Opinion

What's in a name Thanks Dan Redford for the clarification on the origin of D.O.A. ( Pique , Jan 8). I have been trying to tell anyone who would listen about it for years. I remember a day or two after Dan and Trevor Petersen first skied it, D.O.

It was late September of 1992 when I arrived at the shores of Carpenter Lake.

After Ahmed Merabet, a French policeman, was killed outside the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, his brother Malek said: "My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims. Islam is a religion of peace and love.

"People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out." - Warren G. Bennis He's the newly elected mayor of Tofino.

If there is one thing each of us knows it is that Mother Nature can never be taken for granted.

It's not always as it seems Sunday January 4, 19:40 hours. Just in from the drive down from Whistler to Squamish after my shift working as a mountain host — the day of the big snowfall and chaos on the road.

Abundant, cheap fossil fuels have driven explosive technological, industrial and economic expansion for more than a century.

Leslie, we have to talk.

As we bid farewell to 2014 let's take a little time to remember the year we had and look ahead to 2015. There is no doubt that the resort's push to be become a four-season destination is well under way.

Here are four reasons why President Barack Obama's decision last week to re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba was a good idea. 1) The U.S.