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Macedonian Name Game

Macedonian Name Game

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet," Shakespeare wrote, but it doesn't smell as sweet in Macedonia.
Letters to the Editor for the week of January 25th

Letters to the Editor for the week of January 25th

Our winter highway commuters When there is heavy snowfall on the highway, we all become vulnerable. We are vulnerable travellers, some of us heading to Whistler for the weekend.
Letters to the Editor for the week of January 18

Letters to the Editor for the week of January 18

Variable speed signs not working I am using the recent fatal tragedy on Highway 99 on the evening of Jan. 2 to bring awareness to the complete failure of the variable speed corridor.
Good news, bad news

Good news, bad news

The good news is that there is going to be a World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF) in 2018.
Large dams fail on climate change and Indigenous rights

Large dams fail on climate change and Indigenous rights

Brazil has flooded large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 per cent of its electricity from hydropower.
Tracking Troll

Tracking Troll

We're the only ones on a two-kilometre T-bar. That might be amazing — or maybe not so much. It's about noon on Boxing Day and people are only now starting to arrive at Troll Mountain, 44 kilometres east of Quesnel.
Retreat and advance

Retreat and advance

Around 2 a.m., I wake to a hushed voice outside the hut. For a few seconds, my face pressed into mosquito netting, I think I'm dreaming. Then, when I realize it's real life, I'm freaked out. "Leeeslie...
Think ahead, plan ahead

Think ahead, plan ahead

Stop what you are doing — just stop. Take a deep breath and repeat after me, "I will not go into the backcountry without telling someone where I am going.
Letters to the Editor for the week of January 11

Letters to the Editor for the week of January 11

Private employee housing project problematic (Editor's note — this letter was addressed to mayor and council.
Only the poor die screaming

Only the poor die screaming

If you had a million dollars to spend (but not on yourself), where would it do the most good? Well, the cost to cover morphine or a morphine-equivalent pain relief treatment for all the sick children younger than 15 years who are in really serious pa