Opinion

The Nintendo Wii was easily the most popular gaming system of the holiday shopping season, with stores struggling to keep up supply to meet the demand.

Super generous supermarket The Pemberton Secondary Grad 2007 Class would sincerely like to thank Mark and Carolyn Blundell and the Pemberton Valley Supermarket for so generously donating all of the fixings for our Breakfast with Santa.

By Michel Beaudry There’s nothing like taking a little work trip abroad to put things in perspective. Seriously.

About five years ago the Whistler Public Library and Whistler Museum and Archives announced that they had failed in their attempt to raise half the funds needed for a $9 million joint facility and were calling off the fundraising campaign.

With its future prospects tied to a gaming system few people can afford, and if you can afford it, even fewer people can find, you’d think Sony would be a little humble these days.

The kindness of strangers Last Thursday afternoon during the snowstorm, my car fishtailed and I ended up in the ditch near Green Lake. What followed will tell you everything you need to know about the wonderful people of Whistler.

By Michel Beaudry Doesn’t matter that the term gets used all the time. Doesn’t matter that real estate developers in Western Canada have convinced residents and politicians that it’s a viable concept. Brent Harley is adamant that it’s a non-starter.

Sustainable ideas for making transit work “Buses should be free,” is quite a common thing you hear these days at bus stops or on the bus.

Despite the best efforts of regulatory and legislative bodies around the world, the brigades of programmers on the case, and the universal scorn of nearly a billion computer users, the war on spam — unsolicited e-mail — appears to be a losing effort.

By Michel Beaudry She’s at it again. Organizing events and turning people on to the mountains. It’s the kind of work she thought she’d left behind long ago.