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Trying to exercise a right

Trying to exercise a right

Due to the fact that I will not be in Whistler to vote during our upcoming municipal election, I felt the need to voice my concern over the lack of a mechanism to allow me to vote, as well as my choice of candidates.
Candidates’ task: Do more with less

Candidates’ task: Do more with less

Prior to Barack Obama’s historic election Tuesday to the office of President of the United States of America, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how an Obama administration will take office in a time of scarcity.
Condensing the cloud

Condensing the cloud

The tech industry loves its buzzwords — Web 2.0, P2P, wiki, blog, MMPORPG, yadda-yadda — to the point of absurdity.
Shawn �Smiley� Nesbitt: Life after Whistler

Shawn �Smiley� Nesbitt: Life after Whistler

He was never the most radical skier. Nor even the most extreme. But Smiley Nesbitt had one important skill that many of his contemporaries overlooked. He always skied like he was having fun. Skiing is all about having fun. Right? It�s a no-brainer.
Thoughts from the Alps: A French journalist visits Whistler

Thoughts from the Alps: A French journalist visits Whistler

I’m always intrigued by the first-time impressions of a newcomer to Whistler. And never more so than when they happen to come from a French journalist.
Housing proposal won’t work

Housing proposal won’t work

We read with interest council candidate Ted Milner’s press release regarding his proposed solution to Whistler’s employee housing challenges.
Arts funding in a time of crisis

Arts funding in a time of crisis

Gravol may be the drug of 2008, consumption required to survive the motion sickness as the world lurches from one calamity to another.
Microsoft looks to 7

Microsoft looks to 7

The Microsoft brand has taking a thrashing lately, mainly for their slow, unwieldly, needlessly complex, and often counter-intuitive Vista operating system.
A plea for heroes

A plea for heroes

With any luck, the paper has been inundated with letters to the editor from upset parents regarding the day care crisis in this town.
Friends in high places

Friends in high places

That’s a neat arrangement that the province and VANOC announced Tuesday, a deal to take 320 temporary housing units from the Whistler athletes’ village after the Paralympics are over and re-distribute them as 156 units of permanent affordable housing