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THE 4-1-1 ON BULLYING
SEA TO SKY PARENTS, RESEARCHERS WEIGH IN ON THE LASTING IMPACTS OF BULLYING—AND HOW TO MITIGATE THEM
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HOUSING PROJECTS
Council hears
presentations on three projects
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ELECTION ISSUES
Federal candidates
weigh in on top election issues
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CANCER BATS
Veteran Canadian metal
band plays Whistler Sept. 22
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The 4-1-1 on bullying Sea to Sky parents, researchers weigh in on the lasting impacts of bullying—and how to mitigate them. - By Brigitte Mah
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HOUSING HURDLES
Council heard
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RIGHT CROSS
Whistler cross-country rider Chloe
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Cross reflects on some unusual sights as she took second at the 2019
developers during a marathon meeting on Sept. 17—with varying outcomes.
Canadian XCM MTB Championships in Quebec.
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BY A LANDSLIDE
Scientists are looking at the
THUMBS UP Former Whistler resident Matt Fox
relationship between warming weather trends and landslides at the Mount
chronicles his fascinating hitchhiking journey in a memoir called The
Meager Volcanic Complex.
Hitchhiker Man.
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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS The federal election is just a few weeks away. It’s time to ask Sea to Sky
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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers weigh in on providing better electric vehicle
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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Columnist Andrew Mitchell ponders how things might be different this election—if only the Liberals had kept their promise on electoral reform.
86 MAXED OUT Max shares the story behind his decision to head to the Yukon and paddle the great river
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32 ECOLOGIC Leslie Anthony is in Sweden this week at an adventure-travel summit, where he learns
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33 THE OUTSIDER Magazines about outdoor adventure fuelled columnist Vince Shuley’s passion for
more about what is being done to explore sustainably.
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42 TRAVEL Writer Karin Leperi celebrates sheep this week in travel. She shares her story from the Trailing of the Sheep Festival in Idaho last year and encourages us to head there next month to see it for ourselves.
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Lifestyle & Arts
50 VELOCITY PROJECT Columnist Lisa Richardson explores the link between misogyny and climate-change deniers. Could letting boys wear nail polish save the planet?
52 EPICURIOUS Whistler Blackcomb executive chef Wolfgang Sterr shares how he balances his career with ultrarunning, and how working with food has aided his athletic pursuits.
56 NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW To mark the release of yet another Rambo sequel, Feet Banks launches a debate on who’s the greatest action star of our time.
58 MUSEUM MUSINGS This week, the Whistler Museum looks at the history of employee housing on Glacier Lane, which was first built in 1988.
62 PIQUECAL Have an item that needs fixing? Head down to the Pemberton Repair Cafe this Saturday at the Pemberton Men’s Shed to reduce your waste and save some money.
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OPENING REMARKS
Listen, engage and vote LOOK AROUND and decide what issues are important to you, voter, and pay attention to what the Sea-to-Sky candidates are saying. It’s all too easy to criticize from the sidelines or throw up your hands at the state of politics in Canada. But this is democracy at work and to make it work, we have to pay attention.
BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com
So, what about our local issues? Clearly, affordability is near the top of the list. There is no doubt that our dollar is shrinking in value before our eyes, as we cope with food costs, the price of gas, hydro bills and housing.
their wallets. The Liberal Party announced its new expanded assistance program for first-time homebuyers in the Vancouver area (yes, that apparently includes Whistler), Victoria and Toronto and the Green Party has promised to work with Council of Canadian Governments and Statistics Canada to set municipal minimum wages in accordance with the differential costs of living across the country. Sounds good, right? But honestly, what possible help is the Liberal housing promise going to be when the average price in Whistler is $1.5 million? Whistler’s housing costs make a mockery of minimum wages. The Conservative Party has been telling us that its whole election is about affordability with promises to cut taxes for those earning less than $47,630—1.25 per cent across four years, for example. Better than nothing?
Each voter has his or her own measuring stick with which to judge government performance, and we all have to separate the “noise” from what speaks to our own values.
Tourism, access to labour and climate change are also near the top for Whistler. While affordability and climate change are clearly part of the platforms of the major parties seeking election, plans around tourism and labour are practically nonexistent so far in the 2019 race. Affordability is a headline grabber as all voters are looking to keep more money in
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Then there is the climate crisis. I would argue one of the most important issues to tackle on a realistic timeframe. Indeed, a Forum Research poll in July found that 26 per cent of respondents said the environment was their top concern, overtaking the economy as the No. 1 issue. Most of the parties are taking this seriously—and we need them to. Our local
glaciers are melting, our days of snow in the valley are numbered, and the threat of wildfire is very real. The Green Party, the NDP and the Liberals have been talking it up—but the fact that the Liberals bought an oil pipeline makes their promises feel empty. So, what it really boils down to is what, if any, impact will the person you vote for here in our riding have in making our case on the big issues in Ottawa. That is the question the candidates need to answer for us, and what if we don’t get the answer we feel we need? This is a pivotal challenge we face here in the Sea to Sky. As a voter, must we connect only to the issues at the national level and not consider the candidates themselves? And how do we all factor in the growing importance of social media where discourse is so often vicious and misleading in the information shared? Voters must not only speak up, we must listen. We need to go to our local debates (Oct. 9 in Whistler), watch the national debates and research the platforms. Each voter has his or her own measuring stick with which to judge government performance, and we all have to separate the “noise” from what speaks to our own values. Canadians believe that we can be economically strong, a leader in green energy, an ethical partner in trade, a nation that supports all communities from the very young to our seniors, to those who serve their country and First Nations—what we need now are political leaders who will stand with Canadians and put our priorities first. I’m expecting too much, aren’t I? n
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Charging courtesy I own an electric car, and it is the ultimate second car. Putting in more charging sites is a great initiative. However, current charging setups and etiquette just aren’t working. For Whistler to meet its green goals, more chargers along the corridor are necessary; notably, Squamish only has one fast charger, one regular charger...and at least four proprietary Tesla stations. Many cars need to stop for a substantial top-up en route to make it up to Whistler. Newer cars do have more range, but most don’t, and temperature and gradient are real factors. The current one-car-at-a-time set-up doesn’t work for longer-term situations, such as P1, malls, or YVR. Stations with multiple cables that would automatically switch from one vehicle to another once charged, depending on when they signed in, would make more sense in many spots. This would allow much better usage of the infrastructure, without taking up too much space. And what about charge-station etiquette? Where does it say that you get to leave your car on a charger indefinitely while others are waiting? Why is it so horribly wrong if I unplug your car when the charger says it is done charging (and you are nowhere to be seen), to start charging my vehicle? Who decides that “courtesy” means I stop charging at 80 per cent if you are waiting, when I know I need to get to 85 per cent—at most
(obviously) this has been on my mind, and Pique’s recent article brought it to the fore (“Whistler has its work cut out for it on EV charging,” Pique, Sept.12). The muni’s effort is laudable, but there are some bigger-picture electric car charging issues that they could set a great example with. Laura Scully (Joncas) // Whistler
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another five minutes—to get through my day and then home? Since when does “courtesy” mean you can stand there, glaring and tapping your toe, while I take that necessary five minutes? Would you do that anywhere else? And that was just yesterday! I have seen as many as four vehicles waiting for the charger in Squamish, and people almost come to blows over someone unplugging a fully charged and unattended vehicle. Last but not least, owning an electric car does not make you a saintly expert on vehicle
As additional food for thought regarding an article in Pique on Aug. 22, “Building Boon,” about housing affordability and construction costs, I have the following thoughts and suggestions. My background is in construction and I have run a small construction company in Whistler for 25 years focusing on quality green and energy-efficient building and renovating. I am glad to see we are building more (rental) housing. I am also glad to see it being built responsibly in terms of climate change, as a Passive House in the case of the new Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) building. Building to that level of energy efficiency does cost some more and it’s good to see the federal government jumped in to help out with an apparent funding gap. Which gets me to the point I want to make regarding government incentives to build more energy efficient buildings. Currently in B.C. we have the Step Code in place in some municipalities, which prescribes the level of energy efficiency buildings have to be at. It is set up that the level increases every two years or so until
range, courtesy, and other people’s needs. It definitely does not make you entitled to settle in at any charger, whenever and for as long as you please. (I’m looking at you, Tesla driver! Use your own chargers!). Hybrid driver, you chose convenience, so please let me charge my car when it is my only way to get where I am going. And you, the gas driver blocking that precious charger? There are no words...or maybe one: Towtruck. I am sure I am breaking all kinds of “rules” of ‘’courtesy’’ by even writing this, but
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in about 12 years, every new house will be a Passive or net-zero home, meaning that these will consume very little or no energy. This technology is available now and these homes are being built by forward-looking and responsible owners and builders, but it costs more and does not help housing affordability as there are no incentives. These owners are paying more to do the right thing and, shockingly, there are zero incentives out there to get more people to do this. As an example, I have a client who demolished his 1970s home to voluntarily make way for a Passive House. He could have just done a reno or built a “code” house to save some money. He is also keeping his footprint low by building on the same lot. It would sure be helpful to him to get some breaks in the cost. I have other clients that would not spend the extra money it costs to build to such a level unless they received incentives to do so. The vast majority of clients would consider building to a higher level [if] strong incentives [were] available. Instead, all levels of government are again coming up with rules and laws to build more energy efficient over time, but the consumer is left with coughing up the money, making our unaffordable housing even more expensive. So here’s my suggestion if government at all levels wants to show some real sincerity on combating climate change. In order to make housing/building more affordable and energy efficient for individuals and groups (such as WHA), give some real and substantial incentives such as waiving the GST on a new home that is certified passive or net zero or another comparable high-level, measurable efficiency measure. The provincial government can throw in a PST waiver, or reduction, and the municipality can waive the development cost charges. Now we have some substantial dollar numbers that will entice people to start building to the above-mentioned levels, as well as make building housing more affordable for individuals and groups down the road. So far, all levels of government are dealing with climate change by coming up with schemes that cost the consumer more money to do certain things that are plainly punitive in nature. The average consumer/citizen has to pay for it all, which makes the living/housing costs even more expensive in addition to our already expensive land. In Germany, there is currently a very active discussion of how to seriously combat climate change and the suggestions range from taxing vehicles by their CO2 emissions (not fuel consumption), giving major incentives for economical electric vehicles and offering major tax-break incentives to upgrade/retrofit the energy efficiency in housing, as well as building new housing to the highest efficiency levels and also giving tax breaks on that to help with affordability. These sound like fair, common-sense approaches to deal with climate change. There has to be a way to tax that is less punitive and functions more as a reward for carbonconscious behaviour.
To finance this, maybe our government should invest the money into the abovementioned incentives instead of buying pipelines and staying on the unfortunate path of carbon-heavy activities instead of encouraging innovation in the alternate energy sector. Give homeowners, builders and developers a real incentive to build better homes now. I think substantial incentives will accelerate participation in building high-performance housing and other carbon-reducing activities. Axel Schreyer // Whistler
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Climate change, when do we start a real effort to avoid the consequences? Do some consequences of climate change seem a bit abstract, impacting other people in other countries? Do they seem like just perhaps natural variations in the weather? We see things on the news, but we do not see much dramatic impact here yet, so think perhaps the status quo is OK for now. I think until recently I include myself. Canadians, and Americans also, demonstrate this by electing political parties that not only do not have meaningful policies to address climate change, but also have policies that expand fossil-fuel extraction, which will actually contribute to climate changes. This contradiction became clearer to me on a recent trip though the Rockies. Near Jasper, the hillsides show the red colour of dead pine trees infected with the recent beetle epidemic, which has been described as a symptom of climate change. In this same area, the highway is filled with semi-trailers loaded with pipes for the Trans Mountain Pipeline. A project to increase bitumen tar exports, which will contribute to increases in GHG levels in the atmosphere—now generally understood to cause accelerated global climate change. Cause and effect? Just south of Jasper are the Columbia Icefields. Here one can see in person the unprecedented melting of the glaciers. In the visitors centre, undisputed predictions that were written some time ago seem to be proving accurate and the glaciers will almost certainly be gone in just 80 years. Clearly the implications of this will be apparent long before that. One of the described consequences regards the fact that Edmonton, and I suppose most cities on the Saskatchewan River system, get their summer water supply primarily from this glacier system. Irrigation and other typical water needs would dry up for at least some time each summer. Many Edmonton and other prairie residents must have read this, yet they go home and strongly support political parties that are determined to expand oil and gas exports that will contribute to this predicted catastrophe for perhaps themselves and certainly for their children and grandchildren. Don’t workers and business owners wonder how they will function in a city that has no water? How much will it cost to purchase water from elsewhere? Is there any amount of money that could fix that? Those in agriculture may wonder how their crops or their livestock will survive. Despite this, the mantra is to build that pipeline and get this product to market so it can be burned. I don’t get it. I learned these glaciers feed rivers into the Arctic oceans also and visitors from B.C. read that this glacier system drains into the Columbia River system. Along with supplying water to many communities, businesses, wildlife habitat and farmlands, it also passes
over 14 hydro dams, three of which are in B.C. and 11 in the U.S. The Columbia River generates 40 per cent of hydro power produced in the U.S. and is also a major component of our hydro power supply in B.C. The environmental and economic consequences of this being dried up one can only imagine, yet in Canada and in the United States, citizens elect parties that continue to declare that expanded coal, oil and gas extraction is in their “National Interest.” The Peace River headwaters, as with most other rivers in B.C., are also fed by glaciers, which means the WAC Bennet and the brand-new Site C dam may also not produce power. Perhaps the billions of dollars going into this project should be invested in a more diverse selection of renewable energy sources that B.C. is blessed with. Geothermal, wind, solar and biofuel opportunities have been passed up in favour of another mega hydro project, which may fail due to climate changes that may take effect shortly after its construction. Most communities in B.C., including Whistler, rely on nearby glacier melt for summer water and here too all of us and nature will suffer the consequences unless we start a transition off our reliance on oil, gas and coal and focus on keeping as much of its carbon safely sequestered in the ground. This is not going to be easy, and it is going to take some time, but will only start at all if we elect political leaders who will start planning a transition now. It is not a problem that our generation should just give lip service to and hope someone figures out someday. That day is now. It is too bad that with such dire consequences in such a short timeframe that addressing climate change is not a policy that all parties, no matter their other philosophies, can agree on and have aggressive policy for. I hope this will be the case someday, but for now, the Green Party is the only party in Canada that has a responsible program to address this crisis and gives it the priority deserved. You decide your vote, you decide your most important political issue that impacts you and your family, but remember that climate change consequences will be felt here. Not just in distant political and economic chaos, mass refugee migrations, severe storms or rising sea levels, changing ocean temperatures and acidity and species extinctions. Not in some distant century but perhaps in our own lifetime, almost certainly in the lives of our children or grandchildren. Perhaps it is time that we need to put our personal political philosophies and short-term issues in prospective, stop sugarcoating this issue and support political leadership now that shows a meaningful and responsible plan to address the universal challenge of climate change and lead a transition to avoid it. John Wood // Whistler n
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And they’re off … AS A CANADIAN, it’s easy to look at the two-party, shin-kicking contest south of the border and be glad we have choices. We’ve had no fewer than five minority governments in the last 50 years, and three different parties have served as the official opposition in the last three elections. Seven different parties and 10 independents
BY ANDREW MITCHELL (welcome to the no-party party, Jody WilsonRaybould) currently hold seats in the House of Commons. That’s what democracy is supposed to look like. But while it’s good to see a diversity of politics, this coming election feels like it’s shaping up to be a two-party kind of affair. The NDP is imploding, squandering Jack Layton’s hard-earned gains. The Green Party, which was poised to gain from that implosion, is somehow looking worse the more they’re thrust into the spotlight. People’s Party of Canada founder Maxime Bernier (PPC—Sour Grapes, QC), if he beats Rhino Party joke candidate Maxime Bernier, will be lucky to win his old seat. Although his new party was expected to siphon off some votes from
the Conservatives and Andrew Scheer, his nationalist platform and style isn’t lighting up the scoreboard right now. It’s early days still, and a lot can happen between now and the election on Oct. 21, but it feels like voters on the centre-left of the political spectrum (roughly 60 per cent of us) are in the same position we were in before the 2015 election and the two elections before that: we can either unite behind one party or hand the reins back to the Conservatives. This wasn’t supposed to happen anymore. Justin Trudeau promised us electoral reform. Then he broke that promise and now here we are—a month to go and the Liberals polling in second place. If Trudeau unites the left in the coming weeks and wins another mandate, it won’t necessarily be because he had a great first term as PM, but because enough swing voters decided he was the least-bad choice. And if he loses and the Conservatives regain the House, then I really believe his broken electoral reform promise will be the reason why. It’s true that electoral reform has failed everywhere it’s been tried in Canada, including three referendums in B.C. When all is said and done, it’s obvious that Canadians aren’t fed up enough with our electoral system—yet—to look past the fearmongering and change the system. A significant number of Canadians,
many of them NDP and Green supporters, united behind Trudeau in the 2015 election when he pledged, and I quote, “the 2015 election will be the last federal election using first-past-the-post.” In fact, the press conference where he said those words was a turning point in his campaign, which was polling third behind the NDP until they stole one of the NDP’s defining issues. Here’s why it matters all these years later: while a majority of Canadians may not want electoral reform, the fate of our national politics is ruled by a few million swing voters that weigh the alternatives, read platforms, watch the debates, and make up their minds on the eve of the election. I would bet you that swing voters and electoral reform voters are the same. In other words, the wrong group to piss off if you want to hold onto power. Yet again, here we are. If the NDP and Green Party made it a bit easier to vote for them, then either party could make huge gains and create a minority situation for the Liberals or Conservatives. I generally consider politicians to be smart, calculating people who generally know the right thing to say in any given situation, but that’s been sorely tested on the eve of this election. If you follow politics at all, you’ll know what I mean. For myself, I’m trying to keep an open mind. As usual, I will read all of
the platforms and analysis, I’ll watch the debates, I’ll debate with friends and family members—and then throw all of that out and vote for the centre-left candidate with the best chance of winning in my riding. It’s not that I could never vote Conservative, because I have. I voted for Kim Campbell in 1993—one of maybe a dozen Canadians to do so—because I thought Mulroney got a raw deal. He signed a deal to stop acid rain, brought in the GST to counter debt, tried to unite the provinces, led the free world in opposing apartheid, expanded the National Park system, and more. The Progressive Conservative party split down the middle after he was pushed out, spent a decade rebuilding, and then reappeared as a reunited party under Stephen Harper. The Conservative Party of Canada was a lot less progressive in both name and deed. I don’t think anybody should always vote for the same party or base their vote on a single issue or the need to avenge a broken promise. I also wouldn’t disregard the strengths and weakness of local candidates when deciding. There’s a solid month of politics coming our way, and we need to pay attention to all of it. But it’s going to be hard looking at that ballot and wondering what the choices might look like if Trudeau had only kept his promise. n
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900 The number of kilometres Cops for Cancer team riders cycle to raise funds for cancer research.
3 The number of centimetres per month a slope is “deforming” in the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex. The slope lies in a remote area on the border of Upper Lillooet Provincial Park.
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Glacier Lane Housing first came into being in January 1988 when plans were submitted to council of the day to build employee housing for Blackcomb and Fairmont Chateau Whistler employees. The proposal was for four buildings, each with 48 twobedroom units, to be built over two years. When finished, the buildings would house almost 400 people; at the time, Blackcomb had roughly 500 employees and the Chateau was expected to employ about 350.
THROWBACK THURSDAY
This issue of Pique from 20 years ago celebrated an amazing journey by longtime Whistler resident John Ryan—The Regeneration Tour. Ryan hand-cycled 8,688 kilometres from Cape Spear in Newfoundland to Whistler, arriving here 20 years ago this week. The tour raised funds for spinal cord regeneration research— Ryan was paralyzed in a car accident in 1994. More than 5,000 people lined Whistler’s streets to welcome him home and over $1 million was raised. Also in this issue, Pique celebrated the Australians who come to work here and help make our resort the amazing success it is. n
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Council tackles housing projects from private developers THREE PROJECTS PRESENTED TO COUNCIL ON SEPT. 17, WITH VARYING OUTCOMES
BY BRADEN DUPUIS A FOUR-HOUR council meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17 was punctuated by three employee-housing projects from private developers: one authorized for further review, one given first and second readings and a third voted down by council in a split decision. The first, at 5298 Alta Lake Rd., was accompanied by more than a dozen concerned residents who were in attendance to ask questions of mayor and council. The project was originally submitted under the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) private developer employee housing guidelines, but withdrawn before it came to council. With those guidelines updated in March to allow for limited amounts of new, unrestricted market housing, the project was resubmitted with a new concept: 15 new three-bedroom employee-housing-restricted townhomes and 22 three-bedroom market-touristaccommodation townhomes. The applicant is Squamish-based Empire Club Development Corp., the principals of which are former Whistler Housing Authority chair Michael Hutchison, Jon Dietrich and Biagio Cusano.
UNDER REVIEW A rezoning application for 37 new townhomes on the west side of Nita Lake has raised the ire of nearby neighbours.
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The land—located on the west side of Nita Lake—is currently valued at $10.6 million, and was purchased by its new owners in January 2018. Among those in attendance for the meeting was Garry Watson, one of Whistler’s original council members and one of only 14 people to receive the Freedom of the Municipality. “I’d like to point out to you that this seems to have risen after the change you made to the guidelines for submissions for private property, which I found very disturbing at the time, as it refers to the proposal [being permitted] a ‘limited amount of new unrestricted market accommodation to support the project viability,’” Watson said. “Now what does viability mean? It means essentially profit, and I’m wondering why that becomes a consideration for council. It certainly got some reaction out of the private property owners, and I’m sure that there had been some significant lobbying to bring about that amendment.” Watson noted that the new application proposes to triple the mass associated with the unrestricted market component allowed under the property’s current TA17 zoning. “That is hardly a limited amount of new,” he said. Other attendees asked questions about protecting Whistler’s lakes, the visual and environmental impact of the proposal, the mix of employee housing versus market (and tourist accommodation) units, the traffic impacts and more.
