NEWSTROM – A story about a Clipper canoe and the River Goddess too
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]
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KNOX – Salt Spring Island: ‘A difference of opinion surrounded by water’
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
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.
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
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?
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]
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