Opinion

Let me get this straight.

Three months ago Whistler voters elected a new council. At Monday’s council meeting — at the new time of 7 p.m. — the first real indications of how this new council differs from the previous one were seen.

Quick now, who knows what week it was Jan.

The Whistler Resort Association makes a fair case for the 8 per cent increase in members fees it wants to levy, although some people question whether they get their money’s worth from the WRA now.

As development of the few remaining parcels in the village is about to begin and the end of the construction boom is supposed to be rounding into view; at a time when competition in the mountain resort business is increasing rapidly, a man arrives of

Who else but a government backpeddling like mad could look at an agreement that institutes at least a 25 per cent reduction in funding and say it had "secured funding to promote the development and growth of B.C.

...and the clock keeps ticking I haven’t made a new year’s resolution yet, but I’m willing to do so here: I won’t write about affordable resident housing in this space if the new municipal council actually deals with the issue.

At first glance, the new year doesn’t appear to be too much different from 1996 in Whistler.

One of the motivations for this week’s merger which brought Whistler Mountain and Copper Mountain in Colorado under the Intrawest umbrella, according to all parties involved, was the looming specter of Vail.

A press release last week announced 602 affordable housing units across the province were going to go ahead because the NDP government — even though it was cutting back everywhere else — was putting money up for housing.