Opinion

"The single biggest challenge for Whistlerites," says veteran resort professional Lorne Borgal, "is accepting that the time has come to make fundamental changes.

Once upon a time my parents bought me a remote- controlled R2D2 robot that crawled about an inch a minute across the kitchen linoleum, turning its head and making all those "bleep bloop bleep" sounds that won over legions of young Star Wars

How ‘desperate’ are we? I read the article "Whistler ‘desperate’ for workers" (Pique News, Aug.

At what cost the right decision? The final chapter in the excruciatingly painful and drawn out Olympic Sledge Hockey Arena soap opera can finally be written. Like any good story, it kept us on the edge of our seats until the final page.

It used to be easy to make ice, you just set out some water and waited for the temperature to get below 32 F. Of course, it’s not that simple anymore; now it has to get below 0 C.

If the number of Java programmers making and marketing small format online strategy games is any indication, there’s a lot of talent out there that remains virtually untapped by the games industry.

It used to be easy to make ice, you just set out some water and waited for the temperature to get below 32 F. Of course, it’s not that simple anymore; now it has to get below 0 C.

"I grew up deeply embedded in tourism," says Kirby Brown, Whistler-Blackcomb’s Human Resources boss. Indeed. When you live in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and your dad manages the historic Bluenose II schooner, your life is tourism.

Don’t get caught up marketing Walkmans when everybody is buying iPods.

Perhaps the most important point of the $2.8 billion deal that will see Fortress Investment Group acquire Whistler-Blackcomb’s parent is that Intrawest will become a private company.