After more than a year since the last edition of Our Paper we’ve returned under an obviously new format to bring you news, information and opinions that you won’t find in mainstream media anywhere in Western Canada. 

We admit we’ve been struggling with things like personnel to do layout work and how to utilize the scarce time available in the South Vancouver Island activist community. But we keep getting all these comments about how vital Our Paper has become and how we manage to pull together some of the most interesting articles, cartoons and authors. Our subscribers have been intensely loyal and, thankfully, very patient. Some of them have been calling and writing and asking when the next issue is out. We couldn’t resist even though all of us are very busy in other pursuits. 

So now we’re trying a new format which, hopefully, will ease the burden of whoever takes on the tricky layout task. Let us know how you feel about it. It allows each author or collective member to layout a page completely and then send it to one central point to be assembled, collated and printed. 

We’ve also been seeking some new voices on the Collective and we’re happy to welcome Christi Shand, Bernice Kamano, Don Startin and Jack Etkin. “Many hands make light work” and we’re confident that our work will still be uplifting with these new comrades.

So welcome to the new Our Paper and may it always inform you, inspire you and give you hope for a better world. It is possible!

Art Farquharson for The Collective