Opinion

Speed kills, even in the country Through the pages of Pique Newsmagazine I would like to express my concern at the reckless way some people drive along Pemberton Farm Road East.

A new study of housing prices across Canada found that the average price of a single family home had breached the $300,000 mark for the first time ever, coming in almost 13 per cent higher than the previous year.

Is an idea really patentable? Or do you actually have to do something with that idea – design it, prototype it, test it and attempt to sell it – for a patent to mean anything? Recently the tech world has been rocked by patent claims, some o

Energy-efficiency measures reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 450 tonnes

Have I got a deal for you The snake oil salesman always arrives in town under a new guise.

Reality checks hurt. On June 2 the RCMP arrested 17 Ontario men and charged them with, among a litany of other offences, participating in a terrorist organization.

There was a time when the computer/tech/video game geek could be pleasantly surprised by something – the announcement of a new product, an upgrade to an existing product, or something you’ve never seen before. The Internet has changed all that.

Right now the Internet service providers of this world are merely the backbone behind the movement to wire everything – they provide the cable, the DSL phone lines, the fiber optic lines, the transmitters, the receivers, the switches and the servers

Copy Cats and pirates Although I realize that imitation is the best form of flattery, and it’s flattering in itself to even be noticed or copied… but in this tiny town of Whistler, business imitation to the extent that is happening to me is

With the announcement last week that Whistler will get a greater portion of the hotel tax – an extra $6 million annually, based on current hotel tax projections – and much of the 300-acre land bank committed to the athletes village site in