Opinion

British Columbians used to like to complain that B.C. is 3,000 miles from Ottawa, but Ottawa is a million miles away from B.C. But within B.C.

There was an interesting bit of synchronicity or synergy or sylogizing – or maybe it was just a synaptic connection finally made – this week when the provincial government announced a stable (three years) funding commitment to the Canadian

The record for the fastest Internet speeds set last February has already been left in the dust, with researchers in Europe and the U.S. doubling the last benchmark. According to an article in Wired Magazine (www.wired.

Once upon a time, a little Internet startup called Napster had the world in the palm of its hand.

In the early ’90s John Glenn, the American senator, filed a suit over a housing project that was in view of his Vail house.

A recent industry study predicted that in the next three years, more than 60 per cent of all e-mails sent via Internet will be spam.

Perhaps this is an admission of how irrelevant this space usually is, but few columns have produced as much feedback as the idea espoused two weeks ago about moving the Whistler Golf Course to the Callaghan Valley and fulfilling our resident housing

In the entire history of democracy, and free speech, and open communication, nothing has had a greater impact than the Internet.

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Anyone studying the formula that has made Whistler a successful resort community will eventually come across the concept of warm beds – beds that are occupied nightly by visitors, as opposed to beds that remain empty when the owners aren’t