Pique'n Yer Interest

Yes it's true. My life is just like Peak Season, I told my friend in Winnipeg over the phone last week. You know, even though I live in a place like Whistler, I still have a regular life just like you.

It was only a matter of time before B.C. introduced legislation to curb cell phone use for drivers, as most jurisdictions in Canada already have laws in the books against this form of "distracted driving.

Nietzsche wrote in the Will to Power that we progress by way of the lie. The international panic over climate change suggests his thesis still applies. Since 2006, the world has been possessed by an overstated guilt over how we've treated the planet.

I feel like I'm standing in a room with 100 people criticizing me, yet no one is paying attention to the fact I'm here too. "She's impossible to work with!" I can hear them whisper to one another in conspiracy-like tones.

So let me get this straight. Barack Obama is Adolf Hitler, Vladimir Lenin or both, depending on where you get your information. He's also a tyrant, notwithstanding the fact he was elected in 2008 by the largest majority of any U.S.

The countdown is on. We have five months left before we're hit by the tidal wave that is 2010. I don't even call it the Olympics anymore, because simple references to sporting events don't cut it.

"It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.

Imagine a legal system with government, courts and police. It's the job of police to enforce that system's laws; courts to apply them; and governments to review and make the laws that shape the system.

Canada is broken, or at least the Parliamentary system of democracy on which Canada is based is broken, which kind of amounts to the same thing.

Canada is broken, or at least the Parliamentary system of democracy on which Canada is based is broken, which kind of amounts to the same thing.