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Britain: Shakespeare in action

Britain: Shakespeare in action

It's a bit like a Shakespeare play — specifically the final scene of Hamlet, when almost all the play's major characters die violently. And now we're down to one. Her name is Theresa May.
A distant mirror

A distant mirror

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Dark earth could herald a bright future for agriculture and climate

Dark earth could herald a bright future for agriculture and climate

Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat.
Letters to the Editor for the week of July 7th

Letters to the Editor for the week of July 7th

WB should support Spearhead Huts with money It was with great excitement that I read the recent announcement by the Spearhead Huts Committee with respect to the C$900,000 donation from the Kees Brenninkmeyer Foundation.
Time to get in the driver's seat

Time to get in the driver's seat

In the next couple of weeks Whistler will see the release of an updated Economic Partnership Initiative Report. While the numbers may surprise us, one thing we already know is that the resort is getting busier and busier. As B.C.
Poison gas, red lines

Poison gas, red lines

Fool me once, shame on you. (The Taliban regime in Afghanistan helped al-Qaeda to plan 9/11. We must invade.) Fool me twice, shame on me. (Saddam Hussein is building weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We must invade.) But fool me three times...
The last portage

The last portage

He could smell the water. Or, to be more accurate — as he nerdily aspired in those days of pouch-bound nylon windbreakers and cowboy-constellated, flannel sleeping bags — whatever it was in the water that produced this ether.
Letters to the Editor for the week of June 30th

Letters to the Editor for the week of June 30th

Emission control RE: Letter to the Editor, "Woodfibre LNG will be one of the cleanest?", June 23, 2016: Clean Energy Canada at Tides Canada, who said in a May 2014 article in the Vancouver Sun newspaper: "Woodfibre LNG intends to link its facility di
Whistler's waiting game

Whistler's waiting game

Parents shouldn't have to wait years to get their child into daycare in Whistler.
The future is now for housing

The future is now for housing

My insistent, flashing phone-message light rarely brings me good news, and so it was with little surprise that I listened to a message left by an irate reader. But this message really struck a nerve.