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- An open letter to the Hon. Nathan Cullen, Minister of Municipal Affairs
- Trust Deaf & Mute
- The Trust without Garb
- Debating Vocal Local Trustee Laura Patrick
- The Trust Threatens The Total Trust Territory
- Trust Skullduggery
- Pleading Stupidity to Hide Malice
- The Trust is forging chains to shackle us – Beware ...
- Are they fit to fight for us?
- The holes in the head of the Trust ain’t ears
- Madly running in all directions to avoid eye contact with the populace
- The Trust Christmas-Gifting Us, Again
- Regurgitators for Rent - A trendy PRopaganda Sub-trade
- Blackmail, Greenmail and Booth Canal
- The iTrust is “intrigued”– we are awed ...
- The day the Trust let us see its real face
- Why elect politicians when consultants do the governing?
- A New Year and a New Decade: Ideas Bank -
- Continuing Poolside Visioning
- Laundering Islands 2050 in the Swim Pool
- The Trust readies for Halloween
- Fighting the Trust resistance to Democratization
- “Islands 2050": Elixir for a Derelict Islands Trust
- Trust Fakes Democracy to Hide Czarism
- The Trust Closed Shop lest the customers come ...
- The Trust is Clamming up on Booth Canal
- Save Booth Canal
- Trust’s “Communications Strategy”
- Trust Website elements – 4th installment
- Trust website elements – 3rd Installment (continued)
- Trust Awards: Thesis and Antithesis
- Trust website elements - (continued from the previous Issue)
- Is advice given the Trust “unsolicited” ? No!
- Trust Website Revamp – True, or a Farce like the last one?
- But do not despair, try to aspire
- Within earshot of the Trust
- Subverting democracy v. “expensing” wood splitters
- To make us love the Trust
- Nanaimo Bars
- Ferret the Trust out from the burrow
- As the election dust settles
- (Electioneering) - Significant Electoral Frivolities
- To make the Trust level with us
- Lady Hope and Lady Luck, both dear to our hearts
- The $45 Censorship Saga
- The lowest, perhaps, the Islands Trust has sunk
- At the October 22, 2015 SaltSpring Island Trust Meet
- Trust Censorship on the Upswing
- Who is to Watch the Watchdogs?
- Truth Gone AWOL
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Brinkworthy
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Booth Canal
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RAR
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Ideas Bank
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Governance
- Governance
- Trust Website Revamp – True, or a Farce like the last one?
- But do not despair, try to aspire
- Mass Media in a democracy
- Referendum Fever
- The 157 Votes Quasi Mayor of Saltspring Island
- Seeking Trust Transformation
- Incorporation - the Final Bell
- A Tale of two Incorporation Letters and More
- Broadcasting the Salt Spring Island "Incorporation Debates"
- Incorporation Stewardship
- Letter to Minister Re Governance
- Trust-o-cracy v. Mayor-o-cracy
- Trusts' Many Dives to Dungeon
- Name Calling - Another Face of the Trust
- The Bowen Island Governance Travelogue
- Governance Diary Laced with Commentary
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Miscellany
- Miscellany
- Hurrah! Oh what a lovely war
- Wishing you all a happy school year
- Oppression Precedes Protestation
- Unaccountability – Some thoughts about it
- Olympic Legacy
- A thoroughly nostalgic Olympian
- Getting together lest we be alone
- Justice for profit
- THROUGH PIER 21 – How Tom Came Home
- Random Thoughts on the Majority / Minority Syndrome
- Pollster Pestilence
- Of War – WHY? FOR WHAT?
- The Quislings of Alberta
- Lawyer Oligarchy Growing in the Wild West
- “Voter bussing” is Democratia bashing
- To Reconcile Mutual Exclusivity
- The DisOrder of Canada fiasco, etc
- Governance Unruly
- Let’s Try Democratia – Just For a Term ...
- On Democratia – One can’t lose what one ain’t got
- Scarecrows in the Garden Political
- The Human Right to Answers – Let’s make it a “Previously” Unthinkable
- God and Dog are mutually anagrammatic
- Freedom Of Information and Privacy Protection Act, a.k.a. FOIPPA
- To do what those we honour on Nov 11 expect from us ...
- Sentencing 25,300 Innocents to Labour For Life
- Politicians Playing Stupid to Hide Complicity
- “University” is banal – Make it the “New Agora”
- Baring the Library Shelves
- The Struggle for Democracy
- There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza
- To Exorcise BC Government Racism
- Where in Ukraine is the UN?
- The Human Right to Housing
- Trudeau drains the pond to save the fish from drowning
- The Liberals have Gone Fishing
- The Governor General has no clothes
- Demokratia at the Channels Shores
- Ci vis pacem, Para bellum
- Our Children, Tomorrow’s “Us”
- Vote me Canada’s Last Dictator
- Minority Rights
- The Freedom Convoy
- Reconciling Robots with Unemployment
- Word-stoning Ellen Mary Elizabeth Turpel-Lafond
- Freedom to Collude
- We owe “them” our mistrust, for “they” have earned it
- Ruminations on the Eve of 2023
- A Tale of Two Many Pillars
- UN battling Hot Air in balmy Sharm el Sheikh
- Don’t Stand For Peace, Fight Against War
- Trust is earned says Rishi Sunak PM – UK
- Doctors v. Judges
- Whose Opinion is this is, anyway?
