Opinion

With Whistler visitors and property in the doldrums, the municipality has found one more way to discourage people from buying resort properties.

Welcome to Whistler, Mike.

If you've ever lost a computer and everything on it no doubt you've learned the value of backing up everything.

"You can write whatever you want [about those days] - because it's all true." "Bosco" Colebrook It was everything he'd expected it to be. An impossible, outlandish, unimaginable fantasy-come-true.

So my friend walks into a restaurant recently to have a late lunch with her daughter. It's a glorious summer day but there are just a few tables newly occupied on the patio and most of the tables inside are empty.

The morning I arrived in Whistler I bought breakfast and a hot chocolate at Peaks and the old guy with the mustache said, "Did you see the snow on Wedge?" That was my first weekend, Labour Day 1997.

It was the best of wireless. It was also the worst of wireless. Bear with me... A new IEEE 802.

It's easy to get sentimental about the past. The rough edges seem to get smoothed out by time. The high moments, in contrast, become enhanced as the years roll on.

In the first week of August, bookended by a manufactured crisis in Washington and the HST referendum that will shake things up in Victoria and likely across B.C, we are reminded of the close relationship between economics and politics.

It might be nerve-wracking for Whistler residents to read the recent media coverage about Frank Silveri's affidavit submitted for the upcoming asphalt plant court case. At first glance, it sounds like Mr.