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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

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Bowen Islander's new poetry collection explores the "Grotesque Tenderness" of ...

June 14, 2019

This weekend at BICS: Rossini, Prokofiev, Beethoven and West Coast Suite world ...

June 14, 2019

Gallery at Cove Commons exhibit delivers heavy messages of darkness and hope from ...

May 20, 2019

For the sheer joy of bluegrass: hear the High Bar Gang Friday

May 12, 2019

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Strawberry Tea 2019 goes to the cephalopods

June 16, 2019

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

June 16, 2019

Here's our Bowen Island-sourced dad joke collection

June 16, 2019

Bowen Islander's new poetry collection explores the "Grotesque Tenderness"...

June 14, 2019

See More Letters

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: When it comes to Cape Roger Curtis, stick to the plan

May 27, 2019

This letter is in response to John Dowler's May 16 letter online published as "Envisioning the ...

Letter: envisioning the future of the Cape on Bowen

May 16, 2019

Now looking at rezoning the remaining 30-odd lots at Cape Roger Curtis, the Cape on Bowen ...

Letter: what happened to the housing campaign promises?

April 28, 2019

Gini Grey responds to the Mayor's Standing Committee on the Community Lands recommendations on the ...

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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

Tiger Woods’ counterparts found on Bowen Island

April 21, 2019

Team Cates Hill-Valhalla reign in community golf battle

May 28, 2019

Bowen Fastpitch League hits the diamond for 2019

May 3, 2019

Annual tournament keeps golf course alive for another year

September 28, 2018

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Bowen artist carves BICS Welcome Pole with students' help

Council responds to “water crisis” in Blue Water and King Edward Bay and senior BIM staffer resigns

A helping bag: the Orchard donates reusable bags to General Store's borrow a bag program

Late Bowen artist Colin Ruloff’s musical legacy lives on

IPS teacher Jennifer Henrichsen receives Prime Minister's teaching award

OPINION: It's going to take more than paper straws to avoid climate catastrophe

Harbour Air opens its Fly ‘n’ Dine service to Bowen Island commuters

Profile: Bowen's sailing youth

Who will be Bowen's first four square champion?

Rural health needs study flooded with responses from B.C.'s communities

Bowen's new fire chief starts in July

Local actor Susan Hogan receives fourth Leo Award nomination