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Here is a true story what do you make of it?  Could it be a spy story?   Mayne Island is one of the Southern Gulf Islands situated off the British Columbia coasts. Others are Saltspring,    the Penders Islands, Galiano and Saturna  Islands. Art workshops and associated   artesian pursuits abound   here. It is easily accessed by a forty minute British Columbian  ferry ride from Tsawwassen , an hour’s drive from the Vancouver area. Rich people buy cottages there and invite other rich people to visit them. Being the closest    Gulf Island to Vancouver, I am expected to write it is a popular day tripping place for people living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Well, most go once, with a community group for cycling and hiking but then tend to venture else  where, seeking more kms to cycle or more strenuous hikes. Nothing much happens on Mayne Island, which of course is appealing. It has a light house but it is not as famous or well photographed as Peggy’s Cove one in Nova Scotia. The light h

  I call it the Catholic Church Syndrome but the pattern appears in business and politics Essentially, it is a halfway attempt at democracy.  "Thank you for filling in the survey said Fr. Moore.”  It was six weeks before Christmas and the Parish Council with the assistance from the Knights of St. Columbus had prepared a survey asking if celebrating the principal Christmas Mass earlier say at 6pm or 8pm instead of midnight would be preferred. Of course there had been talk for years that a midnight service was disruptive in people’s lives but the cherubic image of the Church at 11:50pm even if it meant standing was hard to forsake until the heretical notion of fast tracking time zones began to prevail. This Parish Council was strong since two others vetoed the idea or rather did not want to approach 78 year old Fr. Moore who was probably going to made up into a Canon next year by Bishop Augustine. The Knights of St. Columbus gave legitimacy to the undertaking. “The results are overw