Opinion

Paying a lot more to play It should be clear to everyone who has been following Vail Resorts' acquisition of Whistler Blackcomb that a new era has started — and nothing in Vail Resorts' actions to date should leave any illusions about its path

Grizzly bears venturing from dens in search of food this spring will face landscapes dominated by mines, roads, pipelines, clearcuts and ever-expanding towns and cities.

Does anyone else feel like they are between a rock and hard place voting in the provincial election on May 9? The Sea to Sky's incumbent candidate Jordan Sturdy is well liked, well respected and many would argue has done a great job for the constitue

There are many sounds in Canada's forests, and not just a few of them are distinctly Canadian — a wolf's howl, the tock-tock-tock of woodpeckers.

A few weeks back, Eric Crowe, who grooms the Lost Lake cross-country trails, sent me a photo of a determined western toad he'd encountered on his grooming shift.

Thank you, Whistler Watermark Communications, Inc. has been privileged to manage the World Ski and Snowboard Festival for 11 years and I have been privileged to be part of the festival for 18 events.

It feels like we have been celebrating for weeks now — well, actually, we have as we took in all the events for the World Ski and Snowboard Festival and Easter as well.

The office of the President of the Reich is unified with the office of the Chancellor. Consequently all former powers of the President of the Reich are demised to the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich Adolf Hitler.

Since I started working as a geneticist in the early 1960s, the field has changed considerably.

Big shoes to fill I want to personally thank Sue Eckersley from Watermark Communications Inc. for indirectly having a huge impact on my life. I was sitting in Spain in 2006 and a friend said, "there's something on TV about a place called Whistler.