Opinion

As national parks go, Yoho is more compact than most. Driving the TransCanada just west of Lake Louise, you've already left the park behind before you finish reading the "welcome" sign.

New RFID pass system could be an environmental saviour Initially I was not a supporter of the new RFID pass-scanning system that Whistler Blackcomb (WB) introduced last season. There were several reasons for my opposition.

Education key to safe driving I never thought it would happen, but I ended up being "that person" who got hit head-on driving the Sea to Sky Highway when an oncoming car crossed the centre line. I was one of the lucky ones that survived.

Whistler has always had a budding relationship with marijuana. It has its own commercial producer licensed to grow medical marijuana in the Whistler Medical Marijuana Company, which operates out of a 10,800-square-foot facility in Function Junction.

The true skier does not follow where others lead. He is not confined to a piste. He is an artist who creates a lovely pattern from virgin and uncorrupted snow. What marble is to the sculptor, so is a ridge covered in powder to the true skier.

Our new government appears to be taking climate change seriously. With the UN climate talks starting in Paris on Nov. 30, Canada can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gases at home and helping others around the world do likewise. U.S.

Did ICBC go to far? When does it stop? How angry does the public need to become? When will people actually be protected by those that we pay to protect us? How has the public relations staff at ICBC even been able to keep their jobs (highly paying I

I moved to Whistler at the end of the 1990s, finally lured from my then-Toronto lair after many sojourns here during a decade as a ski journalist and magazine editor.

It's a little grainy, and it's difficult to make out the details, but there is no mistaking the pride and anticipation in the young man's smile as he stands beside his warplane.

You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time...," begins Abraham Lincoln's famous aphorism about democracy — but in a multi-party democratic system, that is usually enough.