Opinion

With any luck, the paper has been inundated with letters to the editor from upset parents regarding the day care crisis in this town.

That’s a neat arrangement that the province and VANOC announced Tuesday, a deal to take 320 temporary housing units from the Whistler athletes’ village after the Paralympics are over and re-distribute them as 156 units of permanent affordable housing

To be fair to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, there isn’t a country on the planet that has figured out how to manage the Internet.

To all mayoral and councillor candidates: Congratulations for showing the courage to stand up and take an active role in the future direction of our amazing mountain community.

At the height of the Great Depression almost 80 years ago, unemployment was more than 20 per cent in Canada compared to the six to eight per cent we’ve seen in recent years.

It was the fall of 1981 and Gail Morrison was very keen to get back to Whistler. Didn’t matter that the newly-minted resort municipality was stumbling through a crippling recession.

“The municipality’s revenue will flow more in the peaks and valleys of the business cycle. What that means is our revenue is going to be more variable…. This is a new thing. This was not seen in the past.

Recent media coverage regarding challenges associated with Right To Play’s possible presence and role in the Athletes’ Village at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler requires clarification.

The good times have been rolling along for so long at Whistler that newcomers to the valley sometimes take our economic bull run for granted. But those “oldtimers” who lived through the infamous 1981 recession know better.

I didn’t buy a Sony PS3 for a few reasons, the number one reason being games.