“The provincial government has provided a very clear legislative framework on how we deal with applications that includes a public hearing and a number of different ways for people to participate in that process. This isn’t even a part of that legislative process yet,” said Mayor Jack Crompton. “I think we will consider the concerns that are raised by the community, by neighbours, [and] by people wanting to live in Whistler, so we’ll be taking seriously all those concerns.” A report to council included a view of the site’s historical context courtesy of the Whistler Museum and Archives—the lot was once owned by local sawmill owners Alf and Bessie Gebhart, who constructed the cabin that still stands there today in the mid ‘40s. In the mid ‘60s, Charles Hillman purchased the property, and the cabin became known as the first incarnation of Toad Hall. Both museum and RMOW staff feel that “the dual narratives of early industry intersecting with early local ski counter culture make this property compelling from a historical perspective,” the report to council reads. As part of its application, Empire proposes parkland dedication on the site, as well as restoration of the existing cabin and relocation to the park to create a historical landmark. Dedication of a riparian/tree preservation area along the lake foreshore and rail line, as well as dedication of a future employee housing parcel adjacent
the existing Nita Lake Resident Housing are also included in the proposal. After a lengthy discussion, council voted unanimously to authorize further review. A public information meeting will be held before rezoning bylaws are brought to council. A public hearing will also be part of the process. “I want to see some more information. As it sits now, when I look at it … I think I’ll take this deal—the 22 townhouses for 15 employee townhouses, [and] we get a little park, [but] I’m not super interested in the [Tourist Accommodation] zoning,” said Councillor Ralph Forsyth. “So unless I’m convinced otherwise, right now I like the deal, except not TA-zoned. I don’t want to pump the brakes on getting employee housing in town.” Crompton offered a similar sentiment, though he disagreed on the value of the deal. “This is a great location for employee housing, in my opinion, [but] I’m not sure it’s a great location for tourist accommodation,” he said. “To be frank I’ll be challenged to support this proposal with the current deal. I want to see more employee housing and less market housing.”
REVAMPED RAINBOW RIDGE GETS REJECTED The project at 8975 Highway 99 in Rainbow also returned in a new form, but was eventually voted down in a 4-3 decision.
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The application brought forward by Pacific Western Management and Orr Development Corp proposed 36 pricerestricted employee townhomes and 24 market townhomes on the site—a drastic change from the 99 apartments and 48 dorm beds in the project’s first iteration. But council’s main concern remained the same in both instances: the traffic generated by the proposal. In its first iteration, council approved consideration of the site under the condition that the proponents get assurance from the province that highway access would be allowed, which it did not get. The new application proposed a single point of access through an existing strata road—Ski Jump Rise. Though the applicant believes the new proposal would generate less traffic than the original, and the new traffic generated is “well within acceptable capacity thresholds for the existing Rainbow road network,” Coun. Duane Jackson pointed out that several lots in Rainbow are still vacant. “There’s 31 vacant properties so far, so the traffic that the current Ski Jump Rise neighbourhood deals with is only a portion of what’s already zoned … 84 per cent is still to come,” Jackson said. “So if you add on the additional 60 [units], the traffic could potentially increase from what the neighbours understand today by 233 per cent. I don’t know if you need a traffic study to recognize that’s not an incremental change.” Jackson ultimately voted against authorizing staff to request more information on the proposal, along with Crompton and Couns. John Grills and Arthur De Jong. The 100-per-cent ownership proposal—which included walking trails, a dog run, a picnic area, connections to local trails and dedication of a community park, as well as provision of a public parking lot with 24 to 30 stalls for trailhead access—was too out of line with the intent of Whistler’s updated employee housing guidelines, Grills said. “When we added the option for a market component to the private employee housing initiative, in my mind at the time … this was to provide a tool, like a financial lift at a time we were looking at some really expensive costs per square foot,” he said.
“Not to the point where it was the numbers we’re kind of seeing, where it’s half and half.” Crompton agreed, saying the proposal simply didn’t meet the definition of limited market development. “Coun. Grills is right: it was meant to be used as a tool … not as the centre of a proposal. I am far from a developer but it seems to me that a lot of the requirement for additional funds on this is to actually access a very difficult site,” he said. “I would also say that I remain convinced that access off the highway is critical for the success of this development.”
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CLOUDBURST DRIVE GETS FIRST READINGS Lastly, a rezoning proposal by Whistler Sport Legacies (WSL) for employee housing at 1315 and 1345 Cloudburst Dr. in Cheakamus received first and second readings on Sept. 17. At 1315 Cloudburst, the zoning amendment will add employee housing to the permitted uses on site, increase the maximum permitted gross floor area from 2,500 square metres to 3,900 square meters, and restrict non-employee housing uses to 2,500 square metres of gross floor area. At 1345, it will add employee housing to the list of permitted uses. The application proposes 57 apartments, 20 of which (eight one-bedroom and 12 two-bedroom) would be price-restricted employee housing. Proposed rents are $1,200 per month for a one-bedroom (about 438 square feet) and $2,200 for two-bedroom units (660 square feet). The remaining units would be used for WSL seasonal staff and shorter-term athlete and coach accommodation. A housing agreement placed on title at 1345 will include a right of first refusal to fulltime daycare workers and essential services employees as defined by the province. “I think this is going to fill a lot of boxes that are challenging for us in the community with housing, and it comes to us without a huge investment,” Grills said. “So this is great to see, and it’s one more step to working towards getting more employees in secure housing.” n
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BY BRADEN DUPUIS IF YOU WERE happily oblivious to Canada’s federal election campaign to this point, the appearance of election signs along Highway 99 near Whistler Village must have removed any doubt: Election 43 is in full swing. The first signs to appear near Whistler belonged to Liberal candidate Patrick Weiler, who officially launched his campaign in West Vancouver on Sept. 6 with outgoing MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones. Since then, he’s held events in Squamish and on the Sunshine Coast and will be in Whistler on Friday, Sept. 20 for a 5 p.m. meet-and-greet at Caramba. Weiler said the No. 1 issue he’s hearing about on the doorsteps is consistent throughout the riding: the environment. “On top of that, affordability has really been an issue that keeps coming up, even if it manifests in different ways, but things like affordable housing are really key issues throughout the riding,” Weiler said. For that reason, the Liberal candidate said he’s pleased with his party’s pledge to expand the first-time homebuyers incentive (by offering up to 10 per cent off the purchase price). Those in the greater Toronto, Vancouver or Victoria regions, where housing prices are 60 per cent higher than average, will still qualify for the incentive if the home they’re buying is $789,000 or less. “Having that expanded to be almost $800,000 really makes it applicable in a much wider way for Whistler, so I think that’s really important,” Weiler said. The Liberal platform is rolling out one announcement at a time: other pledges to date include supporting small business by “reducing red tape” and “cutting more fees,” more accessible childcare for families (including up to 250,000 more preschool childcare spaces and lowering fees by 10 per cent across the board), and an increase to the Canada Child Benefit for families with kids under the age of one.
IN THE RUNNING The Sea to Sky’s candidates for the Oct. 21 election (from left): The NDP’s Judith Wilson; the Liberal Party’s Patrick Weiler; the Conservative Party’s Gabrielle Loren, the Green Party’s Dana Taylor and the People’s Party’s Robert (Doug) Bebb.
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for, and what we hope to achieve, I think was helpful for all.” For insight into what the Green Party stands for, one need only look to its platform, released in full on Sept. 16 (and found at www.greenparty.ca/en/ platform), which carries the tagline “Honest. Ethical. Caring. Leadership.” “It all revolves around the climate action plan, which includes transitioning the economy, and making sure that things are tied to that in terms of moving forward,” Taylor said. The platform, which reflects the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in each of its proposals, includes sections on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, addressing the climate emergency, transitioning to a green economy, renewing the social contract, good governance and more. “I think it breaks us out of the notion that we’re a one-issue party,” Taylor said of the platform. “I think that a lot of the ideas behind the platform itself have been part of what was called Vision Green, and more
recently Our Vision; they come from longstanding policies of the Green Party, hopefully made more visible with the platform release as it stands.” The platform is fully costed “to ensure that we can actually pay for what we say we’re going to do” and is currently under review by the parliamentary budget office, Taylor added. The People’s Party of Canada (PPC), meanwhile, was buoyed by the news on Sept. 16 that leader Maxime Bernier will be invited to the federal leaders debates next month. “It’s great news. I mean, it’s wonderful. It’s in line with our policy on free speech,” said local PPC candidate Robert (Doug) Bebb. What does Bebb hope voters take away from Bernier’s performance in the debates? “Just that there’s another option,” he said. “One that’s not corrupt, one that has an entire, inclusive view of the science around global warming, and doesn’t fall victim to the hype and the child abuse
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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 18 that the Greens are inflicting on our gradeschool children.” Like the Greens, the PPC are floating a broad platform rooted in ideology—but the comparisons end there. The PPC platform includes policies concerning rejecting climate alarmism, reducing overall levels of immigration, ending official multiculturalism in Canada, removing interprovincial trade barriers and more. The platform (which can be found at peoplespartyofcanada.ca/platform) is supplemented by policies put forward by Bernier during the 2016 Conservative Party leadership campaign, Bebb said. “We’re not into pandering, and so the idea that we should specifically put forward policies that benefit one group or another, or one geographical area or another really isn’t consistent with our theme,” he said. “So the advantages of the people at Whistler are the same for advantages right across the country for all people, and that’s what we think true equality is. There is one Canadian, and no pandering to special interest groups.” A PPC government would also abolish the Capital Gains Tax and reduce federal income taxes, Bebb said. “We’re going to really simplify the tax system and there’s going to be saving across the board,” he said. “[And] we’re going to fund this thing by
bringing back all this excessive and wasteful foreign spending we’re doing to help out SNC Lavalin and other such companies.” The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) candidate, Gabrielle Loren, has been doing her homework in the early days of the campaign, attending local council meetings and meeting with elected officials throughout the vast Sea to Sky riding. Loren was in attendance for Whistler’s Sept. 3 council meeting, and caught West Vancouver’s on Sept. 16.
own problems,” Loren said. “So it’s a matter of understanding what each of those are and then finding out solutions for them, hopefully, in Ottawa.” The CPC platform is also being rolled out plank by plank, with a distinct focus on saving Canadians money so far: a Universal Tax Cut that will see all income taxes go down, with those earning less than $47,630 getting a cut from 15 to 13.75 percent; cancellation of the carbon tax; removing GST from home heating; making maternity
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“What’s so nice about going to these council meetings is you find out all sorts of stuff about what’s important, what’s going on, where everything is at,” Loren said, adding that she’s learned there are almost three distinct, different issues in each part of the riding. Concerns about ferry service are a big issue on the coast, but not so much in Whistler and the Sea to Sky, for example. “So that’s probably the biggest eye-opener, is that you’ve got … 10 municipalities, two regional districts, as well as the Indigenous groups, that all have their own concerns, their
benefits tax free, and more (follow the policies at conservative.ca). “I think one of the things that I’m seeing, I want to say a pattern of, is exactly what the tagline is: putting more money into your pocket,” Loren said, pointing to tax credits for fitness, arts and education, as well as a boost to the Registered Education Savings Plan. “So to me, that’s where I’m seeing a real plus, is every time I turn around, there’s more money that we’ll be able to spend, and that can’t help but stimulate the economy.”
Meanwhile, the NDP announced their candidate for the riding on Sept. 17: lawyer Judith Wilson. According to a press release, Wilson is a longtime New Democrat and a current resident of the Langdale area who practices family law. She ran for the NDP in the 2006 federal election, taking 20 per cent of the vote in a third-place bid. Her interest in politics extends back to the early ‘80s, when she took a leadership role in fighting fish farms on the Sechelt Inlet. She has also served as a school trustee for School District 46. “I believe that government’s job is to make life better for all citizens, and that every election is an opportunity to move forward on that goal,” Wilson said in the release. “Today I am proud to be a member of an NDP with an environmental policy that is ‘greener than the greens’ and a plan to get Canadians ‘head to toe’ medical coverage.” Check back with Pique for an interview with Wilson in the next week. Whistler’s all-candidates meeting— hosted by the Whistler Chamber and Pique—is set for Wednesday, Oct. 9 at the Maury Young Arts Centre. Election day is Monday, Oct. 21. Read more about each candidate and their party platforms on their respective websites: patrickweiler.liberal.ca; danataylor.ca; bebb2019ppc.ca; and www. votegabrielleloren.ca. n
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BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLER’S NEW Animal Responsibility Bylaw was officially adopted by council on Sept. 17, though questions from the community led to some clarifications before the vote. The bylaw was first tabled at the Sept. 3 meeting, and includes a host of new fines, including for chasing, threatening or biting ($250); leaving a dog in a hot car ($200) or tied unattended on public property ($100); failure to control a dog in an off-leash area ($75); failure to provide food and water, vet care, or protection from the heat or cold ($150); causing or permitting animal suffering ($250); and causing or permitting animal fighting ($400). (See “Animal Responsibility Bylaw gets first readings,” Pique, Sept. 9.) The main queries were around the bylaw’s “tethering” restriction, the requirement to keep dogs on-leash, and whether an update was really needed in the first place. The bylaw is “very, very similar” to what was in place before, said bylaw supervisor Lindsay Debou. “We are making the wording more specific, but the current bylaw has always said that an animal must be under the
immediate care and control of its owners,” Debou said, noting that Whistler has had a leash law since the ‘80s, and the tethering restriction refers only to public property (so it wouldn’t apply to places like the dog
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hitching post at Nesters, for example). As for why it’s necessary, the bylaw department has had 70 reported dog bites since 2015, Debou said. “Most of the ones that get reported to us, a majority of those [would have needed] medical attention, and a lot of those are
from children patting dogs that are left unattended,” she said. “It doesn’t give the owner of the pet an opportunity to control that interaction.” The leash laws are intended to minimize interactions with wildlife, though Debou said enforcement will mainly be in public areas. “You’re going to see bylaw officers in the parks, on the Valley Trail, on the Village Stroll, because we’re primarily concerned about our public safety,” she said. Councillor John Grills recently attended a pub association meeting where “the bylaw superintendent did a very good job explaining what the intent of this is—it’s a tool for the bylaw officers, to be used when needed,” he said, adding that it’s a health and welfare issue. “It’s looking at both the safety of the public on public property, and it’s also looking at the safety of the animals,” he said. “I think I would support this as is, and in a year from now, if there’s dramatic issues with this bylaw, then I’m sure they’ll come back and speak to us about it.”
MAYORS, COUNCILS SET FOR UBCM Elected officials from across the province are set to meet for the annual Union of
BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention in Vancouver from Sept. 23 to 27. While Whistler has not put forward any resolutions of its own, a spokesperson said the municipality’s priorities in meetings with ministers will include regional transit, multi-year funding for wildfire fighting, the dedication of provincial resources to Crown Land management, reducing the impact of single-use items, housing, daycare and investment in arts and culture. The Village of Pemberton has put forward one resolution, requesting that the province allocate additional funding to managing BC Parks, specifically Joffre Lakes Provincial Park, and Crown Land recreation areas in the Sea to Sky Corridor and Lower Mainland. Pemberton’s priorities include the impacts of increased tourism, youth mental health, flood mitigation funding, Mount Currie risk mitigation, and secondary highway access for Pemberton, a spokesperson said. The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District also didn’t put forward any resolutions of its own, but a spokesperson said the district’s priorities include roads, affordable housing, illegal dumping and forestry. Check back with Pique for more from UBCM. n
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Marine heatwave could mean a warmer-than-usual start to winter METEOROLOGISTS TRACKING EXPANSE OF WARM WATER REMINISCENT OF 2014’S ‘THE BLOB’ Emerging in the last few months and primarily affecting the upper layers of the ocean, the marine heatwave may not have the same impacts as “the Blob,” however, and could dissipate before the winter. Dr. Richard Dewey, associate director for science with Ocean Networks Canada, said the heatwave is being monitored closely, but it’s still too early to call it “the Blob 2.0.” “This is quite different from what we saw in 2014 when it was warm about six months from now,” he said. “If we look at the underwater temperature, we see it is two or three degrees warmer than usual, but at this time of year, that heat is relatively near the surface. “My words of caution are that it is early days. Yes, there seems to be warm conditions out there reminiscent of 2014 when we had the Blob, but we will really have to see what happens in the fall when the Aleutian Low starts to kick back in.” One of the largest atmospheric circulation patterns in the Northern Hemisphere, the Aleutian Low is a lowpressure system located near the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea that can generate
BY BRANDON BARRETT A MARINE HEATWAVE off the coast of B.C. has meteorologists warning of the possibility of a warmer-than-usual fall and start to the winter this year. Researchers are monitoring an expanse of water building off the West Coast that stretches roughly from Alaska to California. According to the NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., it is the second largest marine heatwave in area the northern Pacific Ocean has experienced in the last 40 years. The largest was a gathering of warm water, nicknamed “the Blob,” that disrupted the West Coast marine ecosystem in 2014-15 and depressed salmon returns and wreaked havoc on the ski season. “It’s on a trajectory to be as strong as the prior event,” said Andrew Leising, a research scientist at the California centre, in a statement. “Already, on its own, it is one of the most significant events that we’ve seen.”
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strong winter storms in Alaska and Canada. “The fall is going to be pretty critical as far as what the weather pattern is set up to be. If the Aleutian Low builds back up and we get the fall storms that always sort of hit in October, November then this story may fade away and we’ll be back to normal conditions. That would be, I think, good for everyone,” Dewey explained. But if the present conditions continue, we could be in for a warmer start to the ski season. “The No. 1 takeaway is that the rest of fall and the beginning of winter is more likely to be on the warmer-than-average side because of the way it’s setting up,” said Doug Lundquist, meteorologist with Environment Canada. “There is random variability to it, even in temperature, but I think it means we’re likely going to be
warmer for the next while.” The heatwave’s effect on snowfall— always a hot topic in Whistler—is difficult to predict at this stage, Lundquist noted. “I think it’s a bit too early to say because, in fact, the warmer water could perhaps make the air able to hold more moisture,” he said. “Beyond a week or two, precipitation is very difficult [to predict]. It’s more an issue for the North Shore Mountains where the freezing level matters more than Whistler, anyway, where it’s [670] metres above sea level.” It’s worth noting, however, that the Blob of five years ago “was not good for snowpack” in B.C., Dewey said. According to Whistler Blackcomb’s historical snowfall data, the resort saw 6.75 metres of snow in 2014-15, well below the annual average of 11.64 m. n
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On the Beat: Cst. Brianna Kisby THE LATEST INSTALMENT IN PIQUE’S SERIES PROFILING OFFICERS WHO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY
BY BRANDON BARRETT DESPITE ITS APPEAL to tourists the world over, Whistler isn’t always the most attractive landing spot for new RCMP officers fresh out of the training academy, with high rents being perhaps the biggest drawback. This wasn’t the case for Cst. Brianna Kisby when she learned of her first career posting three years ago. “Honestly, I was pretty excited about it,” said Kisby, an avid downhill biker and snowboarder. “There were a lot of people that ended up in the middle of nowhere, places you haven’t heard of, so when I heard I was coming to Whistler, it was really exciting.” In the latest instalment of Pique’s series profiling cops who go above and beyond the call of duty, we caught up with the 33-yearold Kisby, who, this month, will participate in the Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast for the first time, a nearly 900-kilometre bike ride through the greater Vancouver region—
including a stop in Whistler—that takes place over nine days. The annual ride by law enforcement and emergency services personnel raises money for pediatric cancer research and support for patients’ families. Kisby got a firsthand look at some of the kids she would be fundraising for in the ride back in July when she attended Camp Goodtimes, organized by the Canadian Cancer Society. There, kids and their families get to participate in traditional summer-camp activities while receiving care round-theclock care from medical staff onsite. “We spent an entire day there, got to hang out with the kids and kind of a be a camper with them while we were there and run some activities with them,” Kisby said. “Because their whole life is basically run by their diagnosis … the kids and their families get a chance to forget about it for the entire week they’re there.” Originally from Richmond, Kisby said the international make-up of Whistler’s visitors and residents means that there’s
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rarely a dull moment policing here. “It keeps you on your toes all the time,”she said. “You’re always dealing with different people with different ideas and different backgrounds.” Sometimes those different backgrounds come with a negative perception of police, something Kisby said she tries to break through in the line of duty. “I try to humanize myself as much as possible, because, at the end of the day, I’m only human, too,” she said. “Instead of taking a power stance—this uniform can be pretty intimidating—I just try to be relatable and speak to people like you’re on
the same wavelength, the same level.” With an interest in behavioural science, Kisby is hopeful to one day get into police interrogation on larger cases. Ever since I was little, I’ve always been intrigued by the human brain and why they think the way they do,” she said. The Cops for Cancer Tour de Coast makes a stop in Whistler on Saturday, Sept. 21. That will be followed by an afterparty at the Longhorn Saloon, which will include a silent auction. “I just encourage the community to come out because it’s for a good cause,” Kisby said. To learn more, visit convio.cancer.ca. n
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Library Board of Trustees Applications Applications are being received for Trustee positions on the Whistler Public Library (WPL) Board. Library Board Trustees are appointed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) Council. Pursuant to the Library Act, ss. 5-6, there are five (5) vacancies available for a two (2) year term effective January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021 and a one (1) year term effective January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020. Interviews will be conducted in the second week of October. Eligibility requirements: • Must be resident or an elector of the RMOW. • Must not be a RMOW employee. • Must not be a WPL employee. Board guidelines: • The Board consists of eleven (11) members. Ten (10) are appointed from the community and one (1) member from the RMOW Council. • The Board elects a Chair and Vice Chair at its first meeting in each year. • The Board must meet at regular intervals at least six (6) times a year. • Meetings are currently held on the first Wednesday of each month, except August, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. For further information on the responsibilities of the Board members, please contact Chair, Bevin Heath Ansley at wplboardrecruits@gmail.com or visit https:// www.whistlerlibrary.ca/about-us/wpl-board. Application packages are available at the Municipal Hall or www.whistler.ca and the Whistler Public Library at 4329 Main Street or www.whistlerlibrary.ca. Please submit applications to: Lucy Wyn-Griffiths Legislative Services Administrative Assistant Resort Municipality of Whistler Municipal Hall 4325 Blackcomb Way Whistler, BC V0N 1B4 Email: corporate@whistler.ca Fax: 604-935-8109 Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday October 2, 2019.
