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e know that skiers and boarders are not arriving on the mountains in proportion to population growth.

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the most time and the most money being at the upper end of the age groupings—65 or older.

Those 17 and under enjoy the mountain sports too, but they are also dropping out at high levels.

“The participation by Canadians in skiing shows a gradual, but steady, decline over the past 9 years,” states the most recent Facts and Stats report from the Canadian Ski Council.

“5.2% (1.9M active skiers/riders) of the Canadian population were actively skiing in 2016/17. This can be compared with a high of 6.9% just a few years ago.

At the same time, our skiers are visiting resorts fewer times per annum. Just 7.0 ski days per person, on average, were recorded in 2016/17.”

Obviously, conditions have a great deal to do with skier/boarder days on the mountains, and we saw that reflected in Vail Resorts’ midseason report earlier this

month, which saw the ski-resort giant trim its full-year earnings guidance after a slow start at Whistler Blackcomb (WB) due to poor snow when the mountains opened and into early December.

But despite all the statistical knowledge available, the one thing that comes up over and over when it comes to falling or plateauing skier/boarder numbers is the price of participation.

If you walk up to a WB ticket window right now, a day ticket will set you back $169. When Whistler Mountain opened in 1966, it was $5. (Of course, hardly any one goes up to the ticket window to buy a ticket, as there is always some sort of deal to be found online in advance.)

Let’s be very honest here, though: The experience today on both mountains is nothing like it was back in those early, opening days—and making the mountains what they are today was not cheap.

Added to this is the reality that operating a ski mountain cannot be automated, so labour costs are always going to be significant, as are capital and equipment replacement costs.

Still, if the ticket increase was guided only by inflation, a lift ticket would be $38.75 in today’s dollars.

When Vail Resorts bought WB for $1.4 billion, day tickets were sitting at about $129. In the 2017-18 season, they were at $156.

So we are left asking ourselves: Have costs increased so much that it justifies

this significant jump in ticket prices year over year? Realistically, probably not.

What has increased is the perception by ski companies that the market can bear the increases, and the desire by those keeping the profits to make money.

One wonders when the tipping point will come in this equation?

It is absolutely true that there are many families, kids and singles living here who cannot afford to ski.

It is absolutely true that there are many families, kids, and singles living here who cannot afford to ski. Perhaps it’s only my perception, but it feels like that number is growing.

Of concern to me is that fewer and fewer youths are skiing. Of course, the ski industry has programs to encourage kids to learn to ski, but once they hit the late teens and head out on their own, most can’t afford a pass or a ticket or even to live here.

Consider that, according to the Canadian Ski Council, ski and snowboard

participants generally come from upper income families ($101,175 average household income) and that the majority of skiers’ and snowboarders’ main motivation for skiing and snowboarding is to do “Something together as a family.”

Statistics can be challenging as there are so many ways to interpret them, but here are a few others by way of context over the years.

Total skier visits to B.C. in 1996-97 were 4.5 million. Today that number sits around 6.6 million. It’s estimated that there are about 280,000 skiers in Vancouver—and another 97,000 snowboarders.

Gross revenue per skier day has also increased over the years, not surprisingly.

In 1996-97 (tickets were $37), it was $44.63, which was up from $39.29 in 1993-94 (tickets were $34), and $33.83 per skier day in 1990-91. By 2013, that was up to $95.59; in 2016, it was $122.59.

Vail Resorts does not share this type of specific information (that I could find), presumably out of concerns about how it might affect their market performance.

It’s been long recognized that this is an expensive sport, but as we look to a future with climate change, the everpresent hiccups of the global economy and the oft-fickle nature of the tourist, I would argue that the price point needs to be a much larger consideration if we hope to have generations of skier and riders on slopes into their senior years. n

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Letters T O T HE ED I T O R Patience with Mother Nature “They were a group of experienced backcountry skiers.”

“They had all the equipment that they’re supposed to have.”

“They had emergency beacons to be able to call for help” … and finally the quote: “Unfortunately, even with that, this person died in this avalanche.”

The above statements have been said over and over in past years, usually whenever another unfortunate person loses their life in an avalanche.

As if being equipped with beacons, probes, ABS-packs and shovel would make an avalanche stop itself from burying you!

Yes, it goes without saying that all this equipment—and the knowledge of how to use it—is important, and one should never go into the backcountry without it. However, knowledge of terrain and snowpack are at least as—if not more—important than all this gear.

Quotes, such as those above, can so mislead a kid to think that because they have “the gear” they can now ski the “rad line.” I wish that people would become more aware that it’s the terrain (coupled with an unstable snowpack) that they

enter that kills them!

To read the terrain correctly, you need courses, mentors and years of backcountry travel—and even then, sometimes, an accident can happen.

You can travel in the backcountry quite safely even in high-avalanche danger as long as you pick and choose the right terrain in which to travel. This goes for uptrack and descent, as well as the neighbouring slopes that can set an avalanche loose to spill into your line of travel.

So please, all of you young (and not-soyoung) whippersnappers out there who feel they have to prove something in the backcountry, educate yourself not only about the gear and how to use it, but start learning to read the terrain.

Sometimes you might just have to stick to a 25-degree slope instead of whatever other

descent you had in mind.

That other descent will still be there for you on another day, maybe in the spring, where “maybe” the conditions might be a bit safer.

Patience in the backcountry is not only a virtue, it might save lives.

Helene Steiner Mountain guide, Whistler

SNOW-REMOVAL PROBLEMS

For a town that relies on snow removal, Whistler’s (service) leaves a lot to be desired, and it’s not all the fault of plow or equipment operators.

I blame our council to a large degree. I was told all homeowners are supposed to store their snow on their own property. Just about everything but that is happening now.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), under council’s guidance, has allowed monstersize homes to be built and there’s nowhere to put snow because the entire snow allowance is a driveway. Some driveways are so steep they can’t even drive up (or park in) them in the winter, so they park on the street, sometimes for days at a time, without being ticketed or towed. These driveways shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place.

Equipment operators pull all the snow out of driveways and leave half of it piled on the road. People do this even if there is room in their yard for snow, equipment operator or not. The muni plow goes down the middle of the road leaving streets as one lane.

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Letters T O T H E E D IT O R dumps in their driveway into the middle of the road regardless of how frozen it is and leave big piles for cars to hit.

Municipal plows should be pushing the snow back on both sides, especially the even side where cars park, every time they come through in order to maintain two lanes instead of leaving dangerous driving conditions. But if they do that, private equipment operators just put it back on the road again.

If the RMOW is going to allow this kind of construction, it should increase the budget to have snow trucked away. And not just once at the end of the season. It should be done regularly, especially in places such as Whistler Cay Heights.

Instead, heavy-duty equipment comes around to push snow back as far and high as possible, crushing everything in its path. The RMOW is going to have to repair our fence again after this winter—good thing they know it’s there.

Illegally parked cars make snow removal difficult, not to mention a mess of the street, but there’s virtually no enforcement. If you phone bylaw, nothing happens. Cars can be in the same place for days, sometimes in blind corners.

When they do move, they leave a huge pile of snow you can’t drive over even if the plow clears it, and the plow may not be around for days.

I was told that bylaw prefers to educate, not enforce. The same houses have the same problem year after year, so I have to assume bylaw either doesn’t talk to people or it’s not working.

It could be completely different people living there the following winter, so it’s the same problem all over again. People park on the street even if there is room in the driveway.

Pedestrians are left to stand on the street in traffic because crosswalk intersections haven’t been cleared. People have to struggle through walls of snow the plow creates just to press a button and give them a safe place to stand.

The crosswalks in Alpine Meadows where students cross the highway were only done recently and the big storm was three weeks ago.

If it was done in the interim, I didn’t notice.

Most residential neighbourhoods don’t have sidewalks leaving people to walk in the middle of the road because that’s the only place to walk.

Equipment operators are left looking for places to put snow, so they dump it anywhere, even if that means spreading it back on the road in an even layer, which I’ve seen them do, or dumping it in someone else’s yard. As if no one notices they’re suddenly bogged down in four inches of snow even though it hasn’t snowed.

Some of the things they do contravene bylaws, from what I’ve been told. Dumping snow in front of fire hydrants is popular since it gets cleaned out regularly, creating a different kind of hazard if there’s a fire.

All these things combine to make dangerous driving conditions as well as hazards for

pedestrians and residents, not to mention generate complaints.

We were nearly hit head-on by a car speeding around a blind corner on our side. I’m pretty sure there’d be a lawsuit if something serious happens because of road conditions. I’d encourage anyone with similar complaints to contact the mayor’s office.

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LOOKING MORE CLOSELY AT WHISTLER’S EMISSIONS

In any discussion of Whistler’s responsibilities for climate-change emissions and the possibilities for significant reductions, a command of the key basic facts is useful. A (Resort Municipality of Whistler) website (whistler.ca/municipal-gov/communitymonitoring/greenhouse-gas-emissions-0) states: “… per capita emissions [2017]… 3.6tCO2e/ person, one of the lowest levels since monitoring began [in] 2000.”

King County (Seattle and surrounding areas) estimates its per capita CO2e responsibility as about 27 tonnes; the state of Oregon’s estimate, 25 tonnes.

Whistler’s calculations of climate-change emissions excludes the majority of Whistler residents’ actual emissions responsibility—the greenhouse-gas (CO2e) cost of producing the food, concrete, vehicles, etc. used in Whistler but produced outside municipal boundaries— and also the climate-change effects of trips by residents (and visitors) beyond Whistler’s boundaries, e.g. drives from and to Vancouver, flights from and to Europe and Asia.

(Whistler’s publications frequently employ the ambiguous feel-good term “community emissions” to describe its presented CO2e numbers. Nowhere, to my knowledge, does Whistler state what significant emissions responsibility is excluded from these “community” emissions numbers.)

And to get a stunningly low “per capita” CO2e number, Whistler divides the emissions it has chosen to measure not by its resident population but by an estimate of daily average visitor population (roughly 22,000) plus its resident population (about 12,000) plus its temporary worker population (about 2,000). No other community in the world adds visitors to its residents to derive per-capita greenhouse-gas numbers. Divide the total of Whistler’s declared emissions (129,080 tCO2e) by its resident population and the total CO2e “community” emissions per resident becomes about 10 tonnes.

I asked a supposedly well-informed Whistler councillor who advocates making “climate action” a priority what they thought Whistler’s total resident per-capita greenhouse-gas responsibility was, and how much in percentage terms doubling Whistler’s bus ridership would reduce Whistler’s

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Council Considera�on of an Applica�on for a Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store

Mee�ng to Consider Applica�on

No�ce is hereby given in accordance with the Village of Pemberton Non-Medical (Recreational) Cannabis Retail Policy that Council will consider an applica�on for a Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store in the C-1 Zone at the Regular Council Mee�ng scheduled for Tuesday, February 19th commencing at 9am in Council Chambers, 7400 Prospect Street, Pemberton, BC.

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The Applicants, Mark Mendonca, Dwayne Mendonca and Todd Mumford, have applied to the Liquor and Cannabis Regula�on Branch (LCRB) for a Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store (CRS) licence proposed to be located in Unit 3-1366 Aster Street, Pemberton, BC. The proposed hours will be 9am to 9pm, seven days a week.

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You may provide comment in-person at the mee�ng in which the applica�on is being considered, or you may provide a wri�en submission to the a�en�on of Lisa Pedrini, Sr. Planner, Box 100, 7400 Prospect Street, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0 or via email lpedrini@pemberton.ca prior to noon on Monday, February 18, 2019.

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Letters TO TH E ED I TO R greenhouse-gas responsibility. The councillor had not a clue.

I suggest doubling bus ridership within Whistler is unlikely to reduce Whistler’s total greenhouse-gas responsibility by more than a few per cent, but the easier tasks of not encouraging short Whistler breaks from Asia or Europe, in general discouraging businessclass air travel, and, further, encouraging bus rather than car travel between Whistler and Vancouver could have a significantly greater impact on world emissions than getting more people to employ buses rather than private cars for travel within Whistler.

its first priority is to cease and desist circulating misleading statistics regarding its own greenhouse-gas-emission responsibility.

Again, King County and the state of Oregon estimate their total emissions footprint is well above 20 tonnes of CO2e per capita and Whistler claims “per capita emissions…

3.6tCO2e/person.”

It is highly improbable that the average Whistler resident has a substantially different emissions responsibility than the average King County or Oregon resident.

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“It is highly improbable that the average Whistler resident has a substantially different emissions responsibility than the average King County or Oregon resident.”

- JON PETRIE

Support for the above assertions: roundtrip business class Vienna or Beijing to YVR has the same climate impact as about eight tonnes of greenhouse gases emitted at Whistler’s elevation; an economy flight, about 2.7 tonnes. And Snowmass (within greater Aspen; similar in lifestyle to Whistler) estimates its aviation fuel emissions as 3.9 tonnes per capita—more than the total of Whistler’s declared per-capita emissions.

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The likelihood of avalanching will largely depend on two factors: the snow surface that the new snow is sitting on, and the stiffness of the new snow.

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LAURA After uploading it to social media, they head back down the trail, returning home having “experienced” the Coast Mountains.

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parks are buckling under increased traffic from tourists and Lower Mainland residents with little in the way of backcountry ethics.

But what if there was a way to deepen the experience for visitors to the Sea to Sky? For them to gain a deeper appreciation for the millions of years of geological activity that went into carving out this extraordinary landscape or the interplay between volcanoes and glaciers or the rich cultures and social structures of Indigenous groups who have inhabited this region for thousands of years.

That, in a nutshell, is what a new initiative brewing at municipal hall aims to do.

Last week, Whistler council approved a grant application for $962,336 to help pay for a $1.3-million project that would see the Sea to Sky region receive a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Geopark designation.

(To read Pique’s story on the

identified six sites that will form the “nucleus” of the geopark: the Cheakamus lava escarpment; Loggers Lake; the basalt features at Cal-Cheak north and south; glacier views from Green Lake and the Mystery Creek rockslide. The sites were agreed upon by a five-person geopark team led by John Rae, manager of cultural planning and development for the RMOW. The various areas would be tied together via the Sea to Sky Trail and would see significant investments in infrastructure and educational programming designed to give visitors a sense of why they are special.

A project like this is sure to have its detractors and handwringing on social media: Do you really want to expose these places for the world to see, aren’t we already buckling under the weight of tourism, posters might posit?

But while these concerns should be taken seriously—and it would be great to see community engagement regarding which sites are included—this initiative strikes me as both important and in line with the wider goals of the region.

Alpine environments engender awe in a way that few places can, and the right programming could leave visitors with a far deeper understanding of the very tangible impact of climate change on them.

The project could also spread out visitors, taking pressure off of marquee attractions like Joffre Lakes or Whistler Village, and create significant opportunities for small businesses looking to cater to outdoorsy travellers.

In his presentation to council, Rae said that a geopark would attract a “more purposeful traveller, someone

... the right programming could leave visitors with a far deeper understanding of the very tangible impact of climate change on them.

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For those unfamiliar with geopark designation, as defined by UNESCO, it is a “single, unified geographical area where sites and landscapes of international geological significance are managed with a holistic concept of protection, education and sustainable development.”

There are currently 140 such parks in 38 countries around the world, including over 30 in China alone. The proposed Sea to Sky geopark would cover 2,500 square kilometres.

Of over 50 potential sites, Pique columnist and scientist Leslie Anthony and geologist Steve Quane of Quest University

who wants to experience a destination in its entirety ... not just checking a box.”

Maybe so. But in my view, the park should also appeal directly to the selfieloving masses.

In many ways, tourism has gone sideways in the corridor, as visitors that simply don’t know how to behave in the backcountry are overrunning once-tranquil areas.

A geopark should aim to appeal directly to them, offering lessons on backcountry ethics and the alarming effects of climate change.

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CARETAKER Communities That Care chair Cathy Jewett presents at a Committee of the Whole meeting in 2014.

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Gauging the well-being of Whistler’s youth COMMUNITIES THAT CARE RELEASES 2017 SURVEY RESULTS Braden Dupuis

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histler’s youth drink more often than their peers (and vape excessively), according to a new survey from Communities That Care (CTC)—but they also benefit from more opportunities.

CTC’s 2017 Prevention Needs Assessment Survey was conducted in the fall of 2017, querying 461 students in Grades 6 to 12 about their alcohol, tobacco and drug use, as well as other antisocial behaviours.

It’s the organization’s fourth youth survey since 2003.

“I think that the thing that we have to recognize right off the bat is the strength in our community,” said CTC chair Cathy Jewett, pointing to the high number of respondents who reported having three or more “protective factors” in their lives (such as being supported at home and school, having a belief in right and wrong, and having good social skills, to name just a few).

“The percentage that are considered ‘high protection’—so they’ve got three or four protective factors in their lives—is much higher than the North American norm, so we’re really encouraged by that,” Jewett said.

Binge-drinking rates actually decreased for most grades (Grades 9 and 12 being the exceptions) since the last survey was conducted in 2013, but when compared with CTC’s “Monitoring the

Future” baseline (50,000 Grade 8, 10 and 12 students surveyed throughout North America), Whistler’s youth binge-drink at nearly double the average rate.

While overall cigarette use was down 1.8 points to 15.8 per cent (2.4 points below the norm), vaping and the use of e-cigarettes is on the rise.

E-cigarette use increases with each grade level, with more than 50 per cent of the 2017-18 Grade 12 students reporting having used one in the past 30 days.

“That is, to me, something that is a big red flag,” Jewett said.

“I don’t think that there’s a proper appreciation of the health risks that go along with that.”

The survey also concluded that being drunk or high at school should remain a priority for prevention efforts (particularly for Grade 12 students), and that depressive symptoms in Grade 10 students (now in Grade 11) are an area of concern.

While the survey shows an overall declining rate of binge drinking, it’s interesting to see the binge drinking increasing for Grades 9 (now Grade 10) and 12 (graduated), said Jackie Dickinson, executive director of the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS).

“I think that’s something to take note of: What is it about people that are transitioning into that next stage of school, or transitioning out of it, that is encouraging factors of not only drinking alcohol, but drinking excessively?” Dickinson said.

“And what, as a community, can we be doing to support people in that, and

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making sure that families are having critical dialogues with their kids around the risk factors?”

There’s also a need to address the low perceived risk of drug use, shifting the conversation away from “drugs are bad and scary,” Dickinson said.

“I think it’s more important to shed light on why people use drugs,” she said.

“When we can talk about the primary reasons or factors as to why people make good decisions and not-so-good decisions, that’s way more meaningful when it comes to prevention-based education around drugs and alcohol.”

The CTC survey, with its focus on relationships as protective factors, provides a good framework for parents wanting to set their kids on the right path.

“When kids feel like they belong, when they’re being reinforced with positive behaviour, when they’re connected with their family and doing positive things and making good decisions, that’s ultimately what’s going to support our kids in not engaging in high-risk behaviour and drug use,” Dickinson said.

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“If kids don’t feel that sense of belonging within their families, they ultimately are looking for that somewhere else.”

The Sea to Sky School District uses information from many different sources, including the CTC survey, to plan at both the school and district level, said director of instruction Phillip Clarke, in an email.

“As much as possible, we collaborate with our students, families and community partners through this planning,” Clarke wrote.

“For example, we will continue to collaborate with Vancouver Coastal Health, (WCSS), our Parent Advisory Councils, and other community partners to talk with students about topics like healthy choices and mental health.”

With the survey results, the hope is that parents will be empowered to have the important conversations with their kids.

“Our focus to a large extent has been to try to work with parents, to give them the tools to be able to deal with these issues and to recognize them,” Jewett said.

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BC Transit has installed the video monitoring systems on over 600 buses across the province.

Whistler’s new compressed-naturalgas (CNG) buses, which fully replaced the old fleet in January 2018, came with CCTV systems factory-installed. Whistler is the sixth BC Transit community to have CCTV cameras.

Gavin Davies, a national representative for Unifor, the union representing Whistler drivers, said drivers have become accustomed to the cameras.

“The operators use them as a tool, to remind passengers that may be misbehaving that they are on camera,” explained Davies.

There seems to be a “slight change of attitude” by the travelling public when they get on a bus with CCTV, said Davies. “They might be argumentative with something, but they soon let it go.”

The cameras, he added, can also be used to exonerate drivers in the event of frivolous claims, or identify assailants.

There were three alleged physical assaults on Whistler drivers in 2018, including one serious attack that took place outside the front doors of a bus, said Davies.

“The driver was viciously assaulted, with his head bashed against the concrete,” said Davies, adding that the RCMP is investigating.

According to Davies, Whistler drivers face unique challenges, including difficult weather, and the behaviour of some out enjoying Whistler’s notorious party atmosphere. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights can be wild rides, with passengers in a “festive” mood, he said.

Davies assessment of the usefulness of the cameras aligns with Jonathan Dyck, communications manager for BC Transit.

“We know, anecdotally, that if people see cameras on the buses, then they’re less likely to do something inappropriate on the bus,” Dyck said.

Since the CCTV pilot program began in 2015, BC Transit has used CCTV footage to support investigations 3,500 times on

its buses across the province. This includes over 360 police investigations.

Speaking on privacy concerns, Dyck said it’s important to note that the CCTV feed is not “live monitored.”

“There is not someone sitting there and watching the cameras in real-time and seeing what’s happening,” he said.

If there is an incident on the bus, BC Transit has seven days to go back and “pull that footage.”Otherwise, it is recorded over, he added.

“We recognize that privacy is a big thing for our riders and the public,” Dyck said.

“We’re working hard to try to balance privacy while also increasing safety on board our buses.”

Footage from cameras aboard Whistler buses was requested 63 times in 2018.

The footage, explained Dyck, could have been requested for a host of purposes, from ICBC investigations into accidents to doing follow-ups on customer-service complaints. He did not have numbers on how many of them were RCMP-related.

CCTV is just one of a number of initiatives aimed at improving driver safety, Dyck added, explaining that that the transit service is also currently looking at installing driver doors as well.

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That concept is being piloted in Abbotsford, Kelowna and Victoria, with five full driver doors being installed on buses at a cost of approximately $6,000 each.

“It’s something that we know other transit agencies are looking at as well,” he said.

“We’re analyzing the data that came in and trying to determine what the next steps are.”

Davies supports the driver-doors initiative, adding that it would improve safety for operators.

“It stops assaults, and it cuts off on spitting incidents,” he said. “It just gives another level of security.”

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News WHIST L ER Prism deal a rare ‘win-win’ RESORT MUNICIPALITY OF WHISTLER ‘EXTREMELY EXCITED’ WITH ACQUISITION By

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s the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) heads into its first budget open house on Monday, Feb. 4, residents might expect to see some line items associated with the recently acquired Prism lands.

“We’re extremely excited,” said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“Land acquisitions like this are crucial investments for future generations. We want to be good stewards of this place, and (keeping) land like this in public hands helps us do that.”

The RMOW acquired 40 hectares of the 44-hectare lands last year via a land swap, which will also allow the owners to subdivide the remaining land into five residential estate lots.

A large area of the parcel isn’t suitable for development, but about 0.4 ha. of the land will be combined to an existing, adjacent 0.8-ha. parcel already owned by the RMOW, and designated

for employee housing.

The plans for the remainder of the land are mostly associated with park uses, Crompton said.

“We’ll be able to do some wildfire protection, it provides a legal right-of-way for existing municipal sewer mainline, (and) public access for existing trails,” he said.

“And then finally, and most exciting for me, is land for a future Valley Trail connection to Function Junction from Alta Lake Road.”

There’s also potential to make that connection wide enough to allow emergency-vehicle access, opening up a crucial second avenue through the Whistler Valley, though Crompton said conversations have focused solely on the Valley Trail aspect to this point.

“I expect you would see something related to the Valley Trail connection as part of the budget process,” he said.

Of the new RMOW property (not to be confused with the Zen lands), more than 20 ha. are located in what’s called

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BIG DEAL A map of the Prism lands that were recently acquired by the Resort Municipality of Whistler.

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the Hillside Lands, (which contains fan-favourite westside trails like S. Danimal, Moose Knuckles, Lower Sprout, Piece of Cake and more), while a further 16 ha. or so is located on the Protected Area Network 1-designated Millar Creek Lands.

What started as a potentially litigious situation back in 2015 ended favourably for all involved, said Crosland Doak, who the proponents hired as a land-use planner and negotiator.

“At the staff level, it went relatively smoothly,” Doak said, commending the RMOW’s senior planning staff for its professionalism.

“It always gets a bit prickly at the very end when the lawyers get back involved, and all the land-use agreements and all the covenants get filed … but the big, heavy work had been done.”

The owners—two business partners from Vancouver Island—are happy with the result as well, Doak said.

“It is unusual to end up with this good of a win-win for both parties,” he said.

“We avoided litigation and the municipality got 99 acres (40 ha.), and they got a modest little development that will pay for legal fees and consulting fees and maybe put a little bit of money in their pocket, too.” n

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News WHIST L ER Intoxicated man breaks into hotel storage room for a quick snooze POLICE BRIEFS: PORTEAU COVE DOCK WAS TEMPORARILY CLOSED FOR INVESTIGATION By

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46-year-old man caught a few Zs last week after he reportedly broke into the storage room of a Whistler hotel to sleep one off.

Last Thursday, Jan. 24, police were called to a hotel on Blackcomb Way after a report of a break and enter on the premises. After attending the scene, investigators learned that the man had broken into a storage room and was using it as a place to sleep.

Despite being on conditions not to consume alcohol, police said the man was intoxicated at the time. He was arrested and held in custody until sober.

RCMP TIGHT-LIPPED ABOUT POSSIBLE ‘ITEMS OF INTEREST’ IN PORTEAU COVE

Investigators are staying tight-lipped about possible items of interest they were alerted to in the waters of Porteau Cove

this weekend.

At about 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27, Squamish RCMP said they were notified by several divers in Porteau Cove Provincial Park of “items in the water which may be of interest to police,” according to a release.

As a result, police closed the dock system and adjacent parking lot for several hours to investigate further. The area was reopened at about 8:30 p.m.

A popular spot for divers, police said it was not the first time they have been called after items were found in and around the area’s waterways.

In a follow-up call on Tuesday, Jan. 29, Cpl. Sascha Banks wouldn’t give any additional details on exactly what items, if any, were found.

“I’m not going to talk about that at the moment,” she said. “If I need to release something at a later date, I will.”

As always, news tips can be sent to edit@piquenewsmagazine.com.

OVERMATCHED SKIER CALLS POLICE AFTER GETTING CAUGHT ON RUN THAT WAS ‘TOO DIFFICULT’

A skier found themselves in way over their head last week after getting stuck on a ski run that was too challenging.

At about 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, Whistler RCMP received a call from an individual who reported they were “on a ski run that was too difficult, and wished police assistance,” according to a release. Police said the skier was redirected to Whistler Blackcomb ski patrol for help.

“We always encourage people to ski terrain commensurate to their skill level,” read a statement from Whistler Blackcomb. “We also clearly mark expert terrain and provide ‘easy outs’ in most areas for skiers and riders feeling out of their comfort zone.”

NO INJURIES IN VEHICLE ROLLOVER

The driver of a vehicle that veered off of Highway 99 before rolling over last week

escaped the incident without injury, police said.

At 3 p.m. last Wednesday, Jan. 23, Whistler RCMP responded to a singlevehicle accident on Highway 99 at Soo River. A southbound pickup truck reportedly went off the road to the right and rolled over.

VEHICLE REPORTEDLY KEYED WHILE PARKED ON WHISTLER WAY

A Whistler woman’s car was reportedly vandalized last week, police said.

