Opinion

If we can do it, so can you I just read your recent column ("Snow joke," Dec 12, www.piquenewsmagazine.com ) about taking a closer look at consumption habits and the connection to climate change.

I know I am probably the only person in Whistler who was in favour of the Renaissance-plan waterpark that Whistler Blackcomb (WB) proposed in the spring of 2016.

Having experienced the fickle life of a gear junkie in the past, I am now a firm believer in buying things that I need, not things that I want or unnecessarily replacing equipment that is perfectly fine.

Recently it was revealed that since 1970, 60 per cent of all vertebrate animals on the planet have been wiped out.

The facts of the climate crisis aren't in dispute.

Pay parkers needs grace time to get ticket Sadly, Whistler now has gone predatory. I live in Whistler part time and had girlfriends visiting from Florida, driving a rental car. I tried to use my app to park their rental car at Marketplace.

Of course we all want snow, and even rain, to fall as we think of enjoying our mountain pursuits. After all, carving our way down the slopes brings a certain feeling of freedom that really can't be found in any other activity.

After a few days in Churchill, Manitoba and a two-hour, 20 km/h drive across half-frozen swamp in a "tundra buggy"—the all-terrain monster-truck-meets-bus invented by Leonard Smith in 1979—we arrive at Frontiers North's Tundra Buggy Lodge

To bring imperilled wildlife back from the brink, governments must establish recovery targets. This might seem straightforward and science-based but it is often influenced by social and economic factors.

Get off your couch! #WFF19 is on! This year marks our 19th edition of the Whistler Film Festival (WFF) running from Dec. 4 to 8. Sundance, Telluride, Vail, Whistler: ski towns seem to attract film festivals.