Opinion

With December underway most of us are well into our "making-the-list" phase of Christmas shopping. This happily coincides with the Buy Local campaign, which runs through the end of this week.

Kristine Leise is very excited.

Thank you, Whistler! Whistler just celebrated its largest and most successful Cornucopia festival ever with results indicating that we are well on our way to meeting our goals of achieving overall festival occupancy of at least 60 per cent and establ

We all know it is going to snow. It always snows. Sometimes it is earlier than expected and sometimes it is later than we hope...

Canada is among the world's wealthiest nations, but our wealth is not equitably distributed.

It's a bucketing rain in Vancouver. Not unusual for late October, but it's a miserable time to be looking for ants as biologist Sean McCann and I zigzag backstreets and wheel through roundabouts en route to the Arbutus corridor community gardens.

So it's all over, before some even knew or noticed it had begun.

Can it really be 20 years since the Pique published its first edition? I'm not going to get sentimental on you — suffice it to say that being the editor of a newsmagazine like Pique is like having an extra child.

Signs and low voter turn out? This year's election was marred by low voter turnout, and one has to wonder if the lack of election signs had something to do with low turnout as well? Sure, it's great for the environment, but visible signs engage voter

Russian politician Andrei Zhirinovsky is all mouth, so it would not normally have caused a stir when he suggested earlier this year that Russia should simply annex the parts of neighbouring Kazakhstan that have a large Russian population.