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This photo is from a photo-essay of Christopher Weeks’s called “Ghost Town - Images of the Vancouver Pandemic”. Submitted by Christopher Weeks.

Many kids are building forts at home during isolation as parents work at kitchen tables and bedrooms with closed doors. No daycare, no playgrounds, no friends and what is this virus everyone is afraid of? .... something so comforting about a fort of…

Early in the evening I parked around the corner of Fort Street, a main street in Victoria, and walked to the sidewalk. Just beside the entrance to an apartment building, about 6 feet from me, was a beautiful young buck who was unperturbed by my…

Working as a recreation therapist in a Long term care home with residents who suffer from memory loss was not easy when Covid -19 hit! Suddenly we could do nothing then only holding there hands, take them out to the garden and listen. No programs…

I don’t 100% recommend having a wedding during a pandemic, but I have to say it’s gonna be one heck of a story to tell and looking back now I wouldn’t change a thing. It made our special day so unique. And at the end of the day the show must go on.…

Nancy’s daughter is physically challenged and lives in an assisted living home, which was closed to visitors because of the pandemic. Nancy notes that she and other family members regularly visit through the living room window. She says, “Each time…

Since the pandemic began, Lisa has been creating a drawing/painting a day. She feels that “doing this gives structure to my day and helps me stay grounded, and it is the one way I feel I can serve the people in my life by sharing art and hopeful…

Submitted by Wanda Bratt.

As I strolled along a northern dyke walkway in the beautiful community of Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, I stopped to look behind me and in front of me and said: the road is long but the walk is worth it. This past year the journey of life has…