Opinion

My father-in-law passed away last week. A member of the original investment group that launched Whistler Mountain back in the mid-1960s, Tom Ladner was definitely of the old school.

It’s estimated that the cost of software piracy worldwide is in the neighbourhood of $34 billion in 2005, with piracy rates in developed countries hovering between 20 and 30 per cent.

Canada Day away It is 5 p.m. Saturday, July 1 st , 2006, Canada Day. The Canada Day Parade in Whistler is underway without me.

In the late 1990s, when Whistler started down the road to a new official community plan with the Whistler 2002 document, things were good.

He just can’t help it. No matter that David Perry has been gone for six years. No matter that he’s now Senior Vice President of Everything at Aspen Skiing Company.

Even Linus Torvalds, the Finnish-born programmer behind the Linux open source operating system, has to earn a living somehow and by all means he’s pulling down a good living as the head of Open Source Development Labs.

Jobs, jobs, jobs!!! Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Confucius The on-going letters that whine about working in the Sea to Sky corridor are annoying. Here is one to say "thanks" to my employers...

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Speed kills, even in the country Through the pages of Pique Newsmagazine I would like to express my concern at the reckless way some people drive along Pemberton Farm Road East.

A new study of housing prices across Canada found that the average price of a single family home had breached the $300,000 mark for the first time ever, coming in almost 13 per cent higher than the previous year.