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Notice | Tax Sale Properties Pursuant to Section 645 Subsection (1) and (2) of the Local Government Act, the properties listed below will be offered for sale on Monday September 30, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. in Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, unless the delinquent taxes plus interest are paid. Payment for either settlement of outstanding taxes prior to tax sale, or purchase of property at tax sale must be CASH or CERTIFIED FUNDS. Please note that under Section 648 of the Local Government Act a person authorized by council may bid for the municipality at the tax sale up to a maximum amount set by council. Any person being declared the tax sale purchaser must pay the full amount of the purchase price by 1:00 p.m. the same day. Failure to pay will result in the property being offered for sale again. Property purchased at tax sale is subject to redemption by the registered property owner within one year from the day the annual tax sale began. Redemption price will be the upset price at the time of tax sale, plus required maintenance costs, plus any taxes paid by the purchaser, plus interest at rates established under section 11(3) of the Taxation Act on the preceding and any surplus bid. FOLIO
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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY
New study looks at massive ‘actively deforming’ slope SCIENTISTS TO LOOK AT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WARMING WEATHER AND LANDSLIDES IN MOUNT MEAGER VOLCANIC COMPLEX
BY JOEL BARDE A NEW PROJECT from a team of scientists from Simon Fraser and Quest universities will look at the relationship between warming weather trends and landslides in in the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex (MMVC). Quest University geologist Steve Quane said there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that suggests slopes in the area fail when temperatures get warm. “What we are trying to do is get the data to be able to show that in more detail,” he explained. In May, two significant landslides occurred on the northeast face of Joffre Peak, in the Cerise Creek Conservation Area, with some pointing to rapidly melting permafrost as the culprit. . And in 2010, a rock slope above Capricorn Creek in the MMVC failed, forming the largest landslide in Canadian History. According to Quane, there are multiple slopes within the MMVC at risk of failing, with one of particular concern. The westfacing slope sits on the shoulder of Plinth
STEADY EDDY Scientists say this giant slope, located in the Mount Meager Volcanic Complex, is moving at a rate of about three centimetres a month during summer months. PHOTO COURTESTY OF QUEST UNIVERSITY/ SKYPILOT UAS
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Peak in a remote area on the border of Upper Lillooet Provincial Park. It, he wrote in a funding request to the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD), has a volume of about 10 times the source of the 2010 slide and is “actively deforming” at a rate of about three centimetres a month during summer months. “On a geological scale it’s pretty [significant],” Quane said.
infrasound system (to measure sound waves), a remote camera, and a weather station (to measure variables such as temperature, precipitation, and moisture) at the site. The equipment will allow scientists to monitor the slope in real time, gaining important insights into the correlation between weather trends and landslides or rock fall. Quane added that the monitoring
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A slide could lead to flooding of the Lillooet River and potentially reach some homes in the Pemberton Valley, said Quane. There is, he added, a mine and run-of-river hydroelectrical power plant in the area. Moreover, the beautiful area is popular with hikers, Quane said. “There is a lot of hunting and summer recreation going on,” he said. The plan, he explained, is to install a geophone (to measure seismic activity),
system could eventually serve as the basis for a warning system that could alert the public when conditions become dangerous. “With summer coming faster and the climate continuing to change, I think municipalities and governments are going to need to start thinking about what days are safe to go into these remote areas,” he said. Quane recently requested $5,000 from the SLRD in support of the project, which is also receiving support from two Lower
Mainland firms that are pioneers in the creation and deployment of landslide alarm systems and remote camera monitoring. While supportive of the proposal, the SLRD has since reached out to the Village of Pemberton (VOP) as well as Lil’wat Nation to split the request three ways ($1,667 each). VOP council voted to support the funding request during its Sept. 10 regular council meeting, with Mayor Mike Richman saying that the project presents “a lot of value for our dollar” following the meeting. “One of the things we struggle with is we manage to get assessments done on some of the geohazards—and you might get some good assessments—but now what do you do with them?” he said, noting the expense. “We would like to have monitoring of Mount Currie and Mount Meager, but don’t have the technical capacity to do that,” he said. Richman said that it’s important to understand the issues at play, adding that the Sea to Sky corridor is rife with geohazards. “Do I think we need to sterilize the valley?” said Richman of the potential danger. “No, but it’s good to understand the issue, and that’s where the monitoring comes in.” That squares with Quane’s description of the monitoring project, which he said could aid the region in future land-use planning. “As populations grow, we can think about the best places to build—and where not to build,” he said. n
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Signal Hill Elementary ups French language instruction following outcry from parents ADMINISTRATORS APOLOGIZE FOR LACK OF COMMUNICATION ON PROPOSED CHANGES
BY JOEL BARDE ADMINISTRATORS AT Signal Hill Elementary School have made some lastminute changes to the school-day schedule after parents of late French immersion students raised concerns about the amount of language instruction their kids were actually going to get. “I would like to recognize that our French Immersion planning has caused some concern for you and I would like to apologize for that,” said principal Roberta Kubik in an email sent out to parents on Tuesday, Sept. 17 and shared with Pique by the school board. “I was not effective in communicating with you about this.” At issue was the amount of French language instruction that late French immersion students, who begin in Grade 5, receive at the school, with some parents voicing concern that the proposed level was tool low. Parents of French immersion students raised concerns on social media and reached out out to Pique, but wouldn’t comment on the record. On its website, the B.C. Ministry of Education states that it “recommends that the first year of Late French Immersion programs be taught totally in French” and
Lorette added that SD 48 administrators completed a routine review of its French programs a couple years ago and that it determined that French immersion could have the “unintended consequence” of being divisive to a student body. This, he said, is especially true in small communities. “When you have a group of children who are together, and then you have one group going into one classroom doing French immersion, and another group learning in English, that can have an impact on friendships,” he said. “So what happened was that the board asked the schools just to be mindful of that and to work on some strategies to minimize that sense of division between the two programs.” Signal Hill responded by offering some mixed classes last year, receiving positive input from French immersion students, who felt that it honoured the diversity of the school, said Lorette. Under the new schedule, late French immersion students will now receive close to 80 per cent of their instruction in French, said Lorette. Asked about the fact that students in their first year of the late French immersion program still won’t receive the full 100 per cent of French instruction recommended by the province, Lorette said that it is
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important to understand that that figure is a recommendation, not a guideline, and the school board feels it is doing what is in the best interest of students. Lorette added that he is confident that Signal Hill students will achieve the educational goals laid out by the ministry, noting that the Signal Hill’s late French immersion students begin in Grade 5, whereas typically such programs start in Grade 6. “The majority of time, the children are in their French immersion class and their instruction is in French,” he said. In a statement to Pique, Erica Hurtubise, co-chair of the Signal Hill Elementary parent advisory council (PAC) said that the PAC “recognizes and welcomes the efforts the school has made to reduce the divisive effects that the French Immersion program has been seen to have across all schools in the Sea to Sky District.” n
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that courses taught in English should not “exceed 20 per cent of instruction time” in the second year of the program. Signal Hill’s original plan would have seen late French immersion students receive classes in French until lunch, and then “blended learning time” after that, meaning that only 62 per cent of the school day would be spent exclusively in French. The school has since decided to scale back the amount of English instruction students will receive, with Kubik explaining that now “blended learning time” will be consigned to three afternoons a week (meaning two more additional afternoons of French). Assistant Superintendent of School District 48 (SD48) Paul Lorette said the changes were meant to create opportunities for students in both streams of the school (French and English) to have more opportunities to learn alongside each other.
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What happened to the brutal 2019 wildfire summer we expected? DESPITE A VERY ACTIVE LIGHTNING SEASON, WE DODGED A WILDFIRE BULLET THANKS TO THE RAIN, SAY METEOROLOGIST AND BC WILDFIRE SERVICES
BY JENNIFER THUNCHER/ SQUAMISH CHIEF THE SUMMER of 2019 defied predictions. The brutal wildfire season of smoky skies and campfire bans that characterized the summers of 2017 and 2018, and that Squamish and Whistler braced for, never materialized. “The takeaway from this season would be that those predictions are just predictions and they are not written in stone. Weather is dynamic. Sometimes it is going to be in our favour and sometimes it is not,” said Erika Berg, fire information officer with the BC Wildfire Service. Looking specifically at our area during this wildfire season, which is from April 1 until the last wildfire is put out—usually in September or October—our Coastal Fire Centre region saw 155 fires, according to Dorthe Jakobsen, fire information officer with the BC Wildfire Service’s Coastal Fire Centre. Of those, 107 were human-caused, while 48 were lightning-caused. Looking at last year, by Sept. 12 of 2018, the region had seen 291 fires, of which 132 were human-caused and 159 were lightning-caused. On Sept. 12, eight wildfires were still burning in the Coastal Fire Centre jurisdiction and 27 were burning in B.C. The Coastal Fire Centre covers south
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coastal B.C., the most heavily populated area in the province. It stretches from Manning Park to the northern border of Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park and includes the Lower Mainland, Sea to Sky Corridor, Sunshine Coast, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands, and Haida Gwaii. The largest fire within our jurisdiction, in terms of hectares burned, was the Mount Currie fire, which started at the beginning of April and was called out on May 2. At its peak, the blaze reached 92 hectares in size. “The weather really helped us this year, otherwise, it would have been very similar to the two previous years, I am afraid,” Jakobsen said, adding a campfire ban didn’t have to be instituted in the corridor this season. But it wasn’t all good news. Jakobsen noted that percentage-wise, more fires were human-caused this season than last year. “We did have far too many humanstarted fires,” she said. “We are asking people still to be aware and as they get their houses ready for the winter, to think about FireSmarting their property, especially close to their houses and making sure their gutters are clean ... getting it all ready for next season.”
lightning-caused. In 2018, the province saw more than 2,000 wildfires. “So quite a difference,” Berg said This year, approximately 21,000 hectares have burned, while in 2018, 1.3 million hectares were ablaze.
WILDFIRE PERSONNEL This fire season was so much better than expected that the Coastal Fire Centre was able to send some of its crews out of province to help fight wildfires: 151 people were sent to Alberta, 22 were sent to the Yukon and nine were sent to Ontario. In 2018, the regional fire centre was importing crews, Jakobsen said. Provincially, Berg said the biggest deployment of resources was to Lillooet, for the Fraser River landslide that happened in late June. Crews were tasked with flying salmon over the rockslide on the Fraser River to their spawning grounds upstream. “That has been keeping us the most busy,” Berg said, adding that the fire information office let out a cheer when they reached the “funny statistic” of more fish flown than hectares burned this summer.
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B.C. is divided into six wildfire regions. Province-wide, the BC Wildfire Service responded to 782 wildfires so far this year, according to Berg. The Kamloops fire region had the most fire starts at 195. Province-wide, 430 blazes were humancaused this season while roughly 340 were
Early in the season, the predictions of a brutal fire season seemed likely given the drier than normal spring seen in Whistler and Squamish and around the province. Ashlee Jollymore, a hydrologist with the provincial River Forecast Centre, said there was only about six weeks of snow accumulation in December and January.
“Our season started really slow, we had that six weeks of a succession of storms that brought snow to the coast and then we really didn’t have anything significant for the rest of the snow season,” she said, adding the snowmelt was two weeks earlier than usual for the coast. Accumulation of snowpack benefits many ecosystems, including trees, some of which need “wet feet,” in order to grow, Jollymore said. According to Environment Canada meteorologist Matt MacDonald other than in April, each month of spring was drier than normal. February saw 38 per cent of its usual rainfall, with 73.9 millimetres falling at the Squamish Airport, where the local measurement is taken. The normal for February is 192 mm. March saw 19 per cent of normal rainfall with 39.8 mm. The normal is 206 mm. April was a bit wetter than normal with 169.7mm, while the normal is 152 mm. Both May and June were “super dry,” with 37.3 mm of rain in May—normal is 115 mm. In June 30.3 mm fell, while the normal is 82 mm. “Squamish was representative of conditions elsewhere on the south coast,” MacDonald said. Had it not been so wet, we might have had a very different wildfire season due to the large number of lightning strikes, he added. “We saw more lightning in July than in the previous two summers,” MacDonald said. There were 3,239 lightning strikes in July in the coastal fire region. The average over the last 18 years for
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ALTA. —Whatever was he thinking? Obviously, the 35-year-old man from Saskatchewan was not thinking of getting a $4,000 fine when he got out of a red pickup truck in Banff National Park and began shouting at a young grizzly bear. Two nearby photographers who had been observing the grizzly for some time captured what happened. Devin Mitsuing shouted at the bear and threw rocks for five or 10 minutes, then adopted a boxing stance before charging the bear, which fled. He and companions were later found in British Columbia, at the Radium Hot Springs, too inebriated to be allowed to drive. To compound things, when his day in court came, he failed to show. Prosecutors, said the Rocky Mountain Outlook, had charged him with disturbing wildlife in a national park. Jeremy Newton, the prosecutor, also said that not only did the man from Saskatchewan put himself in danger, but he put every other person who comes across this bear in danger in the future.
LODGING BUT WITHOUT THE STAFFING NEEDS OF A HOTEL JACKSON, Wyo.—Here comes yet another high-end resort project, this time along a ski run at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. The 134,000-square-foot property is to be “highly amenitized,” said Rob DesLauriers, who is representing the owner of the property. He has developed two previous lodging properties at the base of
the ski area. The plan is for indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a spa area, plus a restaurant open to the general public. Building a luxury residential project was more appealing than a hotel, he said, because it requires less staff in a seasonal economy.
GETTING PEOPLE TO SKI AREAS ON THE CONGESTED HIGHWAYS TRUCKEE, Calif.—Transportation officials in California may seek to reduce congestion on Highway 89 between Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows and Interstate 80 at Truckee by putting the highway’s shoulders to work. The plan, reported the Sierra Sun, would involve allowing buses to use highway shoulders on three kilometres of the most congested segments. The buses would ferry passengers who have left their cars at parkand-ride lots. In Colorado, something similar is at work. Already, Interstate 70 has been reconfigured between Denver and Summit County to allow motorists willing to pay tolls to gain access at congested times, so far limited to weekends. This is for eastbound lanes. Work has recently begun on reconfiguring the highway in its westbound lanes to achieve the same purpose. In effect, two lanes are being expanded to three lanes. Along with this, Colorado has been expanding its popular purple-and-black Bustang bus routes. Several buses—plush and with WiFi—already ply I-70. Bustangs will go specifically to Loveland and Arapahoe Basin ski areas beginning this winter, and Copper Mountain has shown interest, The Denver Post reported. n
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2019 WILDFIRES FROM PAGE 30 July was 2,454 strikes. The same situation occurred across the province. As of Sept. 12, the province had seen close to 500,000 lightning strikes this year. The yearly average over the previous 18 years was 266,000 lightning strikes. “It goes to show, despite a very active lightning season, we dodged a bullet because of that rain,” MacDonald said. “It was just a really unsettled pattern. We had what we call a trough of low pressure over the province, which was generating a lot of lightning, but the saving grace this summer was the majority of the lightning was accompanied by rainfall,” he said, adding in July, Squamish saw 80 mm of rain while the normal is 59 mm. “That was the situation across the province. July was significantly wetter than normal. That somewhat alleviated the previous drought conditions.” In 2018, the weather pattern that caused more wildfire-prone conditions was dry conditions followed by dry cold fronts.
“A dry cold front, what it does is generate lightning, but there’s no precipitation associated with it. They are also followed by strong, gusty winds. The previous two summers we have seen a couple of those and those are some of the worst weather patterns for fire starts.” This summer, we didn’t see any of those, MacDonald said.
CLIMATE CHANGE The slower fire season this summer doesn’t mean that is the way things will continue for future fire seasons. Several studies have shown our drought periods are going to be more pronounced, and longer, MacDonald said. “So we can expect longer dry periods, with less rain during those hot summer months,” he said. “At the same time, a larger per cent of our precipitation is going to fall in intense short bursts—what we call atmospheric river events.” n
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BY LESLIE ANTHONY destination and tourism provider alike— and there are lessons in it for all. Though Whistler likes to pat itself on the back and talk the talk, when it comes to real sustainability initiatives we only pay lip service—in some cases less than that. Let’s face it, real change will cost us—if not in money, then time and energy—and everyone in the provision chain needs to embrace this reality, starting at the top. Only long-term vision by governments can inculcate the necessary frameworks to budge current habits. In his welcome speech, Ibrahim Baylan, Sweden’s Minister for Business, Industry and Innovation, unflinchingly reiterated the goal of Sweden—already rated number one in the world in national sustainability while also maintaining high quality of life, satisfaction and happiness indices—to eliminate fossil fuel use by 2050 to become the world’s first economically sustainable, non-fossilfuel welfare (i.e., democratic socialism) state. “There is no trade-off between sustainability and the economy and jobs,” he said. “The future of economic growth is sustainability. It will be difficult but we will achieve it.” Such an overarching, top-down approach is the missing ingredient in Canada’s own halting efforts, which are typically eviscerated by unnecessary compromises that encourage mediocre outcomes and make it difficult and inconvenient to do the right thing. It doesn’t mean going toe-to-toe with industry and business interests, but having them actively onboard, looking to the future. It’s amazing to see how much pushback there is in Canada, the time, energy and money wasted by overentitled industry while the same businesses are making money in a new, more sustainable economy across the planet. The ATTA, for instance, makes no bones about being Exhibit A in the need to encourage change in its own industry. Sustainable travel has always been a focus, but so have sustainable gatherings. Values enshrined in ATTA membership embrace not only a responsibility to minimize
negative impacts and maximize positive benefits to the environment in events, training and education, and destination promotion—all of which involve significant worldwide travel by staff and members—but to lead by example with ways to do so. Two major sustainability streams have thus emerged—addressing climate change and elimination of singleuse plastics. ATTA is a travel community leader in the drive to eliminate single-use plastic (like water bottles) within the industry, focusing on trade and consumer audiences to collect data, educate, generate awareness, and collaborate on programs that offer solutions for interested businesses. It’s nuts and bolts stuff but requires a ton of consistent and constant outreach—and it’s having an effect globally. ATTA also offsets its own staff travel and event emissions in partnership with South Pole (a Swiss carbon finance consultancy: southpole.com). And while the travel and tourism industry provides many positive benefits in terms of economic impact—particularly for developing countries—it’s also responsible for eight per cent of total global carbon emissions (both direct and as embodied in food, accommodation, transport, fuel and shopping). Addressing this is a challenge, not least for undercapitalized small- and medium-sized businesses that see barriers to joining the sustainability club as too high, or too much to take on themselves—another reason partnerships and top-down visioning are key. Thus, ATTA’s Climate Action Strategic Initiative includes two new programs: Neutral Together and Tomorrow’s Air. Neutral Together is a bulk carbon offset purchasing program for members that combats these challenges and facilitates action. Using a specialized carbon calculator developed with South Pole, members can measure their emissions for free; ATTA will then aggregate industry-reported volumes and realize a reduced per-ton price for carbon offsets. (If you’re interested in joining when the program drops in January 2020, go to adventuretravel.biz/our-initiatives/). Tomorrow’s Air is a collective of travellers and travel businesses doing something many haven’t heard of: cleaning carbon from the atmosphere through direct air capture (read more here: adventuretravelnews. com/can-tourism-support-carbon-removalthrough-direct-air-capture). So, while organizations and government hum and haw about outright plastic bans and how fast to transform transportations sectors and national economies, examples of groups and countries already on that train are manifold. We just have to decide to get on board. Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. n
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Preserving the hallowed ground of adventure print publications WHETHER THEMED for ski, bike, outdoor adventure, mountain culture (or any combination of the above), print magazines played a large part in shaping me into who I am today. I was that kid who would linger at the newsstand and work my way through the special interest section, too broke to buy
BY VINCE SHULEY anything, and testing how many features I could read before the cranky shop owner would shoo me along. When I did manifest enough money from my neighbourhood community newspaper deliveries, I would triumphantly return from the newsagent on a Sunday morning clutching the latest edition of Australian Mountain Bike. I would read the stapled magazine from cover to cover, inspect every photo dozens of times, I’d even read all the ads and parts catalogues. Born-and-raised Canadians likely have similar stories about OG ski magazines like FREEZE, which, like many smaller special interest publications, perished in the mid-2000s. I won’t get into the whole internet-killed-the-magazine-star narrative, but let’s just say when I began my photojournalist career about a decade ago, I
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was already late to the Golden Age of action sport magazines by about 20 years. Things are different now, I get that. The fact that I even have the opportunity to write this column every two weeks for a surviving print newspaper, (ahem newsmagazine) has me thanking my lucky stars. A differentiator, however, is that Pique is a free read. People are far more discerning about paying for content these days (author guilty as charged), choosing instead to consume through free platforms like YouTube and the Big Three of social media; Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. But there are the exceptions. Much like how the declining movie theatre attendance has found a niche in luxury-style experience (big comfy chairs, food/alcohol service, none of which you’ll find at our humble cinema in Whistler), magazines have tried their hand at a premium product. Printed on exceptional stock (a publisher’s fancy term for paper) with the highest quality of curated photography and carefully distilled stories, the coffee table book magazine is a symbol of the print industry’s tenacity. Fewer advertisers, a higher price point and the most compelling written and visual stories you can get your hands on. Locally, Mountain Life Annual does just that. In the next tier, free pickups like Mountain Life: Coast Mountains and Coast Mountain Culture do an amazing job of balancing great stories with advertising, but with a free publication, that ratio needs to stay at about 50 per cent to keep the whole business sustainable.
