Opinion

The tragic accident Monday morning in New York didn’t do anything to help the psyche of a world still reeling from the events of Sept. 11.

In Regards to the Rutherford and other proposed run of the river hydro projects in the Squamish/Whistler/Pemberton corridor: I attended the council meeting on Oct.

Six months after members of the chamber of commerce jammed council chambers to send a message about the need for employee housing, a chamber committee has finally followed through on a promise to keep the issue before the public.

In defence of the business practices of software giant Microsoft, the Ayn Rand Institute states: "Like an increasing number of big businesses, Microsoft is being punished for being successful, for making products that people want to purchase.

As the snow line moves down – and up, and back down – the mountains between assaults of October storms, thoughts turn to the winter ahead and what kind of season we’re going to have.

When the camera was invented in the mid-19th century, some traditionalists felt that the process cheapened the work of the portrait painter.

Why do you think the whitewater kayakers in this corridor are banning together to voice their opinions on the fate of Rutherford Creek? To stop the project? No! To cause trouble for the area's economy? No! Well, what is it all about then? It is about

While much of the world is focused on anthrax and events in Afghanistan, two items dominated discussion at Monday’s meeting of Whistler council: the Olympic bid and the gates guarding Spruce Grove/White Gold and Blueberry Hill/Beaver Lane.

Now that Thanksgiving has passed, Whistler is officially in a time and space known as the "shoulder season" – the slow season between summer and snow that presumably must be borne on our shoulders like the weight of the world.

While Whistler awaits the release of a strategic arts development plan, young members of our community are confirming the need for just such an expansion of the arts.