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Nobody Asked Me But: Giant banana slug and Bowen Queen ferry among memorable costumes

Shilo Zylbergold - October 29, 2024

As we drift deeper into the autumn season, we can’t help but notice some changing colours in the landscape. Oh sure, the leaves on...

Viewpoint: The future has to change

Contributed Article - October 29, 2024

By BILL MAIN Minority governments have one tremendous advantage over majority governments: more of the ideas of the electorate are tended to than is the...

Guest column: Memories of early morning from the paper route

Contributed Article - October 23, 2024

By CHRIS RIDEOUT Earlier in this space, I wrote a piece about my boyhood experiences as a paper boy. I left some things out, which...

Viewpoint: From Phoenix to the Hearth

Contributed Article - October 23, 2024

By KAJIN GOH In the Oct. 2 edition of the Driftwood, the Chuan Society commented on our ongoing efforts to negotiate a provisional arrangement with...

Viewpoint: Protect Baker Beach

Contributed Article - October 16, 2024

BY DEBBIE MAGNUSSON In the late 1980s, Sheila Sayer, working for Community Services, and I started Parents for Playgrounds. As an elementary school teacher, it...

OPINION: Possible lifting of moratorium unwise

Contributed Article - October 16, 2024

By DAVID J. RAPPORT A version of the following was sent to North Salt Spring Waterworks District (NSSWD) CAO Mark Boysen and board chair...

Editorial: Sizing up the candidates

Driftwood Staff - October 16, 2024

There seems to be a particular type of voter itch that can’t be scratched online. As the overwhelming majority of political discourse on Salt Spring,...

Opinion: The next four years: Let’s continue progress made by NDP

Contributed Article - October 9, 2024

BY CONSTANCE GIBBS On Oct. 20 we will wake up to a newly elected premier of our province. It will be either Premier David Eby...

Opinion: Everyone deserves healthcare now

Contributed Article - October 9, 2024

By CURT FIRESTONE When a family moves to Salt Spring Island or any place in Canada for that matter, they automatically place their children...

Opinion: Trust has failed to fulfil mandate

Contributed Article - October 9, 2024

By STEVE WRIGHT After five decades of operating under the banner of “preserve and protect” and millions of dollars spent to keep the organization alive,...

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