Opinion

Canada is among the world's wealthiest nations, but our wealth is not equitably distributed.

It's a bucketing rain in Vancouver. Not unusual for late October, but it's a miserable time to be looking for ants as biologist Sean McCann and I zigzag backstreets and wheel through roundabouts en route to the Arbutus corridor community gardens.

So it's all over, before some even knew or noticed it had begun.

Can it really be 20 years since the Pique published its first edition? I'm not going to get sentimental on you — suffice it to say that being the editor of a newsmagazine like Pique is like having an extra child.

Signs and low voter turn out? This year's election was marred by low voter turnout, and one has to wonder if the lack of election signs had something to do with low turnout as well? Sure, it's great for the environment, but visible signs engage voter

Russian politician Andrei Zhirinovsky is all mouth, so it would not normally have caused a stir when he suggested earlier this year that Russia should simply annex the parts of neighbouring Kazakhstan that have a large Russian population.

It's become a cliché to say that out of crisis comes opportunity. But there's no denying that when faced with crises, we have choices. The opportunity depends on what we decide to do.

In remembrance For almost 20 years, I have had the great honour of helping to facilitate Whistler's Service of Remembrance.

Even in the crush that is CRUSH, Cornucopia's marquee tasting event, it was easy to notice the even denser crowd surrounding the Fort Berens Estate Winery booth.

"Whistler will be the premier mountain resort community — as we move toward sustainability." That should sound familiar; it's the vision statement for Whistler 2020, "...