Opinion

A Vancouver Sun editorial last week was critical of the province’s decision to make a log home part of B.C.-Canada House, the pavilion the federal and provincial governments recently opened in Torino, Italy to show off Canada and B.C.

The good news for the recording industry is that more people than ever are paying for digital music – $1.1 billion in sales in 2005 compared to $380 million for 2004.

Show the world our nature Whistler has an abundance, even an over abundance of natural scenic wonders to be enjoyed, but curiously we do not market and highlight these features and opportunities to visitors as much as do other scenic areas.

Whistler’s two-month old, but still very new, council is off on a retreat with senior staff this weekend to hammer out goals and priorities for the important next three years.

Issues and attitudes need addressing I have just returned from a snowboarding trip for the first time to your beautiful and unique resort.

The polls tell us that by Tuesday of next week, when Stuart McLean and his Vinyl Café roll into town for the first of two shows, Canadians will have elected a majority Conservative government, and Stephen Harper will be the next prime minister

They call us the MTV generation because we were brought up with television (although not MTV because it’s not available in Canada) and are famous for our chronically short attention spans.

The employees’ perspective Re: Labour unions duking it out (Pique News, Jan.

Computer viruses took a turn for the worse over the holidays with the discovery of a new type of virus that can be embedded in image files.

One of the consequences of fixed election dates, as we have with municipal and now provincial elections, is that some of the actual decisions by government tend to be scheduled around those election dates.