Opinion

I would like to thank the organizing committee of the Owens Corning World Freestyle Ski Championships for choosing our home to host their event. The first word that comes to mind as I write this letter is "professional.

There's enough finger pointing and butt-covering following Whistler's decision to cancel a World Cup mountain bike event to fill a couple of books on anatomy and fashion.

After decades of irresponsible consumption and unfounded optimism in the resiliency of the planet, the chickens are finally come home to roost.

With skiers and boarders who use the Creekside gondola this winter finally seeing some semblance of the New Creekside, after nearly 15 years of promises, it's tempting to say the second era of the Whistler Creek area has begun.

Although it’s impossible to adequately summarize all the ground-breaking events that took place over the past 366 days, that’s never stopped the media from printing list after list of "Best Of’s", "Worst Of’s",

The Spaceship Whistler entered 2001 on an uncertain course. The astronauts at the controls had a number of tasks to accomplish and tried to steer through the asteroids, but many hazards lay ahead.

The week before Christmas didn’t bring any cheer for Whistler taxpayers, nor for anyone keeping an eye on Whistler’s long-term financial picture.

"Vail was a product of pure faith in a sport that was only beginning to bloom, a resort built within a laissez-faire political environment where the government didn't care what developers did.

Way down deep in the back of a drawer I found two very yellow newspaper clippings, from exactly 25 years ago this week. The headline of one says "Canada up for downhill," the other says "Canadians dominate World Cup downhill.

Look at a topographic map of British Columbia and you will notice it’s different from a topographic map of Saskatchewan or Manitoba — B.C. is not flat.