- Canada, Then & Now
- Where have the workers gone?
- Of Elitism, Populism and Aristocracy
- Condoms Go to the Court Supreme
- Conventional Lies are a Devil we can no longer shun
- UnitedNations, Diefenbaker, Trudeau and others, perhaps
- The “Right to Protest” is an instrument of oppression
- Leisure v. Waste and the Work Ethic
- Depicting and despising “Land Acknowledgements”
- The sounds of war are deafening
- Ready! Assemble! Hire Consultants! Decide!
- Sanity or Truth? Which Goes First?
- Humans make Gods in their own image
- “They” thrive Now, to make us happy in the Distant Future ...
- Calling on the Trust to face the mud in Booth Canal
- Of Trust and Distrust
- Making ready to Make Holidays Merry
- Asserting our Right to Debate the Islands Public Affairs
- Saluting who went, lamenting who didn’t return
- Scattered snapshots on Law & Order from my mind’s scrapbook
- To Be Free and Avant Garde
- Post Mortem to Election
- The $610M election that was not
- Freedom to hear the other side of the politicians’ stories
- Gambling Pubic money for Personal gain
- Chastity MouthBelts
- Democratics of the Pandemic
- The Tower of Babel – a Sad re-Run
- Canadian Rhapsody
- The overly Charitable Trudeaus
- Erin O’Toole would make Freedom Compulsory
- Is Canada demonizing itself?
- Darryl Plecas would call for Covid Masks With Barf-Bags
- To Re-make ICBC as We would like it to Be
- The Rule of Law(yers)
- Sonia Furstenau’s Green Leaves
- PickPocketing $65,000,000, to buy “$650,000 Job Security and political arrogance"
- Disney’s calling a mouse “Mickey” did not make the world safe for Mice
- Politicians Pablumfeeding the Populace
- A Majority Government for Certain and Better
- For the “Know” to reach all whom it may concern
- "Political Ethics", An Oxymoron
- The Human Right to Curiosity
- Fixing “FixConceptions”
- Hired Ears – the new PRopaganda Mercenaries
- Whodunnit?
- Malthus was right! – What now?
- Why settle for a “Less Bad” while a “Good” can be had?
- China Then and Now – Where Were We?
- Why I don’t write about the Pandemic?
- Myths we should not have to suffer
- ReHorganizing the ICBC
- Eby ebbed spitting on the burning ICBC dumpster and now Horgan holds the hose flooding the flames
- Why do pencils have erasers?
- Mind the past but pursue the future
- The Right of Association and Freedom of Assembly
- Dear AG Eby, Re: the ICBC
- Political Parties are Squatters in our Parliament
- “ICBC Dumpster Inferno” defies AG Eby’s firefighting
- Bursting Bubbles in the last Election Slipstream
- As the Parties parade their wares on the Election runway
- Happy Birthday to Marketplace at 13
- AG Eby fire-fighting the ICBC “flaming Dumpster”
- Barry Mather – Building the unfinished Archway to Democracy
- Fair Aid v. Legal Aid
- Pre-election feuds, Gordon Campbell and Ujjal Dosanjh
- Is Plecas unstoppable in our Democracy?
- Plecas stands accused and must answer to the public
- To Apologize or to Not Apologize?
- Piping Alberta Oil Sludge - random thoughts
- The latest match: McCallum v. McLachlin
- Mme McLachlin had an option: She could Google the Wood Splitter
- Nanaimo Capers and the High Cost of Being Thrifty
- Jody Wilson Raybould MP v. Justin Trudeau PM
- Ode to the Grapevine
- In the Field of Honour
- Mass media in a democracy
- Nanaimo Bars
- Lenience and Zero Tolerance, each in its place
- Compromise often bypass mediocrity to reach demise
- ItChy BitCy – some curse her, but I love the Lady
- It ain’t a first, it is a deja vu ...
- Pondering the Year-change
- In the lineup for the Referendum result
- To Protect and Preserve v. to Malign and Destroy
- Late to vote, but not to learn
- Kerfuffle in the House by the Harbour
- Voting on Voting
- For a Warless World
- Free Trade is Expensive
- As the election dust settles
- Pray for your goal but also apply your hands to the task
- (Electioneering) - Significant Electoral Frivolities
- If Elections could change things they would have been abolished
- NAFTA or Bust?
- Referenda with “agenda”
- Riccardo Morandi – Civil Engineer
- Judges Judge themselves – Impartially
- Cranes soar over the concrete forest
- Politicians Trample David Trapp
- Elizabeth May’s Jail Escapade ...
- ALR & ALC On the Carving Board
- Farewell to Hell
- Hurrah! “They” Grant “Us” the Human Right to Shelter...
- The 157 Votes Quasi Mayor of Saltspring Island
- Dave, ICBC and WC Pay-as-you-go-locks
- Fiddling while the ICBC is burning
- Dave will never desert us
- Under the Mistletoe
- Through Pier 21 – How Tom came Home