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Playing back Peak Season Looking back on Whistler’s brief brush with MTV cameras, 10 years after reality show Peak Season. - By Megan Lalonde and Alyssa Noel

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BACK ON TOP

Sidelined by a concussion in the early

Blackcomb operations garners hundreds of signatures—WB leaders say

part of the season, halfpipe skier Cassie Sharpe returned with a vengeance

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with back-to-back podium appearances, including a World Cup win.

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featuring photos borrowed from the National Gallery of Canada.

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08 OPENING REMARKS As Whistler marks 10 years since hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games, it’s time for stakeholders to consider the financial viability of the event.

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers thank community for supporting high-school mathletes and demand action on a dangerous parking situation at Nairn Falls.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Joel Barde talks about risk aversion in the backcountry and inbounds after attending an expert-speaker panel on this year’s snow conditions.

82 MAXED OUT Max looks at the pros and cons of the Frontier tarsands project in Alberta, and argues that the only rational course of action is to say no to it.

Environment & Adventure

32 ECOLOGIC Leslie Anthony takes stock of the importance of wetlands globally, as this week marked World Wetlands Day.

33 THE OUTSIDER Vince Shuley gets a clear view of the mountains as he takes advantage of technology and uses vision-correcting goggle inserts.

42 TRAVEL Writer Virginia Aulin takes readers on a dawn horseback ride through the streets of Stockholm, checking out the sites of the Swedish capital.

Lifestyle & Arts

50 VELOCITY PROJECT Lisa Richardson talks with Alexandra Franzen, who offers a ninja strategy that takes the drudgery out of self-improvement—the power of setting an intention, packaged in the shape of a daily checklist.

52 EPICURIOUS Pemberton’s Mile One Eating House’s Night Kitchen Icon Series shines a light on the eclectic, ingredient-driven cuisine of British Columbia.

56 NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW Oscar weekend is upon us and Feet Banks has a few predictions for who will take home a gold statue.

58 MUSEUM MUSINGS This week, we find out about the area’s first volunteer fire department, which was formed in 1962 after two fires, one very suscpicious, prompted the community to take action.

62 PIQUECAL Are you ready to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of hosting the Winter Olympics? Kick things off with a Quatchi hangout (and some cake, too) at the Whistler Public Library on Wednesday.

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Games evolution IT IS HARD to believe that it’s been 10 years since Whistler hosted first the Olympic Games in February of 2010, then the Paralympic Games in March.

Everyone has memories of the event, even those who chose to leave town rather than endure the thousands who came here to compete and celebrate at the biggest

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

sporting event in the world.

I stayed, working every day for weeks as a reporter and generally loving it all.

The athletes, organizers, supporters, fans and especially the volunteers I met and interviewed were the best part of the experience for me—along with the amazing public transit! I also decided to embrace it

nation that considers hosting a Games, as they get into the trenches of decision-making.

But it is getting harder and harder to make the pitch successfully to taxpayers (perhaps that’s why countries whose leaders aren’t answerable to voters are getting to the bid/host stage more often?) as the bill for the event grows and grows.

Tokyo is up next this summer and we are learning that these Games, initially forecast to cost about the same as our event, will likely cost $26 billion.

Beijing spent US$42 billion on hosting in 2008 while Athens spent US$15 billion hosting the 2004 Olympics (taxpayers in Athens will continue to be assessed payments of approximately US$56,635 annually until the debt is paid in full). Sochi’s Winter Games cost over US$50 billion!

These concerns came to the forefront in Canada when Calgary in 2018 held a public vote on hosting the 2026 Games. It failed.

“The 2022 (bidding) certainly

The IOC wants cities interested in hosting the Games to hold referendums before submitting official tenders to avoid having to withdraw their candidacy at a later date.

as a family and we took our kids to all the concerts, medal ceremonies and any events we could get to here as well.

In the lead-up to the $7-billion 2010 Games (that figure includes items such as the upgrade to the Sea to Sky Highway and the Canada Line) there was plenty of discussion about whether Whistler, already a No.1 ski resort, needed the exposure of hosting such an expensive and elaborate sporting event.

Those discussions are held by every

highlighted the problems we were facing in attracting cities, particularly winter cities,” IOC member and former vice-president John Coates said in a Global News article at the time of Calgary’s vote while referring to the issues finding a host for the 2022 Winter Games. “We had to do something to address the cost of the games. Increased costs have forced our hand.”

Six cities dropped official or potential bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics with

the Winter Games narrowly awarded to Beijing, again.

Said Robert VanWynsberghe, a professor and sustainability expert at the University of British Columbia in the same article, “In combination with the cost, I think it’s just become onerous. And now, because they’re asking citizens what they think, we’re just seeing a large number of cities saying, ‘you know we asked people in the community and they said no.’”

In June 2019, the IOC overhauled its bidding process in the hopes that fewer potential hosts would drop out.

The IOC wants cities interested in hosting the Games to hold referendums before submitting official tenders to avoid having to withdraw their candidacy at a later date.

The seven-year period between awarding the Games and hosting the Olympics was also scrapped with the IOC eager to be flexible to fit the timeline to the capabilities of each city.

These changes mean that choosing a location will be more of a conversation between the IOC and potential host cities and less of an election.

The key decision-making body will be a new commission to lead discussions with possible hosts with IOC president Thomas Bach admitting that: “One of the cities we could be talking with could be considered to be so outstanding by this ‘future hosts’ commission … that in fact it could be just one candidate.”

But it will take more than this. The IOC needs to contribute to the upkeep of athletic venues after the Games are over, and the financial incentives simply need to be greater.

Or perhaps it is time to look seriously at holding the Games events in designated locations already set up as venues? n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fossil-fuel companies need to be held accountable I am writing to say that I appreciate G.D. Maxwell raising the issue of climate change; however, I do not agree that the fossil-fuel companies should not be held to account (“Maxed Out,” Pique, Jan. 23).

I was on council when the decision was made to send a letter to the fossil-fuel companies requesting accountability and it is one of the decisions that I am proud of (unlike supporting CNG buses with the subsequent expansion of natural gas infrastructure in Whistler and allowing developments that included outdoor heaters).

All of us should make changes, but the range of options available to us have been limited to some degree by the actions of the fossil-fuel companies that have known about the impacts of their products for some time, and some of which have delayed progress.

Companies work to make a profit and because the costs of climate change are paid by others, the fossil-fuel companies have no reason to change their decision-making systems.

Municipal costs of climate change include the impacts of a changed climate, increases in catastrophic events, increased insurance

and thwarted action to address candy sales at every global meeting on this issue.

While we all need to make changes, we also need to look at where the overall system has failed us and correct those aspects.

Since climate change denial is no longer effective, it seems like the next defence the fossil-fuel companies are using is guilt.

Let’s move beyond this since to exist in Canada is to cause GHGs and get to rectifying the systems. Incorporating the downstream costs of a product into the producers’ costs is one square of a whole, big quilt we will need to address this issue.

Another will be changing federal, provincial and municipal policies. For those interested in working to reduce fossil fuel use, Stand Earth has started the SAFE Cities movement (Stand Against Fossil Fuel Expansion) to push for changes and support politicians in this as well. See www.stand. earth/SAFE for more info.

Sue Maxwell // Whistler costs, GHG reduction programs and enacting climate change adaptation measures.

These costs are significant.

Think of how much Whistler has spent on FireSmart programs alone, not to mention flood measures, tourism planning for future winter weather, water conservation and many other aspects that are directly related to climate change or exacerbated by it.

Companies need to include these costs in their decision-making in order for the system to change to one that works towards solutions for climate change rather than one that continues

to reward companies for externalizing those costs and increasing our climate liabilities.

To follow Max’s analogy, we should hold the candy makers to account if they knew that candy was problematic, that it impacted not just the candy eaters but the whole globe, covered up these facts, funded groups to deny that candy was a problem, worked to ensure that alternates to candy were not available, intensely lobbied the governments to ensure candy sales could increase and to get subsidies to make more candy, funded political parties with the intent to increase candy sales

Feds must say no to tarsands development (This letter was sent to Sea to Sky Liberal MP Patrick Weiler and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson and shared with Pique.)

I am certain that you know all of the data associated with the [Frontier Project] tarsands enlargement proposed by Teck Resources, and encouraged by the Government of Alberta. This proposal means that Canada cannot possibly meet its commitments to the Paris Accord, and I expect that I need not go on about it.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What I hope you are also considering is the consequences for both of your ridings, and for a future of liberal thought and decision making in British Columbia, if you succumb to the pressure to approve of this project.

In my riding (Sea to Sky) some 71 per cent voted for candidates that had a climate crisis action plan. The numbers are similar, if a little less, in North Vancouver.

In my own experience, these voters care about their own actions toward the environment, recycle, want a plastics-reduced world, are excited about a move to electric cars even if they have not made the move, and certainly understand the threat of more change to Sea to Sky where our summertime temperature is already up by considerably more than the anticipated 1.5 C.

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An accident waiting to happen There is a terrible accident just waiting to happen on Highway 99 at Nairn Falls.

Doubtless it would also be tragic, as children would inevitably be involved.

Some years ago, the powers that be decided to build a parking lot at the entrance to the falls to benefit the hordes of tourists who trek in to see our equivalent of Niagara.

Now that it’s winter, whoever is in charge has locked the gate to the parking lot, forcing skiers and winter visitors to park along the short entrance road and out onto the highway.

Admittedly, they open the gates for the weekly jackrabbits ski sessions, but for the rest of the time, the parking is haphazard and dangerous.

“None of the actions that an individual can take, even as a collective, will mitigate the near doubling of the tarsands as proposed by the Alberta government and Teck.”

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$1,499,000 None of the actions that an individual can take, even as a collective, will mitigate the near doubling of the tarsands as proposed by the Alberta government and Teck. An approval of this project will send the message to your voters that we will consider climate change some years along the line—perhaps when it is too late.

An approval may be so discouraging that I believe it will mean that many will forgo personal actions and revert to older ways. Why buy an electric car when our carbon footprint will go way up anyway?

Discouraged voters sometimes just get complacent.

Some of your political analysts may compute that you both have sufficient margins to survive this, and perhaps that both the NDP and Greens are indeed unelectable here.

However, a discouraged centre and left-ofcentre in any riding can easily mean that the right (in this case the Conservatives) will win enough of a majority to take a riding. For the already-upon-us climate crisis even a short term of a Conservative government is likely to cost us the narrow window we have to avert a much bigger problem than we already have.

Please, please help your colleagues understand that we cannot encourage individual Canadians to care about the environment and specifically the climate if the government does not take the big steps.

Please stop the Teck proposal. You do have the necessary support.

Alan G. Whitney // Whistler

Meantime, the new parking lot sits empty.

They’ll probably tell us that the parking lot is too difficult to plow but a number of volunteers have offered their services to do this. Many of us have seen cars parked in the snow at the entrance to the falls with young children frolicking around.

What are the authorities going to say when one of these precious little people are no more?

That it was too much hassle to unlock the gate and plowing the parking lot was simply out of the question?

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Pemberton Library Thanks Retiring Board Members The recent Pemberton Library AGM, held Jan. 28, marked the retirement of several of our trustees, including Judith Walton and Cindy Filipenko.

Judith and Cindy joined the board at the same time. They were both vital members of the board who saw the library through many changes.

Judith served as chair for six of the eight years on the board. She has brought her heart and soul to the library. All your experience and dedication will be missed.

Cindy served on the board for eight years.

Through those years, she served as vice chair and was our resident wordsmith. Your way with words and passion for the library will be missed, along with your contagious laughter.

With the close of 2019, we also see the

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departure of Meg Gallop. Meg has served on the board on and off for 30 years. We thank all these people for their time and effort in making the library the hub of the community.

And finally, we wish to express our gratitude to our library director Emma Gillis for all the work she does to support the trustees.

We look forward to another incredible year at the library.

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We were fundraising for the Whistler

Backcountry Advisory AS OF WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5 It looks like there may be a break to the stormy weather the Whistler area has seen so far in 2020.

Friday marks the end of a series of frontal systems that have brought light-to-moderate amounts of snow to upper elevations over the past week. A ridge of high pressure ought to allow the sun to make an appearance for the weekend.

The main concerns for the past week have been wind slabs and cornices in the alpine. With light, yet steady, snow accumulation combined with wind from a variety of directions, you can expect these avalanche problems to continue to be the main concerns through the weekend.

That being said, there is still an elephant in the room. The Whistler area has been plagued all season by a weak layer that is buried near the base of the snowpack. It is

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Keeping that in mind, be cautious in lee areas where you would expect to trigger wind slab avalanches, avoid exposure to slopes with overhead cornices, and stay away from steep, thin, rocky areas.

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CONDITIONS MAY VARY AND CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY Check for the most current conditions before heading out into the backcountry. Daily updates for the areas adjacent to Whistler Blackcomb are available at 604-938-7676, or surf to www.whistlerblackcomb.com/mountaininfo/snow-report#backcountry or go to www.avalanche.ca.

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Secondary School (WSS) Math Contest Scholarship. As well, we are saving to be able to travel again to compete in the Canadian Math Team Competition in Waterloo.

We hope to have enough to be able to compete in 2021.

We are really grateful for regular community support from Nesters, Blenz, Whistler Source for Sports, Samurai Sushi, Escape Whistler, Vail Resorts, Coast Mountain Photography and Nicklaus North Golf Course.

We are also grateful to new supporters this year including All Seasons Grill, Fresh St. Market and Vallea Lumina.

We recognize that Whistler is a small community, so the support of these businesses is even more notable as they get asked for donations all the time.

We especially want to thank all the parents, staff and friends of WSS that came out to our event. We are really grateful for their support and feel very lucky to live in such a supportive and enthusiastic community.

Thanks so much from all of the WSS mathletes! Go Storm!

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Unfamiliar with the terrain, I was following my friend, when we headed down a less-skied out section of the trees.

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The further we got, the more apprehensive I felt, and when we lost the tracks altogether, the fear really set in, made worse when we realized that neither of us had cell reception and my friend revealed that he’d heard things get “cliffed out” if you go too far.

We talked it over and traversed to skier’s right, as far as we could go, then dismounted and began walking down the mountain.

Three hours later, we popped out in a cul-de-sac, where we called a cab and then headed back to the village.

In reality, we got off easy. But that’s not to say the experience didn’t put the fear of God in me. I remember my mind racing as we trudged through the forest and darkness set in, cursing myself for blindly following someone with little mountain knowledge

and wondering how my family would react if things went (even more) sideways.

Every moment felt drawn out, taking on a weightiness that’s difficult to put into words.

This wasn’t the first time I’d done something stupid. In Sun Peaks, where I grew up riding, I rode through dangerous, permanently closed terrain on more than one occasion, oblivious to the fact it was closed for a reason. And in France, when I

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was 19, I remember traversing into a giant, open bowl that I had no business being in.

Like others, I grew up watching ski and snowboard movies that glorified riders who out-road their own sluff. It was another variable in their runs, adding an extra layer of challenge/exhilaration to otherworldly backcountry lines.

Looking back, it’s startling to think of just how reckless my thinking was, how the allure of powder turns seemed to trump everything.

I recently took in a panel discussion on

With a faceted layer buried deep in the snow, and legions of people getting into backcountry skiing (Fitness!), there is potential for something very bad to happen.

And one got the sense from the discussion that the panelists are deeply concerned people are making sketchy decisions and aren’t fully cognizant of the risk associated with this year’s snowpack.

While I’m still passionate about riding, I like to think that I am a lot more conscious about my decision making. I still,

occasionally, do stupid things—but far less frequently (and to lesser degree) than I did in the past.

As Berg put it during his eloquent remarks, it’s important to recalibrate your expectations, to consciously refine what brings you joy when skiing.

When he was young and lived in Chamonix, he would “do all these really dangerous things” before coming to an important realization.

“I was like, ‘You know what, I have to make drinking coffee just as important as going skiing, because if I don’t appreciate the things that I can do, when I can’t go ski crazy mountains, I’m going to die,” he said.

Berg therefore made a “conscious shift” to recognize that “there are other things in my life, and I’m going to wait until it’s the right moment to go get crazy. Otherwise, I’m just going to go drink coffee.”

That realization, he said, has helped him shift into a new mindset in which he skies what the conditions warrant, rather than goes out with a specific “objective” in mind.

