Opinion

Does anyone else feel like the resort is holding its collective breath as we head into another May long weekend? The shock of last year's unrelated stabbings is still raw for most of us.

On a Saturday in early May, the Scandinave Spa's lobby and café are hopping. Sipping bevies both hot and cold, arriving guests chatter excitedly while those exiting mumble approvals, echoing the facility's top ranking on travel websites.

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It's amazing to imagine how much of our world is governed by statistics. Almost everything can be distilled down to some sort of number — Big Data is simply becoming part of life in today's world.

The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s.

After hours licences valuable In regards to GD Maxwell's rant ( Pique, April 28): "When money talks in Tiny Town," respectfully, GD is asking the wrong questions, and his article leaves me wondering how a licence extension is even an issue? Here is s

There's a hashtag out there seeing a fair amount of use. When you notice #pembylife in your social-media feeds, or even occasionally employ it as I do, you qualify to question what, exactly, it means.

Poop pitch-in needs attention On Saturday, April 23, it was Pitch-In Day in Whistler and, as I live in Bayshores, I was compelled to go clean up the Valley Trail heading towards Creekside.

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.