Opinion

After all the pre-season hype about El Niño — "the weather event of the century" — it’s been another record winter for Whistler, both in skier visits and in room nights.

The provincial government, desperate for some good economic news, has certainly been high on tourism recently. "If we look to the future...

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While it comes six months after originally promised and is breathtaking in its scope, Intrawest deserves considerable credit for laying out its plans for Creekside and the remaining bed units it inherited with the purchase of Whistler Mountain.

Friends and neighbours Whistler’s council has been under a lot of pressure recently, with the 19 Mile Creek employee housing project and the issue of chalet- and villa-style accommodation particularly contentious issues.

Andy Warhol said (promised?) that one day everyone would be famous for 15 minutes.

When Barnett Senior built his first cabin in Whistler he said there was no way he was going to have a phone in the building; he came to Whistler to get away from the world and to ski.

Trying to balance the resort and the community (resort fit for a king, but for the average Brit?) By all accounts the recent visit to Vancouver and Whistler of Prince Charles and his sons was an unqualified success.

Land-use issues, also known as development, have been the source of a lot of consternation in Whistler in the 1990s. For years now people have grown increasingly frustrated with the pace and scope of development, but have had little recourse.

Whistler is evolving — not always progressing — but constantly changing, and its citizens are becoming a little wiser after each development or proposed development comes forward.