Island Voices – Island Talk

The 3 pillars of a caring society should be that everyone has access to the services needed to maintain good health, education and safe, affordable housing. The needs of the individual person must be recognise as a basic human Canadian right.

The food we eat has a profound effect on our health. A diet low in proper nutrition and high in fats and sugars can lead to many chronic health problems and illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. As we age, the risk becomes progressively worse.

It’s true. Rejection is an inevitable consequence for anyone who dares to reveal themselves to the world with their writing. It sucks and it’s painful, but how we deal with it will define our writing career.

  High quality sleep of adequate quantity is a central lynchpin of senior health.

With both provincial and federal government leaders emphasizing the need for economic and environmental solutions, and the need growing for long-lasting benefits and employment in BC’s southern coast, a Salish Sea World Heritage Site proposal is being seen as a major economic driver and world-wide attraction for

The article below shows how petty internal  policy can  inflict totally unnecessary pain, suffering and loss of dignity to a elderly man for its own convenience.

BC’s Seniors Advocate released results of a province-wide survey of almost 7,500 HandyDART users in the province today.

Located just a few hundred feet from shore within the Strait of Georgia, an artificial reef using cremated remains, is ready to be born. 

When a friend invited me to go on a cycling adventure to Salt Spring Island to take in the Saturday Farmer’s Market, all I really knew about the island was a multitude of artists, artisans and authors call it home, including Robert Bateman and Arthur Black. I