anonymous - October 06th, 2005
Some issues facing Whistler and its present and future elected leaders.



The local economy

The arena

The energy plan

Several major development projects –Rainbow lands housing project

–Employee housing units

Affordability

Affordable -Employee housing units

From http://ourwhistler.com/CS/forums/3/ShowPost.aspx

A Warm Resort Community

From: Brian Walker
Date: 13 Sep 2005
Time: 23:23:21 -0700
Remote Name: 207.6.224.230

Comments
Whistler's tourism based economy is fundamentally dependent on service. People in the service industry, by far, make up the majority of voters in Whistler. It is long past time that our municipal policies reflected this fact. Whistler's very sucessful warm bed resort philosophy, needs to be expanded to include a warm house community policy. That way Whistler can have the Warm Resort Community that everyone here wants to work in, live in and have the world come to visit. As long as Whistler has a tourism based economy, Service will always be a true and genuine special interest for our resort community. On November 19th I encourage everyone who is eligible to get out, register and vote. Because everytime you earn and spend one dollar you pay over 50 cents in taxes. This has already bought you the right and earned you the responsibility to decide the municiple government that you, your friends and everyone else in our community will live under for the next three years. On November 19th you actually have two choices. You can get out and vote for the Whistler you want, or you can go the pub and let someone else who is just as eligible decide the future of Whistler. Please remember that municiple elections are the purest and most powerful form of democracy because every vote goes directly to the outcome of the election and that whatever you do or you don't do, Whistler will once again elect the government that it deserves. So, if you were born in Canada, or have become a Canadian citizen, who is 18 years of age on election day November 19th, if you have lived in the province of British Columbia for six months and in Whistler for 30 days prior to the election, then your vote for the future of Whistler will literally count equally as much as anyone else who is eligible to vote, and it doesn't matter how much money they have, who they think they are, or what their special interest is. Brian Walker dine@look.ca

anonymous - October 07th, 2005
what a great piece of writing, i really couldn't agree more.whistler is a resort. whistler is a place people visit to feel good.the essence of an authentic resort experience, would be visitors feel good about the experience because it comes from the resorts roots, the people.the people need to be healthy and happy in order to pass that on to our guests.happy guests mean happy resort.happy resort means happy Whistler.

stacy kohut

anonymous - October 21st, 2005
I would like to know the candidates position on Intrawest. I feel they need their feet held to the fire and have gotten off with lack of community care and direction as the most powerful player and ultimately, the definer of Whistler over the next 10 - 15 years. Colorado has shown that the corporate model, NYSE symbol does not work over the long term in mountain communties. They are property managers and have little care for Whislter, which is fine. However, they control the town. Their real estate is power. Whislter is in a serious situation. Comments?

anonymous - October 27th, 2005
I don't want to go to Nebbeling's little ear other party fund raisers to ask him a question in public. I want to hear other people's concerns in an open public forum like have always had until the CHamber decided to change the format for some reason..nebbeling. He is afraid of the public otherwise we would be having our traditional and well attended open and public forums where all the candidates get an opportunity to address a us in an unrehearsed and spontaneous fashion. We need the honesty and sincerity of Ken Melamed heading our beautiful Whistler. At least we would have a chance of maintaining some essence of natural beauty, which attracts us all here.

whistler - October 27th, 2005
Ask Ted the question here and he may answer it? or post it here for someone else to ask him at one of the other all candidates meetings? Check out the info on the worca all candidates meeting the format should work for you. It's listed in the 'important dates' section and the click on 'more info' for the format and more info.
Duane

anonymous - October 31st, 2005
Nice spin on the Chambers decision to change their format. Political hacks hard at work.

The Chambers decision might have had something to do with the logistics dealing with 24 candidates, all with a valid view. I have seen this spin over and over, even with a letter to the editor. Ask any chamber board member for the facts. There is a WORCA event on November 3, where you can ask questions. There is also the Whistler Forum event of November 13th. That is open to Mayoral candidates only, and it will have a public question and answer period. Lots of time for debate.The candidates are even able to debate amongst themselves. Then on the 14th the Arts council has an all candidates meeting, with a question, answer and debate period. Is this enough opportunities for you to ask questions?

whistler - October 31st, 2005
Note: Check the important dates section for time and place of all these. Duane Perrett