Opinion

Talk is cheap. And in my business, you get to hear a lot of it. Fortunately, you get to hear some great stories too.

While officials struggle with how to balance the almost limitless services and projects expected from the municipality in the period leading up to the 2010 Olympics with the finite financial resources that are available, a more familiar, more mundane

In recent years the topic of e-waste has come to the forefront, as governments struggle with a new and increasingly insidious source of toxic waste at a time when recycling and composting is supposed to reduce our garbage output.

The people’s Games? I have spent several hours thinking about how to word this letter in a pro-active manner rather then sounding completely negative.

He grew up far from the mountains. Didn’t know much about snowsports at all. “We didn’t do winter sports in Philadelphia,” insists Whistler Mayor, Ken Melamed with a straight face.

Things are heating up on the global climate change front. Just last week, for example, a report released by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) warned that we earthlings were dancing dangerously close to the edge.

We’re still more than three weeks away from the official start of the ski season, which is always the best time of year to relax, hang out with friends, spend some time on the couch, catch up on movies, or spend some time with your hobbies.

The ironic structure Every year that there are still some trees growing on the imaginatively named Lot 1/ Lot 9, I have the occasion to write a letter. This one might well be the last.

It costs about $26,000 a year for an individual to live reasonably well in Whistler, according to the Whistler 2020 monitoring report.

By now everyone is aware of the challenges of building in Whistler in the frenzied years leading up to the 2010 Olympics.