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First Nations’ future looking better, but long way still to go

First Nations’ future looking better, but long way still to go

First Nations have featured prominently in the news this summer, from the National Day of Action at the end of June to successful treaty ratification votes last week by the Tsawwassen and Huu-ay-aht First Nations.
Letters

Letters

Make it safe “The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill and lingered until….” Somebody died. All winter I walked from the Brio bus stop along the poorly plowed shoulder of Highway 99 to cross at the Blueberry lights.
Olympic planning continues…

Olympic planning continues…

“It’s normally very hard to get people out and to start thinking operational. They have a tendency to continue to plan — to get them to move out from their offices and start thinking of the operation, you almost have to throw them out.
Michèle Bush: An artist in a strange land

Michèle Bush: An artist in a strange land

Where do I start? The farting rock? The pug wedding? Or the Bushwoman chronicles? Hysterical Glamour or Home On Deranged? And what about her artist/prodigy of a twin brother and the rest of her ever-so-slightly-eccentric theatrical family? What about
Updates that suck

Updates that suck

If you need any more proof that the concept of Web 2.0 is a pipedream, look no further than your weekly software update. This week’s slate of Apple updates included a new update to Quicktime (54 MB), yet another update to iTunes 7.3.1 (34.
Letters

Letters

Riverside: An open view I have some serious concerns about the council decision to stop the public process for Riverside Campground.
Intrawest’s new era and Whistler

Intrawest’s new era and Whistler

When Joe Houssian retired last fall, shortly after Intrawest shareholders agreed to sell their interests in the company to Fortress Investment Group, it was seen as the end of an era.
Keep the net neutral

Keep the net neutral

The thing about news is that it’s supposed to be upsetting. We’re supposed to know about wars and plagues and famines because we’re supposed to care about our fellow human beings.
Letters

Letters

Trails require reinvestment
Andy Szocs: Doing the right thing

Andy Szocs: Doing the right thing

At first, he wasn’t all that keen to do the story. “It shouldn’t be about me,” countered Andy Szocs, when I suggested he’d make an ideal candidate for an Alta States profile. And when I insisted, he just laughed.