Opinion

WSSF stands strong

"I understand the business argument for closing Whistler Mountain early. But it still rubs me the wrong way... I mean, how can they do that? It's like turning your back on forty years of local history.

It's a good thing that the search tools on my computer are so good because I never remember where I put anything.

Last month, as the anti-Muslim violence in Burma spread from Rakhine state in western Burma to the central Burmese city of Meiktila, Aung San Suu Kyi sat among the generals on the reviewing stand as the Burmese army marched past on Armed Forces Day.

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Back in 2008, when Canadians paid the highest cell phone rates and charges of any nation in the OECD, the federal government opened up a block of the wireless spectrum to encourage more competition in the mobile market.

"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion," wrote Cyril Northcote Parkinson in 1955, and instantly created a whole new domain in the study of human affairs.

Keep on running The Boston marathon — a dream for so many runners, including myself. Any marathon, really, requires a degree of dedication and sacrifice and preparation that is hard to fathom even when setting out to undertake it.

Taxes aren't going to be the biggest issue in B.C.

Long before cross (BC) — either the ski or snowboard variety — appeared, indeed before snowboards were first seen; before terrain parks; before big mountain freeskiing; before the backcountry became covered in moguls; before snowmobiles m