Opinion

"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

A European plan to generate solar-thermal energy in North Africa for export to Europe shows that some people are thinking big when it comes to clean energy and climate change.

I read with interest the letter to the editor from Doug Player ("Geotourism Is The Future"; April 7). On behalf of the Cultural Tourism Advisory Group, I'd like to clarify two points regarding the Cultural Tourism consultant and report.

The first thing you need to know about scientific studies is that more than half of them are eventually debunked or improved on, according to Discover Magazine . That's how eggs can be good for you one week and poison the next.

"I have always said to myself that we need more hockey players riding..." Steve Bauer, Canadian cycling demi-god Somewhere, somehow ol' Franz Wilhelmsen must be chuckling at our fate.

Ahhh, the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival. For a multitude of reasons it is one of my favourite things about Whistler.

We have heard that it would cost $2 million to move Mr. Silveri's asphalt plant. Now we are told that he is investing $2 million to bring a mobile asphalt plant to permanently reside at Cheakamus Crossing.

Well, we are almost finished the second week of campaigning for the federal election and it's still about posturing with not much substance. Sure, parties are outlining their platforms but so far timely deliverable promises are far and few between.

I promise that this will be my last tablet update for a little while (at least until the RIM Playbook comes out in a few weeks), but I couldn't resist calling attention to a gallery on Canoe of the "Top 10 tablets for 2011." You can find it at www.

"Remember that you are here on earth for one purpose. To love, and to be loved. When you concentrate on this thought, everything in life seems to flow more easily." Jan Simpson, April 2011 Life hasn't always been smooth at Whistler.