Opinion

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.

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.