Opinion

After eight tense and almost pointless hours, with media pundits pointing to the collection of blue and red states on the big board and making very obvious statements about what needs to happen for either candidate to win, George W.

"We are building toward a golden decade of tourism opportunity," Premier Gordon Campbell announced this week while introducing plans to implement a strategy for resort development across B.C.

Imagine relying on two RCMP, two Search & Rescue members or two firemen to safeguard an area stretching from Squamish to D’Arcy, plus all the urban/industrial settings and remote valleys that branch north and south.

"We are building toward a golden decade of tourism opportunity," Premier Gordon Campbell announced this week while introducing plans to implement a strategy for resort development across B.C.

After eight tense and almost pointless hours, with media pundits pointing to the collection of blue and red states on the big board and making very obvious statements about what needs to happen for either candidate to win, George W.

The recent decision by the Squamish Nation to outright reject the amended plan for a gondola project in Squamish was not the first such action by local aboriginal people to kibosh tourism infrastructure projects.

It’s been said of economists that if you asked two of them for the time of day there’d be so much analysis, data interpretation and sifting through of numbers that they would invariably come up with a different answer.

Whether you love ’em or hate ’em, and there are plenty of reasons to do both, there’s no stopping Rockstar Games epic Grand Theft Auto series.

Another week and more tragedy on the highway which links us to Vancouver. It isn’t even winter. As new highway construction moves forward the thought of creating a truly world class highway seems to have been budgeted away.

There’s something about the Whistler Housing Authority that always seems to stick in the craw of Whistler councils, but like many annoyances no one seems to be able to put their finger on the source of aggravation.