Opinion

I used to live in Whistler. Now I feel sorry for people living in Whistler. Everybody out there has been Olympically brainwashed. The rest of this province is now going to pay for your fancy crap. I hope it rains in 2010.

One Whistler blogger basically called me out on the fact that I’m always complaining that I don’t have the money to buy the latest tech gizmos, which may or may not have merit.

She’s says she’s a West Coast girl through and through. No doubt. From the time she moved from Whitehorse to Sechelt when she was 10, the Sunshine Coast was her seaside playground.

Still looking Eight months, hundreds of calls, hours of scouring the classifieds... And still no luck.

Back to school, but not back to Ottawa. “Canada’s new government”, which has been in power for more than a year and a half, announced this week that the current session of Parliament would not resume this month.

If you’re one of the people out there who is still on the fence whether to buy an Xbox 360 or the Playstation 3 — and I consider myself one of them, even if I’m teetering to the Xbox side — this autumn will go a long way to making up our minds.

Labour Day. To most Snoweaters, the last weekend of the summer always offers something of a bittersweet flavour. True, the long warm days of July and August have passed — and so too have the activities they engender.

He’s one of the most positive people I know. Always smiling. Always ready to lend a hand. And he’s one of the most talented too. Sports, work, relationships — doesn’t matter what it is, he’s good at it.

Last week’s comments in this space on the additional funding that the RMOW is being asked for to help build the athletes’ village elicited a call from Mayor Ken Melamed, who — quite rightly — pointed out some statements that were off the mark and req

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