BY: JEAN LEJEUNE
Salt Spring Island may become home to two Federal Party Leaders. When we were in college together, our so called Minister of the Environment, Jim Prentice told us that he would be Prime Minister.  And, who knew but him, he’s getting very close. Stevie Harper has been unable to cobble a majority three [...]

The papers are filled with bad news. Why? Because people don’t spend money on good news? If that is so, and it might be, then papers should keep printing every crash, every tsunami, every murder, every war, I could go on for the whole article and you all know it all, all too well. [...]

We’re in tight times and regular readers will know that this writer thinks we’re in way deeper than yet we know. But how about some solutions rather than an endless rant about how screwed the bankers left us this time? What does the future hold?
OK then. Here goes. Our economy thrives on economic bubbles.  This [...]

For years and centuries our ladies have been struggling against terrible injustice. In our times unequal pay for equal work, glass ceilings, and outrageous harassment and disrespect in the work place have persisted even in the face of a general awareness that such treatment is abjectly unfair.  By vast multiples the hugest profits made on [...]

I Don’t Believe in Thinking”
“I don’t believe in global warming.”
“Oh ya? Well I don’t believe in corporations.”
“Fair enough, ‘cause I don’t believe in globalization.”
“For sure the one thing I don’t believe in is drugs. The one thing I do believe in is capital punishment. But I don’t believe in abortion. But I do believe in [...]

There are people all around who say we’ve turned the corner, things are coming back, the worst is behind us. All that talk about economic meltdown was overblown. We’re a lot smarter than we used to be and we’re poised for the next big growth spurt.
Not. Those unfortunate to be selling houses now know. [...]