Suggestion to drop Super G from the World Cup circuit

Personally, I think FIS is silly to even consider this - North Americans like the speed events, so to eliminate the Super G and only leave the Downhill in terms of speed events means you're losing a lot of North American fans most likely - but then again, maybe they don't really care about the North Americans... anyway, glad to see that Alpine Canada also opposes the move.

End to the Battle of Alberta in the future?

Interesting article in the National Post yesterday, about the Edmonton to Calgary corridor:

Whatever you call it, yesterday's census figures make a strong case that the stretch of people and prosperity along Alberta's Highway 2, running from Edmonton, via Red Deer to Calgary, is Canada's most dynamic region of growth.

And at the rate things are going, the area, some say, might morph into a virtually contiguous supercity. "It could happen in the future," said Frank Trovato, a University of Alberta demography professor. "These cities are already connected in more ways than just physical space. Communications, for example, commerce ... the cities are interconnected."