Opinion

The idea got rolling in the U.S.

It’s rare that athletes will agree on anything — virtually impossible if they compete head-to-head. But at a recent World Cup event in New York’s Whiteface Mountain, I found full consensus among the best boardercross racers on the planet.

Re: RCMP video tape protest Your reporter kind of flew past the RCMP presence and offered no question why video taping the Lot 1/9 forest protesters was deemed necessary. You need to follow up here.

All this month, transit riders who pass through Toronto’s Union Station and Montreal’s Berri-UQAM station are being inundated with invitations to come and work in British Columbia.

As I write this I’m waiting anxiously to see whether I’ll be randomly included in a beta test of a new program called Dropbox, developed by a group of MIT students and soon to be available to the public. Fingers crossed.

Nineteen years. Amazing how quickly those years have passed. Amazing too, how profoundly we’ve changed. Back in 1989, Whistler was still a place where the mountain was big and the town small.

I am writing this letter as a wake up call to all of the people who were behind the sledge hockey arena.

Starting in the damp days of last autumn, through the soggy, dark weeks of January and now the terminally wet weather of early spring, British Columbia has developed an obsession with roofs.

Ado about Bully

I’d forgotten what real winter tasted like. Sure, the moisture-laden form we experience here three months of the year fools some people into believing we’re genuinely tough winter folk. And I can see how it happens.