Opinion

Anybody who tunes into the catalogue of misadventures plaguing the RCMP, almost on a daily basis, will no doubt get the impression that this internationally esteemed and once nationally respected police force is rapidly becoming a police farce.

It is with great excitement that I write my second Area D corner! After what seemed to be a lot of new-to-government orientation, conventions and who's who coffees we now get a chance to really get down to the nuts and bolts of setting direction for

This month, scientists around the world were in a frenzy of excitement. Well, as exciting as scientists can be, mind you. They smiled a lot and had to get out of the lab to chat with reporters. It was a real barn burner.

Still in France we just came home from a lovely beach day on the Ile de Re.

EDITOR, There are knots in my stomach as I write this in response to the article, "Clarke Park work to kick off soon" (Chief, July 5).

Garibaldi Provincial Park is an important cultural landscape that is of significant historical value. One hundred years ago, William John Gray "blazed" the first trail up to Black Tusk Meadows by way of Rubble Creek.

EDITOR, The headline in a recent edition of the Whistler Question (June 28) trumpets: "Muni staff costs down by $1.2 million in 2011.

We deplaned at YOW and were immediately swarmed. Like Hare Krishnas pushing carnations, Ottawans kept forcing themselves upon us just to say, "Thank you.

"You are what you eat." We often hear these words in the media. This month I'd like to offer a spin on that: "You are what you think." Every action, every decision starts with a thought. It's your thinking, i.e.

Just eight years ago, a natural food shortage and a subsequent rise in the number of human-bear conflicts resulted in the destruction of 27 black bears in the Squamish area in 2004 alone.