That’s good advice. Like Berg, I’m doing my best to enjoy the small pleasures in life.

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Two fires in 1962 prompted the residents of Alta Lake to form the area’s first volunteer fire brigade. The first fire was rather mysterious and traced to a traveller who came by train, while the second was caused by a roof fire. Luckily, no one was injured in either incident.

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It’s been a decade since Whistler hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Whistler COO says Vail Resorts is listening to criticism WB BREAKS DOWN THE CHALLENGING START TO ITS SEASON

BY JOEL BARDE WHILE FRUSTRATION towards Vail Resorts’ management of Whistler Blackcomb (WB) is nothing new, a recent petition calling on the resort behemoth to “address the problems they have created by idly neglecting the magic that once defined the unforgettable experience” that is WB appears to be gaining traction.

The change.org petition—titled Vail Resorts: Make Whistler Great Again!—boasted more than 2,200 signatures by Feb. 5, just four days after it started, with a target of 2,500.

According to WB’s new COO Geoff Buchheister, the mountain operator has been challenged by a difficult snowpack this year, but is listening to concerns and will make changes where appropriate.

“By no means am I sitting here and saying like, ‘hey, look man, everything’s perfect,’” said Buchheister. “What I’m actually saying is, ‘yes, we’re going to listen.’”

Buchheister added that his leadership style is built on listening to employees and guests and continually improving.

“If you’re going to have the [goal] that you’re going to lead the world in something,

PATIENTLY WAITING A popular petition alleges

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then you have to be open and ready to improve every day,” he said.

The petition alleges that on-mountain operations (including food and snowmaking) have diminished since Vail Resorts’ acquisition of WB in 2016, lift lines are longer, and terrain takes “more and more time to open up.”

Doug MacFarlane, WB’s vice president of mountain operations, disputes the premise of the petition.

“Vail Resorts expects us to operate these mountains as we have in the past and supports me,” he said, speaking specifically about the opening of terrain.

“There’s nobody stopping us or asking us to do anything different.”

MacFarlane, who has more than three decades of experience working on Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, said that this winter has brought some extremely challenging weather from an operations standpoint, resulting in the slowest opening of alpine terrain that he can remember (mid-January).

Relatively low snowpack that formed early on in the season was exposed to the elements for a prolonged period of time, resulting in a “persistent weakness” that made it challenging to carry out avalanche control work, MacFarlane explained.

Then, in January, the resort received a glut of snowfall, when 477.8 centimetres fell, beating a previous record of 463 cm in 2005. This resulted in significant avalanche control work, he said.

Adam Mercer, WB’s patrol director, said that staff aspires to open all lifts in all zones

as soon as possible in the season, and as early as possible in the day.

“That doesn’t change year over year,” he said.

“That’s our objective—to [open] as much terrain to people as safely and as efficiently as possible.”

Mercer added that patrol has used around five tonnes of explosives this year, about 60 per cent more than last year.

Another challenge, said Mercer, was that patrol couldn’t move through the resort easily early on in the season due to a lack of snow, and then they were burdened during snowy January.

Because of storms, patrol had to rely on distributing bombs by hand, as opposed to by helicopter, he said.

“And when you’re moving through deep snow, it slows things down,” said Mercer.

“When you have to put in 60 per cent more explosive to mitigate the hazard for both our workers and our guests, yeah, it slows down.”

Ben Cherniavsky, a part-time Whistler resident who created the petition, said that the response to the “viral” petition has been astonishing and taps into deep-seated frustrations with Vail Resorts.

“This goes well beyond the opening of the terrain,” he said, citing concerns about pricing and a lack of grooming and snowmaking.

Cherniavsky added that he thinks that the resort could do a much better job in terms of communicating closures to the public, and that it should look to compensate visitors when the conditions are too poor to enjoy a day on the mountain.

He wants the petition to be a “positive

campaign” for the community and mountain operator alike.

“The bottom line is we just want Whistler to be great again,” he said. “What made Whistler great was the experience. It’s like Disneyland. [It’s] all about the attention to detail and experience.”

With respect to communicating stormy days and delays, Marc Riddell, communications director for WB, said that Twitter is the best place to find updates.

He added that the resort operator is looking to make some tweaks to its communications around such events going forward.

“Clearly, it’s something that we have heard from guests, and it’s something that we’re looking at,” said Riddell. “There’s always room for us to improve on [it].”

Given the challenging start to the season, Buchheister said that he is grateful for his team’s hard work, especially in the lead-up to the busy Christmas period.

“I consider it heroic work, and I appreciate what they’ve done,” he said.

MacFarlane added that while the popularity of the petition can be seen as demoralizing for staff, it wouldn’t sway them when it comes to onmountain safety.

“Even though it is disheartening, there’s no way that it will sway our decision [making] when it comes to a safety consideration,” he said.

“We’re motivated to get these mountains open, and have them run and provide the best experience every single day we possibly can. That’s our goal.” n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT ALTHOUGH B.C. health officials stress that the public health risk of the global coronavirus outbreak remains low, tourism operators across the province are bracing for a possible slowdown.

With two confirmed cases of coronavirus 2019-nCoV in B.C. (along with three in Ontario as of Feb. 5), prospective visitors may be rethinking travel plans, particularly with both the U.S. and Australian governments barring non-citizens who have been to China from entering their borders.

As reported in sister publication Business in Vancouver, Health Canada doesn’t plan to follow suit at this time. “The government of Canada and the provinces and territories have multiple systems in place to prepare for, detect and respond to prevent the spread of serious infectious diseases in Canada,” a statement to the publication read.

Dozens of airlines, including Air Canada, have cancelled flights to China amidst the outbreak, which has showed no signs of slowing. At press time, there were more than 24,000 confirmed cases in China, and nearly 500 dead. The prevalence of the virus is much lower outside of China, with more than 200 cases reported in more than two-dozen countries and territories.

China is an important market to B.C. both culturally and in terms of spending, but still makes up a small portion of overall travel volume. Tourism Vancouver data showed 323,629 Chinese citizens stayed overnight in Metro Vancouver in 2018, roughly three per cent of the total overnight visitors to the region that year.

In Whistler, that ratio is even smaller, with visitors from China and neighbouring Hong Kong each making up less than one per cent of total winter visitation to the resort.

“We anticipate the tourism impacts on Whistler to be minimal as China and Hong Kong remain relatively small markets (each represent 0.7% market share during the winter season),” wrote Lauren Everest, senior communications manager for Tourism Whistler, in a statement.

“That said, we are continuing to monitor the situation and our thoughts are with all those who have been impacted.”

Nationally, the outbreak stokes memories of Canada’s 2003 SARS panic, which led to the deaths of dozens, along with a 10-percent drop in Vancouver’s tourism revenues, a 29-per-cent plunge in Toronto, and numerous conference organizers cancelling events.

A 2003 Conference Board of Canada report found that Toronto suffered a $950-million hit to its real gross domestic

product as a result of the outbreak, with $570 million of that concentrated in the travel and tourism sector.

Dr. Sarah Borwein, a Whistler second homeowner who runs a family practice in Hong Kong and holds a Master of Science in Infectious Diseases, said it’s been difficult to strike a balance “between making people panic versus not making them anxious enough.

“My sense is that in North America (at least where I have been), people are quite complacent, and seem to feel that this is a China problem, not really a risk to them,” she added in an email.

“[W]e are continuing to monitor the situation...”

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“While that is mainly true right now, the issue is that if this novel coronavirus is allowed to take hold elsewhere, it will become a global pandemic, and nowhere will be immune.

Even if it turns out to be a generally mild disease, the sheer numbers will overwhelm healthcare systems. So everyone needs to be vigilant.”

In a statement, the BC Centre for Disease Control said the risk to the public remains low, but urged individuals to practice proper hygiene.

“The most important thing an individual can do to prevent getting sick from any respiratory illness, including influenza, common cold or the novel coronavirus is to wash their hands regularly and avoid touching their face,” the statement read.

“We also ask that people cough and sneeze into their arm or elbow (rather than hands) and if you feel unwell, stay home to prevent spreading the infection to others.”

B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer has also set up a Special Provincial Coordination Committee to respond to coronavirus in B.C. The committee will focus on the coordination of provincial preparedness and response across B.C.’s health sector.

At Whistler Blackcomb, Vail Resorts’ West Coast communications director Marc Riddell said the ski resort has sent out tips to staff from the BC Centre for Disease Control to protect against coronavirus. He said additional sanitation stations have also been installed across the company.

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WMSC housing rezoning gets first two readings EMERALD INFILL HOUSING APPLICATION MOVES FORWARD

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A NEW BUILDING intended to house staff of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) is moving ahead after council gave a related rezoning first two readings at its Feb. 4 meeting.

The four-unit building (two threebedroom and two two-bedroom units) to be constructed next to the existing WMSC club house at 2028 Rob Boyd Way will also include common storage, laundry and parking.

While intended to house seasonal ski club staff first and foremost, it will also be able to house other employees as necessary.

Resort Municipality of Whistler staff is proposing a maximum rent of $1,200 per bedroom.

The rezoning would effectively remove the property from the existing Commercial Core Two zoning it shares with other Creekside Village properties and replace it with a new site specific zone (Leisure Recreation Eleven).

Amendments introduced by Councillor Duane Jackson and supported by council directed staff to slightly increase the allowable gross floor area (to the equivalent of .25 floor space ratio) and to vary the

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setback to include covered walkways.

Jackson’s concern in looking at the designs was that there’s not much extra room to account for storage, and the project’s upcoming appearance at the municipal Advisory Design Panel could halt its progress.

“If it goes to design panel and the design panel says, ‘gee, I think it needs a bit more balance and more living space for people to live, and more dining space and kitchen space or storage space,’ and the applicant finds that, ‘Gee, we can’t achieve that, we have to go back for more area,’ we’ll be looking at this again,” Jackson said.

“So I’m not saying they have to do it—they are fine to allocate whatever they can afford, or phase it—I’m just saying we should give it a bit more runway.”

A public hearing will follow.

The project is one of seven rezoning proposals received from private developers following an initiative from the Mayor’s Task Force on Resident Housing.

Meanwhile, a subdivision application seeking to provide infill housing on Emerald Drive was also back before council on Feb. 4.

The application proposes subdividing one lot at 9391 Emerald Dr. into two, creating a new employee housing lot.

AT THE TABLE Whistler council hears a presentation at its Feb. 4 meeting.

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The plan is to build a new employeerestricted detached dwelling on the new parcel of land, with potential for an auxiliary dwelling unit as well.

“This proposal provides employee housing by a private property owner in an existing neighbourhood, without detracting from the character of Emerald, to increase the inventory of employee housing, at no cost to our community,” said planner Stephanie Johnson, in a presentation to council.

A housing agreement bylaw setting out occupancy and price restrictions was required prior to a development variance permit being issued, which brought the

application back in front of council.

The housing agreement bylaw—which received first three readings at the meeting— sets the initial maximum rent at $2.90 per square foot (or $1,000 per bedroom for a shared living arrangement) and restricts occupancy to Whistler Housing Authorityeligible employees.

The bylaw also “provides for various development scenarios,” Johnson said, and addresses both owner-occupied employee units and rental occupancy.

Should the bylaw be adopted, the housing agreement would be registered on title by a covenant (a separate covenant restricting building envelopes to the forward portion of the properties, as well as preserving tree preservation zones, would also be added).

“By registering the housing agreement on title, full disclosure would be made to any future purchaser about the employee occupancy requirements, the rental rates, and retail price appreciation restrictions,” Johnson said.

Council last deliberated the proposal on Feb. 26, 2019, approving a development permit application for the project provided one of the lots is kept for employee housing (see Pique, March 1, 2019: “Whistler council gets philosophical on housing”). n

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Olympic anniversary celebrations to kick off Feb. 12 DOZENS OF EVENTS PLANNED THROUGHOUT RESORT OVER COMING WEEKS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS TEN YEARS ON from the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Whistler is getting set to relive one of its defining moments.

And with 33 tribute events planned for February and March in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Games, Whistler Village is once again set to come alive with Olympic and Paralympic spirit.

“From February 12 to 28 and March 12 to 21, Whistler Village will be filled with a steady hum of excitement as we remember the incredible 2010 Winter Games when history was made and the world came to our doorstep,” said Mayor Jack Crompton in a release.

“It was a remarkable time that helped set Whistler on the path to become what it is today. I look forward to wearing my

red mittens, blue jacket and other special mementoes and reliving the magic with the community and resort guests.”

It all kicks off with a “Cake and Quatchi” event at the Whistler Public Library on Wednesday, Feb. 12 at noon, followed by a Breakfast of Champions on Feb. 14 at 10 a.m., also at the library, where guests are invited to “eat like an Olympian” at a free pancake breakfast.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as everything from family après and the Fire and Ice show to storytime at the library will reminisce on the 2010 Games in the coming weeks.

Find more info and a full schedule of events at whistler.ca/2010anniversary.

Meanwhile, Whistler Sport Legacies is also marking the anniversary with events of its own over the Family Day weekend.

The main day will be Saturday, Feb. 15 and will feature free Whistler Olympic Park access to Games volunteers (with

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their Olympic uniforms or other proof of volunteerism), sport demonstrations and mascots roving the grounds.

One sport attendees 10 and over can try is biathlon, run by the athletes of the Whistler Nordic Development Centre.

Cost is $10 per person and all proceeds go to the centre.

As well, youngsters seven and older can try snow luge while learning how they can join the Whistler Sport Legacies luge, bobsleigh and skeleton programming.

Demonstrations, meanwhile, include an interactive opportunity to learn how visually impaired biathletes shoot their rifles, as well as adaptive Nordic skiing.

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Monday, Feb. 17 will see the park offer its traditional Family Day discount with 50-per-cent off ski and snowshoe trail tickets purchased onsite at the gate.

All weekend, visitors can meet mascots, enjoy a photo opportunity with the Olympic podium, and check out an exhibit with Olympic mementoes in the Day Lodge.

“We’re acknowledging that we’ve been around for 10 years and that we’re still going,” Whistler Sport Legacies president and CEO Roger Soane said.

For more information, visit www.whistlersportlegacies.com/ OlympicAnniversary2020.

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Lack of accessible transportation on Sea to Sky a ‘significant disappointment,’ non-profit says WHISTLER COUNCIL ENDORSES PROPOSAL FOR NEW ACCESSIBILITY POLICY

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHILE WHISTLER’S accessible accommodations and programs through the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program are world class, the lack of accessible transportation in the Sea to Sky corridor and within the resort represents a “significant disappointment” for those who need it, according to a disability non-profit.

Chris McBride, executive director of the Spinal Cord Injury Organization of BC (SCIBC), highlighted the issue in a recent letter to Whistler council.

Each year, the SCIBC brings more than 50 people with physical disabilities to the resort to take part in a weekend of adapted outdoor recreation, pairing newly injured individuals with those who have been living with spinal cord injuries for some time.

“People are out there paddling, or they’re climbing, or they’re hiking, handcycling, you know, doing all the things that people do when they go to Whistler in the summer,” McBride said, adding that for many, the weekend is life changing.

“For a lot of people, after a spinal cord injury, they don’t think that they can get back to doing this kind of activity. They never thought it was possible,” he said.

“And then we introduce them to what is possible, and through that they see broader opportunities for what might be possible in other aspects of their life.”

But with no publicly or privately available wheelchair accessible bus companies operating in the Sea to Sky corridor, getting participants to Whistler is a struggle.

“Now with a lack of Greyhound and any other service that’s providing dedicated, accessible transportation options, people really have no means by which to get up to Whistler, unless they have their own adaptive vehicle, which is extremely expensive,” McBride said.

“So it really limits our participation in these events, and participation I guess in Whistler and the Sea to Sky corridor in general.”

Getting participants to Whistler for events is “a bit of a scramble for us,” McBride said, with vans being rented for participants and U-Hauls for their chairs—a solution that is “workable,” but one that

puts the SCIBC, participants and their chairs at undue risk.

“In fairness, it’s not unique to the Sea to Sky corridor, but it is problematic nonetheless,” McBride said.

Once in the resort, accessible transportation isn’t perfect, either.

During Crankworx last summer, one SCIBC participant, Dan Duffy, was surprised to hear that a local cab company had no accessible cabs to get him from the village to Cheakamus after a night out with friends.

