Pique'n Yer Interest

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.

January 1 is a fairly stupid time to persuade people to resolve to better themselves.

Tragedy casts a large shadow over Whistler, just like the twin peaks that have given the resort its claim to fame. Whether or not we want to admit it, death is never as far away as we'd like to think in our community.

The concept of earning equal pay for equal work shouldn't be overly controversial.

Christy Clark and her neo-con cabal have got to go. We can start by shining a spotlight on their chronic underfunding of education, the province's shameful child poverty levels, or B.C.