• My Friend's House

    Linda Murphy, a 57-year-old real estate agent with Toronto’s Royal LePage, has spent the last seven month ...

    Linda Murphy, a 57-year-old real estate agent with Toronto’s Royal LePage, has spent the last seven months hiking across the Pacific Crest Trail, which is over 4,000 km long and equivalent in length a ...

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  • REBOOT- November 2019

    Photo of Genise Gill. GENISE GILL is a repeat rebooter. Between founding small businesses, travelling the ...

    Photo of Genise Gill. GENISE GILL is a repeat rebooter. Between founding small businesses, travelling the globe to volunteer or furthering her formal education, she finds renewed inspiration by regene ...

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  • Reboot- October 2019

    Former actor, and theatre board member Rob Haynes. Photo credit: Carollyne Sinclaire. ROB HAYNES received ...

    Former actor, and theatre board member Rob Haynes. Photo credit: Carollyne Sinclaire. ROB HAYNES received the Mayor’s Award of Excellence for Civic Volunteers in his native Vancouver in 2016, the same ...

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  • Keep Going at 85 with Zest in Life

    To retire into idleness is to die. This opinion is supported by a recent Wall Street Journal report, “The ...

    To retire into idleness is to die. This opinion is supported by a recent Wall Street Journal report, “The Case Against Early Retirement,” which states that like “many other pleasures, [retirement] may ...

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  • Reboot- September 2019

    Ann is a life-long volunteer at different local organizations. Photo Courtesy of Ann Munro. ANN MUNRO is ...

    Ann is a life-long volunteer at different local organizations. Photo Courtesy of Ann Munro. ANN MUNRO is completing her 28th year as a Bard on the Beach volunteer. She’s aiming to get to 30 years in s ...

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  • Making Music Accessible

    This isn’t your typical rock star story about a boy discovered while singing his songs on YouTube. This i ...

    This isn’t your typical rock star story about a boy discovered while singing his songs on YouTube. This is the tale of real-life guitar playing virtuoso Dr. Alexander Dunn, a professor at the Universi ...

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  • Smoke And Mirrors

    He will forever be known as the Cigarette Smoking Man, the creepy and sinister operative in the TV series ...

    He will forever be known as the Cigarette Smoking Man, the creepy and sinister operative in the TV series The X-Files. While heroes Scully and Mulder were investigating the paranormal, the Cigarette S ...

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  • No Limits

    Four-time JUNO-award winning record producer and bassist/composer Rick Kilburn opens the door to his tran ...

    Four-time JUNO-award winning record producer and bassist/composer Rick Kilburn opens the door to his tranquil Qualicum, BC home, where he and his wife live with his 91-year-old father, Jim Kilburn. Of ...

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  • Reboot- August 2019

    Vancouver School Board member Barb Parrott. Photo courtesy of Barb Parrott. BARB PARROTT was still underg ...

    Vancouver School Board member Barb Parrott. Photo courtesy of Barb Parrott. BARB PARROTT was still undergoing radiation therapy last year when she decided it was time to run for a civic election seat ...

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  • Weaving History And Joy

    Anxiety, discomfort and the regret of consuming too much sugar are feelings most of us experience during ...

    Anxiety, discomfort and the regret of consuming too much sugar are feelings most of us experience during a trip to the dentist. A dose of inspiration is the last thing anticipated amid an intimate enc ...

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  • Paying It Forward

    At 57, Rebekah Demirel is a classically trained acupuncturist and East Asian medicine practitioner. She i ...

    At 57, Rebekah Demirel is a classically trained acupuncturist and East Asian medicine practitioner. She is a Master Practitioner in Clinical Counselling specializing in post-traumatic stress and criti ...

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  • Artful Islanders

    I recently spent a month living on Salt Spring Island. I met people with unique abilities and talents. Se ...

    I recently spent a month living on Salt Spring Island. I met people with unique abilities and talents. Several caught my fancy. I asked if I could interview them and learn a bit more about that they d ...

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  • Bridging the Gap

    INSPIRED Magazine contributor Joan Boxall discusses her new book, published by Caitlin Press in May 2019: ...

    INSPIRED Magazine contributor Joan Boxall discusses her new book, published by Caitlin Press in May 2019:  DrawBridge: Drawing Alongside My Brother’s Schizophrenia by Joan Boxall Illustrations by ...

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  • Tony Parsons: My Life In News

    He didn't want to be an anchor. At least initially. “I thought law would be my main choice. People seemed ...

    He didn't want to be an anchor. At least initially. “I thought law would be my main choice. People seemed to make money from it and enjoy it, so I had my eye on that,” says Tony Parsons, the man who b ...

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  • The Power Of Choice

    Do you have the power to choose how you age? According to Cori Ellingson, author and wellness facilitator ...

    Do you have the power to choose how you age? According to Cori Ellingson, author and wellness facilitator, the answers is yes. Cori is a self-described truth seeker committed to the promotion of healt ...

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