Pique'n Yer Interest

Climate-driven wildfires and massive atmospheric carbon plumes notwithstanding, this week's news cycle was a good one for B.C. Beginning locally, Vail Resorts (VR) announced its Epic Promise for a Zero Footprint.

Last week, Kelsey Bareham planted a forest. Bareham, the owner of the Whistler Tattoo Company, wanted to help those evacuated from the horrific wildfires in B.C.'s Interior — and she did, by tattooing one tree at a time onto willing customers.

With Canada celebrating the 150th anniversary of Confederation this summer, there has been lots of talk about what exactly it means to be Canadian.

At the end of June, I moved to Whistler to become a news reporter at Pique.

It's been a little while since I donated blood. What's worse is I haven't even thought about it much since moving to B.C. from Winnipeg in 2014.

When comedian John Oliver ranted on the state of journalism, he said that without local newspapers, TV news would just be CNN's Wolf Blitzer "batting a ball of yarn around.

Whistler, B.C. — One human is dead after causing a bear to enter an occupied building on Sunday evening. A four-year-old black bear known as Olive entered the business, located on Glacier Lane on Blackcomb Mountain, in search of food.

As soon as you acknowledge your audience, you've lost them. This contradiction sits at the heart of all art: Truly honest expression relies on the fancy trick of convincing yourself you're creating in a vacuum.

A couple of colleagues at Pique have hit decade birthday milestones in the past year or so, and I'm about to break (gasp!) 30 in a couple weeks.

I've benefitted greatly from government largesse in post-secondary education. Through all graduate programs I received significant funding, enough, in some cases, to live comfortably without additional sources of income.