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Letters to the editor for the week of July 25th

Letters to the editor for the week of July 25th

Seeking assistance
Motor City

Motor City

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.
NSA killing tech companies

NSA killing tech companies

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.
Working on Whistler's paunch

Working on Whistler's paunch

CBC Vancouver radio host, and weekend columnist in the Globe and Mail , Stephen Quinn recently visited Whistler. He wasn't impressed.
Cultural Corridor becoming key part of Whistler's infrastructure

Cultural Corridor becoming key part of Whistler's infrastructure

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.
Letters to the editor for the week of July 18th

Letters to the editor for the week of July 18th

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.
Aude Ray — Tripping the art fantastic

Aude Ray — Tripping the art fantastic

'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.
A Frog in the Pot

A Frog in the Pot

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.
Technology vs. climate change

Technology vs. climate change

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.
End of the Arab Spring?

End of the Arab Spring?

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.