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Meet Local Filmmaker Piet Suess, Editor of Between the Mountain and the Sky
The Circle Education on March 4, 2026
The Circle Education and the Salt Spring Film Festival celebrate International Women’s Day 2026 with the showing of Between the Mountain and the Sky at Art Spring. Local filmmaker Piet Suess, who volunteered for The Circle Education in the past, worked as one of the film editors on this documentary. He will be in attendance […]
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A Response to George Grams' Article on the Object of the Islands Trust
Charles Kahn on March 4, 2026
George Grams’ article explores the interpretation of the wording in the Islands Trust Act: ”The object of the Trust is to preserve and protect the Trust area and its unique amenities and environment....” I can’t understand why “interpretation” is required as the people who drafted the Act were very clear. It was all about the […]
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What the Island Trust Mandate Actually Says
Jessica Harkema on March 4, 2026
Last week I wrote about Salt Spring's crisis: hollowing services, collapsing infrastructure, and a community that is slowly losing the very people who make it worth living in. The response has been encouraging. Many of you reached out privately to thank me for speaking up. Then came the legal opinion. Frants Attorp's summary of Don […]
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Will Salt Spring become a Housing NOW Success Story?
ASK Salt Spring on March 4, 2026
Ten jointed this ASK Salt Spring gathering to welcome Adam Evanik of Housing NOW. After our Land Acknowledgement, we all introduced ourselves. While a few of us were relative newcomers (like 20 years), most in the room had lived on Salt Spring for many decades one even claiming an extra nine months, having been conceived, […]
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Obituary: Mark Meredith
Jacqueline Meredith on March 3, 2026
Mark Mitchell Meredith April 8, 1943 - February 28, 2026 Mark was born in Vancouver April 8, 1943, and was raised on the waterfront in Caulfield, West Vancouver. His life was shaped by a fall from a cliff when he was 8, leaving him unconscious for 6 weeks and giving him brain damage that left […]
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Province Cuts Funding for Housing
Positively Forward on March 2, 2026
British Columbia’s Budget 2026 has not given affordable housing advocates much to smile about. All told, it cut $1.4 billion from the province’s housing budget, and even though it has reallocated $900 million to programs and services already in place, that doesn’t help projects just underway or still in the planning phase, especially those depending […]
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Object of the Trust - Former Trustee’s Interpretation
George Grams on March 2, 2026
Might I offer a former trustee’s perspective to Franz Attorp’s legal opinion which he summarises in his article this week. The Islands Trust Act is not the only legislation that directs the duties and decision making of trustees and staff although it is the principal one. A very important, often overlooked piece of legislation is […]