Whistler RCMP says it received a complaint on the morning of Monday, Jan. 21 of mischief to a vehicle after the owner of the car advised it had been keyed sometime in the two weeks prior while she was out of town. The owner said she believes the incident occurred while her vehicle was parked on Whistler Way in the village.

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News WHIST L ER Through the darkness, Tori Hillier’s light shined through CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR FORMER WHISTLERITE SET FOR FEB. 11 AT MAURY YOUNG ARTS CENTRE By

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o the casual observer, and even to some of her Whistler friends, Victoria Hillier must have seemed like she had it all: an extensive circle of friends, boundless creativity, and a keen sense of adventure.

She did, of course, possess all those traits, as so many who gravitate to Whistler do, but there was another side to Tori, as she was known, that she was sometimes less willing to share.

She didn’t want to be a bother. She didn’t want to bring her friends down, concerned first and foremost with the well being of those around her.

“She had so much love to give everyone. She was so concerned about the happiness of other people,” recalled Tori’s older sister, Meaghan O’Brien. “She always encouraged others to let things roll off her back, but sadly she didn’t know how to do that for herself.”

Tori took her own life in a Windsor, Ont. apartment on Dec. 2, 2018 after struggling with mental illness and substance use. She was 34.

The news sent shockwaves through the Whistler community, with an outpouring of supportive messages flooding her Facebook page. Now her friends are reaching out to share her story and to remind others that help is out there.

LIGHT UP Tori Hillier, who died in December, was a former Whistlerite who was known for her spontaneity, creativity and deep sense of compassion.

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Originally from Ontario, Tori spent years off and on in Whistler before moving to Victoria in 2015. That’s where she was first diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and also where, according to friends and family, her mental health began to spiral. People with borderline personality disorder,

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these manic episodes,” friend Kerry Batt said, adding that Tori would sometimes drink on her medication as “an escape,” which would worsen her mental condition.

“Tori’s this amazing, outgoing person but she would have these high highs and low lows. Once in a very depressed state, I recall her saying, ‘I don’t deserve to live.’

From someone who has only known her in such a great way, you hear that and it’s like, ‘What are you talking about?’”

Even in her lowest moments, though, Tori still found time to help others through their struggles. She was involved in the Whistler and Windsor arts communities, and even donated her time to speak to a group of first responders about how to properly deal with the mentally ill after she suffered broken ribs when Victoria police arrested her during one of her manic episodes.

“If you were having issues with something, she was always there to talk to,” said Christopher Jones, who met Tori at a rehab facility in Thamesville, Ont. last year.

“If it wasn’t for Victoria coming into

my life and being such a supportive, amazing person that looked out for people around her … I would not be here today. I would’ve been back and I would’ve used and I would’ve overdosed again and I would’ve been gone. We had a special connection. She saved my life.”

Tori always considered Whistler a second home, but in hindsight, Batt acknowledged that the resort might have also served as a means to deflect from her deeper struggles.

“There are so many amazing things here, and it’s so much more than that, but I know that for some people in a bad situation, it’s a hedonistic environment that, for many, is escapism at its finest,” she said.

Friends and loved ones of those with mental-health challenges may feel ill qualified to lend their support, but Jackie Dickinson, head of the Whistler Community Services Society, said often, just being there to listen can make a world of difference.

“This is a town where we love to do, we love to be out doing stuff.

But some of the most meaningful connections we can have with people is just by being with them. And being with someone doesn’t mean we have to

fill it with a great deal of conversation,” she explained. “It isn’t until they’re able to talk or perhaps just being with other people that they realize there’s community in what they’re feeling.”

After leaving Whistler, Tori’s sister said seeking the proper treatment was like “an awful rollercoaster.” In her more desperate states, Tori would check herself into the ER, only to be prescribed more medication or be discharged after hours in a waiting room. O’Brien believes Tori was a textbook example of the system failing its most vulnerable.

“It’s a lot for someone in an agitated crisis state to be able to essentially put together an action plan for their own treatment,” she said.

“For anyone in that agitated state, there should have been more advocacy for a holistic treatment program.”

Up to 80 per cent of those with borderline personality disorder will make at least one suicide attempt in their lifetime.

Whistler’s Olivia Rey, who would sometimes share her own story of recovery with Tori after a devastating 2015 car accident that left her with two broken vertebrae, has organized a fundraiser to buy a tribute bench in her honour.

So far, $1,800 of the $3,150 target has been raised. Donate at gogetfunding. com/bench-tribute-to-remember-torivictoria-hiller.

There is also a celebration of life scheduled for Feb. 11 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Maury Young Arts Centre that is open to the public.

As difficult as it must be to discuss her sister’s death, O’Brien knows that Tori would want this conversation to happen—warts and all—even if it helped lift just one other person out of the shadows.

“She would want her story to help others be happy and strive for who they are and who they deserve to be. She wouldn’t want anyone to be in pain because that’s the way she was, and she would encourage people to get help,” said O’Brien.

“She would want people to talk about it—don’t ever stop talking about it.”

Tori’s family is encouraging donations to be made to the LifeLine Canada Foundation, a Kelowna-based non-profit committed to suicide prevention that offers one-touch dialling and text-based support for those suffering in crisis. Learn more at thelifelinecanada.ca. n

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News WHIST L ER Campaign for new North Shore medical centre hits $100M goal STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITY WILL ALSO SERVICE PATIENTS FROM THE SEA TO SKY By

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Brandon Barrett

he Lions Gate Hospital Foundation (LGH) has reached its $100-million fundraising goal for a new state-of-the-art medical and surgical centre on the North Shore that should spell good news for patients in the Sea to Sky. Earlier this month, the foundation announced it had hit its target after a “whirlwind” 23-month campaign. The new facility will replace the more than 50-yearold acute care tower at Lions Gate and, once built, will be “one of the most technologically advanced health care facilities in B.C.,” according to a release from LGH. “What it’s going to do is dramatically improve the patient experience,” said Judy Savage, president and CEO of the LGH foundation. “By creating single-patient rooms, it’s going to enable people to recover in a more restorative environment.

It’s going to be quieter, they’re going to be

able to get the rest they need so they get better faster and get home faster.”

The new centre will feature: 108 singlepatient rooms with ensuite facilities; eight state-of-the-art operating rooms; a telehealth centre to connect healthcare professionals with patients remotely; a primary-care centre to give residents without a family doctor faster access to non-acute services; and a “therapeutically enhanced” environment to help reduce recovery times and improve visitor comfort.

The faster turnover and remote telehealth capabilities should improve access to care for patients in the Sea to Sky, who often have to travel outside of the corridor for higher levels of care and specialized surgical procedures. For the 2018 fiscal year ending on March 31, Lions Gate Hospital has seen 1,151 patient visits from the Sea to Sky, and 2,178 in-patient admissions, including newborns.

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individuals who come down, not only from the clinic and out of country, but also people whose residence is in the Sea to Sky corridor,” said Karin Olsen, chief operating officer for Vancouver Coastal Health’s Coastal Community of Care. “As we build our new tower and integrate our community services into it, it’s going to serve the whole coastal region, but certainly the most benefit beyond the North Shore is going to be in the Sea to Sky corridor.”

The modern facility should also help to attract and retain top healthcare officials in an increasingly competitive sector, said developer Ryan Beedie, who serves as chair of the fundraising campaign.

“You want to attract and keep really talented physicians and nurses. You want to have that modern facility,” he said.

“It’s going to have an impact all the way up the corridor, in Squamish—Squamish continues to grow—and this is going to serve the needs of growing communities.”

Beedie, who owns a second home in

Whistler, was struck by just how quickly the ambitious fundraising target was met.

“It’s quite remarkable,” he said. “This all started with Paul Myers, who stepped in with a $25-million donation. The government has so many other priorities in terms of hospitals and we obviously have a huge need on the North Shore, but I think we felt a little left behind.”

The campaign received several major donations over the past two years, including Myers’, but Savage said every contribution from its more than 6,400 donors was appreciated.

“Typically the big donations get all the kudos, but I just wanted to say that those $25, $50, $100 donations, they all made a difference to this campaign.

“It’s truly a collective community effort … and when I say community, I mean the whole Sea to Sky corridor.”

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News WHIST L ER The cat came back, but not the next day NORTH ARM FARM’S RESIDENT CAT IS RETURNED AFTER WEEK-LONG ODYSSEY Brandon Barrett

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f cats do in fact have nine lives, you can be sure one of North Arm Farm’s resident felines lost at least one this holiday season.

On a chilly late-December day, a family visiting the Pemberton farm took a liking to Blinken, an affectionate ginger tabby known for his penchant for misadventure. After enjoying a hearty breakfast, the family packed into their truck and began the nearly five-hour drive back to Vernon.

But, about three-quarters of the way there, the family stopped off in Hope for a quick pit stop. That’s when they noticed there was an unexpected passenger along for the ride.

“After the family left, we get a call midday sometime … saying, ‘Hey, I’m calling you from Hope and we just got

out of our car to have a little rest and out from underneath the truck came your cat,’” recalled Trish Sturdy, farm owner.

“Honestly, I don’t know how it happened.”

According to the family, the resourceful Blinken found a relatively safe space in the spare-tire compartment to stow himself away for the more than 300-kilometre ride. The problem then, however, was figuring out how to get the cat back to the farm.

Soon, a social-media call went out, much to the amusement of North Arm Farm’s followers, most of whom would have already been familiar with the industrious Blinken.

“It’s funny: because he’s so friendly, there’s honestly a million pictures of him (online). People do selfies with him all the time here and post them online. So he’s famous,” Sturdy said.

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BLINKEN OF AN EYE North Arm Farm’s resident cat Blinken found himself a long way from home this holiday season.

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Pemberton native Sheri Ptolemy heard of the situation a week later from her childhood friend, Thea Sturdy. A student at UBC’s Okanagan campus in Kelowna, Ptolemy happened to be returning to Pemberton for the holidays and offered to bring Blinken back with her.

“Thea is one of my best friends and I love her family, so I thought if I could help, I would,” Ptolemy said. “It wasn’t a big inconvenience or anything, so it was pretty easy to say yes.”

It’s a happy ending to a story that could have turned out much worse— especially when you consider Blinken’s

history of daredevil feats. (Sadly, Blinken’s brother Winken passed away last year.)

“We have this really big swing set on the farm. It’s really tall. Well, he has been up on top of that swing set before. I don’t know how he got up there—obviously he crawled—but it was really challenging for him to get down. But he did come down on his own,” Sturdy said.

“He’s totally a farm cat. Now he’s the farm cat that came back, which is great.”

To learn more about North Arm Farm and plan a visit to see the one and only Blinken, head to northarmfarm.com. n

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TRANSIT TALK The Village of Pemberton would like to build a park and ride at 1420 Portage Rd.

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Pemberton applies for grant funding for new park and ride CURRENT, UNSANCTIONED PARK-AND-RIDE LOT BELONGS TO LIL’WAT NATION By

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he Village of Pemberton (VOP) is seeking funding for a park-andride lot as part if its transit plans.

The new, 50-vehicle lot would be located at 1420 Portage Rd., between Signal Hill Elementary School and the forthcoming Crestline building.

Following its Jan. 22 regular council meeting—in which VOP council unanimously approved a $1.3-million provincial grant application that would pay for the entirety of the project— Mayor Mike Richman said he thinks park-and-ride lots are “an essential part of any good transit system.”

“We’d eventually like to develop a couple of them,” he said, noting that there has been discussion with the SquamishLillooet Regional District (SLRD) about installing one at the Village’s new recreation grounds on Pemberton Farm Road East.

Richman said that the lot fits into the VOP’s transit vision, which includes a regional transit system that will connect Vancouver to Mount Currie with regular service.

The regional transit stakeholders—the SLRD, the VOP, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, District of Squamish, and Lil’wat and Squamish Nations—have

put forward a funding model to the province that would draw on a proposed motor-fuel tax to offset the cost of the service. The stakeholders are aiming to implement the service by fall 2019.

“We want to double the number of buses on the road in the short term and then continue to grow the service in the mid and the long term,” said Richman.

The property, however, is owned by the Lil’wat Nation, and the First Nation is considering developing it,” said Richman.

“There is no formal agreement for use of this land, and Lil’wat Nation has recently indicated that development of that site in the near future is likely,” said Richman.

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“There is no formal agreement for use of this land, and Lil’wat Nation has recently indicated that development of that site in the near future is likely.”

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A proposed plan for the project includes extensive landscaping, lighting, a paved lot, and a comprehensive stormsewer system. If it goes forward, the VOP would be responsible for maintenance, and the costs would be incorporated into its transit budget.

There is already an unsanctioned park and ride next to the Information Centre, at Highway 99 and Vine Road.

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CEO of the Lil’wat Business Group—said that the First Nation hasn’t given any formal notice regarding development, but is considering it.

“My understanding is that (the park and ride) has been there since before we acquired the property and we’ve informally allowed the use to continue as a community benefit,” wrote Mehaffey.

“We are starting to look at

opportunities for the property and we are supportive of the Village of Pemberton working towards an alternative location.”

With a growing population—and increased transit options on their way in the near future—demand for a park-andride service is likely to grow in the future.

Pemberton resident Cheryl Haba said she finds the current park and ride handy, using it to carpool to Whistler, or when she goes on backcountry adventures.

That said, Haba believes the current lot would benefit from lighting and some upgrades.

“There’s one big area by the big willow tree that floods—it’s like a giant lake,” said Haba, adding that she would like to see a system that allows for overnight parking at the proposed park and ride.

“Say you’re going hiking for a few days, you’re not allowed to park overnight in the current lot,” she said.

“But at the same time, I know they have to guard against people parking their RVs and choosing to live there.”

Asked if she ever uses the park and ride to take pubic transportation, Haba said that she doesn’t, citing the infrequency of service connecting Pemberton and Whistler.

“I’m one of those people who have given up on the bus,” said Haba. ”It doesn’t run when I work … I park my car, get into my friend’s vehicle and go.” n

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The licences we are applying to renew, and the facility to which they apply, are shown on the figure below.

We are not asking for changes to the current licence conditions or footprint as part of the renewals.

piquenewsmagazine.com/events La Joie Generating Station Final Water Licence (FWL) 126259 (expires 2051) 5% of diversion from Downton Reservoir to Carpenter Reservoir

Bridge River–Carpenter Reservoir FWL 126281 (expires 2019) 2% of Carpenter Reservoir storage

Gold Bridge La Joie Dam

Terzaghi Dam

La Joie–Downton Reservoir FWL 126279 (expires 2019) PCL 26551 100% of Downton Reservoir storage

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Seton Dam Bridge River 1 Powerhouse Diversion water licences from Carpenter Reservoir to Seton Lake: • FWL 126287–65% of diversion (expires 2019) • FWL 126288–31% of diversion (expires 2019) • FWL 126080–4% of diversion (expires 2051)

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We are applying to renew the licences that expire in 2051, in addition to those that expire in 2019, so that all licences that currently require renewal at the La Joie and Bridge River facilities have the same licence term moving forward.

We submitted our Water Licence Renewal Application to the Comptroller of Water Rights, as required by the Water Sustainability Act, in November 2018. We are continuing our consultation and engagement activities and will address any additional information requirements identified. Once this is done, the Comptroller will begin a formal referral and review process.

More detailed information regarding the water licence renewals is available at bchydro.com/ waterlicencerenewal. If you have any questions or comments about the renewals, in general or in relation to your property or interests, please contact us at 1 866 647 3334 or wlrenew@bchydro.com.

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ith its incredible landscape and eclectic mix of shops and restaurants, Pemberton is emerging as a tourism destination. But just how much money the booming industry generates isn’t clear.

A new study—commissioned by Tourism Pemberton—aims to address that issue, by tapping a wide range of stakeholder businesses, from adventuretourism businesses to Airbnb operators.

“The more information we can get, the deeper we can get into this,” said Mark Mendonca, president of Tourism Pemberton.

Pacific Analytics Inc. is carrying out the study with the results expected in the spring.

Mendonca said that it is important for operators to participate, adding that individual company information will only be used in aggregate and will not be available for any other businesses to see.

Companies, he added, will be protected by a confidentiality agreement.

Pacific Analytics was hired for $7,500 to conduct the study. Tourism Pemberton has also aside $2,500 to $3,000 for marketing to assist the study. The project was made possible thanks to a grant from the SquamishLillooet Regional District (SLRD).

There is a strong need for up-todate tourism numbers, said Mendonca, as the most recent estimate is based on a 2015 study looking at revenue generated by Pemberton’s thriving wedding sector.

Mendonca added that he hopes that the report will help Tourism Pemberton reach its goal of achieving long-term sustainable funding. The organization is held afloat thanks to a $4,000 annual contribution from the Village of Pemberton (VOP), which is matched by the SLRD, he said. The VOP grant funding is “at the edge of stopping,” said Mendonca, because the specific fund that it draws from has a limit to how many years it can be applied.

“This potentially is the last year for that funding,” he said, adding that he hopes the report will illustrate the importance of the tourism sector to local government.

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To help it secure long-term funding from other government levels, Tourism Pemberton recently hired Cadence Strategies, a Whistler-based consultancy firm. It hired the company with a $10,000 grant from the BC Rural Dividend Program.

Mendonca added that he believes that around 50 per cent of his business at Grimm’s Gourmet and Deli comes from tourism, representing a significant jump from when he opened over a decade ago.

“I’m going to venture to say that at this point, we’ve seen a steady increase of somewhere in the neighbourhood of six to seven per cent (a year),” he said, explaining the rise in tourism business over the years.

So, is there room for growth?

“Absolutely, you’ve got three million people going into Whistler (annually),” he said.

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EXTRA INCENTIVE Joseph Richard Group CEO Ryan Moreno has steadily expanded his diversified hospitality business to 14 pubs, five restaurants, three liquor stores and a hotel.

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estaurant owners are using innovative strategies to recruit and retain workers as they grapple with B.C.’s 4.4-per-cent unemployment rate, which at the end of 2018 was the lowest among provinces by a full percentage point.

With the region’s notoriously high home prices, entry-level workers are now paid at least $15 per hour in many restaurant chains, and new hires often get as much as $18 per hour, said FDF Restaurant Brandz owner Frank Di Benedetto, whose company oversees 175 restaurants, either as a franchisee or the franchisor, under brands such as Famoso Neapolitan Pizzeria, Ricky’s All Day Grill, Ricky’s Country Restaurants and Fatburger.

That’s significantly higher than B.C.’s $12.65-per-hour minimum wage, which on June 1 is set to rise to $13.85.

While competitive remuneration is key, as is recognizing good work, Di Benedetto also has another strategy to get the most out of his staff.

He takes advantage of the relatively short distance between some of his restaurants to ensure sufficient staffing when demand soars. Employees at his six Vancouver Fatburger locations have a primary restaurant and a secondary one.

When events are held at Rogers Arena, for example, he borrows staff from other locations to ensure that the Fatburger next to Stadium-Chinatown station is

adequately staffed, he said.

Attending job fairs and cultivating relationships with hospitality management teachers, who can steer students toward applying at FDF Restaurant Brandz, are some of the ways Di Benedetto finds employees.

“The shortage of workers in hospitality is also a demographic issue,” said Ian Tostenson, CEO of the British Columbia Restaurant & Food Services Association (BCRFA). “That’s primarily what’s going on in B.C. That’s not just for us but for other industries.”

Tostenson’s organization recently released a report that included research showing that for every three people in the restaurant industry who retire, only two people join the industry.

“If you look at B.C.’s labour forecast for the next 10 years, we need 900,000 workers in all industries. We’re going to fill 600,000 of those jobs—and these are round numbers—internally. We’re going to be short 300,000.”

He said the need for 300,000 workers will have to be met by either immigration or migration from the rest of Canada.

That was in part why Tostenson travelled to El Salvador along with Tap & Barrel Restaurants owner Daniel Frankel in August, to try to lay the groundwork for a bilateral temporary foreign worker program.

He called the resulting agreement a success and said a pipeline of “welltrained and well-vetted workers” could start flowing later this year for B.C.

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restaurant owners.

One section of the BCRFA report urges employers to offer extra incentives to attract workers—something that Joseph Richard Group (JRG) CEO Ryan Moreno has long done at his fast-growing company that has 14 public houses, five restaurants, three liquor stores and one hotel. JRG earlier this month bought Pitt Meadows’ Roosters Country Cabaret, which Moreno said he plans to renovate and reopen before the end of the year.

Some examples of Moreno’s incentives to retain workers include: • providing staff with a free meal when they work a full shift and a reducedcost meal for a shorter shift; • providing staff with discounts on food and drinks at all of the company’s establishments on days off; • providing friends and family of staff various undefined discounts when visiting the staff member’s restaurant; • a benefit program for full-time workers that would be better than they would be able to get on their own; • paying for training through the Red

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Seal program if the employee completes the training (employees may also get a gift, such as a knife set, if they pass the training); and • a network of contra agreements with companies such as Audi, Nordstrom and Steve Nash Fitness World and Sports Club that enable employees to get various discounts.

Moreno said that his company has also started a program offering staff the chance to suggest logos for custom T-shirts, which the business would sell to employees at cost.

“It’s about engagement with the team,” he said. “If the perks we offer don’t resonate well with them­ —they don’t go to the gym or drive an Audi, whatever—maybe that is something they will see and say, ‘That’s funny,’ or ‘That’s cool,’ or ‘That makes me laugh.’”

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AIL, Colo.—Michael Lausch was luckier than many skiers and snowboarders who end up vertical in the snow, upside down, their heads buried and their feet sticking out. He lived.

This simple fact has much to do with the chance passing of a group of physicians who were skiing on Vail Mountain proximate to his misfortune. Many people die of immersions, usually after they have plunged into tree wells. The 40-year-old man from Ohio, however, had plunged head-first into the snow without a tree nearby. Someone who had seen this began frantically calling for help.

“When I got there, there were two ski boots sticking out of the snow,” said Tom Nern, who was skiing with a group from Vail Dermatology.

It took the group six or seven minutes to dig Lausch out. Lausch told the Vail Daily’s Ross Leonhart that he stands 6 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 270 pounds.

“He wasn’t breathing. He was purple.

No pulse—nothing,” Nern said.

“He was blue and purple,” added Dr. Karen Nern, a dermatologist and founder of the firm.

Said Beth McCann, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist who was among the rescuers: “He was bluer than blue when we got him out.”

Karen Nern gave him three sets of chest compressions, and McCann provided six to eight breaths. Then, with a snorkelling kind of breath, he was alive again.

“This showcases the importance for

the hot-pink bottoms of her skis that she hoped somebody would see. She had been inverted for 15 minutes, just beginning to lose consciousness, when somebody did.

“It was like a lawn dart,” said Nathanael Reeder of the one leg that he saw on his last run before he was to return to his home in Boulder, Colo.

Along with two other skiers, he dug furiously. Once she got air, she spit up blood and puked. Ski patrollers arrived and took her off by sled. In an Idaho Falls hospital, the native of Jackson was diagnosed with takotsobu cardiomyopathy and pulmonary edema.

The latter is accumulation of fluid on the lungs, and the former is a temporary heart condition that develops after an intense emotional or physical experience.

It’s also called broken-heart syndrome.

As for the hero in this story, he was driving back to Colorado when he broke down crying. “I was just beside myself staring at the road,” Reeder said.

“I needed a full night’s sleep before I could even process what had happened.”

NEWSPAPER IN SKI TOWN STRUGGLES TO STAY AFLOAT

BEND, Ore.—The bottom line for ski-town newspapers continues to deteriorate. The latest sign of anguish comes from Bend, Ore. where owners of the Bend Bulletin have filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the federal code.

The editor, Erik Lukens, told readers to expect changes in coming months designed to create an economically sustainable product.

Newspapers everywhere have been struggling. The Bulletin, like most papers,

Unable to move or to breathe, she thought about her kids, her family—and the hot-pink bottoms of her skis that she hoped somebody would see. people to be trained in CPR,” said Doug Lovell, chief operating officer at Vail Mountain.

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JACKSON, Wyo.—Jenny Karns also counts herself among the lucky, and she very well knew that her odds were dwindling rapidly after she had inverted into the snow, head first, after skiing through the powder of one of her favourite ski runs at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Unable to move or to breathe, she thought about her kids, her family—and

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makes its money primarily on advertising revenues. In many cases, subscriptions pay only for the cost of paper and maybe the delivery.

But Facebook, Google, and others have disrupted that model. One clear example is the New York Times. There, according to The Atlantic, advertising formerly accounted for 60 per cent of revenue. Now, it’s just 40 per cent. And that is a national paper.

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Science Matters Canadian pipeline push promotes false and misleading claims

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n Angus Reid poll found 58 per cent of Canadians think lack of pipeline capacity is a national crisis. They can be forgiven for this. The company that owns a near monopoly on newspapers in Canada, aided by politicians and fossilfuel interests, has put significant effort into convincing them.

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That the number rises to 87 per cent in Alberta, with 96 per cent believing that not building new pipelines would have a major impact on the Canadian economy, isn’t surprising. All mainstream newspapers there are owned by the same company, political parties across the spectrum prioritize oil and gas interests over everything, and even educational institutions like the University of Calgary have been compromised by industry influence.

When the National Post signed a 2013 agreement with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, its publisher, Douglas Kelly, said, “We will work with CAPP to amplify our energy mandate and to be a part of the solution to keep Canada competitive in the global marketplace.

The National Post will undertake to leverage all means editorially, technically and creatively to further this critical conversation.” That agreement and similar language later extended to its parent company, Postmedia, which owns most major daily newspapers in Canada, as well as many community papers.

The National Post’s opinion pages are full of climate-science denial, with few opposing viewpoints. And the Alberta government has spent $23 million on a slick, misleading ad campaign to convince people B.C. is hurting the country by opposing a pipeline project from the oilsands to Vancouver.

Is lack of pipeline capacity a crisis? Are there not things that should concern us more?

Much of the information governments and media are spreading about pipelines is false. Alberta Premier Rachel Notley claims Canada is losing $80 million a day because of a “price discount” on Canadian bitumen that could be overcome with a pipeline to ship more to markets beyond the U.S. Her figure is double the estimate in a Scotiabank report that itself was found to be flawed.

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U.S. clamouring for our bitumen. The lower price is because it’s costly to extract and process and must be diluted before being shipped by pipeline. As Will Horter writes in the National Observer, new international marine shipping fuel standards limiting highsulphur heavy crude “will shrink Alberta’s share of marine fuel market and add an additional two to three dollars a barrel in refining costs to remove the sulphur.”

Beyond that, the economic and societal costs from the pollution and climate impacts of rapidly digging up, shipping and consuming these fossil fuels, whether the end product is burned here or in other countries, continue to rise along with global emissions and temperatures. That’s a crisis!

An Insurance Bureau of Canada report found damages to homes, businesses and vehicles from extreme-weather events in 2018 cost insurers here $1.9 billion, up from $300 to $400 million in 2009. That represents just a fraction of overall costs to governments, businesses and individuals of extreme-weather events, increasing health impacts, habitat damage and loss, cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells, fluctuating global energy markets, food and water security, and even increasing refugee claims.

A study in Nature Communications concluded the world could meet Paris Agreement climate targets and slow impacts by immediately phasing out fossil fuels and their infrastructure. That’s in line with a recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that concluded we must take significant action over the next dozen years to reduce the threat of catastrophic global warming.

Phasing out fossil fuels won’t be easy, but it’s necessary, and we have to start now. There’s no shortage of solutions.

Clean-energy technologies are improving as costs are dropping, providing economic and employment opportunities. Carbon pricing has been proven effective in reducing reliance on coal, oil and gas and encouraging energy conservation, efficiency and cleaner alternatives.

What won’t help is continuing to dig up, frack and sell climate-disrupting fossil fuels as quickly as possible before markets tank in the face of climate change and better alternatives.

