By Transition Salt Spring  Elections & Candidates, Local News – October 6, 2026 on the Salt Spring Exchange. See the original post here. All three candidates for CRD Area Director in the October 17 election responded to a Community Resiliency questionnaire sent by Transition Salt Spring in collaboration with the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust. See below their responses, verbatim,…

By Transition Salt Spring  Elections & Candidates, Local News – October 6, 2026 on the Salt Spring Exchange. See the original post here. All five candidates running for Local Community Commission Commissioner in the October 17 election responded to a Community Resiliency questionnaire sent by Transition Salt Spring in collaboration with the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust. See below their…

By Transition Salt Spring  Elections & Candidates, Local News – October 6, 2026 on the Salt Spring Exchange. See the original post here. All 5 candidates running for Islands Trust Trustee responded to a questionnaire sent by Transition Salt Spring and the Farmland Trust. See below their responses to Q1 on affordable housing. (Overall survey: https://transitionsaltspring.com/election-2026-questions/) Q1. Affordable Housing: The high…

On October 17, you will vote for one CRD Electoral Area Director, two Islands Trust Trustees, four Local Community Commission Commissioners, and three SD64 School Trustees. All the positions serve four-year terms. Here is what each one decides.

All 13 candidates running for CRD Area Director, Local Community Commission Commissioner and Islands Trust Trustee recently completed Community Resiliency questionnaires sent by Transition Salt Spring in partnership with the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust.

Transition Salt Spring built the following 10 principles from what we heard at the Common Ground Summit in May 2025, and included them in our submission earlier this year toward an updated Official Community Plan. We're offering them to candidates and to every Salt Spring resident as a shared starting point for what a livable, resilient island could look like going forward. An election is how that hope turns into direction.