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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
- Booth Canal
- RAR
- 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
- Curicula Galore
- School
- What you can do I can do better
- Don’t remain Ignorant, Measure it!
- People Plethora
- Please Mark, Respect Us
- Prophets of the System
- Riding A Pendulum Bob takes no one to Future
- Governing ourselves, it matters much
- Cybernetics is better than the Alternatives
- Power corrupts bullies hurt us all
- Preface to “Requiem for Canada”
- An Uncivil Cold Civil War
- Ukrainization of Canada – from Donald Macdonald to Donald Trump
- Just because humans do not like “being told”
- Starting WWIV, the Second Cold War
- The Trump is No Fun
- To Ban the Pimps from the Schoolyards
- Bury the grave-diggers – Bring on the visionaries
- A Day to Say “No”
- 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
AlcyHome
Alcyone Books was established in 1985 and www.alcy.ca has been the face of Alcy in cyberspace since 2000. We pride our independence and dedication to Democracy.
Our resources are limited and that is why we are not soliciting or accepting contributions. There is much to be said and we are aware of our limitations.
We do however hold the "Right to Respond" sacred and therefore we offer "equal space" to each and all individuals and to private and public bodies we name so that they may challenge our take on whatever the matter at issue may be.
Currently we focus on the Islands Trust and the governance it provides. We also focus on the underway wrestling of the people of Saltpring Island with the issue of Incorporation into a municipality. The two are closely related as the outcome of the incorporation debate may set the Trust on the demise path. We are proud of our coverage of the “Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform and aspire to do as thorough a coverage of the Trust v. Incorporation study as we did to the Citizens Assembly.
Thank you for visiting the AlcyHome. Please take tour through the rooms of AlcyHome and honour us with frequent visits – we will always welcome you.
Riparian Area Regulation – Czarism in Salt Spring
Riparian Area Regulation “Czarism in Salt Spring” is our latest book offering.
While of immediate interest to the people of Salt Spring, it is of interest to people everywhere because it reminds us of the duty of free people to keep vigilance over who empower to govern the society.
This book is a lucid exposure of the ways and the means “Czarismatic Custodes” of public affairs use to escape detection when bent on doing what they know the people do not want done.
The September 9, 2017, referendum results call for an examination of the Trust to determine its ills and cures. “RAR - Czarism in Salt Spring” dissects the Trust and facilitated the task. We offer the book in electronic format to that end free of charge as a public service. It raised concerns, serious concerns but the intent is not apathy, it is to remind us that in a democracy, the people are supreme. Cheer up, and have a laugh, for the conduct of the Trust is occasionally hilarious... Enjoy all..
The book is still available at your local bookstores - soft-cover, 210 pages, “9x11” format, $22.22. Or by e-mailing us at alcyone3@telus.net.
The Latest Six
| Date | Article | |
| September 19, 2025 | Curicula Galore | |
| September 5, 2025 | School | |
| August 22, 2025 | What you can do I can do better | |
| August 8, 2025 | Don’t remain Ignorant, Measure it! | |
| July 25, 2025 | People Plethora | |
| July 11, 2025 | Please Mark, Respect Us | |
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