Those in media, government, industry and society who lack the insight, imagination or courage to recognize our plight and work for change are putting everyone at risk.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

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ROAR Pique columnist Leslie Anthony recently had a few days of epic powder skiing at CMH Heli-Skiing and Summer Adventures.

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he Trout Lake “snow machine” was cranking up its game. Midmorning on my first day at Great Northern Snowcat Skiing, it was still snowing as hard as it had for the past 48 hours.

“This is classic South Selkirks,” says lead guide Peter Harvey, looking into

By Leslie Anthony the billowing flakes. He should know, having worked as a guide with CMH Heli-Skiing and Summer Advenutres for 30 years. And then, after we finish a steep and very deep tree run at Adeco Point: “That was the best skiing of the year.”

He’s already said as much a few times, but from a guy who tends to be both sage and funny, you can tell he means it this time. The afternoon is a follow-the-leader romp through milkbowl whiteouts, where Peter, at times, is thigh-deep breaking trail.

At the end of the day, we ski out through The Burn, a ridiculously fun descent where skiers’ joyous audibles erupt like random speech balloons between blackened spires. When we hit the road, we have a choice of skiing 14 kilometres back to the lodge or taking the cat. My Whistler-honed

“death before download” ethos dictates skiing the road. It’s a great way to end the day—a contemplative schuss where you simply watch the mountain world go by with fresh air in your face and the smell of trees on your nose. I will do it every day.

It’s a bright new chapter for a venerable operation that has flown under the radar for decades. The previous season, Brent McCorquodale, the Lake Louise ski instructor who’d established Great Northern in 1979, retired, passing the torch to a new group which also runs Mt. Norquay in Banff. While embracing everything that draws skiers back here season-after-season—family feel, laid-back vibe, small groups—the new owners are also making the kind of improvements crucial to enticing a new generation of skiers.

The potential here is huge, with terrain open that hasn’t been used for years—and plenty more to develop.

They’re also running a second cat for day skiers booked through Revelstoke Mountain Resort, an hour-and-a-half away including a ferry ride across Arrow Lake.

After the ferry, you reach the lodge by driving through the community of Trout Lake. The hamlet once boasted 60 people but its economy crashed when weed was legalized in Washington state and twothirds of residents left.

At the lodge, I’m greeted by manager Marie. She’s sweet and efficient, bends over backwards for guests, and always has a hot sauna waiting at day’s end. The food proves superb, the kind you scribble notes about so you can tell people about it later and recreate dishes at home. Once you settle around the dinner table, with staff and guides spread around among the guests, wine is poured and the stories start to flow.

Two of the more enduring characters I meet are father-son duo Brian and Walker Vietch. Brian lived all over the west— starting with Whistler in the 1970s, then eventually Mt. Washington for a spell before moving to Ontario to run Hidden Valley outside Huntsville for 17 years. He sent scion Walker out here in 2016 at the tender age of 19 to drive cat, then moved here himself in 2017 as operations manager, a job he began by gutting the lodge, taking out half of the deck, raising a sagging building, and refinishing everything inside.

On Day 2, the snowfall finally breaks on the cat ride up and by the top we can even see blue. The hour-long ride is a chance for real conversation and exchange.

People discuss music and trade playlists over a guest’s portable Bluetooth speaker.

With a mix of Canucks and Yanks on hand, politics is staunchly avoided.

There was 30 centimetres of new snow on the board yesterday, and over 50 cm

today. But the extra snow now makes things extra dangerous. Numerous avalanches are reported at backcountry operations around us, demanding extra caution.

The snow is so deep we’re literally swimming the first run, and end up skiing the road. But even that’s too much and the going is slow. We step up slowly with short, mellow runs, then mid-steeps, then longer, steeper, more complex lines while always keeping our eye on the stability.

Eventually it begins to clear, bringing good visibility and a temperature drop that tightens the snow. By the afternoon, everything is firing and we ski extremely deep but well-supported snow in the trees.

At the end of the day, we ski the road again, though fewer join the posse.

No matter how worn out, however, no one misses the amazingness of our last day, which consists of some the best cat-skiing you can imagine—colder still with 6 cm of fluff atop a newly settled metre or more.

I don’t remember much from that day, but a run with Peter down something called “Lone Pine” must have been exceptional, as when I check my notes later I see I wrote the name followed by three exclamation marks!!!—homage, it seems, to that Trout Lake snow machine.

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C AdventureSmart staff spent a weekend earlier this month in the sundrenched Sea to Sky corridor, educating outdoor enthusiasts of all ages about how to stay safe in the backcountry before heading off on their winter weekend adventures.

AdventureSmart outreach educators PJ Richards and Kelly Uren were onhand at Callaghan Country’s Alexander Falls touring centre trailhead on Saturday, Jan. 12 and Sunday, Jan. 13 to increase awareness around snow and mountain safety and outdoor preparedness, in addition to sharing search-and-rescue (SAR) prevention resources, tips on necessary gear and AdventureSmart resources.

The weekend outreach event followed a Friday, Jan. 11 presentation to 400 students at Spring Creek Community School in Whistler.

Uren and Richards shared their knowledge about everything from which essentials to pack, to when to call one of B.C.’s 80 search-and-rescue groups, and where to get proper—and, in many cases, even sport-specific—backcountry training with each of the cross-country skiers and snowshoers who stopped by the booth for a chat.

“We’re also getting more into training people to offer AdventureSmart presentations … so we can have more people who are able to volunteer (to do workshops) in their communities,” Uren explains.

The pair was also giving out free emergency blankets, which can double as shelter, and whistles—three short blasts signify someone in trouble.

Outreach programs like this one help facilitate B.C. AdventureSmart’s mandate to increase outdoor safety awareness as a way to reduce the number and severity of incidents across the province.

When it comes to adventuring in more remote areas of the corridor, the AdventureSmart team had a few main takeaways, including the three ‘T’s: trip planning, training and taking the essentials.

Trip Planning “It’s super important to leave that trip plan, whether it’s a text message or sending an email to someone, leaving a note, just letting someone know—and be specific with the trail … because it could take a

EXTRA WATER, OR A METHOD TO TREAT WATER EXTRA LAYERS AN EMERGENCY BLANKET The thin, metallic emergency blankets AdventureSmart was doling out might conjure up worst-case scenario thoughts of being stranded outside on a cold winter night, but the thin, packable sheet is one item Uren said she never goes into the mountains without—even if those mountains are accessible by a gondola and covered in groomed runs.

“It’s super tiny; I always keep mine in my snowboard jacket. My friend was stuck on a chairlift for three hours one time, and he really could have used it,” she says.

A HEADLIGHT “It gets dark so early, especially in the trees,” cautions Uren.

A MAP AND COMPASS EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION For example, a whistle or GPS device.

A FIRST AID KIT A FIRE STARTING KIT And, if you plan on heading into avalanche terrain or think there’s a chance you might, take a transceiver, probe, and shovel—and, better yet, a partner who can rescue you. long time for search and rescue to find you if you don’t give them a hint (about where) to exactly zone in,” Uren says.

Some friends even post a “trailhead selfie” on social media when heading out, and check back in when they return, she adds.

Training AdventureSmart urges outdoor enthusiasts to obtain the knowledge and skills they need before heading out, such as knowing to stop and stay put in case of an emergency or injury, to avoid any creeks or water sources, as well as knowing and staying within your limits.

“People can stay overnight as long as they have the essentials to keep warm and dry, but as soon as you get wet, you are more prone to hypothermia or frostbite— so more likely to become a Popsicle. Even if water feels like it’s not so deep or it’s not so cold, just avoid getting wet at all costs, because it will really lower your chances of survival,” Uren said.

Backcountry users should also be properly trained in avalanche safety, and reference Avalanche Canada’s conditions forecast, before heading into avalanche terrain.

Taking the Essentials Uren and Richards reminded skiers, snowshoers and hikers never to head out on the trails without a backpack filled with: EXTRA FOOD A tip from Richards: When you’re packing food to keep you sustained in an emergency scenario, try not to pack snacks you crave—because who hasn’t been tempted by an extra tasty treat or two sitting in your pack? As a way to avoid temptation, one backcountry enthusiast Richards encountered even swears by packing dry dog kibble as his emergency meal, though Richards doesn’t encourage anyone to go to that extreme.

W hen to Call Search and Rescue When trouble in the backcountry hits, some might feel apprehensive about calling search and rescue. As Richards explains, this is not the time to secondguess yourself.

“As soon as you realize you’re lost or something’s gone wrong, or if you’ve hurt yourself, don’t hesitate to make that call,” he says. “It’s safer for our SAR volunteers … and a lot easier to be found a lot faster the sooner you call. We don’t want any deterrent for anyone to not call right away. “(SAR would) much rather come out while it’s still sunny out. It’s easier for helicopters to fly; lots of helicopters won’t fly at night, so it means they have to wait until the next day to even get the helicopter into the air.”

Uren adds: “People often think

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PLANNING Always make a trip plan and leave it with a friend or family member.

YOUR TRIP PLAN SHOULD INCLUDE > Day and time of trip start and intended return > Specific area and intended route both in and out with a Plan B alternative for getting home > Transportation to and from the starting point with any scheduled pick-ups > Names, details and any medical conditions of party members > List of equipment and provisions brought for the trip

SEARCH AND RESCUE We are fortunate in Canada to have one of the best search-andrescue (SAR) systems in the world. The federal, provincial and territorial governments share responsibility for search and rescue; each has authority within its own jurisdiction and they collectively make up the National Search and Rescue Program.

Volunteers are fundamental to this system. They provide an invaluable resource that is often called upon in SAR operations, and they help raise awareness of SAR-related risks among the general population.

Every search and rescue task involves putting a number of people into the same environment which is causing problems for the subject. SAR volunteers are not immune to the dangers.

It is important, as outdoor recreationalists and backcountry travellers, for us to realize that when it comes to being rescued, help takes time to arrive. It takes time to muster for a search effort, and to prepare the gear and the teams to do an efficient and effective job.

There is a popular misconception that when victims call for help, a helicopter can quickly scoop them out of danger. Although helicopters and other aircraft are a valuable resource in search and rescue, their use is limited by weather, daylight, landing conditions, and other restrictions. The use of a helicopter is very expensive and is not meant to be a service for anyone who gets tired, cold or hungry out in the elements.

GEAR – THE 10 ESSENTIALS NOTE: This list is in addition to avalanche safety gear and the normal food, water and clothing that you would take into the backcountry

FLASHLIGHT OR HEADLAMP

NAVIGATION / COMMUNICATION AIDS

Once it gets dark, the chances of getting lost are greater. Although we all have some night vision, we are much more vulnerable after dark. Without a source of light, moving at night can be dangerous.

Carry maps and a compass at a minimum. A Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, cellular phone, satellite phone, and hand held radio—all with fully charged batteries—are also valuable tools. Know how to use these items, but don’t rely on them.

FIRE MAKING KIT OR LIGHTER

FIRST AID KIT

Know how to use it

Fire can be used for providing essential warmth, drying clothing, cooking food, signalling, melting snow or boiling unsafe water and keeping animals away.

Outdoor travellers are well advised to take a first aid course. There is no “911” in the true wilderness, and self-reliance is important. Courses that teach wilderness first aid teach this self-reliance when far from help.

SIGNAL DEVICE

EMERGENCY SHELTER

WHISTLE OR MIRROR

Always bring an orange tarp or large orange plastic bag. These can also be used as signalling devices. A tarp can be very useful in creating a makeshift shelter to keep a person dry. It may be the difference between getting hypothermia or not.

It takes much less energy to blow a whistle than it does to yell, and the sound carries farther. In actual rescues, a signalling mirror has been spotted from a rescue plane over five miles distant.

EXTRA FOOD AND WATER

POCKET KNIFE / SAW A knife is an important survival tool, and can be used to help in shelter building, firewood collecting and a number of other things.

Having extra food and water can make the difference between an extended stay and a survival situation.

In most cases, searchers must reach their subject on the ground to be able to help them. Search and rescue is well-organized and effective, but it does come at a cost.

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SAR is only going for skiers and riders who duck out of bounds, but that’s such a small amount of their rescues.

“We’re also educating people on the reasoning for search and rescues being totally free. Even if people are on vacation or they’re not a citizen, (rescues) are always free, and a lot of people don’t realize that, or they think people should be charged, but search and rescue will never charge anyone, because there’s no price you can put on someone’s life.”

In the event of a backcountry emergency, “You have to humble yourself and realize that you’re lost or injured and need some outside help,” Uren says. “(Then) you could signal for help

SUN PROTECTION GLASSES, SUNSCREEN, HAT Sun protection includes glasses, sunscreen, and a hat. Sun exposure can lead to hyperthermia, dehydration, and burns. In bright environments like snowfields, it can also lead to snow blindness. These conditions can be painful, dangerous and debilitating.

EXTRA CLOTHING RAIN, WIND, WATER PROTECTION AND TOQUE The importance of bringing extra clothing cannot be underestimated.

Even in summer, temperatures can vary dramatically depending on the terrain.

Hypothermia is a serious risk if you do not prepare to survive unexpected deterioration of the weather.

rescue … You don’t have to be missing any length of time in the wilderness, they’ll come looking right away.”

Keeping your Pets Safe With dogs running and playing around the AdventureSmart tent throughout the weekend, Richards also offers up an important tip when it comes to keeping your pets safe in the backcountry: keep them on a leash.

“It’s more of a safety risk for you not having them on a leash because they don’t know how to be bear aware, or anything like that. If they charge and scare a bear, they might actually bring it back to you … it’s also required in most parks, anyways.”

In the event of a backcountry emergency, “You have to humble yourself and realize that you’re lost or injured and need some outside help.”

- KELLY UREN

yourself, whether that’s with your cellphone if you have battery and cellphone service, or you could use a beacon of some sort, like an inReach or SPOT device.

“We give away whistles; they’re the emergency communication, so three short blasts for help.”

It’s also essential to share your travel plans with someone you trust. “(You should have left) a trip plan with someone who’s not with you, so that person can follow up with you if you’re not back by the time you said you would be, and then they would call 911 and RCMP would dispatch search and

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Those safety risks don’t diminish when bears are hibernating either, Richards adds. “Being in water (in the winter) is a risk, no matter what,” he says. “You have to make sure (the pet is) not going into a place where you’re going to have to put yourself at risk to get them out of an area.”

One group Richards had recently spoken with told him that they were forced to dig their dog out of a tree well after it had chased an errant squirrel.

“That would be another example of, if that dog had been on leash, it wouldn’t have gotten into that situation,” he adds. n

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The cold reality of

global human trafficking

Clandestine, controlling—and happening right here in b.c.

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n Oct. 17, 2017, Cathy Peters, a longtime antihuman trafficking educator and speaker, presented to Whistler’s mayor and council about human trafficking, sexual exploitation and youth exploitation.

Peters spoke for five minutes, detailing the disturbing realities of the clandestine global sex trade.

“Since Whistler is a global tourism destination, there will be a robust sex trade with a very large and growing demand,” Peters said.

“To satisfy that growing demand, there has to be a supply. The

supply is typically youth, children and the vulnerable—Aboriginal, Asian, migrants, disabled, mentally challenged, the poor, in foster care, and every girl under 14.”

Peters finished with three asks: a resolution at the local level to present to the Union of BC Municipalities and Federation of Canadian Municipalities, as well as the federal public safety and health ministries; that Whistler council write a letter of support for Peters to present to the Lower Mainland Local Government Association, and; that she be permitted to do a presentation to the local RCMP detachment.

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No resolutions were passed that night, with then-Mayor Nancy WilhelmMorden saying council would discuss the issue with staff before taking next steps.

Since that presentation, Peters has sent two follow-up letters to mayor and council, with no substantial responses aside from the token acknowledgment of receipt.

“No response, no action, no questions, no follow-up, although I did receive a couple of letters from city council acknowledging that they had received my correspondence,” Peters said, contrasting that with her presentation to Courtenay city council,

in which she was given 10 minutes to present and fielded several questions.

Asked why council never followed up with Peters or supported her asks, a spokesperson for the Resort Municipality of Whistler said it defers to the RCMP on criminal and public safety matters.

But it was interesting that out of all her presentations to city councils (a dozen in total), Whistler’s mayor and council were the only ones with nothing to say and no questions to ask, Peters said.

Was she surprised by that?

“Not really,” she said.

“I believe council is aware there is crime in their area, but they do not want

Feature STO R Y “And it was really eye-opening for our team to recognize that there were possibly things that we were not as much aware of as we thought.”

Through the training, the WCSS team also learned that the rise of Airbnb and other online rental sites has made the problem even harder to track, Dickinson said.

“What will happen now, in the Airbnb situation, is that a series of johns (sex buyers) and pimps will just take over a unit for an extended period of time,” Dickinson said. “(It’s) way easier for them—they don’t have to deal with a concierge desk or a hotel desk, they’re not at risk— and so it’s also something that, when people are engaging in Airbnb in this community, they should be aware of.”

While Dickinson sees the signs now, she said she’s never had a client tell her directly that they’re being trafficked.

“What we have done is we have told them what their resources are, and that we are always here to support them, and we present them with the options and specifically the resources,” she said.

With that in mind, Dickinson said trafficking is happening everywhere—we just don’t see it.

“We can be confident that human trafficking is happening, and I think that we are more at risk for it because we have a tourism industry here,” she said.

But human-trafficking cases are not something the Whistler RCMP typically deals with, said Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes.

“In our community, we are not aware of a large issue when it comes to human trafficking,” Hayes said, adding that the RCMP is aware of prostitution happening locally, but has no reason to believe it is happening without the consent of the individuals involved.

“Our investigations, when we have those files come across our table, don’t lead us down the road of human trafficking, or issues around that,” he said.

“My message (to put) out there is if there is information that needs to be shared with us, to please share it with us.” to deter from impacting tourism business and real estate development/growth and their world-class sports reputation.”

Warning Signs The issue of human trafficking first appeared on Whistler Community Services Society’s (WCSS) radar about four years ago, when the WCSS team received education and training from The Salvation Army’s Anti-Human Trafficking Programs (collectively known as Deborah’s Gate), said executive director Jackie Dickinson.

Through the training, WCSS team

members learned to recognize the warning signs that someone might be being trafficked: a young woman who doesn’t own her own phone (or owns more than one), goes through an unusual amount of hygiene products, or seems to be receiving an odd number of lavish gifts, as just a few examples.

“Instantly, I could think of a client base of people that I’ve worked with in the past, and perhaps I knew that they were engaged in illegal behaviour, or perhaps I consider them (to be) engaging in illegal activity in regards to the sex trade, but I didn’t always make that connection of human trafficking,” Dickinson said.

Follow the Demand While Craigslist recently removed its “personals” section after a bill targeting sex trafficking passed U.S. Congress, other, similar sites have picked up the slack.

Browsing them—and adjacent, far more disturbing forums devoted to reviewing sex workers—gives one a sense of how deep the rabbit hole goes in B.C. “It will just show you there is a demand for it,” said Larissa Maxwell, director of anti-human trafficking programs with Deborah’s Gate.

“The thing is, if everyone is a

consensual woman, empowered, who has had every opportunity offered to her, and she chooses to be in sex work, and she’s over the age of 18—OK, that’s not what we’re referring to, right?

“What we’re looking for is those that wouldn’t be in those categories, and we have supported a lot of individuals who would identify as a sex worker, but later tell us, ‘Yeah, but I had no other options—I was turned out into the sex trade at 12. So I turned 19, now I’m legal, but what job prospects do I have? I’ve got a cocaine addiction—how is this going to happen for me?’”

The Salvation Army runs six different programs for victims of human trafficking under the Deborah’s Gate “brand,” Maxwell said, including high-security rehabilitative safe houses (in undisclosed locations in the Lower Mainland), outreach, mental health and addictions support, and even employment training.

The organization works with between 200 and 300 clients a year, she said, with about half of them coming from B.C. But the clandestine nature of the industry makes it difficult to gauge how widespread the problem really is.

Most estimates place the total number of trafficked persons globally somewhere between 27 and 32 million.

There have been studies done in Canada, “but at the same time, because it’s underground, you can only study those who have been able to come forward,” Maxwell said.

Take into account Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women (“who we are ending up finding out that yes, some were exploited and trafficked as well,” Maxwell said), or other cases of women being exploited, and the potential scope only grows.

“I actually think it’s larger than we think,” Maxwell said.

“And I don’t think it’s getting worse.

I just think we have not been calling it what it is.”

Due to confidentiality concerns, Maxwell can’t detail specific cases, though she was able to discuss the Sea to Sky region generally.

“I will say the Sea to Sky corridor is a very tourist-driven corridor, which means you have a lot of people coming in and out, and any time you see that, the demand for exploitation goes up—so exploitation both in cheap labour, but also in sexual services,” she said.

“There is quite a demand in Whistler for sexual services, and sometimes it’s like, ‘the bachelorette service in the nude,’ but sometimes it’s, ‘I want the girl to my room.’”

Maxwell specified she was not referring to consensual sex workers, noting that the police have been careful not to assume

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Feature everyone is lumped into one category.

But when the demand is there, perpetrators will capitalize, Maxwell said, referencing a big court case in Vancouver in which it was revealed that one pimp would take his victims to large events in Calgary, or other tourist hot-spots where buyers were likely to be prevalent.

“He would take them where the demand was,” she said.

“So without giving you specific circumstances, I think you just follow the trail of demand.”

The Reality When one thinks of “human trafficking,” it’s easy for the imagination to run amok.

“There’s a lot of sensationalized ideas,” Maxwell said.

“I think the general public just watches a movie and is like, ‘Oh, it’s Liam Neeson, and his daughter gets pulled into the sex trade by the cartel.’

That is a one-in-a-million story. What does it actually look like?”

In January, more than 40 men were arrested in an underage Vancouver sex sting, including a teacher, a school trustee and a firefighter. (See related story from the Vancouver Courier: vancourier.com/news/more-than-40men-arrested-in-underage-vancouversex-sting-1.23609984.)

Three other recent court cases in Vancouver also give a glimpse of the reality.

The most high profile of the three is likely the case of Reza Moazami, who was convicted in November 2015 on 30 charges including sexual exploitation, sexual assault and living off the avails of prostitution.

Moazami’s 11 victims ranged in age from 14 to 19 years old. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

More recently, in February 2018, two Vancouver men, Tamim Albashir and Kasra Mohsenipour, were found guilty of 17 charges related to human trafficking and pimping-related offences involving

their exploitation of three young women, one of them underage.

That same month, another Vancouver man, Michael Bannon, received a lifetime internet ban and a 14-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to 22 charges related to an underage prostitution ring he had been running.

At Deborah’s Gate, victims of trafficking come from varied backgrounds.

In the case of foreign nationals, they could be trafficked in another country

first before arriving here, or coming to Canada thinking they have a legitimate job offer, Maxwell said.

“And once they’re here, they’re not getting paid, they’re being physically or sexually assaulted, they’re confined in a home, they’re not allowed to speak their own language, their ID is taken, and it escalates very quickly,” she said.

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work, Maxwell added.

“And the ‘unfairly’ could mean you’re violating B.C.’s labour code, or it could mean that you are basically acting as a pimp for somebody in sexual exploitation,” she said.

“But when it becomes trafficking, in our criminal code, there has to be measures of control added.”

Canadians who are victims of trafficking tend to have different situations, Maxwell said.

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“Usually there’s a few really bad exit attempts where they might get hurt or wounded in trying to actually leave. Especially gangs, it’s very difficult to leave on your own.”

be immediately noticeable to friends of the victim, Maxwell said.

“The thing is, most people don’t realize there’s this cycle going on: ‘I’m going to meet your need; now I’m not going to meet your need, and I’m going to be violent. Then I’m going to meet your need, and then I’m not going to, and I’m going to be controlling.’”

“It’s this cycle that keeps going, and it’s a very coercive cycle. It’s the same one that people use to abuse children.”

The cycle can go on for a long time, until the survivor gets fed up and tries to leave, Maxwell said.

“Usually there’s a few really bad exit attempts where they might get hurt or wounded in trying to actually leave,” she said.

“Especially gangs, it’s very difficult to leave on your own.”

- Larissa Maxwell

Resources and Education

Typically, predators will look for people with “unmet core needs”— housing, unpaid bills, addictions, or even intangibles like love, belonging, acceptance and safety—and offer to meet those needs.

“They’ll say, ‘If you come live with me, I’ll take care of you. If you come work for me, you’ll always have a job,’” Maxwell said.

“And so they kind of dangle the carrot, and often that person is in a place of vulnerability.”

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What often transpires after that is a “coercive relationship,” Maxwell said, and not always of the romantic kind.

“We’ve seen female perpetrators as well, who kind of play the friend card.

We’ve seen families exploit their own children. We’ve seen cults—in British Columbia, as you know, there’s a few prominent cults, and we see a very similar dynamic,” she said.

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Human trafficking and sexual exploitation may seem like distant problems, but with the proliferation of internet access and the saturation of screens over the last decade, it’s a discussion worth having.

Maxwell brings up the case of Coquitlam’s Amanda Todd, who took her own life in 2012 after she was “sextorted” by a 35-year-old man from the Netherlands (Aydin Coban, who was sentenced in a Dutch court in 2017 to 10 years in prison, while still facing five charges in Canada).

“Sexting is a warning sign in schools.

We need to be addressing that, and in a non-punitive way. So instead of criminally charging 15-year-old youth, these kids need education,” she said.

There are typically five main “warning signs” that appear in trafficking situations, Maxwell said: An age difference (and typically not a huge one—Maxwell invoked the power imbalance between a 14-year-old and say, a 19-year-old); gifting (free drugs or alcohol, or car rides, but, most typically, a free cellphone with

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the GPS tracking enabled); isolating them from their friends and family; or carrying lots of baby wipes, condoms or other hygiene products.

“The last one, it’s kind of a subjective one, but you’d be surprised how many cases come from this—it’s called gut feeling,” Maxwell said.

“It’s usually when somebody else around them has a gut feeling that something is wrong.”

In the case of Moazami, it moved forward when a student was looking at another student’s Instagram account and decided something wasn’t right. “’They’ve got all these gifts and purses and laptops, but I know that they’re broke, and now they’re hanging out with this guy, and not coming to school.’ They told a teacher and the investigation moved forward,” Maxwell said. “So sometimes the gut feeling is so powerful.”

It’s an important conversation to have, Dickinson said.

“I’m hearing from a lot of parents how much time we are having our kids spend on screens, and it’s a really controversial topic, but a lot of luring and conversations can occur over the internet,” she said.

“The truth is that they’re being exposed to technology at such a young age without any guidelines or rules or code of etiquette, really, to really set them up for success. And then we get frustrated when they’re misusing or abusing this tool.”

Maxwell recommends the public do two things if they suspect someone is being human trafficked: know where to send them (Whistler Community Services Society here in Whistler), or call the police to file a report, anonymously if necessary.

“Sometimes people just don’t want to get that involved—they’re too nervous, like, maybe it’s not something?” she said.

“But if nobody says anything, it can just go on and on and on.”

The public can also reach out to Deborah’s Gate for information or advice at www.deborahsgate.ca. n

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48 Travel

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Adventure

Viña del Mar A tale of two seaside cities, Part 2 by Virginia Aulin

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t first glance, Viña del Mar is a lot like Vancouver’s West End: freighters sit in the bay, which is lined with a public beach while modern, glass, apartment buildings stretch to the sky against a backdrop of mountains.

But then a stray dog wanders by and plops down in the middle of the busy sidewalk beside several other snoozing dogs. People saunter around the dogs, taking time to pet or feed them. And, though it’s almost 8 p.m., restaurants aren’t yet open for the evening meal.

