Local Voices

GINTA – Why we ought to take another look at our water consumption habits

September 4, 2017 // 2 Comments

IF YOUR SUMMER fun includes going to the beach, on the shores of either the South or North Thompson Rivers, you likely noticed the receding water line over the last few [Continue]

NEWSTROM – A story about a Clipper canoe and the River Goddess too

September 3, 2017 // 3 Comments

SOMETIMES RISK is so exciting you could just eat it. Then you do. You eat it for breakfast. That’s how I felt looking down at a $3,000 canoe stranded in the rapids of [Continue]

KNOX – Salt Spring Island: ‘A difference of opinion surrounded by water’

September 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

YEARS AGO, a Salt Spring resident described a typically testy public meeting where an angry audience member leaped up to point an accusing finger at an elected official: [Continue]

PETERS – Bringing on Lake a marketing coup for Hydropothecary

September 2, 2017 // 2 Comments

HYDROPOTHECARY is ready for the revolution. Or at least that’s what Terry Lake, a new executive with the Gatineau-based company, would have you believe. Hydropothecary [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Schools aren’t enough – Burn all books about Sir John A.

August 31, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE ELEMENTARY Teachers’ Federation of Ontario doesn’t go far enough when they recommend the removal of former Prime Minister John A. Macdonald’s name from schools [Continue]

GINTA – Why we need to talk about salmon, and soon

August 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

IT HAPPENED during the eclipse that more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Islands. They are now found in the coastal waters of [Continue]