Whistler

A year in review, Whistler’s birds of 2003 The Whistler birding year was a good one on the whole, 164 species of the 175 on the now out-dated Checklist of Whistler Birds were sighted, some only once, but it is an outstanding recovery at 93.

More than 200 people gathered at the North Vancouver Outdoor School in Paradise Valley last weekend to pay their last respects to Don Gow, whose career included a stint as Whistler station agent for the PGE Railway in the 1950s. Gow died Jan.

Whistler was not in the running to host the ESPN Winter X Games, as the Aspen Times reported this week.

Bear research in Whistler has gone in a new direction. The Telus World Ski & Snowboard Festival is introducing a mascot and is looking to the Whistler community to help name him.

The provincial government has issued a request for expressions of interest to clean up the contaminated water flowing from the Britannia mine site using an acid-water treatment plant, Minister of Sustainable Resource Management Stan Hagen announced W

Competition, economy force resort to market Whistler more aggressively That Whistler could be doing a lot more to target different markets was the central message to come out of a special meeting called by Tourism Whistler on Jan. 14.

Resort in a tough position as Olympic partner with the province "How far do you go to let a partner stick a knife between your ribs before you complain?" asked Councillor Nick Davies at Monday's council meeting.

Tickets and packages are on sale for the 12 th Annual Telus Winter Classic, Jan. 30-31, a charity fundraiser for the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation. It's a busy schedule this year, with six events packed into two days.

Australia Day: What the?

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