Opinion

"Why isn’t my office there anymore?" Councillor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden asked during Monday’s council debate on the original Whistler Village and efforts to "revitalize" it. Good question.

There was a suggestion recently that work could begin as soon as this summer on one of the oldest skeletons in Whistler’s closet, Powder Mountain.

Trying to run a school board has got to be one of the most frustrating jobs in British Columbia. Perhaps only matched by being a student or parent of a student.

After all the pre-season hype about El Niño — "the weather event of the century" — it’s been another record winter for Whistler, both in skier visits and in room nights.

The provincial government, desperate for some good economic news, has certainly been high on tourism recently. "If we look to the future...

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While it comes six months after originally promised and is breathtaking in its scope, Intrawest deserves considerable credit for laying out its plans for Creekside and the remaining bed units it inherited with the purchase of Whistler Mountain.

Friends and neighbours Whistler’s council has been under a lot of pressure recently, with the 19 Mile Creek employee housing project and the issue of chalet- and villa-style accommodation particularly contentious issues.

Andy Warhol said (promised?) that one day everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.

When Barnett Senior built his first cabin in Whistler he said there was no way he was going to have a phone in the building; he came to Whistler to get away from the world and to ski.