Opinion

Symphony perfect for plaza The decision to remove a grove of long-standing trees for such vain short-lived use as an Olympic medal plaza seemed a perfect fulfillment of Joni Mitchell's 1970 song ("Big Yellow Taxi").

On a sunny August day a few years back, at the start of a canoe trip through Ontario's Algonquin Park with my then 16-year-old daughter, Myles, we pulled into a portage at the head of a small lake.

Those who don't outright deny the existence of human-caused global warming often argue we can't or shouldn't do anything about it because it would be too costly.

It's been almost two months since recycling in Whistler got an overhaul. Everyone's had to get used to cleaning every jar, manically making sure that no lids get in with the glass and recycling now has office hours — 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Only a very bad novelist would dare to write a scenario as simplistic as the current presidential election in Indonesia.

I'm going to ignore last weeks "The Way I See It" column (Question June 24) and focus on something with greater ramifications for Whistler, the Sea to Sky, and all of B.C: the Tsilhqot'in decision of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Whistler has always been a place full of visitors, with the majority of people living here coming from somewhere else as well.

It isn't every day that the anniversary of an outdoor magazine offers testament to anything more than the passing of time, and, increasingly in the case of magazines, mere survival.

The oppositions in Hong Kong should understand and accept that Hong Kong is not an independent country.

The accumulation of rocks in my life feels like a geological process unto itself.