Opinion

Last Friday, in France, an Islamist named Yahya Salhi killed his employer, Herve Cornara.

Cannabis has been much in the news recently — though mostly to do with the growing pains Vancouver is having as it deals with an explosion of medicinal marijuana dispensaries over the last few years.

Earth has existed for 4.5 billion years, humans for somewhere around 150,000. But in my brief lifetime — less than 80 years — human populations have exploded exponentially, from two billion to more than seven billion.

After attending a meeting in Whistler I embarked on the second part of my research into the obsessive world of birders.

Sharing the road; all of it! I'm not the first to comment on the May 31 tragic accident that claimed the lives of three people; two of them prominent individuals in the Whistler road-biking community.

Canada is an amazing country — I think we can all agree on that. From sea to shining sea the vistas are awe inspiring, the people for the most part warm and generous, and as a nation our values are something to aspire to.

"For that dash represents all the time that they spent alive on the earth. And now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.

Thursday is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, and in the course of the day you are almost bound to hear or read somebody claiming that it "changed history.

Birds. We learn about them in school. We hear much about their migratory prowess. And every once in a while, we might clock some of it — a "V" of geese winging south, a blot of sparrows constellating the sky.

It takes a village Let's start with the end: Our son Evan is going to be fine. But we thought the worst on the evening of Saturday, June 6 when he fell (almost eight metres) from his bedroom window to the stairs below.