Opinion

Some seriously good people among us Last week, a cheery individual stopped into my shop with a tin of homemade shortbreads and a Santa hat. We had never met, but that was beside the point — she was just out spreading some holiday spirit.

There’s something pretty cool about a woman who celebrates her 50 th birthday by inviting all her friends to participate in a Loonie mountain bike race before launching her party proceedings.

It was nine o’clock in the evening in Colorado. I thought the Canadians would all be sitting around the Hotel Jerome bar by now, sipping champagne and celebrating the team’s first World Cup victory in 14 years.

Imagine… another development proposal for the Parkhurst lands.

When Windows XP hit the market people lined up overnight to be the first to purchase it.

The Travel section of last Sunday’s New York Times was subtitled The Ski Issue, the annual attempt to inform Times readers about what is new and relevant in ski vacations.

There’s nothing more dangerous than someone who can’t admit that they don’t know what they’re doing, which is why it’s not a bad idea to follow Socrates example and start by knowing you know nothing.

Conned, disgusted and homeless! As you all know, accommodation for the winter season is very hard to find. So when we came across a house in Whistler Cay Heights available for rent at a reasonable price we thought it was too good to be true.

Colourful, cuddly monsters enticing young kids to come outside and play in the snow. Freeriding pre-teens competing in front of judges for international fame and fortune.

Podcasts, for all their potential, are really not all that popular. That probably has something to do with the fact that there’s far too many of them, for the simple reason that anybody can make and post a Podcast.