This charming Chilean city by the sea feels different: more laissez faire and less rain-city bustle. Of course, with a population half the size of Vancouver’s, far more sunshine and less precipitation, that’s not surprising.

The modern ambiance is due to the fact that only a few buildings from the 19th century remain after multiple earthquakes

destroyed many old areas. Since then, pretty palaces and even a castle have been built, set amidst lush gardens laced with palm trees. This, plus expansive parks, boulevards lined with flowers and a giant floral clock have earned Viña the nickname of Garden City.

Since it’s only 130 kilometres west of Santiago, many North Americans only do a day trip to Viña. But we follow the lead of Santiaguinos, who come to vacay, to chill here for several days.

(Of course, we took a much longer route to get here—an eight-hour bus ride over the Andes from Argentina through Paso de los Libertadores, reaching an elevation of 3,200 metres. It’s billed as one of the most scenic drives in the world and, near the Chilean border, provides magnificent views of South America’s highest peak, Aconcagua, and the gnarly switchbacks down. It’s a fantastic way to see the mountains up

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close and personal but I was very glad not to be doing the driving!)

We stay at the Sheraton because of its superb location: perched on a cliff, its rooms offer 180-degree views from

balconies jutting over the ocean. There is a gym with the same view—never have I felt so inspired to work out!

Our days take on a pleasing no-stress pattern: a mid-morning run along the promenade (when you finish dinner at midnight, rising early isn’t in the cards), brunch on the patio (make sure to ask for café, café to avoid getting Nescafe), a day trip—to Valparaiso or Casablanca Valley, a relatively new wine area fast becoming known for its sauvignon blancs and chardonnays—a nap (hey, we’re on holiday) and a late supper.

Today, we stay in town to visit the quirky Fonck Museum, which boasts a large moai near the entrance—the only Easter Island statue on the mainland.

(Chile annexed the island in 1888.) A small wing is dedicated to the history of Easter Island; a series of rooms detail the history and geology of Chile. Things get a bit weird upstairs. One room is

Travel & A D V E N T U R E Back in our room, we soak in a blood-orange sunset from our balcony as we slowly sip some Chilean chardonnay.

We find that if we attempt to dine before 10, we are the only ones in the restaurant.

We’ve had wonderful luck with restos here, feasting on oh-so-fresh razor clams and loco (a meaty, thick abalone), scallops and barnacles.

Tonight, we head to La Ciboulette, a tiny place (only six tables) run by a Belgian for a unique riff on Chilean French-Belgian cuisine. The owner is a bit gruff as he hauls the menu board from the door to our table but warms up as the evening progresses.

My limited French comes in handy, though the chef yells out in English from the kitchen to help us decipher the menu.

As has become our habit, we start with a pisco sour—considered the national drink of Chile, though Peruvians claim they invented it—made of grape brandy, fresh-squeezed lemon juice, sugar,

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filled with random toys—spinning tops, tin horses—and others are stuffed with preserved Chilean pumas, and penguins and case upon case of beetles and butterflies from all over the world.

Nearby is the posh FABA jewelry store, showcasing Chile’s nation gemstone, Lapis Lazuli. But we spend our pesos at the local handicrafts market on the promenade, where the blue stone is set in silver and sold—especially after bartering—for a fair price.

Indeed, the promenade is the highlight of Vina, providing entertaining people, dog and bird watching. Surfers glide along the waves; artists concoct sculptures out of sand; there is a life-size chess table where knights and kings are touched up with fresh paint by day to ready for matches played at night; hundreds of pelicans drift and soar overhead and then dive head first for fish. Dogs dash along the sand, gratefully accepting handouts.

and a frothy egg white topping. Then one of us goes the French route and the other sticks with seafood: French onion soup and bœuf bourguignon; salmon Carpaccio and yellow tail tuna. We share a bottle of Carménère and the owner, who seems to have taken a shine to us, gives my husband a complimentary glass of cab sauv. (We get a discount for paying cash.)

It’s not yet midnight when we are back on the Promenade, so we consider our options: a visit to the 1930s-era art deco casino or a nightclub.

But we are feeling too Zen for that.

Instead, we amble along under the spectacular southern sky. According to the Smithsonian, Chile may be the best place on earth to enjoy a starry sky.

And we say star gazing is good for our souls.

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JUMP IN JAPAN Tom Peiffer podiumed in his first career Freeride World Tour contest.

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t didn’t take long for Tom Peiffer to get his welcome-to-the-big-leagues moment on the Freeride World Tour.

In his first career event at Hakuba, Japan, on Jan. 19, the Whistler Freeride Club alumnus saw Sweden’s Reine Barkered throw the biggest backflip he’d ever seen in competition.

“This is what you got yourself into,” he said. “You’ve got to do it now.”

With the gauntlet thrown down, the 21-year-old rose to the challenge, hitting a large drop right out of the gate and landing an impromptu 360 to set up a third-place finish.

“I was really, really surprised to see my score. I didn’t really expect it,” Peiffer said.

“It didn’t really hit me for about a full day.

Being able to land and get down and do your first full run was what really had me excited.

“It’s a good boost of confidence going into the other competitions and just knowing that you can compete with some of the higher guys and some of the big dogs on the tour right now.”

While Peiffer acknowledged feeling some nerves in the start gate, especially in a competition clearly bigger than anything he’d experienced before, he had the chance to scout out what his competition was doing and avoiding. When Peiffer’s number came up, he saw a chance to strike.

“I dropped second last in the pack, so I knew nobody had hit (the drop) and for me, it was a glaringly obvious feature to

hit, especially going into my second feature where I did the big 360,” he said. “For me, it was the top section of my run that really stood out.”

Later in his run, however, Peiffer suffered a brief stumble, putting him down momentarily. He wasn’t penalized severely by the judges, who saw the stumble as something no rider could have avoided as opposed to a line he executed poorly.

“From past experiences in competitions, that’s a pretty big thing to happen,” he said. “An action I did didn’t cause that; it just happened.

“My mouth dropped and I literally gasped. ‘Shit!’ It’s a pretty big thing to happen and that’s what made me so surprised to still manage to get third.”

The most surreal experience of the competition, Peiffer recalled, was standing on the podium beside the only two people to best his run: winner Markus Eder and runner-up Tanner Hall.

And with the competition site being smaller than the locale originally planned for the Hakuba event, Peiffer is well aware that the tour hasn’t thrown its toughest tests at competitors yet.

“It wasn’t as challenging of a venue for the first event, which is why I’m still super nervous for other events,” he said with a chuckle.

Joining Peiffer in Japan was twin brother Liam, who finished 14th in his debut.

Dropping earlier in the competition, Liam acknowledged playing it a little bit safer, a move that was rewarded accordingly by the judges.

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“Obviously, the biggest concern is showing up and crashing, or pushing yourself too hard,” he said. “Unfortunately, I didn’t end up (doing) too well. I think that’s partly because I skied a line that I was a little bit more comfortable with. I think I skied it great, but I should have chosen something a little more difficult and should have chosen something that the judges were looking for at that particular venue.

“It’s a learning experience and we just have to take it as it goes.”

What’s encouraging for Liam is he knows what he could do differently next time out.

“There was a skiers’ right line and a skiers’ left line. The skiers’ right line did have that big jump off the top that Tom hit and had a few other poppers down to the bottom. The one that I chose was pretty mellow, mostly through the top and the midsection, and then at the bottom, it’s definitely steep and gets into the cliffy section,” he said. “I decided I wanted to ski the steep, cliffy section so I made the call to go out that way.”

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familiarity with visual inspection, where athletes are not allowed to pre-ride the venue before competition. However, the Peiffers have experience with the approach from World Junior Championships and have been able to work with it just fine.

“It’s come a little bit natural to me.

I’ve never gotten lost doing my line and I’ve done a pretty good job looking for landmarks,” Liam said. “It’s definitely been an adjustment and I’m still trying to gauge the size of features accordingly.”

Next up is a competition at Kicking Horse in Golden, B.C. this weekend. With a site where junior competitions have been held being considered for the competition, both Peiffers are confident going into a Canadian event.

“It’ll definitely feel a bit more homey to me and I’ll definitely have a bit more of an obligation to ski a little bit harder and go a little bit bigger, just because it’s home soil,” Liam said.

Tom, meanwhile, isn’t looking to get too far ahead of himself after his early success.

“Staying humble and focused is what I’m going to focus on right now,” he said. n

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histler’s Sofiane Gagnon has been on an upward swing for the entire FIS World Cup season.

The moguls skier started the season with an 18th-place showing at Ruka, Finland in December and since then, has only equalled or improved on her prior results.

The past two weekends, the 19-yearold took eighth-place finishes, first at Lake Placid, N.Y. on Jan. 18 and then at MontTremblant, Que. on Jan. 26.

“It just feels really good that I’m improving every competition,” she said.

“I’m really happy to be consistently moving forward.”

At Tremblant, France’s Perrine Laffont edged Australia’s Jakara Anthony and Canadian Justine Dufour-Lapointe for the win. Chloe Dufour-Lapointe took fourth while Gagnon’s fellow Freestyle Whistler alumnus Maia Schwinghammer placed 15th.

On the men’s side, Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury got past Japan’s Ikura Horishima and Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Reikherd for the victory after missing the podium for the first time in two years at Lake Placid.

Philippe Marquis and Laurent Dumais placed ninth and 10th, respectively, while Pemberton’s Brenden Kelly took 15th.

While Gagnon had World Cup experience last season after competing at Calgary and Mont-Tremblant, 2018-19 marks her first season on the circuit full-time.

She credits regularly being around the team, which boasts veterans like legend Mikael Kingsbury and the Dufour-Lapointe sisters, with helping her to take the next step as she looks to follow their paths.

“It’s a different feeling. After getting some experience in the two I did last year and then coming this year and doing the full tour, which is exciting, it’s different because now I feel like I’m part of the game, I’m part of all the other girls who are doing the world tour,” she said. “I’m trying to not be intimidated and doing my best run every time.”

Gagnon feels that the major adjustment she’s made this season is to have more patience and to put less pressure on herself, which in turn has led to steady improvement.

“I think that I’ve really improved my mental game. In previous years, what was really holding me back was myself. I thought that I wasn’t performing the way I was capable of,” she said. “This year,

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I’ve competed for so long now and there’s no reason to be stressed about anything.

I’m learning to use my nerves to help me compete better.”

That new attitude manifested itself most prominently in New York, as in finals, Gagnon was in a position where she had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

“In Lake Placid when I just made it into finals in 16th place, I was on the bubble for a long time. I was relieved when the last girl went and I made it in,” she said. “I just thought to myself that I have nothing to lose. If I fall, I’m still in 16th spot, so I can only move up in the ranking from here. I just tried to take risks and ski like I knew I could and not hold back.”

Though Gagnon has travelled to events like the Junior World Ski Championships on three occasions in Sweden and Italy and to competitions in Australia, she’s been excited to get new stamps on her passport with her first-ever trips to China and Finland this year.

“It was my first time really travelling with the World Cup team,” she said. “To be surrounded by different people and see how they train and prepare, I think I changed how I prepare.”

Gagnon will make her first trip to FIS World Ski Championships in Utah on Feb. 8 and 9. She’s looking forward not only to competing at that level, but to see other freestyle-ski cousins like slopestyle and halfpipe competitors with whom they don’t normally cross paths during the season.

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rodie Seger will always remember how he earned his first World Cup points.

In Jan. 25 downhill action at the famed Kitzbuhel, Austria track, the Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) alumnus hit the top 20 with a sweet-16 finish.

The 23-year-old finished in a two-run time of one minute, 58.37 seconds (1:58.37), 1.55 seconds back of winner Dominik Paris of Italy. Switzerland’s Beat Feuz (0.20 seconds back) and Austria’s Otmar Streidinger (0.37 seconds back) also hit the podium.

Seger’s previous World Cup best was a 43rd-place showing in the downhill at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany last January.

“Oh man, it’s hard to describe the feeling, first of all, seeing the number on the board and realizing that I just got my first World Cup points,” Seger said from Innsbruck on Jan. 28. “Also, that it was on that hill was incredible. It’s such a wild hill and I’m really proud that I was able to fight my way down on that hill of all places.”

Seger described the atmosphere at the races as different from other stops, as there is an additional excitement around the races with fans arriving in the early-morning hours to seek autographs.

Perhaps it’s because that with an average grade of 27 degrees and a maximum angle of 85 degrees on course, it’s a challenge for racers to get down safely. In his third trip to the track, Seger prepared by participating in the European Cup race the weekend prior, which he credited for his World Cup success.

“We got a bit more mileage on that course. It was quite icy and bumpy this year, so that extra mileage really came in handy when it came to the World Cup week,” he said. “I was really trying to trust in my skiing and ski solid, not do anything crazy. You never know what that course is going to throw at you. I was fighting my way down and I still had a couple mistakes. I’m happy with the way I was able to keep pushing all the way to the finish line.”

Completing a flawless run is near impossible, Seger recalled, as the speeds racers accumulate combined with the steep

terrain, so he’ll gladly take a flub here or there as long as he stayed upright.

“You’re getting tossed around on the way down and it can be difficult to see sometimes. You just have to keep fighting for your position and fighting to attack the course,” he said. “It’s a wild ride because of that. It feels like you’re always on the edge and you just have to keep pushing even though it feels like you’re all over the place.

Often, it looks a lot more solid than it feels.

“You watch yourself on video and see yourself get a little bit rocked and you don’t remember it because you’re in the zone.

You’re just so focused on what you have to do next.”

In other good news for Canada, Ben Thomsen continued his stellar season with a sixth-place showing, 1.06 seconds back of Paris. It was his best result in a downhill since 2012. Fellow WMSC alum Jack Crawford posted his top World Cup downhill finish with a 32nd.

In the Jan. 27 super-G, Dustin Cook was the top Canadian in 23rd, with Thomsen finishing 27th, Seger 33rd, Crawford 36th and Jeffrey Read 44th. Germany’s Josef Ferstl nicked France’s Johan Clarey and Italy’s Paris for the win.

No Canadians completed the slalom on Jan. 26. France’s Clement Noel earned the victory over Austria’s Marcel Hirscher and fellow Frenchman Alexis Pinturault.

With the team now off to GarmischPartenkirchen, Germany, Seger hopes to keep his momentum pushing forward.

“It’s a confirmation that I have the ability to be in the points. I’ve known all along that my skiing was there and I’ve just been looking to put it together on race day,” he said.

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The Canadian women competed at Garmisch this past weekend.

Marie-Michele Gagnon posted the only result, with a 34th-place showing in the Jan. 26 super-G. Austria’s Nicole Schmidhofer knocked off Italy’s Sofia Goggia and Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami for the win.

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amie Matteau Rushbrook held her own with the boys for six years.

But this season, she opted to try out for a girls’ team, joining the Greater Vancouver Comets of BC Hockey’s Female Midget AAA League.

After a half-dozen seasons of Whistler Minor Hockey Association action, Matteau Rushbrook felt it would be beneficial to join the Comets, even if it meant driving to Vancouver twice a week for practices and spending every weekend away from Whistler.

“My love for the game was starting to grow a little bit more and I was obviously starting to gain a little bit more skill,” she said. “I talked to my family and we felt that it might be a good idea to make the move from boys’ hockey to girls’ hockey because I had always played boys.”

One major factor in the jump is how

Matteau Rushbrook could further her career after high school by landing a postsecondary scholarship, and playing with the Comets gave her the opportunity to play in front of some women’s hockey scouts.

“Making the jump to girls’ hockey was really good for me in the sense that I could play a higher level of girls’ hockey than boys’ hockey, and I could get a little more exposure that way,” she said. “It’s probably been the best decision I’ve made. I had so much fun playing in Whistler, but it’s been such a great opportunity for me to go play with the girls. I’ve made so many friends and obviously I’m learning a lot with the whole process of managing time and things like that. Everything from it is completely positive.”

The Grade 11 student explained she’s had to adjust her style of play based on the strengths of both her teammates and opponents. She’s found success, scoring three goals and seven assists in 23 league

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games this season as the Comets have won all 26 of their contests.

“The games are extremely different and at the beginning of the season with the Comets, I was having a little bit of a hard time adjusting because boys’ hockey is more physical and has a little bit less puck possession because of the hitting,” she said.

“All the girls on my team are really good stickhandlers, all have really good puck possession and I didn’t really have that. It’s definitely been a little bit difficult adjusting to it, but it also helps with my skill and my confidence playing girls’ hockey because I get so much more opportunity to carry the puck and not be so afraid of getting hammered into the boards.”

However, Matteau Rushbrook explained that while she strives to keep the edge she’s developed in her arsenal, it was

difficult to find the line of how physical she could be.

“At the beginning of the season, when I went over to playing with the girls, I thought I was playing quite soft because for some reason, I thought if I even touched them, I would get a penalty,” she said. “I’m starting to figure it out a little bit more, how to balance my physical play that I learned playing with boys and use that to my advantage in girls’ hockey.”

Despite her initial concerns, however, Matteau Rushbrook is only fourth on the team with 21 penalty minutes, about half of what the team leader has posted.

Comets head coach Mark Taylor said Matteau Rushbrook has successfully transitioned into the girls’ game and is giving her opportunities to prove herself in myriad situations. With a versatile player in

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BC GranFondo Whistler co-founder Neil McKinnon has long stressed the importance of the event in getting people involved in cycling.

The marquee ride of the annual September event, which is celebrating its 10th running in 2019, is the 122-kilometre ride from Vancouver’s Stanley Park to Whistler, and pits several of the world’s top riders against one another in the elite category.

But with a number of amateur divisions on offer as well, McKinnon said the race looks to serve all its participants. That’s why, he said, the 55-km Medio event, which takes riders from Whistler Village to the Callaghan Valley and back, will open its ranks to those riding e-bikes at the Sept. 7 festival.

“We’ve reserved the Forte, the team challenge and the GranFondo to be exclusive of e-bikes. However, with the Medio, it’s all about experiences and it’s to get people into the event, into cycling and (building) further participation with families,” McKinnon said.

“We thought that that would be a great introduction to include it in the 2019 RBC GranFondo Whistler.”

McKinnon said though e-bike users are allowed to participate, they won’t receive timing chips to be measured alongside those riding the full distance.

“Because they have electric assist, to time athletic endurance and creating a level playing field would be difficult intermixing with the regular bicycles in the category,” he said.

McKinnon said in the future, there might be an opportunity to create that level playing field, but doesn’t expect it to be in the coming years.

Though the announcement resulted in media attention with the race over half a year away, McKinnon doesn’t expect significant numbers to take up the e-bike offer in the early stages. However, the opportunity is just as much about offering it to riders at all as it is to bringing in swaths of new participants.

“We are usually first to market with all new innovations as we are with this

inclusion,” he said. “It’s exciting to see that, again, there’s a new element that we’re bringing to the fore.”

Some critics are wary of the move, opposing it on the grounds that all participants should power themselves the entire distance. McKinnon, however, reiterated that e-bikes are only allowed in the festival’s most recreational division.

“I certainly understand if people in the GranFondo, and certainly the Forte (a 152-km ride with an incline up Cypress Mountain thrown in), where they’re really

putting out as much athleticism as they can possibly muster—and towards the end of the ride, somebody pushes a button and they just pass you to the end, that would be very demoralizing and I understand that. We agree with that,” he said. “The Medio is about experience and having fun, and it’s not as much focused on the incredible athleticism that’s involved in the Forte or the GranFondo itself—not to minimize, obviously, the ride up the Callaghan and the ride up Powerline Hill—but we have no plans to introduce e-bikes into the other divisions.” n

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Matteau Rushbrook at his disposal, Taylor is glad to see her play with some grit.

“There is some contact in the women’s game in front of the net and she’s never shied away from that,” he said. “The boys’ game has probably helped her in some of those areas and she’s got into the girls’ game and she’s been really successful in those parts of the rink, whether it’s battling

for pucks in corners or in front of the net.”

Though the Comets haven’t had any great challenges in league play, the squad looks elsewhere for tough opponents, regularly playing teams from hockey academies in B.C. and travelling to elite tournaments in Ontario at least twice a season.

“We learn a lot from those experiences as a team and we grow because it’s a lot harder,” Matteau Rushbrook said. n

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ith Olympic gold, a Crystal Globe and a Dew Tour title on her mantle, Cassie Sharpe had won nearly everything a high-level freestyler could win.

But before Jan. 24, she hadn’t won X Games gold at its winter epicentre in Aspen, Colo. (Sharpe did win at Oslo in 2016.)

In the ski superpipe event, Sharpe fended off challenges from runner-up Kelly Sildaru of Estonia (92.33) and fellow Canadian Rachael Karker (86.33), throwing down a 94.00 on her third and final run to claim gold.

“I wanted it, I needed it, and I went out and got it,” the Whistler resident via Comox said in a release. “This is the big show, this is it, this is Aspen extreme, so I’m just so hyped about this.”

In the men’s ski superpipe, Canadians Noah Bowman and Whistler’s Simon d’Artois were sixth and seventh, in order, as American Alex Ferreira nicked fellow

Yankee David Wise and New Zealand’s Nico Porteous for the win.

As for the other male skiers, Canada’s Alex Beaulieu-Marchand earned a silver in the slopestyle behind American Alex Hall and ahead of Norway’s Ferdinand Dahl. Phil Langevin was ninth. BeaulieuMarchand was also second in the big air, sandwiched between champion Birk Ruud of Norway and James Woods of Great Britain. Evan McEachran, meanwhile, was a point off the podium in fourth.

In the other ski events, Canadian Elena Gaskell took seventh in the big air, in which France’s Mathilde Gremaud topped Norway’s Johanne Killi and Sildaru, while in the slopestyle, Sildaru bested Switzerland’s Sarah Hoefflin and American Maggie Voisin.

Snowboarder Laurie Blouin won gold in the big air with a 77.00, nicking New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and American Jamie Anderson.

In the slopestyle, Spencer O’Brien and Blouin took fourth and seventh, respectively, with Sadowski-Synnott

earning the win over American Hailey Langland and Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi.

Meanwhile, in the superpipe, American Chloe Kim topped Spain’s Queralt Castellet and China’s Cai Xuetong.

As for the men, Canadian Mark McMorris won a hotly contested slopestyle event with an eye-popping 96.00 to top Finland’s Rene Rinnekangas and Norway’s Mons Roisland. Sebastian Toutant was just off the podium in fourth, Whistler resident Darcy Sharpe was sixth and Mikey Ciccarelli placed ninth.

McMorris then took second in the big air behind only Japan’s Takeru Otsuka and ahead of Sweden’s Sven Thorgren.

Toutant was again fourth while Sharpe placed seventh.

In the superpipe, meanwhile, Australia’s Scotty James bested Japan’s Yuto Totsuka and American Danny Davis.

Full results are available online at www.xgames.com.

THOMPSON SECOND AT BLUE MOUNTAIN

Whistler’s Marielle Thompson continued

her impressive comeback season following a serious injury with another podium result on Canadian soil on Jan. 26.

Thompson placed second in the FIS World Cup ski-cross race at Ontario’s Blue Mountain, behind only Switzerland’s Fanny Smith, extending her slim Crystal Globe lead in the process. The result was Thompson’s fourth top-three result in six events this season, and she’s made the big final in every competition this season.

Smith passed Thompson late to keep the 26-year-old from her first win of the season.

“I think I skied really well in every heat.

I made a bit of a mistake over the jump into the second-last turn in the final, and that definitely cost me,” Thompson said in a release. “But I’m really happy to be on the podium in Canada–it’s such a great crowd out here. It’s so exciting.”

Meanwhile, Brittany Phelan was fourth, Kelsey Serwa was ninth, India Sherret 11th, Zoe Chore 16th and Thompson’s fellow Whistler Mountain Ski Club alumnus Mikayla Martin 19th. Canadians Hannah

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Locals took four of the top five spots on the men’s side, with Nick Suchy earning the victory to catapult him into second place in the overall standings while Luke Smart also hit the podium in third. Anders Ujejski took fourth and Kai Smart fifth, with Chase Ujejski also hitting the top 10 in eighth.

On the women’s side, alumnus Skye Clarke scored the win while Josephine Howell and Caoimhe Heavey were second and fourth, respectively.

Full results are available at freestylecanada.ski.

In Timber Tour action the weekend prior, slopestylers: Heavey (first in women’s U16); Evan Bush (second in men’s U16); and Liam Tennock (second in men’s U18) took home provincial hardware from Big White. As well, moguls athletes: Chase Capicik (first in women’s U16); Brooke Armstrong (third in women’s U16 singles and first in doubles); Jessica Dawson (second in women’s U14); Emilia Oziewicz (third in women’s U14 single and second in doubles); Malica Malherbe (second in women’s U16 doubles); Mattheus Heslop (first in men’s U14 singles and doubles); Philip Kang (second in men’s U16 singles and doubles); Owen Scarth (third in men’s U16 singles and doubles); and Landon Owen-Mold (third in men’s U14 doubles) all starred in Timber Tour action at Apex.

Meanwhile, in Super Youth action, Armaan Asrar Haghighi was third in the men’s U12 slopestyle and first in moguls.

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Three young local lugers got a taste of the FIL World Championships at Winterberg, Germany from Jan. 25 to 27.

Reid Watts, Trinity Ellis and Veronica Ravenna all took part in the full World Championship events and also had their results included in the U23 World Championships listing.

Watts was the lone Canadian in the men’s event, taking an 18th-place finish.

Germany’s Felix Loch knocked off Austria’s Reinhard Egger and Russia’s Semen Pavlichenko for the crown. Watts’ time also stood as the fourth-best among the U23 crowd. Russia’s Roman Repilov took home the title.

Watts also qualified for his first sprint (single-run) final in which he placed 13th.

Pemberton’s Ellis, meanwhile, was promoted from the junior circuit for the event, though she didn’t qualify for a second run with a 29th-place showing.

Her time stood as ninth-best among the U23 team.

Ravenna, representing Argentina, was 24th in the women’s race and sixth among U23s. Germany’s Julia Taubitz was the top junior.

Kim McRae provided Canada with its only other result, a 14th-place finish as Germany’s Natalia Geisenberger nicked Taubitz and Emily Sweeney of the United States for the overall title.

In the men’s doubles race, Canada’s Tristan Walker and Justin Snith were disqualified for an overweight sled.

Germany’s Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken topped countrymen Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt and Austria’s Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller for the title.

Canadians fared better in the team event, however, with McRae, Watts and the Walker-Snith sled posting a fifth-place finish, with the latter two posting the top reaction times of the day. Russia bested Austria and Germany for gold.

Full results are available online at www.fil-luge.org.

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Whistler as Finn Finestone and Jadyn Chomlack will compete on the men’s side while Maggie Crompton and Juliette Pelchat will go on the women’s side. As well, Truth Smith is the province’s men’s halfpipe rep.

Chomlack and Finestone are fresh off strong Air Nation/NorAm Cup performances at Big White, as they were fourth and fifth, respectively, in the Jan. 23 slopestyle. Finestone also placed 14th in the next day’s big air while Smith placed 19th.

Fellow Whistlerite Jackie Carlson showed well in the women’s event, taking third in the slopestyle and fifth in the big air.

In provincial series action at Big White the weekend prior, Smith hit the top 10 with fourth- and sixth-place slopestyle finishes.

Locals cleaned up in the women’s event, with Carlson, Crompton and Pelchat sweeping the podium in order on Jan. 19 and Carlson, Pelchat and Crompton taking first, third and fourth, respectively, the next day.

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Schmidt, Alexa Velcic and Courtney Hoffos also made the top 30 in 27th through 29th in order.

