Opinion

"Some policies we espouse are so nebulous we can prop up almost anything with them.

What: Solid Ground show and opening Where: Stone Hunter Studio, 7331 Old Mill Road, Pemberton Industrial Park When: Sept. 8, noon to 6 p.m.

Hollywood’s reign as the entertainment capital of the world has been in decline lately as production companies cross the ocean and the border looking to stretch their dollars a little further.

Although corporations and governments have long made the case that the global economy is helping to bring peace and prosperity to the world’s poorest nations, the African leaders at the UN Global Earth Summit made it clear that they are not nece

Next week, when the kids are safely back in school and the world of Realpolitik resumes, the B.C. Liberals will hold a provincial summit on transportation.

While the Web is traditionally heralded as a venue to conduct business and research for fourth grader’s reports on dinosaurs or volcanoes, it has also been readily adopted by the art world. Not just as a place to show off their art, either.

There has been lots of interest in Highway 99 since the Ministry of Transportation released its list of options for upgrading the road back in June, but railway may still play a role in the final solution.

Pretend it’s 1975 and Whistlerites are asked to describe a shared vision of the future. In fact, the few hundred people who lived here then, and a few Lower Mainland residents who owned Whistler property, were asked that.

In a recent article in Wired News ( www.wired.com ) it was revealed that Major League Baseball is looking into a new technology that uses high speed cameras placed at different angles around home plate to keep track of strikes and balls.

If the dot-bomb fiasco of a few years ago is any indication, computer techies know a lot more about programming than they do about economics. Etoys.