Last week, I was on AdventureJournal.com, an online outdoor adventure magazine I frequent when I’m looking for inspiration. It has great digital content and it’s free, but unfortunately it struggles to sustain itself. Editor Steve Casimiro is bullish about maintaining the integrity of Adventure Journal without resorting to sponsored content (where advertisers pay to have certain products, destinations or brand messaging featured). What Adventure Journal does offer is a premium coffee-table-book magazine four times a year with the best stories and the best photos, few of which are uploaded to the free-access website. It’s subscribers to this print magazine that subsidize the website content. With more than 300,000 unique users per month visiting the website (myself included), it’s a small percentage of folks that carry the financial load. Casimiro recently wrote on AdventureJournal.com appealing to its readers: “I’m not asking for a handout. We think that Adventure Journal is one of the best outdoor publications ever made. That’s certainly our goal. Ninety-eight per cent of our subscribers renew—a number so high it’s unheard of in publishing. Almost every day, a reader emails us with a lovely note about what AJ means to them. I’m saying this not to boast, but just to say there’s pretty good evidence that if you like what we publish online, you’ll love what we do in print.” Plenty of other premium print magazines have lost the momentum that Adventure Journal is trying to hold on to. The New
Zealand-based mountain bike publication Eskapee was working on a similar model where members would receive Eskapee Anthology, an annual collection of the year’s best stories printed and bound on beautiful stock. Any mountain biker who is lucky enough to own one of these I doubt would ever give it up. Unfortunately, editor Damian Breach couldn’t muster the numbers to keep it alive and Eskapee was shelved in January 2019. As a content creator who has been lucky enough to bank a few paycheques from some of the aforementioned publications, I realize I’m incredibly biased as I sit here urging you to spend your hard earned money on magazines. But it’s about more than that. These bundles of printed paper are where our most compelling adventure stories are told and preserved in a tactile format. So if you enjoy reading stories and appreciate photography (beyond scrolling to the next thing on your feed), join me in my pledge to maintain at least one active magazine subscription and actually take the time to read every edition. It’s not cheap nor easy to justify spending money on ourselves for this sort of thing, so why not gift a year’s subscription to partners, friends and family members? You may just turn that person into a lifelong reader. Vince Shuley subscribed to Adventure Journal shortly after writing this column. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince@vinceshuley.com or Instagram @whis_vince. n
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“The bullying got so bad that my daughter was afraid to go to school and she started to feel suicidal ... She was talking bad about herself.” - Justine
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the RCMP and immediately withdrew her daughter from classes, homeschooling her for an entire year, getting As and Bs. Before contacting the RCMP, Justine Two of Justine’s* children have experienced did her research. She made sure what bullying at their Sea to Sky school, and was happening to her daughter was now she’s sharing this story in the hopes of indeed bullying, and ensured she had the preventing a similar situation in the future. necessary documentation. A single mother of four children, she was This past year, Justine says her son, devastated to discover her daughter was Trevor, experienced bullying at school. being bullied a few years ago. He is 14, the same age Amber was when [*Editor’s Note: Pique has agreed to Justine withdrew her from school. change the names of students (and their Trevor is special needs and was ridiculed parents) who have experienced bullying in for it, being called a “retard,” Justine says. order to protect their privacy.] The school put Trevor and the other As a result of a medical condition, student on a contract, which Pique has also Justine’s daughter Amber is a little heavy reviewed. set and struggles to lose weight. “But then they don’t do anything further One girl who allegedly targeted Amber with it, so if anything else comes about then sent her messages caling her fat, ugly, and there are no repercussions,” says Justine. using aggressive language. “Nothing happens.” Amber was in Grade 5 at the time. Although Amber is doing better and is The bullying reportedly continued for looking forward to the upcoming school two years until the school got both girls to year, the bullying has left its mark on her. agree to a contract, which Pique has reviewed, “She doesn’t like to hear [the bully’s] in an attempt to resolve the situation. name, she doesn’t want to see her, she “It says this child needs to stay away doesn’t want to have anything to do with from this child, and I promise not to say bad her,” says Justine. things to her,” says Justine. The Sea to Sky School District was Although both students signed unavailable for an interview, and declined to the contract, Justine says the bullying confirm the instances of bullying mentioned continued for two more years until it in this story as part of Pique’s fact-checking reached a culminating point in Grade 9. process, citing privacy concerns, but issued “The bullying got so bad that my the following statement from Phil Clarke, daughter was afraid to go to school and she director of learning services: started to feel suicidal,” says Justine. “She “The safety and care of each individual was talking bad about herself.” student is of paramount importance in our Justine decided to take action into school district. At the core of our education her own hands. She says she contacted plan are proactive, preventative approaches
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which enhance student protective factors and reduce risk factors. The creation of pro-social learning environments combat status differences, focus on social emotional wellness, and provide explicit teaching about personal wellness, mental health literacy, healthy relationships, and social responsibility to ensure safe and healthy schools and classrooms. “It is important for families to know that each school also co-creates and reviews annually a Code of Conduct. These codes outline the expectations for student conduct and the approaches used in responding to misconduct.”
A WORD SPOKEN IS A WORD NOT FORGOTTEN It’s the long-lasting effects of bullying that make it so horrific to experience. “Ninety per cent of adults can recall an incident where they were bullied at some point in their life. It comes back in an instant,” says Trach. “Neuroscience research shows that our memories are constructed such that when we first recall an instance of social harm or social pain like bullying, when we feel rejected or ridiculed or embarrassed, when we remember those instances, it’s as if we are reliving them again in real time. Our whole physiology becomes escalated in the exact patterns that we would have felt the first time it happened.” No matter how much time has passed, our bodies can still relive the
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person behind the relative anonymity of a screen. Cyberbullying is on the rise in Canada, with one in five teens reporting that they have been victimized electronically, and over a third of Canadian teens saying they have witnessed cyberbullying take place. And while the knee-jerk reaction is to remove all technology or access to it for your child, experts advise parents not to do so. Dr. Jenna Shapka, an associate professor in the area of Human Development, Learning and Culture within the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education, at UBC and a researcher for Prevnet, warns that taking away your teen’s phone or removing the video game console will likely only result in damaging the parent-child relationship. Because devices are so intertwined with young adults’ social worlds, kids can feel deeply protective of the technology in their lives. Between the ages of 11 to 13, friendships aren’t about quality, they’re about quantity, Shapka says, as tweens and teens strive to collect as many friends—and followers—as possible. Just like the problem kid down the street parents forbid their child from spending time with, if devices are taken away, kids will still find a way to connect. “They’ll go to a friend’s house, or they’ll figure out how to get around [the parental controls],” says Shapka. “Kids will go to extremes to continue their social life.” Shapka’s work has also looked into an increasingly common target for cyberbullying: boys between the ages of
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experience as if it’s happening to us right now—something I experienced when beginning to write this piece. When a child is first ridiculed, he or she feels shock and embarrassment. Left unchecked, it turns to shame, which is then internalized as the child or teen begins to believe that they deserve what is happening to them. Their sense of self-esteem and selfworth erodes because they feel like they are alone in dealing with the situation. “You believe that if no one is helping you, then you must be the problem,” says Trach. This is exactly what happened to Amber; her sense of self-worth fell and led to feelings of suicide. In other cases within the district, shared with Pique by parents, both with children as young as Kindergarten and as old as middle school, the unpredictability of their school life, the not-knowing when and where the bullying could happen next, created a sense of fear. In two other separate cases over the past two years, described to Pique, parents permanently withdrew their children from school after being allegedly bullied. They say they were frustrated with what they felt was a lack of support and action from the school, and were forced to find their own solutions.
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eight to 11 who play video games online. “Parents don’t realize how many people [these boys] are being exposed to. Often they’re exposed to sexism and racism and all sorts of things that are inappropriate age-wise, and they can become the target by often older people and adults and be bullied,” she says. “That’s something we’re trying to educate parents about, that the boys who are playing these online games are being exposed to older kids or adults who are targeting them.” It’s not just taunts or cynical memes the boys could be exposed to, but also sets of ideologies you may not be comfortable with your kids embracing. So what should parents do to help protect their children from cyberbullying? With very young children, have a conversation about the dangers of what can be seen online as early as possible. “You could say, ‘Sometimes there are things on here that will scare you or make you feel uncomfortable,’” says Shapka. Make sure you have an exit strategy or a plan in place for what to do when the child witnesses something uncomfortable online. Talk about what that looks like. For literate children, you’ll need to negotiate, and do so in a way that makes them feel like part of the conversation and not someone being subjected to orders or new rules. Let the tween or teen know that you’re not saying no to them, but you’re just doing what you can to keep them safe. You’ll also need to reassure them that they won’t get their technology taken away, and that they haven’t done anything wrong by witnessing cyberbulling. “That’s what they fear, that if I go and tell someone that something scary is happening online, they’re going to say, ‘Don’t go online,’”
says Shapka. For the boys who are going online to play games, try to ensure they only talk to people they know, although she cautions that even familiar “friends” can say a lot of harmful things online that they wouldn’t say face to face. Fortunately, many of the home gaming consoles come with parent control options— although as the child gets older, the controls will be resisted and, if forced, could damage a parent-child relationship. She encourages parents to monitor the other players in kids’ games—even if they know who they are—and one of the healthiest ways is to sit down, pick up the remote, and play with your kid. Ultimately, you want to create a relationship that allows your child to feel comfortable sharing what they’ve experienced.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS Helping your child through a bullying experience can be especially challenging if you are a parent who was bullied. Ann Douglas, a bestselling author of Happy Parents, Happy Kids and parenting columnist for CBC Radio, knows this situation all too well. As a sensitive and overweight child, she was often on the receiving end of a lot of bullying, which reached a fevered pitch in Grade 6. “At one point, I was being bullied by a group of girls and a group of boys at the same time,” she writes in an email. “I remember feeling really lonely and isolated and horribly depressed. It was a really traumatic and scarring experience.” So when Douglas’ daughter was bullied
at about the same age, it launched her back into her traumatic past. “It dredged up a lot of my own memories about being bullied. I was feeling a lot of anguish and concern about her and dealing with my own emotional baggage at the same time,” she says. Douglas echoes what Trach’s research has revealed: that parents are deeply affected by their own childhoood experiences. “Parents shouldn’t be surprised if they find themselves working through all kinds of complex emotions around bullying,” she writes. “The good news is that it’s possible to use those emotions in positive ways—to become a strong advocate on behalf of your child and to work with your child’s teacher and school administrators to try to make things better for every child in the school community. You can make something positive come from all that earlier pain by working to build a better and kinder world for the next generation.”
WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE THE ADULT THAT A CHILD COMES TO FOR HELP As parents, we don’t come hardwired with the right script of what to say to our kids in every situation. A lot of times, we just go with our gut, but it might not always be the right approach, especially if we are triggered by what we’re hearing. “It’s a simple approach to a really complicated problem,” says Trach. “You’re just going to connect.” You want to remind the child that what’s happening is not OK, that it shouldn’t be
normalized, she says. Trach offers the example of a kid sharing a situation that is happening to their friend, but then brushes it off by saying “They don’t really mean it.” Her advice, to help the child recognize and identify what is happening to the peer group, is to say, ‘What I’m hearing sounds kind of like it might be bullying. Do you know what bullying is? It’s not OK.’” Because the child or teen chose you to share this with, realize that it took a lot for them to come forward. Reassure them that what’s happening is not their fault and that it’s a good thing that they told you. “There is so much shame and stigma around this type of aggression that people want to keep it a secret,” says Trach. “What I tell kids is that if you tell someone and they don’t react the way you want them to, then you find someone else until you find that person you can trust who can help you figure out what to do next.” Shapka’s work echoes the findings of Trach’s research. “It’s really important not to shame or … say to the child, ‘How come you couldn’t put the phone down? What’s wrong with you?’” she says, adding that part of the solution is to create relationships and foster social responsibility. Because bullying is a relationship problem, it requires a relationship solution. And it doesn’t take just one person, but an entire community, including teachers, administrators, parents and other adults. When children are encouraged to report bullying and are involved in creating the multiple strategies on how to do so, they will take action. It starts with you. It starts with me. And it ends with all of us creating a positive, peaceful community. ■
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by Karin Leperi It used to be that sheep outnumbered people in the state of Idaho. Back in 1920, a period of concentrated immigration by the sheep-herding Basque, there were almost 2.5 million sheep and lambs in the state with about 431,866 people living in Idaho. Fast forward to the year 2019 and the numbers are now reversed—about 255,000 sheep and lambs contrasted against a census population of 1.79 million people. That trend is what prompted the people of Idaho more than 25 years ago to celebrate the tradition of moving sheep (trailing) from high-mountain, summer pastures down to winter-grazing pastures at lower elevations. Before the “old” ways and traditions were lost.
Trailing of the Sheep Festival As Idaho’s premiere cultural event of the year, it’s the sheep and sheepherders that are the stars, and the venue is in the mountain resort area of Sun Valley and the nearby towns of Ketchum and Hailey in central Idaho. This year the dates for the many cultural and culinary events are from Oct. 9 to 13. Nowadays, the Trailing of the Sheep Festival celebrates everything about sheep and the people, arts, cultures and traditions of sheep ranching in Idaho and the West. But it’s really more than honouring sheep ranching in the West as today most sheepherders are immigrants on temporary agricultural visas, coming to the U.S. for three-year stints from Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Mexico. So, the festival has become an international celebration of cultures, dance, and food as well. Nonstop activities happen over the span of a five-day festival. From history, lectures, movies, folk and traditional art to music, dancing, storytelling, culinary and championship sheepdog trials, there’s something for everyone. It all leads up to the Big Sheep Parade down the Main Street of Ketchum, with 1,500-plus sheep herded down asphalt with both sides of the street brimming with sheep-admirers. Be sure to bundle up, however, since autumn mornings in the Idaho mountains can be quite brisk.
Fan favourites Fan favourites always include the Basque dancers at the Sheep Folklife Fair.
(The Basque were some of the original sheepherders in Idaho.) A new addition appeared last year with the debut of the Black Sheep Dancers of Nevada and easily became one of my favourites. More formally known as the Ruby Mountain Ardi Baltza Basque Dancers, they range in age from three years-old and up and are adorably outfitted in lamb (younger dancers) and black sheep (older dancers) outfits that are creatively interpretive and just plain fun. Their choreography is largely inspired by Celtic lore with an affinity with nature. Rounding out cultural dancing at the Folklife Fair are dance troops featuring the Basque, Scottish, Polish and Peruvian dancers and musicians. Another very popular event is the championship sheepdog trials where 70 talented border collies compete and display their leadership and herding abilities with sheep. This is also the opportunity to try all things with lamb, as many culinary events showcase lamb dishes, cooking with lamb, and farm-to-table dinners. You just might be surprised at the flavourful dishes. Be sure to look for the sheep cheese on sale at the Sheep Folklife Fair. Complimentary tastings are offered. If offered, be sure to take advantage of the short hikes that show off some of the arborglyphs carved into trees by lonely sheepherders. The art is temporal as the threat of wildfires, vandalism and decay take their toll on this unique art form. See it while you can.
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Cross second at nationals LOCAL CROSS-COUNTRY RIDER PLAYED THE LONG GAME IN QUEBEC
BY DAN FALLOON THE OLD ADAGE that it’s a marathon, not a sprint played right into Chloe Cross’ hands at the 2019 Canadian XCM MTB Championships in St-Felicien, Que. on Sept. 14. With much of her competition more accustomed to the shorter Olympicdistance cross-country races, Cross let them take off quickly before she tracked down and passed all but one en route to a secondplace finish at the 65-kilometre national event. Representing Team Whistler, Cross finished the women’s division race seven minutes, 41.32 seconds (7:41.32) back of winner Caroline Villeneuve, and 10:21.27 up on third-place finisher Amélie Simard. “My main competition were all XCO specialists,” she said. “The start was really fast. I was definitely not solidly in second off the bat, but I’m pretty comfortable with my pace for longer events. “I actually ended up attacking most of the women earlier in the race than I thought I would. Probably by the 20-km mark I would say, I had caught everybody except for the woman in the lead, who had obviously got off to a really good start and I didn’t see her again for the rest of the race.” Admittedly, Cross was also surprised at the gap she opened up behind her as well,
CROSSED UP Whistler’s Chloe Cross, shown here
competing at Crankworx in 2015, took second at the 2019 Canadian XCM MTB Championships in Quebec. PHOTO BY SCOTT ROBARTS/CRANKWORX
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with double digits between herself and the rest of the pack. “When I was passing the other women, I was passing them quickly, passing strong, and after I passed the woman in second place, it was a pretty lonely ride,” she said. “I pushed hard all the way, but I never ended up seeing any other women for the rest of the race. “I didn’t know where [Simard] was. We did ride together for a little while when I caught her. It was a bit tactical. We were
big puddles,” she said. “Even though there was a lot of single track and not much fire road, tactics could play into the outcome a lot. It turns out that everyone was really spread out, so that really didn’t come into play. “I enjoy those kinds of conditions because I feel like you have to be mentally strong and adaptable. It’s a sign that you’re a good mountain biker and not just the strongest engine out there.” While the Quebec course wasn’t a
“... after I passed the woman in second place, it was a pretty lonely ride.” - CHLOE CROSS
riding into a headwind and neither of us wanted to do the work. When I rode away from her, I had no idea that I was putting that much time in.” A major story of the day was the weather and conditions riders faced, with Cross describing the situation as “apocalyptic.” After having completed some “blind” events such as the BC Bike Race in recent years, Cross said she felt more comfortable taking on courses sight unseen. “It rained really, really hard overnight and actually stopped raining for the race start, but the course was very sloppy with
typical challenge found in a marathondistance event, Cross said it still suited her all right, as she’d unknowingly found a way to replicate something similar while training here in Whistler. “It didn’t have any sustained climbing or descending and that’s not really what we’re used to racing,” she said. “It did remind me very much of Comfortably Numb in terms of being really technical, really rocky.” Another unusual sight, Cross recalled: riding through a barn filled with cows. “It was pretty awesome,” she said.
Cross had been battling a cold leading up to the race, but managed to kick that before lining up at the start. She said she also employed a different macro approach to the season, taking time off from racing beginning in July to allow herself to mount a strong late charge. “It was a number of things coming together, really, and I ended up feeling really good on the day,” she said. “I took the summer off to enjoy time with my family, take a bit of a break, see what would happen if I tried to train for another peak late in the season. “It was a bit of a gamble. I wasn’t totally sure it was going to work for me, but it seemed to work really well.” Cross’ season typically started in March in the U.S., which she did this year, but powering through straight to September resulted in fatigue and not performing her best. “Burnout is a good way to describe it,” she said. “This is just an attempt to combat that.” The first chunk of Cross’ season, however, was difficult as she found it hard to get winter training in because of the weather. “In previous years, I’ve done a lot of riding in Vancouver and Squamish, but the last couple years, it’s been snowed under everywhere. I couldn’t even get down to Bellingham or the Sunshine Coast or anywhere that you can usually get to to do winter training,” she said. “I raced my way back into shape during the early part of the season, for sure.” n
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Hosek tops Spartan Race ORGANIZERS PLEASED WITH INAUGURAL WHISTLER EVENT
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HOSEK overcame some wet conditions to win twice at Whistler’s inaugural Spartan Race on Sept. 14 and 15. The Idaho resident, who’s currently 17th in Spartan’s world rankings, was the top elite finisher in both the five-kilometre sprint and 13-km super races held at Whistler Blackcomb. In the super race, Hosek topped Shaun Stephens-Whale by one minute and 40 seconds (1:40). With wet and rainy conditions on both days, Hosek said the key was staying consistent and tackling each obstacle one at a time. The sprint race boasts 20 obstacles while the super has 25, with stalwarts such as a spear throw and barbed wire crawl with climbing and lifting challenges thrown in. Hosek said there were plenty of obstacles that were more difficult because of the slick rain. “Everything was very standard to what I’m used to. The wet monkey bars are always challenging, or any of the grip obstacles, with that kind of rain we had up there, it definitely adds a new level of physicality,” he said. If Hosek had any gripe, it would be that the heavy lifting obstacles could have been longer and more challenging. Hosek said the Whistler event was more challenging than several others he’s experienced on the Spartan Race circuit, though he said it ranks among the top five venues he’s taken on over the years. Hosek
“It certainly gave us a really good foundation to build on.” - JASON BARNES
added he’d be happy to see the event come back to the resort in a future year. “I love mountains and I’ve been to Whistler a few times over the years for mountain biking, or hiking, or trail running,” he said. “The course itself really aligned with my strengths. “The climb on Sunday during the super race, it definitely put you out of your comfort zone. It was more challenging than some of the other venues I’ve been to this year.” Hosek said that after a “rocky” start to the 2019 season, he was able to turn it around and make it a solid year overall. He was glad to get a challenge in Whistler with the World Championships in North Lake Tahoe, Calif. on Sept. 28 and 29. “I didn’t have the performances I was looking for [early]. Then summer came around and I started to find my stride. I’ve had good performances all summer
TOP DOG Ian Hosek came out on top at the inaugural Spartan Race here in Whistler on Sept. 14 and 15. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SPARTAN RACE
leading into fall and championship season,” he said. “[It was] finding my stride at the beginning of the year and dealing with the mental side of racing and finding what worked best for me. “Once I found that comfortable place, I was able to replicate it at future events.” On the women’s side in the elite super race, Jessica Lemon went away with the women’s win, besting Ashley Heller by 2:22. Lemon’s time was good enough for 10th overall. Race director Jason Barnes said the first-ever foray into Whistler was, weather aside, a success, with more than 3,000 competitors signing up. It was a bit of a change in tack for the race series, which tends to stay closer to major metropolitan centres, he said. “It’s hard to judge what you’re going to get when you go somewhere for the first time,” he said. “Obviously, Whistler is pretty remote, meaning that we’re not a 15-minute drive out of a major city or a major metropolitan area. It’s obviously a destination venue.” Barnes said no decision has been made as to whether the race will return to Whistler in the future, but he said the first event was encouraging. “It certainly gave us a really good foundation to build on,” he said. While there is a British Columbia event listed on the Spartan Race website for Sept. 19 and 20, 2020, the location is still listed as TBD. “Talking to people as it finished and getting feedback from them, there’s no doubt it was a huge success,” Barnes said. “The course was super challenging, which is what I think most of our Canadian racers, whether they’re first timers or veterans alike, expect.” For complete results, visit www. spartan.com/en/race/detail/4994/ results?fullResults=true. n
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Whistler Tennis Association submits report to RMOW council ORGANIZATION FEELS AT A CROSSROADS IN REGARDS TO GETTING A NEW BUILDING
BY DAN FALLOON FRUSTRATED BY A promise of a new world-class tennis centre that has been put off for more than 30 years, the Whistler Tennis Association (WTA) submitted a report to Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) council pleading its case. Authored by WTA treasurer Ben Cherniavsky and entitled The Future of Tennis in Whistler: Securing the Next Century, the report was part of the RMOW council package for its Sept. 17 meeting. It argues that tennis is a growing sport in Canada and around the world, but Whistler is missing an opportunity to harness that energy given the state of the current facility. Cherniavsky, a part-time Whistler resident for 12 years and a regular visitor before that, said he and his family are all avid tennis players. Having recently joined the WTA board, he wanted to make a contribution straightaway, hoping to capitalize on the rise of Canadian tennis led by 2019 U.S. Open champion Bianca Andreescu and helping the club to realize its potential.
“This is a critical point for us. We’ve got to make sure that our point is heard,” he said. “I thought it would be helpful, then, to write something. “It’s not asking for money or anything like that. We’re just trying to make the community aware of the benefits, economic, social and lifestyle benefits that the centre has in the community.” The club has been hamstrung by challenges developing the Northlands Boulevard-based land on which it sits. In 1988, at a time when the municipality approved development in exchange for building amenities, Park Georgia was granted the right to develop a 1,200-bedunit hotel and spa if it also built a world-class tennis facility. At the same time, the Fairmont Chateau Whistler and Nicklaus North golf courses were built under similar agreements. While the current facility was built in 1993, it was intended to be a temporary structure. In 1998, Park Georgia intended to upgrade the facility as it moved forward with its hotel, but in 2002, sold the land to the Holborn Group. In 2005, Holborn applied to rezone the property for condominiums,
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townhouses and seniors housing. The application, which passed third reading, agreed to build a new tennis facility “complete with four new indoor courts and an exercise facility 60 per cent bigger than the existing one,” Pique reported at the time. Club members, however, were disappointed as it was substantially less than initially promised. In 2008, however, Holborn backtracked on development and sold the land to the Beedie Group in 2017. “It’s critical we get council onside with this because they’re obviously going to be in charge of the zoning,” Cherniavsky said. “Beedie Group, understandably, just wanted to develop the land and as far as I understand it, if the municipality wanted them to build a three-ring circus, they’d do that.” “We think it’s important that the commitment that was made over 30 years ago to build a proper tennis facility is maintained to make sure that council and everyone in the community understands that.” As a small community, Cherniavsky said the WTA must work to draw visitors to make the facility viable, but it’s doable.
