Cover Stories

Mountain Culture: More active than yoghurt? By Jayson Faulkner With all that is happening this fall in cultural events and sporting activities I was asked to reflect on mountain culture.

The Whistlerites o The resident population was 6,800 in 1995. o Average age is 28 years; largest single group is between 20 and 24 years. o 50 per cent of the population is under 27 years and 80 per cent is under 37 years.

His face is screwed into a twisted mask of determination.

By Paul Dillon On behalf of the 1.4 million Quebecers whose first language is not French I’d like to say, "Thanks for nothing, Canada.

Skiing significant part of provincial economy In the early 1970s Al Raine went to Victoria to pitch his proposal for developing Powder Mountain, the area south-west of Whistler in the Callaghan Valley.

Off The Races ...like the eagle, who hovers with free gaze over whole countries, and to whom it is of no consequence whether the hare on which he pounces is running in Prussia or in Saxony.

Robin Allen has her own fair share of fish stories. But the stories she gained during five years of setting nets in pursuit of salmon in the waters of Halibut Cove off Alaska's West Coast have come to an end.

By G.D. Maxwell Some witty social observer, whose name I can't remember right now but whose sentiments I share, once described golf as a perfectly good way to ruin a nice walk.

The Leading Edge: A behind the scenes look at high-tech trends at ski resorts By Pamela Clarke At about 4 a.m.

By Glen Watson "Hockey is the Canadian metaphor, the rink a symbol of this country's vast stretches of water and wilderness, its extremes of climate, the player a symbol of our struggle to civilize such a land...