Opinion

I want to send a big thank you to everyone in Whistler. It is never a good time to lose a loved one but I can honestly say I am grateful I was in Whistler.

The Internet often gets compared to the Wild West days, a place where anything was possible and anything goes before the sheriff finally comes to town to restore law and order.

At times in the last decade Whistler’s bed cap has seemed to be as sacred as the bible.

Whistler has long been the northern playground for Microsoft employees at the company’s Redmond, Washington campus, and has figured heavily among the software giant’s pet names for different Windows products.

A list of things to do between now and the start of the ski season: • tune skis/board • get in shape • stock up for the Christmas frenzy • determine Whistler’s future There’s not much time left to get ready for the ski s

It happens every year. It’s 5 o’clock, you have a Halloween party to go to in two hours and you don’t have any ideas for a costume – just a vague idea to wrap yourself in tinfoil, and pass yourself off as a baked potato.

British Columbians used to like to complain that B.C. is 3,000 miles from Ottawa, but Ottawa is a million miles away from B.C. But within B.C.

There was an interesting bit of synchronicity or synergy or sylogizing – or maybe it was just a synaptic connection finally made – this week when the provincial government announced a stable (three years) funding commitment to the Canadian

The record for the fastest Internet speeds set last February has already been left in the dust, with researchers in Europe and the U.S. doubling the last benchmark. According to an article in Wired Magazine (www.wired.

Once upon a time, a little Internet startup called Napster had the world in the palm of its hand.