well known celebrity on a popular Canadian reality TV show made my stomach heave. With these kind of role models, is it any wonder that bullying is becoming one of the worst social problems in modern society? These are the kind of “heros” our children

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