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Whistler tends to rank among the provincial leaders in tournaments hosted, in the range of roughly 25 annually. It’s doing that even with aging facilities. Three of the club’s outdoor courts are unusable, and the remaining four are headed in the wrong direction, Cherniavsky said. He measured 91 metres (300 feet) of cracks across the outdoor courts, and they appear on some that are still among the better ones. “They’re getting to be in a pretty bad state,” he said. “They’re not regularly maintained and power washed and they get quite slippery, even on a dry day, because the grit just builds up. The centre court does have benches for viewing, but they’re growing weeds and cracked. The wood is cracking. It’s 30 years old and rotting.” Inside, he explained, things aren’t much better, as Wildwood Restaurant left in 2015 leaving the kitchen space vacant, and it’s not an overly pleasant experience to be inside. “The locker rooms are dark and the showers don’t work. It’s basic maintenance that you’d expect in a community facility
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Chateau golfers qualify for nationals WHISTLER QUINTET OFF TO NOVA SCOTIA IN OCTOBER
BY DAN FALLOON THINGS GOT A BIT scrambly for some local golfers earlier this month, but it was all for the best. Competing in the British Columbia West Regional Final of the RBC PGA Scramble at Nicklaus North Golf Course on Sept. 9, the Fairmont Chateau Whistler Golf Club team of Nicholas Jackson, Graham Page, Austin Draper, Kevin Morrison and head professional Padraic O’Rourke punched their ticket to the national finals. The team topped the 10-entry field, scoring a 23-under to fend off the runnersup from Richmond’s Mayfair Lakes. O’Rourke said the squad prepared with a strong practice round the day before the finals and felt confident heading into the showdown. “We came up with a bit of a gameplan for Monday,” he said. With the squad needing to use three tee shots from each player over the course of the round, it was imperative that everyone remained consistent and delivered a useable option when needed. O’Rourke said that’s exactly how it played out. “Everyone contributed to the score,”
he said. “Everybody stood up and hit some great tee shots at the right time. We started out well. We got all the drives out of the way with two holes to spare, which was important. We gelled very well as a team.” The crew started on Hole 13, which O’Rourke said worked to its benefit as the back half of the course presented many of Nicklaus North’s most challenging options. Once the team successfully conquered those six holes before returning to No. 1, it felt pretty confident in its chances, he recalled. “The last five holes of Nicklaus North are the trickiest and once we played No. 18, we were five-under for the day,” he said. “I just felt like we had a really good chance from there. “We had a couple crucial putts in the middle part of the round. We rolled in 10-, 12-footers when we had to keep the momentum going.” A scramble is different from a traditional tournament in that working as a team, golfers select one shot to play after each attempt, which makes it easier to get to the green. From there, they hope someone can sink one. “At the end of the day, it’s pretty much a putting competition, really, so I was definitely focusing hard on my putting in the lead-up for a couple of weeks,” O’Rourke said.
O’Rourke said the other four players on the team were good friends going in, and he was invited to join in when they thought about taking a serious run at cracking nationals. The group placed second at a qualifier at the Chateau before breaking through at Nicklaus North. The national tournament is set for October at Cabot Links Golf Course on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island. Between Cabot Links (and affiliated course Cabot Cliffs), O’Rourke is excited to test his mettle on
some of the country’s best courses. “The boys are super pumped and, for myself as well, I’ve got to be honest. I was definitely trying extra hard with the ultimate prize to get to the No. 1 and No. 3 golf courses in the country, and a Top 50 course in the world,” he said. “It’s all gravy from here, to be honest, but we’re going out there with the intention to do really well. “We seem like we’ve got a really good chance and we’re definitely pumped to get out there.” n
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really expect to receive feedback from [the municipality], whether that’s at a council level or at a staff level or, equally important, at a public consultation level,” he said. “We’re just waiting patiently in the background, hoping and looking forward to when the OCP gets adopted and there’s a policy framework in which we can work. “For that OCP to be adopted is what gives us license to begin a transparent process.” An RMOW spokesperson said via email that staff has not had any recent discussions with Beedie and that the OCP remains on track for approval before year’s end. n
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Buchar just off podium at Big Bear SPORTS BRIEFS: WHISTLER GOLF CLUB WINS TWO PGA OF BC AWARDS; WOMEN’S SQUASH WEEK EVENT COMING WHISTLER GOLF CLUB WINS TWO PGA OF BC AWARDS
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was narrowly off the podium at the Intense U.S. Open Downhill at California’s Big Bear Mountain Resort on Sept. 15. Taking fourth, Buchar finished roughly 2.8 seconds back of third-place finisher Camila Nogueira of Aspen, Colo. but was 12.5 seconds behind winner Jill Kintner of Bellingham, Wash. Coldstream, B.C.’s Vaea Verbeeck ended up in second. Buchar said on Instagram that she’d been battling a chest cold in the lead-up to the race and while she didn’t perform her best, was glad she suited up. “I don’t get the opportunity to race these kinds of events much anymore so I didn’t want to sit it out. Crowd and vibe was awesome and finishing 4th was a bonus,” she posted. Buchar’s husband, Chris Kovarik, took 13th in the men’s elite race, placing 9.9 seconds back of champion Loic Bruni of France.
The Whistler Golf Club was honoured twice when the Professional Golfers’ Association of BC revealed its regional awards recipients on Sept. 17. Head professional Alan Kristmanson walked away with the Executive Professional of the Year Award, while the club also took home the Ben Colk Golf Shop of the Year Award. Winners will be honoured at River Rock Casino and Resort in Richmond on Oct. 16.
WOMEN’S SQUASH WEEK EVENT COMING SEPT. 19 The Whistler Squash Club and Meadow Park Sports Centre are joining forces to host a Women’s Squash Week event on Thursday, Sept. 19. Local women from Whistler and Pemberton are encouraged to come to a clinic at the sports centre to try the sport
BEARING IT Claire Buchar, shown here competing at Crankworx in 2018, took fourth at the Intense U.S. Open Downhill in California on the weekend.
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from 6 to 8 p.m. “The idea is to inspire women to try a new sport or get back on court after an extended absence,” Carol Eberhard said in a release. Eberhard, along with her daughter Sage, will serve as Whistler’s ambassadors and hosts for this year’s event. The clinic will include instruction, hands-on drills and “games with a social component,” per the release. To register, visit www.sportyhq.com/ event/view/WSW2019-Meadow-ParkWhistler-Introduction-FundamentalsGames-and-Drills or email Eberhard at rceberhard@hotmail.com. In addition to the local Whistler group, 25 other clubs all across the province are set to participate in Women’s Squash Week.
LUNDY TIES FOR 36TH AT CANADIAN MEN’S SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP Pemberton’s Lance Lundy proved himself as one of the country’s top golfers at the Canadian Men’s Seniors Championship last week. In the tournament, held from Sept. 10 to 13 at Scarborough, Ont.’s Cedar Brae Golf Club, the Big Sky Golf Club member tied for 36th with a four-day score of 21-over-par (305). Lundy was fairly consistent, starting with rounds of 76 and 75 before posting back-to-back 77s. Gene Elliott of West Des Moines, Iowa ran away with the crown with a six-underpar 278, five strokes better than Brooklin, Ont.’s Ashley Chinner and six up on Oakville, Ont.’s Lars Melander. Full results are available at golfcanada. bluegolf.com. n
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Forget pink and blue—gender relations is a green issue IF I TOLD you my kid loves to wear nail polish, is passionate about nature, animals and Wild Kratts, likes soccer, mountain biking and skiing, and sported, for the last month of summer, a feather in blond locks from Slow Food Cycle—and that the child’s name is Jo—I’m guessing you’d think she was a pretty well-rounded girl. If I clarified that his name is Joe, would
BY LISA RICHARDSON your raise an eyebrow at the hair feather and nail polish? Enough of his kindergarten friends did that: At five years old, he became abruptly aware of the line between pink things and blue things. Up until then, using hazardous smelling chemicals with small brushes to carefully paint keratin claws in coloured tribal markings, had appealed to his sense of danger, responsibility and selfexpression. Yet at school, he was informed clearly that nail varnish is only for girls. Kids don’t mince words. Pink and blue is black and white. The other morning, carefully trying to navigate the minefield between what I fiercely say (“anyone can love anything!”), and what the world tells him, he advised me that most girls draw love hearts in pink, while most boys would choose red. It’s a tonal degree, this learning how not to get beaten up—popping the saturation from pink to red and just letting the girls
WAR PAINT Researchers have uncovered a compelling link between misogyny and climatechange deniers. Could letting boys wear nail polish save the planet? PHOTO BY LISA RICHARDSON
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have at the wall of nail polish. I am heart-achy and perplexed by these revelations. How do I raise the kind of man the world needs, (one at ease in his own skin, able to express his innate likes and dislikes), if we’re still trapped in these gender expectations? Universally, don’t we want a world full of men who are capable of tenderness, who love the planet and whom we’re safe to be around? More than any of the things we might personally want or expect from the men we encounter (be that: open doors for us/not patronize us, admire us/not ogle us, treat us like a sister/treat us like a princess), we all want to feel safe/not unsafe, around each other. And yet, we think it’s OK to damage men’s hearts and quash their expressions from their earliest moments, insist on
with “unmanly” and deeply disconcerting symptoms, like breasts. Ironic, really— that one of the more dominant images of manhood today is in reality the opposite of a healthy, productive, virile man. We are so entrenched in bullshit. For me, it’s not about pushing back on gender norms or insisting on my son’s right to wear pink if he so chooses, so much as it is a deep desire to hold space for him to have feelings. Complex rich nuanced feelings. And for him to find all kinds of creative outlets in which to express them—in play, in clothing, in movement, in design. Not just the narrow emotions that are deemed manly: anger, and … well, anger. Not just the narrow range of fashion choices that are deemed dude-like. I don’t want to think that school is a slow march towards hiding your true self away and
Universally, don’t we want a world full of men who are capable of tenderness, who love the planet and whom we’re safe to be around? some ideal of manliness that forces them to constantly check for cues from the pack as to what’s permitted under the Blue Code? I recently heard of an endocrinologist with a large patient load of men coming off steroids. When you’ve been juicing with artificial hormones to build muscle to look the pinnacle of bulked-out virility, your body actually stops producing its own testosterone. If you then want to procreate— that is, to actually “be virile”—you need to patently pursue a long process of allowing your body to re-regulate, and that can come
conforming as best you can to a narrow range of possibilities. For any single kid. That’s been the paradigm for some time now, and I think it’s safe to say, it’s not really working out. Because here is what the science says: there is a clear link between climate deniers and the anti-feminist farright. Researchers at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology, have analyzed the language use of climate skeptics and found a striking theme: for them, it’s not the environment that is under threat, but “a certain kind of modern industrial
society, built and dominated by their form of masculinity.” For these vocal and influential men, climate science has become feminized. Caring about the planet is “oppositional to assumed entitlements of masculine primacy.” What they have learned, from our industrial culture, is that manliness equates with dominance, and isn’t weakened by feelings. That humans are separate from nature, and that economic growth is more important than the environment, is part of a package of values and behaviours that are connected to a form of masculinity that the researchers call “industrial breadwinner masculinity.” And they are fighting like mad to protect it. To all of our perils. At a milder extreme, other experiments have shown that people of both sexes thought shoppers using reusable shopping bags were more feminine than those using plastic bags—regardless of whether the shopper was male or female. Seriously? So this is the legacy for our kids? Girls get nail polish. Boys get to destroy the planet. (And everybody dies.) Because, you know, you wouldn’t want to come across as “feminine” by caring too much about, uh, vital life-supporting systems. The crisis of climate change is a crisis of disconnection between the facts and the feelings. As the brilliant writer Suzannah Showler recently wrote: it is a massive lie that men’s feelings are really thoughts and women’s feelings are nonsense. That some hearts are pink and some hearts are red. All hearts are capable of breaking. And the wounded ones do the most damage. My Code is Green. And in this fierce love and desire to protect small hearts, I am the kind of warrior that no industrial breadwinner has ever seen. The Velocity Project: how to slow the f*&k down and still achieve optimum productivity and life happiness. n
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Run like a chef WHISTLER BLACKCOMB EXECUTIVE CHEF WOLFGANG STERR BALANCES WORK DEMANDS AND ULTRARUNNING
BY DAN FALLOON IT MIGHT BE somewhat counterintuitive, but when Whistler Blackcomb (WB) executive chef and ultrarunner Wolfgang Sterr sought to increase his distance goals, one of the areas he struggled was figuring out his nutrition. It was the biggest learning curve Sterr faced as he made the jump from the 5 Peaks Trail Running Series and its 10-to-15kilometre offerings to longer distances, starting at 25 km such as the Comfortably Numb and Rubble Creek Classic races. However, as Sterr had his eureka moments, he was eventually able to conquer his first ultra in 2016 with the Squamish 50s’ 50-mile (80 km) race. Among the discoveries were finding a proper level of fluid intake and what foods work or don’t work with him. “I’ve learned a lot about the way my body functions, what it likes and what it doesn’t like, what salt intake does for your muscles and cramping,” he said. “My work does help me with that because I have a lot of nutritional information I learned in school and over the years.” On course, Sterr attempts to require minimal nutrition, though he will eat foods such as dates and avocado in small doses when he requires a boost. Instead, he focuses on his diet in order to remain consistent when running. “Whole foods and a high-fat diet definitely makes it easier for my system because after two-to-three hours, you’re switching from glucose burning to fat burning, and it’s that transition that’s very difficult,” he said, noting he sometimes takes ketones to aid in the transition. “I have 50,000 calories at my disposal that I can flush out with proper hydration and proper sodium intake for the following hours.” Sterr, a vegetarian, loves eggs and cheese and consumes them regularly. He explained that his diet doesn’t generally cause any complications on raceday. “Sometimes it’s a bit more difficult, especially when you’re travelling, but in a race, it makes really no difference because
STERR IT UP Whistler Blackcomb executive chef Wolfgang Sterr has special insight into nutrition for his athletic pursuit of ultrarunning.
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you can get your protein from different legumes or other protein sources,” he said. “I find that people think they need to eat more protein than they actually do, even when they’re on a heavy training load. “I find it’s a lot more important to have proper hydration and eat a lot of microgreens and antioxidant-rich foods in
a balanced approach.” While Sterr said his athletic activity hasn’t gone on to directly impact the offerings at WB in terms of him introducing what he makes for himself to the menus, he remains steadfast in not serving visitors anything he wouldn’t want to put in his own body.
“We look for better food, cleaner food on the mountain to fuel our guests to pursue their passions,” he said. “There is a correlation there because I’m usually the one that says, ‘Where is it sourced from? Can we trace it back? What’s the quality of the product?’” In his role as WB’s executive chef, in which he’s served since 2011, Sterr is responsible for menu development for the resort’s quickserve and full-serve restaurants. His other duties involve leading supplier relations, monitoring food safety and helping with an apprenticeship program to get young people into the industry. While it might be difficult to pursue both at a high level, Sterr said it generally works that the mountain’s high season runs opposite to his major training blocks. As well, he said WB has the trust in him to manage his own time for both. “I work for an organization that understands that people pursue their passions at work as well as outside of work,” he said. “If I have time in the afternoon when I have nothing going on and feel like it’ll help me perform better at work, I can go for an hour hike or an hour run, then it’s up to me to manage my time to make sure that I get all the jobs done. It doesn’t matter when I get them done, as long as I hit the deadlines.” Sterr, who turned 50 this year, made a point of running five ultramarathons to mark each of his five decades. No. 4 is coming this Saturday in the form of the 110-km Whistler Alpine Meadows trail race. Sterr explained that his athletic pursuit is a welcome contrast to the hustle and bustle of a chef’s life. “It’s just the serenity out on course. I love running at night. I love running in the winter,” he said. “It gives me peace of mind because it gets you away from the obsessive thinking that we all have, because the only thing you can do is focus on the 10 feet in front of you. “It’s almost a meditative state you get into with the discomfort of your body around you, but you get to places within you that you will not reach unless you break the body down. You get to experience yourself more—your true self.” n
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The Hitchhiker Man chronicles cross-country adventure FORMER WHISTLERITE MATT FOX RELEASES STORY OF HITCHING HIS WAY TO ALASKA
BY ALYSSA NOEL IT’S SAFE TO SAY Matt Fox was a little lost when he finished his economics degree at Laurentian University in 2007. Staring down an inevitable desk job, he began to wonder what other versions of life were out there. More specifically, one drunken night, he agreed to hitchhike across Canada with a friend and, despite his misgivings, actually followed through. “I didn’t plan on writing a book,” Fox says over the phone from a trip to Bali. “About five years ago I decided I’ve always been telling my friends stories of the adventures we had. I tried to write down some journals; I have a good memory for stuff like that. I thought it would be 10 or 20 pages and it ended up being 300 pages.” The result was Fox’s self-published memoir, The Hitchhiker Man, which was released two months ago, with copies en route to Armchair Books this week. “It was nerve wracking,” he says. “No matter how many times I read it through
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or how many times my friends told me it was good, I poured my heart out into it and to have people read it, I know how critical people can be. It was hard to let it out there.” But the reviews on both Goodreads and on his Amazon page have been glowing so far. The story itself is compelling
the hardest province to hitchhike in, and Alaska, which he hitchhiked to after a three-year stop in Whistler, was the least enjoyable. “B.C. was amazing,” he adds. “People were so nice there. I grew up near Toronto, but I love B.C. The people are so much more conscientious and care about
“We were in the middle of bear territory. There was nothing around us and everyone told us we were going to get eaten.” - MATT FOX
enough—filled with gun-toting drivers, a not-so-friendly bear, and less harrowing chronicles of friendship. After penning the initial draft, Fox enrolled in writing courses, read books on writing and self-publishing and, eventually, hired a professional editor to help. “I spent five years learning how to write and improving it and taking writing courses,” he says. “I went through maybe 20 edits, which is a lot for a book. It was my baby. I wanted to make it amazing. I tried to put in everything I learned on my journey there.” Some of those lessons? Ontario was
the environment. There’s so many good people in B.C. Once I was there, it was easier. Rides are easier. It was really enjoyable.” The section on Alaska includes a terrifying tale about one night in a tent in Denali National Park. Fox woke up to deep breathing and, moments later, the tent began to shake. “I could hear the creature’s claws tear the thick Alaskan moss as it circled us. I hoped it wasn’t a grizzly, but I had seen so many that morning there was no doubt that it had to be,” he wrote. “There was a point where the last few
days in Alaska, we just wanted to get out of there,” Fox says. “We were in the middle of bear territory. There was nothing around us and everyone told us we were going to get eaten.” Fox made the section of the journey from B.C. to Alaska after settling in Whistler for a few years. In fact, he says living in the resort impacted his life’s trajectory. “After getting to Whistler, I didn’t even consider getting an office job,” he says. “I loved skiing in the day and working in the evenings.” He’s carried on that lifestyle—working when he has to and surfing as much as he can—in Byron Bay, Aus., where he currently lives. “It’s like the Whistler of Australia. It’s a small town, there’s nice people, lots of active things to do,” he says. “I want to be near the mountains or the beach.” Lest you imagine him a perpetual beach bum, Fox’s parting lesson to readers is one about persistence and work ethic. “The quote at the beginning, ‘Time and effort can get you anything you want in the world,’” he says. “If you have a goal, you put in time and effort and learn you can achieve anything you want in life.” Find The Hitchhiker Man at Armchair Books or on Amazon. n
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Memoir offers a deep-dive into family struggles EUFEMIA FANTETTI’S MY FATHER, FORTUNE-TELLERS & ME, A MEMOIR (ITALIAN-STYLE) FEATURED AT UPCOMING WHISTLER WRITERS FESTIVAL
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IN THIS HAUNTING memoir, author Eufemia Fantetti takes readers on a wild ride through a childhood steeped in Southern Italian superstitions, family loyalty at all costs and the immigrant experience. Her story begins with tarot cards—a suitable medium for the fate that awaits Eufemia after her parent’s wedding day in 1965 in tradition-bound Bonefro, Italy. The arranged marriage between second cousins Michelantonio and Lucia, hastily by manipulative relatives, sets up a tragic life for both of them and, soon, their daughter as well. After settling in an Ontario suburb, the family becomes overwhelmed by Lucia’s descent into severe mental illness. Eufemia takes readers down a rabbit hole of tumbling memories of her troubled childhood. Colourful dialogue enriches her stories and makes them come alive. “No make your life more hard than has to be,” says her father. Humour, often of the gallows sort, makes frequent welcome appearances. Young Eufemia faces unpredictability every day, never knowing whether her mother will “stay anchored to reality” and for how long. Her father, loving and honourable, seems helpless to remove himself and his daughter from their chaotic existence as he works to achieve the Canadian dream of making a decent living,
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Eufemia attempts to deal with the effects of her childhood through the usual therapy channels, unsuccessfully. She seeks additional help through fascinating forays into tarot cards, fortune tellers, palm readers and astrology as she searches for a pattern, a plan, to navigate through her life. A deep love for her father and the written word remain lifelines for the author.
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owning a home and providing an education for his daughter. Malocchio, the evil eye, is the trio’s constant companion. The family spends time in Southern Italy, visiting relatives, hoping for a cure. Eufemia, cocooned in timeless village life, happily forms a loving and reliable relationship with her Nonna. But her mother does not improve with old or new Italian ideas. Nor does an official diagnosis help when they return to Canada. Eufemia eventually takes flight, leaving her home for university on the other side of this country. But family is family, and she returns to the cauldron, seeking new ways to make peace with her childhood and her parents. There is, she knows, “no obstinacy like Southern Italian stubborn.”
As well as providing a captivating glimpse into what it means to be Italian, readers will also feel that writing this book has been part of Eufemia’s healing. Fantetti will be at the reading event New Voices Rising at the 2019 Whistler Writers Festival on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 9 a.m. She will read from her book and be in conversation with moderator and author Eileen Cook and other emerging authors. Find your tickets at www.whistlerwritersfest.com. Jane Reid is a long-time Whistler resident who is passionate about local food and the written word. Her first book, Freshly Picked: A Locavore’s Love Affair with BC’s Bounty, was published in October 2018 by Caitlin Press. n
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The best action hero? DID ANYONE ASK for another Rambo sequel? It doesn’t matter ‘cause we got one. Nearly 40 years after he first hit the screens as John Rambo, Green Beret Vietnam veteran up against insurmountable odds, Sylvester Stallone revisits the character (and the odds) this week in Rambo: Last Blood, opening this week at the Village 8.
