Life

IT’S NOT clear exactly how much Woodfibre LNG will pay in taxes but we do know that the taxes the company will generate will be significant.

Woodfibre LNG has already low-balled us, and the government has shown how they respond. We cannot consider only short-term fiscal rewards of operations in Squamish. We must look at all costs. Tax is tax; we all pay the bill.

THERE has been much hype over Quinoa (Keen-Wah) over the last couple years, and for good reason. Quinoa is one of the most amazing seeds around.

Sleeping in the same house, in the same bedroom, in the same bed, which is positioned in the same celestial spot since day one. Exciting I know, but bear with me.

IT’S NO secret that I love dogs…and cats and pigs and horses and goats and cows and, really, all animals, but I especially love dogs — they have a special spot in my heart.

People want to move here but there’s a limit to what people can and are willing to afford and real estate is not the investment it was 20 years ago.

By Jason WoodPublished: July 10, 2015   MY WIFE and I were rowing a canoe around Salt Spring Island 11

AS MENTAL Health week dwindles to an end, my friends on social media are still asking others to share a post on how life isn’t easy. It suggests that many of us are living with issues that can cause mental health challenges in one form or another.

THESE days downtown Squamish is really a very down downtown. In less than a year, I saw two eating places, one coffee shop with a church, an appliance wholesaler, a merchandize store, and a start-up business support enterprise close their doors.

THE recent trilogy of anomalous occurrences in our region (English Bay tanker oil spill, Squamish Terminals wharf fire, and Squamish Chief massive rock fall) have created some speculation about the accelerated relation between anthropogenic processes and the natural world.