Islander

Those of us who founded the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment in 1994 were ‘a bunch of environmentalists who just happened to be physicians’

Only 27% of adults 18 years and older in Canada participate in sport, but 77% watch professional sports

More than 100 arts and culture events are packed into the next few months, ranging from the TD Victoria International Jazz Festival to Rifflandia.

Run through the West Shore RCMP Community Policing Unit, the Keep in Touch program sees volunteers checking on seniors who don’t have other supports

We need a reverence for the Earth and all it contains, an awareness of a connection to nature that is, at its heart, spiritual

Freshwater storehouses refresh rivers with cool, plentiful water in months when air temperatures are high and water levels tend to be at their lowest

Basic trail etiquette includes keeping to the right except to pass, controlling speed (especially on e-bikes), yielding to pedestrians, horse riders and farm equipment, and alerting other users when passing.

Virtually every reader who wrote in agreed something needs to be done about the Wild West that’s developed as fast-moving powered vehicles have proliferated on regional trails.

Another cyclist came off Tyee Road onto the Goose, accelerating to make it over the trestle bridge, just as I was coming down the hill out of Banfield Park.

I slow down when I am around other people on the trails, for their sake and my own.