Hello Everyone, It’s been far too long
So Covid hit and I was layed off from my job for 4 months. I found this to be a very creative time for me as I used it to pursue my passion, formulating natural skincare products and blending essential oils. Creating natural skincare takes a lot of time, in particular, researching natural ingredients and their benefits for your skin. I found two fantastic books. ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by Robin Wall Kimmerer – This book of Indiginous Wisdom gave me a newfound respect for plants, I will never take the nature around me for granted again. Also, ‘Pacific Northwest...
Read MoreRonna-Rae Leonard,
BCNDP Candidate for Courtenay-Comox I was proud to serve as part of the first government caucus in BC that was 50% BCNDP women, with 50% of the Ministers being women. Women need to see other women in leadership positions, who can and will reflect our lived experiences in setting policy to make a more equitable world. I have been inspired by other women in politics to rise above the undercurrent and overt sexism that runs throughout society, to give voice to the needs of women everywhere; and I am proud to be part of Team Horgan, to seek re-election to continue the work of government to see...
Read MoreNew! Join the Creative Industries Trade Accelerator Program
Increase your international sales – bursaries available for WEC clients The Trade Accelerator Program (TAP) has developed a special cohort specifically designed for those in the Creative Industries! Women’s Enterprise Centre is a Supporting Sponsor of TAP, and we’re delighted to share this special cohort, which will provide focused support for the following businesses: audiovisual; design (exhibit design, fashion design, artistic product design, public art design, urban design); music; performing arts; publishing (books and periodicals); visual arts; interactive digital...
Read MoreSheila Malcolmson
BC NDP Candidate for Nanaimo I am running for re-election because I love my community, love the coast, and want to keep fighting for it. After 16 years of BC Liberal cuts to services, schools, seniors care, and tax holidays for the wealthy and well connected, the NDP has been working hard to build BC back up. We’ve made a lot of progress for Nanaimo the past three years – investing in childcare, care homes and the hospital here, for example. We’ve advanced reconciliation with Snuneymuxw First Nation. There is still more to do and the BC NDP will keep supporting people...
Read MoreThis recipe is for a full blown Greek meal.
We start with a flambéed cheese dish – Saganaki. Followed by a main course of slow cooked leg of lamb served with rice and a Greek salad followed by a classic dessert of Ekmek. Saganaki 2 small packages of Saganaki cheese (can be found in the cheese section of good grocery stores or in specialty shops) – 110 gm each Flour as required Oil as required Dust the cheese lightly with the flour. Heat the oil in a large enough pan to hold both slices of cheese at the same time. As soon as the oil is smoking hot, add the cheese and cook on one side. Carefully flip and cook on the opposite...
Read MoreThe 2020 Provincial Election .
Island Woman Magazine will actively support and encourage all the women candidates on Vancouver Island that will be running in the upcoming October 24th 2020 provincial election. We invite the candidates initially to send us biographies of who they are, and why they are running for office. We encourage them to state their values and their vision of what needs to be done to ensure that we can maintain and improve the quality of life that we enjoy here on Vancouver Island. Most importantly, we ask them why we should vote for them. During the campaign we will post the details of any meetings...
Read MoreForces of Nature
My mother visits twice a day, at 11:11, since the day she died, 20 years ago. My father comes to me in the guise of a Hummingbird, at least once a day, if not more. There was a Hummingbird on the sign they put on his room the day we took him off life support, almost a year ago. I was already relating him to the Humming Birds who were fliting around my place in such numbers in his final weeks. When I asked the nurse why the Humming Bird sign was on his door she was quiet at first, as if deciding what to tell me. She chose honesty, for which I was grateful. “It’s to tell the staff not to...
Read MoreTo Break Through We Have to Break Down
I have felt a certain kind of interest and excitement since the first moments of hearing about the Covid -19 virus. Being aware of it gave me a certain tingling in my body and my soul. My heart reached out to the expanding movement of the virus, recognizing a certain sureness that it had come into our lives as a teacher and guide. An agent that would lead us into something that we badly needed, something that could no longer be avoided. A rendezvous with human evolution physically and spiritually. (Please don’t be shocked or surprised by this at first glance. I will explain.) My...
