Category: Featured

Scottish-Senegalese Fusion with Soulsha

by islandword | Feb 12, 2020 | Arts & Culture, Editorial, Featured, Latest News | 0 |

by Mark AllanWith a highly unusual and possibly unique sound, Boston band Soulsha will perform...

Fans of Monty Python, Mr. Bean, and Dr. Seuss… Grab your Teacups!

by islandword | Nov 14, 2019 | Featured, Latest News | 0 |

Buckle your theatre seats and grab your teacups, British comedians James and Jamesy are bringing...

Justice in Transition

by Brian Charlton | Nov 13, 2019 | Featured, Labour Beat | 0 |

The federal election has come and gone but the climate crisis continues on. Right wing politicians, closely allied with the fossil fuel industry, unhappy with the fact their boy Andrew Scheer is not the Prime Minister, are...

Choices on October 21

by Brian Charlton | Oct 18, 2019 | Featured | 0 |

Here we are again faced with the task of sorting through the issues and campaign materials and then choosing who will be our local Member of Parliament and subsequently who will govern Canada for the next four years. As with...

by Brian Charlton | Oct 18, 2019 | Featured, Labour Beat | 0 |

Choices for October 21 Here we are again faced with the task of sorting through the issues and campaign materials and then choosing who will be our local Member of Parliament and subsequently who will govern Canada for the next...

Jung Society Explores Shadow Jan. 11

by islandword | Jan 3, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Editorial, Featured | 0 |

In the middle of the muddle of wrapping up Christmas/Solstice celebrations, reflecting on our...

Resisting the Heat

by Michael Loevinsohn | Dec 19, 2018 | 130 Degrees, Featured | 0 |

I was on the Island this August. The haze that dimmed noon to dusk and that drove Air Quality off scale – the worst on the planet for a time – was a shock, as it must have been for many. I have been working on and around...

On The Line

by Brian Charlton | Dec 14, 2018 | Featured, Labour Beat | 0 |

After finish reading Rod Mickleburgh’s new history of the BC Labour movement ‘On the Line’, the first emotion I feel is anger. Anger at how the apparatus of the State, through the decades and at the behest of robber barons,...

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 | 2 |

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...