“We had a couple drinks ourselves and we were just trying to get home,” Duffy said, noting that while he couldn’t remember which company it was, the taxi operator he spoke with told him they didn’t have accessible cabs scheduled during the week.

“It’s one of those things you kinda just deal with, because it’s like that all across Canada, it’s not just in Whistler,” Duffy said.

“When they told us that they didn’t have one available, I mean, to have an argument with somebody on the phone at that point was pointless … you just accept it and move on.”

While an operator with Whistler Taxi said on Monday, Feb. 3 that the company

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didn’t have any wheelchair accessible cabs, an operator with Resort Cabs said accessible cabs are available for local trips if booked in advance.

In Duffy’s case, he ended up catching the bus back to Cheakamus—albeit one that was so “packed” full of Crankworx revellers he couldn’t fit his chair in the designated accessible space for it.

While it’s not exactly a unique situation for disabled people to find themselves— Duffy recalled a recent trip to Saint John, N.B., in which he was also unable to secure an accessible cab—Whistler would do well to be more inclusive, he said.

“I mean, you’re a tourist destination— you want to be inclusive to as many people as you possibly can, right?” he said.

Sea to Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy said he agrees with McBride’s letter, noting that the accessible travel market is worth billions worldwide annually (a 2016 study in the U.S. found that about one in five people have a disability, and 88 per cent of those who do take a holiday every year, spending US$17.3 billion annually).

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market,” Sturdy said, adding that he thinks the resort does a good job with its on-mountain accessible offerings.

“But that really is dependent on the individual’s ability to actually get to the mountain,” he said.

“So I think that it’s certainly something that needs some attention.”

In a timely report at its Feb. 4 meeting, Whistler council endorsed a proposed approach for a new accessibility policy for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW).

The report by Measuring Up coordinator Sarah Tipler has been in the works for some time, and laid out the planned approach and timeline for creating a comprehensive accessibility policy for the RMOW. Staff propose to build the new policy using concepts and standards reflected in Universal Design, the BC Building Code, the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification Program and the Accessible Canada Act, Tipler said.

“Everybody benefits from accessibility,” she said.

“People’s abilities are in a constant state of change, whether this is recovering from a broken leg, managing age-related health deterioration … we need to plan to accommodate all abilities at all ages.”

According to Stats Canada, 3.8-million Canadians had some form of disability in 2012, and 9 million Canadians considered accessibility when thinking of places to visit (and which to avoid), Tipler said.

“In terms of accessible tourism, Canadian research findings suggest that 82 per cent of the country’s 2.2-million travellers with disabilities are accompanied by another person, for an annual minimum of 1.8-million additional travellers,” she said.

“Canadian research also suggests travellers with disabilities place greater importance on the human network when travelling, and consequently rarely travel alone.”

An open house will be held in the summer to gather community feedback on the policy, with an eye to presenting it to council in fall 2020.

“I’m enthusiastic about the work that Sarah is undertaking, and we’ll pass on letters like (McBride’s) to her as she considers her work promoting accessibility in our community,” said Mayor Jack Crompton after the meeting. “(Addressing the lack of accessible transportation) is one of the benefits of realizing a regional transit system, which is something that regional municipalities are committed to continue to advocate for.”

In McBride’s opinion, governments should take a “really hard look at the accessibility (transportation operators) can provide” when approving transportation options.

“Even one accessible bus would be great, but the more the better, and I think there’s been calls for increasing the size of the accessible cab fleets, in general, in most places,” he said, adding that he understands there are cost implications to think of.

“It’s not just people with spinal cord injuries or disabilities, it’s the aging population, and that’s a huge demographic that also won’t be able to participate and enjoy what Whistler and other places along the corridor have to offer.

“So just increasing the number of those things, providing some incentives for operators to provide these services would be a help, too.” n

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Whistler RCMP teams up with neighbouring police agencies to nab fleeing suspects in West Van POLICE BRIEFS: SQUAMISH RCMP FINDS FENTANYL IN MARIJUANA; POLICE WANT INFO ON HIT-AND-RUN IN ALPINE

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER RCMP credits a coordinated effort between four neighbouring police agencies, as well as the keen eyes of the public, for helping track down a car full of fleeing suspects in West Vancouver last week.

At about 1:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, Whistler police noticed a car in the Marketplace parking lot with licence plates that weren’t registered to the vehicle. After officers tried to stop the car, the driver fled the scene, heading south on Highway 99, police said. Rather than pursue the vehicle, Whistler police notified the Squamish RCMP that it was headed their way. Squamish police tracked down the vehicle as it entered town, before “the vehicle fled in a dangerous manner southbound,” police said. At this point, Mounties notified the West Vancouver Police. The police helicopter Air 1 was also engaged to follow the suspect vehicle, which led them to the Park Royal Shopping Centre in West Vancouver.

As a result, four men in their 20s were safely taken into custody, police said. The suspects all hail from the Lower Mainland

and are known to police, with one of the men wanted nationally for forcible confinement stemming from a case in Ontario, police said.

“The Whistler RCMP wish to thank our policing partners, Squamish RCMP, Sea to Sky Traffic Services, AIR 1, West Vancouver Police and sharp-eyed members of the public for their assistance in bringing this event to a safe and successful conclusion,” the Whistler RCMP statement concluded.

SQUAMISH RCMP FINDS FENTANYL IN SEIZED MARIJUANA Squamish RCMP has found traces of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is 50 times more potent than heroin, in some marijuana that was seized from a local youth in the past week.

“Small amounts of fentanyl can be deadly,” read a police release. “For those who use marihuana, you need to know its source and contents, as well have a safety plan should something happen to you.”

Although it was the main driving force behind the Lower Mainland’s opioid epidemic of recent years, fentanyl use has

found to contain fentanyl.

B.C.’s opioid crisis has tapered off since the province-wide spike of 2018, when there were 1,337 fentanyl-detected deaths. Last year, that number dropped to 702.

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been more difficult to get a handle on in the Sea to Sky. According to Whistler RCMP stats, there were three “fentanyl-related” offences in the resort in 2019.

In December 2018, police found fentanyl in drugs that were seized as part of a trafficking investigation at a Whistler Cay home. It was the first time Whistler police had confirmed the presence of fentanyl through a forensic analysis.

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Fairmont says tips were never withheld from banquet staff FOLLOWING WORKER COMPLAINT, WHISTLER HOTEL SAYS CHANGES IN CONTRACT LANGUAGE LED TO NON-COMPLIANCE

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE GENERAL MANAGER of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler said the hotel agreed to retroactively pay thousands of dollars to banquet staff as a good-faith gesture following a complaint from an employee and the involvement of one of B.C.’s largest unions.

The Fairmont said it agreed to the settlements after it became clear that, for several weeks last year, it was not in compliance with changes to the Employment Standards Act that went into effect in the spring. This led to a formal complaint filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1518—but the hotel asserted that gratuities were never withheld from staff.

According to the union, a banquet worker contacted the UFCW in 2018 after he said hotel management introduced a new tipping structure in which 20 per cent of guest gratuities were withheld and used to subsidize catering services management’s wages, a contravention of the employment act.

“What I mostly wanted was clarity, because before I even went to the union, the gratuity pool was always this arbitrary number,” said former banquet server Elliot, who requested his last name be withheld to protect his future job prospects.

“Once they started giving me information, I realized that what they were doing wasn’t legal, that they weren’t going to do anything about it and we had no power.”

But according to Fairmont GM Norm Mastalir, gratuities were never decreased or withheld from staff. Rather, he said, the hotel was initially unaware of changes last May to the Employment Standards Act that required businesses to communicate with clients how service charges would be divvied up.

In the Fairmont’s case, Mastalir said the guest surcharge includes portions earmarked for “administrative purposes” and gratuities—the latter having already been paid out to staff. For a period of roughly seven weeks following changes to the act, however, Mastalir said the Fairmont failed to properly list how much of that surcharge would be retained for administrative costs and gratuities.

“We felt that the most expedient way to resolve that issue was to simply pay out the administrative portion of the surcharge for the period that we were non-compliant,” said Mastalir, adding that “at no time” were workers’ tips impacted.

“Our colleagues have always been crystal clear on how much of the surcharge comes to them as a gratuity.”

Because the Fairmont settled with employees, there will be no ruling—and possible associated penalties—stemming from the Employment Standards Branch (ESB) investigation.

Stephen Portman, union rep for the UFCW, disagreed with the Fairmont’s assertion that its non-compliance was due to changes in how it communicates its service charges to guests.

“It is in the view of the union that this was pretty clearly a wrongful redistribution of the tips given that they were not being paid to the workers on the floor doing the work that a guest of the space, who is paying for the space, would reasonably expect to receive the gratuities,” he said.

“It hasn’t been the position of the union that the error was in the language involving a contract with customers or users of their space. That’s all news to me.”

In a release last week, the UFCW— which tried and failed last year to organize the Fairmont’s banquets department after employees voted it down—said the hotel had agreed to pay back roughly $85,000 in tips owed to around 60 banquet staff.

Mastalir declined to comment on the total settlement amount and the number of affected banquet employees, citing privacy concerns. He did acknowledge, however, that the legislative changes impacted more than just the banquets department and that other settlement payments would be made.

“This issue affects a lot of departments in the hotels; anywhere we have a surcharge, including the bell department, housekeeping department, stewarding, kitchens,” he said.

Mastalir said he has “no knowledge” of the tipping structure at other Fairmont locations in B.C., but he assumes there would be a similar system in place.

Although tip pooling is still allowed, as of last spring, employers in B.C. are no longer permitted to withhold or deduct worker-earned gratuities.

Eric Griffith, president of the Restaurant Association of Whistler, declined to comment on whether the practice persisted in the resort’s foodservice sector, saying the organization representing more than three dozen resort restaurants “doesn’t have enough information” to do so at this time.

Saad Hassan, president of the Hotel Association of Whistler, did not respond to a request for comment.

The UFCW has been active in Whistler since at least early 2018, when a group of Whistler Blackcomb (WB) ski instructors approached the union. Most recently, the UFCW has been assisting WB’s snowmaking department, which on Jan. 7 applied to formally unionize. n

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BY JOEL BARDE PEMBERTON VALLEY FARMERS are meeting proposed changes to new Agriculture Land Reserve (ALR) regulations with support, though local opposition MLA Jordan Sturdy believes the overall thrust of the legislation is problematic.

Under recently proposed changes to legislation, first brought forward in February 2019 to prohibit mega mansions, there would no longer be restrictions on those who can live in secondary homes on ALR land—previously, they were restricted to farm workers or immediate family.

Landowners would have the right to both a principal residence and a small secondary residence on their property, provided they have approval from their local government.

ALR property owners would not be required to apply to the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) for approval.

Also under the proposed change, the size of secondary homes would be capped at 92 square metres (1,000 square feet).

The proposed regulatory change went out for public consultation at the end of last month with feedback being accepted until April 17.

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According to Anna Helmer, president of the Pemberton Valley Farmer’s Institute (PVFI), the change makes sense as it keeps the size of the secondary home relatively small.

“I think it’s great that they’ve kept the houses quite small, she said, adding that the whole idea behind recent ALR legislation is to allow “the next generation or a new farmer to live on the farm.

“At least this way, there’s a cap on the size of the house, they can’t build a 5,000

said that the production value of small farms, such as those that are 20 hectares or smaller, doesn’t equate to the cost of the land.

However, Sturdy added that he thinks the changes to the secondary-housing policy could help alleviate Pemberton’s housing crisis.

“That’s one of the reasons that I’ve been trying to put seasonal agricultural worker housing on my farm for the last year, because I have been having to bounce around to various rental properties around the valley for the last number of years,” he said.

“At least this way, there’s a cap on the size of the house, they can’t build a 5,000 square foot [home].”

- ANNA HELMER

square foot [home] (465 sq.m),” she said.

Local MLA Sturdy, a longtime farmer in the Pemberton Valley, welcomed the “direction” of the proposed change, but said that overall, he believes the ALR changes have been largely ill advised and poorly executed.

“Well, I would rather we didn’t find ourselves in this place in the first place,” he said. “It was almost like a solution seeking or a problem.”

Sturdy, who currently has an application for agriculture worker housing with the ALC,

Helmer, meanwhile, said she was very happy with the changes that were introduced last year.

“Lots of governments say they are protecting farmland and then do absolutely nothing,” she said.

The 2019 amendments to the Agriculture Land Commission Act include limiting the size of primary residences; restricting the removal of soil and increased penalties for dumping of construction debris and other harmful fill

in the ALR; and reunifying the ALR as a single zone.

In response to concerns about the changes raised through publicconsultation, -the province delayed its implementation until February 2020. Now, after further feedback, this grandfathering period has been extended until Dec. 31, 2020.

Asked for a comment from the SLRD’s perspective, a spokesperson sent the following: “In regard to the proposed new regulations, it would be premature for the SLRD to comment as we are reviewing them now.

“Should any changes be made to the regulations, the SLRD would make any necessary adjustments to its own bylaws.”

In a release, Lana Popham, Minister of Agriculture, said that the province is committed to protecting farmland going forward.

“We are continuing to do the work necessary to help farmers farm and protect farmland for future generations,” said Popham. “The ALR is B.C.’s best foodproducing land, and is just five per cent of our province’s land base—it’s so important for food security. The proposed changes, if implemented, would provide additional residential flexibility in the ALR. “We recognize that rules by the previous government do not reflect the needs of British Columbians and as a result, we are proposing to allow more flexibility for small secondary residences.” n

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BY ALISON TAYLOR SQUEEZING THEIR STICKS tighter than usual, hearts pounding in chests, 17 girls from the Whistler Winterhawks Female Atom C1 team finished their on-ice warm up Saturday morning and skated over to the bench, looking up at their coach who had just arrived.

The team, made up of girls ages nine to 11 years old, had been counting down the days to this moment, nervous smiles now spreading from under helmets, all eyes firmly trained on one person. After all, it’s not every day that you get coached by the best female hockey player in the world.

From the bench, Hayley Wickenheiser smiled back and leaned in—a secret communion between hockey players over the shared love of the game.

Eleven-year-old Annie Akehurst, who wears Wickenheiser’s No. 22 on her back, remembers it all. In fact, she will likely never forget it—the excitement of seeing Wickenheiser on her bench, the nerves of playing for her in the game ahead.

“She said, ‘Try your hardest, skate fast,

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try to get one goal at a time,’” said Akehurst.

The buzzer sounded; the puck dropped.

With one loss and one win in hand, day two of WickFest—the Hayley Wickenheiser Female World Hockey Festival in Surrey from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2—was now firmly underway for the Whistler Winterhawks, the first all girls’ hockey team in Whistler in more than a decade.

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“I’m very proud of you for raising that kind of money,” Wickenheiser later told the team in a special meeting with the Whistler girls. “You helped kids play hockey.”

The six-time Olympian (with four gold medals and one silver to her name) was generous with her time throughout the weekend, stopping for thousands of photos and autographs, sharing stories of the game and perhaps most of all, the story of how she became the best, growing up

“I thought I was the only girl in the world who played hockey. Unlike you girls who have girls’ teams to play on, I didn’t have that.”

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decade in Calgary) WickFest 2020 brought together 1,500 female hockey players for three jam-packed days of hockey, off-ice activities, on-ice development and the opportunity to meet Wickenheiser herself.

The Whistler Winterhawks had the added bonus of having Wickenheiser coach their bench after the team raised more than $1,500 for Jumpstart, the Canadian Tire charity that helps kids

in small town Saskatchewan in the early ’80s, skating on her backyard rink with the neighbourhood kids.

“I thought I was the only girl in the world who played hockey,” she said.

“Unlike you girls who have girls’ teams to play on, I didn’t have that.”

Instead, she had years of dressing by herself in washrooms, separate from her team; years of walking alone through

arenas full of judgment, full of critics; of the seminal moment too when she was 15 years old and playing AAA Bantam hockey and was cut…because she was a girl. Make no mistake, it was an often lonely journey blazing that trail.

Still, those hardships never overshadowed her absolute love for the game.

BATTLING ON THE ICE Back on the ice and down by three in the first period, Wickenheiser rallied the Whistler Winterhawks, encouraging them to use their bodies, play smarter, hold on to the puck a little longer, be tougher.

