Opinion

I can’t tell you for a fact that if the World Economic Forum came to Whistler it would be a good thing or a bad thing.

City skiing

Like a lot of our modern technology, you can trace the birth of the Internet to the military industrial complex, a cold war that spanned more than four decades of paranoia, and an almost pointless space race.

Kircher’s legacy

Whistler officially joined the race for the 2010 Winter Olympics Jan. 22, although it was Vancouver’s name on the letter submitted to the IOC.

Nobody is sure exactly where the game of chess originated; India, circa 500 A.D., is the best guess of historians, although a version of the game was played in China and in Persia around this same time.

There was a strange convergence of forces affecting municipalities last week, in Victoria, where the Liberals outlined cuts in provincial services, in Vancouver, where the mayors of five of the largest cities in the country met, and in Ontario, where

Deep-freeze trailer

Store boat, grab skis

A Fine Balance So, I'm reading Rohinton Mistri's A Fine Balance .