Local Voices

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]

COLLINS – Is removing bridge tolls the best way to go?

August 28, 2017 // 2 Comments

THE NDP GOVERNMENT this week announced it was going to eliminate tolls on the Port Mann and the Golden Ears bridges. It’s probably the first of many decisions the NDP [Continue]

KNOX – This piano isn’t just for playing; it’s for listening, too

August 27, 2017 // 0 Comments

JUST DOWN the hill from the Salt Spring Island library, his back to the passing traffic, Kenny Slater is playing a bouncy tune. He has 20 years as a percussionist under his [Continue]