BY FEET BANKS There were no pre-screeners for this one (it’s Rambo 5, do we really need one?) but from the trailer it looks like Rambo is in Mexico trying to save his niece while setting booby traps and lots of classic Rambowand-arrow shots. Stallone co-wrote but few expect this one to break much new terrain in either the Rambo or action genres. But it does lead to a larger question—is Sylvester Stallone the greatest action star of the last 50 years? And if not, then who is? This is not an easy debate, so to establish
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action star dominance we need to set some parameters: box office popularity counts (hello, Harrison Ford and The Rock), but not for much, while range of roles and genres is a sure way to get points (Kurt Russell could do sci-fi horror like The Thing, straight action like Escape from New York or action comedy like Tango & Cash). As well, sequels and franchises matter (Mel Gibson had Mad Max AND Lethal Weapon), but so does totally random stuff that just works (Milla Jovovich’s Resident Evil run, Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop, or Liam Neeson in Taken). As well, the current era of superhero movies is not in contention (sorry Ryan Reynolds) and I’m not counting action imports like Jet Li or Jackie Chan because most of us just aren’t familiar enough with their overseas work. Clear as mud? Ok, let’s go. 10. Tom Cruise: He ticks a lot of boxes with the Mission Impossible flicks, the Top Guns, Jack Reachers, The Last Samurai and Minority Report. But he loses points for Scientology and just being weird. 9. Angelina Jolie: The hottest woman in the world wasn’t afraid to kick ass and her run started with Gone in 60 Seconds then led to Tomb Raider, Salt, Wanted, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Angie set a new standard that we are still enjoying today.
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8. Jean-Claude Van Damme: His acting is a bit stiff but Van Damme kept martial arts alive in the early ‘90s with Bloodsport, Kickboxer, Death Warrant, Double Impact, Hard Target, Universal Soldier and Timecop. (We’ll forget about Street Fighter though.) 7. Will Smith: He’s loveable and so good he flies under the radar, but the Fresh Prince can kick ass. From Bad Boys to Men in Black to Independence Day to Bright, Will Smith has legit action range. 6. Chuck Norris: He was the Americans answer to Asian martial arts and his brand of gritty toughness was so manly it outlived his actual action career by decades. But Missing in Action and Good Guys Wear Black are pretty killer and he did fight Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon. 5. Sylvester Stallone: Five Rambo flicks, eight Rockys plus hits like Cobra, Demolition Man, Death Race 2000, Judge Dredd and Cop Land. He has variety and longevity, plus Over the Top is the best armwrestling family drama/action flick ever. 4. Bruce Lee: He only made four feature films before his death or he’d be the king for sure. The original philosophical action star, Bruce Lee changed the game not only for action stars but also for Asian stars. A true hero in real life and on screen.
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3. Bruce Willis: Die Hard created a new type of “everyman” action hero that spawned numerous sequels and countless knock-offs (“it’s Die Hard on a ____” is still the most common action plot), but Willis also brought it in The Fifth Element, Armageddon, 12 Monkeys, Sin City, Looper and even The Last Boy Scout. 2. Keanu Reeves: A bit of a dark horse to chart this high but he reinvented himself as an action hero three times. First with Point Break and the Speed flicks, then with the genre-revolutionizing Matrix (the sequels floundered but whatever) and then again with his three-and-counting John Wick flicks which feature tactical shooting and stunt work that’s unsurpassed by any on this list. 1. Arnold Schwarzenegger: True, the only person on this list he can outact is Van Damme, but shit Martha if this giant bodybuilder didn’t personify ass-kicking for 20 straight years. From Conan to Commando to The Running Man to Total Recall to True Lies, Schwarzenegger delivered dumb oneliners and kick-ass action. See also: The Terminator flicks. Brad Pitt has a movie out this week (Ad Astra) but it’s not an action flick so it’s gonna have to wait. Sorry Brad, Angie takes this round. n
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MOUNTAIN TOP ART Charlie Easton is Mountain Galleries’ artist-in-residence during BC Culture Days, running PHOTO FROM THE ARCHIVES
BC Culture Days rolls out events ALSO IN ARTS NEWS: WFF DOC LAB DEADLINE NEARS; PEMBERTON BARN DANCE RETURNS
BY ALYSSA NOEL BC CULTURE DAYS is marking its 10th anniversary from Sept. 27 to 29. The annual celebration hosts hundreds of free arts, culture and heritage events across the province—including in Whistler. On Friday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., and on Sunday, Sept. 29 from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., locals can head down to Mountain Galleries in the Fairmont Chateau Whistler to meet artist-in-residence Charlie Easton, who will be painting inside and outside the hotel. Meanwhile, you can also take in events around the province—including down the highway in North Vancouver, Vancouver, and the Lower Mainland—that range from music and dance performances to art exhibits and crafting workshops. For more information, or to find an event, visit culturedays.ca/bc.
WFF DOC LAB APPLICATIONS OPEN Calling all documentary filmmakers. The deadline for the Whistler Film Festival’s Doc Lab is quickly approaching. The intensive, multi-day mentorship program is open to Canadian documentary filmmakers with social issue-focused feature projects currently underway. The two-phase project accepts up to 10 filmmakers who have documentaries that are up to 90 minutes in length in any stage of development. “Designed to provide an inclusive
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environment for project development and career acceleration, the program includes a dynamic multi-day workshop and mentorship experience for documentary filmmakers that nurtures collaboration between creators, funders and audience through networking opportunities, one-onone meetings and professional development sessions,” according to the description. The first phase of the program takes place during the Whistler Film Festival + Content Summit from Dec. 4 to 8. The second phase is set for some time between January and April 2020. An example of where the lab can take you: local Darcy Hennessey Turenne took part in 2017 with her film The Moment. The next year, that film was featured as the Whistler Film Festival’s closing night film. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1. For more, visit whistlerfilmfestival.com/talent/ doc-lab.
PEMBERTON BARN DANCE RETURNS The Pemberton Barn Dance is returning for its massive, annual hoedown on Saturday, Sept. 21—and we have good news and bad news. The good news? The event will feature local country favourites Northern Ignition kicking off the evening and headliners Chris Buck Band rounding out the party. The bad news? Predictably, it’s sold out, as it is every year. However, keep your eye on the event’s Facebook page for people selling tickets. (Search Pemberton Barn Dance 2019 on Facebook.) The event runs from 7 p.m. until 12 a.m. at the Downtown Community Barn. n
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WORKER HOUSING An architect’s drawing of the Glacier Lane housing, published in the Blabcomb to show Blackcomb employees the expected end result.
Blackcomb (WB) began a rezoning process with the goal of constructing a new sixstorey building with 60 units of employee housing to join the seven existing staff housing buildings on the Glacier Lane site. Consisting of two-bedroom units, each about 40 square metres in size, this proposed housing will be very similar, if a bit newer than, the first four buildings originally built by Blackcomb Ski Enterprise and Canadian Pacific (CP) Hotels in 1988. The first hint of the project came at the beginning of January 1988, when Blackcomb received permission to convert the administration offices of its old daylodge into temporary employee housing. To assuage concerns from council that the housing might not remain temporary, Gary Raymond, Blackcomb’s vice-president of finance, mentioned that Blackcomb and CP Hotels, the owners of the then-under-construction Chateau Whistler Resort, would be bringing a joint proposal for permanent employee housing to council in the next few weeks. The proposal was for four buildings, each with 48 two-bedroom units, to be built over two years. When finished the buildings would house almost 400 people; at the time, Blackcomb had roughly 500 employees and the Chateau was expected to employ about 350. Due to a severe shortage of housing, the plan was to construct all four buildings over the summer of 1988 in time for employees arriving in October. The Blackcomb/CP Hotels Glacier Lane project was not the only employee housing project underway. That summer, projects with the Whistler Valley Housing Society (WVHS) were also being constructed or proposed at Nordic Court and Eva Lake Road. All of these projects hit some snags over the summer, though the Glacier Lane project may have been the most visible. The buildings were higher and more visible than expected and “Letters to the Editor”
were published in The Whistler Question referring to the construction as a “massive box” that could be seen from any point in the valley north of the village. In July, Mayor Drew Meredith even called the visibility of the project “a worthwhile mistake,” while pointing out that the developers were trying to mitigate the visibility of the buildings through landscaping. Before the buildings could officially open on Sept. 19, 1988, they first had to be named. A contest was announced in the Blabcomb newsletter and employees were invited to name both the development as a whole and the individual buildings. The contest was won by David Small, who proposed to call the development Glacier Park, with each building named for a glacier: Horstman, Overlord, Spearhead and Decker. At the grand opening, Blackcomb president Hugh Smythe recalled his own years spent living in employee housing while working for Whistler Mountain, saying “I remember sleeping on the floor, on tables and in trailers,” including one trailer known by many as “the ghetto.” According to Smythe, the new units compared quite favourably to his own experiences, and certainly had a better view. The first residents began moving in October 1. They were a mix of Blackcomb employees, including employees of Alta Lake Foods who provided food services for the mountain, and CP Hotel construction workers. Most of the CP Hotel employees would not move in until the Chateau Whistler Resort opened in late 1989. By the end of November, the Blabcomb reported that all units had been filled, with people either already moved in or with rooms committed to incoming employees, and a waiting list had already been started. They were also able to report that, partly due to his work managing the housing project, Gary Raymond had been awarded one of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce’s first “Business Person of the Year” awards, along with Lorne Borgal of Whistler Mountain. According to the Blabcomb, the project had been a great success. n
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1 GOLFERS DO GOOD The 24th Annual TELUS Golf Classic fundraiser, held on Friday, Sept. 13 at the Fairmont Chateau course, was another sold-out success with 36 foursomes. The event also featured the third Annual Blackcomb Helicopter Heli Ball Drop, which sold out with 3,000 balls. Twelve balls landed in the hole with Todd Laney winning the draw—meaning he took home a Whistler Blackcomb Season Pass and Blackcomb Heli Tour for Five. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WHISTLER BLACKCOMB FOUNDATION. 2 BEER FEST BLUES Despite the rain, beer drinkers’ spirits were high at the annual Whistler Village Beer Festival’s main event thanks to tasty craft brews and live music. PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS. 3 TACO ‘BOUT PLANTS Julia Murray, the registered holistic nutritionist and plant-based chef behind Hooked on Plants blog, ‘cheers’ to a successful multi-course vegan dinner, held at the Raven Room to coincide with the worldwide premiere of The Game Changers on Sept. 16. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 ZUMBA Z00 Whistlerites got their Zumba on during a fitness party with sought-after Zumba education specialist Mario Gutierrez, who hails from Israel, on Friday night, Sept. 13 at Meadow Park Sports Centre. Whistler is gearing up to host its own “Party in pink” Zumba-sanctioned fundraising event to raise money for breast cancer research on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available through Carmen Laslett (Zumbacarmen4@gmail.com) or Susie Douglas. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 WRITERS FEST WORKS The Whistler Public Library has set up a special shelf filled with the latest releases from the guest authors who will be attending this year’s 2019 Whistler Writers Festival, as showcased by festival manager Rebecca Wood Barrett. Books can be checked out with a library card for anyone who wants a sneak peek before the fest. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 6 FAMILY FUN DAY Pique staff pose for a photo at the Rendezvous before braving Ziptrek Ecotour’s Sasquatch zipline during our annual “Family Fun” activity day. PHOTO SUBMITTED
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Cancer Bats embrace surprise VETERAN CANADIAN METAL BAND RETURNS TO WHISTLER ON SEPT. 22 IN SUPPORT OF THE SPARK THAT MOVES
BY ALYSSA NOEL THE MEMBERS of the (mostly) Torontobased metal band Cancer Bats straddle a unique line. Now in their late 30s—with a decadeand-a-half as a band—they’ve been part of the pre-internet, old-school music industry, but also transitioned into the new DIY era. That’s why they didn’t hesitate to try a new tactic, putting out their sixth album, The Spark That Moves, as a surprise release, last April. “We were planning to do these 10-year Hail the Destroyer [the band’s second album] shows and we figured if we could release the record at the same time it would be perfect,” says Mike Peters, the band’s Winnipeg-based drummer. “We also figured this surprise wouldn’t get lost because there would be enough people talking about it naturally because they were at the show already.” While they enlisted the help of a publicist for the roll-out, the band released the record on their own label, which further
BAT BOYS Metal band Cancer Bats return to Whistler on Sept. 22.
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reduced the chance it would leak before its drop date. “We had a big manager who manages a bunch of big bands. We had all this stuff. We signed to a major label for a while. It never really changed what we were doing and who we were playing for. We realized with streaming and the lack of record sales and all that stuff, it’s more about doing it yourself. You can get a lot of stuff done really easily,” Peters adds.
“We’re looking forward to coming back and playing Garfinkel’s. We haven’t played there in a long time.” With so many years of touring under their belt, the band carefully chose the fall dates for their cross-country journey. “It’s harder because there’s a lot of bands on tour, but people are back in school, so the college towns are full again, which is big for us,” Peters says. “The weather is still nice. We’ve done a lot of tours across
“We used to always sit in a practice room—and live close together—for eight hours a day staring at each other trying to write a riff.” - MIKE PETERS
The release was a success and the band has been touring around the world since. This summer they mostly played the European festival circuit, but last week they embarked on a cross-Canada tour that will see them make a stop in Whistler for the first time since 2015. “We used to come to Whistler almost every year or every other year,” Peters says.
Canada in January and February and it’s brutal. The last time we went west on a full tour, we drove through the ditch between Regina and Winnipeg.” For this tour, they’ve got Single Mothers and Sharptooth in tow. Last week, they announced a unique new EP with the former London, Ontario punk band on New Damage Records.
Part of the Switcheroo series, the bands covered two of each other’s songs. “We were going to just cover one, but their songs were really short,” Peters says, with a laugh. “We took part of one off the end and changed it around a little bit.” While the tracks are available for streaming online now, the seven-inch record will be up for grabs at the Whistler show. After an upcoming tour of Australia and another trip back to Europe, Cancer Bats will head back to their respective cities— Peters in Winnipeg, singer Liam Cormier between Halifax and Toronto and guitarist Scott Middleton and bassist Jaye R. Schwarzer to Toronto—to write new songs for another record. “We do a lot of individual [writing] and send it back and forth to each other,” Peters explains. “We used to always sit in a practice room—and live close together— for eight hours a day staring at each other, trying to write a riff. You still have to put in those hours of work, but you’re free to do it your own way … I think it went really well doing that, so that’s what we’ll start to do again.” In the meantime, catch Cancer Bats at Garinkel’s on Sept. 22. Tickets are available now for $15 - $20 at https://www.eventbrite. ca/e/cancer-bats-w-guests-at-garfinkelstickets-60164561824. n
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Opening Reception Friday, September 27, 2pm – 4pm A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE SLCC Curated by Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre’s Mixalhítsa7 Alison Pascal, this heartwarming exhibit celebrates the faces and family of the SLCC. Learn about our Ambassadors’ deeply-rooted connections to our immersive cultural centre, and the passion they share in belonging to Skwxwú7mesh Lil’wat7ul.
LOCAL TALENT The Hear and Now Festival is back to showcase Sea to Sky bands and musicians for a fourth year. PHOTO BY SCOTT BRAMMER
Hear and Now Festival spawns new bands CATCH DOZENS OF LOCAL ACTS IN VILLAGE SQUARE ON SEPT. 21 AND 22
BY ALYSSA NOEL YOU MIGHT NOT recognize the names of some of the bands playing the Hear and Now Festival, but you will probably recognize the musicians in those bands. Heading into its fourth year, organizers decided that if a band has played the festival for two consecutive years, it has to take a year off to allow for a more varied festival roster. As a result, local musicians took the opportunity to form new bands that are now set to debut at the event on Sept. 21 and 22. “This year, there’s brand new acts,” says Mo Douglas, executive director at Arts Whistler, the organization putting on the festival. “Some that are brand new to Whistler, some that are musicians putting together little projects.” One example is the DEAD MILLENIALS. That all-caps band is made up of six Whistler musicians, with some members from Whistler’s longest-running bands like Marble Canyon, Red Chair and Brother Twang. “The DEAD MILLENIALS came together to celebrate our shared love of music that differs from what we do in our regular bands … a bit more grooving—a lot more edge … and a ton of attitude,” the description reads. The festival’s intention has been to showcase musicians from the Sea to Sky corridor, but inadvertently it’s spawned entirely new acts. “If it becomes, ‘Hey, we could throw this together and test it out at Hear and Now— perfect!” Douglas says. “Locals get to see a different perspective on the guys they get to see out at the bar.” The two-day festival takes place in Village Square with 18 bands and musicians playing hourly (though some are sharing shorter sets) from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m.
