Opinion

By the time you read this, two of Whistler's election debates will be over and voters will likely have a better idea of the lay of the land when it comes to what municipal government will look like going forward.

My two bits on Timbits OK, so we are getting a Tim Hortons. I have mixed feelings on this one.

Less than a month before the Nov. 15 civic elections and it's quiet, too quiet. At least in Whistler.

Last Friday, Oct.17, marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. It was a busy day for the world — there was Ebola on U.S.

Beneath us, a flash of crimson. Then another, and another. Soon it's a constant stream; thousands upon thousands of red bodies flow past, nose-to-tail, an undulating linear mass so coherent it resembles an underwater current.

The price of oil will hit its floor and it will rise again," President Nicolas Maduro assured Venezuelans, whose shaky economy depends critically on a high oil price. "Venezuela will continue with its social plans. Venezuela will move forward.

DES issue continues to heat up My wife and I recently purchased a unit in The Rise at Cheakamus Crossing.

Call him the "Snake Whisperer" if you'd like (some do), and it's true they seem calmer in his presence, but Ryan Lewis sees his work with the City of Lethbridge's rapidly disappearing Prairie rattlesnakes as more educational than vocational.

With the close of the nomination period last Friday voters can finally begin to assess the candidates for the next Whistler council.

Canadians expect to have our environment protected, and to know how it's being protected. A report from Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development shows we're being short-changed.