“I’ve been in lots of games like this girls,” she told them, breaking down the game: Win a battle. Win a shift. Win a period.

The losses are just as important as the wins, she said later that weekend. In her entire career playing hockey—a career that spanned more than two decades in which she racked up the most points for Canada with 168 goals and 211 assists in 276 games—Wickenheiser said she lost probably as many as she won.

There were disastrous hockey seasons, like the lead up to her sixth Olympics, playing on a broken foot, where the team lost more than half their games that season, most by one or two goals.

And then there was Nagano, the first year women’s ice hockey hit the Olympic stage. Wickenheiser was 19 years old when she stepped onto the ice at the ’98 Olympics, the expectations of a nation on the team’s

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shoulders, simply expected to bring home the gold for Canada. Canada lost to the U.S. 3-1.

The sting of that 20-year-old loss is still fresh.

She remembers thinking: don’t let them see me cry (that came later in the bathroom of the dressing room). And she also remembers thinking: I never want to feel this way again.

“I hope you lose tough games,” she told the Winterhawks. “It’s going to make you tougher and more resilient.”

Questions for Wickenheiser abounded: Why did she pick No. 22? Wayne Gretzky was 99, Mark Messier was 11, the Edmonton Oilers of the ‘80s were her childhood heroes.

Her best friend was 2. The double digit just seemed like the right fit.

Any advice to get better? Watch the NHL, she counselled. Watch the best players.

Watch how they cross their feet and how they protect the puck. Watch, for example, how for every two strides Edmonton Oiler Connor McDavid is crossing his feet, giving him power, speed, edge. Then practice what the best are doing.

And where does she see herself in 10 years?

She hopes WickFest will have expanded into other cities; she hopes to still be working in hockey (Wickenheiser is currently assistant director of player development for the Toronto Maple Leafs); and she hopes to practice emergency medicine (she is now in her final year of medical school).

“A lot of people say you have to do life in a certain way,” she said. “I couldn’t disagree more.

“Chase your dream no matter how crazy it sounds.”

THE ROAD TO PLAYOFFS The Winterhawks finished WickFest with a win, a tie and two losses. And unforgettable memories of meeting their hockey hero who lived up to all the hype...and then some.

WickFest was a defining moment for Winterhawks assistant coach Trevor Burton, who has two girls on the Female Atom C1 team.

“Just watching the level of play at the Bantam and Midget level, it was mindblowing how fast they were, how well they controlled the puck and controlled the play,” he said, with a nod to Whistler’s 16-year-old Jenica Felius, who volunteers on ice with Whistler’s Atom Female team and who was also playing at WickFest for her team, the North Shore Avalanche.

Perhaps, Burton admitted, he had never really put the women’s game at the same level as the men’s game; WickFest changed that, flipped that old mindset on its head.

“It’s here. It’s arrived. And it’s just the perfect time to be involved with it all,” said Burton. “And that’s really exciting.”

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IT’S THE DEAD of winter and the other three seasons are but a frozen memory here in Whistler. But since the folks who designate International Days of Everything pay no heed to hemispheric seasonality, you’re forgiven if you somehow missed marking down Feb. 2 in your when calendar as World Wetlands Day (though in the aftermath of the January-ending rainstorm that preceded it, you may well have been dealing with a de facto wetland in your own yard).

As with other designations of this sort, World Wetlands Day highlights something of global importance that requires more of our collective attention. Thus, the first question: Why are wetlands so important?

BY LESLIE ANTHONY The list of answers is topped by this startling fact: these highly productive ecosystems where terrestrial and aquatic habitats meet cover only seven per cent of the planet, yet contain 40 per cent of the world’s biodiversity. About a million species of plants and animals (e.g., molluscs, crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles— particularly turtles and crocodilians—water birds and mammals) that live or breed in wetlands are threatened with extinction.

Thus, loss of wetlands equals a net loss of biodiversity, while preserving or restoring them equals a hedge against this.

Wetlands are also a huge carbon sink—a natural solution to the effects of climate change and a support mechanism for a wide range of ecosystems. Mangrove and estuary wetlands that shield coastal areas

Water Act that had protected wetlands, and Doug Ford’s inept and uninformed “open for business” Conservative government in Ontario has made similar overtures.

Here in Whistler, 75 to 80 per cent of the valley’s original wetlands have been lost to questionably planned development, so what remains should be considered functionally sacrosanct. And yet these continue to be abused: off-leash dogs root through fish-breeding areas in our lake parks, and invasive goldfish have been dumped into Millar’s Pond and Pinecrest, Alpha, Nita and Alta Lakes—an ecological scourge given that goldfish eat the eggs and young of amphibians and both native and stocked game fish in shoreline wetlands.

I’ve spent a lot of time in wetlands, whether as a kid observing frogs and dragonflies, a graduate student studying salamanders, a canoeist making my way from lake to river to lake, or a science writer chasing a climate change or invasive species story, and what always captivates me most is their diversity. Words like swamp, marsh, bog and fen tend to be conflated in popular parlance, but each has its own definition based on chemistry, hydrology, seasonality and vegetation, and thus its own role to play.

Some of the world’s most amazing wetlands are those that come and go from the landscape. The Okavango Delta in Botswana, for instance, a blind river mouth that floods a vast landscape once a year, is seasonal home to an enormous variety of wildlife and also a popular tourist attraction.

More permanent wetlands act as key waypoints in migratory pathways—like Saskatchewan’s Chaplin/Old Wives/Reed Lakes area right on the TransCanada Highway, part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network and one of

Here in Whistler, 75 to 80 per cent of the valley’s original wetlands have been lost to questionably planned development ...

from storms and floods sequester 50 times more carbon than tropical forests, and 30 per cent of land-based carbon is stored in bog peatlands. Swamps and marshes act as filters, cleaning water by removing pollutants and sediment. As natural sponges, wetlands both store and slowly release rainwater as a control against flooding and drought. In fact, wetlands annually provide US$47 trillion in essential services around the world, where a billion people depend on them for their food, water and livelihoods.

And yet, despite their obvious utility and key roles, wetlands continue to disappear globally three times faster than forests; 87 per cent gone since 1700—a shocking 35 per cent in the past 45 years. Key drivers of wetland loss include land conversion (drainage and infilling) and pollution. In the U.S., the environmentally criminal conservative government of Donald Trump recently reversed key tenets of the Clean

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the most important migratory bird sites in North America. Spanning 42,000 hectares, it includes the second largest inland saline water body in Canada where, each summer, over 30 shorebird species either nest or make a stop en route to the Arctic.

Scientists have long since come around to the Indigenous viewpoint that everything living is interconnected and has a purpose within that nexus. We need to educate from the earliest levels about such ecological thinking, whose prime directive is to support all species (and thus, their “function”) in order to maintain balance in nature. Rather than thinking about them one day a year, actively respecting and protecting wetlands and their wildlife year-round would go a long way to achieving that. n Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. n

OUTSIDER

Your eyes have it “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

— Helen Keller

THE MOST IMPRESSIVE evolutions of human organs is the eye. With origins over 500 million years ago, as a photoreceptive “eyespot” in single-celled organisms (which could only see the difference between light

BY VINCE SHULEY and dark), eyes can now distinguish objects, differentiate colours, clean and protect themselves from foreign objects and shift focus from your phone screen to the distant horizon in a third of a second.

Sight is a sense often taken for granted, especially in the current age of corrective lenses. Spectacles have been around for centuries. Contact lenses have been commercially available since the 1970s.

And in the last few decades, refractive eye-surgery techniques have become safer, more affordable and produced more consistent results.

I inherited my father’s terrible myopia as a child, so for most of my life I’ve had to

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wear corrective lenses just to get through the day. Contact lenses liberated my youth both socially (schoolyard reprieve) and physically (sports), but after about 20 years of full-time contact lens wear, I began to see the downside.

Having a polymer disc in and out of your eye every day is a very easy way to introduce infection. A strict hygiene regimen is essential to avoid bacteria finding its way in, which can result in messy ailments like conjunctivitis. Every time this happens it introduces a chance of causing more than superficial harm to your eyes. After many of these ocular mishaps at the twilight of my twenties, I finally shelled out for the corrective surgery and had tiny Implantable Collamer Lenses (ICL) permanently installed inside my eye balls.

The feeling of waking up and seeing the world with absolute clarity was as amazing as it sounds. Once my brain adjusted to the halos (this can be especially prominent when driving at night), there really weren’t any drawbacks. I only had to watch the risk of a penetrating eye injury, as that could cause a collision between the implanted lens and my eye’s natural lens, which could in turn result in a cataract. I obeyed the doctor’s orders and carried on my life with 20/20 vision, skipping through the day with my new-found freedom and convinced that this was going to be my vision for the rest of my life.

It’s been nine years since I had the ICL surgery and my vision has now unfortunately degraded a few points. I can still get through the majority of my day without trouble, but I

do own glasses again (though they aren’t the coke bottle lenses of my youth) which I wear when working on the computer, watching movies and driving the highway at night. I’d love to have 20/20 vision in the mountains again, but I don’t want to take my glasses into those foggy, sweaty situations, let alone risk breaking them. And with ongoing allergy issues in my eyes, I refuse to go back to contact lens wear. That was the whole point of refractive surgery in the first place!

After a checkup at the local Whistler optometrist and explaining to her that I was struggling to make out details in the terrain while skiing and mountain biking, they recommended I try a pair of goggle inserts; thin plastic spectacles that clip inside your favourite ski or biking goggles.

I figured it was worth a shot and ordered a pair of Oakley Flightdeck goggles through online optics manufacturer SportRx. This company has been making prescription lenses for other sport sunglasses brands for years and recently turned their attention toward the snowsports market with custom prescription inserts. In an effort to avoid obvious coke bottle appearance with the inserts, I chose a reflective lens.

Donning prescription goggles for the first time feels much like putting on a new pair of glasses; reduced peripheral vision and a strange feeling from the unfamiliar clarity. But it wasn’t long before my vision adjusted to this and I began looking up at ski lines and noticing details that had been fuzzy for years. Skiing in low light and low visibility is a challenge whatever your

visual acuity, but I was approaching these situations with more confidence knowing that I could see terrain changes as clearly as possible. My only gripe was that a thin line of fog would start to form in the middle of the insert lens when I was standing still, i.e., waiting in the lift lines, but this never hung around once I was moving on the chairlift or skiing. I’m going to experiment with ventilation and anti-fog treatment to see if I can eliminate that. The other thing is that more plastic inside the lens inevitably builds up more dust through static attraction, so wiping regularly with lens cleaner fluid is a must.

Skiers and snowboarders demand good optics and are willing to pay for it. New lightfiltering lens technology such as Oakley’s PRIZM and Smith’s Chromapop (nevermind the marketing buzzwords, they’re the same thing) give amazing definition in the snow, but that rose-coloured filter is only as good as your vision. If your vision is plagued with astigmatism or myopia/hyperopia of 0.50 or more, goggle inserts are worth checking out. I’m even excited to transfer my inserts into my mountain bike goggles this summer to see what difference they make on the dark trails of the Whistler Bike Park.

Our eyes have evolved this far. Don’t shortchange them by suffering through poor vision in the mountains.

Vince Shuley likes to see where he’s going.

For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince@vinceshuley.com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■

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PLAYING BACK

LOOKING BACK ON WHISTLER’S BRIEF BRUSH WITH PEAK SEASON BROUGHT WHISTLER TO TV SCREENS

BY MEGAN LALONDE AND ALYSSA NOEL PHOTOS COURTESY OF GRANT FRAGGALOSCH

I

t was October 2009. Donald Trump was only a businessman-turned-reality star, Justin Trudeau was in his first term as a rookie MP, and Jersey Shore was still just a popular summer vacation spot for American East Coasters. Caitlyn Jenner was known to the public as Bruce and was, at the time, best remembered for being an Olympic gold-medallist rather than Kendall and Kylie’s dad.

Speaking of the Olympics, that month saw $600 million worth of improvements to the Sea to Sky Highway wrap up, while Whistler prepared to welcome the world as the Host Mountain Resort for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in just a few months’ time.

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But, that October, many people around the world instead welcomed Whistler into their homes through their TV screens, courtesy of a brand-new MTV reality show called Peak Season.

Its tagline? “There are lots of reasons Whistler’s known as the No. 1 ski resort in the world, but this story is about none of them. This is about the real Whistler.”

The 10-episode “docudrama” series, filmed over three months, followed a group of 20-somethings as they navigated life in Whistler, balancing partying, hook-ups, relationships, tourism jobs, and, of course, shredding.

What resulted wasn’t just a Canadian ski town’s attempt at recreating The Hills, just with snow,

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Canadian accents and a couple of Australian cast members. For many in MTV’s target age demographic— both across the country and across the pond—Peak Season offered a (heavily edited) look into what life in a resort town was like, without having to leave their parents’ basements. For those who already called Whistler home, it was an opportunity to see their community portrayed on the small screen— even if they didn’t always agree with that depiction.

Now, a full decade removed from when the world first witnessed Amanda and Dre’s tearful late-night argument on the corner of Highway 99 and Village Gate Boulevard, we’re taking a look at what kind of legacy Whistler’s brief brush with MTV cameras left on the resort and its residents.

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Anyone who has ever ridden a Whistler Blackcomb lift has likely noticed the white nametags resort staff wears on duty. The tags don’t just spell out each employee’s name, but their hometown as well—something that never failed to pique Vancouverite Grant Fraggalosch’s interest while waiting in lift lines during weekend trips to Whistler.

“Oftentimes it was these far-off places— Australia, the U.K., Germany. It just sort of struck my imagination, like ‘Wow, I wonder what it’s like for a young person to move halfway around the world, end up in this incredible ski resort, and be here for this sixmonth period,’” he recalls.

“It’s much longer than a holiday. It’s enough time to start a new job, to start a new relationship, to fall in love with someone. It is a big chunk of life and a lot can happen in that period.”

As Fraggalosch, Peak Season’s creator and executive producer, explains, that curiosity ultimately became “the crux of the idea” for the reality show—an idea that coincided with both the rise of the “docudrama” genre, best exemplified at the time by MTV’s smash hit series, Laguna Beach, and its high-profile spinoff, The Hills, and the launch of the MTV Canada network.

“I thought, they’re going to be looking for some Canadian content … and this docudrama genre really seems to be taking off and working for them. What would be a version of this that could take place in Canada?”

Fraggalosch and production partner Andrea Fehsenfeld’s pitch to the network turned out to be exactly what the newly launched MTV Canada was looking for.

Producers began filming demo reels for the series in early 2008, before the show received the green light later that year. Cameras officially began rolling in January 2009, with two crews filming six days a week.

When it came to the casting process, producers were searching “for different types of characters” that could typically be found in Whistler, Fraggalosch explains. Those characters ranged, for example, from longtime locals to foreigners here for a season, to

aspiring professional snowboarders.

In the end, Peak Season’s main cast was comprised of Whistler-raised DJ Dre Morel and his then-girlfriend, Amanda Scheller, barscene regulars Lauren Horton and Stephanie Kortekaas (or Steph Weber, as she was known at the time), Aussie couple Matt James and Lauren “Elle” Hetherington, up-and-coming snowboarder Stephanie Just and perpetual partier Ian Ross, with a steady crew of fellow locals serving as secondary characters.

Horton was cast as a lead after filling out an application online, and eventually, an on-camera “audition” with producers. “It was just for fun,” she says. “I didn’t think anything would come of it … I had no idea what I was getting myself into either, but I was just, I guess, gung ho.”

Not all cast members shared the same route to the screen as the then-26-year-old Horton. As Fraggalosch remembers, some of those casting decisions came down to the wire, despite the year and a half producers had already dedicated to the process. “The day before we started filming, [Whistler local] Kyle [Treleaven] called me and said, ‘I’m with somebody I think you should meet.’ That was Amanda … She was just such a gem, and so amazing. The first thing we filmed with her was a very raw scene where she’s at home, and Dre comes home and they have a very heavy chat about their relationship, and it essentially dissolves, for real, in that scene,” he says.

Scheller also remembers joining the main cast by happenstance. “They asked me what was going on in my life at the time and they said, ‘We need you on the show,’” she says. “I started out as a random person on the show and became one of the main people.”

Securing the right cast was half the challenge, Fraggalosch says.

