| Luxury homes with a private gondola
Kadenwood, Intrawest ULC's new luxury housing development located at the highest buildable point on Whistler Mountain will also have the distinction of being the first ski resort neighbourhood in Canada with its own gondola service. The ski-in, ski-out neighbourhood, which consists of 60 large home-sites, is located 711 vertical feet above Whistler's Creekside Village. The private gondola will carry new owners and their luggage (think skis and snowboards in the winter, and strollers and bicycles for summer) from their new home site to-and-from Whistler's valley trails or Creekside in approximately six minutes. "This new gondola will offer unprecedented, year-round access, and provide Kadenwood homeowners and guests with a swift and convenient connection to the numerous amenities of Creekside Village while maintaining the neighbourhood's exclusivity and privacy," says John Morley, VP of Development for Intrawest Placemaking, Intrawest's resort development subsidiary.
Climate report spurs calls for drastic, speedy change
PARIS (AP) - The bleak outlook of a major new report on climate change shifted the onus onto governments, even mankind, to stop prevaricating and truly act, with dire warnings Friday from around the world that drastic, rapid change is needed _ not least from the United States."We are on the historic threshhold of the irreversible," warned French President Jacques Chirac, who called for an economic and political "revolution" to save the planet."While climate changes run like a rabbit, world politics move like a snail: either we accelerate or we risk a disaster," said Italy's environment minister, Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio.Campaigners and governments pressed industrial nations, some specifically naming the United States, to significantly cut greenhouse-gas emissions. Others said the threat was not simply to the environment, but to international peace, prosperity and development.There were calls for urgent talks to hammer out a new worldwide agreement to stop global warming.
Region's heat wave will end soon
Highs will be in the lower 70s, with a 50 percent chance of rain tonight and lows in the 50s, said meteorologist Blair Holloway of the National Weather Service. Then, its back to winter. On Sunday, Charlotte was five degrees away from beating a record-high temperature of 77 set 100 years ago. Around the region, kids swung in the 72-degree weather as babies in strollers dangled their bare feet. "The weather is too good to waste," said Charlotte resident Julie Hurt, who was playing with her family at McAlpine Creek Park. It's not unusual to have bouts of warm weather caused by systems in the Gulf of Mexico moving upward, said meteorologist Neil Dixon with the National Weather Service. He noted the holidays this year were hotter than usual.
We cannot keep families together if drugs take over
IT HAPPENS so often that it's almost no longer headline news. A baby critically ill after swallowing heroin; a toddler dying after drinking his parents' methadone; a boy surviving for six weeks in a flat with the decaying body of his drug-addicted mother. As the drug problem in our society worsens, it is tempting to believe incidents like these... .
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