Thursday, March 28, 2024
March 28, 2024

Opinion

Opinion: South end needs connecting place

By DAVID FULLBROOK I watched Sidney Crosby score Olympic gold for Canada in 2010 in the Fulford Inn — arms linked in a swaying mass...

Viewpoint: Oppose proposed safety service

By SHELLEY MAHONEY Regarding “Safety Service Proposed for Salt Spring,” Sept. 4 Driftwood. The article references “gaps in service.” No kidding, the biggest gap being...

Editorial: Cottage Industry

Almost everyone on Salt Spring would agree the dire housing situation needs to be addressed. The Local Trust Committee’s current project to legalize the...

Viewpoint: Parks belong to all of us

By GREGG DOW SSIPARC chair It’s been an exciting year for the Salt Spring Island Parks and Recreation Commission (PARC) with the completion of Phase One...

Editorial: Clean stream

When it comes to how a community deals with its sewage, the adage “if it’s out of sight, it’s out of mind” seems to...

Viewpoint: Orca fight must continue

by JENNIFER ABBOTT A few years ago, I joined a group of people wanting to create a beautiful spectacle to celebrate the southern resident orca...

Editorial: Organic solution

How to tackle waste effectively is a problem that’s increasingly paramount for governments all over the world. Plastic is one nightmare whose epic portions are...

Nobody Asked Me But: Chewing the fat on food, diet and allergies

Food. There’s no getting away from it. It’s a necessity of life. Here on Salt Spring, however, it’s not just food that we find...

Where are the emergency responders?

By LINDA STARKE Climate emergency is in. Climate change is out. In December 2016, Darebin, near Melbourne in Australia, became the first government to declare...

Viewpoint: Climate change impacts

By RON HAWKINS I would like to amend the letter I wrote in the Aug. 14 Driftwood entitled “Wake-Up Time.” In it I referred...

Weather

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