Opinion

They say home is where the heart is, well again I say where has Whistler gone? It's been home for 25 years and now who knows where the heart of this valley has gone! I was not going to write this until I saw the letter last week.

Wandering through the village Saturday we came across Jim McConkey, star of numerous ski films in the '50s and '60s, father of the late Shane McConkey and as ski school director for most of Whistler Mountain's first two decades, one of the first real

For years I've been a fan of Gmail and its simple integration with Google Docs, Calendar, Picasa and a wide range of other cloud-based services.

"Evolve or die..." - Charles Darwin Summer is finally here. I know. I know. Doesn't look like it. Last winter's snow is still licking the edges of the lower slopes. Powder can still be found on high north faces.

"We've taken this very special experience wrapped it in pro forma and called it a product. That's so wrong. We so undersell what we have to offer... " Arthur DeJong, mountain prophet It's not like Arthur DeJong needed more winter.

In light of recent documents obtained through the British Columbia Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act confirming that the zoning of the land where the current asphalt plant operates clearly does not permit asphalt manufacturing, I w

Emotions are well and good, everyone should have them, but we make a huge mistake when we let our feelings get in the way of cold, hard reason. Emotional responses are immediate, visceral and impassioned.

It's still not too late for the BC Liberal government to take the initiative and reinstate the municipal business vote to bring back some accountability in civic elections.

"If you only read the books that others are reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." Haruki Murakami He's known mostly for his physical prowess. And that goofy, little-kid grin, of course. But it all works.

In all the concern over particulate matter and toxic fumes, gravel trucks and zoning, I have to wonder if the underlying humour in the situation has somehow been lost.