Opinion

She was The Bond Girl. A long-legged acrobatic skier from England who’d learned her stuff on a plastic-covered slope in Southampton (with a whopping vertical drop of 110 metres), Julia Snell was a sophisticated young athlete with a promising future.

If for some reason you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us; please get out of the way.

It’s been a big year for technology, no question.

The earth is loaded with rare and precious materials, from tiny grains of radioactive isotopes to pouches of hand-picked saffron — pound for pound one of the most expensive spice and dyes on the planet, with prices varying from $1,000 to $10,000 for

Some seriously good people among us Last week, a cheery individual stopped into my shop with a tin of homemade shortbreads and a Santa hat. We had never met, but that was beside the point — she was just out spreading some holiday spirit.

There’s something pretty cool about a woman who celebrates her 50 th birthday by inviting all her friends to participate in a Loonie mountain bike race before launching her party proceedings.

It was nine o’clock in the evening in Colorado. I thought the Canadians would all be sitting around the Hotel Jerome bar by now, sipping champagne and celebrating the team’s first World Cup victory in 14 years.

Imagine… another development proposal for the Parkhurst lands.

When Windows XP hit the market people lined up overnight to be the first to purchase it.

The Travel section of last Sunday’s New York Times was subtitled The Ski Issue, the annual attempt to inform Times readers about what is new and relevant in ski vacations.