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Caution: Are You a One Trick Parenting Reward Pony?

Bowen Island Undercurrent

February 9, 2018

Who doesn’t like a good carrot now and again? You know the crunchy kind, especially when it’s dangling from a string. What I’m talking about is that coveted promise (“Can ...

The extreme-right and proportional representation

February 9, 2018

You might be aware that this coming fall, voters in BC will decide by referendum whether or not ...

Making the Fitness Resolution Stick

January 7, 2018

We’re through it now, the season of excess and relaxation. The season seems to be stretching out...

Heritage versus Property Rights

December 15, 2017

Heritage is the continued representation of historical events, objects and locales to which ...

Flooding the land to pollute the sky?

November 15, 2017

BC NDP leader John Horgan says his government’s year-end decision to proceed with or terminate ...

Landmark or status quo? Supreme Court of Canada deems no place is sacred

November 13, 2017

Just last week we were informed by the media that the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on a case ...

Thoughts on MOVEMBER

November 5, 2017

I was killing some time recently on my lunch break walking along Lonsdale Ave past a “health” ...

Mortgage financing rules are a’changing...

November 3, 2017

If there is one thing that is constant in life, it is change. So why would we expect anything ...

Bringing down family angst with Byron Katie

October 21, 2017

We all worry now and again. I haven’t met a mom who doesn’t. The trouble is sometimes we forget ...

Adios, Undercurrent

August 17, 2017

Laugh in the Face of Your Parenting Triggers

August 10, 2017

The Bay that lives again

July 17, 2017

Knowing Our Place: A Reconciliation Summer Reading ...

July 4, 2017

It is time for a cultural upgrade!

June 24, 2017

Woodfibre LNG and the Canadian government: alternative...

June 12, 2017

See More Arts

Inner lives of actors come alive in play written, learned and performed in 24 hours

August 15, 2019

Next up at the Gallery@Cove Commons: 'New works, Sculpture and Printmaking'

August 11, 2019

Bowen poet Jude Neale releases two new books

August 2, 2019

Using massive influence for change: Instagrammer Emmett Sparling's new photographic ...

July 24, 2019

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How do you explain Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to tourists? It’s ...

August 19, 2019

Sea to Sky SPCA opens new doors

August 17, 2019

Bowen grandfather thanks volunteer firefighters

August 18, 2019

Bowen’s new Tell Your Friends cafe aims to serve great coffee and healthy ...

August 17, 2019

See More Letters

Letter: King Edward Bay LAC responds to municipal water reports

August 9, 2019

Dear Editor: Reports from Bowen Island Municipality’s chief administrative officer, Kathy ...

Letter: looking for green waste solutions together

July 15, 2019

Dear Editor: I write in reference to the “Learning to love our carbon-holding soil” article ...

Letter: The Cape on Bowen shares the ideals of Bowen Islanders

June 16, 2019

Dear Editor: I appreciate the recent letter by John Sbragia in the Undercurrent emphasizing ...

Letter: Alberta's Trump-style tactics on TMX will only backfire

June 10, 2019

Editor: Re: Author documents Trans Mountain fight in novel, NOW, June 6 Author Robyn Allan is...

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Undercurrent editor is closing a chapter

February 8, 2018

Meribeth Deen looks back on her years sitting in Bowen Island's hot seat

The supermoon and changing tides on Bowen Island

January 31, 2018

We kicked the month off with a Super Wolf Moon, and are ending it with a Super Blue Blood Moon ...

Women’s March: Bowen Island Library plays a part in re-writing old stories

January 17, 2018

Have you checked out the shelf in the kids’ section of the Bowen Island Library that’s filled ...

New signs aim to change perspectives on physical disabilities

January 13, 2018

Bowen Island is ready to move forward, at least in terms of how we view and portray people with ...

See More Sports

Diggers and Cruisers rematch for fastpitch trophy (to the same result)

August 15, 2019

Men's fastpitch tournament coming up soon

July 30, 2019

Bowen FC held its first summer programming this July

July 29, 2019

SwimBowen raised $27,000

July 26, 2019

More on Bowen Island Undercurrent

Bowen grandfather thanks volunteer firefighters

Bowen’s new Tell Your Friends cafe aims to serve great coffee and healthy foods

Boweners take stunning pictures of a full sturgeon moon

Send in your Bowfest stories for next week's paper!

Pulling Together will visit Bowen Island this weekend

New exhibit shows what happens when artists "raid" a ceramics studio

Diggers and Cruisers rematch for fastpitch trophy (to the same result)

Inner lives of actors come alive in play written, learned and performed in 24 hours

Next up at the Gallery@Cove Commons: 'New works, Sculpture and Printmaking'

Letter: King Edward Bay LAC responds to municipal water reports

Bowen women: how Jessica Mitts developed her green thumb

Meet Bowen's best friends in a new book all about island dogs

A look back: the August Undercurrents of ‘79, ‘94, ‘09

Explore the picnics of yore in the museum's new exhibit

Former Davies Orchard resident Suzanne McNeil dies at 73

Caring Circle helps islanders navigate health services

Local society takes over the keys to Peter's express bus

Muni Morsels: Cove watermain getting replaced, subdivision of Lot 3 starts

What happened to Zoom Zoom scooters?

Bowen poet Jude Neale releases two new books