Opinion

Our responsibilities This letter is written in response to the loss of life which occurred on Highway 99 the evening of Wednesday, Oct.

I wasn’t especially worked up when Whistler-Blackcomb announced a few weeks ago it was investigating building a gondola to connect the Roundhouse Lodge on Whistler Mountain with the Rendezvous on Blackcomb.

Canada is huge and relatively unpopulated; we’re simultaneously socialist, conservative, and liberal with confusing results; and while our cities are big and generally quite liveable, we’ve still kept a rural mindset.

Power of the people After recently returning from an extended period away from Whistler I was thrilled to be able to once again utilize the vast network of trails for running and biking.

With municipal election campaigns officially underway this week it’s already clear that Whistler will see some big changes at municipal hall.

All through my high school years I was a part-time pump jockey, and if I may be so bold, the best in the neighbourhood. Nobody left a windshield more streak-free, or found the latches to open the hoods on foreign cars more quickly than I.

The next generation of Sony Playstation and Microsoft xBox technically debuted back in May, and then again at the E3 electronics show in early June.

One of the opportunities bidding for the 2010 Olympics brought to the province of British Columbia was to involve the Squamish, Lil’wat, Musqueum and Tsleil Waututh First Nations in the bid process.

How do we get our mojo back? We never lost it. We’ve always had it. It just seems we had it so good for a couple of years that everyone thought it was normal and started thinking that every year should go up by an amazing amount with no effort.

There are about 32 million people in Canada, which means there are 32 million Social Insurance Numbers, 32 million medical and dental files, and so forth.