Pique'n Yer Interest

The excitement in Yvonne Chui's voice is unmistakable. Chui is the arts and community connections manager for The District of Maple Ridge, east of Vancouver.

Whistler, in many ways, is a land of perpetual youth.

While we're busy at work, our pug has to endure a lot of time alone at home during the week, so we leave the TV on for him while he spends the day on the couch.

Stephen Harper doesn't ski, of that I'm sure. If he did, there'd doubtless be abundant and wince-worthy Conservative Party of Canada visual propaganda of him doing so (very likely poorly) littering the Internet.

I have a teeny-tiny, slightly maddening claim to fame that no one else would know if I didn't mention it here.

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.

It just wouldn't be an Olympics without some kind of Lindsey Vonn injury drama, would it? The American superstar's crash last week, resulting in a partial tear of her reconstructed ACL, has made it questionable as to whether she'll be able to defend

Thinkers, researchers, scientists and artists discuss animals at risk

Last weekend at the downtown Vancouver campus of Simon Fraser University, I took part in a screenwriting fellowship offered by SFU's Praxis Centre for Screenwriters.

Hey big guy, Sorry, I know you're sensitive about your weight, I shouldn't call you that. You're obviously just big-boned.