The resurgence of the indie bookstore
In January of this year, I started an internship at Windowseat Books in Nanaimo, in partnership with a creative writing course at VIU. The object of...
Caileigh Broatch
Features Editor
Caileigh Broatch is a fifth-year creative writing major. She freelance edits for Broadview Press, managed Portal magazine in 2018, and was awarded the Pat Bevan and Myrtle Bergren creative writing awards for fiction. Her work has appeared Portal and The Nav.
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Best of the city: Cold Front Gelato
Upon first glance, Cold Front Gelato, located at 306-60 Commercial Street, is like many of the other shops in the area: cool, funky, and smelling...
Yours truly
Here’s the thing. Letter writing, in its more refined days of thinner paper, messy cursive, and licked stamps, was how people connected. When my...
Back to the trenches: Nanaimo Women March On
Before attempting to encompass the success and importance of the 2019 Women’s March in Nanaimo, it’s imperative that one understands where the march...
Best of the city: Plants and Leather
Nanaimo is brimming with independent retailers who proudly sport local and handmade clothes, shoes, accessories, books, and in some cases, plants....
Coming to a backyard near you: a total lunar eclipse!
On January 20th, 2019 residents of Nanaimo will bear witness to the only lunar eclipse Canada will have a view of this year. A lunar eclipse, which...
The legend of Leechtown’s golden boot
Just east of Victoria lies a long-forgotten town. At first glance, it looks as though it was never more than a few shanties and a log hotel. Along...
Below the Surface: A tail of residential orcas
On July 24 2018 the killer whale J-35—nicknamed Tahlequah—began a 17-day “tour of grief” for her daughter that worried researchers. The 20-year-old...
Back to school guide
I hope your summer was spent in a wake of freedom, bright with the knowledge that after a few short sun-filled (and briefly, smoke-filled) days you...