Opinion

Forty years after it was incorporated Whistler seems pretty simple, almost logical, in its basic layout: Blackcomb's on the left, Whistler Mountain's on the right, the village is in between the two. But it wasn't necessarily always going to be so.

For an administration so utterly focused on cost-savings and belt-tightening for the past three-and-a-half years, something seems amiss with the latest municipal pet project. No, it's not last week's $3.

Top 10 anti-Max Stop Max — serial abuser of freedom of speech and expression: the evidence exposed! How much is enough, G.D. Maxwell asks. Well, his last article was the last straw that broke the Conservative camel's back.

It's hard to walk into a store these days without seeing a "Help Wanted" sign. I've even heard workers being offered jobs while they are working — by the very people they are serving. Signs of the times? Perhaps.

Franz Wilhelmsen was understandably pleased when his Garibaldi Lifts. Ltd. secured the rights to develop Whistler Mountain for skiing in the early1960s, but he was shocked to discover the company didn't own any land at the base of the mountain.

Lakeside parking needs solution We are writing about a traffic and safety concern in the Lakeside Park area. The refurbishment of Lakeside Park was a huge success and visitor traffic has increased exponentially.

This is the point in the summer when I always start dreaming about skiing again (sorry!), and I have been — a lot.

When I was in grade... well, any grade really... I would have called a piece like this "What I Did on My Summer Vacation." But of course, I don't have summer vacations. I don't have any vacations.

The power lines that run through the Whistler valley, carrying electricity from Seton to Cheekye, are what drew Peter Alder to the Sea to Sky corridor 60 years ago. But it was the area's skiing potential that sparked his imagination.

Learning to co-exist Hi, I'm Jane. Remember me? I'm the black bear that you decided to shoot (with a tranquilizer gun) a few weekends ago during the Whistler triathlon while I was trying to have a snack with my babies.