Opinion

When a severe earthquake hit the San Francisco Bay Area in the fall of 1989 downing many traditional communications systems, as well as damaging buildings and bridges and scaring the bejesus out of everyone, many people in one of the most wired regio

On Tuesday of last week the federal government announced some details of a $1 billion plan that is supposed to begin to address Canada’s commitment to reducing pollution, in particular greenhouse gas emissions, under the Kyoto environmental acco

From the very beginning, the Internet has been a kind of bazaar for the world’s opportunists, taking advantage of the technology, fuzzy legal definitions, and the entrepreneurial spirit to make money.

Most of us have seen and heard little of the Comprehensive Sustainability Plan in the last 10 months, while elections and Olympics have been front and centre, but the municipality is supposed to roll out the next phase of Whistler.

The North American work ethic that makes it impossible to find time to fix a home-cooked meal, much less protest a new nuclear plant or government decision, has put a damper on activism in recent years.

Whistler has had a fascination and a rivalry with Vail since the mid-70s, when a pair of Whistler councillors named Raine and Watson used to hook up with amateur hockey teams touring Colorado so they could get cheap trips to ski resorts to study what

One of the most interesting aspects of relying on statistical data is that you don’t fully understand a situation until it’s over, or at least until all the numbers are in and by that time it may be irrelevant.

Pixar Animation Studios is definitely onto something. Toy Story? $191 million in the U.S. A Bug’s Life? $163 million. Toy Story 2? $246 million. Monsters Inc.? $256 million. Finding Nemo? $305 million in the U.S. and counting.

It’s like playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with practical applications.

It will be a case of déjà vu Monday when the Nita Lake Lodge development proposal comes back to Whistler council for third reading, again.