On the men’s side, Canada’s Brady Leman scored a victory over France’s Bastien Midol and Austria’s Johannes Rorhweck. Other Canucks included Kevin Drury in fifth, Reece Howden in seventh and Chris Del Bosco in 18th.

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he goal should be to encourage people to think for themselves.”

Another great quote from one of the most quoted people of all time: Noam Chomsky, inimitable linguist, author of 100 books, “dissident intellectual” and one of my all-time heroes, who, by the way, is now 90 but still blowing up myths and propaganda masquerading as facts in every sphere, from science to philosophy.

Chomsky delivered the oneliner, which could be any thinking person’s motto for life, in a recent

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New Internationalist. Forgive me for re-contextualizing it, but that quote is the perfect motto for our new Canada Food Guide.

I was thrilled with all the coverage and conversation we’ve seen around this latest food guide, including our fearless editor’s take in last week’s Pique (“Food for thought, Jan. 24). I bet the guide has generated more tweets and conversations than the weather—totally affirming that we really are a nation of nerds, or at least very interested in what we put in our bodies.

But I was more thrilled with the guide itself: Eat a variety of healthy food. Eat lots of veggies, fruits and whole grains.

Cut the crap and the meat. Read labels.

Drink water. Be mindful of what you eat (now there’s a great concept from the annals of meditation and Buddhism).

Eat at home more often.

Wow! I couldn’t imagine a better food guide if I’d written it myself. I love the new guide’s emphasis on wholesome, plant-based foods, and that industry lobbyists were left out in the cold during the input process. And, at risk of sounding like I’m blowing my

own horn, I feel like I have “sort of” written it, or at least many rationales for it, in installations, over time, in this space. (References follow.)

That said, the one constant trickle of criticism that’s come up about the new guide is its vagueness regarding servings. Some comments range along the lines of, why doesn’t it have specific portions? To that I say, get over it, folks, and think of Chomsky: “The goal should be to encourage people to think for themselves.” That’s the whole point of the new guide. It’s meant to “guide” us with informed knowledge, while encouraging us to interpret it for ourselves—and experts are backing that up.

The old food guide’s emphasis on food servings and portions was confusing, said Dr. David Jenkins, a University of Toronto nutritional sciences professor, in a Global TV interview. “Let me ask you, what is a serving of banana?” Indeed. (See my previous musings about same: “When size really matters,” Pique Newsmagazine, Nov. 8, 2018).

Yoni Freedhoff, the obesity medicine specialist at the University of Ottawa, likes the new guide, too.

In his informative Jan. 22 blog post, (“Canada’s new food guide is out— and it’s a giant step forward,” Weighty Matters), he calls it a “giant step forward” and praises the way it gets away from prescriptive directives, such as drink two glasses of milk a day. (Read more about Dr. Freedhoff’s take, and mine, on the old food guide in “Blinded food guides leading the blind,” Pique Newsmagazine, May 30, 2013.)

But it’s not lost on me how Canadians, and others, have grown used to following directives from authorities and experts for our food choices, and much more. If you follow the brilliant historian Yuval Harari’s thinking in Sapiens, it’s been a

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longstanding necessity to “follow the leaders” for organizing ourselves in large, complex groups since we left our hunting-gathering ways.

We need our experts. But we also need to think for ourselves, and frame some directives accordingly. And we need to examine history to understand where our common thinking, and guides, have come from.

Our first Canadian food guide came out in 1942. That year, Hitler declared total war, and our guide was actually a set of rules. In fact, it was called “Canada’s Official Food Rules” and if you picture the heavy food rationing during the Second World War, you can further understand where those rules were coming from.

“These are the Health-Protective foods. Be sure to eat them every day in at least these amounts. (Use more if you can.)” states the militaristic intro to the 1942 rules. Adults were advised to drink a pint of milk a day, and eat some CHEESE, if available. (Yes, cheese, was in all caps. Hmm, I wonder why …) Canadians were also told to eat one serving of a “whole-grain cereal” daily and “4 to 6 slices of Canada Approved Bread” (caps as noted), brown or white.

Hmm, no rye or pumpernickel bread?

Ah, but those are traditionally German, as Germans “discovered” rye when other grain crops failed.

The rules, and food guides, go on. In 1944, at least they dropped

the word “Official” and added cute little drawings of eggs and such with happy smiles and legs. Early emojis.

In ’61, they changed the word “Rules” to “Guide”, and in ’77 they added a happy-face sun licking its lips.

More iterations followed, in ’82, ’92 and 2007, each one supposedly more modernized. But this is the first food guide that feels truly contemporary and, I venture, wise. Big Brother in Ottawa is no longer making food choices for us.

As for Chomsky, I hope he lives an even longer life and prospers with his food choices. But from what we can glean publicly, at least, he isn’t that concerned with what he puts on his plate.

“He is so often preoccupied that he has to be reminded to take care of himself,” writes his personal assistant, Beverly Stohl, in the online Chronicle of Higher Education (“What’s it’s like to be Noam Chomsky’s assistant, Dec. 18, 2015). “… I’ve seen Noam munching on matzo smudged with butter while thumbing through a book when he hadn’t gotten around to shopping for food. When I asked him where he was getting his protein, he answered, “Isn’t butter protein?” He further asked, with a grin, “How about Scotch? And there must be protein in coffee.”

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Mile One’s new Supper Club gives staff chance to flex its muscle PEMBERTON EATERY LAUNCHES FOODIE-FOCUSED THEME DINNERS

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ile One Eating House’s Erin Kerr has never been one to sit idle for too long.

“I just always need to keep new projects going, apparently. It’s not fun to

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get stale,” said the chef and proprietor of Pemberton’s beloved burger joint.

Kerr’s latest project, called Supper Club, is envisioned as a “destination dining experience” featuring “thoughtful food and drink” that veers away from the mouth-watering burgers and decadent mac n’ cheese that Mile One is typically known for.

Held on Thursday nights, Supper Club will emphasize more upscale fare using products that the restaurant doesn’t regularly offer. Kerr feels the

foodie focus reflects the changing demographics of Pemberton—along with the abundance of top-shelf ingredients Spud Valley offers.

“I think there’s a void in Pemberton for this kind of food. There are a lot of people in Pemberton, myself included, who want to go out and have this experience but you don’t necessarily want to drive to Whistler,” she said. “We thought we should try to tap into that little market we have and then grow it, because we have such a following of locals that trust us and what we do, so we can get people to eat outside their comfort zones and experience new things that they wouldn’t normally order.”

Last week’s inaugural dinner featured handmade pasta served with house-made sausages and fresh cheese, and included a bread course. Tickets are affordable at $25, with the option to add a flight of local craft beer or wine for $10.

Kerr said the Supper Club is a way

for Mile One’s staff to flex their creative muscles and share the food they love with guests.

“We’re using the night to let the culinary team and the front-of-house team focus on their passions,” she explained.

“In the past, when I was working with (Mile One co-founder) Randy (Jones), he always gave me those opportunities and it worked out pretty well for me. I think it’s super important to keep your staff engaged and interested and creative.

That’s why we’re doing this. It’s key to being successful, I think.”

Speaking of Jones, the Mile One team continues to work closely with the entrepreneur through his new ChilcotinCountry ranch, Hanceville Cattle Co. (HCC), which he opened after selling the restaurant to long-time sous-chef, and now executive chef, Kerr. The ranch supplies Mile One with whole steers for both the retail and restaurant side, with

plans to expand on the partnership as the ranch increases its production capacity.

“We use HCC beef in a couple dishes on the menu, and then we always try to have stock from (Jones),” Kerr noted.

“We’re not quite at the point where we’re going to use his beef for everything yet, because we go through a lot of beef. They’re growing at a rapid pace also, so I’m sure it won’t be too long before that happens.”

Another new project in the works at Mile One is its Family Meal, which gives customers the chance, once a month, to take home a fully cooked, multi-course meal prepared by the chefs at Mile One for $29 a person.

The first meal package, available this Thursday, Jan. 31, features slow-roasted porchetta, scalloped potatoes, winter squash salad, buttermilk bread and a chocolate marquise.

“We think it’s a great thing for Pemberton families on the run. Kids

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have activities, you’ve got work and all these things, and I think it’s just a really cool option to be able to order this in advance for however many people you want, and all you have to do is pick it up and take it home,” said Kerr.

Since taking over the reins at Mile One last year from Jones and co-founder Cindy Yu, Kerr has stayed extremely busy—and even picked up some

unexpected skills along the way.

“I’m really good at maintenance now,” she said with a laugh. “I can fix a lot of stuff that I couldn’t before. Fridge doors and oven doors and dishwashers— all kinds of stuff. I’m very well rounded in all maintenance things, along with cooking, so that’s good.”

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ON THE SMALL SCREEN Siblings Bec and Tristan Gange star in the Netflix TV show

Instant Hotel.

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ristan Gange was behind the till working at a local grocery store on New Year’s Day when he noticed two people staring at him.

“They were in the next aisle and I was like, ‘Why are these guys looking at me?’” he says. “I was getting freaked out.”

Eventually, they made their way to the checkout and asked, “Were you that guy from that show?”

Gange was surprised. A year earlier, he and his sister Bec had been in five episodes of the Australian reality TV show called Instant Hotel, but it had only aired on TV in Australia for a short time—or so Gange thought.

“They were like, ‘We just binge watched it on Netflix!’ It just got uploaded and it started from there. I had no idea it would be on Netflix,” Gange says.

That interaction kicked off his 15 minutes of fame. Since the program was added to the streaming service around the world, Gange has received no fewer than four marriage proposals, 20 to 30 messages a day on social media and regular requests for selfies.

His Instagram account, for one, has skyrocketed from 1,000 followers to 5,000 in the last month.

“Every single message has been

positive,” he says. “We haven’t had one negative message yet. They’re all pretty similar like, ‘Hey, I just started watching (the show) on Netflix. I don’t usually send messages like this, but me and my husband, or me and my friends, or me and my crew, we love you and your sister … I’ve replied to every single message saying, ‘thanks or cheers,’ just saying thanks for the message, I appreciate it.”

Bec—a professional wakeboarder who spends half the year in Florida— first received a call from the show’s creators who had perused Airbnb for interesting rentals. Their parents had purchased a houseboat dubbed Class Act a few years earlier and they occasionally rented it out to people who wanted to meander down the Murray River in Mildura, Victoria.

“My sister said they just called her one day out of the blue,” Gange says. “They must’ve found it on Airbnb and discovered my sister was a pro wakeboarder and thought, ‘That’s a cool angle.’ They said, ‘Do you have a boyfriend or family member who’d want to be on the show?’

She said, ‘I’ve got my brother.’”

Gange, who was working picking “rock melons” (or cantaloupes as they’re known in Canada) in 40 C heat, jumped at the chance for such a strange experience. “I was like, ‘Hell yes. I always wanted my 15 minutes of fame,’” he says with a laugh. “Now I’m getting

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it. Yesterday I took three selfies at the grocery store. It’s crazy.”

The premise of the show is all the Airbnb owners travel to each property to spend the night and assign a rating.

An accommodations expert also visits and rates the listing. We won’t spoil the outcome of the show except to say that Tristan and Bec are amongst the most laidback and likeable of the bunch.

“I was living in my van for a year and I’ve couch surfed my whole life,” Gange says. “I’ve lived in hallways and under stairs; I did a whole season under stairs once in France—a mattress on the floor. To stay in these nice houses, we were scoring them all eight out of 10, nine out of 10 because we loved them. Everyone else was strategically scoring and scoring low.”

In the end, he says he was satisfied with how he was portrayed—and with the overall experience. “I’m 100-per-cent glad (I did it),” he says. “I’d do it again if Netflix called me up and said, ‘Do you want to do

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another show? I’d do it.’ It’s fun.”

Well, there’s one caveat. He’s received a few weird comments online since his rise to reality fame. “One guy was like, ‘What size are your feet?’ I was like, ‘ummm 11,’ thinking I’m going to get some nice Air Jordans. A couple messages later he’s like, ‘This might sound a bit weird, but can I get a picture of your feet?’”

Gange politely declined. “I went on Google and I found a picture of some chicken feet and sent it to him,” he says, laughing.

The overarching takeaway from his experience, though, is a life lesson we should all heed. “You be nice to people on the show, they’ll be nice to you,” he says.

“It’s kind of paid off. They say nice guys finish last, but at the end of the day, be nice and you’ll get treated nice… and you’ll get guys asking you about your feet.”

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a love for getting out there, which is intrinsic to the Whistler community as well. It embodied Whistler and all the good things about Whistler and the human connection there.”

While Spence lives in Abbotsford, she grew up in Vernon—and “I still identify (mountain culture) as my culture,” she says. “That’s where my painting ends up going.”

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wo years ago, when Arts Whistler put a callout for art to adorn its Arts Scene magazine, the organization received just four submissions.

Fast-forward to the Winter 2019 edition and “we got 64 (submissions) from a few more than 50 artists,” says Mo Douglas, executive director of Arts Whistler.

The seasonal publication features arts and culture events listings from around the Sea to Sky corridor in one handy package— as well as cover art from a different artist each issue. But with so many great pieces submitted and just two slots—the front and back covers—Arts Whistler decided to seize the opportunity and host a new exhibit featuring that work at The Gallery in the Maury Young Arts Centre.

“The work was so good we thought, ‘We’ve got to do a show,” Douglas says.

“We really struggled (choosing). We had a whole bunch of people pare it down. It was from the perspective of what would work as a good cover.”

In the end, they selected First Tracks

by Meghan Spence, featuring a colourful backcountry scene, for the cover and Mary Pine’s Callaghan Magic, with stunning snow-covered trees for the back.

“I was super surprised,” Spence says of having her painting selected.

“Personally, it’s one of my favourite paintings I’ve done. It really showed

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As part of the upcoming show— dubbed Arts Scene Uncovered—she will be exhibiting a different piece called A Day Well Lived, while First Tracks will be turned into a large, paint-by-numbers piece for those attending the exhibit opening to help complete.

The opening party is set for Feb. 6—with the show running from Feb. 3 to March 4—featuring the work of 50 artists, as well as food, drinks, artist demonstrations and music.

“We’ve invited all of (the artists),” Douglas says. “The response was really positive … (It shows) when you throw your work in, it can turn into something else. Now you’re in an exhibition. There were some artists we didn’t know and now we do. It’s always a win.”

For her part, Spence—who has exhibited in Whistler before and visits often—says she’s looking forward to meeting local artists. “I feel like I know them because I know of them and follow them on Instagram,” she says. “I know all their work. It’ll be neat to meet some of them in person. I’m super excited to be there and really feel grateful to be part of it.”

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Notes FROM T HE BA C K R O W Adding humour to politics W

hat if Ricky Bobby were president?

A couple weeks ago, we discussed the awesome evolution of director Adam McKay. Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and Step Brothers stand as the strongest comedic hat trick of the 2000s and McKay was able to take a step back after that, produce more, and pivot into more serious films.

In 2015, he co-wrote and directed The Big Short (and took home a writing Oscar for his troubles) and this week, McKay is back at it with Vice, a toodepraved-to-be-made-up dark comedy

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that skewers G.W. Bush and focuses on the corrupt rise and chaotic peak of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (who should have been charged as a war criminal and locked up ages ago).

The good news is McKay hasn’t turned his back on his roots; he approaches Vice with a style of absurd humour that isn’t routine in the political, Oscar-bait genre.

(Isn’t it time more people called politics out for the “circle-jerk puppet show” it too often is?)

Mostly focused on the era of George W. Bush (where Cheney was vice president), McKay even draws parallels between the President (played by Sam Rockwell) and Will Ferrell’s classic Talladega character Ricky Bobby—both bumbling fools and pawns to some higher forces. In this case, that force is Cheney, a sinister career politician who first cut his teeth under that crook Nixon, and never looked back.

McKay also pokes at the larger picture, pointing out that the seeds for the mash-up of politics and theatre were planted long before Trump took the reins and that most of the low points

NOTORIOUS RBG On the Basis of Sex, a biopic on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is out this week. in recent American history (Vietnam, Cambodia, imaginary “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq) are not only connected, but are the work of many of the same people and families.

It’s a powerful lambasting, and highly watchable, but McKay is essentially preaching to the choir and his contempt for the protagonist of his film is almost at odds with Christian Bale’s incredible transformation in the title role. We know Cheney was a douche of the highest order, but how did he get that way?

Also playing this week, On the Basis of Sex is another biopic, this time on Ruth Bader Ginsburg—who celebrated her 25th year on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018. This flick, however, focuses on Ginsburg as younger woman battling discrimination in the ‘60s and ‘70s, specifically discrimination “on the basis of sex.”

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impossible to land employment because she was, “a woman, a mother, and a Jew to boot!” as one character explains.

Battling in the trenches, Ginsburg eventually throws a wrench into the cogs of American justice by finding and arguing cases where men were being discriminated against (a male-restricted drinking age in Oklahoma, widowers could receive housing benefits but unmarried men could not, etc.) and using those victories to prove discrimination on the basis of sex was unconstitutional.

Ginsburg is a fascinating person (she’s now affectionately known as “The Notorious RBG”), but On the Basis of Sex is a bit of a high-level gloss-over that doesn’t dig deep enough into exactly what fuels Ginsburg’s legendary fire (the music score also telegraphs every emotion of the film so blatantly that it all starts to feel melodramatic).

Still, this is a watchable film due in part to Felicity Jones’ committed portrayal. Perhaps Mimi Leder (Deep

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Impact), unlike McKay with Vice, purposefully made her film more rosy, polished and digestible in hopes of hitting audiences who may need to be reminded that discrimination was, and continues to be, a festering sore on the face of justice and a very real thing that continues to tear at the very fabric of civilization. (Anyone looking to dive more deeply can check the much more detailed Ginsburg documentary called RBG on iTunes.)

The Download of the Week is The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Boston crime flick that finally netted him an Oscar (remember when the Three 6 Mafia had more Oscars than Scorsese?). With an all-star cast (Matt Damon, Leo DiCaprio, Martin Sheen, Jack Nicholson, Alec Baldwin, Vera Farmiga, Mark Wahlberg) Scorsese embarks on a multi-layered hunt for rats, informants and deception on the mean streets of Boston. It’s the perfect antidote to superhero movies. n

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he Cypress Point Winter Carnival has unveiled the details of its events this year.

Set for Feb. 17, the annual festival features both indoor and outdoor arts activities, including an evening show with three-time Juno nominee Danny Michel.

The festivities kick off around noon and run until 4 p.m. with snow and ice sculpting contests, shinny and curling (if the ice is safe), live painting and music, a DJ dance party and magic show with Ira Pettle (set for 1:30 p.m.), a colouring contest, campfire sing-along and more.

There will also be tasty treats, including raclette, chilli and hot chocolate—that’s on top of a “hearty winter dinner” at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets for the show are $35 with dinner and $20 for show-only. Kids 12 and under are $25 with dinner and $15 for the show only. Get them at thepointartists. com or at Armchair Books.

GRAD CLASS SEEKS VINTAGE CLOTHES

Whistler Secondary School’s (WSS) Class of 2019 needs you to do some spring cleaning a little early this year.

The students are preparing for their annual fundraising fashion show, set to take place on Feb. 20, and are trying to collect enough vintage clothing for the hour-long event. This year’s theme is “all about how to dress stylishly, affordably and sustainably in Whistler for fun and for everyday,” says Lisa Geddes, a parent

volunteer who’s helping the students, in an email.

To that end, sponsors include Velvet Underground, Deja Vogue, the Re-Use-It Centre and Vula.

For this event, WSS is considering anything from the ‘90s and earlier as vintage. They’re on the hunt for male and female clothing and accessories, including “denim, leather, festival wear, outerwear, spring break getaway, winter/ summer/spring/fall, glamorous, punk, skater, scholar, etc!”

Clothing—which can be donated or leant—can be dropped off at 3546 Falcon Cres. in Blueberry. There will be a plastic bin with a lid for clothing on the porch—just make sure you label it with your name, phone number and email.

Clothing will be ready for pick up on Feb. 22. The funds raised from the event—which will also include a bake sale and silent auction—will go towards the class’ prom and dry grad.

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Flex your creative muscles at a unique class that offers a two-for-one lesson on Feb. 2.

Bead N Booch is set to run at Whistler Elixir Brewery with participants learning how to make kombucha—complete with a five-flavour tasting—then heading home with their own kombucha scoby and recipe.

Rock The Feather will also be on hand to lead the group in designing and creating their own diffuser bracelets.

Pre-register for $45 or come the dayof for $50. For more, call 604-778-7948 or visit whistlerelixir.com. n

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WHAT’S IN A NAME? The trail names of the two mountains have hundreds of stories

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n Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, names are often used to tell a story. Even names that began as simple descriptions of a place have evolved over time to share a part of Whistler’s history (after all, there is nothing round about the Roundhouse these days). Names of trails, lifts and structures on the mountains are recorded on trail maps, in operational lists and, most visibly, on the signs that direct skiers and snowboarders around Whistler and Blackcomb.

The trail names of the two mountains have hundreds of stories behind them, some hotly contested and some documented. Because we’ve got names on our minds, we’re sharing the meaning behind a few here.

One of the best-known stories is likely the tale behind Burnt Stew, which actually occurred before Whistler Mountain even opened for skiing. During the summer of 1958, museum founder Florence Petersen and friends, Kelly Fairhurst and Don Gow, were camping on Whistler and, forgetting to stir the dinner left cooking in an old billycan, the smell of burning stew began to waft through the air, setting up the moniker we still use to this day.

Other trails were named by or for people who loved to ski them. Chunky’s Choice was the favourite run of Chunky Woodward, one of the founding directors of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. and a member of the Vancouver department store Woodward family. Over on Blackcomb, Xhiggy’s Meadow was named for Peter Xhignesse, 66 | January 31, 2019 | www.piquenewsmagazine.com

one of the original ski patrollers on Blackcomb Mountain.

Many of the names on Blackcomb reference the valley’s forestry history, which was active into the 1970s. A catskinner, for example, is a tractor driver, a cruiser is a logger that surveys standing timber for volume and a springboard is a board used to provide a place to stand when hand-felling large trees.

There are also names that describe something about the trail. According to our sources, Boomer Bowl gets its name from the vibration that rattled windows in Alpine Meadows when the bowl was bombed by avalanche control. Windows today may not quite rattle, but it is still noticeable in Alpine when avalanche control is active near Harmony.

While trail names don’t change frequently, the signs they are inscribed on are replaced every so often. On Thursday, Feb. 7, the museum and the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation are offering the chance to own a piece of Whistler’s mountain history with the sale of over 250 unique trail signs taken off of Whistler and Blackcomb as a fundraiser for both organizations.

Whether you love the trail the name signifies or the significance behind the name or you just really want to let people know when to lower their restraining device, chances are you’ll find a sign that reminds you of days spent on the mountains.

Signs will be available for purchase at whistlerblackcombfoundation.com from 10 a.m., on Feb. 7. Signs can be picked up from the Whistler Museum during our opening hours on Feb. 9, 10 and 14. n

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FASHION FORWARD Fashionism is playing at Garfinkel’s on Sunday, Feb. 3.

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f you want to see just how far punk music’s family tree stretches, look no further than Josh Nickel.

The Vancouver musician currently plays guitar in the glam-punk band Fashionism and holds down vocal duties in the hardcore punk act Chain Whip.

“I don’t expect anyone to like both, but I do,” he says. “It’s different than what it was a long time ago. A long time ago, both those bands wouldn’t have associated with each other. I’d rather it be a whole community. I want to like what I want to like and do what I want to do.”

It also helps that members of both bands have long, storied histories in Vancouver’s music scene. Fashionism, for one, started with “idiot record collectors” wanting to do something new—primarily glam-rock. “It didn’t turn out that way,” Nickel says. “We ended up playing power-pop stuff based on ‘70s music from the U.K.” The result is upbeat, highly danceable and fun. “Fashionism sometimes has a really good response (live),” Nickel says. “People have fun—(the dancing)

depends on how drunk they are.”

Chain Whip, likewise, has its origins rooted in the pursuit of a good time. “I did a Halloween cover band with friends and it ended up being most of what Chain Whip is,” Nickel says. “We wanted to do American hardcore. That (show) went really well and we had a lot of fun doing

WHO: Fashionism and Chain Whip WHERE: Garfinkel’s WHEN: Sun. Feb. 3 at 9 p.m. drop of a hat, just because of the jobs I decided to do,” he adds. “I’m wide open by design like that.”

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it. All of a sudden, we had a record come out—all within six or seven months. I, all of a sudden, had two bands.”

Fashionism “ends up taking precedent sometimes,” he adds. “We did Europe last year and had two records come out.”

On that tour, the group took the road less travelled, performing in places like Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. “I had never been that far out into Eastern Europe. It was really fun. I’m glad we did because a lot of bands don’t end up going that way.”

For 2019, he’s hoping to return with both groups. “It makes it tricky, but my life is set up to do whatever I want at the

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They’ve played the same bill once or twice but “I try not to because it’s annoying,” he says with a laugh. “They sound a lot different from one another and I have different roles in the bands … I have a feeling I’ll blow my voice out in Chain Whip, so I probably shouldn’t do it first.”

Nickel hasn’t been to Whistler “in a long time,” but one pull was the man putting on the event—Scott Arkwell (a.k.a. Vinyl Ritchie).

“I was stoked when Scott wanted to get us up. I love Scott. I was really excited to come up, mostly because I like hanging out with him,” he laughs. “I’m sure it’ll be a fun show.”

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My Records, My Choice If you made an IAP or ADR claim for compensation for residential school abuse, there are records of your claim. You now have the opportunity to choose what happens to those records after your claim is finished.

The choice is yours • Your records from the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) or the Alternative Dispute Resolution process (ADR) are confidential.

• To keep them confidential, you don’t need to do anything.

• If you do nothing, your records will be automatically destroyed on September 19, 2027.

• Until September 19, 2027 you can get a copy of your records for yourself or to share with anyone you choose.

• If you choose, you can preserve your records for history, education, and research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR).

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Yes. To get a copy of your application form, the transcript of your testimony, and your decision, call IAP Information toll free at 1-877-635-2648. Or email IAPRecords_ DocumentsSAPI@irsad-sapi.gc.ca.

Information that identifies other people will be blocked out, to protect their privacy.

It can take several months to receive a copy of your records.

Preserving the history of residential schools The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) has been created to preserve the history of Canada’s residential school system. It is hosted at the University of Manitoba.

It is the permanent home for the records of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).

The NCTR invites those who made a claim in the IAP or ADR to add their records to its collection. These records will be available forever, to researchers and others who want to learn about the history and impact of Canada’s Indian residential schools.

Information that identifies other people will be blocked out, to respect everyone’s privacy.

If you choose to preserve your records with the NCTR, send your completed consent form to the IAP Secretariat and your records will be securely sent to the NCTR. To get a consent form, call IAP Information toll free at 1-877-635-2648 or download the form from www.MyRecordsMyChoice.ca.

How would my records be used at the NCTR? If you choose to preserve your records at the NCTR you may choose either restricted access or open access. “Restricted” means that your name and other information that identifies you is kept confidential. “Open” means that you could be publicly identified.

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CLUB SHRED THURSDAYS The team at Whistler Blackcomb’s Club Shred are bringing the party back to Merlin’s Bar & Grill all season long!

