(Salt Spring Islanders will hold a referendum September 9th on whether to incorporate as a municipality. With a year-round population...
Hello from Salt Spring Island. It's another beautiful day here. One of the things I love about living here is, inherent in the culture,...
Surely the end of Confederation, Pipelines, and Life As We Know It! I jest, of course... John Horgan has been sworn in as the 36th...
(In honour -- or honor, for our American readers -- of this weekend's commemoration of the "fiftieth anniversary" of CKLW Radio, this...
I don't often write about radio. At its best, radio is theatre of the mind. It provides only sound. It requires the listener's...
This is an open letter to one wannabe and two current Alberta MLAs who should know better, from a former MLA who does. I’m ashamed of you. Here are a couple of definitions of that phrase: to feel disappointed or upset by someone’s behaviour to feel embarrassed because you are related to someone or connected with...
So here we are. It’s first thing in the morning as I begin to write this. The sun’s up, there’s a little mist right over the water, the sailboats lie at...
There’s a bumper sticker around these parts that reads, “Don’t change Salt Spring Island – Let Salt Spring Island Change You”. It’s a message...
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that yesterday was a gloriously sunny, warm day here on Salt Spring; that the Greens announced they were casting their...
So we wait…. The other day I posted a snarky comment on Facebook about the pathetic performance of the right wing opposition parties in the Alberta...
