Opinion

My hometown, Vancouver, is in a rainforest, so we celebrate sunny days. People I talk to are enjoying the recent warm, dry weather, but they invariably add, "This isn't normal" — especially with all the smoke from nearby forest fires.

Use your brains Bravo to Drew Foyston of Whistler with his comments about sharing the roads as well as the rules of the roads ( Pique , June 25).

When ultra-hot weather drags on as it has (I've experienced more 38C days in the past three weeks than over my entire lifetime), and Whistler's otherwise lovely lakes become both unbearably crowded and annoyingly Swimmer's Itchy, I find myself longin

This last week saw both Orca and Humpback whales return to Howe Sound to hunt and explore the waters.

Alpha Lake parking nightmare The municipality needs a serious review on the Alpha Lake/Lake Placid Road parking situation. Clearly many of the parking bylaws are being violated in this area, especially now the summer weather is in full swing.

Full disclosure on this one: I'm a Kirby Brown fan. I like the companies he's worked for, I like what he's done for each, but most of all I like the ethics he brings to every endeavour, large or small.

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.