Pique'n Yer Interest

Sometime in the early hours of Christmas Day, a fire tore through a Main Street business in my hometown of Shellbrook, Sask. There's nothing left of the convenience store that's been a staple of my town for nearly three decades.

Before coming out to Whistler, I was immersed in civic election coverage for my previous employer in Winnipeg.

In my line of work, covering arts and culture for Pique , I am dependent on press releases. Every day I get far more than is relevant.

By almost every metric you can apply, I'm not your prototypical Whistler dude. The last time I stood on a pair of skis, Bill Clinton was in office and I still considered "Ninja Turtle" as a viable career choice.

Browsing the Internet last week I came across an odd anniversary. It's been 10 years since the Numa Numa video was first posted to the Internet. If you're not familiar, a quick Google search should catch you up to speed (go ahead, I'll wait).

On an intellectual level, you can know what to expect from bobsleighing. Of course, it'll be cramped, chilly, and really flippin' fast.

Long before Arthur Laffer drew, on a napkin, his infamous curve depicting an inverse correlation between tax rates and revenues, conservatives and progressives were having the same fight about taxes and growth as today: regressive cons insisting that

Economics is one of the most riving fields among academics.

The man responsible for bringing a slew of troubling allegations against CBC golden boy Jian Ghomeshi to light over the last few eye-opening weeks does not fit within the historical mould you'd expect of an investigative journalist.

It was late last Wednesday night. Wednesday is production day at the Pique , so my day had been spent following the events unfolding in Ottawa while laying out news stories and proofreading copy.