Opinion

Does Olympism still exist at the Games?

My name is Fraser Kennedy, the sit skier who went up Spanky's Ladder a few weeks ago. I'd like to thank Cindy for her kind and uplifting words in the letter she sent Pique (Letters to the editor, Jan. 28).

Self-propelled paradise in our own backyard

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.