Opinion

About two weeks ago, Intrawest invited media, long-time Whistler Mountain pass holders and others with ties to Whistler dating back to the ’60s and ’70s, up to the new Roundhouse Lodge to a presentation/celebration of the Creekside redevelopment, par

Whistler’s environmental watchdog, AWARE, is in trouble. To some, that’s welcome news, considering all the trouble AWARE has caused them.

After 18 months of growing millennial angst, it now appears the US$750 billion spent world-wide correcting the Y2K computer glitch was little more than a make-work project for computer techies.

The Year 2000 may just signal that we’re getting older Back in the ’60s, when anything was possible, encyclopedias and other books of knowledge portrayed life in the next century as being very different from the life we led at that time.

Just remember On Saturday morning Doug Forseth, vice president of operations for Whistler-Blackcomb, officially opened $13 million worth of new lifts, the Fitzsimmons and Garbanzo Express chairs on Whistler Mountain.

Besides promising to open up a dialogue on the 2010 Winter Olympic bid, Don Calder, the chief executive officer of the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 bid corporation, touched on several issues Monday which to date haven’t been part of what little public dis

Ever since Pique Newsmagazine was started five years ago we have tried to write about and focus on the larger issues, decisions and strategies affecting Whistler, as opposed to the day-to-day news events.

Whistler is different things to different people, which is about as profound as saying Spuzzum is different things to different people. Every town in the world is unique in its own ways, and every person sees each town in their own way.

So much for dissatisfaction with the current council.

Endorsing political candidates has been part of the role of newspapers in communities around the world for many years. Whistler has been an exception to this tradition, until now.