Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

Opinion

Letters to the Editor for the week of February 27

Letters to the Editor for the week of February 27

Where are all the lifties? I recently received a feedback survey from Whistler Blackcomb, but wanted to make sure my voice was heard with regard to safety on the chairlifts.
Where is tourism in B.C.'s Budget 2020?

Where is tourism in B.C.'s Budget 2020?

You could be forgiven for feeling that our contribution to provincial coffers is down the list of things noted by the NDP as it rolled its latest budget out Feb. 18. Indeed, tourism, as a piece of the puzzle that makes B.C.
The high cost of loss

The high cost of loss

If you're a regular reader of this space, you're likely aware of the combined subtext underlying the range of subjects collectively tackled: that political, economic and socio-cultural business as usual (BAU) is killing the planet.
Solution to a lift-line apocalypse? Ski uphill.

Solution to a lift-line apocalypse? Ski uphill.

"There is a hell and it has lift lines." — advertisement for Scarpa ski touring boots in Powder Magazine , circa 2010 For all the things that Whistlerites are known for enduring, traffic is not one of them.
Letters to the Editor for the week of February 20

Letters to the Editor for the week of February 20

Sharing trail access can bring new positive relationships Twenty years ago, a group of trail advocates began a campaign of planning and instigating a network of mainly flatland trails in the Pemberton Valley with the funding and planning needs provid
Our Games, our legacies

Our Games, our legacies

I was thinking about the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games the other day as I drove from Vancouver to Whistler.
Skiing the real coast

Skiing the real coast

It had rained hard the day before, the freezing level climbing perilously high before dropping overnight with a skiffle of snow ushered in by a passing cold front.
What do we do when our home 
is on fire?

What do we do when our home is on fire?

Successive Australian governments have denied or downplayed the existence and risks of human-caused climate disruption. There, coal is king.
Letters to the Editor for the week of February 13

Letters to the Editor for the week of February 13

Your Olympic legacy venues say "thank you!" This February and March, our whole region commemorates the anniversary of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2010.
Petitioning for change

Petitioning for change

7,022. At press time, that's how many people had taken the time to sign a petition asking Vail Resorts to address concerns skiers and boarders have with Whistler Blackcomb (WB). The change.