Opinion

While Apple has been in the news a lot lately, most of the attention has been on iPod and iTunes, which, though cool, can only really be classified as the side dish to the main course.

No gas, no class It's hard to believe that a "World Class Resort" runs out of gas! It has happened more than once in the last month.

In Vancouver, you pass the homeless on the streets. Desperate, dirty, unfortunate souls sleeping in doorways and bus shelters, unsure of their next move, hoping that something changes to make their world a little better.

Where the locals are appreciated I would like to nominate Nesters Market for “Community Business of the Year”. Time and time again Bruce, Sean and staff go out of their way to help support our community’s non-profit organizations.

By Michel Beaudry Opening Day. To most Snow-eaters, that’s like Christmas, Easter, New Year’s, Thanksgiving, July 1st and Halloween all rolled into one. And nowhere is that more evident than in Whistler.

It’s official. The Sony PS3 (www.playb3yond.com) hit the stores on Thursday, Nov. 17, and by all accounts is completely sold out until at least two months after Christmas.

The market sets rates As a "scum" landlord, I would like to respond to the article "Council takes on ‘scum’ landlords" (Pique Nov. 9). There can be no such thing as "gouging" in a market economy.

We’ve all seen the Olympics on television. We’ve heard a great deal about preparations for the 2010 Games and most of us know Whistler’s role, in a general sense, in hosting them.

By Michel Beaudry The village isn’t all that pretty.

It’s interesting how the discovery or refinement of one technology snowballs, creating an avalanche of new tech breakthroughs that change the way things work.