“If you have a great cast, you don’t have to start story producing the show—you don’t have to start making stuff up.”

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Sea to Sky in the decade following the show.

Whistler looks like a winter During filming, the cast developed a wonderland—the backdrop to friends strong connection with the crew, she adds. having a wholesome hangout (well, minus “You almost want to be putting on a show the beer and giant bottle of vodka). You for them because you become friends with could be forgiven for mistaking it for a them … You’re just like, ‘OK, whatever, I’ll Tourism Whistler ad campaign. help you do your job.’”

But Kortekass—who served as both the While there was a disconnect between voice of reason and party-girl sidekick to what the cast was experiencing behind the Horton throughout the season—remembers scenes and what the audience saw onscreen, the day a little differently. “It’s so funny it wasn’t always as dramatic as you might what they chose to edit out,” she says. “That imagine, given all the firsthand accounts day was so crazy. I got alcohol poisoning. we have now about the inner workings of They had to call my mom in Ontario I was reality TV. so drunk. We were at the Longhorn and I “Obviously we would have to manage was chugging out of my UGG boot.” the production,” says Fraggalosch, but the (In case you’re worried about present-day characters generated their own storylines.

Kortekaas’ wellbeing, she adds, “Now I’m “You’re not literally [just] following people coming home from Mommy and Me [parent around … You do have to book locations play date groups].” She still likes to cut loose and get crews in there and everything, so occasionally, but as a mom and wife, she’s we would basically schedule it.” mostly left her wild ways behind her.)

Producers could certainly pick and Horton says her own portrayal on the choose what made the final cut and, likewise, show was, for the most part, accurate—even steer the direction of conversations, but when it came to some less-than-flattering it was more about accentuating and incidents. “I’ve always been that person— encouraging the existing drama—the same scrappy, outspoken, don’t really give a shit,” variety that still exists today every weekend she says. on Village Stroll.

However, she admits some of her One example? Kortekass and Horton behaviour on the show (for example, the both worked at the Amsterdam Café when time she punched “Aussie Matt” during the show started, but they weren’t the BFFs a night out at Cinnamon Bear), may have the show made them out to be. come off as “a little more extreme” than And the scene in which Horton was it was in reality. In that case, Horton says fired from her job? “I’d already been fired,” she decided to throw a fist after “hours of says Horton with a laugh. “But they missed provoking” that she suspects was largely it, so I had to go back and be fired for a prompted by producers. second time.”

“It wasn’t just me snapping,” Horton However, she says even her firing was remembers. “That was a very well-deserved slightly misconstrued—in actuality, it was punch—and it wasn’t even a good punch!” more of a “mutual agreement” after filming One trick of the trade came while for the show began taking up more and filming a scene depicting snowboarder more of her time.

Just and her roommate, Jenelle Pritchard, “I will say this about reality TV—it’s not getting ready to head to the bar. The only real,” Kortekass says. “It is real, but we had problem? Crews were only available during call times where we’d have to meet. You daylight hours that day. “So they blacked knew whom you were filming with and out all the curtains in the house to make it you’d arrive and they’d mic you up and so no light was coming in … It’s like 1 p.m., set up the lighting and say when they were but in the house, it looks like it’s nighttime filming. We were ourselves on camera, but and we’re pre-drinking,” remembers it took a little bit of getting used to.”

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To that end, Scheller was really a 21-year-old going through a heartwrenching breakup when she first appeared on the show.

“I was going through some hard stuff,” she says. “My boyfriend and I lived with [Morel], we were breaking up and he was moving out. It was very hard … It was really sad re-watching myself go through all that.

But it was also like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe they put that with that scene, it wasn’t the same night.’ They made me look a little crazy, but whatever.”

Since producers wanted to fulfill different archetypes, Scheller was cast as the model even though she competed in snowboard contests alongside Just, the show’s snowboarder.

“I’m not a model,” she adds. “A lot of the filming they said, ‘We need to revolve you around this.’ It was very forced.”

Meanwhile, Garnet Clare, born and raised in Whistler and part of the hip-hop duo Animal Nation, didn’t have much issue with how he was depicted on the show. He was featured briefly on the season (and, ultimately, series) finale, talking to Morel about his girl troubles, all the while with a bit of a bewildered grin that says, “I don’t really know what’s happening, but I’m here for it.”

Not only did he have six or seven songs featured on the show—for which he and Mike Armitage still receive occasional residuals—but he’s also the voice that opens up each episode, while Armitage did the voiceover for “Next time, on Peak Season…” at the end.

“We were brought down to Vancouver to a gorgeous studio and got paid way too much to do that,” Clare says. “They had me do it a few times and they used the tone I don’t normally speak with. That was my favourite part of the entire show.”

For all the uncomfortable feelings and critiques of their experience, and reality TV in general, each cast member interviewed for this story (at least one person declined and several more never replied) said they would undoubtedly do it again if given the chance.

The reason? It was an insanely weird and unique experience they can now appreciate with a decade behind them and lives that have become markedly more mature.

“It was so crazy and I think I shaved a few years off my life,” Kortekass says, as much about the show as about her time in Whistler as a whole. “It was a great time and I wouldn’t trade it for anything. It’s hilarious I have this little snippet of what I did there.”

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Shortly after the first episode aired, Kortekaas was partying at Maxx Fish when a childhood friend approached her.

“He’d probably been [in Whistler] 10 to 15 years and he said, ‘I can’t believe you did that,’” she remembers. “A lot of people who lived in Whistler thought it was really lame.

We got shunned by a lot of locals.”

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when Whistler was just coming into the international spotlight leading up to the 2010 Olympics and exploding as a resort destination—their criticisms were, in part, a reaction to the changes already happening in town. But, as Kortekaas explains it, the cast was a bunch of kids in their early 20s who were offered money by MTV Canada to live their lives—only with a camera along to capture it.

This was on the cusp of reality TV’s explosion and, paired with their young age, they had little idea of what exactly they were getting into, most cast members say.

“We didn’t know reality TV,” Kortekaas says. “We didn’t have people to pick out our outfits and do our hair. Why am I wearing a man’s XXL fleece plaid shirt and my red hoodie I always wore? I had the worst clothes and makeup! I cringe. I can’t look at it.”

Part of the negative reception also had to do with Peak Season coming on the heels of CTV’s scripted drama Whistler, which aired for two seasons from 2006 to 2008, points out Clare. Gold medal Olympic snowboarder Ross Rebagliati filed a lawsuit against CTV that was settled out of court for misappropriating his identity with one of the fictional characters.

“Locals really didn’t like [Whistler],” Clare says. “Because of that, any show that was coming to Whistler—especially reality-based—everyone hated it. Looking back, it’s so innocent. It was supposed to be MTV Canada’s biggest show—then Jersey Shore came out the next year and it was like, ‘Why would we watch this tame show about Whistler?’”

The responses weren’t all negative, though.

Says Fraggalosch: “I think there was a desire in the community up there to have Whistler presented in a real way, because it had previously been presented in some ways that, I think, rubbed the community the wrong way.”

There were some people who were even starstruck after the first episodes aired— much to Kortekaas’ shock at the time.

“On the other side, locals would come and bombard us and be like, ‘Oh my God, you actually work here [at the Brewhouse]?’

Can we have your autograph? I’d be like, ‘Honestly, I’m not that cool. I’m wearing a nametag and serving beer.’”

MTV encouraged the cast members to get Twitter accounts—a relatively new platform at the time. They’d sometimes get messages inviting them out in town for free drinks.

“People thought we were celebrities and we were just normal people,” Kortekaas says.

“I had a weird feeling about it afterwards …

Lauren and I would go out in Vancouver and people would literally bombard us like we were Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian.”

Horton recalls one instance in a McDonald’s on Granville Street where she had a group of girls “corner” her in the bathroom. “They were squealing at the top of their lungs, like ‘Oh my god!’ and taking my picture and smothering me. And I was like, ‘What the fuck am I doing? This isn’t what I want to be doing with my life.’”

Scheller and her friends used to call it “getting Peaked.”

“We’d be sitting at lunch or in front of a store and you could hear people whispering, ‘That’s so and so,’” she recalls. “It was weird.

I hated that. You couldn’t really be yourself without somebody coming up to you. It’s Z-grade celebrity, but it’s still really weird for that to happen.”

A CHANGE OF SEASON As it turns out, time hasn’t completely quashed enthusiasm surrounding the series.

Each cast member interviewed had stories about being recognized in far-flung places years after the show first hit airwaves—like the time a Peak Season fan approached Horton and her now-fiancé at a Seattle Mariners baseball game shortly after the couple began dating. “I was waiting in line to get drinks with him and this girl came up and started freaking out. It was the first time that he got see it firsthand, and he just thought it was the coolest thing ever,” she says with a laugh.

Kortekaas thought she had left the show far behind when, five years ago, she was out for drinks with her coworkers from the wealth and estate planning firm she worked at in Downtown Toronto. She ran into a friend from high school who immediately said, “Oh my God, I haven’t seen you since you were on that show!”

The cat was out of the bag. “My coworkers bought it on iTunes and everyone watched it,” she says. “I watched the first episode with them and I was like, ‘No, I can’t.’”

But she says she would consider watching it some day with her husband (who has never seen it) and her son, when he’s older.

“It’s pretty funny thinking about it now,” she says. “We were so serious about it back then. Like, ‘Oh my gosh, are they going to do Season 2?’ … It’s such a cool part of my life that not a lot of people get to experience.

It was a pretty big production and aired in a lot of different countries. I just think it was a really fun experience. That’s the best way I could put it.”

Ten years later, Fraggalosch looks back fondly on his first foray into the world of TV. “There’s nothing obvious that I regret doing, or think was a mistake—I guess I just wish we could have kept doing it.”

In terms of international attention, “The Olympics were a real blessing to us, but then I think it was a roadblock to getting anything filmed in 2010,” Fraggalosch says.

But by the time 2011 came around, “the moment for the show had passed. It definitely still feels like it has a legacy. I get asked about that show a lot.”

While the cast was paid for appearing on the show, “it was pennies,” Horton says.

After Peak Season aired, she, along with cast-mates Morel and Ross, took up a friend’s offer to serve as their manager and help the trio capitalize on the series’ success.

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Jenelle show, doing appearances and interviews … We went to bars and nightclubs and record stores and signed autographs and pictures and, you know, went to MTV a couple times,” says Horton, who now lives in Mexico with her fiancé and one-monthold son. “It was super cool. I can definitely say that I’ve done something that not a lot of people in their life have done.”

Horton still has copies of the show on both DVD and VHS tapes (remember those?). While she says she won’t be the one to introduce her son to the series, “I can guarantee you when he’s old enough, [my fiancé] will,” she laughs. “He’ll be showing this show to our great-grandchildren. I can guarantee you! At almost every single family function, somebody brings it up.”

To Fraggalosch, Peak Season will always be an example of Canada proving it could hold its own against an American product, as a new genre of television rose to prominence.

“It was certainly the first show in Canada made like that,” he said. “I think within the industry here, it was a bit of a pioneer for sure.”

particular seems to have softened over time. For better or worse, many who moved to Whistler after it aired can recall how it shaped their vision of what life in Even if you hated the way Peak Season the mountain town would be. With the portrayed Whistler, you have to admit, the overproduced and often heavily scripted final episode neatly captures the tangible shift reality shows of today, it also seems of seasons the resort experiences every year. positively quaint by comparison.

The camera pans around the village A few memorable, choice lines from capturing telltale spring rain, the chaos the series that probably wouldn’t fly of the World Ski and Snowboard Festival today show just how far we’ve come as a during its heyday, and seasonal residents community and wider society. In particular, reluctantly packing up, poignantly enjoying “In Whistler, it’s not your girl, it’s just your their final Whistler beer. turn,” or “I kind of relate city girls to a While the cast and crew didn’t know at container of milk. When you buy it, you the time that it would serve as the series look at the expiry date, like shit, that goes finale, it’s a fitting end to the show, which bad in three days. You better fucking get on ultimately offers—however accurate or that before it expires.” flawed—a capsule of one season in the “Would I put that in a show now?,” resort.

Fraggalosch muses. “I mean, I have no Other reality shows would come— idea—it’s hard to imagine anybody including the similarly locally-maligned necessarily saying something like that Après Ski and its follow-up Timber now … It certainly wouldn’t surprise Creek Lodge, also for one season each— me, particularly with that age group of but locals’ reactions to Peak Season in characters, that things were said I’m sure

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“It reflects a certain time.”

In the end, though, the one thing cast members agree the show got right was its visual portrayal of the resort.

“Visually, the show was beautiful,” Clare says. “I haven’t watched it in a long time, but I remember it looking really good. It made Village Stroll look gorgeous.”

That was intentional. Despite all the drama it captured, Fraggalosch calls Peak Season, “a love letter to Whistler.”

“In this time period, during peak season, people from all over the world are thrown together—you have a new job, you have new friends, you have a new place to live— everything’s kind of new and exciting and disruptive and yet new lives and relationships are starting,” he says. “And, all of this is happening in this incredible resort that’s arguably the best ski resort in the world. I thought, with that as a backdrop, it could be a really interesting way to look into these people’s lives.” ■

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he sky is just starting to lighten as I drive slowly in search of Häståkeriet Stables in Gärdet, part of the massive Royal City Park in Stockholm.

Amidst the all-night revellers wandering like ghosts through the mist rising off the grass, I spot a woman in tall boots carrying a riding helmet and follow her to the barn.

As soon as I step out of the car, I smell the sweet scent of horses and hay and when I enter the barn and adjust to the bright lights, I see a bustle of activity.

A young woman named Emma comes quickly over and asks, “You are Virginia?” and shakes my hand. She tells me to pick a horse, any horse, to groom and tack up.

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Several women are already in stalls, brushing horses. I go to a large brown horse named Guz. As I’m cleaning his feet, Emma looks in and asks, “How did you find out about us? We don’t advertise. It is usually just locals who join in the morning.”

I tell her it took several searches on Google to find Häståkeriet stables and I soon find out I am, indeed, the only non-Swede here for the dawn ride, the other seven women live in Stockholm.

The stable occupies storied ground: barns belonging to King Carl XIV Johan once stood here. Johan was born in France, had a distinguished military career during the French Revolution, and became King of Sweden and Norway in 1818.

The Royal Family still uses horses and carriages for state visits, receiving new ambassadors and the opening of the Parliamentary Session. Now located in the city centre, the Royal Stables’ roots go back to Gustav Vasa, King in the 1500s, and are considered a significant part of Sweden’s cultural heritage of classic riding.

I find Guz’s saddle and bridle in the immaculate tack room and a helmet for myself before Emma calls us together in the middle of the barn. “I’m going to tell you a bit about each horse and then you can choose who you would like to ride,” she says. We are all experienced riders, as that was the criterion for joining the dawn ride. But the barn offers day-time outings in the park for riders of all abilities.

Emma introduces two caramel-coated Fjord ponies, with thick multicoloured manes and black dorsal stripes; slender Andalusians from Spain who are a little high-strung; a big pitch-black Friesian with a handsome forelock who needs a strong feel; and a sturdy paint.

I chose to ride Pajkos, a speckled-grey gelding from Hungary, because Emma says that on a recent ride something spooked one of the horses and all of the other horses took off as well. Except for Pajkos, who calmly carried on. The downside is that he’s a bit testy when being mounted. So, after we all walk our horses to the outdoor arena, Emma holds him while I swing up into the saddle, careful not to nudge his sides with my heels.

We walk and trot around the arena, getting to know our mounts and Emma gives us the rules of the ride: no iPhones (someone once fell off their horse while taking photos); stay close together; and obey all traffic signals—because our early-morning ride will take us deep into the heart of the city.

By the time we head out, fog is still rising off the wet fields but a blue sky is becoming visible. It’s not yet 6 a.m. on a September

Sunday, the perfect time to venture onto Stockholm streets on horseback.

We head west along leafy boulevards into Östermalm, a posh residential neighbourhood and Emma calls out, “Trrrrot” and we urge our horses forward.

At red lights, people in cars look at us curiously and carefully pass us when the light turns green. “Stay together!” Emma barks. Being on one of the slower horses, I am indeed getting a bit behind. I cluck at Pajkos to pick up the pace and Astrid, on the Fjord pony beside me, does the same.

