Opinion

Five years ago, when the Whistler Housing Authority was created, Whistler was facing a crisis in affordable housing.

It's never to soon to start storyboarding. The Banff Mountain Film Festival has announced the deadline for entries in this year's festival is Sept. 3.

Treasures mined from the Pique I find it interesting to live in a community where the local papers are so widely read that they form an integral and important part of the communication process and the sharing of ideas.

What secrets are contained in the Vancouver-Whistler mini-bid book being presented to the International Olympic Committee this week in Switzerland, one can only guess.

The Webby Awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, are the Internet’s equivalent of the Oscar’s, with a people’s choice award thrown in for good measure.

Like television 50 years before, the Internet was hailed far and wide as a brave new medium with the power to educate, communicate, and entertain the masses. It was an interesting theory.

The Victoria Day Weekend used to mark the end of the ski season, a time when all the Vancouver skiers – there wasn’t any other kind at Whistler prior to the 1980s – came back for a few last turns and to board up the cabin for the summe

You’re under arrest. That’s what the police would be telling you if the authorities really cared enough to find out what you’ve been up to online.

If you didn’t already know it was Local Government Awareness Week it will probably hit home when you get your property tax notice in the next few days.

"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.