Opinion

New museums and community centres. Free bus rides province-wide for children 12 and under, tax-free electric bikes and a pandemic rebate on vehicle insurance premiums (if ICBC can afford it).

It’s not that I hate Christmas.

Recently I’ve been thinking about what a low-carbon life might actually look like. We would drive and fly less and mostly cycle, walk and ride transit. We’d eat less meat and more plant-based foods.

With all the necessary COVID-19 safety rules on Whistler Blackcomb (WB), this year’s winter experience is bound to be different. In fact, it might return us to the roots of sliding on snow along with fewer creature comforts.

We seem to be approaching an event horizon where many are being sucked into a black hole created by the confluence of our resurgent pandemic, personal responsibility, government inaction and Santa Claus.

I admit it has been decades since I experienced what an overdose can look like firsthand.

'Without information there is speculation, and that can discredit communities or give rise to harmful rumour'

Whistler has, for decades, been an escapist’s paradise.

Back in August, while governments across the country twiddled their thumbs over economic recovery and how best to activate the abundant idle capacity created by the pandemic, a unique partnership launched along the British Columbia coast—an eff