Opinion

In defence of the business practices of software giant Microsoft, the Ayn Rand Institute states: "Like an increasing number of big businesses, Microsoft is being punished for being successful, for making products that people want to purchase.

As the snow line moves down – and up, and back down – the mountains between assaults of October storms, thoughts turn to the winter ahead and what kind of season we’re going to have.

When the camera was invented in the mid-19th century, some traditionalists felt that the process cheapened the work of the portrait painter.

Why do you think the whitewater kayakers in this corridor are banning together to voice their opinions on the fate of Rutherford Creek? To stop the project? No! To cause trouble for the area's economy? No! Well, what is it all about then? It is about

While much of the world is focused on anthrax and events in Afghanistan, two items dominated discussion at Monday’s meeting of Whistler council: the Olympic bid and the gates guarding Spruce Grove/White Gold and Blueberry Hill/Beaver Lane.

Now that Thanksgiving has passed, Whistler is officially in a time and space known as the "shoulder season" – the slow season between summer and snow that presumably must be borne on our shoulders like the weight of the world.

While Whistler awaits the release of a strategic arts development plan, young members of our community are confirming the need for just such an expansion of the arts.

The Internet is a controversial place – so free and yet so inherently proprietary. The technology progressed faster than the legalese it seems, but the lawyers are catching up.

Assuming Tourism Whistler and Whistler-Blackcomb are re-focusing their marketing efforts on the regional markets, as other tourism organizations across North America are doing and as most people in town seem to believe is the correct course of action

Local mountain biker Lucas Curran wants to go to Hawaii this month, but it?s not for a vacation. On Sept. 23, the 25-year-old Whistler resident finished 14 th overall at the U.S. Finals of the Xterra off-road triathlon at Lake Tahoe, Nevada.