Opinion

Assume for a moment that Whistler could build an airport big enough to handle 737s, that the airport used geo-thermal heating and electricity generated by a run-of-river micro-hydro project.

When it comes to immortality, the best a guy of my means can realistically hope for is a brass plaque on a park bench, and that’s if I start saving tomorrow.

It’s the negative opinions that help I would like to express a thank-you to Pique Newsmagazine for not relenting to the request of Bruce MacDonald who wanted you not to publish negative articles regarding Americans that are already under attack.

Five years ago at this time we were just getting over the fact that the world hadn’t stopped spinning and computers hadn’t melted down when the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve and the odometer rolled over to the year 2000.

Last week the Liberal Party unfurled what can only be described as 1980’s federal budget – the jocks got everything, and the nerds got the shaft. There was more than $12 billion for the military and almost half a billion for athletes.

“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.