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Half a golf course to keep community whole

By G.D. Maxwell Regular readers of Pique often refer to Bob Barnett as the Voice of Reason.

Distinguishing between the black hole and the goal

By G.D. Maxwell Mr. Mike Vance c/o Muni Hall Whistler (we’re part of the Olympics too) B.C. Dear Mike: Heard you’re headed back to Whistler to breathe life into the limp body of Tiny Town’s sustainability plan. ‘Bout time.

This space for rent

by G.D. Maxwell One thing I’ve always prided myself on – yeah, I know, another deadly sin – is an easy ability to ‘fess up when I’m wrong.

Back to school, and stay there

By G.D. Maxwell The surgeon who reattached all the things that differentiate my finger from a salami threatened to void my warranty if I touched a keyboard this week.

The Annals of Greed – Part III

By G.D. Maxwell At the risk of completely losing readership, here we go again... for the last time if that’s any consolation.

The doctor is in; the patient is out of it

By G.D.

The Annals of Greed – Part II

By G.D. Maxwell For what it’s worth, greed is one of the seven deadly sins. And depending on how you define covetousness, it falls under the Commandment warning us about drooling over all those cool things our neighbours have.

The Annals of Greed – Part I

I once baited my father into an argument – our principal arena of communication – by suggesting his generation went out and fought the good fight in World War II, came home, started families, got jobs and pretty much coasted after that, liv

Forest fires continue to take their toll

By G.D. Maxwell The sense of destruction can’t really be measured. Well, actually, it can. And it is.

Marriage, between Church and State

By G.D. Maxwell "God is a concept by which we measure our pain.