Opinion

“It’s a resort town full of millionaires…” the CBC television reporter began her story Tuesday on CUPE’s campaign for a cost-of-living allowance for Whistler’s 29 bylaw officers and sewage treatment plant workers. Of course it is.

Follow the Squamish model Re: Privatize away (Pique letters Feb. 10) Privatization of the Meadow Park Pool Facility is not the answer.

Oh hockey. Poor, sweet, ridiculous hockey… Regardless of whether you support the owners, the players, or wish both of them had to join the rest of us working nine to five for a dose of reality, it’s a shame it all had to go down this way.

There were a few statements in the CUPE 2010 ad last week that I found misleading and I invite CUPE 2010 to correct them, or at least take into account the conflicting information I found.

For a little lesson in media studies it’s instructive to look at the two biggest news stories to come out of Whistler since winter returned nearly two weeks ago and Jacques Rogge left.

Opinions count in the age of the Web Back in the days when Monica Lewinsky was just another intern and a woman with questionable ties to the president, an angry man with a website did a little investigative journalism into the precise nature of her r

Re: As Kermit said, it's hard to be Green, G.D. Maxwell Pique Jan. 27 Well, someone finally bold enough to come on out and tell the Emperor that he is wearing no clothes.

Ah, Valentine’s Day. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

In response to the article "Altitude organizer looking for community support" (Pique Jan. 20), Mr. Bergeron was unethical and slanderous in using my brother Brent Benaschak’s name as the source of his difficulties.

One of tenets of weekly newspapers is if you write about the weather you’ve been experiencing for some time it’s bound to change the day your piece is published. I apologize for not writing about the weather sooner.