Opinion

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.

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.

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.

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.

Since the days when Ullr invented skiing there has been a special status accorded those who live in ski towns. They were the envy of those who merely visited ski towns for intermittent periods.

Renewable energy not all it appears I have been watching Quebec-based Innergex's Upper Lillooet Power Project and was shocked to see it is actually going ahead.

In Whistler, we don't seem to get weather as much as we get systems that tend to stick around for days, weeks and sometimes months. If it rains then it rains for days. If the sun comes out, it stays out.