About Island Tides

Island Tides is an independent, regional newspaper on Canada's West Coast covering the east coast of Vancouver Island and the southern and northern Gulf Islands.

Island Tides has been publishing a print edition every second Thursday for twenty years, during this time its readership and sphere of influence has been growing steadily.

Island Tides is Canada Post delivered into 13,800 Gulf Islands' mailboxes on Salt Spring, Gabriola, Pender, Galiano, Mayne, Saturna, Denman, Hornby, Quadra, Cortes and Read Islands. We also mail into homes on the Saanich Peninsula on a rotating basis. Our colourful newspaper can be picked-up in boxes at stores, marinas, ferry terminals and coffee shops around BC's Strait of Georgia from Sidney to Nanaimo, to Campbell River and even in Howe Sound.

Homeported in the Canadian Gulf Islands National Park, Island Tides draws on British Columbian writers. The newspaper covers an eclectic mix of local, regional, national and international topics–serious and light-hearted.

Island Tides' writers use background information and history to provide context to help readers from far and wide make sense of conflicting information. Island Tides' point of view is positive and innovative. The newspaper seeks to give representation to solid, non-mainstream news and ideas. Island Tides gives readers a relaxed, informed 'West Coast' feeling!