Opinion

Whistler’s two-month old, but still very new, council is off on a retreat with senior staff this weekend to hammer out goals and priorities for the important next three years.

Issues and attitudes need addressing I have just returned from a snowboarding trip for the first time to your beautiful and unique resort.

The polls tell us that by Tuesday of next week, when Stuart McLean and his Vinyl Café roll into town for the first of two shows, Canadians will have elected a majority Conservative government, and Stephen Harper will be the next prime minister

They call us the MTV generation because we were brought up with television (although not MTV because it’s not available in Canada) and are famous for our chronically short attention spans.

The employees’ perspective Re: Labour unions duking it out (Pique News, Jan.

Computer viruses took a turn for the worse over the holidays with the discovery of a new type of virus that can be embedded in image files.

One of the consequences of fixed election dates, as we have with municipal and now provincial elections, is that some of the actual decisions by government tend to be scheduled around those election dates.

Patrolling the people On Jan. 2, my wife and I were enjoying a bluebird day skiing on Blackcomb. Heading from the Glacier Express chair to the chimney our skiing day was ended by an act of the mob waiting for Spanky’s to open.

A headline on the front page of the Vancouver Sun last week stated: "2010 Games tourist boom set at $75b," but also warned in a subhead that Canada must spend more on tourism promotion in order to compete globally.

No tech geek, or geeky tech reporter, can resist a ‘year-end’, ‘best-of’, ‘most (blank) of 2005’ list.