The lineup includes: Birdsong, a jazz group led by singer Robyn Forsyth; Conor Fitz, an Irish singer-songwriter; The Courageous Mountain Rangers, a four-piece bluegrass band; country-rockers Dakota Pearl; roots singer-songwriter Ev Kinsella; the Grateful Dead-inspired FOMO; Hey Bartender!, a new blues band inspired by the Blues Brothers; the Americana Little Biggs Band; fresh duo Madeline and Israelle; alt-rock/reggae/R&B band Moondrops; husband-and-wife blues/country/jazz group Overcomers; Whistler singer Rachel Lewis; RTC (Right Turn Clyde), made up of five uniquely influenced locals; the long-running alt-country Rutherford Creek Collective; Motown tribute band Soul Mechanics; rootsy-blues act The Spruce Tops, and a capella group Vocalicious. “It’s a really fun mix,” Douglas says. “You’ll see that in the schedule each day. There’s everything from rock to alt-country and all points in between. Jazz and soul are big this year too.” The festival takes place rain or shine, and generally sees visitors and locals alike stopping by to take in a few sets. “More locals definitely talk about coming to see it,” Douglas says. “They might have specific times they want to [come out]. With visitors, it’s more of a flow-through. They ask one of our Arts Whistler team members, ‘What is this?’ and, boom, they sit down. People will stick around for one or two sets and I’ll see people circle back one or two hours later.” Also this year, they’ve moved the final set back an hour early—both to accommodate the play Arts Whistler is hosting in the Maury Young Arts Centre and because the evenings are starting to get colder. “Throw on a sweater, or a rain jacket if it’s raining,” Douglas says. “We’ll be out there.” To see the full lineup visit artswhistler. com/blog/hear-and-now-2019-lineup. n
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YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL EVENTS & NIGHTLIFE For a complete guide to events in Whistler, visit piquenewsmagazine.com/events
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ÚTSZAN
This compelling one-woman show uncovers Indigenous knowledge, humour, strength and resilience through language reclamation. Tickets are $5 at showpass. com/utszan/. > 1 & 7 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre
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
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
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WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION
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. These drop-in tours are free with the purchase of admission or museum membership. 604-962-0413. > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum
MICHAEL FABRO
Michael Fabro is a Canadian acoustic pop-rock performance artist. With a focus on crowd-pleasing hits and infectious vocal hooks, the young artist has fused multiple styles into a dynamic live act. Free. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge
COCKTAIL DANCE PARTY COMMUNITY
BNI MOUNTAIN HIGH
BNI provides a positive and structured environment for 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 melissa@ betterbrainhealth.info. $20. > 6:45-8:30 am > Whistler Chamber Boardroom
WOMEN’S KARMA YOGA
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 program is made possible by yoga instructors and childminders donating their time. Contact us to join the team. Free. 604-962-8711. > 9-10 am > Whistler Women’s Centre
ACTIVATE AND CONNECT FOR SENIORS 50+
Connect with friends, new and old, through weekly activities. Meet at Whistler Community Services Society. In partnership with Mature Action Community. > 9:30-11 am > Whistler Community Services
Start your weekend early with a handcrafted cocktail. Then hit the dancefloor or rock our legendary dancing cage with help from DJ Peacefrog. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills
KARAOKE WITH JACK-QUI NO
Put it on the rocks and call it a show! Hosted by Jack-Qui No. > 8 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel
LIVE MUSIC AT BRICKWORKS Live music every Tuesday and Thursday. > 8 pm > Brickworks Public House
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LEVEL UP > HOUSE & TECHNO
Catch Shanti Power (aka Ansel) (Birthday set), Luke Kloser and SHOOBZ joining your host Miss KomiK behind the decks to spin the best underground electronic dance music in house and techno. For guest list and group perks, email guestlist@moejoes.com. For more, visit facebook.com/LevelUPwhistler. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s
THURSDAY NIGHT FUNK FEATURING DJ DAKOTA
He spins old school and new school, ya need to learn though, he burns baby BURNS … like a hip-hop inferno! No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg
SPORTS
SYNCHRO SKATING OPEN HOUSE Try synchro skating for free! Fitness, fun and friendships while building your skating and synchro skills in a recreational environment. Adults learn, practice and build on the fundamental skills, basic manoeuvres, formations and transitions of synchronized skating. Don’t worry if you’re rusty— that’s why we practice! 604-935-7529. > 5:45-6:45 pm > Meadow Park Sports Centre
Come lounge out, dance and listen to all the throwback hits one could need. For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler
BAND CAMP
Band Camp is a local talent development night at Black’s Pub. This is where new talent to Whistler debuts and artists who have been honing their skills at jam nights make their debut. Free. 604-932-6408. > 9 pm-midnight > Black’s Pub & Restaurant
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. 604-962-0601. > 9 pm-midnight > Three Below
WELCOME CENTRE MULTICULTURAL MEET UP
Come and say, “hi” if you are new to Canada and Whistler! Everyone and every age is welcome. Casual meet up, workshops, information about living in Canada. Check calendar at www.welcomewhistler.com for full details. Contact info@welcomewhistler.com or 604-698-5960. > 9:30 am-noon > Whistler Public Library
PRESCHOOL STORY TIME
Books, songs and rhymes for preschool-aged children, accompanied by a caregiver. Registration is not required. > 10:30 am > Whistler Public Library
JUMMAH SALAH (FRIDAY PRAYER)
There will be a weekly “Jummah Salah” (Friday Prayer) held at the Maury Young Arts Centre Multi-Purpose Hall. It is open to all and everyone is welcome. There is no cost for this event. Organized by the BC Muslim Association. > 1:30 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre
WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN
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
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PATRICK SPENCER
Sexy blues tones and warm electric vibes; batten down the hatches, you’re in for a storm. All your favourite tunes stripped raw and served with soul. > 8:30-11:30 pm > Brickworks Public House
ROTARY CLUB OF WHISTLER MILLENNIUM
Join the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium to learn about what the club is doing to support your local community and international projects. Lunch is available for $20. Everyone welcome. > 12:15 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side
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. 604-932-2323. > 9 pm-2 am > Garfinkel’s
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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
THURSDAY LOCALS’ NIGHT
ÚTSZAN
> 1 & 7 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre
LIVE MUSIC
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. > 6-9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company
MEAGHAN LOZEN WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum
WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION
Docents will provide visitors with an introduction to the Audain Art Museum and its special exhibition. Visitors will be encouraged to explore the galleries afterwards. These drop-in tours are free with the purchase of admission or museum membership. > 5:30 pm > Audain Art Museum
The Friday night weekend kick off party starring Meaghan Lozen. You won’t want to miss out on this two-time VIMA-nominated artist who has a knack for captivating listeners with diverse musical tastes. Her collage of lyrical rap flow and smooth vocal melodies over criss-crossing genres has earned her a loyal tribe and ever-expanding fan base. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar
NEARLY NATALIE @ ALPINE CAFE Susan Holden is back playing her favourite Natalie Merchant covers and many other favourites down on the corner. A hit last time, this will sure to be another classic cafe party! Free. > 7-9 pm > Alpine Cafe
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SINGING WITH THE BABIES
Learn songs and rhymes to soothe and entertain baby while encouraging early language development. For kids up to walking age. Free. > 11-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library
FAMILY TOGETHER TIME
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
WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN
> 6-10 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre
ROTARY CLUB OF WHISTLER LIBRARY FUNDRAISER HEAR AND NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL SEPT 21 VILLAGE SQUARE
LADIES’ NIGHT
We have a gift for all ladies. Enjoy a glass of champagne then hit the dance floor and dance the night away with DJ Peacefrog. Info@buffalobills.ca for guestlist or table bookings. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills
FRIDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB Shake off your work week by grooving to deep cuts featuring classics and future gems ... you can’t help but move to the beats! No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg
> 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge
CHAMPAGNE FRIDAY
GRRRLS GONE WILD ANIMAL PRINT PARTY
Unleash your inner wild child with us on Friday night at The Hangar! House music all night long with this allfemale DJ line-up: DJ Nathalie Morel, Foxy Moron and Whitness. Dress in your favourite animal print, as your spirit animal, jungle babe or Tarzan and come boogie with us! Yes, boys are welcome! $30. Tickets available on eventbrite.com. > 8 pm > The Hangar Whistler
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). Nonmembers $8 drop-in (includes entry into Meadow Park). > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre
INDOOR PICKLEBALL DROP-IN
Have fun playing the fastest-growing sport in North America. All levels welcome. Free paddle rental. For more, call 604-932-1991. $10. > 4-6 pm > Whistler Racquet Club
SEAN ROSE
> 9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company
ELLIE & CHARLIE
Ellie & Charlie are a newly formed acoustic duo. Both from the UK, they are debuting their Canadian musical adventure in Whistler. Come check out their singersongwriter vibe and chill out to some mellow tunes. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar
HEAR AND NOW MUSIC FESTIVAL
Discover your next favourite band at Hear and Now – Whistler’s Local Music Celebration. Back for its fourth year, Hear and Now celebrates Whistler’s thriving music scene. > 11 am-7 pm > Village Square
THE ARBUCKLE TRIO @ ALPINE CAFE
FIRE IT UP FRIDAY
Come down to Tommy’s Whistler and set the bar high for the weekend. DJ Dre Morel spinning pop, rock and hip hop beats all night long. For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. Let us know if you are celebrating for a gift from us to you! > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler
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Learn more about Whistler’s culture and history. Now open by donation. > Daily 11am-5pm, Thu until 9pm > Whistler Museum
THE CULTURAL CONNECTOR: A JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY
Grab a Cultural Connector guide and explore Whistler’s world of culture. 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
COMMUNITY
GAMES CAFE
Come in and enjoy a massive selection of popular games. Sunday to Thursday. > 4-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar
PATRICK SPENCER
SPORTS Kick off your weekend at Garf’s. Get on the guest list and join the party: info@garfinkels.ca. > 7:30 pm > Garfinkel’s
The Rotary Club of Whistler is partnering with the Whistler Public Library to raise funds for the library’s planned Wonder Lab. The night includes a barbecue buffet, live music from the Bradley McGillivray Blues Band, dancing and silent auction. Tickets are $100 or $720 for a table of eight. More info and tickets at whistler-blues.live. Info and tickets are available at whistler-blues.live > 9 pm > Dusty’s Bar and Grill
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WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum
Our local legend Don has a new band! From the depths of Whistler’s Apline, The Arbuckle Trio are a new blues movement set to get your foot tapping and soul stirring...a show you won’t wanna miss! Free. > 7-9 pm > Alpine Cafe
BROTHER TWANG
Come wind down your ski day or ramp up your Saturday night festivities with the boys from Brother Twang. > 9 pm-midnight > FireRock Lounge
LIVE @ BLACK’S
Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant
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. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s
SATURDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB
He got your blood pumping last night, now satiate your thirst for amazing cocktails and unique beats with tyMetal’s eclectic DJ feats. No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg
SUPREME SATURDAY
DJ Nikky from Vancouver brings 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. > 10 pm > Garfinkel’s
SPORTS
FEEL GOOD FRIDAYS
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 dancefloor. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s
FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE
Live music by Whistler favourites, Red Chair. > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub
WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum
ÚTSZAN
> 7 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre
WHISTLER PARKRUN WEEKEND GETAWAYS
Whistler’s newest nightclub and lounge turns it up every Saturday night with VIP tables and a party not to miss out on. DJ Dre Morel spinning pop, rock and hip hop beats all night long. For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. Let us know if you are celebrating for a gift from us to you! > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler
Whistler parkrun is a free five-km community fun run or walk held every Saturday over spring and summer. All levels and abilities welcome, walkers, runners, kids, strollers and dogs. Join us every Saturday at 9 a.m. at Lost Lake Passivehaus. Free. > 9-10 am > Lost Lake Passive Haus
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PEMBERTON REPARE CAFE
At the Repair Café you should find the expertise, tools and materials required to help you make many of the repairs you need. Volunteer specialists will be on hand to help and guide the repairs. Enjoy some complimentary coffee, tea and snacks while working on repairs and listen to some live music by the Pemberton Men’s Shed Band! > 10 am-1 pm > Pemberton Tool Library (Pemberton)
or even just wanna jam out with our house band. All instruments are provided. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge
SUNDAY SESSIONS
The best locals’ party in Whistler. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub
He’s top of the food chain and he’ll sweep away the Monday pains. He’ll shock your brain, the one and only DJ Gainz. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg
SUNDAY NIGHT THEORY
WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD
> 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre
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The market hosts an average of 90 local vendors showcasing fresh fruit, produce, artisan crafts and food products. > 11 am-4 pm > Upper Village
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
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
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Sunday Session featuring Australian singer-songwriter Gypsy Rongokea. If you haven’t had a chance to check out this Whistler songbird, you’re missing out. Her killer vocals paired with her guitar are unforgettable and draw crowds. > 4:30-7:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar
PATRICK GAVIGAN
Vancouver-based singer-songwriter, formerly of the 99.3 FM CFOX Seeds-winning band theTURN. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge
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MARTINI MONDAY JERRY’S DISCO
Dust off your gaper day getup, from backwards helmets to gorby gaps, ‘cos the best Jerry outfit gets a free bottle of Prosecco! > 7-10 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel
SOULFUL SUNDAYS
Soul Club Whistler spinning that funky soul soundtrack. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant
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. > 9 pm > Moe Joe’s
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Matthew is singer/songwriter from Fredericton whose sound can be described as country with a raspy rock sound. > 8:30-11:30 pm > Brickworks Public House
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MEATY MONDAY
Sport and beer—what more do you need? How about a chance to win our famous meat raffle? Proceeds donated to charity. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub
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. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge
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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. > 9 pm-1:30 am > Three Below
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 am > Whistler Public Library
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. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge
TOMMY TUESDAYS WHISTLER SINGERS COMMUNITY CHOIR
A community choir for adults in the Sea to Sky corridor. Everyone is welcome—no auditions—just the desire to sing with others. A broad range of music is sung from classical to pop tunes. Performances include two formal concerts, plus community events. 604-932-2979. > 7-9 pm > Myrtle Philip Community Centre
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Join us for delicious pizza and a silent auction to help Whistler youth raise funds for their Sister City Exchange trip to Karuizawa, Japan in October. > 5-8:30 pm > Creekbread
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DJ Dre Morel and weekly guests turning it up every Tuesday night all summer long. Pop, rock and hip hop to crank up your Tuesday night.For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. > 9 pm > Tommys Whistler
TUESDAY TURNTABLISM WITH DJ PRAIZ
Hip hop, drum and bass and jazz mixes that transcend eras, beats that burn hard and sooth like aloe vera. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg
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Whistler Cycling Club rides for A, B and C level road riders. See www.whistlercyclingclub.ca for details. Free with club membership > 5:15-8 pm > Whistler Village Sports
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One-man-band on the run, songwriter, world traveller, original van lifer. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge
ITS YOUR TIME TO SHINE OPEN MIC & PATIO JAM
Open mic night at Cranked Espresso Bar with host Jenna Mae. This is a super fun night for music lovers and artists of all levels. Cranked is the perfect place for new artists to try performing in front of a small supportive audience. This night always bring a solid mix of seasoned and budding artists together, and opportunities to collaborate. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar
BINGO
Channel your inner granny and dominate bingo at the locals’ living room. > 8 pm > Tapley’s Pub
WHISTLER BMX WEEKLY RACES
Whistler BMX races every Tuesday at the track in Cheakamus Crossing. All bikes, all ages, all levels welcome! Registration on site at 5:30 p.m. and racing starts shortly after 6pm. Volunteers always needed! $3-$7. > 5:30-7 pm > Whistler BMX Track
WE RUN WHISTLER: RUN + RECOVER WITH LULULEMON
Join us for our weekly run as we explore more of the awesome trails Whistler has to offer followed by a recovery session thanks lululemon and the Westin Whistler. Check our Facebook page (facebook.com/ groups/werunwhistler) for weekly updates. Visit werunwhistler.com to plan your next run! Please note, as the days are getting shorter headlamps are now mandatory. #werunwhistler rain or shine! Free. > 5:55 pm > Lululemon
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Join Whistler Public Library and Armchair Books on the fourth Wednesday of every month for this community book club. Free and open to all. Pick up the book at the library or mention the book club to buy it for 15-percent off at Armchair Books. Free. > 7 pm > Whistler Public Library
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Brush up on your general knowledge for quiz night every Wednesday with Whistler legend, Quizmaster Stache. > 9-11:55 pm > Three Below
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Conor Fitzpatrick performs at Cranked. Once the word gets out, everyone is going to want to see this guy play. Conor Fitz is an Irish singer-songwriter who spent the past few years performing his music in bars around the world. Conor plays a mixture of pop, folk, rock and sing-along classics. > 4:30-7:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar
DINO DINICOLO
The electric bass becomes an extension of his hands and his voice has developed a rhythmic centre of its own, Dino DiNicolo is a master musician with a groove so deep that it moves the mind, the body and the soul. > 5-7 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge
INDUSTRY NIGHT SEA TO SKY HOUSING INFORMATION SESSION
Want to make Whistler your permanent new home? Come learn more about a new approach for sustainable housing here in Whistler. Please register on eventbrite.com. For more, visit the Sea to Sky Housing Facebook page. > 12:30-1 pm > Camp Lifestyle and Coffee Co
Live music from Neverland Nights. > 6 pm > Buffalo Bills
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Whether you know her as DJ Foxy Moron or just Ace, you know she kills it on the vinyl. Join us as this homegirl legend spins you silly. > 8-11 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel
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
QUEER WEDNESDAYS
We reserve the prime family-style table by the Ola Volo mural for our LGBTQ2+ family. Get your game (or gay’m) on. > 5-8 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel
MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WHISTLER TOASTMASTERS
Build communication, public speaking, and leadership skills with Mountain Spirit Whistler Toastmasters. Everyone welcome. > 5:30-7 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side
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Jam Night with Kostaman and friends every Wednesday night from 9 pm. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant
WILDIN’ OUT WEDNESDAYS FEATURING DJ GAINZ
He’s hot, he’s sicker than your average, Gainz comin’ through mixin’ tracks like a savage. No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): We’re in the equinoctial season. During this pregnant pause, the sun seems to hover directly over the equator; the lengths of night and day are equal. For all of us, but especially for you, it’s a favourable phase to conjure and cultivate more sweet symmetry, calming balance, and healing harmony. In that spirit, I encourage you to temporarily suspend any rough, tough approaches you might have in regard to those themes. Resist the temptation to slam two opposites together simply to see what happens. Avoid engaging in the pseudo-fun of purging by day and bingeing by night. And don’t you dare get swept up in hating what you love or loving what you hate. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” So said singer and activist Nina Simone. But it’s doubtful there ever came a time when she reached the perfect embodiment of that idyllic state. How can any of us empty out our anxiety so completely as to be utterly emancipated? It’s not possible. That’s the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the potential to be as unafraid as you have ever been. For best results, try to ensure that love is your primary motivation in everything you do and say and think. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some things don’t change much. The beautiful marine animal species known as the pearly nautilus, which lives in the South Pacific, is mostly the same as it was 150 million years ago. Then there’s Fuggerei, a walled enclave within the German city of Augsburg. The rent is cheap, about one U.S. dollar per year, and that fee hasn’t increased in almost 500 years. While I am in awe of these bastions of stability, and wish we had more such symbolic anchors, I advise you to head in a different direction. During the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to be a maestro of mutability, a connoisseur of transformation, an adept of novelty. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Granny Smith apples are widely available. But before 1868, the tart, crispy, juicy fruit never existed on planet Earth. Around that time, an Australian mother of eight named Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of French crab apples out her window while she was cooking. The seeds were fertilized by the pollen from a different, unknown variety of apple, and a new type was born: Granny Smith. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically comparable event in your future: a lucky accident that enables you to weave together two interesting threads into a fascinating third thread. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way,” writes storyteller Chuck Palahniuk, who has completed several novelistic masterpieces. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Leos have assembled much of the dirt and ash necessary to create your next masterpiece, and are now ready to move on to the next phase. And what is that phase? Identifying the help and support you’ll need for the rest of the process. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1959, scandal erupted among Americans who loved to eat peanut butter. Studies revealed that manufacturers had added so much hydrogenated vegetable oil and glycerin to their product that only 75 per cent of it could truly be called peanut butter. So began a long legal process to restore high standards. Finally there was a new law specifying that no company could sell a product called “peanut butter” unless it contained at least 90-per-cent peanuts. I hope this fight for purity inspires you to conduct a metaphorically comparable campaign. It’s time to ensure that all the important resources and influences in your life are at peak intensity and efficiency. Say NO to dilution and adulteration. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1936, the city of Cleveland, Ohio staged the Great Lakes Exposition, a 135-acre fair with thrill rides, art galleries, gardens, and sideshows. One of its fun features was The Golden Book of Cleveland, a 2.5-ton,
6,000-page text the size of a mattress. After the expo closed down, the “biggest book in the world” went missing. If it still exists today, no one knows where it is. I’m going to speculate that there’s a metaphorical version of The Golden Book of Cleveland in your life. You, too, have lost track of a major Something that would seem hard to misplace. Here’s the good news: If you intensify your search now, I bet you’ll find it before the end of 2019. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1990, the New Zealand government appointed educator, magician, and comedian Ian Brackenbury Channell to be the official Wizard of New Zealand. His jobs include protecting the government, blessing new enterprises, casting out evil spirits, upsetting fanatics, and cheering people up. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find your personal equivalents of an inspirational force like that. There’s really no need to scrimp. According to my reading of the cosmic energies, you have license to be extravagant in getting what you need to thrive. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Do silly things,” advised playwright Anton Chekhov. “Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.” I think that’s a perspective worth adopting now and then. Most of us go through phases when we take things too seriously and too personally and too literally. Bouts of fun absurdity can be healing agents for that affliction. But now is NOT one of those times for you, in my opinion. Just the reverse is true, in fact. I encourage you to cultivate majestic moods and seek out awe-inspiring experiences and induce sublime perspectives. Your serious and noble quest for a meaningful life can be especially rewarding in the coming weeks. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Before comedian Jack Benny died in 1974, he arranged to have a florist deliver a single red rose to his wife every day for the rest of her life. She lived another nine years, and received more than 3,000 of these gifts. Even though you’ll be around on this Earth for a long time, I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time to establish a comparable custom: a commitment to providing regular blessings to a person or persons for whom you care deeply. This bold decision would be in alignment with astrological omens, which suggest that you can generate substantial benefits for yourself by being creative with your generosity. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Actress and author Ruby Dee formulated an unusual prayer. “God,” she wrote, “make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” As you might imagine, she was a brave activist who risked her reputation and career working for the Civil Rights Movement and other idealistic causes. I think her exceptional request to a Higher Power makes good sense for you right now. You’re in a phase when you can generate practical blessings by doing the very things that intimidate you or make you nervous. And maybe the best way to motivate and mobilize yourself is by getting at least a bit flustered or unsettled. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Syndicated cartoon strip “Calvin and Hobbes” appeared for 10 years in 2,400 newspapers in 50 countries. It wielded a sizable cultural influence. For example, in 1992, six-year-old Calvin decided “The Big Bang” was a boring term for how the universe began, and instead proposed we call it the “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” A number of real scientists subsequently adopted Calvin’s innovation, and it has been invoked playfully but seriously in university courses and textbooks. In that spirit, I encourage you to give fun new names to anything and everything you feel like spicing up. You now have substantial power to reshape and revamp the components of your world. It’s IdentifyShifting Time. Homework: Say these words in front of a mirror: “It’s bad luck to be superstitious.” FreeWillAstrology.com
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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
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.
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Stewardship Pemberton Society and the One Mile Lake Nature Centre- Connecting community, nature and people through education, cooperation, and community involvement. www.stewardshippemberton. com
SKI/SNOWBOARD PRODUCTION Design, build & make your own Skis or Snowboard Utilize elements of Ski/Snowboard technical specifications such as Sidecut, Camber profiles, and Flex to create a ski/snowboard design. UnderstandSki/Snowboard Mold Production Generate Graphic Design for the Snowsport Industry
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604.962.2220 COMMUNITY LISTINGS ARTS & CULTURE Arts Whistler - Full arts & culture listings. Comprehensive artist directory & programs, events & performances year-round. 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 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 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.
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/ Griffin Squadron Squamish Air CadetsOpen to youth 12-18yrs at Don Ross Secondary School on Tues at 6:30pm. Pemberton Valley Trails AssociationMeets the second Wed of each month. 7pm at the Pemberton Recreation Centre. Call 604-698-6158 Sea to Sky RC Flyers - Model Aeronautics Association of Canada Club active in the Sea to Sky Region flying model airplanes, helicopters and multi-rotors. Contact S2SRCFLY@telus.net 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, 9-10, ongoing by donation and childminding provided. Whistler Women's Centre: 1519 Spring Creek Drive. Drop-in 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
LEISURE GROUPS Duplicate Bridge Club- Whistler 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.
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
Whistler Singers - 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: www.facebook.com/whisistlersingers
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS Donate Used Clothing & Household Goods- To be distributed to local charities by Sharon 604-894-6656 for pick up.
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
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SERVICE TECHNICIAN Great opportunity for a super motivated/organized person to excel in the field of hardware installation and lock technician services. Compensation starting at $24-$30 depending on skill level. Includes: Health Benefits, Mobile Phone Plan, Ski Pass The successful individual will have experience in carpentry and/or building maintenance. Any experience in low voltage electrical and/or hotel card access systems will prove very beneficial. Good communication and customer service skills as well as a strong work ethic are essential to this position. Please reply to alpinelock@telus.net with a resume and cover letter outlining your suitability and qualifications for the position. No drop-ins or phone calls please, apply only by email.
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 AM & PM www.whistler-rotary.org
Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium Meets every Thurs at 12:15pm at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 604-932-7782
Certified Dental Assistant for busy family dental clinic
Located 20 minutes north of whistler in the beautiful pemberton valley. Also seeking
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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.
Hours negotiable with competitive wage.
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 604-907-2804 or wr@ bookbuffet.com
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YOUTH ACTIVITIES Whistler Community Band - Rehearsals on Tuesdays 7 - 8:15 pm CONTACT whistlerchorus@gmail.com FOR LOCATION
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Pemberton & District Community Centre - Located at 7390 Cottonwood St. Fitness Centre, facility rentals, spray park, playground, children, youth, adult & seniors programs. For more info 604-894-2340 or pemrecinfo@slrd.bc.ca
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E/J is currently looking for Part time ESL Teacher to join our team. This position is part-time but qualified teachers will also be considered to continue with us year round based on student enrollment. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: University degree or equivalent A background in business, hospitality or tourism (work experience or degree) Native or proficient level English Highly motivated, proactive and positive Organized and thorough and able to work well under pressure and within strict time constraints Excellent planning and organization skills, with good attention to detail DESIRED QUALITIES: TEFL certificate (CELTA or equivalent) OR 2 year teaching experience Experience with social media, marketing a bonus
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Pemberton and District Museum and Archives Society - Located at 7455 Prospect St. Open: May to Nov annually from 10am-5pm. Guided tours and activities for all ages. Join us for "Tea & Tales" every Tuesday at 2pm in July and August. Some seasonal closures. Closed on holidays. www.pembertonmuseum.org
Information Technology Specialist (Permanent Full-Time or Part-Time)
The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) is located in southwestern BC and consists of 4 member municipalities (Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Lillooet) and 4 electoral areas. The region contains some of the most spectacular forests, waterways and mountains in the province and affords an endless range of opportunities for outdoor adventure. Headquartered in Pemberton, which is the approximate geographic centre of the region, the SLRD delivers a wide range of regional, sub-regional and local services to its residents. Services include land use planning, solid waste management, building inspection, fire protection, emergency preparedness, 911 services, recreation, water and sewer utilities, trails and open spaces as well as financial support for various community services. The SLRD is seeking to fill the permanent position of Information Technology (IT) Specialist. This position could be full-time or part-time, dependent on the candidate, with at least 2 days a week required to be working from the SLRD office in Pemberton. This position reports to the Director of Finance. The purpose of this position will be to assist in the SLRD’s information technology requirements, including supporting, troubleshooting, and maintaining the SLRD’s local area network. Other responsibilities include IT security, backup and disaster recovery, telecommunications, and development and delivery of technology solutions for the SLRD. This position also responds to IT support requests from SLRD Board and staff (approximately 25 staff members). The ideal candidate will have a post-secondary degree in computer science (or related field), or completion of a two-year diploma course in Information Systems Technology supplemented by specialized technology courses and three (3) or more years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. In addition, the ideal candidate will also possess demonstrated skills, expertise and experience in the following areas: • Network and communications hardware including routers, switches, firewalls, access control servers and VPN’s; • The characteristics and capabilities of Microsoft Active Directory, Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, virtualization technologies (such as VMWare and Hyper-V) and experience with deployment and management of digital certificates; • Purchasing, installing, and maintaining consistent and stable hardware and software;
Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre Explore First Nations Art Galleries, and Interactive Exhibits. Gift Shop & Cafe are in our admission free area. Open Tuesday'sSunday's per week. 10am-5p.m..
