Opinion

Renewable energy not all it appears I have been watching Quebec-based Innergex's Upper Lillooet Power Project and was shocked to see it is actually going ahead.

In Whistler, we don't seem to get weather as much as we get systems that tend to stick around for days, weeks and sometimes months. If it rains then it rains for days. If the sun comes out, it stays out.

' I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.' - Singer Billie Holiday It seemed like a good idea at the time. I mean, I'd worked hard all winter.

History does not exactly repeat itself: the final outcome of the American intervention in Afghanistan will not be the same as the end result in Vietnam.

'In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The recent flooding in Canmore, Calgary, Manhattan and disasters elsewhere only serve to underline the importance of backing up your important digital files, and then backing up those backups. Fires happen. Floods happen. Power surges happen.

For a couple of decades I've filled space writing about abstract, mundane concepts like bed units and employee housing. Over and over again. It's been my stock in trade. My stock in Pique , however, has ended.

Cyclists: use the thing inside your helmet They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but I can tell you that cyclists do. My car has been hit twice in the last seven months.

By the time the news came out last Wednesday it was too late to change my Cybernaut column comparing the launch of the Sony PS4 with the launch of Microsoft's Xbox One.

Save helipad to save lives It seems to make no sense to lose such a vital resource because signs and signals were not followed.