Opinion

Reading the news, it's hard not to feel a growing sense of unease.

A couple months back I was talking with Mike Gibeau — a former carnivore specialist who worked with Parks Canada for some 33 years and is now a conservation coordinator with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) — about the extensive GPS

Cyclists and drivers need mutual respect It is with great expectation I am sharing these thoughts with all users of our roads, and in particular drivers and cyclists transiting Highway 99.

Late last year, the governments of the European Union, having refused to share the cost of a very successful operation called Mare Nostrum in which the Italian Navy rescued tens of thousands of refugees from sinking boats in the Mediterranean, replac

Whistler has been much in the news lately.

We're surrounded by life, but Earth's most plentiful living things are invisible to the naked eye. Microbes are not only around us, they live on and in us.

I know I've opened a column this way before, but as a biologist, I've found that canoe trips really do provide an excellent opportunity to explore and explain the outdoors. Especially those unseen leviathans that might be hiding in plain sight.

Please protect our wildlife I grew up in Whistler, and living here grew a respect for this town, for the people and the environment. Today, I went to Alpha Lake and witnessed something I wish I hadn't.

A few decades ago the idea of building a new ski resort would have been widely applauded with stakeholders gleefully celebrating how it would grow snow sports and bring tourism dollars to B.C. But it's a different reality now.

Part of the army rebelled in Burundi last week, not to overthrow the constitution but to save it. The revolt failed after two days of shooting in the capital, Bujumbura, and the generals who led it surrendered.