Rotating between Whistler local favorites Red Chair and Joni Toews (from Case Of The Mondays). d Merlin’s Bar & Grill d 7 pm-midnight

KARAOKE NIGHT Come belt out your best covers at karaoke every Thursday night from 9 pm! d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 9 pm

KYLIE FOX Canadian singer-songwriter Kylie Fox combines charming Canadian storytelling with innovative melodies, sung with honesty. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

LOCALS’ NIGHT Party at Whistler’s longest-running locals’ night. Specials all night long. For VIP table bookings or guest list, email info@garfinkels.com. d Garfinkel’s d 7:30 pm

MIKE BELL d Mallard

Lounge d 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm

RUCKUS DELUXE Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy-nominated violinist Ian Cameron playing Celtic and classics on mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar. d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

Clubs/DJs #TBT WITH THE SOUNDS OF STACHE Stache has been on a nomadic musical adventure for almost a decade, travelling the to over 50 countries and sharing his passion for music with others. Drawing influences from all four corners of the globe, his appetite, understanding and energetic delivery will guarantee a funky smorgasbord of beats. Free. free d Three Below d 9 pm-1 am

COCKTAIL DANCE PARTY

THE HAIRFARMERS

Start your weekend early with a handcrafted cocktail. Then hit the dancefloor or rock our legendary dancing cage with help from DJ Peacefrog. d Buffalo Bills d 7 pm

Voted “Whistler’s Best Band” every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs. A Whistler must-see! d Merlin’s Bar & Grill d 3:30-7:30 pm d Longhorn Saloon d 9:30 pm-12:30 am

THE HAIRFARMERS Voted “Whistler’s Best Band” every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs. A Whistler must-see! d Sidecut d 5:30-8:30 pm

LIVE @ BLACK’S

SHUT UP AND PARTY

LIVE MUSIC

Start your weekend off one night early and come get wild with Whistler’s loosest bar staff. With music from Fidel Cashflow and DJ Shearer. Email info@maxxfish.com for VIP and other special perks. d Maxx Fish d 9 pm

Solo artists perform every week, except on the first Friday of every month when they swap out for a full band. No cover, no lineups. d Whistler Brewing Company d 6-9 pm

THROWBACK THURSDAYS WITH MR. TWITCH Enjoy a musical journey of nostalgia curated by Mr. Twitch.

Disco-funk-hip-hop-house and whatever else. Old-school vibes, remixes, mash-ups and new stuff to keep you on your toes. Free. d Three Below d 9 pm-midnight

THURSDAY LOCALS’ NIGHT Come join our legendary locals’ night every Thursday, kicking off the night with a game of skate at 9 p.m. followed by DJ Praiz and friends throwing down some dope tracks. Prizes to be given away each week include concert tickets, snowboards, electric sunnies and skateboards!

Email info@garfinkels.ca for guest list and VIP options. d Garfinkel’s d 9 pm-2 am

THURSDAY NIGHT FUNK FEATURING DJ DAKOTA DJ Dakota and his one-of-a-kind funkadelic style. d The Keg d 10 pm-2 am

FRI.

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Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 9 pm

RUCKUS DELUXE Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy-nominated violinist Ian Cameron playing Celtic and classics on mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar. d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

WILL ROSS Winner of the 2014 Whistler’s Music Search Will Ross is a live-looping extraordinaire, he will have you mesmerized from the start of his show right to the end. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

Clubs/DJs CHAMPAGNE FRIDAY Kick off your weekend at Garf’s. Get on the guest list and join the party: info@garfinkels.ca. d Garfinkel’s d 7:30 pm

DJ MIXMASTERFAB DJ Mixmasterfab Paul Fournier is one of Whistler’s DJ legends and has played around town at most of the bars, Lost Lake and the Bear Foot Bistro. d Cranked Espresso Bar d 5:30-9 pm

FEEL GOOD FRIDAYS

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE

Start the weekend off right with music by B.C.’s finest party DJs mixing the best in hip hop, rap, R&B and party anthems. Whistler’s most energetic dance floor. d Moe Joe’s d 9:30 pm

Live music by Whistler favourites, Red Chair. d Tapley’s Pub d 9 pm

FRIDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB

Live Music

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THE HAIRFARMERS Voted “Whistler’s Best Band” every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs. A Whistler must-see! d Garibaldi Lift Co. (GLC) d 3:30-6:30 pm

LIVE @ BLACK’S Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 9 pm

MARCUS RAMSAY Marcus Ramsay and friends bring the noise with their footstomping, booty-shaking blues-rock style that everyone can enjoy! Playing catchy originals and tasty covers that you know and love. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

MIKKAL WATERS Mikkal Waters broke into the Whistler music scene this past year with a mix of his own originals and covers—ranging from pop hits to ‘90s alt-rock, folk songs and reggae. d Cranked Espresso Bar d 5:30-9 pm

RUCKUS DELUXE Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy-nominated violinist Ian Cameron playing Celtic and classics on mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar. d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

Clubs/DJs LADIES’ NIGHT It’s Whistler’s No. 1 stop for stag and stagette parties. DJ Turtle and friends mix up everything from hip hop, R&B, new rap, dance hall and Top 40 bangers. Email guestlist@ moejoes.com for VIP and group perks. d Moe Joe’s d 9:30 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB Let TyMetal provide the soundtrack to your weekend! d The Keg d 10 pm-2 am

SATURDAY NIGHT SHAKER With music from Fidel Cashflow and DJ C Stylez, two of Whistler’s hardest-working and most-loved DJs spinning the best in Top 40, mash-ups, electro, hip hop and party anthems that will keep your booty shakin’ all night long.

Email info@maxxfish.com for VIP and other special perks. d Maxx Fish d 9 pm

Evening Events

Join us for Whistler's legendary fundraising event of the season and celebrate 26 years of making a difference in our communities!

WHISTLER WINETASTIC PRESENTED BY AVAYA

This action-packed weekend features fun-filled ski events, wine, beer and food galore, our famous silent and live auctions and fabulous live entertainment. All proceeds from the event go to support non-profit charities. Come on out and join us for an event that you don’t want to miss!

Friday, March 1 | Macdonald Ballroom, Fairmont Chateau Whistler Event: $80 | +VIP First Sip: $25 (limited quantities)

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Team Packages TWO-DAY QUARTET Friday & Saturday – $2,200 (4 skiers/snowboarders per team)

ONE-DAY QUARTET Saturday Only – $1,800 (4 skiers/snowboarders per team)

Teams include participation in the Accenture Ski With a Pro Adventure Day* and Après-Ski presented by Corona*, Whistler Blackcomb lift tickets, Embarc Lift Line Priority privileges, CISCO Start-Gate Breakfast, the Engel & Völkers Race Classic, event gift, 4 tickets to the Friday night Whistler Winetastic presented by Avaya* and 4 tickets to the Saturday night Mountain Top Gala presented by Samsung.

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*Two-day quartets only To purchase tickets, register a team, donate an item or for sponsorship opportunities, please visit WHISTLERBLACKCOMBFOUNDATION.COM

Sample from an extensive collection of fantastic wine, beer, spirits and gourmet cheese. Enjoy delectable appetizers from local restaurants including the Bearfoot Bistro, Purebread and Portobello while listening to fabulous live entertainment.

Last pour at 10pm.

NOCHES DE LA HAVANA MOUNTAIN TOP GALA PRESENTED BY SAMSUNG Saturday, March 2 | Roundhouse Lodge, Whistler Mountain | $250 Noches de la Havana is a centuries-spanning, fedora-demanding, flower-splashed fiesta.

Come dance the rumba amongst colonial columns, salsa through Hemingway’s sea of rum and hand rolled cigars and mambo into the modern madness of the Tropicana nightclub. Ladies, your bata cubanas are calling your name; gentlemen, your guayaberas will not be ignored! On a Caribbean island at the top of a mountain, we will defy our weather together!

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Nightlife

BARS , C L U B S & P U B S

SUPREME SATURDAY

SUNDAY NIGHT THEORY WITH TYMETAL

DJ Nikky from Vancouver brings the Whistler’s biggest weekend party and best vibe. VIP champagne parades along with the hottest hip hop and remixes! For VIP and guest list, email info@garfinkels.ca. d Garfinkel’s d 10 pm

THE CURE LOUNGE SESSIONS Enjoy lake views while DJ Smokey sets the tone with a blend of soulful house tracks. d Cure Lounge at Nita Lake Lodge d 5 pm

SUN.

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Live Music

ACOUSTIC SESSIONS Gather your pals and listen to some of Whistler’s best local musicians after treating yourself to our weekly homestyle Sunday roast. d Three Below d 8 pm

OPEN MIC JAM NIGHT An open stage invitation for all who can sing, perform or even just wanna jam out with our house band. Whistler’s longest-running jam night every Sunday at Crystal Lounge.

All instruments provided. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

TyMetal’s unique blend of rock, funk and R&B is unmatched and will leave your ears craving more! The evolution of Sunday night is here. d The Keg d 10 pm-1 am

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Live Music

FVCK MONDAYS The wildest party in Whistler on a Monday night continues with music from Fidel Cashflow, Dan Darley, The Rogue Killers and DJ Shearer. Throwing down all the hottest tunes you know and love. Deep, tech, bass, house, trap, hip hop and more. Email info@maxxfish.com for VIP plus special perks. d Maxx Fish d 9 pm

SUNDAY SESSIONS The best locals’ party in Whistler. d Tapley’s Pub d 9 pm

THE WHISKEYRICHARDS The WhiskeyRichards are a group of Celtic Gypsy punk rockers who have spent the better part of a decade carving a reputation for themselves as “one hell of a good time.” d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 pm

Clubs/DJs GAMES NIGHT AT PANGEA Challenge your crew: Cards Against Humanity, Jenga, Settlers of Catan, HedBanz, and many more. Drinks and food specials all night long. d Pangea Pod Hotel d 4 pm

SEND IT SUNDAYS With music from T-Zen and DJ Shearer. Keep your weekend alive, and join us on Sunday nights for one of Whistler’s wildest industry nights. Email info@maxxfish.com for VIP plus special perks. d Maxx Fish d 9 pm

SOULFUL SUNDAYS Soul Club Whistler spinning that funky soul soundtrack. d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 9 pm

THE SUNDAY GLOW PARTY Moe Joe’s is transformed into a psychedelic UV-infused rave cathedral, as Fidel Cashflow, Zapps and La Dooda cook up an aural feast of house and electro beats. Arrive early to beat the line. d Moe Joe’s d 9 pm

Daniel Hughes is an up-and-coming acoustic artist that’s quickly turning into one of Whistler’s favourites to watch. He plays a crowd-pleasing mix of jazz, R&B and pop classics. d Cranked Espresso Bar d 4:30-7:30 pm

KARAOKE NIGHT “I Will Survive” won’t sing itself, so come over to Whistler’s longest-running karaoke night and belt out all your favourite hits. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

LOCALS LIVE Grab your friends and come down to get up to perform on our open mic. d FireRock Lounge d 9 pm

THE WHISKEYRICHARDS The WhiskeyRichards are a group of Celtic Gypsy punk rockers who have spent the better part of a decade carving a reputation for themselves as “one hell of a good time.” d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

MARTINI MONDAY d Buffalo

Clubs/DJs

Bills d 7:30 pm

The WhiskeyRichards are a group of Celtic Gypsy punk rockers who have spent the better part of a decade carving a reputation for themselves as “one hell of a good time.” d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

Clubs/DJs Sport and beer what more do you need? How about a chance to win our famous Meat Raffle? Proceeds donated to charity. d Tapley’s Pub d 9 pm

MEXICAN MONDAY Feel the heat by our fireplace and pretend you are back on the beach. d FireRock Lounge d 5 pm

MONDAY MADNESS Fidel Cashflow, Dan Darley and Billy The Kid throw down all the hottest deep and dirty beats you know and love. Deep tech, bass, house, trap, plus more. d Maxx Fish d 9:30 pm

MONDAY NIGHT FEATURING DJ GAINZ DJ Gainz has taken over Monday so come get your fix of the freshest tracks in town! d The Keg d 10 pm-2 am

TRIVIA NIGHT The Crystal Lounge hosts trivia every Monday night!

Bring your friends and test your knowledge for a night of fun, laughs, prizes and the chance to “burn your bill.”

Conditions apply. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

TUE.

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FEB

Live Music

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES Blues night with Sean Rose. d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 8 pm

CELLAR SESSIONS With live music from Neverland Nights and guests, playing all your rock, alternative and party jams all night long. Plus DJ sets from Fidel Cashflow. d Maxx Fish d 9 pm

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Bringing a wide variety of sounds to your Tuesday evening, ED:WIN will be playing “AllSorts” of music to get you dancing down at Three Below every Tuesday night. Listen to hip hop, R&B, house, garage and disco! Free. d Three Below d 9 pm-1:30 am

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FEB

Live Music

CLUB SHRED THURSDAYS The team at Whistler Blackcomb’s Club Shred are bringing the party back to Merlin’s Bar & Grill all season long!

Rotating between Whistler local favorites Red Chair and Joni Toews (from Case Of The Mondays). d Merlin’s Bar & Grill d 7 pm-midnight

KARAOKE NIGHT Come belt out your best covers at karaoke every Thursday night from 9 pm! d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 9 pm

LOCALS’ NIGHT Party at Whistler’s longest-running locals’ night. Specials all night long. For VIP table bookings or guest list, email info@garfinkels.com. d Garfinkel’s d 7:30 pm

Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy nominated violinist Ian Cameron playing Celtic and classics on mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar. d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

Clubs/DJs

BINGO

MEATY MONDAY

THU.

RUCKUS DELUXE

ALLSORTS

THE WHISKEYRICHARDS

RED CHAIR Red Chair is a local Whistler rock band with an impressive and versatile set list. They have become a hometown favourite with their selection of bar classics, high-energy performances and great musicianship. d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 9 pm

DANIEL HUGHES

Channel your inner granny and dominate bingo at the locals’ living room. d Tapley’s Pub d 8 pm

TUESDAY NIGHT FEATURING DJ DAKOTA Dakota brings his crowd-pleasing hip-hop vibes to Tuesday night. d The Keg d 10 pm-2 am

WED.

06

FEB

Live Music

INDUSTRY NIGHT Live music from Neverland Nights. d Buffalo Bills d 6 pm

JAM NIGHT Jam Night with Kostaman and Friends every Wednesday night from 9 pm. d Black’s Pub & Restaurant d 9 pm

LOZEN Lozen’s collage of lyrical flow and smooth vocal melodies over criss-crossing genres keep people engaged. Live shows are high energy, raw and authentic. d Crystal Lounge d 9 pm

MATTHEW HOLLAND Matthew Holland shreds a wide range of acoustic hits and sings with an unforgettable raspiness in his voice. d Cranked Espresso Bar d 4:30-7:30 pm

RUCKUS DELUXE Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy nominated violinist Ian Cameron playing Celtic and classics on mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar. d Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub d 3:45 & 9 pm

#TBT WITH THE SOUNDS OF STACHE Stache has been on a nomadic musical adventure for almost a decade, travelling to over 50 countries and sharing his passion for music with others. Drawing influences from all four corners of the globe, his appetite, understanding and energetic delivery will guarantee a funky smorgasbord of beats. Free. d Three Below d 9 pm-1 am

COCKTAIL DANCE PARTY Start your weekend early with a handcrafted cocktail. Then hit the dancefloor or rock our legendary dancing cage with help from DJ Peacefrog. d Buffalo Bills d 7 pm

LEVEL UP - HOUSE & TECHNO Featuring a rotating selection of DJs playing some of the best underground electronic dance music in house and techno, the “Level Up” nights are set to up your dance game. Hosted by DJ Miss KosmiK. d Moe Joe’s d 9:30 pm-2 am

SHUT UP AND PARTY Start your weekend off one night early and come get wild with Whistler’s loosest bar staff. With music from Fidel Cashflow and DJ Shearer. Email info@maxxfish.com for VIP and other special perks. d Maxx Fish d 9 pm

THROWBACK THURSDAYS WITH MR. TWITCH Enjoy a musical journey of nostalgia curated by Mr. Twitch.

Disco-funk-hip-hop-house and whatever else. Old-school vibes, remixes, mash-ups and new stuff to keep you on your toes. Free. d Three Below d 9 pm-midnight

THURSDAY LOCALS’ NIGHT Come join our legendary locals’ night every Thursday, kicking off the night with a game of skate at 9 p.m. followed by DJ Praiz and friends throwing down some dope tracks. Prizes to be given away each week include concert tickets, snowboards, electric sunnies and skateboards!

Email info@garfinkels.ca for guest list and VIP options. d Garfinkel’s d 9 pm-2 am

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Week of January 31st By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You’ll be invited to make a pivotal transition in the history of your relationship with your most important life goals. It should be both fun and daunting! MARCH: Don’t waste time and energy trying to coax others to haul away the junk and the clutter. Do it yourself. APRIL: The growing pains should feel pretty good. Enjoy the uncanny stretching sensations. MAY: It’ll be a favourable phase to upgrade your personal finances. Think richer thoughts.

Experiment with new ideas about money. JUNE: Build two strong bridges for every rickety bridge you burn.

Create two vital connections for every stale connection you leave behind.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You have access to a semi-awkward magic that will serve you well if you don’t complain about its semi-awkwardness. MARCH: To increase your clout and influence, your crucial first step is to formulate a strong intention to do just that. The universe will then work in your behalf. APRIL: Are you ready to clean messes and dispose of irrelevancies left over from the past? Yes! MAY: You can have almost anything you want if you resolve to use it for the greatest good.

JUNE: Maintain rigourous standards, but don’t be a fanatic. Strive for excellence without getting bogged down in a counterproductive quest for perfection.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Be alert for vivid glimpses of your best possible future. The power of self-fulfilling prophecy is even stronger than usual. MARCH: High integrity and ethical rigour are crucial to your success—and so is a longing for sacred adventure. APRIL: How can you make the best use of your likability? MAY: Cheerfully dismantle an old system or structure to make way for a sparkling new system or structure. JUNE: Beginner’s luck will be yours if you choose the right place to begin.

What’s a bit intimidating but very exciting?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Your sensual magnetism peaks at the same time as your spiritual clarity. MARCH: You want toasted ice? Succulent fire? Earthy marvels? Homey strangeness? All of that is within reach. APRIL: Sow the seeds of the most interesting success you can envision. Your fantasy of what’s possible should thrill your imagination, not merely satisfy your sense of duty.

MAY: Deadline time. Be as decisive and forthright as an Aries, as bold as a Sagittarius, as systematic as a Capricorn. JUNE: Go wading in the womb-temperature ocean of emotion, but be mindful of the undertow.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are your fortune-cookiestyle horoscopes for the next five months. FEBRUARY: There’s a general amnesty in all matters regarding your relationships. Cultivate truces and forgiveness.

MARCH: Drop fixed ideas you might have about what’s possible and what’s not. Be keenly open to unexpected healings. APRIL: Wander out into the frontiers. Pluck goodies that have been off-limits. Consider the value of ignoring certain taboos. MAY: Sacrifice a small comfort so as to energize your ambitions. JUNE: Take a stand in behalf of your beautiful ideals and sacred truths.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Master the Zen of constructive anger.

Express your complaints in a holy cause. MARCH: You finally get a message you’ve been waiting to receive for a long time. Hallelujah! APRIL: Renew your most useful vows. Sign a better contract. Come to a more complete agreement. MAY: Don’t let your preconceptions inhibit you from having a wildly good time. JUNE: Start your own club, band, organization, or business. Or reinvent and reinvigorate your current one.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Be open to romantic or erotic adventures that are different from how love has worked in the past. MARCH: You’ll be offered interesting, productive problems. Welcome them! APRIL: Can you explore what’s experimental and fraught with interesting uncertainty even as you stay well-grounded? Yes! MAY: You can increase your power by not hiding your weakness. People will trust you most if you show your vulnerability. A key to this season’s model of success is the ability to calmly express profound emotion. JUNE: Wild cards and X-factors and loopholes will be more available than usual. Don’t be shy about using them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: The world may finally be ready to respond favourably to the power you’ve been storing up.

MARCH: Everything you thought you knew about love and lust turns out to be too limited. So expand your expectations and capacities! APRIL: Extremism and obsession can be useful in moderation. MAY: Invisible means of support will become visible. Be alert for half-hidden help. JUNE: Good questions: What do other people find valuable about you? How can you enhance what’s valuable about you?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are your fortune-cookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You’ll have the need and opportunity to accomplish some benevolent hocus-pocus. For best results, upgrade your magical powers. MARCH: Make sure the turning point happens in your power spot or on your home turf. APRIL: You should be willing to go anywhere, ask any question, and even risk your pride if necessary so as to coax your most important relationships into living up to their potentials. MAY: If at first you don’t succeed, change the definition of success. JUNE: You can achieve more through negotiation and compromise than you could by pushing heedlessly ahead in service to your singleminded vision.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: A new phase of your education will begin when you acknowledge how much you have to learn.

MARCH: Initiate diplomatic discussions about the Things That Never Get Talked About. APRIL: Revise your ideas about your dream home and your dream community.

MAY: You have the power to find healing for your oldest lovesickness. If you do find it, intimacy will enter a new Golden Age. JUNE: Solicit an ally’s ingenuity to help you improvise a partial solution to a complex problem.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: Start a new trend that will serve your noble goals for years to come. MARCH: Passion comes back into fashion with a tickle and a shiver and a whoosh.

APRIL: As you expand and deepen your explorations, call on the metaphorical equivalents of both a telescope and a microscope. MAY: This is the beginning of the end of what you love to complain about. Hooray! JUNE: You’ll have an abundance of good reasons to celebrate the fact that you are the least normal sign in the zodiac.

Celebrate your idiosyncrasies!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are your fortunecookie-style horoscopes for the next five months.

FEBRUARY: You’ll have a knack for enhancing the way you express yourself and present yourself. The inner you and the outer you will become more unified.

MARCH: You’ll discover two original new ways to get excited. APRIL: Be bold as you make yourself available for a deeper commitment that will spawn more freedom.

MAY: What are the gaps in your education? Make plans to mitigate your most pressing area of ignorance. JUNE: Your body’s ready to tell you secrets that your mind has not yet figured out. Listen well.

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6:30-8:30pm | Free | Cash Bar | Maury Young Arts Centre | Everyone welcome We had so many amazing cover art submissions for the Winter Arts Scene – we just had to make it a show!

Grab your friends and get in on an exci�ng art party for our community’s many dazzling local ar�sts, have a drink and a delicious bite to eat, enjoy live music and even help complete a giant paint-by-numbers.

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PiqueCal YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL EVENTS FOR EVENTS IN BARS, CLUBS AND PUBS, PLEASE SEE PAGE 70 For a complete guide to events in Whistler, visit piquenewsmagazine.com/events

O NGOING & DAILY COMMUNITY

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

PRENATAL CLASSES

This program helps support women and their partners in making informed decisions about their prenatal and birth experience.

To sign up, please call Bev Nolan-Newsome, certified childbirth educator, internationally certified lactation consultant and registered doula at 604-894-5389. > Ongoing > Whistler COMMUNITY

GAMES CAFE

Come in and enjoy a massive selection of popular games. Sunday to Thursday. > 4-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

THE CULTURAL CONNECTOR: A JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY As you follow the Cultural Connector route, you’ll discover the stories that enrich Whistler’s culture, the venues that celebrate it and the milestones that we’ve achieved along the way. The pathway will lead you through beautiful surroundings and six cultural institutions: Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, Whistler Museum, Whistler Public Library, Maury Young Arts Centre, Lost Lake PassivHaus, and Audain Art Museum. Free. > Ongoing > Maury Young Arts Centre

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Learn more about Whistler’s culture and history. Now open by donation. > Daily 11am-5pm, Thu until 9pm > Whistler Museum

THURSDAY JAN31 COMMUNITY

BNI MOUNTAIN HIGH

GAMES CAFE

program is made possible by yoga instructors and childminders donating their time. Contact us to join the team. Free. 604-962-8711. > 9:30-10:30 am > Whistler Women’s Centre

SUNDAY-THURSDAY 4-8 PM CRANKED ESPRESSO BAR

your local community and international projects.

Lunch is available for $20. Everyone welcome. > 12:15 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side

BNI provides a positive and structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Register by emailing David Livesey at david_livesey@cooperators.ca. $20. > 6:45-8:30 am > The Venue

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WOMEN’S KARMA YOGA

ROTARY CLUB OF WHISTLER MILLENNIUM

WALK AND TALK SERIES

Drop-in for weekly yoga classes led by an all-female team of certified 200-hour yoga instructors. Includes mat use and childminding.

All women, all ability levels welcome. This

PARENT INFANT DROP-IN

An opportunity to develop a supportive social network with other parents of young babies.

Speakers and a public-health nurse are often in attendance. Free. > 11 am-12:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

Join the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium to learn about what the club is doing to support

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WHISTLER MUSEUM

These drop-in tours are free with the purchase of admission or museum membership.

604-962-0413. > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

COMMUNITY

DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB

The club meets every week and visitors are welcome. For a partner, please call Gill at 604-932-5791. > 1-5 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

Docents will provide visitors with an introduction to the Audain Art Museum and its permanent collection. Visitors will be encouraged to explore the galleries afterwards.

COMMUNITY

LUNA PRESENTS THURSDAY NIGHT YOGA

Come shake your shanti in a 90-minute Hatha Flow yoga class. Get in the flow with an emphasis on breathing and movement. 18-to-35-year-olds only, free positive vibes for all in attendance! $3 for non-members, free for Luna members. > 5:30-7 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre

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WHISTLER YOUTH BAND

Let the trumpets sing! The Whistler Youth Band is a beginner band for youth ages 10 and up. Grab an instrument and make music with friends. > 6-7:30 pm > Myrtle Philip Community School

and Whistler! Everyone and every age is welcome. Casual meet up, workshops, information about living in Canada. Check calendar at welcomewhistler.com for full details. Contact info@welcomewhistler.com or 604-698-5960. > 9:30 am-noon > Whistler Public Library ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

COMMUNITY

WHISTLER’S BLACK BEARS: 2018 IN REVIEW WITH MICHAEL ALLEN

Join local bear expert Michael Allen for a review of our black bear population in 2018! Due to the popularity of Michael’s talks, this event will take place at Maury Young Arts Centre. This event is free to attend, but seating is limited!

Doors will open at 6:30 for a 7 p.m. start. > 7-9 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre

SQUAMISH + PEMBERTON

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME

Books, songs and rhymes for preschoolaged children, accompanied by a caregiver.

