Whistler Blackcomb Callaghan Valley. The British Columbia government paid $600 million for major upgrades to the Sea-to-Sky Highway, which carried the majority of visitors to the alpine sites. In 2006 Intrawest was purchased by the alternative asset management firm, Fortress Investment Group. Three weeks before the opening of the 2010 Olympics, Fortress failed to make payment on its loan used to buy out Intrawest. This caused its creditors to force Intrawest to divest itself of several of its resort holdings in 2009 and 2010 which included a partial sale of Whistler Blackcomb, in order to reduce its debt load. This was achieved
Oriole whistler several very different subspecies, though the males are united by their yellow throat. Nine subspecies are recognized: The oriole whistler is found throughout the Solomons, except in the Santa Cruz Islands. Oriole whistler The oriole whistler ("Pachycephala orioloides"), also known as the yellow-throated whistler (leading to easy confusion with "Pachycephala macrorhyncha"), is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae, which is endemic to the Solomon Islands, and the islands of Bougainville and Buka east of New Guinea. It is variably considered a subspecies of a widespread golden whistler ("P. pectoralis") or treated as a separate species, but strong published