Opinion

News item: Late summer and fall are the prime months for UFO sightings, according to the 2000 Canadian UFO Survey. Last year one-third of the 263 UFO sightings reported in Canada were in August and October.

I grew up in a pre-CGI world where animation equaled cartoons, and the pinnacle of Hollywood’s special effects was the chase scene from Tron.

In its brief history there have been few serious conflicts among groups in Whistler.

The anecdotal evidence - letters to the editor, protests, conversations in the village - strongly suggests the Whistler electorate is in the mood for wholesale change when they go to the polls on Nov. 19.

The provincial Liberals passed the halfway point of their first 90 days in office last week, with a large number of the commitments they promised to carry out in this first three months still to be kept.

Just as this column was expounding on the virtues of protective firewalls, whether they be of the hardware or software variety, hackers pulled off another coup – proving once again that security, where the Internet is concerned, is a relative te

If there’s one aspect of the 2010 Olympic bid both opponents and proponents of the bid can agree on it’s that transportation between the Lower Mainland and Whistler needs to be improved, and that the Games are the most likely way to bring t

"By 2002, approximately 19 million people will have the skills to mount a cyber attack." – DEFCON.

There is something slightly amusing yet at the same time frightening about the group – one assumes it’s a group, but who knows – urging activists to "shut down" the Pacific Northwest Economic Region meeting in Whistler later

Everybody has a catch-all drawer to throw the items they’re not quite sure what to do with. They’re not useless, they just don’t seem to belong anywhere else.