Opinion

It was the success of a dish of maple-glazed kohlrabi and Japanese turnip at a potluck dinner that sold me.

G.D. for prime minister! I couldn't help but laugh when I read Lisa Haeck's letter (criticizing G.D. Maxwell) in Pique last week (good on the Pique for printing it). In fact I found her "best-of" compilation, hating on G.D.

Having just been on holiday with two very strong-willed little boys aged eight and nine, I feel particularly well qualified to explain why the two Koreas went to the brink of war over some loudspeakers, but didn't go over the edge.

The story of how the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics inspired a group of Vancouver businessmen to develop Whistler Mountain in hopes of hosting the 1968 Games is well known.

Everyone can feel it with a mounting sense of dread, most of all the kids. It's in that early morning nip to the air, the bittersweet news that the PNE is open again, the subtle back-to-school preparations and the not-so-subtle new haircuts.

Getting hit in the face by a bracing 4 C standing wave while descending a glacier-fed river isn't everyone's idea of fun. But for those like myself who enjoy such things, it had also been a much-anticipated prospect in this summer of sizzle.

Jode Roberts has spent a lot of the summer checking out ditches and fields along the sides of roads, railways and trails. At first, he didn't like what he was seeing.

Forty years after it was incorporated Whistler seems pretty simple, almost logical, in its basic layout: Blackcomb's on the left, Whistler Mountain's on the right, the village is in between the two. But it wasn't necessarily always going to be so.

For an administration so utterly focused on cost-savings and belt-tightening for the past three-and-a-half years, something seems amiss with the latest municipal pet project. No, it's not last week's $3.

Top 10 anti-Max Stop Max — serial abuser of freedom of speech and expression: the evidence exposed! How much is enough, G.D. Maxwell asks. Well, his last article was the last straw that broke the Conservative camel's back.