Category: Editorial

CURTAIN CALL

Posted by islandword | Oct 4, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

Election 2018

by islandword | Oct 13, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

All candidates were sent four questions from the Island WORD: 1. Do you support the Regional...

CURTAIN CALL

by islandword | Oct 4, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

By Martin Crilly It starts, most often, in the summer doldrums. In the kitchen. Up on the bluffs,...

Crossroads Part II

by islandword | Sep 11, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz This fall represents a turning point. In October there will be a provincial referendum on whether or not we switch our electoral system from “first past the post” to “proportional representation”. The WORD...

3L at Crossroads

by islandword | Jul 19, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News, Your Word | 0 |

by Danny Zanbilowicz The issue right now concerns the two processes for dealing with a proposed amendment to the Regional Growth Strategy- “standard” or “minor”. An amendment is by default considered “standard”, unless it is...

News from the Comox Valley Hospital

by islandword | Feb 11, 2018 | Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Barb Biley For over five years all the events leading up to the opening of the new Comox Valley...

Political Cultures

by islandword | Jan 27, 2018 | 130 Degrees, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Michael Loevinsohn That’s 130 degrees east of Cumberland, and many meters lower. That’s where I’m writing from: a town called Wageningen in the middle of the Netherlands on one of the branches of the Rhine. A university town,...