Opinion

WTF is a prepper ? You're probably asking yourself that right now, and I can't blame you. I posed that very question the first time I heard the word — shortly after determining it wasn't a euphemism for Sous Chef or a malapropism of "preppie.

SAR thanks On Sunday, May 31, a Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) member was leading a 5.11 climb with a fellow rock enthusiast when a handhold broke free.

Every year the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) releases the Statement of Financial Information (SOFI) at this time. And every year it raises my eyebrows as I consider how much local government employees get paid.

Reading the news, it's hard not to feel a growing sense of unease.

A couple months back I was talking with Mike Gibeau — a former carnivore specialist who worked with Parks Canada for some 33 years and is now a conservation coordinator with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) — about the extensive GPS

Cyclists and drivers need mutual respect It is with great expectation I am sharing these thoughts with all users of our roads, and in particular drivers and cyclists transiting Highway 99.

Late last year, the governments of the European Union, having refused to share the cost of a very successful operation called Mare Nostrum in which the Italian Navy rescued tens of thousands of refugees from sinking boats in the Mediterranean, replac

Whistler has been much in the news lately.

We're surrounded by life, but Earth's most plentiful living things are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are not only around us, they live on and in us.

I know I've opened a column this way before, but as a biologist, I've found that canoe trips really do provide an excellent opportunity to explore and explain the outdoors. Especially those unseen leviathans that might be hiding in plain sight.