Opinion

"I grew up deeply embedded in tourism," says Kirby Brown, Whistler-Blackcomb’s Human Resources boss. Indeed. When you live in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and your dad manages the historic Bluenose II schooner, your life is tourism.

Don’t get caught up marketing Walkmans when everybody is buying iPods.

Perhaps the most important point of the $2.8 billion deal that will see Fortress Investment Group acquire Whistler-Blackcomb’s parent is that Intrawest will become a private company.

With a growing number of high-end studios springing up in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada’s video game and animation industry has officially come into its own.

Invest in your community To the new investors and stakeholders of this wonderful mountain town: I thank you for your investment and support of our resort lifestyle.

It was an incredible performance. For 11 years, Doug Perry acted as ringmaster for one of the boldest experiments in mountain resort entertainment.

Decima Research announced this week that Bryan Adams’s 1984 hit song Summer of ’69 is Canada’s top driving song, as determined by a poll of Canadians interested in driving songs.

Having recently purchased a WHA home, my wife and I are in the process of buying furniture to fill it – right now we have next to nothing. That shopping list includes some necessary home electronics.

The soul, the magic and the future I have read Michel Beaudry’s Alta States profiles over the past five weeks with interest.

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, BEGIN IT. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."