Opinion

To all mayoral and councillor candidates: Congratulations for showing the courage to stand up and take an active role in the future direction of our amazing mountain community.

At the height of the Great Depression almost 80 years ago, unemployment was more than 20 per cent in Canada compared to the six to eight per cent we’ve seen in recent years.

It was the fall of 1981 and Gail Morrison was very keen to get back to Whistler. Didn’t matter that the newly-minted resort municipality was stumbling through a crippling recession.

“The municipality’s revenue will flow more in the peaks and valleys of the business cycle. What that means is our revenue is going to be more variable…. This is a new thing. This was not seen in the past.

Recent media coverage regarding challenges associated with Right To Play’s possible presence and role in the Athletes’ Village at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler requires clarification.

The good times have been rolling along for so long at Whistler that newcomers to the valley sometimes take our economic bull run for granted. But those “oldtimers” who lived through the infamous 1981 recession know better.

I didn’t buy a Sony PS3 for a few reasons, the number one reason being games.

On Tuesday Canadians go to the polls to vote for their federal representatives and elect a new government to run the country… at least some of us will.

Somebody, anybody, please help these people! This is absolutely ridiculous. I have been living in Whistler for eight years — and grew up in Vancouver — and I have never seen this town in worse shape.

There must be something in the waters of Deep Cove… “It certainly was a great place to grow up,” says 41-year-old Graham Turner.