Opinion

It’s just three small words, yet this simple three-word phrase has a profound effect on everyone who hears it. For kids who don’t particularly like school, it’s the equivalent of an annual death sentence.

Premier Gordon Campbell probably didn’t chose his 14-member technology council, which will advise him on how to turn British Columbia into "a global magnet for high-tech investment," based on where they live or own second homes.

Deals have a way of changing once the spotlight of public attention is removed. Thus it may be with the more than 60-year battle to preserve the South Chilcotin Range.

My current home computer is a piece of sh*t. It’s slow, it’s loud, it’s slow, it crashes, it flickers, it stalls, it’s slow and it’s slow.

Rain, rain go away, come again some other day. No? Then would it be okay if I left? Although Whistler’s river guides are ecstatic, for many Whistlerites, two beautiful and uninterrupted weeks of summer sunshine do not a summer make.

News item: Late summer and fall are the prime months for UFO sightings, according to the 2000 Canadian UFO Survey. Last year one-third of the 263 UFO sightings reported in Canada were in August and October.

I grew up in a pre-CGI world where animation equaled cartoons, and the pinnacle of Hollywood’s special effects was the chase scene from Tron.

In its brief history there have been few serious conflicts among groups in Whistler.

The anecdotal evidence - letters to the editor, protests, conversations in the village - strongly suggests the Whistler electorate is in the mood for wholesale change when they go to the polls on Nov. 19.

The provincial Liberals passed the halfway point of their first 90 days in office last week, with a large number of the commitments they promised to carry out in this first three months still to be kept.