Opinion

Ah summer. A time for relaxing, taking a step back from the pressures and incessant schedules that drive Canadians from September to June.

After developing the Android operating system for phones it was only a matter of time before Google would announce an operating system for computers as well - something that competes directly against Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX and all the different

The Speed Queens are back in town. You know, those dashing young skiers on the Canadian women's downhill team - Janyk, Vanderbeek, Brydon and the rest. They're all in Whistler this week to attend a critical dryland camp.

I stopped by the library yesterday, five minutes before closing, and dutifully put a quarter in the meter only to have it rejected. I had to put in 50 cents to even make it print a ticket. For five minutes. I didn't pay.

While media and others around the world continue to focus on Whistler's next eight months, it's the period after the Olympics and Paralympics wrap up that should be of greater concern to Whistlerites.

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With all the recent hand-wringing over spiralling Olympic costs and over-runs and stupid budget decisions made by elected officials who should know better, one of the most positive aspects of hosting the Games next winter has been woefully overlooked

It's almost like a bad science fiction novel. Somehow we've blundered into this strange little bubble where time has stopped. Know what I mean? Nobody who wields power in Whistler wants to talk about anything beyond February 2010.

RE: Golden SAR Incident Last week, I read with interest Nancy Wilhelm-Morden's comments regarding the motivation for her client, Mr.

Deep in the cranial folds of most Canadians, particularly those whose lineage that can be traced back in the direction of John A Macdonald, there is a region where the cerebral blood flows quickly and the neurons snap to attention whenever the word "