When we catch up, Emma tells us we can canter if we need to and at points I do, enjoying the clip-clippity-clip of hooves ringing on cobblestones.

We ramble over a bridge into Gamla Stan, the Old Town, where buildings date back to the 13th Century and through narrow, medieval alleys to Stortorget, the Grand Square. It’s my favourite part of the city, pulsating with history and intricate architecture of various eras.

The sun is stronger now, showing off the tall, skinny yellow and mint and crimsoncoloured houses to great advantage and making the Stock Exchange Building, now home to the Nobel Library and Museum, glow pink.

We circle around the 700-year old Stockholm Cathedral, which is an impressive example of Swedish Brick architecture, and come to a stop beside the massive Kungliga Slottet. This is the Swedish royal family’s official residence (though, in reality, they spend most of their time at Drottningholm Palace, 10 kilometres west), and has 1,430 rooms. It’s is one of Stockholm’s most popular tourist attractions, but it is so early that we have the street to ourselves.

Emma takes photos of us in front of the canal, with City Hall’s 106-metre-high tower (accessible via 365 steps) visible in the background.

Then, reluctantly, it’s time to turn for home. The streets are busier now so we ride single-file and when we come upon three police on horseback, we exchange a wave.

(And, I confess, I sneak a photo.)

I feel like I am channelling Winston Churchill as we trot over sun-dappled sidewalks, slightly revising one of his famous quotations: When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat in town.

As if reading my mind, Astrid tells me she lessons regularly at the stables, but today was her first dawn ride. “I’ve lived in Stockholm for years. But I loved it the best today as seen from the back of a horse.”

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Sharpe scores gold in World Cup return HALFPIPE SKIER BACK IN ACTION AFTER CONCUSSION

BY DAN FALLOON IN THE RIGHT circumstances, even an Olympic gold medallist can still get nervous getting set to drop in.

That was the case for Whistler resident Cassie Sharpe, who claimed top spot in PyeongChang in 2018, has eight FIS World Cup victories and a pair of Crystal Globes to her name.

But after sustaining a concussion during pre-season training in New Zealand, Sharpe opted to sit out the first two World Cup events of the season, returning for the X Games in Aspen, Colo. in late January.

Sharpe credited her crew with helping to support her as she ensured that she was ready to return, both physically and mentally, though she acknowledged feeling pressure coming back to X Games as the defending champion.

“It was extremely nerve-wracking. It was always the plan to try to pass all the protocol and make sure that I was mentally and physically OK from the concussion,” she said. “I didn’t really realize the amount of pressure I was putting on myself to come

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back at X Games after winning it last year. I was going into it with a lot of nerves, but I’m stoked on how it turned out.”

Being the second year of the four-year Olympic quadrennial, this season has the lowest stakes of the four with no World Championships, while Olympic qualifying ratchets up in intensity in the 2020-21 campaign. As such, Sharpe was given extra encouragement not to rush her return.

“This year, when I was recovering from my concussion, my coach Trennon [Paynter] just kept on saying ‘This year does not matter. If you’re not mentally or physically able to come back this year, it really doesn’t matter,’” she recalled. “Keeping that in mind throughout this season is just to have fun and do the best that I can do, and enjoy myself before the pressure of qualifying for the Olympics comes on next year.”

Still, ever the competitor, Sharpe was eager to get back at it, especially after keeping an eye on the contests held while she was away.

“It was challenging to be sidelined, but it’s always good to watch the girls’ contests and be motivated to come back and compete and learn new things,” she said. “But it’s always challenging sitting on the outside looking in.”

Ultimately, Sharpe returned to snow on Jan. 7, but lost the bulk of her training time to a cold snap in Calgary. Still, she podiumed on Jan. 25.

“We were supposed to be in Calgary all the way up until X Games, training the whole two weeks that we were supposed to be there, but the second week we were there, it got so cold that we all just left,” she said. “The mountain was closed Monday to Friday because it was negative-30-something.

“I had about half the training that I thought I was going to have.”

At this past weekend’s contest at California’s Mammoth Mountain, Sharpe came up with her best run right out of the gate, scoring a 90.00 that was good enough to hold off Russian Valeriya Demidova’s 89.00 and teammate Rachael Karker’s 88.00.

“You always want to lay down your hardest run first run and set up a good score so that you can try to build on it,” she said.

“It’s kind of a staple run for me. I added in a flair and a couple of switch hits, which I wasn’t doing before, but after a little bit of training, it’s coming together.”

Sharpe said the conditions at Mammoth were as good as she’s ever seen them, as World Cup stops there tend to be fraught with challenging environments.

“We’ve never had it where it wasn’t windy or snowing or a blizzard,” she said.

“It was bluebird with minimal wind, and we were all just having a good time. You could see that from the calibre of our contest, but you could especially see it from the calibre of the men’s contest with all the crazy runs that got thrown down spur of the moment

with a good pipe.”

In the men’s competition, Canadian Noah Bowman took second with an 88.60 while being sandwiched between two Americans. Aaron Blunck ran away with top spot with a 97.20 tally while Lyman Currier’s 88.20 earned him third.

No Canadian slopestylers hit the podium, though there were some strong results. In the men’s contest, Etienne Geoffroy Gagnon (fifth), Mark Hendrickson (10th) and Evan McEachran (11th) all made the final, in which Switzerland’s Andri Ragettli held off Americans Colby Stevenson and Deven Fagan for the top of the podium. Other Canadian competitors were Noah Porter MacLennan in 18th and Whistler’s Teal Harle in 24th.

As for the women, Megan Oldham and Olivia Asselin finished eighth and 10th, respectively. Switzerland’s Sarah Hoefflin held off Great Britain’s Isabel Atkin and American Maggie Voisin for the victory.

Speaking from Breckenridge, Colo. where she’s preparing for this week’s Dew Tour, Sharpe reported that it was dumping snow, with plenty of precipitation forecasted leading into the competition.

“We definitely like it when it’s bluebird, we can have a really good time, and be sweating instead of freezing,” she said.

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Osborne-Paradis gives boost to WMSC REHABBING ALPINE STAR RETURNS TO WHISTLER

BY DAN FALLOON A RECENT SETBACK in his recovery couldn’t keep Manny Osborne-Paradis from giving a boost to the next generation of Whistler Mountain Ski Club speed athletes.

Osborne-Paradis, who turns 36 on Feb. 8, is in the long process of recovering from a harrowing crash in November 2018. While training for the season-opening Lake Louise speed events, Osborne-Paradis went down, suffering a severely broken tibia and fibula.

There was initial concern that he might lose the leg, let alone race again.

But Osborne-Paradis, who came up in the club, is working his way back with the hopes of opening the 2020-21 campaign right back at Lake Louise.

Osborne-Paradis had 13 screws keeping everything in his leg together, but when he went to have one taken out, another complication arose, Osborne-Paradis recounted in a visit to Pique’s offices on Jan. 30.

“I went in to get a screw taken out and I was going to return to snow. When I was under, [the doctor] realized that my meniscus wasn’t fully attached, so he decided to attach it, which was great,” he said. “But I woke up and I was looking at the clock. I went ‘Oh, my God, that surgery went longer than we had originally talked about.’

“I’ve been four weeks non-weightbearing and I just got back to walking this week. It’s just another hiccup in the battle to get back on snow.”

While the revelation delays OsborneParadis’ return to the slopes, his greater timeline—to return next winter—remains the same.

“It’s a setback, for sure, but there’s still a ton of skiing to be had this year,” he said, adding that the procedure was necessary, so sooner was better than later. “People get injured at this part of the season and make it back for next season.

“The timeline is fine. It was just a tough mental battle because I wasn’t ready to be back on the couch for three weeks.”

Osborne-Paradis was getting set to return to snow on Feb. 3, though his true training won’t begin for a few weeks yet.

“I’m cleared to ski with my daughter.

We’re classifying it as zero-G skiing, so no carving, nothing,” he said. “I need one month in the gym and then after a month, they’re going to clear me for one-G skiing, which we’re emphasizing as carving but not powder skiing in the backcountry.”

Osborne-Paradis was ready just in time to make it to Whistler from his residence in Invermere.

“It’s great. I’m super jazzed,” he said. “I like to give back to the community, and give back to the kids.”

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“Anytime we can meet face to face, I really try to emphasize that it’s important, even if it’s just saying hi and signing a poster,” he said. “Rob Boyd did it when we were kids and Nancy Greene would stop by and do it as well.

“It tied in what we were all trying to achieve.”

While he wasn’t able to be on the hill with the kids, he was prepared to pass along a bevy of information in other ways.

“There’s so much to talk about that isn’t talked about on dry land to emphasize what we need to accomplish on the hill, especially being a speed camp here,” he said.

Osborne-Paradis has spent a significant amount of time in wind tunnels the world over and can relay information on proper tucks, ride types and how to be aerodynamic.

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Gibbons in midst of WSSF planning DATES CONFIRMED FOR 2020 FESTIVAL, BUT OTHER DETAILS YET TO BE CONFIRMED

BY DAN FALLOON GIBBONS WHISTLER is in the midst of planning its first edition of the World Ski and Snowboard Festival since purchasing the event from Whistler Blackcomb last November.

Gibbons confirmed in January that the 2020 festival will once again run over two weekends, from April 16 to 26, after shorter footprints in recent years. Gibbons Whistler CEO Joey Gibbons gave a simple explanation for the re-expansion.

“I think it’s just more awesome,” he said with a chuckle. “Having two good weekends is better than one good weekend. I just want to get it back to 10 days and hold ourselves accountable to killing it with the most amount of events that we can that are related to mountain culture.

“It was a lot to jam into five days, so having more time will give us more opportunity to celebrate more events.”

It’s less clear, though, what exactly will fill

those 11 days, as Gibbons said he and the team were still in the process of deciding where to focus their energies. A large part of that process, he explained, has been to consult as many festival participants as possible, recalling a recent meeting with roughly 40 current and past pro athletes and artists.

Gibbons asked attendees what particular moment made them realize they would never leave Whistler, citing the 1982 World Cup as his personal example. He later cracked the national ski team and, sure enough, Whistler remains home.

Others Gibbons has consulted include prominent figures of the festival’s past, including founder Doug Perry, Sue Eckersley, Kristen Robinson, John Rae and representatives from Tourism Whistler.

Though Gibbons Whistler has served in a co-producer capacity before, it’s the company’s first time running the show entirely, and as its head, Gibbons wants to ensure he gets it right.

Whether it’s this year or in the future, Gibbons wants to make the festival about more than just the competing professionals,

TAKING FLIGHT Planning for the 2020 World Ski and Snowboard Festival, recently taken over by Gibbons Whistler,

is well underway.

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as he’s hoping to create an atmosphere that celebrates all aspects of mountain culture.

“We’re coming up with an event right now that we feel is going to be exclusive to Whistler that anyone can go in,” he said. “Artists are going to be celebrated.

Filmmakers are going to be celebrated.

Photographers are going to be celebrated.

“Athletes and professionals that care about mountain culture are going to be celebrated.”

Gibbons added that he also welcomes feedback from festival attendees via email at wssf@gibbonswhistler.com. n

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Murdoch, Peiffer off to Junior Worlds WHISTLER CROSS-COUNTRY ATHLETES TO COMPETE IN GERMANY FROM FEB. 28 TO MARCH 8

BY DAN FALLOON WHISTLER WILL BE well represented at the FIS Nordic Junior World Championships later this month.

Two Whistler Nordics grads, Michael Murdoch and Benita Peiffer, discovered that they had cracked the team when it was officially released on Feb. 3. The championships will take place in Oberwiesenthal, Germany from Feb. 28 to March 8.

Another Whistler Nordics athlete, Joe Davies, was named as an alternate while Zoe Pekos, who was part of the Whistler Nordic Development Centre in the 2018-19 season, made Canada’s U23 team.

The team was announced after the Haywood NorAm World Junior/U23 Trials at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Que., held from Jan. 30 to Feb. 2.

For her part, Peiffer placed second in U20 in the sprint, fourth in the five-km classic and 12th (fifth among U20) in the mass start.

“I was over the moon. It was my biggest goal all season and probably for the last four years,” she said. “I’m super stoked, especially because it’s my last year of juniors.”

Because she hadn’t had a heavy volume of races so far this season, Peiffer wasn’t feeling entirely secure with where she sat in the junior hierarchy coming into the trials.

However, knowing her training was going well and that she was feeling strong allowed her to tip the mental scales in her favour in a stressful situation.

“It was definitely a lot of pressure. This whole training season has been a build-up towards this weekend. I was super happy with the way I was able to perform this weekend and it’s definitely a lot of pressure knowing that you’re not super strong in every race and there are select races that you’re going to be able to perform better in than others,” she said. “Mine is the sprint race, which is definitely a riskier race to count on to qualify.

“Anything can happen in a sprint, but everything worked out perfectly.”

Four years ago, Peiffer spent a winter in Germany training and testing herself against European competition. While she was based in Freiburg in the southwest, this competition is in eastern Germany near the Czech border, but she will appreciate the chance to return to the country.

“I feel like I’ll have fun racing there.

It’s always a new experience whenever you go over to Europe,” she said. “I’ve done it before, so it’s not going to be new to me, but it’s going to be fun.”

Acknowledging it’ll be difficult to achieve, Peiffer has her eyes on a top-

30 finish in the sprint with the goal of qualifying for a World Cup start in either Canmore or Quebec City.

“If I’m feeling strong and everything is going according to plan, I think I can do it,” she said. “Obviously, it’s another new experience and racing at that level, I’m not sure when I’m going to be able to do it again so I’ll be learning from the best when I’m there.”

Peiffer also has international experience as a biathlete, having competed in the IBU Junior World Championships in Estonia in 2018.

As for Murdoch, after a 25th-place finish (ninth in U20) in the NorAm 1.4-km sprint, seventh-place finish in the Junior 10-km classic and a 14th-place showing (fourth in U20) in the NorAm 30-km mass start, Murdoch wasn’t exactly sure where he stood and was thrilled to receive a call from national team coach Erik Braten to confirm his spot.

“It was obviously intense because it was between a lot of friends and other racers that I’ve been racing for a long time, but in the end, it was pretty awesome to hear the news,” he said. “It was nice hearing it from someone high up in the ski world. It meant a lot.”

Racing in ideal conditions, with fast snow and mild temperatures, Murdoch was for the most part pleased with how he raced.

“I had an awesome qualification, so I was really excited. I didn’t have the exact sprint I wanted, but going into the distance races, I could just feel myself getting stronger and mentally prepared for the last race and knew that if I could do it, everything would work out,” he said.

Murdoch, who is also attending UBC, will continue working with provincial team coach Chris Manhard while coordinating with Braten leading into the training camp in Austria before the championships.

Murdoch credited Manhard and his parents for helping him get to the point he’s achieved. Murdoch will compete in local races such as the Coast Cup to keep his fitness at the ideal level heading onto the world’s top stage.

“I don’t want to completely rest off because I’d lose the fitness that I’d gained from this past weekend. I want to keep maintaining and growing going forward into Germany,” he said.

The race calendar in Germany isn’t entirely set, though Murdoch will race the 30-km mass start. Ultimately, he hopes to finish in the top-30 with an eye toward landing a World Cup start in Canmore, Alta. in March.

“Racing the World Cup in Canmore would be unbelievable,” he said.

Davies, meanwhile, was 32nd in the sprint (seventh in U20), sixth in the classic and 18th (fifth in U20) in the mass start. n

Henny Dallago (Née DeBoer)

April 7, 1947 - January 24, 2020 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Henny Dallago (née deBoer) on Friday, January 24, 2020 after a long battle with cancer. Her inal days were spent surrounded by her family at the Squamish Hospice in Squamish, BC. Henny was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and immigrated to Canada with her family, settling in Cornwall, ON. After meeting her husband Giulio, they established the successful Edelweiss Pastry and Delicatessen, and went on to have three children, Natalie, Isabel, and Julius.

In 2002, Henny and Giulio followed all their children out west to BC, retiring in Whistler. Always the workaholic, Henny continued to work as manager of a ladies clothing store. Henny probably would have worked for free, as she loved meeting people, chatting, joking, and getting to know them. She was thankful to all her customers at the Pastry stores and the clothing store for the relationships that were built there.

