Opinion

Seeking assistance

As it happens, I was in Detroit this month. I went to see the art and the architecture, domains in which Detroit is still one of the richest cities in the United States. It's broken, and it's broke, and now it's officially bankrupt too.

The U.S. National Security Administration (NSA) has one job, and that's keeping America secure — and by all accounts they're doing it well, even if their methods are questionable.

CBC Vancouver radio host, and weekend columnist in the Globe and Mail , Stephen Quinn recently visited Whistler. He wasn't impressed.

The executive director of the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre, Casey Vanden Heuvel, estimates $96 million in capital investment has gone and will go into cultural facilities in and around Whistler Village in about 13 years.

Whistler International Campus proposal alive and well In regard to G.D. Maxwell's column of last week, to paraphrase Mark Twain, "The reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.

'The world is but a canvas for our imagination.' - American philosopher Henry David Thoreau This couldn't be happening. Not now. Not with this incredible opportunity before her. She'd worked too hard to get here.

If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, so they say, it will hop right out again. Frogs aren't stupid. Well, OK, but they're not THAT stupid.

For all the possible solutions to alleviating the effects of climate change, it's doubtful that any kind of "back to nature" approach will work. Sadly, there are too many of us on the planet and the obstacles to global cooperation are too big.

If the people in charge of the various opposition parties in Egypt had any strategic vision, they would not have launched the mass protests that caused the army to oust President Mohammed Morsi on 4 July.