Opinion

Conned, disgusted and homeless! As you all know, accommodation for the winter season is very hard to find. So when we came across a house in Whistler Cay Heights available for rent at a reasonable price we thought it was too good to be true.

Colourful, cuddly monsters enticing young kids to come outside and play in the snow. Freeriding pre-teens competing in front of judges for international fame and fortune.

Podcasts, for all their potential, are really not all that popular. That probably has something to do with the fact that there’s far too many of them, for the simple reason that anybody can make and post a Podcast.

Rainbow alive and moving ahead As one of the “project partners” of the Rainbow development, we would like to provide the Whistler public with some information on the current status of the Rainbow development.

If there was any doubt First Nations are going to feature prominently in the world’s perception of Vancouver and Whistler in 2010 that was put to rest with the unveiling Tuesday of VANOC’s mascots.

It’s a personal thing. Forget “stuff”. Forget “bigger is better”. The mountain tourism business, says Patrick O’Donnell, is all about turning people on — one guest at a time. It’s that simple, and that profound.

This letter was addressed to the board of school trustees of School District 48. A copy was forwarded to Pique for publication.

There is a limit to how much an item can be discounted before and after the holiday season, but the smart money knows that Boxing Day deals are not always as good as they sound.

Olympic gold medals, which we now know are worth $20,000 Cdn., are won in hundredths of a second or millimetres — tiny fractions measured after years of sweat and effort to be just that little bit faster, stronger, better than other competitors.

He sat across from me in the gondola. He couldn’t have been more than 18. Pimply chin and a beardless phiz. Unkempt hair and a grin that spread from ear-to-ear. He was so excited he could barely contain himself.