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From Resistance to Renewal: Farmland Trust Seeks Community Support This Giving Tuesday

Say “Yes” This Giving Tuesday: Be a Friend of the Farmland Trust I remember the day I laid my newborn son down in a meadow along Beaver Point Road. In that moment I looked at my boy, his tiny chest rising and falling against the great green heart of this island, and I thought, “We’re home.” That sense of belonging — of being rooted in this place — has shaped everything I’ve done since. I’ve spent 25 years here learning how, just as the grand trees of this coastal rainforest are nourished by a shimmering web of mycelium, my humble kitchen table could become the launchpad to organize festivals, start non-profits organizations and grow a network that has spread like dandelion seeds from this tiny island to the mountains of Africa and the bighouse of Bella Bella. No matter where on Earth my work has taken me, I’ve always been sustained by my connection with the forests and fields of Salt Spring — forces that hold the magic power to restore my faith in the possi…
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Female Polytechnique Alumni Looks Back on Pioneering Years and Montreal Tragedy

36 years ago, on December 6th, 1989, fourteen young women were murdered at the École Polytechnique de MontrĂ©al because a man believed they didn’t belong there. Salt Spring Island resident Lucie Wheeler, the first female refinery engineer for Shell Canada, graduated from the prestigious engineering school in Montreal eighteen years earlier. Leading up to the December 6 Memorial (this Saturday at 4.30 pm in Centennial Park), she looks back on her pioneering years in a male-dominant environment and the violent, misogynistic act that shook our country. “Are you sure you’re in the right faculty?” It was one of the first things Lucie Wheeler, now 76, heard when she started at École Polytechnique de MontrĂ©al in 1966. It wasn’t the first time she had been questioned for her desire to be an engineer. Her parents expected her to study medicine or law, and when she told them she wanted to do engineering, they said, ‘Well, that is not something a woman does, is it?’ ‘So what?’, Lucie r…
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Obituary: Kreuger Singh

Puneet Kreuger Singh passed unexpectedly on November 6, 2025—under a North Node in Sagittarius—leaving behind a global constellation of friends, artists, seekers, activists, technologists, and loved ones transformed by his presence. Born on March 2, 1973, in Yangon, Myanmar, to diplomat Virendra Singh and vocalist-artist-socialite Rita Niloufer Singh, his childhood unfolded across continents—Moscow, Venezuela, Tanzania, Jamaica, and beyond—where he absorbed rhythm, culture, injustice, beauty, and complexity in equal measure. His love of synthesizers, specifically his yellow Waldorf Q, and electronic sound ignited in his teens and grew alongside his immersion in the early IT world of the 1990s; by 21, he had already founded his own company, Mindcraft. In Toronto, he became a force in the underground arts scene—launching the culture-fusing collective Suhana, co-producing major events through JyaFest Arts Collective, and later founding Bass Dojo on Salt Spring Island. Amo…
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  • - December 5, 2025

Astrology by Danielle Blackwood: This Full Moon December 2025 (GEMINI)

Each Full Moon brings its own wisdom, teachings, and medicine through the lens of a particular archetype. The Full Moon will often bring something to fruition and illuminate things that have been hidden. Each month we experience a subtle shift as the Full Moon highlights specific archetypal themes, emotions, and feelings. For many, the Full Moon amplifies the way we interpret and experience both our inner world and the world around us. Happy Full Moon in Gemini! The last Full Moon of the year is a Supermoon arriving at 13° Gemini, shining across the cosmos on Thursday, December 4th at 3:14 pm. 2025 is a Universal Year 9 in numerology, bringing completion, culmination, healing, and closure, as we prepare the ground for a whole new cycle in 2026, which is a Universal 1 year. Universal 1 years indicate new beginnings, fresh starts, and initiation. So, approach this Full Moon with an eye to letting go of the past and beginning a whole new 10-year chapter with a clean slate.…
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Celebrating Some Promising Progress in Salt Spring Primary Care

Fourteen came to this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome our local healthcare experts, Erin Price-Lindstrom, Eric Jacobson, Sarah Bulmer, and Dr. Pete Verheul. While it was a bit surprising that more Salt Springers were not there to contribute to this important conversation, those who participated got an enormous amount of great information as well as plenty of time to ask their many questions. Before these questions began and after our Acknowledgement highlighting an enhanced cultural sensitivity as a driving force in our health care services, we each had an opportunity to introduce ourselves. It was soon obvious that the room was filled with community leaders, each with a richness of experience and wisdom to share. When asked what “excited and delighted” our guests, that day’s bright sun got enthusiastic acknowledgment as well as that joy of seeing an amazing world through the eyes of children, expressed by young fathers Eric and Pete. But, beyond these person…
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Cross-Island Trail? 2025 Feasibility Study Says Yes — Now It’s Our Turn

