Opinion

In the lead up to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games Whistler heard from Games organizers over and over not to expect the Games to solve its problems.

Seemingly undeterred, or oblivious, to all of the negative press about the U.S. monitoring pretty much everyone's cellphone activities, Bell Canada recently announced that it will begin monitoring its customers data usage in the name of ad-targeting.

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." - Sufi poet Rumi It really suits him. He cruises through the halls of the hotel with the light-footed step of a confident leader.

"That prize should have been given to me," joked Syria's President Bashar al-Assad shortly after the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 11 October.

Short term beats long term most of the time, even when people understand where their long-term self-interest really lies. Take, for example, that well-known pair, Russia and the Maldives.

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation.

Houseguests for the winter I'm one of the last original owners of an Eva Lake unit, which was one of the first employee-housing projects built in 1988. For me it has been a blessing and a curse. I got into the real estate game early at the age of 22.

The muzzling of Canada's scientists has been in the news for many months now, here at home and also around the world.

Surprise of the week: the club of African presidents (a.k.a.

Whistler girls rising