Opinion

This is traditionally a time when we think of family and friends and the relationships we have in our lives — well, at least most adults do: the kids are thinking about what is under the tree.

How much stuff will you give and receive this holiday season? Add it to the growing pile — the 30-trillion-tonne pile.

More needs to be done to house workers I arrived in Whistler a month ago. I quit my well paid job in Australia on a whim (after getting my IEC visa), booked a plane ticket and decided to do a season.

When I arrive at Meadow Park's fitness studio, the beats are already pumping. Because the studio shares its air system with the gym above, it's also freezing. That won't last — the music is already making me sweat. Or maybe it's fear.

The amazing snow last week made it feel like the good ol' days. But it also brought into focus some serious issues with traffic management in and around the village, and heading into and out of Whistler.

Always about what was best for the dogs WAG was approached in November 2011 and asked if it was interested in taking on a dogsledding business with the surviving 187 dogs from the kennel where Bob Fawcett killed 56 dogs in 2011.

It's difficult to remember when skiing didn't hold significance for me, but I know that dark star of youthful frivolity still lurks, lodged somewhere in the ether.

We have imagined how things would have been at that time if there was an Internet and people were using social media," said Mikhail Zygar, the creator of the biggest-ever interactive historical website.

Whistler Sled Dog Co. one of the good ones Many people in the (sled dog) industry do not agree with Sue Eckersley (the former operator of the Whistler Sled Dog Company who has come out against the industry).

So there I was in Whistler's Armchair Books looking for a cookbook when a laminated sign on the cash desk about the power of buying local caught my eye. In a strange way, it was like pushing a re-set button on my Christmas gift buying.