ALL EYES ON THE BALL: Gulf Islands Secondary School (GISS) senior girls basketball team players, from left, Maraika McConchie, Miya deRoos, Kadence O’Dwyer, Donna De Roo and Elizabeth Innes are all part of the action during the final game of the Nairn Howe Memorial Basketball Tournament against a Dover Bay Secondary team from Nanaimo on …

Jan 29, 2025 · By JENNIFER MARGISON. On behalf of the Friends of the Gulf Islands Society (FOTGIS), I am responding to Jason Mogus’ Jan. 15 opinion piece, “Our community needs empathy, not attacks, to solve its problems.. While I agree with his call for empathy, I believe his definition of community is regrettably myopic, excluding as he does groups like FOTGIS and others that he cited.

Jan 15, 2025 · In a Dec. 16, 2024 piece published on the Salt Spring Exchange, Kerrie Proulx, a board member of Salt Spring Solutions, suggests abandoning the use of buildout as “the main braking mechanism” for protecting our island’s environment. She argues that the notion of buildout has no ecological ...

Jan 8, 2025 · The other option. In last week’s Driftwood, trustee Laura Patrick and Salt Spring Solutions continued to depict a glowing everything-is-a-priority future while downplaying or ignoring the long-term consequences of their housing proposals and related policy changes.

Jan 29, 2025 · In the interim, the provincial government had legislated several changes to its regulations — “forest land reserves” became “private managed forest lands,” for example — and there were court challenges to the regulatory authority of Galiano’s LTC by multiple landowners; in his upheld dismissal in 2023, Justice Alan M. Ross …

Is talking face-to-face worth five figures? With a budget now expected to top $11 million in spending annually, elected officials on a committee tasked with...

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Jan 10, 2024 · The 10th annual Salt Spring Island Festival of Trees fundraiser was the most-attended yet, according to organizers, raising more than $6,200 for various local charities. And in addition to the […]

Feb 18, 2024 · The signs are scattered across the island: the word STUDIO, simple silhouettes of sheep, a number and an arrow. For 33 years now, the Salt Spring Island Studio Tour has welcomed visitors with a self-guided journey of discovery — a chance to interact with a curated selection of people and spaces, an opportunity to visit with the intentional artists that make our island their home — from ...