Opinion

Changing May long weekend off to good start After having experienced this past long weekend as an owner living in the village, I would like to offer hearty thanks to all those who helped to start the move towards a new atmosphere in Whistler.

Good news, people! Somebody in Ottawa woke up on the job and realized it's 2014. Shocking right? Well that means those new fangled cellphone device things are no longer that much of danger to you and everyone around you.

If there's an elephant in the Council Chambers these days, it's not trying to figure out which way the wind will blow on the controversial bylaw amendment to ban boat sleepovers.

Conducting an orderly retreat is the hardest thing not only in war but also in politics, as Russian President Vladimir Putin is now learning.

On a sunny, windy day in March, 2009, Kevin "Fog" Fogolin headed out to do a job he'd performed many times before: aerial avalanche control above a power project on Toba Inlet.

When it comes to spring skiing, boat-based touring is as good as it gets, and Norway's Star Island offers some of the best

The loss of an 'elder' is a loss for the community No doubt you have received dozens of letters regarding the recent passing of Don (MacLaurin).

It would be easy to just throw up our hands and say there's no apparent solution to our May long weekend issues.

Soon after winning an absolute majority in the Indian parliamentary elections, prime minister-elect Narendra Modi promised "to make the 21st century India's century." If he can avoid tripping over his own ideology, he might just succeed.

Up in the Great White North, we might not think that issues concerning the Internet of our American brethren would be of issue to us. But we'd be wrong. If you haven't already heard, the U.S.