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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.
Lisa Lefroy: Embracing life to the fullest

Lisa Lefroy: Embracing life to the fullest

I’ve said it before. And I’ll say it again. Whistler women kick ass.
IOC knows what it wants from Games, does Whistler?

IOC knows what it wants from Games, does Whistler?

At last week’s International Olympic Committee meetings in Guatemala Jean Claude Killy, who still holds the unofficial title of greatest ski racer of all time, presented the final report of the IOC’s Coordination Commission on the Torino Olympics.
Games are not the problem

Games are not the problem

> Since the Columbine Massacre, video game violence has been squarely in the media spotlight.
Building leaders today prepares us for future

Building leaders today prepares us for future

Thanks for yet another editorial on our collective need to focus on the period after 2010, asking whether we have “done enough to open the doors to a new generation of leaders willing to guide Whistler in the post-Olympic era?” (History teaches us to