CBC's All Points West with Jason D'Souza will interview Island Pathways live this afternoon at 4:45pm about Salt Spring's cross-island trail plans. LISTEN HERE -> https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-93-all-points-west What the Study Shows: “Yes — Salt Spring has room for a trail.” The new Salt Spring Island Regional Trail Feasibility Study (2025) assessed the entire 21 km corridor from Fulford → Ganges → Vesuvius and found that most of the MoTI right-of-way can accommodate a separated, multi-use trail — with a traffic-calmed local street to bypass the Vesuvius curves and short stretches of sidewalk + bike lane in Ganges. The Study confirms that a safe walking and cycling pathway across the island is not only possible — it’s practical, buildable, and within reach with community support. The total estimate is $63M, but $25M of that is Ganges Hill alone, which should now cost less. (Keep in mind that the CRD is spending over $50M right now to widen 6 km of the Lochside …
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Salt Spring's Struggles in Context

"The Real Crisis: Why Salt Spring's Economy Is Struggling", published on November 26, got me thinking, and that's good. Thank you. The frustrations expressed about a community that refuses to open up to development touch a nerve, because I have roots living in a special place: I was born and raised in Jasper National Park, which my family had to leave, because it was too hard to live there. That still hurts. Every subsequent generation in Jasper, to today, is angry with the the federal government not expanding the town so that they can stay, despite it existing for all of Canada, not to serve itself and any who choose to make it home without contributing to its purpose. Jasper is an extreme example, because, clearly, the whole country can't be a park. Nature, Private Property, and Visitors The Gulf Islands are in a half-way zone, thanks to the Islands Trust Act making clear the requirement that its islands are to be preserved and protected for their residents -- human …
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Positively Forward Responds

The Chamber of Commerce has a distinguished history of service and support to this community as a whole, and to the business community in particular. It was, therefore, somewhat surprising to read a vitriolic attack on another volunteer community group from the Chamber’s president, especially coming at a time when serious efforts have been made by island groups, such as Transition Salt Spring, to build consensus and find common ground around issues such as housing. For the record, Positively Forward advocates for housing development, and will continue to do so, although not perhaps the kind that the Chamber President has in mind. We support development projects that will provide genuinely affordable housing, regulated through binding legal agreements. Such development is already enabled by growth provisions within our current Official Community Plan(OCP). It’s a myth to suggest that the OCP is the chief obstacle to creating housing for the island’s workers. There is ample…
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December 6 Memorial in Centennial Park

December 6 Memorial in Centennial Park IWAV and The Circle Education will once again co-host a community candle-lighting ceremony at the Gazebo in Centennial Park (4.30 pm) on December 6th, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. Together, we will honour the women and girls killed by femicide in 2025 and renew our commitment to creating safety, justice, and dignity for all. Communities across Canada gather every December 6th to honour the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. On this day, we remember the 14 women murdered at MontrĂ©al’s École Polytechnique in 1989, and all the other women, girls and gender-diverse people whose lives have been taken by gender-based violence. Gender-Based Violence Remains a National Emergency Every 48 hours in Canada, a woman or girl is killed in an act of gender-based violence*. In 2024, 240 women and girls were murdered, a 54% increase over pre-COVID levels. 93% of these hom…
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Obituary: Gloria Hunter

Gloria June Hunter: June 3, 1950 – November 19, 2025 Gloria was born in Dawson Creek and grew up in Fort St. John. She spent her teen years in Langley. At a young age Gloria accepted Jesus as her Savior. Although at times she drifted away, her faith remained an anchor deep in her soul. She chose a career in nursing and studied in Vancouver. Her work took her from Vancouver to Fort St. John and then back to the lower mainland. Many of those years she worked as a single mother while raising her daughter Jenna. In Fort Langley she met Dean Smith, the love of her life. They were married in March 1990 and raised Jenna, and later Jenna’s children, together. After a long career, in late 2016, Gloria retired from her career as director of care at the Northcrest Care Centre in North Delta. Gloria and Dean had many friends. Gloria’s faith had been reawakened and she returned to church in Langley. She made sure her grandchildren had the opportunity to attend Sunday School a…
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  • - November 26, 2025

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