Pique'n Yer Interest

Nearly six years ago, as I prepared to write in this space for the first time, I asked Pique's editor, Clare Ogilvie, if my inaugural column could be about hating winter. Her answer: "No. No you cannot write about hating winter in Whistler.

The writing life is a lonely one. Nonfiction — where invention cannot supersede intention — perhaps lonelier still. Ultimately, you're stuck with a reality you can't write your way out of.

There were many stars that had to align for me to land my first full-fledged reporting job at the Whistler Question .

Whistler's needs should win out

If you have any interest at all in popular culture, you probably faced some form of moral crisis in 2017.

So this is Christmas / And what have you done Another year over / And a new one just begun — John Lennon One reason I've always had an uneasy relationship with Christmas (love the get-togethers, winter season, time off; loathe the commercialism

A controversial painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has caused quite the stir in recent weeks, with more than 11,000 petitioning to have it removed from public view.

The barred owl likes Vancouver. Social media is full of images of the striking bird in unexpectedly urban settings. A Dec.

Joni Mitchell's old adage is, "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone" but sometimes, life can work the opposite way, too. Every so often, you don't realize you were missing something until it's back.

In the seemingly endless machinations over Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the biggest disconnect is a whopper: the federal government, the previous provincial government, and the government of Alberta all tell us this environmenta