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Islands Trust
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
Brinkworthy
Brinkworthy
Unsportsmanship in BC
Sending Brinkworthy to ALC
Open Governance, Trust style
The Trust Burrowing beneath Brinkworthy
The Emperor has no clothes
An Open Letter Seeking to End the Brinkworthy Saga
Land-ing In Brinkworthy
The Brinkworthy Saga
Booth Canal
Booth Canal
Blackmail, Greenmail and Booth Canal
The Trust Closed Shop lest the customers come ...
The Trust is Clamming up on Booth Canal
Save Booth Canal - We have no “tomorrows”, there are no mañanas left...
RAR
Riparian Areas Regulation
We All are Together in the RAR Cauldron
Ideas Bank
Ideas Bank
Of Rebels – with and without cause
Ideas Bank – Antidote for Power Corruption
Repetition Results Reputation
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
Miscellany
Miscellany
The March of the Charlatans
Rising to the Bottom
Riding Yellow Buses
Select Myths and Random Thoughts on Elections
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
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Home Page
Islands Trust
Islands Trust
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
Brinkworthy
Brinkworthy
Unsportsmanship in BC
Sending Brinkworthy to ALC
Open Governance, Trust style
The Trust Burrowing beneath Brinkworthy
The Emperor has no clothes
An Open Letter Seeking to End the Brinkworthy Saga
Land-ing In Brinkworthy
The Brinkworthy Saga
Booth Canal
Booth Canal
Blackmail, Greenmail and Booth Canal
The Trust Closed Shop lest the customers come ...
The Trust is Clamming up on Booth Canal
Save Booth Canal - We have no “tomorrows”, there are no mañanas left...
RAR
Riparian Areas Regulation
We All are Together in the RAR Cauldron
Ideas Bank
Ideas Bank
Of Rebels – with and without cause
Ideas Bank – Antidote for Power Corruption
Repetition Results Reputation
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
Miscellany
Miscellany
The March of the Charlatans
Rising to the Bottom
Riding Yellow Buses
Select Myths and Random Thoughts on Elections
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
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