Opinion

When Whistler and Blackcomb "merged" under the Intrawest banner in 1996 Blackcomb's founding president, Hugh Smythe, said of the 16-year rivalry between the two mountains: "The competition has been fun and exciting to this point, but it's a different

iPad: Really cool toy or game-changer, that also happens to be really cool? It's difficult to know what to make of the iPad. On one hand it really is just a big iPhone, minus the phone, camera and, depending on what model you buy, the 3G Internet.

In 2006, when Google started to offer its search services in China, the company was criticized widely for "selling out" by agreeing to let the Government of China install filters on the system that allowed them to censor content.

As I sit and watch the snow falling on Monday morning I am reminded of my day on the hill two Saturdays ago. Anyone who was up on that 81cm day would have to agree that it was one of the best days we have had this season.

Amid last week's media frenzy about Intrawest and parent company Fortress Investment Group's debt obligations the word "Olympic" was thrown around regularly.

"Are you ready for some powder skiing?" Aaron Cooperman's daily morning greeting. The silence is near total. All I can hear is the soft swish of my ski skins against the snow.

A recent study by Statistics Canada confirmed what many of us already know, that as a nation we're becoming more corpulent, more paunchy, more rotund - in short, a nation of fat bastards.

Mayor Ken reflects on Whistler’s Olympic trip

I am very surprised and disappointed to read the letter by Ms. Morris regarding the "Green Olympics" (Pique letters Jan. 14). It seems that people can only look at one side of things and make their minds up without looking at the facts. 1.

A recent release from Tourism Vancouver pertaining to the Olympics stated: "We are here today because we planned to be here." But where tourism will be after the Olympics is an interesting question.