Opinion

A heavy bar has finally been welded across the garbage-room door at one village eatery so bears can't get in and slather up oil and other human-rejected food that is oh so irresistible to the ursine creatures we share this valley with.

As I read the coverage leading up to the elections I find myself more and more concerned with how our multiple electoral candidates are often singing to the same tune.

Back when the social media concept was new, pundits had a field day wondering how it would affect the political conversation and whether tweets, blog posts, Facebook posts, etc. could affect the outcome of future elections.

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.

"Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there." - Jalal ad Din Muhammad Rumi, the 13 th -century Persian, Muslim poet, jurist, theologian and Sufi Mystic.

Winter driving is once again just around the corner with many new arrivals coming to Whistler for the 2011/2012 Ski Season. Last year we lost a wonderful young traveller who was hit by a vehicle on our local highway.

Less than two weeks after the passing of Apple visionary Steve Jobs the high-tech world lost another pioneer - the man who would make Jobs, Bill Gates and countless others possible.

"Play it again, Sam." Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca As romantic as the rock-and-roll lifestyle appears to outsiders, few who've ridden that roller-coaster ride would ever describe it as healthy. Or sane. It's a boom-and-bust world.

I admit it - when I saw the story running in the media recently about B.C. Premier Christy Clark's cleavage I felt like hitting my head against a brick wall.

I admit it - when I saw the story running in the media recently about B.C. Premier Christy Clark's cleavage I felt like hitting my head against a brick wall.