Posts by: Dave Taylor

 
January 26  • 

WHEN DID WE BECOME SO HELPLESS?

Here on Salt Spring Island, where the landscape is green and things are starting to bloom, it’s easy to forget that life in paradise brings with it...

May 31  • 

DEJA VU

I’m sitting here watching — as you are — the unfolding uprisings on the streets of six dozen American cities. And in my heart, where I used to feel...


April 17  • 

WHAT IF THERE IS A GOD? AND SHE’S PISSED?

Without sending my atheist and militantly agnostic readers into a tizzy wondering if I’ve gone full Old Testament, I want to pick up where my last...

April 6  • 

POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE IN A TIME OF PLAGUE

Three years. Normally one might say a lot has changed in that time. But COVID-19 has turned all our lives upside down in the space of a month....


April 16  • 

THE PIPELINE DILEMMA

That’s not a very catchy headline, but it’s a true expression of what I’m feeling about the Uncivil War between BC and Alberta over the Trans Mountain...

October 20  • 

WINTER IS COMING, ER, UM..DELAYED

I was in the middle of writing a rant on how everything’s going to hell…and then Calgary went ahead and re-elected Nenshi. The idea for this piece...


August 29  • 

STORM OVER SALT SPRING? OR HOT AIR RISING?

(Salt Spring Islanders will hold a referendum September 9th on whether to incorporate as a municipality. With a year-round population...

August 8  • 

OPEN LETTER TO ALBERTA

Hello from Salt Spring Island. It’s another beautiful day here. One of the things I love about living here is, inherent in the culture, the...


July 19  • 

HORGAN SOCIALIST HORDE SWORN IN

Surely the end of Confederation, Pipelines, and Life As We Know It! I jest, of course… John Horgan has been sworn in as the 36th premier of BC. He and...

July 14  • 

THE THREE WHO MADE THE BIG 8 GREAT

(In honour — or honor, for our American readers — of this weekend’s commemoration of the “fiftieth anniversary” of CKLW Radio, this is part two of my...