Opinion

In the end, a family's plan to own their own free-market home, and provide an employee-restricted dwelling on the same land, was dashed by the need to vary their lot's frontage by less than seven metres.

Anyone skiing Blackcomb Sunday or Monday would have been treated, as was I, to the ping-ping-pinging on their jackets (or T-shirts) of one of the most intriguing of meteorological phenomena — graupel.

Imagine if scientists came up with an inexpensive, easily administered way to decrease the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke and obesity by 25 to 35 per cent. It would create a sensation and, if patented, would be worth billions.

In the age of globalization, our planet is shrinking.

A good starting point What a powerful case Whistler Blackcomb (WB) makes for its Renaissance program.

Earth Day is always worth celebrating if for no other reason than it focuses people on the climate issues facing the world. But it must also be a day we take stock of what real change is happening and what is window dressing.

If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, there's one word you'll hear time and time again, and yet it's hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is "non-linear.

As you wander around the resort, "hiring" signs are visible in many storefronts — though hopefully with university students returning home for the holidays some of those signs will disappear.

The view from the summit of 1,230-metre Roaldhorn channels every scenic alpine cliché. First, the deep blue of Storfjord stretching into the distance reminds you that you can ski to the sea from here.

For the most part, our brains didn't evolve in cities. But in a few decades, almost 70 per cent of the world's people will live in urban environments. Despite the prosperity we associate with cities, urbanization presents a major health challenge.