Registration is not required. > 10:30-11 am > Whistler Public Library ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WORKBC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DROP IN

Drop-in to the Pemberton Public Library every Thursday afternoon and learn how WorkBC can assist you in your job search and career planning. All services are free. For details, call 1-877-932-1611. > 1-5 pm > Pemberton Library (Pemberton)

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

Triathlon focused swim squads. Full details at whistlertriclub.com/training-sessions. Free to members for fall (includes entry into Meadow Park). Non-members $8 drop-in (includes entry into Meadow Park). > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre COMMUNITY

WELCOME CENTRE MULTICULTURAL MEET UP

Come and say, “hi” if you are new to Canada

Local artists and artisans sell their goods at the Made in Whistler Market. Free admission. > 12-6 pm > Westin Resort & Spa ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Looking for something different to do on a Friday night? Head to the Audain Art Museum on the first Friday of each month for an evening of casual, lively and informative programs that will provide opportunities for discussion, engagement and hands-on activities relating to both the Audain’s permanent collection and its changing exhibitions. These may include presentations, performances, workshops, quizzes and more. A tour will take place at 5:30 pm. > 5-7 pm > Audain Art Museum

SATURDAY FEB 2 COMMUNITY

SINGING WITH THE BABIES

Learn songs and rhymes to soothe and entertain baby while encouraging early

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See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

See Friday’s listing for more info. > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre COMMUNITY

MUSIC & WORDS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ART TALKS

Every month, the Whistler Contemporary Gallery will be featuring an artist from their diverse collection of contemporary artists. The gallery invites the public to come and explore the artistic process offering a fascinating insight from conception to completion. > 4 pm > Whistler Contemporary Gallery COMMUNITY

WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN

See Friday’s listing for more info. > 6-10 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

This drop-in program is for kids two to four years and it focuses on early literacy through music, rhyme, stories and movement. Free. > 10 am > Whistler Public Library COMMUNITY

WORKBC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DROP IN

Get your resume reviewed, learn about the local labour market, job search tips, and more. All services are free. For details, call 1-877-932-1611 or go to WhistlerESC.com. > 3-6 pm > Whistler Public Library COMMUNITY

FAMILY APRÈS

SUNDAY FEB 3

Whistler knows how to après and now the whole family can celebrate a great day on the slopes with even more fun at Whistler Olympic Plaza. Parents can share stories while the kids participate in a variety of outdoor, winter activities and entertainment each week. > 3-6 pm > Whistler Olympic Plaza

COMMUNITY

LEARN TO MEDITATE WITH SUSAN REIFER

WALK AND TALK SERIES

SPORTS

COMMUNITY

For ages 13 to 18. We offer ping pong, a skateboard mini-ramp (skateboards and helmets to borrow), free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, guitars, board games, a projector and widescreen TVs. Free. 604-935-8187. > 3:30-11 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

MONDAY FEB 4

WALK AND TALK SERIES

A parent-directed hour with board games, crafts and a story corner with felt puppets. A drop-in program for families of all ages. Free. > 3:30-4:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

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See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 3 & 7 pm > Audain Art Museum

can apply in your everyday life. Open to all.

Register at publicservices@whistlerlibrary.ca or call 604-935-8435 to claim a spot. > 2-4 pm > Whistler Public Library

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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language development. For kids up to walking age. Free. > 11-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

In this two-hour session, you’ll learn practical foundations of meditation and mindfulness, and become equipped with nondenominational tools and practices that you

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WONDER CLUB

The Wonder Club is an outdoor program open to students in Grades 1 and 2 and runs from October until May. Explore the wonders of science, nature and all the wild and wonderful things in the library’s beautiful backyard. Join us for interactive activities, creativity in nature, science experiments, and active games while we have lots of fun getting curious about the things about the living world around us! Registration is required, so call us at 604-935-8436, email youthservices@whistlerlibrary.ca, or drop by the library to sign up! > 3:30-4:30 pm > Florence Petersen Park COMMUNITY

GAMES NIGHT

Visit the Whistler Public Library for a free evening of board games, popcorn and Oreo cookies. Play strategy games such as Ticket To Ride, Settlers of Catan and Carcassonne or traditional favourites like Monopoly, Scrabble and Clue. Sponsored by The Friends of the Library. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ACOUSTIC COFFEE HOUSE

WONDER CLUB

FEB 4 FLORENCE PETERSEN PARK

The Acoustic Coffee House is back! Come join in with this afternoon of music. > 4-6 pm > Grimms Deli (Pemberton)

TUESDAY FEB 5 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

RHYME & SONG

This program gives toddlers, parents and caregivers the opportunity to learn songs, rhymes and finger plays together. Movement is encouraged and your preschooler’s early language and literacy development is supported. For more information, please come to the library, call 604-935-8436 or email youthservice@whistlerlibary.ca. Free. > 10:30-11 am > Whistler Public Library COMMUNITY

CREATING COMMUNITY AND COHOUSING

Join us on our journey to creating real community through the cohousing model of building a neighbourhood community.

Cohousing is not a commune, not a cooperative.

For more information, visit our website at thecoastalvillage.ca or call Janey Harper at 778840-1529. > 11:30 am-1:30 pm COMMUNITY

WE RUN WHISTLER: WEEKLY GROUP RUN

Group run for intermediate runners and above.

Two distance options: approximately 5 km and 10 km. Check our Facebook page, facebook. com/groups/werunwhistler for weekly updates.

Headlamps mandatory. #werunwhistler rain or shine… or snow! Free. > 5:55 pm > Lululemon

SPORTS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

COMMUNITY

TENNIS LOCALS’ NIGHT

BOOK & CRAFT CLUB

MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WHISTLER TOASTMASTERS

All levels are welcome to join in the locals’ night. Clinic for beginners and casual play for intermediate and advanced players. Free racket rental, snacks and beverage included! $20.

604-932-1991. > 6:30-8:30 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

Drop in for this casual session, where preschool-aged children will enjoy a short story and then use different media to create a fun craft. A great opportunity for parents to connect with other parents of young children! > 10:30-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

Build communication, public speaking, and leadership skills with Mountain Spirit Whistler Toastmasters. Everyone welcome. > 5:30-7 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY

ECOFLIX: HAPPENING: A CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION

FAMILY APRÈS

GREEN DRINKS

EcoFlix is back for another season! Join us each month for a screening of an environmental film followed by a thoughtful discussion. This month, catch Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library COMMUNITY

WHISTLER SINGERS

Whistler’s community choir. No auditions and everyone welcome. 604-932-2979. > 7-9 pm > Myrtle Philip Community Centre

WEDNESDAY FEB 6 SPORTS

INDOOR PICKLEBALL DROP-IN

Have fun with others learning the fastest growing sport in North America or simply play a game! All levels welcome. Free paddle rental. $8. 604-932-1991. > 10-11:30 am > Whistler Racquet Club

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See Monday’s listing for more info. > 3-6 pm > Whistler Olympic Plaza ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WALK AND TALK SERIES

See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum COMMUNITY

INTERACT CLUB OF WHISTLER

Interact is a club for young people ages 12 to 18 who want to make a difference in their community, mentored by the Rotary Club of Whistler and Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium. The club includes students from Whistler Secondary School, Waldorf, Spring Creek and Myrtle Philip who want to join together to tackle the issues in their community they care most about. > 4-5 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

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SQUAMISH + PEMBERTON

Green Drinks is a global movement in over 70 countries and 537 cities worldwide. It is hosted locally by AWARE, Whistler’s environmental charity. The group comes together on every first Wednesday of the month to discuss local or global environmental issues and concern, brainstorming ideas and promoting sustainable living. A great way to meet new likeminded people in town and have stimulating conversation. By donation. > 7-9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant COMMUNITY

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL

Are you smarter than the average 5th grader?

Let’s hope so as Stache brings you trivia with a Whistler twist. All the regular rounds plus our weekly degenerate round full of public & celebrity scandals. Great banter and awesome prizes! Free. > 9-10:30 pm > Three Below

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Vista Place is a new, leading-edge residential and business rental complex minutes from downtown Pemberton and all the Sea-to-Sky Corridor has to offer. The development’s first phase, Vista Place I, will be completed in early 2019. Spacious contemporary apartments on the second storey feature stunning views - and have been designed with long-term livability in mind. Versatile secondfloor office spaces and groundfloor commercial spaces are ready to be customized to suit your small business vision. info@vistaplacebc.com https://vistaplacepemberton.com/

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Family of three people looking for executive rental. Local Business owner in Whistler for 20 plus years.

Willing to look after any property management. Minimum three bed required. Call to discuss renting your property to these ideal tenants. Shauna O’Callaghan 604905-9105 shauna@shaunaocallaghan.com

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Monthly or seasonal rental accommodation that is available to local renters for less than 12 months, or where the rental price varies throughout the year.

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Send your resume to careers@mongoliegrill.com Or drop off your resume in person before 5pm!

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Tuesdays at 7:15 a.m.

BG Urban Grill: 604-905-5090 & Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. at the Pan Pacific, Mountainside. www.whistler-rotary.org Pemberton Rotary Club at the Pemberton Community Centre, Wednesdays at 7:15am www.pembertonrotary.ca

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WHISTLER’S RE-IMAGINED ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Join an established management team at Il Caminetto - the newest Whistler restaurant to join the Toptable Group famiglia! The storied restaurant offers a modern taste of Italy to bring a fresh, contemporary style of dining to the mountain.

RESERVATIONS MANAGER Il Caminetto is seeking a full-time Reservations Manager.

This individual will set the tone for the entire dining experience while overseeing the front desk team. The ideal candidate is well spoken, organized, confident, outgoing, and well-presented.

QUALIFICATIONS • Minimum 2 years experience in a fine dining or comparable environment is required • Post Secondary education is an asset • Familiarity with OpenTable is an asset

EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES APPLY TODAY! Diamond Resorts Canada Ltd., Whistler, BC

Full Time Maintenance/Pool Technician $18.50 per hour plus benefits Eligible successful candidates may receive*: • Extensive benefits package which may include; ski pass or wellness allowance, disability coverage, travel insurance and extended health and dental.

• Travel allowance and discounted employee rates at any Diamond Resort International resort.

• Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment.

We offer year round full time hours, competitive wages, gratuities, extended medical & dental, accommodations, potential for future growth within the company, and an employee discount at all Toptable restaurants.

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Sea to Sky Healing Room - For Blessing/Prayer/Encouragement In the Community Church building, 7422 Dogwood Street, Pemberton.

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday: 4-6 PM

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Basalt Wine + Salumeria are currently looking to fill the roles of:

HOSTS LUNCH SERVERS LINE COOKS DISHWASHERS Please send your cover letter and resume to skeenan-naf@crystal-lodge.com Wages are very competitive (based on experience), great perks and benefits.

Full and Part Time positions available. Come join the best team in Whistler!

Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub is hiring:

LINE COOK DISHWASHER

Welcome Centre at Whistler Public Library Information, support, community connections and ESL practice groups for newcomers and immigrants.

Meet people, make connections, volunteer, build your communication skills in English. Multicultural Meet Up every Friday 9.30-12pm.604-6985960 info@welcomewhistler.com FB: WhistlerWelcomeCentre

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Work at Whistler’s best location!

Refine or jump-start your culinary career in our fast-paced and busy kitchen. We offer competitive wages, tips and a season ski pass. Please stop by the pub between 10am and 5pm with a copy of your resume.

You can also submit your resume via email to careers@dubhlinngate.com

Made in Whistler Market- Saturday's from 12-6p.m. on December 15th, 22nd, 23rd, 29th & 30th. Then every Saturday, January 2019 through March 2019. Free Admission at The Westin Resort & Spa in Whistler.

VOLUNTEERS Big Brothers, Big Sisters Sea to Sky Volunteer to Mentor- just 1hr/week - and make a difference in a child's life. Call 604-892-3125.

EDUCATION Mountain Country Property Management is currently recruiting for the following position:

Property Manager The Property Manager will be responsible for the management of a portfolio of residential properties in Whistler. The candidate will possess experiences preferably in customer service, owner relations, communications, building maintenance and working independently.

Preference will be given to candidates who have completed or are enrolled in the Rental Property Management licensing program.

Growth and development opportunity. Salary position with medical, ski, and education benefits.

___________________________________________ Submit your resume by e-mail to Gord Low at glow@mountaincountry.ca www.mountaincountry.ca

FIRST AID AND SURVIVAL Roland’s Pub & Red Door Bistro Are Hiring

DISHWASHERS Start immediately!

Full and part time available, day and night shifts.

Wage based on experience (minimum $14/hr), plus tips and staff meal each shift.

Extended Medical & Dental benefits after 3 months full time employment.

Staff discounts in Roland's Pub and Red Door Bistro.

Apply in person with resume to 2129 Lake Placid Road.

Avalanche Skills Training Courses - Level 1+ & Level 2 Glacier Travel / Crevasse Rescue Courses Guided Backcountry Adventures (WB Passholder discounts available)

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DISHWASHERS Full-time and year round. We feature evening work only, staff meals, competitive wages and a great work environment. So if you’re looking for a change or some extra hours, come by and see us.

Flexible schedules are available.

REPLY IN PERSON WITH RESUME BETWEEN 3-5 AT QUATTRO 4319 Main St. in the Pinnacle Hote

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Arts Whistler - Full arts & culture listings. Comprehensive artist directory & programs, events & performances yearround. For info 604-935-8410 or visit www.artswhistler.com Pemberton Arts Council - Connect with other artists, writers, artisans, musicians & help make Pemberton a vibrant arts community. Call 604-452-0123 or visit www.pembertonartscouncil.com Pemberton Writers - Meet with other writers to review and critique monthly.

Opportunities for writing in a comfortable and creative setting. Email crowley7@ telus.net

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Sea to Sky Singers - Invites new & former members to join us for an exciting new term, the spring & fall terms culminate with a concert. Choir meets Tues, 7-9pm at Squamish Academy of Music, 2nd Ave. Veronica seatoskysingers@gmail.com or 604-892-7819 www.seatoskysingers.net Whistler Community Band - Rehearsals on Tuesdays 7 - 8:15 pm CONTACT whistlerchorus@gmail.com FOR LOCATION Whistler Singers - Resumes September 11th, 2018 for the fall/winter sea-son.

Rehearsals are Tuesdays from 7 to 9pm at Myrtle Philip School in the Toad Hall room. Everyone is welcome!

Inquiries can be sent to whistlersingers@gmail.com For more info, visit: https://www.facebook.com/whistlersingers/

CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS Donate Used Clothing & Household Goods- To be distributed to local charities

by Sharon 604-894-6656 for pick up.

Playground Builders: Creating Play Building Hope - Playground Builders is a registered charity that builds playgrounds for children in war-torn areas. Learn more, volunteer or donate at www. playgroundbuilders.org Sea to Sky Community Services running dozens of programs in Whistler to help people through times of crisis and with everyday challenges. www.sscs.ca 1-877-892-2022 admin@sscs.ca Stewardship Pemberton Society and the One Mile Lake Nature CentreConnecting community, nature and people through education, cooperation, and community involvement. www. stewardshippemberton.com Whistler Health Care Foundation raises funds for improving health care resources and services. New board members welcomed. Contact us at info@ whistlerhealthcarefoundation.org or call Karen at 604-906-1435.

is now hiring for the following position:

Front Desk Agent Room Attendant Houseman Ski Concierge

Griffin Squadron Squamish Air Cadets- Open to youth 12-18yrs at Don Ross Secondary School on Tues at 6:30pm.

Pemberton Valley Snowmobile Club Meets first Thurs of each month Dec - April, 7pm at the Pemberton Comm.

Centre. BCSF/Rutherford trail passes & liability insurance available for purchase.

Contact 604-894-1155 for info.

Pemberton Valley Trails AssociationMeets the second Wed of each month.

7pm at the Pemberton Recreation Centre. Call 604-698-6158

Il Caminetto is the newest Whistler restaurant to join the Toptable Group famiglia! The storied restaurant offers a modern taste of Italy to bring a fresh, contemporary style of dining to the mountain.

FRONT-OF-HOUSE:

BACK-OF-HOUSE:

Host or Hostess

Line Cooks

Food Expeditor Server Assistant

(2-3 years related experience)

Dishwashers

Full-time and Part-time *seasonal incentives available

Please email resume to hr@listelhotel.com Thank you for your interest. Only those applicants being considered for an interview will be contacted.

We offer year round full and part-time hours, competitive wages, gratuities, extended medical & dental, accommodations, potential for future growth within the company, and an employee discount at all Toptable restaurants.

Please email your resume & cover letter to:

careers@ilcaminetto.ca

Café Managers We are hiring a Floor Manager and a Café Manager for our Whistler cafés.

The Green Moustache Organic Café serves organic, whole-food cuisine made fresh daily.

Our manager positions are full-time with competitive wages, tips, discounts and opportunities for growth with the company.

If you have restaurant management experience and love healthy food, please apply at www.greenmoustache.com/hiring

EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES APPLY TODAY! Diamond Resorts Canada Ltd., Whistler, BC

Full & Part Time Housekeepers Eligible successful candidates may receive*:

• Retention Bonus Program of up to $1,200 for eligible candidates.

• Extensive benefits package which may include; ski pass or wellness allowance, disability coverage, travel insurance and extended health and dental.

• Travel Allowance and discounted employee rates at any Diamond Resort International resort.

• Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment. *eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment.

SPORTS & RECREATION Alpine Club of Canada Whistler Section- Outdoor club focused on ski/split board touring, hiking, mountaineering and skills training.

More info: accwhistler.ca Trip Schedule: accwhistler.ca/trips/

WHISTLER’S RE-IMAGINED ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Email your resume with the position you wish to apply for to: Madiha.Hassan@diamondresorts.com

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We are hiring journeymen & apprentices for the following trades:

Plumbers, Gas Fitters, HVAC, Refrigeration, Skilled General Labour We are a seven-day-a-week service and repair company working from North Vancouver to Pemberton. We provide flexible steady employment, good wages, benefit package, service vehicle, cell phone and more. The successful candidate will be a professional tradesman both in appearance, skill and attitude that is able to work independently and as part of a team.

Send resume in confidence to:

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Sea to Sky RC Flyers - Model Aeronautics Association of Canada Club active in the Sea to Sky Region flying model airplanes, helicopters and multirotors. Contact S2SRCFLY@telus.net

DOUG BUSH SURVEY SERVICES LTD. is looking for:

SURVEY FIELD TECHNICIAN With a two or three year college or technical school program in geomatics. Three years experience and proficient in the use of robotic survey instruments and GPS equipment for engineering and building construction layout, topographic site surveys, site improvement surveys and precise monitoring. Experience with AutoCAD Civil 3D also an asset to assist in office with computations and drawing preparation.

OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR/DATA ENTRY CLERK

HOT TUB SERVICE TECHNICIAN FULL TIME

Dub Tubs - Quality Pool and Hot Tub Services is currently looking for a Full Time Service Technician; no previous technician experience necessary, as training is provided.

Please call Ian @ 604-932-3314 or email @ ian@dbss.ca

Service Technician positions involve driving from home to home maintaining private property hot tubs. The selected candidate will have great customer service skills and the ability/maturity to work alone. Valid BC drivers licence and cell phone is required. Position available to begin immediately.

#18-1370 Alpha Lake Rd. Whistler BC V8E 0H9

Wage: $16.00-$18.00/hour

Data entry experience and detail oriented required. Knowledge of sage/simply accounting, proficiency in Excel and Payroll experience an asset.

SPORTS & RECREATION

Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Provides sports & recreation experiences for people with disabilities. Chelsey Walker at 604-905-4493 or info@ whistleradaptive.com Whistler Martial Arts offers - Kishindo Karate for kids age 4 and up, Capoeira and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu for kids and adults.

Also Kickboxing, Judo, Yoga and Bellyfit for adults. Call Cole 932-2226 Women's Karma Yoga - Thursdays, 9:30-10:30, ongoing by donation and childminding provided. Whistler Women's Centre: 1519 Spring Creek Drive. Dropin for weekly yoga classes led by an all female team of certified yoga instructors.

All women, all ability levels welcome. hswc.ca | 604-962-8711

Serving Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton

Please send resume to info@dubtubs.com

EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES APPLY TODAY! Diamond Resorts Canada Ltd., Whistler, BC

Full Time Off Property Contact Eligible successful candidates may receive*: • Retention Bonus Program of up to $1,200 for eligible candidates.

• Discounted employee rates at any Diamond Resort International resort.

• Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment. *eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment.

Email your resume with the position you wish to apply for to: Madiha.Hassan@diamondresorts.com

Career Opportunities at the District of Squamish Economic Development Specialist Seeking strong communicators with experience in project management, data collection and analysis, and social media.

Maintenance Mechanic Seeking a Journeyman Mechanic with 5 years’ experience working with a range of vehicles, and heavy equipment.

Visit squamish.ca/careers to find out more!

YOUTH ACTIVITIES 1st Whistler Scout Group - outdoor & adventure program for girls and boys aged 5-17. Times and locations vary.

More info: http://1stwhistlerscoutgroup. webs.com.

Contact scoutsatwhistler @gmail.com or 604-966-4050.

Whistler Children's Chorus Rehearsal - Tuesdays at MILLENNIUM PLACE (4 5:30 pm) contact whistlerchorus@gmail. com Whistler/Pemberton Girl Guides Adventures for Girls age 5 & up. Sparks & Brownies (Gr K,1,2,3) Guides (Gr 4,5,6) Volunteers always welcome. coastmountaingirlguides@gmail.com Whistler Youth Centre - Drop - in: Fridays 3:30 - 11 PM & Saturdays 6 - 10 PM for ages 13 - 18. Located downstairs in the Maury Young Arts Centre (formerly Millenium Place). We offer: a Ping pong table, Pool table, Skateboard mini ramp w. skateboards and helmets to borrow, Free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, Guitars, Board games, Projector and widescreen TV's. Facebook THEYC Crew, www.whistleryouthcentre.com or call 604-935-8187.

LEISURE GROUPS Duplicate Bridge ClubWhistler Racquet Club reconvenes in late fall. The club meets every week and visitors are welcome. For partner, please call Gill at 640-932-5791.

Knitty Gritty Knit Night- Held every Tues 6-8pm. Free evening open to everyone with a love for knitting/crocheting.

Beginners welcome. For location and further details email knittygrittywhistler@ gmail.com or find us on facebook.

Kaze Sushi is looking for Experienced Sushi Chef

Please apply in person with resume at the Whistler restaurant from 5:30pm onwards Call or email Tom on 604-938-4565 or tokyotom111@hotmail.com

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Mountain Spirit Toastmasters- Builds communication, public speaking, and leadership skills . Wednesdays at the Pan Pacific Mountainside - Singing Pass Room, 5:30-7pm. Email contact - 8376@ toastmastersclubs.org www.whistler. toastmastersclubs.org

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Pemberton Women's Institute - Meets the third Mon of each month in the activity room at St. David's United Church at 7:30pm. New members welcome. Linda Ronayne at 604-894-6580 Rotary Club of Whistler - Meets Tuesdays at 7:15 a.m at BG Bread Garden Urban Grill 604-905-5090 Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium - Meets every Thurs at 12:15pm at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 604-932-7782 Shades of Grey Painters Meets twice a week Tuesdays, Watercolour, 11.00am-2.30pm @ The Rec, Pemberton. Thursdays, Acrylic, 1.00pm-3.30pm @ The Amenities Building, Pioneer Village, Pemberton. We are like-minded people that get together & paint. Gretchen is the painting coach. $5 to attend.

We’re Hiring Cooks, Shift Managers, Servers, Hosts, Setters and Dishwashers Visit us at the restaurant anytime to apply in person or via email at apply.whistler@earls.ca

LOVE YOUR JOB AND YOUR LIFE SPECIALIST, DATA MARKETING & ANALYTICS FULL TIME, YEAR ROUND

The Specialist of Data Marketing & Analytics is responsible for working within a variety of digital platforms to executive paid search, paid social and paid display & video advertising. This position also assists in optimizing campaigns on a real-time basis as needed and provides support with a wide variety of campaign analytics and reporting.

Whistler Reads - Meets to discuss a new book every eight weeks. Go to bookbuffet.com & click on Whistler Reads for the latest book/event. Paula at 604907-2804 or wr@bookbuffet.com

With relevant marketing and data analytics experience, this position requires an individual who is data driven, with a targeted, audience-centric approach in the execution of Tourism Whistler’s paid marketing initiatives.

COMMUNITY CENTRES Maury Young Arts Centre - Whistler's community centre for arts, culture & inspiration. Performance theatre, art gallery, daycare, youth centre, meditation room, meeting facilities. www.artswhistler. com or 604-935-8410

For the complete job description and to apply, visit whistler.com/careers

Pemberton & District Community Centre - Located at 7390 Cottonwood St. Fitness Centre, facility rentals, spray park, playground, children, youth, adult & seniors programs. For more info 604894-2340 or pemrecinfo@slrd.bc.ca Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Social Services Centre - 1519 Spring Creek Dr. Features programs & services from WCSS, The Howe Sound Women's Centre, Sea to Sky Community Services & Zero Ceiling. Open Mon-Fri.

MUSEUMS Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre Explore First Nations Art Galleries, and Interactive Exhibits. Gift Shop & Cafe are in our admission free area. Open Tuesday's-Sunday's per week. 10am5p.m..

Whistler Museum & Archives Society Explore interactive exhibits, listen to local stories & discover Whistler's journey.

Open daily 11am-5pm, 4333 Main St. www.whistlermuseum.org or 604-9322019

Certified Dental Assistant for busy family dental clinic

Located 20 minutes north of whistler in the beautiful pemberton valley.

Breakfast Attendants - Part time/Full Time Group Sales Coordinator Temp Maintenance Room Inspector

Hours negotiable with competitive wage.

Email “info@pembertonvalleydental.ca” or fax to 604-894-6934

Night Audit Benefits include - activity allowance, extended medical, RRSP match, opportunities for growth and more.

To apply for this opportunity, please specify the position and email your resume and cover letter to: beth.fraser@resortquestwhistler.com We thank all applicants for their interest but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING BNI Mountain High- Meets at 6:458:30am every Thursday at The Venue.

BNI provides a positive and structured environment for the develop-ment and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Register by emailing blair@blairkaplan.ca.

ResortQuest Whistler is currently hiring:

www.whistlerwag.com

Looking for a dog to adopt?

Look for WAG’s bright orange bandanas on dogs being walked by volunteers! These dogs are looking for their forever home.

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING Whistler Chamber of Commerce - Is the leading business association in Whistler that works to create a vibrant & successful economy. Learn more about the programs & services at www. whistlerchamber.com Women of Whistler - Group that provides opportunities for Whistler businesswomen to network, gain knowledge & share ideas in a friendly, relaxed environment. Learn more at www.womenofwhistler.com

Shuttle Driver Security Officer Engineering Admin Assistant

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Details:

Project Managers Site Supervisors Project Coordinator Carpenters Carpenters Helpers Labourers Level 2 First Aid Attendant

Please apply online via jobs.fourseasons.com Housing is available for successful candidates as well!

Whistler’s Premier Estate Builder

Intermediate Maintenance Guestroom Attendant The Four Seasons team is looking for these roles to start immediately. $500 signing bonus available for all hires

Please submit resume to: info@evrfinehomes

FOR SENIORS Mature Action Community [MAC]Is the voice of Whistler's 55-Plus community.

MAC identifies, and advocates for seniors programs and services to improve the quality of life for those wishing to age in-place; MAC also provides opportunities for social interaction. Visit www.whistlermac.org or e-mail info@whistlermac.org Pemberton Men's Shed - Weekly social meetings WED. 11-2 in the Seniors/ youth Rec. bldg. beside library. Social meeting with BYO Bag lunch, card games and pool/snooker. Help out in YOUR community, operating the Pemberton Tool Library.

Senior Citizen Organizations - Is an advocacy group devoted to improving the quality of life for all seniors. Ernie Bayer 604-576-9734 or ecbayer2@gmail.com

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY

COME WORK FOR CANADA’S #1 EMPLOYER! Nagomi Sushi is hiring experienced

Hosts Bussers in Whistler

Full time and Part time available Looking for energetic, hard working, reliable, resilient, motivated individuals to join our busy restaurant!

Benefits: 2 weeks vacation per year and Spirit Pass Program.

Start immediately. Work at night, play during the day!

Address: 108-4557 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, V0N 1B4 Apply by email at nagomisushi@outlook.com

Fairmont was voted Canada’s Top-Rated Workplace for 2018 by Indeed.com

CURRENT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Assistant Chief Steward Room Attendants Culinary Opportunities Royal Service Agent Overnights Night Cleaner – Stewarding Night Auditor – Front Office Night Janitor – Housekeeping Director of Banquets Talent Acquisition Manager Benefits | Meals | Housing

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Creating Community and Cohous-ingJoin us on our journey to creating REAL community through the cohous-ing model of building a neighbourhood community.

Cohousing is NOT a com-mune, NOT a cooperative. Put your toe in the water and find out more by coming to one of our weekly meetings or regular social gatherings. For more information, visit our website at http://thecoastalvillage.ca/ or call Ja-ney Harper 778-840-1529.

Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & support to people who are interested in making healthier, greener, more peaceful food choices. earthsavewhistler.com Healthy Home, Healthy Planet - Expert in green cleaning offers tricks, info & advice on the best way to green clean your home or work space! Call France 604-698-7479. Free private presentation on request. www.healthylivingwhistler. com Regional Recycling - Recycle beverage containers (full deposit paid) electronics, appliances, batteries, Lightbulbs, drop-off times are 9am-5pm on Nesters Rd. Pick up service 604-932-3733 The Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) - Whistler's Natural Voice since 1989. Regular events, project and volunteer opportunities. www.awarewhistler.org info@awarewhistler.org

FAMILY RESOURCES Baby/Child Health Clinics - Free routine immunizations & newly licensed vaccines for purchase, growth & development assessments & plenty of age appropriate resources avail. By appointment 604-932-3202

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Families Fighting Cancer In The Sea To Sky - We are a non profit partner with Sea to Sky Community Services. We provide financial and practical support to children and parents with dependants diagnosed with cancer. Please contact us on our confidential email: ffcseatosky@gmail. com, visit our Facebook Page or website www.familiesfightingcancer.ca

Tourism Whistler is a member-based marketing and sales organization that actively promotes Whistler’s unique position as a world-class all season resort destination.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Pemberton Parent Infant Drop-In Facilitated by Capri Mohammed, Public Health Nurse. Every Mon 11am-12:30pm at Pemberton Public Library.

Tourism Whistler is having an Election of Directors for one (1) position in each of the following three (3) categories: • One (1) Single-Managed Lodging – Small • One (1) Multi-Managed Lodging – Benchlands • One (1) Commercial Director

Pemberton Strong Start Family DropIn- A play group for you and your under-5 child. Signal Hill Elementary, Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 9am-12pm. Thurs only 12pm3pm. Call 604-894-6101 / 604-966- 8857

The primary responsibility of the Board of Directors is to foster the long-term success of Tourism Whistler on behalf of its members. The board provides governance oversight and approves Tourism Whistler’s strategic direction and priorities. The Board of Directors’ positions are volunteer.

Whistler Public Library - Open MonThurs 10am-7pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Music & Words, Mon 10am. Rhyme & Song, Tues 11am.

Parent & Infant drop-in, Thurs 11am.

Preschool Story Time, Fri 10am. Singing with the babies, Sat 11am. Call 604-9358433

Expertise Needed • Must have knowledge of the tourism industry, with a solid understanding of the Whistler community.

• A thoughtful leader with strong critical thinking and strategic analysis.

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.

• Familiarity with budgets and financial statements.

• Familiarity with strategic planning and business plans.

• High ethical standards and integrity in personal and professional dealings.

• Previous board experience and an understanding of board governance would be an asset.

SOCIAL SERVICES Counselling Assistance Available WCSS subsidizes access to a private counselor for $35-$50/hr depending on financial need. Contact an outreach team member at 604-932-0113 www.mywcss. org ESL Volunteer Tutor Program - Volunteer one-to-one tutoring for new immigrants & Canadian citizens. For more information or to register, contact the Whistler Welcome Centre info@welcomewhistler.com or call 604.698.5960 Food Bank, Pemberton - Run by Sea to Sky Community Service. Open every second Monday. 604 894 6101

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Commitment Required • The ability to serve a minimum 2 year term.

• Active participation in 8 board meetings per year and the Annual General Meeting.

• Active participation in at least 1 functional committee (governance, audit & finance, human resources) with 2-4 meetings per year.

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Individuals interested in being nominated for one of the above positions can visit members.whistler.com/agm to view the Nomination Package and obtain the Nomination Form.

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The Nomination Form must be received by the office of Tourism Whistler by 5pm on Thursday, February 21st 2019 or it will be invalid.

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Healthy Pregnancy Outreach ProgramLearn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101 North Shore Schizophrenia Society Services for family, friends & community.

Mental illness info, support & advocacy.

Call Chris Dickenson at 604-966-7334 Pearl's Safe Home - Temporary shelter for women & children experiencing abuse in relationships. Locations in Whistler & Pemberton avail 24/7. All services are free. 1-877-890-5711 or 604-892-5711 RMOW Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eligible for a $127.60 municipal recreation credit.

Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 www. mywcss.org

Delivery Driver

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Full Time Tour Receptionist

Pique is looking for a delivery driver with a reliable vehicle to deliver Pique Newsmagazine in Whistler.

Eligible successful candidates may receive*:

Support Counselling - For women regarding abuse & relationship issues.

No charge. Call 604-894-6101

Delivery is on Thursday mornings.

Experience is not essential as a full route list and training will be provided.

Victim Services - Assists victims, witnesses, family members or friends directly affected by any criminal act or traumatic event. Call 604-905-1969

Please reply with name, phone number, and a resume to lprior@wplpmedia.com

Whistler for the Disabled - Provides info for people with disabilities on what to do & where to go. Visit www. whistlerforthedisabled.com

$16 per hour

WHISTLER GETS IT

• Extensive benefits package which may include; ski pass or wellness allowance, disability coverage, travel insurance and extended health and dental.

• Discounted employee rates at any Diamond Resort International resort.

• Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment. *eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment.

Email your resume with the position you wish to apply for to: Jennifer.Sequeira@diamondresorts.com

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Whistler Food Bank - Located in the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Social Services Centre, 1519 Spring Creek Dr. Every Mon 10am-12pm. For emergencies call 604-935-7717 www.mywcss.org foodbank@mywcss.org

Overnight Front Desk Supervisor Needed

We’re Hiring!

Free Ski Pass Health & Medical Hotel Room attendant House Attendant Door/Bell Attendant

Guaranteed Employee Housing

careers@nitalakelodge.com www.nitalakelodge.com I @nitalakelodge

Whistler Multicultural Network Settlement information, social support and programs for newcomers and immigrants living/working in Whistler. 604-388-5511 www.whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com

Whistler Opt Healthy Sexuality Clinic - Professional sexual health services at a reduced cost. Free HIV testing. Clinics at Whistler Health Care Ctr, 2nd floor on Tues 4:30-7:30pm. Winter hours Thurs.

5:00pm-7:00pm. Confidentiality assured.

Spa Spa Receptionist

Ask about our staff housing opportunities contact us today

Whistler Mental Health & Addiction Services - If you or someone you know needs help with a mental health issue or substance misuse or addiction problem, we can assist. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. 604698-6455

Signing Bonus of $500

Great Perks!

Food & Beverage Banquet Chef - FT 1st cook - PT Pastry Assistant - PT Steward - FT (AM) & PT Server Assistant Expo Host Casual Banquet Server

Whistler Housing Authority - Long-term rental & ownership housing for Whistler residents. Visit www.whistlerhousing.ca

Details: Please apply online via jobs.fourseasons.com

MAINTENANCE WORKER

TOPTABLE RESTAURANTS & STAFF ACCOMMODATIONS - WHISTLER

Whistler Women's Centre - Provides confidential support, resources, referrals and advocacy for women living in the Sea to Sky corridor. All services are free of charge and include access to emergency safe housing, child/youth counselling, play space and computer access. DropIn Centre open Mon 12-230, Tue-Thu 12-5. 1519 Spring Creek Drive. You can also access our services at the Whistler Public Library on Mondays from 3-6 p.m. www.hswc.ca or call (604)962-8711. 24 HR Crisis Line: 1-877-890-5711

Whistler WorkBC Employment Services Centre - Provides free onestop employment services to job seekers and employers. Drop in services at the Pemberton Library Thursdays 1-5 PM, and at the Whistler Public Library on Mondays from 3-6 PM. For more information visit www.WhistlerESC.com or call us at 604-932-1600

We are seeking a skilled maintenance worker in Whistler, BC. This individual will be responsible for the maintenance and general handy-work at our three restaurants and for staff accommodations.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS: • Previous experience in a maintenance role • Basic knowledge of HVAC, plumbing, and electrical • Knowledge of general building systems and equipment • Experience with painting and carpentry

SUPPORT GROUPS We offer year round full and part-time hours, competitive wages, gratuities, extended medical & dental, accommodations, potential for future growth within the company, and an employee discount at all Toptable restaurants.

Concussion Support Group - Monthly group for people who've had postconcussion syndrome for at least six months. First Thursday of the month, 11-12:30 at Whistler Health Care Centre. Run by Sea to Sky Community Services. 1 877 892 2022, ext 404, concussiongroup@sscs.ca

Please email your resume & cover letter to:

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS SUPPORT GROUPS SMART Recovery - (Self-Management and Recovery Training) A Cognitive-Behavioural group for individuals with substance abuse con-cerns.

Pemberton Health Centre (Board Room) January 17th, 24th, 31st, and February 7th 2019 4:30-6:00pm **drop in welcome.

RELIGION Jesus Rock Of Ages Ministry- A bible based church that holds services at Millennium Place's main floor theatre at 4:30pm. www.jesusrockofages.com Roman Catholic ChurchCome celebrate mass at Our Lady of the Mountains, Whistler on Saturday 5pm, Sunday 9am, Tuesday 5:45pm, Wednesday 7pm, Thursday/Friday 5:45pm. St. Francis of Assisi, Pemberton on Sunday 12:30pm and Friday 9am.

St. Christopher's, Mt. Currie on Sunday 11am. 604-905-4781

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OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS The Bearfoot Bistro, Whistler’s premier fine dining restaurant is growing its team.

Be part of the action to deliver exceptinal fine dining experience to guests in an award-winning and high volume dining room.

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Hostesses FUR & FEATHERS Get Bear Smart Society - Learn more about coexisting with bears. To report a conflict, garbage or attractant issue call 604-905-BEAR (2327) www.bearsmart. com Pemberton Wildlife Association Advocates for the conservation of fish, wildlife & wilderness recreation. Also offering target shooting & archery facilities. www.pembertonwildlifeassociation.com WAG - Whistler Animals Galore - A shelter for lost, unwanted, and homeless cats and dogs. Let us help you find your purrfect match...adopt a shelter animal!

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The position requires some janitorial and maintenance services and skills.

Skills required: - excellent command of English language and strong communication skills - strong people skills; willingness to work as part of a team - ability to work independently with little supervision - good knowledge of the Strata Property Act - exceptional organizational skills - strong maintenance skills - computer skills MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE AND A PROVEN TRACK RECORD. REFERENCES WILL BE REQUIRED AND CHECKED. THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE MUST PASS A CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK. All interested parties are encouraged to send an email to the Property Manager, Alex Boatman, via email at alex@awmalliance.com , with your resumé attached and a brief introduction of yourself.

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The Specialist is highly motivated, very organized and an excellent collaborator with the ability to exercise good judgement. This position requires an individual with a minimum of three years prior experience in marketing, sponsorship, event management or a related discipline.

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FULL-TIME BELLMEN The Beacon Pub and Eatery is currently looking for:

HEAD CHEF LINE COOKS MORNING COOKS DISHWASHERS Wages are very competitive (based on experience), great perks and benefits.

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GROUP SALES & EVENTS COORDINATOR WHISTLER, BC

Toptable Group is seeking a Group Sales & Events Coordinator in Whistler, BC. This individual will be responsible for coordinating all group bookings and events at our Whistler restaurants; Araxi + The Cellar by Araxi, Bar Oso, and Il Caminetto.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS: • Previous experience in sales and customer service is required • Previous restaurant experience is an asset

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Please email your resume to: roberto@aavawhistlerhotel.com Thank you for your interest.

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Cascade Environmental Resource Group Ltd. has an opening in our Squamish ofce for a qualied Intermediate Level Biologist to join our team.

The successful candidate will hold the designation of Registered Professional Biologist and will have a minimum of ve years experience in the following areas: • Habitat ecology • Field biology • Vegetation inventories • Wildlife inventory and/or sheries and aquatic habitat assessments • Riparian Area Assessments • Resource Management • Canadian and British Columbia environmental assessment approval processes • Study design and implementation • Project management, cost estimates and proposal writing • Preparation of formal reports and regulatory approval applications If you possess a combination of these skills and have excellent communication and organizational skills, please apply with a resume and cover letter to info@cerg.ca

ESTIMATOR / PROJECT MANAGER (PEMBERTON) Wide Open Welding Ltd is looking for a full-time Estimator / Project Manager.

The candidate will need to possess the following skill set: This is a multi-faceted position. The ideal candidate will be highly organized and detail oriented. Strong interpersonal skills, the ability to express ideas clearly in both written and oral communication and strong presentation skills. Must have the ability to analyze issues and determine priorities in an environment of tight and conflicting deadlines. Proficiency in planning, scheduling, execution and management of projects. An ability to read drawings and perform take-offs is a must. Our office is located in Pemberton and the job will entail travelling to and from job sites in the corridor to conduct site measurements, layouts and verifications. Candidate MUST have a commitment to excellence and the production of high quality end results.

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Delta by Marriott Whistler Village Suites Is currently recruiting for the following positions:

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STAFF HOUSING AVAILABLE! Start your journey today with: competitive wages, growth opportunities, a positive team environment, medical benefits, play money (ski pass, etc), 100% provincial health care coverage.

To Apply: either submit an application online at Marriott.com/careers or send your resume to annie.jolliffe@deltahotels.com

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Teacher On-Call Xet’olacw Community School, Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 Full Time Education Director Commensurate with Experience February 6, 2019

Summary: Xet’olacw Community School is a Lil’wat Nation School situated 35 minutes north of Whistler, B.C. in the Mount Currie Community. The school is a modern, dynamic institution with a strong First Nations curriculum as well as academics from N to 12.

Key Qualifications and Attributes: • The ability to teach various high school subjects • Member of the Teacher Regulation Branch • In possession of a degree in Education • Experience with and appreciation of First Nations culture • Ability to work within a Cooperative Discipline framework • Innovative and energetic • Positive thinking and ability to work as a team member • Ability to work in a collaborative culture • Background in relationship-based, learning and discursive practices

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• Adventurous, versatile and a nature lover • Must complete a criminal record check.

Send cover letter and resume including references no later than 4:30 p.m. on February 6, 2019.

Contact Information: Verna Stager, Education Director Xit’olacw Community School P.O. Box 604, Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 Phone: 604 894-6131 Fax: 604 894-5717 glenda.gabriel@lilwat.ca

Text us your resume 604.209.8893 Email your to Nadinej@georgiamain.com

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www.whistlerwag.com Capilano Highway Services Company is seeking experienced personnel for the following positions:

· Loader/Bobcat Operators/ Plow and Sand Truck Drivers · Labour for Snow Removal We are an established company that provides a conducive working environment as well as competitive pay rates!

Please reply in confidence to fax: 604-983-2433 or via email to: whistler@capilanohighways.ca We thank you for your interest, however only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

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Tandoori Grill Fine Indian Cuisine

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Experienced Cocktail Bartender

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Line Cooks

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Please email your resume & cover letter to careers@araxi.com or present in person at Araxi between 3-5pm daily.

Marketing & Communications Manager (Half-Time) The Whistler Waldorf School is looking to expand its administrative team.

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DISHWASHER BARTENDER HOSTESS SERVERS WITH EXPERIENCE PREFERRED.

Please forward cover letter and resume in confidence by February 15th, 2019 to principal@whistlerwaldorf.com

Please email resume to tandooriwhistler2@yahoo.ca tandooriwhistler.com

Thank you to all applicants.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

The Whistler Waldorf School is in its seventeenth year of operation with over 200 children from preschool to grade 12. We have an enthusiastic and hardworking parent body and a dedicated and passionate faculty committed to working in a collaborative environment.

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35th ANNUAL PEAK TO VALLEY PRESENTED BY Whistler Adventure School (WAS), located in Whistler’s Function Junction, is hiring

INSTRUCTORS FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPHY AND EDITING. FEBRUARY 22 ND & 23 RD

Activities of the work include, but are not limited to, any/all the following:

WE NEED YOU! Want to be involved but aren’t quite up to the challenge of racing? Why not volunteer!

We are in need of Gate Keepers – No experience necessary!

Your two day commitment gets you: • Lunch both days • An event t-shirt • Drink tickets for both days • Entry into to Prize Draw • 1 day lift ticket

Videography - This course educates students on the principles of filmmaking starting with the process of creating proposals to delivering a final product.

Students can expect several lab days shooting and editing the best of Whistler with instruction from leading industry professionals.

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Howe Sound Women’s Centre is Hiring!

Pearl’s Safe Home & Homeless Prevention Program Coordinator Child, Youth and Family Counsellor/Facilitator Human Resources Coordinator For more information and to apply please visit www.hswc.ca

SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 48 Squamish Whistler Pemberton

Requirements: A business, marketing or communications related degree with two years of photo, video or media experience. Fluency in spoken and written English is required.

Please submit a letter of interest, a resume, and three professional references by email to admin@whistleradventureschool.com or fax to 604 962 2219.

Email is preferred. No drop-ins or phone calls please.

Only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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We offer competitive wages, a unique environment, seasonal bonuses, staff discounts and benefits.

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INSTRUCTING – Photography: Students gain various photography skills from learning how to analyze photographs to delivering professional products. Handson lab days shooting the Whistler valley are enriched with principles of small business management and marketing.

Editing (photo/video) - Students learn about the professional workflow for digital photography by using professional tools and techniques e.g. for shooting in RAW, conversion to digital negatives, professional editing techniques, importing, processing and managing large volumes of pictures.

Feel free to contact Sabine Caruso with any questions or if you would like to register.

Sabine Caruso 604-905-2036 Scaruso1@vailresorts.com

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Based in Whistler, this position is part-time. The successful applicant will be responsible for instructing and managing these courses.

We are recruiting for:

Whistler Athletes’ Centre (High Performance Training and Accommodation) Positions for this venue are currently filled

Whistler Sliding Centre (Bobsleigh, Luge & Skeleton) Track Worker

Whistler Olympic Park (Nordic Skiing, Snowshoeing and Outdoor Activities) Groomer Operator

Snow Clearing Operator Ski Patrol

Visit our website to view current postings and to apply: www.whistlersportlegacies.com/careers

BUILDING TRADES - MECHANICAL School District No. 48 (Sea to Sky) is accepting applications for the position of Building Trades – Mechanical in the Pemberton/Whistler area.

This position is covered by our CUPE Collective Agreement and offers a competitive rate of pay and benefits package.

Further information regarding this position and the School District can be found at https://www.makeafuture.ca/regions-districts/bc-public-school-districts/ metro/sea-to-sky/ Please note applications for this position will be received up to 4:00 pm on Tuesday, February 5, 2019.

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• Must have clean drivers abstract & be over the age of 25 • Experience driving or willingness to learn how to drive a 5-ton truck • Experience or willingness to learn to drive a forklift & pallet jack • Must be familiar with Vancouver area.

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WHEN: Every Wednesday, 9am - 4pm WHERE: The Cabin, 4890 Glacier Drive

FULL & PART TIME POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN: FOOD & BEVERAGE, RETAIL RENTAL, LIFT OPERATIONS PRODUCT SCANNING & SERVICES

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Technical Aptitude Capable work in wet working environment, plus outdoors in all weather conditions Capable work with Corrosive Chemicals Able to move 70kg/150lbs Willing to learn to operate a Fork lift Must own safety boots

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Please fax or email your resume with attention to “Human Resources Department” to:

604-932-7152 hr@sundialhotel.com We thank you for your interest. Only candidates chosen for further consideration will be contacted.

Employment Opportunities:

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· Lifeguard/Swim Instructor

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Here’s to the Journey

Teaching Position High School Xet’olacw Community School, Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 FTE: 1 No. of Positions: 1 Reporting to: Education Director Salary: As per the Teaching Salary Grid Posting Date: January 23, 2019 Closing Date: Feb 6, 2019 Details:

At Westin, we recruit the brightest, most energetic people in pursuit of developing an exciting and rewarding career. Marriott International has 30 renowned hotel brands in 122 countries around the world, and we’re still growing. Opportunities abound! The next step in your career could lead to your greatest adventure.

Xet’olacw Community School is a Lil’wat Nation school situated 35 minutes north of Whistler, BC in the Mount Currie Community. The School is a modern, dynamic institution with a strong First Nations curriculum as well as academics from N to 12.

• Cooks

• PM Server

Work in a collaborative environment with High School Teachers and the Elementary Special Education Coordinator.

• Housekeeping Coordinator

• AM Server

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Involvement and could lead to overseeing High School Smart Goals, receiving support from FNSA (First Nations Schools Association)

• Room Attendant

• Casual Banquet Server

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• In-Room-Dining Server

• House Attendant

A great career has always been a great adventure. Email your resume to HR@westinwhistler.com or visit us in person Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm.

• Possession of / or ability to apply for a B.C. Teaching Certificate • Member of the Teacher Regular Branch • Must complete a Criminal Record Check • Completion or in the process of attaining a Masters in Special Education or a diploma in special education.

• Experience and/or education in special needs

Operations & Business Development Manager ZEP Mountain Bike Camps is looking for an innovative and driven individual to join our growing team and family business. The individual in this role would be responsible for analyzing our current products, operations and marketing initiatives to identify opportunities to increase efficiency and support continued business growth.

We are seeking a candidate who is passionate about mountain biking, coaching, creatively minded and eager to think outside the box when it comes to business, our customers and the mountain bike industry. Motivated candidates with experience working in the mountain bike industry, a background in sales, and who excel working under their own initiative, will do well in this role.

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Approx. 32hrs/wk.

Flexible hours starts immediately.

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Fun, passionate, long term, family-orientated working environment.

On going professional development for your riding, coaching and guiding.

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Business/marketing degree preferred.

PMBIA/CASI/CSIA Instructor Certified strong asset.

Sales /Marketing experience strong asset.

Social Media/Online Marketing experience strong asset.

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Excellent people skills, fun personality and hard working.

Excellent communication and computer skills.

Strong problem solving and creative skills.

Strong sales and negotiation techniques.

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Team working and leadership skills.

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• Experience with and appreciation of First Nations culture is preferred.

• Experience and education in secondary English • Ability to work within a cooperative environment • Innovative and energetic • Positive thinking and ability to work as a team member • Ability to work in a collaborative culture • Skill in developing instructional strategies based on strengths and weaknesses of individual students • Background in relationship-based learning and discursive practices.

• Corrective Reading experience an asset • Six Minute Solution experience an asset • Completion of an Educational Assistant program and/or experience as an Educational Assistant is an asset.

Applications and Other Documents: Send cover letter and resume including references no later than 4:30 p.m. on February 6, 2019 Contact Information: Verna Stager Education Director Xet’olacw Community School P.O. Box 604 Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 Tel: 604 894-6131 Fax: (604) 894-5717 Preference will be given to Mount Currie Band Members.

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98 Maxed Out A life lesson

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t will probably come as a surprise, shock even, to those of you who regularly read this column—thank you both—to discover I sometimes say things I perhaps don’t exactly mean.

That’s not to say I don’t believe what

By G.D. Maxwell I say or say things just for effect, but sometimes I say things when really, I’m just thinking out loud.

As you might imagine, this can cause problems. Sometimes people think I’m crazy when one of those thoughts get spoken … and there’s no one around I might actually be having a conversation with. At those times, people, not

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unjustifiably, have thought I’m talking to an invisible person. If I notice them noticing this I’ll occasionally look back at them and say, “Well, are you going to answer me?” Other times, I fall into mock prayer. Either way, it’s a tactic known as Sharing the Discomfort.

More frequently, the problem that comes up is when I speak what should be a silent thought and my Wonderful Wife is within earshot. Not infrequently, this means I’m about to have to do something I was really just thinking about doing someday … maybe … in my dreams. Which is to say, never.

And that’s how I found myself signed up for a series of skate-ski lessons.

I have no doubt that I spoke the thought out loud, “Maybe I should take some skate-ski lessons.” Left to my own devices, it would have been several more seasons before I ever got around to taking skate-ski lessons, if ever. I meant it in much the same way as when I said, “Maybe we ought to rebuild the back patio at Smilin’ Dog Manor,” a number of years ago ... shortly before that pipe dream became a nightmare of gargantuan proportions that is now a distant memory and a perennial

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back pain.

It’s not as though taking skate ski lessons was a bad idea. In fact, taking lessons was a very good idea. Lord knows I wasn’t particularly making progress in the absence of lessons and having just discovered there were actually techniques to skate skiing other than flailing helplessly, falling, horking up a lung and walking uphill with my skis on my shoulders, I was kind of interested in finding out what they were, in an academically interested sense.

But lessons, for me, are more often— OK, always—lessons in humiliation. And to be completely honest, I pretty much mastered humiliation before I ever got out of grade school.

To make matters worse, I do not have what you’d call a deep and abiding relationship with cross-country skiing.

I first tried it shortly after moving to Canada. My wife at the time thought I needed something athletic to do during the nine months of Montreal winter. I thought dashing to the neighbourhood pub was sufficiently athletic. I was, I think the technical term for it is, wrong, at least in her opinion.

So I was shamed into buying crosscountry skis, classic of course, that were too long, too stiff and needed waxing. I think I used them a half-a-dozen times, never successfully and never with the right wax. My classic period came to an end when the skis became welded to each other over the summer because I put them away with klister on them after a particularly unsuccessful outing. But I can attest to the fact wooden skis with gobs of klister make a quick, hot fire.

I hated cross country skiing because: 1) I have no ankles that support me on platforms narrower than my feet and even

wider than fettuccine. Oh, and no edges.

Still, that didn’t stop me from skate(sic) skiing from Rainbow Park to Meadow Park and back. Accomplished skate skiers consider that distance a warm-up; I considered it a day trip … with a lunch break … and sometimes a nap.

I first thought lessons would be a good idea when someone who shall remain nameless tricked me into skate skiing from Callaghan Country Lodge back to Whistler Olympic Park, a distance about as far as Whistler to Vancouver. No one I met along the way said things like, “Nice form.” Many said, “Are you all right?” with a look of concern generally reserved for people coming out of a coma.

I’d like to say I learned a lot in the four lessons I signed up for but having missed two of them due to illness, it would only be a half truth. The instructor was patient, knowledgeable and infuriatingly accomplished. Others in the class were infuriatingly graceful and balanced. And though no one ever actually said, “Are you all right?” to me, I did see several of those coming-out-of-a-coma looks.

Of course it turned out everything I thought I knew about skate skiing actually had more to do with fly fishing or macramé but I did confirm my suspicions about there being technique involved in skate skiing, although I was horrified to discover there are actually multiple techniques one might apply to the endeavour. And, as it turned out, I was completely familiar, theoretically, with the technique one uses to get up the steepest hills. Not unexpectedly, it was the technique I generally employed on flat ground.

Overall, I consider myself a vastly improved skate skier. I still struggle uphill and downhill still terrifies me. But I’ve discovered an affinity for the flat parts

But lessons, for me, are more often—OK, always—lessons in humiliation. then, not 100 per cent of the time, and; 2) skiing in tracks makes me claustrophobic in a way only people who have gotten road-bike tires stuck in Toronto streetcar tracks can fully appreciate.

I’d kind of forgotten about that first point when, several years ago, I decided skate skiing seemed like a good idea. I didn’t mind skating on my downhill skis over Whistler’s famous flat spots and I figured skate skiing was a lot like that.

Wrong.

Skate-ski boots have no ankle support and the skis have a platform not much

of Nick North and, more importantly, having taken lessons, I’ve fulfilled my end of the bargain and now get my reward.

A skate-ski holiday? Hell no. The understanding there is real danger in beginning any sentence with, “I ought to....” Unlikely. A burning desire to give up downhill skiing for skate skiing? I’ll get back to you on that. A two-week trip to Europe to go, well, skiing? Bingo.

Which is where I am and why you may be reading something vaguely familiar.

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