Opinion

August always seems like a slow news time, what with Parliament, legislatures, schools and in some countries many businesses shut down for summer vacations. But quietly, behind the scenes, much goes on in August.

Too harsh on 19 Mile Re: The guilty and the greedy (Maxed Out July 27) Lots of venom in your piece on disgruntled resident housing owners last week. I think you were too harsh with the 19 Mile, Beaver Flats and Bear Ridge residents.

Is a single 64-bit processor better than a dual-core 32-bit processor? What is the difference between DDR2 Memory and regular SDRAM? Technology moves fast, and no longer in any kind of linear way where the latest version is always the best.

It comes from the heart Re: Spreading Positive Whistler Vibe & Paying it Forward by Jennifer Miller, (July 13th & 20th. issue of The Question) Hmmmmmm.... How can you create a sense of abundance? Pay it forward initiative...

The Apple iPod may not be the best value or even the most powerful or user friendly of portable music devices out there, but it’s still the one gadget everybody wants.

One of the many paradoxes that face Whistler as it enters a vortex of development over the next three and a half summers is that while hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent on development projects here, the community is still scrambling for s

He was one of the starring characters in what is arguably Whistler’s most iconic photograph.

I was pretty lucky growing up – my parents didn’t ask too many questions and I didn’t have to tell them too many lies. As long as I made it to school every day and brought home decent grades they gave me a long leash.

In the mid-90s, when Intrawest, Vail Resorts, the American Skiing Company and others were buying up ski areas like they were fresh fruit that was going to spoil if left another few days, one of the tenets of Intrawest’s acquisition philosophy was tha

His life changed forever in June of 1961. "That was my first visit to Whistler," says Garry Watson. Invited to spend the weekend at a client’s logging camp near Alta Lake, the Vancouver-based outdoorsman was keen to scale the local heights.