Opinion

When a Fox News reporter asked Donald Trump about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back in 2010, just after Assange had released a huge cache of secret U.S.

A helping hand (Last week), while travelling home to West Vancouver, I stopped at (my Whistler) mailbox to pick up my mail. My car wouldn't start. A young girl came up and fortunately had booster cables and patiently got my car restarted.

The holidays are finally behind us, and all that's left for most of us are the bills for all the fun we have given and received. If you were planning ahead, the bills will not be shocking and will not be more than you expect.

Back in 2011, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson — well, a reasonable facsimile of the deceased writer — addressed the crowd at Whistler's Official Community Plan open house.

The longer we delay addressing environmental problems, the more difficult it will be to resolve them.

Housing style can be a choice I've read a couple of comments from people living in their vehicles because they can't find housing. I've personally known many people living in their vehicle — all of them do it as a life-style choice.

Did you know we have a nation-building sofa, and that it is travelling across the country this year to help celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary of Confederation? Well, we do.

It's Christmas, and time for my annual crisis of conscience: to have or not have a Christmas tree in the home. For all of my adulthood I've had an uneasy relationship with this ritual.

Keeping grizzlies safe Thanks very much to the Pique and (bear researcher and writer) Michael Allen for responsibly publishing "Fishing Grizzlies" in the Dec. 22 issue and not detailing the location of these grizzly bears.

Like so many years before 2016 seems to have flown past. For most heading into 2017 is both welcome and also laden with a lurking apprehension. For an international destination such as Whistler the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S.