Opinion

Recording artist" used to be a term reserved for musicians contracted to record companies. This was before the music industry was eviscerated by Apple, and others, and made plastic discs with recorded music on them as essential as buggy whips.

I've got my headphones on from the minute I'm up to the minute I go to bed I've got my headphones on every day of my life, I'm going to wear until I'm dead.

" My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." - Mark Twain I lost my mom last week. Poof — just like that. One day she was there, the next she was gone. Died in her sleep, they told us. Probably felt no pain.

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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.