Opinion

That's another year in the rearview mirror as we get set to welcome 2019. In many ways, 2018 was a year of change and challenges.

The news, Dec. 20: the oil industry has been running a covert campaign to rewrite American car emissions rules; nine U.S.

During the holiday season, people often drink toasts to health. There's something more we can do to ensure that we, and others, will enjoy good health now and into the future: combat climate change.

A case study in hypocrisy This email is in response to your (Mayor Jack Crompton) letter to Tim McKay of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL) dated Nov. 15, 2018. (See related story on Page 14.

It's a typical story in Canada. Local resource industries go in the shitter and a badass mountain chain in the middle of nowhere—which had, in the past, occasionally sent up reports of epic skiing—suddenly bumps onto the tourism radar.

If there was any doubt that Whistler holds a prominent place in Canada's tourism sector, it was firmly put to bed in the last week, as national and local headlines screamed outrage over the municipality's decision to send a letter asking oil and gas

A friend recently messaged me to say she was headed to the Ecological Society of Australia's annual conference and had been selected to moderate a workshop roundtable with 80 people under the theme Ecology in the Anthropocene.

Call me spoiled, but I really like skiing in November. Not just token turns, I mean real skiing. Skiing through trees with their branches drooping under the burden of storm snow. Touring that requires hard work to break trail for a skin track.

It takes a village! Thank you Whistler for once again supporting the Whistler Film Festival (WFF).

Hands up if you gave a sigh of relief as the snow began to fall this week. And hands up if you had this niggling subconscious worry that Mother Nature is starting to push back as humans continue to overuse our environment for profit.