Whistler Question
If Paul Burrows and his wife Jane had come up with the money to buy a bus company, The Whistler Question might never have existed. Back in the mid-1970s, Burrows did what many modern-day Whistlerites do: work part-time in construction and part-time ski patrolling. “It came down to two choices,” he said, in an interview […]
Looking back over the past 42 years to that day in April 1976 when the first mimeographed edition of The Whistler Question rolled off the press in our tiny basement on Matterhorn Drive, little did Jane and I know just what we had started. Whether it was part hunch, part opportunity, or just being in […]
The Last Inside Edge When I arrived in Whistler in the fall of 1984 fresh off a busted Yukon gold mine at the age of 37, I had barely heard of the place and had never been on skis, but that was soon to change. As the former (first) sports editor of the Yukon News, […]
When I first started this job as editor of The Whistler Question I was 29 years old and had never been at the helm of a newspaper before. Over the last four years, there have been many moments I’ve thought, “Who put me in charge of an entire paper?” There have also been moments I […]
Welcome to my last column in the last issue of the august journal you hold in your hands. I have anticipated this day ever since Glacier Media, the group that owned The Question, acquired Pique Newsmagazine. After years of keeping two papers going, the company finally decided late last year that a town this size […]
Over the past two weeks since we announced The Question’s closure we’ve had an outpouring of kind thoughts, memories and thank yous. It’s heartwarming to have so many recognize the contributions that this publication has made to the community over the past 41 years. I’d like to take this final opportunity to thank the community […]
Several years ago, The Whistler Question made a decision to position itself as the community newspaper. At the forefront of that evolution was a deep-seated commitment that its content would be relevant to the uniqueness of our resort town. In that quest, the powers that be of the day brought on local experts to write […]
Like with all the good things, the time has come for The Whistler Question to end. And while The Outsider has been my proudest contribution to this humble publication, my Questionable experience began a few years before that. I was fresh off a sort-of internship with Pique in early 2012, hungry for paid writing work […]
After a noticeable increase in rock slides down Mount Currie in 2015 and 2016, Pemberton Valley residents finally have a quantified answer to just how big a hazard the prominent landform poses. The Mount Currie Landslide Risk Assessment, conducted by BGC Engineering Inc. determined potential risk to communities below the mountain’s north face remain very […]
Last week one of my fellow Question columnists arranged for all of us regular writers to meet to “wake” The Question newspaper. I hadn’t realized how many of us there were! We made a very convivial corner of the pub and I was pleased to be a part of it. It occurred to me to […]