Opinion

Up until a few years ago, virtually every person in Canada who has ever donned a pair of cross-country skis knew who Herman Smith "Jackrabbit" Johannsen was. When he died peacefully in his sleep in Tönsberg, Norway, on Jan.

One for the ages I have an admission to make. I am having serious difficulty admitting that I am a senior. I can ski as good as I skied when I was 30 and Whistler keeps you young. I do not like the label "senior.

It may be only month three of 2015, but it already looks like this year will be a watershed one for the establishment of the cultural future of Whistler — and particularly in its aim to show itself to be a cultural tourism centre.

The last American troops are being pulled out of Yemen after al-Qaeda fighters stormed a city near their base on Friday.

"The introduction of the modern lightweight skees has made it possible for all ages and both sexes to enjoy traveling over snow-clad land or ice, breathing in the cool, crisp air and feasting the eyes on the passing landscape and its myriad panoramic

Many people think of Canada as a landscape of forests, mountains, water and ice, but the Canadian experience is fast becoming focused on glass and concrete. Our 2011 census revealed that 81 per cent of us now live in cities.

Hats off Wow! What a great job Whistler Blackcomb has done with its snowmaking and grooming. But WB has gone one step further by developing a new run in Whistler's alpine.

It has been a few weeks since a report on the amount of plastic garbage in our oceans was released. It found that we were tossing about eight million tonnes of it into the seas every year.

The most stoked There is a huge amount of stoke in the people who live here and enjoy a diverse variety of interests and activities.

It's often a good idea, when faced with a really frightening situation, to model the "worst case" outcome and see how bad it could get.