Cover Stories

Driving a point home There may be more to Whistler’s transportation strategy than pay parking By Bob Barnett Two weeks ago, Banff residents overwhelmingly rejected a plan for pay parking in the downtown core of their Rocky Mountain town.

Travel Options Putting a positive spin on pay parking By Andrew Mitchell People love their cars. They’re fast, go door-to-door, and let you sleep in an extra 15 minutes every morning. They’re your portable stereo system and an oversized backpack.

Smoking and the arts Artists speak out on the controversy surrounding tobacco sponsorship and one ad in particular By Paul Andrew WHO: The Tea Party, Big Sugar, with Kokoro Dancers, painter Thomas Anfield, Coco Love Alcorn, Armadillo String Quartet,

One of the times in my life when I was a graduate student, the school I attended in Montreal used to have visiting lecturers every other Friday or so.

Why Two Cay: Housing for the Millennium. Yeah, just another huckster’s dream up in smoke.

The rest of the world is coming to B.C. to ski and board, when are we going to recognize this? By Bob Barnett To look back at all the economic panaceas B.C.

Drawing from the well Maury Young Millennium Place will provide sustenance to the Whistler community By Loreth Beswetherick When more than 800 disparate souls gathered under the conference centre roof towards the end of a millennium to say goodbye to

Lessons learned Answering the call: The Ski School Needs You By G.D. Maxwell Those who can do. Those who can’t teach. I have to admit, I’ve never entirely understood the sentiment behind that well-worn chestnut of folk wisdom.

Pop culture on a stick Snowboarding following a path blazed by freestyle skiing By Bob Barnett In the early 1970s Doug Pfeiffer, one of the first proponents of freestyle or hot dog skiing, wrote in one of his Skiing magazine columns about trying to e

Carving up the pie Stealing skiers is fair game in a flat industry By Loreth Beswetherick It’s a bitter battle that is erupting high in the Rocky Mountains and it is one that is symbolic of the state of the North American ski industry — a business th