Opinion

Thomas Friedman, a columnist for the New York Times , was recently asked by an Arab associate if there really was a Jewish conspiracy within the media to make the Arab world look bad.

With the new world economists trying to slap a price tag on absolutely everything these days, from fresh water to the air we breathe, it's comforting to know that the best things in life are still free.

A realistic look at the Olympics

All in all, Canada is a basic country. Ten provinces. Three territories. Two official languages. Oceans on three sides, the U.S. to the South of the 49 th parallel from B.C.

I can’t tell you for a fact that if the World Economic Forum came to Whistler it would be a good thing or a bad thing.

City skiing

Like a lot of our modern technology, you can trace the birth of the Internet to the military industrial complex, a cold war that spanned more than four decades of paranoia, and an almost pointless space race.

Kircher’s legacy

Whistler officially joined the race for the 2010 Winter Olympics Jan. 22, although it was Vancouver’s name on the letter submitted to the IOC.

Nobody is sure exactly where the game of chess originated; India, circa 500 A.D., is the best guess of historians, although a version of the game was played in China and in Persia around this same time.