STORM OVER SALT SPRING? OR HOT AIR RISING?

(Salt Spring Islanders will hold a referendum September 9th on whether to incorporate as a municipality. With a year-round population of approximately 11,000, Salt Spring is the largest unincorporated community in British Columbia. Islanders have been down this road before, rejecting incorporation in 2002. And if passion is the most important determinant of election results, incorporation will surely…

OPEN LETTER TO ALBERTA

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, the understanding that having more than one way of viewing the world is normal, natural, and healthy. This understanding leads to another: that it’s perfectly acceptable for your neighbour to vote…