• HUMAN CONNECTIONS: HOW WE MET Odette & June

    The word “organizing” in an ad posted on a telephone pole in Vancouver a decade ago stopped June in her t ...

    The word “organizing” in an ad posted on a telephone pole in Vancouver a decade ago stopped June in her tracks. “I knew immediately that it was calling me,” she says. At the time, June was a semi-reti ...

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  • Reboot August 2020

    DAVE MORRIS recently spent six months, instead of his usual three, in New Zealand, visiting his daughter ...

    DAVE MORRIS recently spent six months, instead of his usual three, in New Zealand, visiting his daughter and her family, when the pandemic put everyone in lockdown and closed the country’s borders. Wh ...

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  • Reboot July 2020

    MIA JOHNSON returned to Vancouver after living in California to complete an art history degree at Emily C ...

    MIA JOHNSON returned to Vancouver after living in California to complete an art history degree at Emily Carr School of Art. She followed that up with a master’s degree and then a PhD in computer techn ...

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  • Reboot April 2020

    PETER PHILLIPS says his upbringing in the British Midlands framed his lifelong values and philosophies th ...

    PETER PHILLIPS says his upbringing in the British Midlands framed his lifelong values and philosophies that include a strong work ethic and a commitment to family and community. Peter Phillips “It’s a ...

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  • REBOOT March 2020

    ROSEMARY NOWICKI found her poetic voice after she closed a successful contemporary furniture store in Van ...

    ROSEMARY NOWICKI found her poetic voice after she closed a successful contemporary furniture store in Vancouver in 2013. The former co-owner of entreNous, with partners Karen Nordin and Espe Thorleifs ...

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  • REBOOT February 2020

    ANNETTE DUCHARME is all charm! The accomplished Diamond award-winning Franco-Ontarian pop and rock singer ...

    ANNETTE DUCHARME is all charm! The accomplished Diamond award-winning Franco-Ontarian pop and rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and composer, originally from Windsor, has called Vancouver home since t ...

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  • Reboot January 2020

    KEVIN McKENZIE first taught himself the blues harp/harmonica when he was travelling country roads in Albe ...

    KEVIN McKENZIE first taught himself the blues harp/harmonica when he was travelling country roads in Alberta 40 years ago. “I was a closet player until I turned 50, and then I came out playing harmoni ...

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  • REBOOT December 2019

    DON and COLLEEN THOMSON relocated themselves and their business, DonCol Nature Products, to Salmon Arm fr ...

    DON and COLLEEN THOMSON relocated themselves and their business, DonCol Nature Products, to Salmon Arm from Abbotsford to be closer to their children and grandchildren. The couple wanted “to have more ...

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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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  • Donnie, Mr. Downchild, Walsh: It's Been A While

    Often cited as the “Father of Canadian Blues,” Donnie Walsh co-founded Downchild (known as Downchild Blue ...

    Often cited as the “Father of Canadian Blues,” Donnie Walsh co-founded Downchild (known as Downchild Blues Band until the early 1980s) with his late brother Richard “Hock” Walsh in 1969. A whopping 50 ...

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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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  • 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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  • Reboot- July 2019

    DON STEWART, a long-time performing Vancouver-based jazz musician with an unusually high octave range of ...

    DON STEWART, a long-time performing Vancouver-based jazz musician with an unusually high octave range of 4.5, was recently made the focus of an award-nominated 2019 documentary film titled The Day Don ...

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  • Reboot - June 2019

    DR. JOHN MILLAR started his medical career as a McGill graduated internist with a pilot’s licence, joinin ...

    DR. JOHN MILLAR started his medical career as a McGill graduated internist with a pilot’s licence, joining a team of Zambian Flying Doctors (although he was flown – not piloting himself – to the villa ...

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