Henny was pre-deceased by her son-in-law Gavin. She is survived by her husband Giulio, mother Hendriena, her children Natalie Fletcher (Alan), Isabel Contant (Jean), and Julius Dallago (Angela), as well as her 7 grandchildren, who were a source of great pride to her and brought her lots of joy.

As per Henny’s wishes, her immediate family will celebrate her life privately, in the spring. In lieu of lowers, donations can be made to the Squamish Hospice Society.

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Thompson wins at Megève SPORTS BRIEFS: KINGSBURY CROWNED IN CALGARY; KRIPPS CLAIMS WIN AT ST. MORITZ KINGSBURY CROWNED IN CALGARY

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Marielle Thompson claimed her third FIS World Cup win and fifth podium of the season at Megève, France on Feb. 1.

Thompson came in ahead of two Swedish racers, Crystal Globe leader Sandra Naeslund and Alexandra Edebo, for the victory.

“I’m super stoked on the win today. I feel like I skied as well as I could and really brought out my best skiing in the final.

To be on top of the podium in front of my friends is really exciting,” Thompson, who sits third in the overall standings, said in a release.

The other Canadian women were knocked out of contention early, with Abby McEwen taking 12th and Brittany Phelan earning 13th.

In the men’s race, Canadian Kevin Drury also topped the podium, besting France’s Bastien Midol and Germany’s Tim Hronek.

Drury leads the Crystal Globe chase.

Other Canadian finishers included: Brady Leman in 10th, Chris Del Bosco in 12th, Kristofor Mahler in 36th, Zach Belczyk in 39th and Ned Ireland in 48th.

Mikael Kingsbury completed a Canadian sweep in Calgary on the weekend.

A week after scoring the FIS World Cup moguls win at Mont-Tremblant, the Canadian legend repeated the feat out west, scoring an 89.09 for the win ahead of Sweden’s Walter Wallberg (85.10) and Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Reikherd (84.19).

Competing in soft snow in the Feb. 1 event didn’t prevent Kingsbury from extending his all-time wins lead or claiming his ninth win of the season.

“It was just so much fun skiing today, even though we got a little weather hold, it was so much fun,” Kingsbury said in a release.

Other Canadian men included Laurent Dumais in 10th, Brayden Kuroda in 25th, Pemberton’s Brenden Kelly in 28th, Kerrian Chunlaud in 29th, Elliot Vaillancourt in 37th, Gabriel Dufresne in 38th, Ryan Portello in 42nd and Jordan Kober in 45th.

Canada also claimed a podium appearance on the women’s side as Justine Dufour-Lapointe’s 79.94 staked her the third-place position behind champion Perrine Laffont of France (81.22) and Yulia Galysheva of Kazakhstan (80.69).

Freestyle Whistler grad Maia Schwinghammer was the next best

PUPPY POSE Whistler ski-cross racer Marielle Thompson posed with a puppy after finishing second in qualifying at the World Cup at Megève, France. She came away with the win in the final.

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Canadian, taking 13th, while Chloe DufourLapointe took 16th, Berkley Brown nabbed 19th, Laurianne Desmarais-Gilbert finished 23rd and Valerie Gilbert was 27th.

KRIPPS CLAIMS FOUR-MAN WIN AT ST. MORITZ Canadian Justin Kripps piloted his sled to

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his third four-man BMW IBSF World Cup victory of the season on Feb. 2.

Kripps, Ryan Sommer, Cameron Stones and Ben Coakwell came in 0.13 seconds ahead of the Latvian sled driven by Oskars Kiebermanis and 0.34 seconds ahead of German Johannes Lochner’s crew.

Competing with a pulled groin, Kripps pushed from second place after the first run into the top spot at the race’s end.

“This is awesome. I have been trying to win in St. Moritz since the first time I came here in 2007. That was a big day for us,” Kripps said in a release. “We had two good runs, good pushes and the boys really stepped up in that second run to drop the start time. That was big time, and I really believe allowed us to get the victory.”

The win means that Kripps and his team finished the four-man season in third-place overall in the World Cup standings.

In the two-man race on Feb. 1, Kripps and Stones slid to a fifth-place finish, 0.62 seconds back of champions Lochner and Christopher Weber of Germany. Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schueller, also of Germany, took second, while Latvians Kiebermanis and Matiss Miknis placed third.

In the women’s race, Canadians also placed fifth as Christine de Bruin and

Electoral Area C Agricultural Advisory Committee - Call for Volunteers

2020 COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM The Resort Municipality of Whistler will be accepting Community Enrichment Program (CEP) applications from community groups looking for financial assistance for 2020. The application period runs from January 25 until February 15, 2020.

The CEP provides funding to not-for-profit organizations or societies based within Whistler that are considered by Council to be contributing to the general interest and advantage of the municipality. The categories include ‘Environment’, ‘Community and Social Sevices’, ‘Recreation and Sport’ and ‘Arts and Culture’.

Each interested community group will be required to complete a Grant Application Form and present to Council at a Committee of the Whole Meeting on March 17, 2020.

All approved funding will be issued no later than April 30, 2020.

Grant Application Forms will be available at www.whistler.ca/cep or at the reception desk of the Whistler Municipal Hall, 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, B.C., Monday to Friday, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., excluding holidays.

Please submit applications to:

ATTN: Lisa Bast Legislative Services Department Resort Municipality of Whistler 4325 Blackcomb Way Whistler, BC V8E 0X5 Phone: 604-935-8121 Fax: 604-935-8109 Email: corporate@whistler.ca

Completed applications must be received by 4 p.m., February 15, 2020. No late applications will be accepted.

Community organizations wanting to learn more about the CEP application and granting process are invited to contact the Legislative Services Department.

WHAT? The SLRD is looking for interested residents of Pemberton and Electoral Area C to serve on the SLRD Electoral Area C Agricultural Advisory Committee (AAC).

WHO? Anyone with an interest or expertise in agriculture and related matters is welcome to apply. Applicants should: • • • • •

Be a land owner and/or permanent resident of Electoral Area C or Pemberton Have an interest in preserving the viability of farming in the Pemberton Valley and surrounding area Be from the farming and ranching community (optional) Posess a clear understanding and knowledge of topics affecting agricultural land Be available to commit to roughly 4-6 meetings per year, for a one year or two year term

HOW? Application forms can be obtained on the SLRD website, or by than 5pm on February 14, 2020.

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Alix MacKay, Planner Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Tel: 604-894-6371, ext. 224 Fax: 604-894-6526 E-mail: amackay@slrd.bc.ca

SPORTS THE SCORE Resort Municipality of Whistler Kristen Bujnowski were 0.54 seconds back of winners Kaillie Humphries and Lauren Gibbs of the United States. Germany rounded out the podium with Mariama Jamanka and Kira Lipperheide in second and Stephanie Schneider and Leonie Fiebig in third.

In skeleton action, Canadian Mirela Rahneva was just 0.01 seconds off the women’s podium as she took her fourth fourth-place finish of the season.

Overall, Rahneva was 0.74 seconds back of winner Tina Hermann of Germany, while fellow German Jacqueline Loelling was second and Austrian Janine Flock took third.

North Vancouver’s Jane Channell took 10th while Madison Charney ended up 20th.

As for the men, Kevin Boyer finished tied for 17th, 1.95 seconds back of winner Martins Dukurs of Latvia. Germans Felix Keisinger and Axel Jungk rounded out the podium in second and third, respectively.

The only other Canadian was Kyle Murray in 24th.

ALEXANDER CRACKS TOP 30 AT GARMISCH Cameron Alexander of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club claimed his third top30 result of the season in FIL World Cup racing in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany on Feb. 1.

Competing in the downhill, Alexander was the top Canadian, posting a 27th-place finish, 1.43 seconds behind winner Thomas Dressen of Germany. Norway’s Aleksander Aamodt Kilde edged past France’s Johan Clarey for second. Meanwhile, Ben Thomsen placed 32nd, Jeffrey Read took 36th, and a pair of Alexander’s WMSC teammates, James Crawford and Brodie Seger, ended up 37th and 43rd, respectively.

There were two Canadians in the top 20, meanwhile, in giant slalom action on Feb. 2 as Erik Read and Trevor Philp took 17th and 20th, respectively. France’s Alexis Pinturault came away with the triumph over Switzerland’s Loic Meillard and Norway’s Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen.

Canadians failed to finish both runs in the week’s other event, the slalom at Schladming, Austria on Jan. 28, which saw Norway’s Henrik Kristoffersen top Pinturault and Switzerland’s Daniel Yule for the win.

It was a similar story in the week’s lone race for the women, who got in the super-G at Rosa Khutor, Russia on Feb. 2 after the downhill was cancelled. Italy’s Federica Brignone topped countrywoman Sofia Goggia and Switzerland’s Joana Haehlen for first.

LOCAL LUGERS 23RD AT OBERHOF Two Sea to Sky lugers competing on the FIL World Cup tour found themselves in the exact same position in weekend action at Oberhof, Germany.

On the men’s side, Whistler’s Reid Watts, the lone Canadian, finished in 23rd position, 0.746 seconds behind winner Johannes Ludwig of Germany. Russia’s Semen Pavlichenko took second and

Latvia’s Inars Kivlenieks was third.

Meanwhile, in women’s racing, Carolyn Maxwell was 22nd and Pemberton’s Trinity Ellis placed 23rd, while Whistler’s Veronica Ravenna, representing Argentina, was 27th.

Germany’s Anna Berreiter came away with the win ahead of Russia’s Tatyana Ivanova and Summer Britcher of the United States.

In the doubles race, Canada’s Tristan Walker and Justin Snith claimed a seventhplace finish, 0.388 seconds back of winners Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt of Germany.

Latvians Andris Sics and Juris Sics placed second and Germans Robin Johannes Geueke and David Gamm wound up third.

Lastly, in the event-closing relay, the Canadian squad of Maxwell, Watts, Walker and Snith slid into eighth, 1.501 seconds back of the winning group from Germany.

The Americans placed second while the Latvians were third.

MORROW TAKES TOP-20 FINISHES AT NORAM CUP Whistler’s Jack Morrow hit the top 20 twice during NorAm Cup ski-cross action at Calabogie Peaks, Ont. on Feb. 1 and 2, falling in the eighth-finals on both days.

The first day, the 17-year-old claimed a 19th-place finish, as Japan’s Tetsuya Furuno topped Canadians Gavin Rowell and Carson Cook for first.

The next time out, Morrow climbed to 18th, while Furuno took a second consecutive win over Canada’s Callum McEwen and Japan’s Ryuto Kobayashi.

WNDC ATHLETES COMPETE AT YOUTH/ JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The Whistler Nordic Development Centre, based out of Whistler Olympic Park, sent five athletes to the International Biathlon Union Youth/Junior World Championships at Lenzerheide, Switzerland from Jan. 23 to Feb. 2.

Of the athletes representing the centre, Zachary Connelly had the best results, taking two top-50 finishes in the youth men’s category. Connelly was 49th in the 12.5-km individual event, 54th in the 7.5-km sprint competition and 42nd in the 10-km pursuit event while helping Canada to an 11th-place showing in the 3x7.5-km relay with Cole Bender and Zachary Demers.

Meanwhile, Squamish’s Larissa Black, competing in the junior women’s event, placed 71st in the 12.5-km individual race, and 57th in both the 7.5-km sprint and 10-km pursuit. Teammate Gillian Gowling, competing in the same category, took 61st in the individual race and 78th in the sprint.

Both Black and Gowling completed their legs in the 4x6-km relay for Canada, though the team did not finish.

Meanwhile, in junior men, Lucas Smith earned a 62nd-place finish in the 15-km individual competition and a 90th-place finish in the 10-km sprint while Ryan Elden was 86th in the individual and 82nd in the sprint. The duo teamed up with Adam Runnalls and Reid Lovstrom to help Canada to a 17th-place showing in the 4x7.5-km relay race. n

Notice of Public Hearing TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2019 – 6:00 P.M. MAURICE YOUNG ARTS CENTRE

(formerly MILLENNIUM PLACE) Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler BC ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (WHISTLER MOUNTAIN SKI CLUB) No. 2256, 2020 SUBJECT LANDS: 2028 Rob Boyd Way More specifically these lands are described as: LOT 3 DISTRICT LOT 5316 GROUP 1 NWD, LMP47410, PID: 024-867-900 and as shown on the map attached to this notice.

PURPOSE: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to rezone the lands from CC2 (Commercial Core Two) to LR11 (Leisure Recreation Eleven) to enable development of a proposed residential building containing four units and utilizing approximately 1425 square metres gross floor area.

INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: A copy of the proposed Bylaw and relevant background documentation may be inspected at the Reception Desk of Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., from Monday to Friday (statutory holidays excluded) from February 6, 2020 to and including February 18, 2020.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: All persons, who believe their interest in the property is affected by the proposed Bylaw, will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard by Council at the Public Hearing.

Written comments must be addressed to “Mayor and Council”, and include a mailing address and must be submitted prior to the public hearing (by 4:00 p.m. on February 18, 2020):

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After the conclusion of this Public Hearing, Council cannot receive representations from the public on the proposed Bylaw.

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VELOCITY PROJECT

How to be a checklist ninja THE FIRST ITEM on Alexandra Franzen’s to-do list for Thursday was drink two big glasses of water.

We overlook the easy wins when crafting our to-do lists, says the author of the newly released The Checklist Book, and we shouldn’t: when we accomplish

BY LISA RICHARDSON something, even something small, that feeling of satisfaction stimulates the body to release dopamine and initiates a chain reaction of behaviours geared towards keeping the dopamine flowing. It’s an understanding of human physiology that Facebook has unashamedly exploited. Why not use it to our own advantage?

But first, it’s important to get the language right. Franzen doesn’t call the ultimate productivity and life happiness hack, a “to-do list.” It’s a checklist. The language (and exuberant use of check marks) makes a world of difference.

“Our tendency is to cram our list with task after task,” says Franzen. “We don’t leave much breathing room in the day for experiences. And yet, we all know that at the end of the day, it’s the experiences that matter.” Franzen’s checklist includes the key tasks she has prioritized for the day—that’s how the self-employed writer has written

CHECKLIST GURU Alexandra Franzen offers a ninja strategy that takes the drudgery out of selfimprovement—the power of setting an intention, packaged in the shape of a daily checklist.

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more than a half dozen books, developed websites and completed client projects.

But it also includes random items, things she calls “moments”—the experiences she wants to create space for that have nothing to do with accomplishment—watching the sunset, taking a few moments in silence or prayer, walking barefoot on the sand.

“A daily checklist,” says Franzen, “is a beautiful and realistic plan for your day, where you’re setting an intention for both the personal and the professional sides of you.”

By putting it in writing, you’re signalling to yourself that life isn’t just a relentless hamster wheel of tasks, that you also want your life to have space for beautiful moments.

“It’s a to-do list and also a to-be list,” she says.

Franzen is a writer and writing coach based in Hawaii with a long list of Whistler fans. She’s also a social media refusenik, a chronic Spotify playlist compiler (45 minute playlists are one of her secret weapons for sprinting through an unappetizing task), and the energy behind the Tiny Press imprint, an initiative to put more small good ideas out into the world. (A tiny book is one that is less than 100 pages long…although her checklist book runs to 190, thanks in part to all the lovely templates and examples.)

Her methodology is simple and low-fi. Do your checklist for tomorrow as your workday is winding down, but while your brain is still in gear. Envision what your day will look like. Start with some ridiculously easy wins to get the dopamine flowing. (Get up! Give a big stretch! Put on a pot of coffee! Make my bed!) Keep it to one page, total. Remember that you’re a human, not an unstoppable machine. “Your checklist can be gentle and realistic,” says Franzen. “You are allowed to eat.” Schedule in the important tasks.

Leave some blank lines for the unexpected.

Schedule in the beauty and the breathing room, because if you don’t, there’s a 100-percent chance you won’t have time for it.

It has helped her be incredibly productive. She ticks pretty much everything off the list, every day—a batting average that puts me to shame. “I’ve gotten better at envisioning how my day will go, how I’m feeling and what’s realistic. I onehundred-per-cent attribute my survival as an entrepreneur to lists. But more than that, checklists have helped me to make space for the parts of life that aren’t work-related.

