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Big country

Big country

Canada is huge. Mind boggling-ly big. So completely and utterly massive that the numbers become meaningless.
Murphy was an optimist

Murphy was an optimist

Don't sit there mumbling Talkin' trash If you want to have a ball, You got to go out and spend some cash And let the good times roll now, I'm talkin' 'bout the good times, Well it makes no difference whether you're young or old, All you got to do is
Good news for roamers

Good news for roamers

Fast-charging batteries use nanotechnology Last week Toshiba announced the creation of a new kind of battery, one that uses nanotechnology to charge about 60 times faster than conventional batteries.
Neil Falkner memorial scholarship extended to Whistler

Neil Falkner memorial scholarship extended to Whistler

Scholarship covers cost of Outward Bound trip
This week's letters

This week's letters

Call it what it is In last week’s feature article (Bringing ethnic diversity to the slopes, Pique March 24), Ralph Forsyth writes: "Until 1967, non-white immigration to Canada was suppressed, by a mechanism of place of origin preference.
Commercial air service a matter of time

Commercial air service a matter of time

A study done a couple of years ago by Whistler-based Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners found that approximately 60 per cent of total skier visits to Whistler-Blackcomb came by way of airline travel. The study further found that about 30 per cent of B.
P2P party over?

P2P party over?

Government to table new law targeting file swappers After losing court case after court case to judges that don’t seem to grasp the nature or scope of peer-to-peer file swapping, the music industry changed tactics recently by lobbying the federa
RMOW, CUPE talks at a deadlock

RMOW, CUPE talks at a deadlock

Each side waiting for the other to make the first move
This week's letters

This week's letters

Here we go again Up front, let me say that I have substantial bias in the subject matter of this letter.
The fallout of the winter of 2004-05

The fallout of the winter of 2004-05

The numbers aren’t in on the winter of 2004-05 but the early betting is the final figures will show destination visits were not down too much; it was the lack of regional visits that really hurt.