Opinion

While the One Year Countdown to the 2010 Games should have been a moment of pride for all of us, I walked away feeling a little betrayed.

"You only regret the decisions you don't make." - Jordan Glasser It was the trip to Snowbird that did it. The fierce Wasatch Mountains. The deep fluffy snow. The unbelievable feeling of dropping big vertical with no lifts in sight.

I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the staff at Whistler Blackcomb for hosting my family's holiday this year. This was our best trip yet.

While the provincial budget was introduced this week, we still haven't seen the final price tag on the security industry stimulus package, otherwise known as the Olympic security budget.

In early 2008 B.C. Hydro announced a plan to equip every home and business in B.C. with smart power meters over a period of five years at a cost of up to $530 million.

"Skiing is not about the money. But it's really hard to enjoy it when you can't afford it..." - Brett Crabtree He's not the flashiest guy on the hill. And he rarely takes the biggest risks.

There's a certain irony in the fact that today's one year countdown to the 2010 Olympics is also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin: we may see a fair bit of natural selection in Whistler over the next year.

I read a lot of online news, and one of the lowlights is reading the reader comments at the bottom of every story. It's really unbelievable what people will say when they're protected by a veneer of anonymity.

Upon reading about the crowds that came to the recent FIS ski jumping event at Whistler Olympic Park, my thoughts drifted back to the ski jumping competitions held during the 1930s on Hollyburn in West Vancouver.

I didn't expect a storyteller. To be frank, I don't know what I was expecting.