Opinion

Standing up for business Members of our community have rightfully asked, "just how big" is this Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) issue for Whistler? In June and July the Whistler Chamber surveyed its members to answer this question and 67 businesses re

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Children belong outdoors. We know this intuitively, but now an extensive and ever-growing body of research supports it. Kids who spend time outside every day are healthier, happier, more creative, less stressed and more alert than those who don't.

As Whistler gets ready to welcome local and provincial political leaders, their staff and families to the annual convention of B.C. municipalities it should be clear to all that the resort is a powerhouse in producing tourism dollars.

You mustn't expect politicians in a democratic system to come up with ideologically pure, intellectually consistent policies.

For almost as long as the resort of Whistler has existed it has had some sort of split personality.

Bob Brett is standing on a railroad embankment near the Lillooet River in the Village of Pemberton's ample back forty.

Excellent public education is the basis of a healthy democracy I consider a successful person as someone who is happy, self-assured, able to work well with others and a good thinker.

Reality check I have been reading the Pique since it began, and it is one of the best free things to do in Whistler. One of your best opinion writers is GD Maxwell.

If you haven't heard of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden, Manitoba, don't worry, I hadn't either until I arrived there on a recent assignment for Canadian Geographic .