Opinion

Viewpoint: Trust leadership needed to enact mandate

Contributed Article -
The following forms part of a Galiano resident’s letter to Islands Trust trustees and staff and sent to the Driftwood for publication. By AKASHA FOREST On...
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Editorial: Industry standard falls short

Driftwood Staff -
The road to hell is almost certainly paved with “best practices.”  We might pick on BC Ferries for rolling out a “what we heard” document...
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Holman: CRD leads on climate action, but more to do

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The Capital Regional District (CRD) Board declared a climate emergency in 2019. The CRD Climate Action service (to which the average Salt Spring Island...
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Opinion: Changing the tone of the ‘drip, drip, drip’ sound

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By JON COOKSEY Drip, drip, drip. That’s the poison leaking into our community. Not the forever chemicals falling with our rain (though that’s bad too)...
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Viewpoint: On Thought, Morality, and Other Unruly Forces

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By DAVID GORDON People seem to treat thought as if it were a polite little house-guest — something that knocks before entering and wipes its...
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Community Health Networks – What is their mandate?

Contributed Article -
By the Salt Spring Health Advancement Network When people hear the word “mandate,” they often think of government orders or legal authority. But in the...
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Editorial: Closing hall doors

Driftwood Staff -
Few topics are of universal interest in any community, but on Salt Spring, the future of a most central spot in Ganges village comes...
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Viewpoint: We are a diverse community

Contributed Article -
By JASON MOGUS I was disappointed to read our MLA Rob Botterell’s recent public statements opposing the Trust Policy Statement our current council is trying...
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Editorial: Good old days are gone

Driftwood Staff -
At a time in life when personal connections can seem vanishing, it’s all the more tragic our treasured elders are urged to be suspicious...
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Nobody Asked Me But: The last Mecca of lost steps and unintentional backtracks

Shilo Zylbergold -
Let me be brutally honest. I have the worst sense of direction on the planet. Had I been born a few centuries ago and...
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