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Orca Conservation

For 23 years, Troy Bright has been watching whales. When I meet him on the shore of Beautiful Bay on Malcolm Island, BC, on a hazy late August afternoon, he is perched atop a log, hydrophone system at

Go Zero Waste

How much garbage do you generate? What about recycling or food waste? The Zero Waste movement is swiftly picking up momentum around the world, prompting people to rethink plastic, packaging, and consu

Simple Swaps for Your Zero Waste Journey

Make simple swapsWhen it comes to your Zero Waste journey, picking one change to make at a time is easier than overhauling your entire life at once! Here are a few ideas to inspire you.Bathroom:Use a

Ocean Heroes Bootcamp – Fighting Plastic Pollution

Encouraging youth to pursue their passions and fight for what they believe in is a powerful way for parents to teach independence, inspire learning, and impart the importance of the impact they can ma

Eco-friendly Food Storage

Earlier this year, Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will ban harmful single-use plastics as early as 2021. This is great news for Canada and for our planet. The sad truth is that less than 10 perc

Blazing an organic trail

Travis Heide isn’t afraid to take risks. In the early 2000s, Heide took his newly minted business degree from the University of Saskatchewan to Calgary to work in commodity trading before starting his

10 kids’ remedies on the run

To make organizing a cinch, purchase a first aid kit with supplies like bandages and gauze. Then, consider adding some of the following suggestions to round out your stock. 1. Herbal teasStash individ

Going for gold, one ring at a time

When 12-year old Joseph Brown looks you in the eye with an intensity beyond his years and says he’s going to represent Canada in the Olympics and become a professional boxer, you believe him. You some

Feeling lonely?

Ever feel lonely in your relationships? Unheard in conversations? Loneliness can be exacerbated by how we do, or don’t, listen. And this can affect both the physical and psychological health of indivi

Unbreakable Jewel

Jewel never wanted to be famous.In the early ’90s, Jewel Kilcher from Alaska almost turned down the multi-million-dollar contract that would jumpstart her music career, enabling her to sell more than