Pique'n Yer Interest

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.

So, I'm thinking about two not entirely unrelated things. The first is my neighbourhood of Creekside and the winter nightmare that London Lane has become.

We have two mayoral candidates and 10 wanna-be councillors running in the 2014 Whistler municipal election. Voting day is on Saturday, Nov. 15.

While researching my column this week I came to a troubling realization that still makes me shudder every time I think about it: I have been on Facebook for 10 years now, over a third of my natural life.

I almost used this space to write about parliamentary secretary Paul Calandra's buffoonery in the House of Commons last week, and the sad state of democracy in Canada.