Opinion

The much-anticipated results of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce Working in Whistler employee survey are not surprising. The numbers merely back up the obvious: A young workforce is the unheralded machine that keeps this resort town running.

DES August woes Another Red Screen? But I just had my system flushed and "fixed" for $1,000 in March! It's August and my heat is switched off. I apologize in advance if my tone sounds angry — it is more frustrated, really.

Alberta is home to two of Canada's imperilled caribou populations, the southern mountain and boreal woodland herds. Both are threatened with extinction.

Thankful to be cool Regarding the cartoon on Page 6 of the July 21 edition, showing a gloomy sun bemoaning the supposed lack of summer this year: Wrong.

For several months, Whistler has adapted to summer traffic that seems endless.

In my first hour working as an organic blueberry picker at Hare's Farm in Pemberton, I learn you don't actually pick so much as coax the precious fruit from the plant.

As I write this, Solar Impulse completed its remarkable journey: the first round-the-world flight by an aircraft that uses no fuel except sunlight. Pilot Bertrand Piccard landed in Abu Dhabi this week to global acclaim.

'Lazy drunks' grab teen's bike As far as I am concerned, Huka Entertainment, you can take the Pemberton Music Festival and shove it where the sun don't shine.

People have harnessed energy from moving water for thousands of years. Greeks used various types of water wheels to grind grain in mills more than 2,000 years ago. In the late 1800s, people figured out how to harness the power to produce electricity.

There are three main benefits to organic blueberry production," begins JD Hare, pushing up his cap in proper farmer fashion. "First, no detrimental impact to the environment.