Opinion

A British journalist compared the huge American delegation (800-1,200 people) that is accompanying President Barack Obama on his first visit to Havana to Japanese soldiers stumbling out of the jungle to discover that the war ended a generation ago.

No doubt there are some disappointed businesses in and around Whistler this week following the release of the Liberal budget March 22.

Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers and streams are its circulatory system, providing life's essentials for people, animals and ecosystems. Canada has one-fifth of the world's freshwater, a quarter of its remaining wetlands and its longest coastline.

I've lived in a tourist town some 16 years now, but I don't often feel like a tourist.

Water warning needs to be addressed Is Pemberton going to be the new Flint, Mich.? Nine years ago, the Village of Pemberton (VOP) promised to address the low pH levels in our water.

The question that everyone really wants to know is who knew what when in the turbid Pemberton water scandal.

Opening the National People's Congress in Beijing last Saturday, Prime Minister Li Keqiang set China's growth target for the coming year at 6.5-7 per cent, the lowest in decades.

Spearhead should have a Ricker Hut Congratulations to the proponents of the Spearhead Huts project for receiving their park use permit to build a trail and hut system through the Spearhead Traverse.

As Whistler and its visitors are about to find out, experiencing the new Audain Art Museum brings a whole new dimension to the Whistler adventure.

Atop a lonely hill in a wide, windswept basin ringed by mountains, the full weight of mankind's ingenuity, ability and cultural enigma stood before us — backdropped by the even fuller weight of its occasional hubris, jingoism and inhumanity.