Read MoreIf you’re thinking about building a website
getting more online traffic, outsourcing, or growing your business then don’t forget to join us for one of our free webinars! , August 27 [This Thursday!] | How to Plan and Launch a New Website September 10 | Export Ready: Resources to Grow Your Business Outside of BC September 15 | Privacy: How to Outsource Work While Keeping You and Your Customers Safe September 17 | How to Get and Grow Your Website Traffic: The Basics September 21 | Finding and Bidding on Opportunities with the Government of Canada Please see below for more information and feel...
Read MoreDuring this time of uncertainty
I want to help you to get into a state of inner balance. We all prefer different ways to overcome stress, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, no energy, poor sleep or other worries so many experience now. Some of the following is free or by donation. 1.. Bruno Groening is helping all of us when asked. To find out who he is go to https://bruno-groening.org 6000 doctors are involved world wide to evaluate the healings. Sometimes people experience healings watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNlXuclHhVc Another way is Braco’s gazing session and he is also taken seriously by...
Read MoreThis is a quick and easy dinner
that takes advantage of all the fresh locally grown ingredients that are available this time of year. Warm Potato salad 2 lb waxy new potatoes, skin on Water to cover 1 tsp salt Try and select potatoes that are of the same size as much as possible. Place the potatoes and the water in a pan with a tight fitting lid. Place over medium high heat and bring to the boil. Add the salt and reduce the heat to low. Cook just until the potatoes are tender, approximately 15 minutes. While the potatoes are cooking, mix the following in a bowl large enough to hold all of the rest of the ingredients. ¼...
Read MoreA GOOD ‘SIGN’
The story that follows is the first segment of my memoirs. My earliest childhood recollections are of post-war, pre-revolution Hungary, where I was born to a former ballerina whose first husband had abandoned her and their two young children and a twice widowed agronomist who loved the “smell of kids”. My father had lost two wives in most tragic ways and, even more tragically, two children. So when he met my mother, he fell not only for her but the two kids and the match was made. Well, almost. . . My mother being very religious, a convert to the Catholic faith, took the...
Read MorePresentism” is the practice of applying 2020 cultural expectations
‘ and values to some 18th- or 19th-century events we’d rather forget. “Presentism” is comfortable because it encourages a kind of morally superior self-congratulation by interpreting the past as it suits us. Denial of the past would mean that the truth of the country’s history becomes something best forgotten in the interests of generational comfort. There is an increasing tendency to prefer that such and thus events in the past just did not happen and if it did, like Dorothy, we could cause it to simply disappear by wishing it away. But pulling down statues and changing building...
Read MoreThe grim reality
Canada has failed in its duty to protect vulnerable eldersin long-term care, according to a highly critical report that examines the issue in light of the COVID-19 crisis. The report released Friday by the Royal Society of Canada found the pandemic was a “shock wave” that exposed many long-standing deficiencies in the system and caused high levels of “physical, mental and emotional suffering” for seniors. “Those lives lost unnecessarily had value,” reads the report by a working group that was chaired by Dr. Carole Estabrooks at the University of...
Read MoreBBQ fish with a fresh fruit salsa, marinated cucumber salad
with fresh dill, potato kebobs, grilled fruit and pound cake kebobs BBQ fish 1 large fillet of salmon, pin bones removed (you can substitute another fish in place of the salmon. Just be sure it is a firm textured fish) 1 lemon Salt and pepper as required Lightly grease the grills on the BBQ and then preheat to high. Squeeze the juice of the lemon over the flesh side of the salmon and then season generously with salt and pepper. Once the BBQ has come up to heat, lay the salmon flesh side down on the grill. Cook for 2 minutes. Carefully slide 2 large lifters under the fish and rotate...
Read MoreThere are many roads to wellness
and we each arrive from different places and routes. Mine has always been a quest for understanding how we can be better – better health, mental wellness and nourishing our bodies. I feel very fortunate to have grown up in a foraging family. As an infant, my parents would put me in the backpack carrier and bring me along on all of their forest and beach walks. We collected everything from wild mushrooms, clams, fish, and berries to Fiddleheads, wild garlic and Maple sap. Native herbs and edible flowers were collected for salads, soups and to be dried for Winter use. I lived in the big...
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