Opinion

The next 12 months will bring some substantial changes to the way school boards operate, and consequently, changes to the way school programs are designed and delivered.

This fall employee housing has been discussed, debated, deflated, kicked around and finally deferred so that now the term has become defiled.

Mountain culture involves discovery and sense of place In Europe and Asia people have lived with the mountains for centuries. Small villages and communities developed in the mountains, often in isolation.

Solving the corridor’s transportation problems has become a popular topic in recent weeks; first there was MLA David Mitchell weighing in with his plan for an alternate highway through Indian Arm, then last week MLA candidate Ted Nebbeling was promot

A poll last month showed 23 per cent of Quebecers believe a sovereign Quebec would remain a part of Canada. Other polls have show as many as 30 per cent think a sovereign Quebec would still send members of Parliament to Ottawa.

Anyone who had any doubts the economy is changing need only look at the facts provided below by BC Stats. British Columbia, the land of the logger, has become a net importer of logs.

It now appears there will be no additional "employee" or "affordable" housing this winter.

A lot of people are talking about the provincial election which has to be called in the next 12 months, but municipal elections will be 13 months from now, and it's not too soon to start thinking about them.

At the start of the year the province anticipated this would be a year in which significant headway would be made in the long-ignored matter of treaty negotiations with the native Indians of B.C.

Early indications from the municipal monitoring program suggest that Whistler may be growing even faster than many people realized.