Opinion

He was never the most radical skier. Nor even the most extreme. But Smiley Nesbitt had one important skill that many of his contemporaries overlooked. He always skied like he was having fun. Skiing is all about having fun. Right? It�s a no-brainer.

I’m always intrigued by the first-time impressions of a newcomer to Whistler. And never more so than when they happen to come from a French journalist.

We read with interest council candidate Ted Milner’s press release regarding his proposed solution to Whistler’s employee housing challenges.

Gravol may be the drug of 2008, consumption required to survive the motion sickness as the world lurches from one calamity to another.

The Microsoft brand has taking a thrashing lately, mainly for their slow, unwieldly, needlessly complex, and often counter-intuitive Vista operating system.

With any luck, the paper has been inundated with letters to the editor from upset parents regarding the day care crisis in this town.

That’s a neat arrangement that the province and VANOC announced Tuesday, a deal to take 320 temporary housing units from the Whistler athletes’ village after the Paralympics are over and re-distribute them as 156 units of permanent affordable housing

To be fair to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, there isn’t a country on the planet that has figured out how to manage the Internet.

To all mayoral and councillor candidates: Congratulations for showing the courage to stand up and take an active role in the future direction of our amazing mountain community.

At the height of the Great Depression almost 80 years ago, unemployment was more than 20 per cent in Canada compared to the six to eight per cent we’ve seen in recent years.