Opinion

When the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami struck countries surrounding the Indian Ocean, killing more than 200,000 people and displacing over 1 million, people around the world rallied to the cause. Some donated money, others contributed time and effort.

At the risk of sounding like a lunatic, sometimes you have to listen to the tinfoil hat crowd. Sometimes conspiracy theories are just theories — insane, irrational theories — and sometimes there’s a real conspiracy.

In this fast-paced, modern world of ours, we tend to compartmentalize social functions. Thus, the local museum (and/or the library) becomes the official “institution” to warehouse community memories. And in that respect, Whistler is no different.

Angry and praying for change For a month now I’ve been waiting to calm down and write this letter in a manner that is not so angry. I now realize that my anger is justified and if ever there is a good reason to use anger constructively, this is it.

It started off with a simple challenge. Unable to reach a consensus on one format, Toshiba went their way with HD DVD, and Sony went theirs with Blu-ray — and let the best high-tech giant win.

It’s been a long time coming. And some resort critics might argue it’s already too late.

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.

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.

“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.

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