Opinion

"2009 was a significant year for the municipality's fiscal planning. In 2008, the community had effectively reached build-out, which meant two things: growth came to a halt, and with it, the revenues that accompanied growth.

While iTunes is the undisputed king of the mountain for digital music, video - well, just about every type of pay-to-download media - it's a big mountain and there are a lot of different companies sitting comfortably in the foothills like the new Nap

"Language is, of course, man's greatest and most complex artefact, every word of which extends or involves all of his sensory life." - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher of communications I don't get it.

In 1964 a disparate group of Vancouver businessmen, who shared a common love of skiing, called on their friends and family members in an attempt to raise the outrageous sum of $800,000 - the money needed to put the first lifts on Whistler Mountain an

Missing the bus If you use transit to visit Squamish for shopping, to use government or medical services or to attend university, your ride is over. On Sept.

RE: Families of bullied teens won't back down, Pique Oct. 7 I congratulate the parents for taking their concerns to the police.

A month ago, Canada took the extreme measure of declaring Bisphenol A a toxic substance, which will in the future determine how the plastic additive can be used in products sold across the country.

"Play is what I do for a living. The work comes from organizing that play." - Anonymous Architect, A Whack On The Side Of The Head I've never met a more open, more imaginative person in my life. Or a more prolific artist. Really.

Tourism Whistler has stressed it for a few years now. Surveys have repeatedly shown it to be one of the things visitors are most acutely aware of. Value, or perceived value, factors into most decisions we make in these recessionary times.

" We are now in a period of crisis. Every [one] who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling with his own soul. People who can bring forth new passion, new ideas will endure.