Let’s Pick It Up, Salt Spring campaign launches
Salt Spring Islanders are once again getting their gloves out and mapping territory in their neighbourhoods for an…
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Viewpoint: Trust area community needs differ
By STEVE WRIGHT
As the target of lobbying groups, and personal and editorial comments which have misunderstood…
Channelling resources essential in order to avert catastrophe
By JAN SLAKOV
2020: a year people are eager to leave behind, as visions of overcoming the pandemic dance in our…
Viewpoint: Turn a corner on the past
The following was sent to Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, by a Salt Spring resident and filed with the…
Climate courses to empower locals
A new education initiative on Pender Island will combine traditional First Nations knowledge with current climate…
Digging through the Trash
This story originally ran as a three-part series in the Driftwood from Nov. 6 - 20, 2019.
Part One: The broken…
Viewpoint: Takers must start to care
By N. Kidson
I am temporarily nesting in a small, simple cabin over the winter months. It overlooks a green,…
Viewpoint: Election another net loss
By MURRAY REISS
The most important news the morning after our federal election had nothing — and everything — to…
Viewpoint: What legacy will we leave?
By SHEILA HARRINGTON
Recent enormous participation in climate marches led by young people around the world have…
Viewpoint: The case for a Green vote
BY JAN SLAKOV
Why are people saying we don’t have years, just months, to make the shift towards a net zero carbon…