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The Sweetest Job In Town! We’re Hiring! For the right candidate we offer a Ski Pass and Competitive Wages. Work in a fun environment and with a great team! Apply in person with resume at our store in Whistler’s Marketplace. Staff accommodation in village available for select staff. GreatGlassElevatorCandyShop.com
• Preparing and maintaining system documentation and technical training materials; • Auditing and maintaining appropriate software licenses;
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For further information, please see the full job description at www.slrd.bc.ca/employment. Compensation will be determined commensurate with knowledge, skills and ability and includes a comprehensive benefit package. Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume by email with a covering letter, outlining their requested working hours, no later than October 20, 2019 to: Suzanne Lafrance, Director of Finance, Squamish-Lillooet Regional District slafrance@slrd.bc.ca We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates under consideration will be contacted.
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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 604-932-2019
PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING Whistler Breakfast Club Meets monthly at 6:45-8:30am at Whistler Chamber office. Offering a chance for business owners to meet and "speed network" with other business owners to build their circle of contacts and collaborators in the Sea 2 Sky Corridor. Learn more at facebook.com/ whistlerbreakfastclub
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
Full time & part time positions available.
• Developing project plans, budgets, policies and controls for IT services;
• Conducting independent research and providing analysis and advice on IT issues.
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BUSSERS HOSTS * ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE FOR ALL POSITIONS * 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 Hotel
FOR SENIORS Activate & Connect - Come join us Thursday mornings 9:30am to 11:00am at Whistler Community Services for a weekly drop in program for seniors 50+. Everyone welcome, in partnership with Mature Action Community. www.mywcss.org
Mature Action Community (MAC) - Represents seniors in Whistler and welcomes new members. MAC meets for fun and interaction with local seniors and those just visiting on Thursday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at the Whistler Community Services Community Room for Activate and Connect. Come join us for coffee and socializing while engaging in fun activities. Check us out at www.whistlermac. org or view our schedule on Facebook Whistler Mature Action Community Group page.
Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults dealing with the challenges of social wellness. Please call our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker.
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.
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Senior Citizen Organizations - Is an advocacy group devoted to improving the quality of life for all seniors. Ernie Bayer 604576-9734 or ecbayer2@gmail.com
ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & support to people who are interested in making healthier, greener, more peaceful food choices. earthsavewhistler.com
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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
If challenge & fun at work is what you desire, come see us today!
Servers Cooks Hosts Expeditors Barbacks Setters Shift Managers
Re-Build-It Centre - Daily 10:00am to 5:00pm. Accepting donations of furniture, quality used building supplies & new items. Deliveries and pickups available for $35. Call 604.932.1125, www.mywcss.org, rebuildit@ mywss.org 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 Re-Use-It - Daily 11:00am to 6:00pm, Donate all household goods in good shape. Accepting bottles & cans, old electronics, anything with a cord, and light fixtures for recycling. All proceeds to WCSS. Call 604.932.1121, www.mywcss.org, reuseit@ mywcss.org.
Visit us anytime or email us at apply.whistler@earls.ca
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 The Mountain Village Social Gathering Join us at one of our regular social gatherings on the last Wednesday of every month. There is a group of us at The Mountain Village who are forming a sustainable, multi generational neighbourhood based on the co housing model. WHAT IF... Housing wasn't just a place to live, but rather, a way of life? To find out more, visit our Facebook page @themountainvillage or go to our website www.themountainvillage.ca
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 604-9323202 Camp Fund - Provides financial assis-tance to enable children of financially restricted families to attend camp. Call WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org 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
RESTAURANT MANAGER Seeking a full-time Restaurant Manager to help inspire, develop, oversee and manage our front-of-house team. The Restaurant Manager will join the existing leadership team, helping oversee day-to-day operations and uphold Araxi Restaurant’s exceptional levels of hospitality. Qualifications • Previous restaurant leadership experience is required • WSET Level 2 or equivalent is an asset Excellent training and growth opportunities available within an award-winning restaurant group. We offer year-round full 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:
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CARPENTERS / FRAMERS WANTED • 4 on 3 off or 5 on 2 off a week depending on your preference. • Medical and Dental Benefits. • Good potential for future growth within the company. • Competitive wages. • Looking for journeymen, lead hands and assistants. • Currently hiring carpenters for framing and concrete forming projects - high end estate home/commercial and residential mix between Whistler/Pemberton.
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KidsArt - Provides financial assistance to enable children of financially restricted families to participate in arts and culture education. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org.
Housekeepers Needed
Signing Bonus & Great Benefits! Both Full Time & Part Time available! The Four Seasons Housekeeping team is looking for Guestroom Attendants for contracts starting immediately or for summer hire! Choose Your Own Adventure Discover Why Nita Lake Lodge is the Place for You! · Work with a great team · Enjoy Hotel perks including a free overnight stay and friends & family rates · Receive staff rates at our award winning spa and restaurants · Work for a family run Boutique Lodge · Benefits & Season End Bonus (up to $600) · Ski Pass Financing · Free parking
Current positions include: Banquet Captain, Banquet Servers, Barista, Spa Receptionist, Housekeepers, House Attendant and Housekeeping Team Lead.
Visit www.nitalakelodge.com/careers to learn more
Candidates will receive a $500 signing bonus. Benefits include Guaranteed housing, one meal per working shift, health & medical after 90 days, a winter leisure package, and more!
Kids on the Move - Provides financial assistance to enable children of financially restricted families to participate in sport programs. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org. Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults and families experiencing challenges with mental health, food insecurity, housing insecurity, substance use, misuse or addiction, employment, eating disorders, violence in relationships, roommate conflict or homesickness. Contact our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker or visit www.mywcss.org. Pemberton Parent Infant Drop-In Facilitated by Capri Mohammed, Public Health Nurse. Every Mon 11am12:30pm at Pemberton Public Library.
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Pemberton Strong Start Family Drop-In- A play group for you and your under-5 child. Signal Hill Elementary, Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 9am-12pm. Thurs only 12pm-3pm. Call 604-8946101 / 604-966- 8857 Whistler Public Library - Open MonThurs 10am-7pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Music & Words, Mon 10am. Rhyme & Song, Tues 10:30am. Parent & Infant drop-in, Thurs 11am. Preschool Story Time, Fri 10:30am. Singing with the babies, Sat 11am. Call 604-935-8433
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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 Counselling Assistance WCSS subsidizes access to a private counsellor depending on financial need. Contact an outreach worker at 604.932.0113 or visit 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
STAFF HOUSING AVAILABLE | SKI PASS DISCOUNT | WELLNESS ALLOWANCE GLOBAL HOTEL STAY DISCOUNTS | COMPETITIVE WAGES EXTENDED MEDICAL BENEFITS | OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT STAFF HOUSING AVAILABLE | SKI PASS DISCOUNT | WELLNESS ALLOWANCE GLOBAL HOTEL STAY DISCOUNTS | COMPETITIVE FOR FULL DETAILS AND TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT:WAGES EXTENDED MEDICAL BENEFITS | OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
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Access to Justice - Need legal advice but are financially restricted? Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to find out more or visit www.mywcss.org.
Food Bank Whistler - Located at 8000 Nesters Road, every Wednesday from 10am to noon. For emergency food bags, please call 604.935.7717. www.mywcss.org/food-bank Healthy Pregnancy Outreach Program- Learn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101
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Pearl's Safe Home - Temporary shelter for women & children experiencing abuse in relationships. Locations in Whistler & Pemberton avail 24/7. All services are free. 1-877890-5711 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 Support Counselling - For women regarding abuse & relationship issues. No charge. Call 604-894-6101
Whistler for the Disabled - Provides info for people with disabilities on what to do & where to go. Visit www.whistlerforthedisabled.com Whistler Housing Authority - Long term rental & ownership housing for qualified Whistler employees . Visit www.whistlerhousing.ca 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 830am-430pm. 604-698-6455 Whistler Multicultural Network Settlement information, social support and programs for newcomers and immigrants living/working in Whistler. 6 0 4 - 3 8 8 - 5 5 1 1 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.
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Spa Assistant Director WHAT YOU’RE BRINGING • Commitment and Dedication • Your own unique experience • Teamwork and interpersonal skills • Effective leadership and management skills
WHAT WE ARE OFFERING • Bath access anytime for you and a friend • Free yoga classes • Extended health benefits • Free massage after 3 months probation • Subsidized staff accommodation • Great work environment focused on work life balance Don’t miss out. Apply now at https://www.scandinave.com/en/careers/location/whistler/
VISION PACIFIC CONTRACTING LTD. is hiring: EXPERIENCED CARPENTERS CARPENTER HELPERS LABOURERS We offer: • Extended Health and Dental benefits for you and your family • We will sponsor and pay for your work permit & visa • 20cm snow rule & mental-health bike days • Flexible schedule & awesome staff parties! • Work-life balance is as important to us as it is to you! Send your resume to info@vispacific.com 25 Years in business • Whistler’s award winning custom home builder www.vispacific.com
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Victim Services - Assists victims, witnesses, family members or friends directly affected by any criminal act or traumatic event. Call 604-905-1969 Whistler Community Services Society - Outreach Services Now Available Monday to Saturday at our new location - 8000 Nesters Road (next to WAG) 604.932.0113 www.mywcss.org
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Outreach Services - Free, confidential support for youth experiencing challenges with mental health, food insecurity, housing insecurity, substance use, misuse or addiction, employment, eating disorders, violence in relationships, roommate conflict or homesickness. Contact our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker or visit www.mywcss.org.
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Media Sales Account Manager Squamish, BC. Do you enjoy meeting new people and are comfortable starting conversations? Are you self motivated and a quick learner? Do you work well in team environment and have sales experience? If you answered yes to all of the above, this is the career for you! The Squamish Chief - a division of Glacier Media is looking for a Media Sales Account Manager to join our growing sales team in Squamish! Here is what we are looking for: • You have sales experience and are comfortable making cold calls and setting up/leading meetings with new and existing clients. • Building and maintaining client relationships with your exceptional communication skills comes easy to you. • You are detailed oriented and have experience in sales and marketing. • You possess strong organizational skills and have the ability to multitask in a fast paced environment. • You strive to meet monthly sales targets as set out by your Manager. • You are a goal oriented individual with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn. This is what we have to offer: • Competitive base salary with an uncapped commission structure. • Comprehensive health and dental coverage and extended benefits. • Car allowance • Cell phone allowance • Quarterly and annual bonuses when sales quotas are met • Training and ongoing support (full new employee onboarding with our sales trainers!) • An opportunity to join a leading full service advertising/marketing agency in Canada.
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Grocery Clerks Produce Clerks Deli Clerks Meat Clerks Bakery Clerks Juice Bar Clerks E-mail or drop in your resume to: bruce_stewart@nestersmarket.com please cc ian_fairweather@nestersmarket.com or call us at 604-932-3545 PERKS • Competitive wage – Depending on expereince • Access to medical and dental benefits for full time applicants • Percentage discount from store bought goods • Flexible and set schedule • Relative training
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COMMUNITY LISTINGS SOCIAL SERVICES 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. Drop-In 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)9628711. 24 HR Crisis Line: 1-877-8905711 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
SUPPORT GROUPS Are you troubled by someone's drinking? Al-Anon can help. Al-Anon meeting, multi-purpose room, 2nd floor, Whistler Health Care Centre, Wednesdays, 6:30 pm. 604.688.1716 Birth, Baby and Beyond - Join a registered counsellor and meet other moms with the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences in a safe, welcoming and non-judgmental setting. Call 604.932.0113 for more information or visit www.mywcss.org. Concussion Support Group - WCSS is offering a recurring 8 week program to support people living with persistent post-concussion symptoms. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an outreach worker about upcoming sessions or visit www.mywcss.org. Epilepsy Support GroupFor individuals & families seeking guidance or support. Contact eswhistler@gmail.com
We look forward to hearing from you! Immigrant Peer Educators Immigrants providing support and information for those who may be experiencing challenges adjusting to a new culture. 604-388-5511 info@whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com
Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub is hiring:
LINE COOK DISHWASHER 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
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Pregnancy and Infant Loss Facilitated by a registered counsellor, this program is designed for couples and individuals who have experienced loss of a child, either before or after birth. Please call WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak to an outreach worker for more information or visit www.mywcss.org. SMART Recovery Whistler (SelfManagement and Recovery Training) A Cognitive-Behavioural group for individuals with substance abuse concerns. Drop-in: Registration is not necessary. Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm Whistler Health Centre (2nd floor-group room)
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
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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
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Discover new opportunities and embark on a career in Hospitality with Pan Pacific Whistler To apply, please submit your cover letter and resume to careers.ppwhi@panpacific.com
Quantum Health is hiring We are looking for Registered or aspiring Nutritionist with excellent customer service and a strong background in retail.
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FULL TIME NANNY WANTED Long-time local, professional family needs Nanny. Competitive wage offered. Monday to Friday at 8:30 until 5:30 for two children. One is two years old (super sweet, easy going boy) and six year old wonderful girl (first grade so some after-school care needed from time to time). Light house work and some meal prep also required to do. Fun and tons of benefits through our retail businesses available. Call 604-902-4663
Looking to Sell Taxi Winter Business License- 6 months from November to April, which is a part of Whistler Taxi. It covers 11 shifts per week and selling with vehicle, 2013 Toyota Prius fully equipped as a taxi. Selling both for $30 000 OBO. Taxi has potential to generate $35 000 or more for a season. For further information please call at 604-9020619 or e-mail at oksanaukr@yahoo.com. We are also looking for experienced drivers with class 4 commercial driving license or willing to get one. Excellent income for the winter season ( $20+ per hour). Daytime and evening shifts are available, please call 604-902-0619. The Body Shop Shop Manager Looking for an inspirational leader with enthusiasm for our brand and believe in the way we do business. With beauty retail expertise that is second to none, you will drive the store and the team to deliver retail excellence, strong sales results and engaging customer experience. Competitive SALARY, Ext. Medical benefits, Bonuses. robyn.camley@thebodyshop.com www.thebodyshopcareers.com
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Staff Housing Available! Competitive Wage + Benefits Package Our outstanding team is looking to add individuals with a variety of skill sets and experience. Friendly, hardworking candidates are invited to apply.
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Pastry Cooks Line Cooks (1-2 years experience Dishwashers Please email your resume & cover letter to careers@araxi.com or present in person at Araxi between 3-5 pm daily.
We offer year-round full and part-time hours, gratuities, potential for future growth within the company, and an employee discount at all Toptable restaurants.
The Pinnacle Hotel Whistler has the following positions available:
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Child and Youth Therapist Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or Equivalent Xet’olacw Community School, Mount Currie, B.C. .8FTE to 1.0 Full Time (4 days per week or 5 days per week) – Part Time Negotiable School Principal Commensurate with Experience August 27, 2019 Post until position is filled
Summary: 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. Xet’olacw Community School is looking to hire a full time child and youth therapist for their school. The child and youth therapist will work with students aged 4-19 within a school based setting. In addition to being trauma informed, flexible and having experience working with Indigenous students, preferred therapeutic modalities include narrative therapy, expressive arts, and CBT. The successful candidate will demonstrate clear boundaries, strong ethics and a firm understanding of informed consent. The successful candidate will be able to both understand and honour the impact of the history of colonialism on Indigenous communities in their work with the students, their families, the staff and the community. Key Qualifications and Attributes: • A Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or equivalent • Excellent communication skills; confidence to role model these skills and engage in them • Be registered with the BCACC, CCPA (certified member) and/or the BCTF • Ability to liaise (or learn to liaise) between Indigenous and nonindigenous culture, work within a team, on various teams and independently • Flexibility and collaborative team player • Engages in consistent and healthy self-care practices • Open to Learning Key Deliverables: • Provide therapy to children and youth aged 4-18 and carry a caseload of individual clients, co-facilitate group therapy and maintain appropriate records. • Participate in school based teams, inter-agency teams and develop mental health resources when needed • Liaise and attend meetings with other health care professionals and service providers when requested by clients (to best support a circle of care and mental health) and with appropriate informed consent. Key Responsibilities: • Arrive each school day by 8:30 a.m. Be available after hours and on holidays under extenuating circumstances for at risk students and their families. • Create a schedule that outlines your therapeutic caseload and that honours the scheduling needs of the school (and individual classrooms). • Co-facilitate or facilitate teaching classes, group therapy and super courses. • Provide therapy and classroom psychoeducation that is culturally competent, has a clear beginning, middle and end and that is tailored to the needs of the individual or group. • Be available for debriefing and support for staff regarding mental health in the classroom and to support the mental health of the students on your caseload. • Participate in peer supervision and personal supervision as needed or requested. • Be open to participating in culturally oriented activities (including but not limited to; stein Valley hiking, Outdoor-based super courses, learning Ucwalmicwts words and phrases). Send cover letter and resume including references. Upon receiving your information an applicant’s Declaration and Agreement will be sent to be signed. Contact Information:
Verna Stager, Education Director Xet’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
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Whistler Community Services Society is looking for a full-time, permanent Re Use It Centre store Manager. Your role as the RUI Manager will be to plan, organize, direct, control and evaluate the services and donations at the RUI. Our ideal candidate will have a passion for waste diversion, have several years in a professional customer service role, have at least two years of progressive managerial experience and a willingness to work in a busy and faced paced environment. This position comes with a flexible work schedule, competitive wage, extended health and dental benefits, a wellness benefit and professional development training. To apply, submit your cover letter and resume to hr@mywcss.org.
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In the company of those who went before There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold; The Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge I cremated Sam McGee.
I WAS IN THE THIRD or fourth grade the first time I heard Robert Service’s poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee. I thought it was about the coolest thing any teacher had ever
BY G.D. MAXWELL read to any classroom of tiny human sponges and I sucked up every word of it. I had no idea what “moil” meant, was dumbfounded at the thought someone who’d frozen to death could be brought back to life by tossing his stiff body in a furnace and wondered what the heck a “marge” was. And now I find myself on the marge of Lake Laberge about to launch a canoe into its cold water for a long-awaited paddle down the Yukon River to Dawson City. Blame Pierre Berton. Robert Service wasn’t the first person to get the name of the lake wrong. Poetic licence being what it is, Lebarge rhymed more neatly with marge. Those of a colonial mindset named it Laberge after French-Canadian Michel LaBerge who explored the area in 1866. Of course, the folks who had been living in the area long before that had names for the lake but the Tlingit, Tagish and Tutchone names were either too hard to pronounce or were just the ramblings of local savages so why pay any attention. Nothing really mattered until someone from outside “discovered” what had long been known. Berton didn’t name anything except his children, as far as I know. But in 1958 he did write The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush. I didn’t read it but a lot of people did and a lot of them had a lot to say about it. Being a historian and, shall we say, prone to thoroughness, Berton took what they had to say to heart and dug even deeper into the story of the Klondike gold rush. Having been born in Whitehorse to a father who’d caught gold fever and moved there to find his fortune in the fabled gold fields, and since he worked in Klondike mining camps himself in his younger years, Berton’s fascination with the sweep of gold rush lore came naturally. So in 1972, his research, extensive interviews and dogged determination resulted in Klondike: The Last Great Gold Rush, 1896-1899. The book was a reworking of his earlier tome and in hard cover will count as exercise for your wrists should you
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read it in that format. Big. I did read it. It sparked my imagination and my desire to follow at least some of the path of the crazy dreamers who came north in search of riches. And, it’s probably one of the reasons I’ve lived in Canada most of my life. Blame Pierre. The story of the Klondike gold rush is the story of humanity every bit as much as the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt. Except it happened. The match that lit the Klondike gold
It wasn’t until the next year, in July 1897, that word spread to the rest of the world. “A Ton of Gold!” screamed the headline in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper when a steamship carrying emaciated miners landed with their wealth loaded in satchels, trunks and anything else that would hold the dust and nuggets they’d pulled out of the Klondike. Immediately, sane men lost their minds. It’s estimated more than 100,000 set out for the Klondike that year. Many
We have the spirits of those who came before us. And I thank them for the adventure.
rush was fired in August of 1896 when George Carmack, Skookum Jim and Tagish Charley followed a tip they’d received from Robert Henderson and looked for the magic stuff on a tributary of the Klondike River. It proved to be a bonanza and that’s what Rabbit Creek was later renamed. The wealth coming out of the ground on that creek was eclipsed when miners who’d gotten wind of the strike started digging on Eldorado. Within a year, virtually every inch of the gold-bearing creeks in the area were staked and claimed.
left homes, families, farms, jobs and everything else behind, blinded by the thought of a ton of gold and wealth beyond their wildest dreams. Virtually none of them realized those dreams. The ones who grew wealthy were already there or were smart enough to find gold in the dreams of others and sold them the goods they needed to follow their Quixotic quests or soothe their bruised egos when they came up empty-handed. But the story Berton told of their struggles, especially the stories of those
who chose the overland route up and down the Chilkoot Pass, is riveting. Canada being Canada, all good government and sensible administration, the RCMP required those crossing the pass from Alaska to Canada to bring with them a ton of goods, the amount it was decided they needed to survive the first year. The small percentage who managed this feat ended up at Bennett Lake where they spent the rest of the winter cutting down spruce, hand-sawing planking, building boats or rafts and waiting for the ice to break so they could, in many cases, lose it all in the rapids downstream. Those who managed that stretch of water faced Marsh Lake, Lake Laberge and 320 kilometres of the Yukon River. Their story, and others I’ve read about canoeing the Yukon, is why I’m on the marge of Lake Lebarge (sic) about to slip a beat-up old Grumman canoe into the cold water and paddle those kilometres. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since the first time I read about it and it’s only taken me a little more than four decades to finally get around to it. My Wonderful Wife and I have far less than a ton of goods but we do have a canoe full, a good map and compass and the riches of time to enjoy the paddle. A few people have offered sage advice along the lines of, “You’re crazy to do that alone.” But we’re not alone. We have the spirits of those who came before us. And I thank them for the adventure. n
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