And during a painful, challenging year of my life when a very long-term relationship was ending, I would make a self-care checklist, with really basic steps I could take to feel a little bit better, a little bit stronger. I consider checklists to be a crucial part of my mental and physical health plan, not just something I use in my professional life.”

There’s something profound, to me, about Franzen’s approach—she literally writes down the things that always get cut out of my days, as I navigate from deadline to deadline, urgency to urgency: “take three deep breaths, open the curtains and admire the dawn sky” or “remember to call Mom and tell her the funny story about noodles.”

She’s not pushing being more organized on anyone—an approach I discover with relief. I have realized that I don’t actually care about being more organized. If I did, my pantry would be alphabetized, my photos would be backed up, my will would be written already, and my 72-hour emergency kit would have a fresh stash of chocolate bars in it.

What Franzen does is ask: what do you actually want out of your life? Do you want to maximize sexual pleasure? To achieve incremental gains? To feel generous? To

cultivate “sohwakhaeng,” the Korean term for “small but certain happiness,” generated by tiny moments that bring bursts of joy. Or to “die empty”—that is, having done your best work, not left it still swirling around inside you, waiting for expression.

If something is truly meaningful and significant to you, it deserves a place on your list…The act of making space for those things, signals to them, that they are welcome. The dopamine comes with each checked item, but also, generosity or progress or sexual vitality or small bursts of happiness come skittering out of the nooks and crannies of the cosmos in response to the sound of your voice.

“All a checklist is,” says Franzen, “is you setting an intention for your day and putting it in writing. Just like you set an intention before you practice yoga. But it’s really powerful to put it in writing. There’s something very mighty about that. You’re taking the words out of your head and putting them in the physical realm in the form of a simple list.”

Of course, as her mom said, there’s a whole other ninja level to aspire to. (Her mom just won a GRAMMY award, so she knows something about something.) “She said once you’ve reached the point in life where you no longer even need a checklist, that is true enlightenment. So maybe we’ll all reach a no-checklist state of mind at one point.”

For now, I’m making a list, and checking it twice, to make sure it’s not just another to-do list, overwhelming me with all the things I should (but won’t) get done tomorrow, but conjures forth the way I want my days to be.

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B.C. meets Morocco for latest edition of Mile One’s Night Kitchen Icon Series DINNER SERIES HIGHLIGHTS TOP-SHELF B.C. INGREDIENTS PREPARED IN VARIETY OF STYLES

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHEN THE MILE ONE Eating House team was coming up with a theme for the restaurant’s latest dinner series, it was decided that iconic British Columbian foods would be the main focus. Just don’t expect BC Rolls and Nanaimo bars to be the exclusive domain of the wide-ranging Night Kitchen Icon Series, which returns to the beloved Pemberton eatery this week.

“We’re so lucky to have a province where we have the ocean … and forest to forage from. There’s just this huge range of products to choose from,” said chef-owner Erin Kerr.

“We’re also such a mixing pot here in B.C. Many people aren’t Canadian, so in my mind, that’s always what I think of as food from here. If you think of some of your favourite food from Vancouver, it’s probably Chinese food, shawarma or something like that.”

With a Japanese sous chef and four cooks hailing from Morocco, Mile One exemplifies B.C.’s diverse makeup to a tee. It’s also why Kerr has infused Thursday’s menu with a handful of dishes inspired by the vibrant cuisine of the North African nation.

Alongside a sourdough mushroom toast, fresh Albacore tuna with housemade bacon and burnt tomato and a prawn carbonara made from ancient grain noodles courtesy of the Cowichan Pasta Company, the menu will also feature Moroccan meatballs made from Hanceville Cattle Company beef (the ranch run by Mile One’s former owner, Randy Jones), and “Moroccan crepes” for dessert, which Kerr describes as similar to pancakes, except made with semolina flour and slathered in honey, butter and olive oil.

“They’re really good,” noted Kerr, who said she ate her “body’s weight worth” of the rich dessert while visiting the port city of Tangier with a friend in November. It was there that she also got to meet one of her recently hired cooks, Oussama Mssari, before he made the long trip to Pemberton to begin work at the restaurant.

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“We actually ended up staying with him and his family while he was there,” Kerr said.

“Oussama’s mom tried to kill me by feeding me so much … It was cool to see how they actually eat and cook things. She sent

Whistler Blackcomb VP Joel Chevalier, whose company, Culinary Recruitment International, has brought in more than 50 chefs from the country since the fall of 2018.

“We’re so lucky to have a province where we have the ocean … and forest to forage from.

There’s just this huge range of products to choose from.”

- ERIN KERR

us home with a couscous pot and we had to put it in our backpack at the airport because it wouldn’t fit in my luggage.”

Like several restaurants in Whistler, Mile One has relied on a recent influx of skilled Moroccan chefs to the Sea to Sky to fill staff shortages, thanks to former

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Unlike other entry-level cooks in the corridor who may only be in town for a season or two and largely view restaurant work as a way to supplement their lifestyle, the Moroccan chefs are typically here for the long haul, hoping to build a lasting career, Kerr said.

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“It’s a lot different than most of the workers who are here to ski and snowboard and who have to work to survive; that’s not why [the Moroccan chefs] are here. This is why they came here,” she added. “They’re so excited. They try to volunteer their days off to me all of the time. ‘I can come in to help on Tuesday.’ I’m like, ‘No, go do something.’”

For the 29-year-old Kerr, who worked her way up from sous chef to take over Mile One back in 2018, it’s important to give her staff the freedom to explore their own culinary passions.

“As a young cook, that’s all I wanted.

All I was pushing for was to be creative and show my take on food,” she said. “I love to give that to my staff [even though] they are sometimes a little timid to take it.”

This week’s instalment of the Night Kitchen Icon Series is set for Thursday, Feb. 6, and follows about every three weeks after that. Tickets are $49.99 a person. To book a seat, email erin@mileoneeatinghouse.com. n

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The Extended Moment shows arc of photography NEW EXHIBIT BORROWED FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA OPENS AT THE AUDAIN ART MUSEUM ON FEB. 8

BY ALYSSA NOEL TO MAKE Direct Photograph of an Electric Positive Spark in 1888, early photographer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot created an electrical charge with a wand, transferred it to a photographic plate and created an exposure.

The effect: a burst of electricity frozen in time—as if someone captured the pitchblack prairie night sky during a summer thunderstorm.

“His interest was in trying to distinguish between types of lightning forms,” says Ann Thomas, interim chief curator at the National Gallery of Canada (NGA).

Thomas, who curated The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs, is standing in front of the image, freshly hung at the Audain Art Museum.

Next to it is a similar photograph— called Lightning Fields, created in 2009, clearly inspired by its predecessor—by the contemporary film photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto.

“He is doing the same thing, but

DEEPER LOOK Ann Thomas, curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and Curtis Collins, director and chief curator at the Audain Art Museum, pose at the entrance to The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs, which features Gary Schneider’s photo John in Sixteen Parts, V.

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technologically, we have advanced hugely,” Thomas says. “He uses the wand on his film plates, so the same kind of thing, but he’s looking for what kind of electrical forms existed in the beginning of the creation of the universe—an impossible task. Then he also places—I think [it] sounds highly dangerous—where he’ll take the charge and put it in an aqueous solution and puts it on places where he’ll get different forms of these bursts of light.”

its 50 years of existence?’ Because it was quite remarkably progressive on the part of Jean Boggs, who was the director in 1967, who was a friend of Man Ray and also had been doing her research on Degas and realized that these images had an intellectual meaning in the history of art and recovered them.”

Electrical experiments aside, the show ranges from showcasing the dark room experimentation of Alison Rossiter to important historical images like Florence

“Our collection is very comprehensive, starting with not just the earliest examples of photography, but also the pre-history of photography ... ” - ANN THOMAS

The complementary images are just two of 81 in the show, which is on display outside of Ottawa for only the second time. While it celebrates 50 years of the NGA collecting photographs, the actual images featured span over 100 years, from the late 19th century to present day.

“Our collection is very comprehensive, starting with not just the earliest examples of photography, but also the pre-history of photography,” Thomas says. “So the very basic optical mechanisms for the camera obscura for example … The idea was, ‘How can we look at the collection [and] celebrate

Owens Thompson’s Migrant Mother to modern-day Canadian photographers like Edward Burtynsky, Stan Douglas, and Lynne Cohen.

“One of the reasons that this show is very attractive to us was because a major component of our permanent collection is photography,” says Curtis Collins, director and chief curator of the museum, referring to the photoconceptualist work of Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham.

To that end, Collins also knew an exhibit delving into the medium would appeal to Whistler, which is packed with action sports

photographers. In April, local photographer Chad Chomlack will lead a panel discussion in which he reflects on the exhibit. The museum will also be an official exhibit location for Vancouver’s Capture Photography Festival.

“Photography is popular in Whistler,” Collins says. “I went to the [Pro Photographer Showdown] photo challenge—part of the reason for choosing this show was also the fact that there are so many active photographers here. They do a lot of ski and mountain biking photos, but we’re hoping that this will lead them into some new processes and ideas to expand their own practices.”

But taken as a whole—and considering those action-packed images sports photographers manage to capture today— the exhibit depicts just how much cameras and photography has changed in a relatively short time.

Laura Minta Holland, the education and volunteer manager at the museum, also approached local photographers to borrow a range of cameras from their collections to highlight that concept.

“This is a really important area of engagement for us because it gets you a little closer to the show,” Collins says.

“These are all the kind of touchstones of this exhibition that are a good fit for Whistler and establishes [the museum] nationally.”

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audainartmuseum.com/events SQUAMISH ART Elena Whitman is one of 18 Squamish artists exhibiting their work at The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre this month.

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ART in a heART brings two creative communities together SQUAMISH ARTISTS SHOW OFF THEIR WORK AT THE GALLERY IN WHISTLER FROM FEB. 2 TO 23

BY ALYSSA NOEL CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S Day doesn’t always mean wine, chocolate, and candlelight dinners.

The last two years, Visuals—Squamish Valley Artists has opted to explore the love of art for their February exhibit at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

“Last year, our show was called For the Love of Art,” says Elena Whitman, vice chair of the Squamish Arts Council, the organization Visuals runs under. “It always happens around Feb. 14, so there’s kind of that vibe, ‘love is in the air.’ But we wanted to add an artistic angle to that.”

To that end, the theme of this year’s show, running from Feb. 2 to 23, is ART in a heART. “[It’s about] love for the arts, but it all comes from your heart,” Whitman says. “We wanted our artists to present what kind of art inspires them.”

Around 18 artists submitted two pieces of work each showcasing inspiration that ranges from mountain landscapes to ocean scenes, animals, and wildflowers.

“There’s lots of scenery and landscapes, but … one artist made an amazing jacket,” Whitman says.

Participating artists include Angela Muellers, Lenny Rubenovitch, Toby Jaxon, and Marcelle Armatage, to name just a few that Whistlerites might recognize.

“There’s so much crossover [in the Sea to Sky corridor],” says Charmaine Carpenter, senior program and event coordinator at Arts Whistler, which is hosting the show. “Quite a few of the artists, I’ve seen their work before in our

gallery. It’s great we can host them again.”

The exhibit is a valuable way for Squamish artists to reach new audiences, Whitman adds. After the Whistler show a few years ago, a man visiting from a Scandinavian country contacted one of the exhibiting artists who had showcased pieces featuring whimsical houses and she ended up with 40 commissions.

“Everything is for sale,” Whitman says.

“That was one of the basic criteria; I wanted everybody to sell. You don’t have a lot of opportunity to exhibit in Whistler as a Squamish artist. It’s a unique opportunity and I wanted artists to get their names out.”

Strong collaboration between all corridor communities is valuable, Carpenter says.

“I think it’s great that all the arts councils from the Sea to Sky all work together,” she says. “It’s great for all the groups and organizations to be able to show their work outside their small community and broaden their audience a little bit.”

For its part, the Squamish Arts Council has been inspired by Arts Whistler’s events like the Anonymous Art Show and ArtWalk, says Whitman.

“Squamish is a smaller [arts] community than Whistler,” she says. “We would love to get as many galleries as you guys have.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a single, official gallery. There are spaces we can exhibit around Squamish, but we’d love to have more space devoted to exhibit space in Squamish.”

In the meantime, the group is celebrating the opening of ART in the heART with a party on Tuesday, Feb. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Maury Young Arts Centre. “We get together, show what’s happening, invite friends and family,” Whitman says. “We’re happy to be there.” n

Special Exhibition Opening Saturday, February 8 The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs provides a rare opportunity for visitors to witness the international arc of photography from the 19th century to the present. This compelling exhibition overview of the medium’s social, economic, scientific and cultural impact on the world includes European daguerreotype portraits, figurative azo dye prints from Asia, and experimental digital imagery by leading American and Canadian artists.

Special Exhibition Members Opening Friday, February 7 | 7 – 9:30pm This Friday, members are invited to join in celebrating the opening of The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada. *Event is exclusively for current AAM members

Special Exhibiton Tour Saturday, February 8 | 1pm Join Dr. Curtis Collins and special guest Sasha Suda, PhD, Director and CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, for a tour of the new Special Exhibition.

The Extended Moment is organized by the Canadian Photography Institute of the National Gallery of Canada. Scotiabank is the Founding Partner of the Canadian Photography Institute. This project is funded in part by the Resort Municipality of Whistler through the Province of British Columbia’s Municipal and Regional District Tax and hotel partner, The Westin Resort & Spa, Whistler. The exhibition is part of the 2020 Capture Photography Festival selected exhibition program.

Admission $18 Adults & Seniors | FREE Ages 18 & Under Location 4350 Blackcomb Way – between Day Lots 3 & 4 Hours Open 10am – 5pm Daily, 10am – 9pm Friday, Closed Tuesday Credit: Gary Schneider, John in Sixteen Parts, V (detail), 1996, printed 1997 gelatin silver print, toned, 92.9 x 75 cm; image: 91.6 x 73.7 cm. Gift of Kathryn Finter and Jim des Rivières, Ottawa, 2000. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Photo: NGC

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Sick birds and gold statues WHAT’S WORSE? Having your movie released on Super Bowl weekend (Blake Lively’s The Rhythm Section last weekend), or having it dumped on Oscar weekend, like this week’s Margot Robbie ensemble flick Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous

BY FEET BANKS Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)?

In an era when there is still noticeably less appreciation for female-driven projects in Hollywood (since 1929, only five women have ever been nominated for the best director Oscar) why is DC dumping a female-directed, R-rated, action comedy, all-woman superhero-team flick led by one of the hottest stars in Hollywood right now, when all the attention is on the fashion show going down on Sunday night?

It’s either a bold move to catch the

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younger generation who doesn’t give a shit about Oscar’s usual period dramas, art house pictures, and war flicks… or DC has no faith in their product (and a lack of prescreeners isn’t instilling confidence).

Regardless, Margot Robbie stars as the titular Harley Quinn, who assembles a badass team of chicks to take down a Gotham criminal who is, thankfully, not the Joker. From the trailer, the cast (hello, Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and the director (Cathy Yan, check out her last film Dead Pigs), Birds of Prey looks awesome and it opens this week at the Whistler Village 8.

And that’s it for new flicks this week, so on to the Oscars predictions. Be wary, a kid, a mortgage and fistful of jobs means I didn’t see near enough movies in 2019, but here are my thoughts for the 2020 Academy Awards.

Best Actor: Joker was underwhelming (the origin of the greatest comic book villain ever is a dude with hurt feelings?!) but Joaquin Phoenix should be a lock for this one. Dark Horse: Adam Driver for Marriage Story.

Best Actress: Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood. They also love celebrating their icons of old, and they really love when stars sing songs. So Renee

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Zellweger is the frontrunner here for portraying Judy Garland in Judy. BUT… Scarlett Johansson absolutely slayed her monologues in Marriage Story so she is a contender. Scarlett has two nominations this year but the Academy really likes singing—Zellweger probably takes it but I’m pulling for Scarlett.

Best Original Screenplay: A lot of people are gunning for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For my money, though, it was the direction that truly made that one shine so I’m cheering for Bong Joon-ho; Parasite.

Both flicks have solid character, strong dialogue and great twists. Will subtitles hurt Bong’s chances? I hope not.

Best Adapted Screenplay: This is an easy one for me. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit is one of the best films of the year and deserves the win. However, Greta Gerwig’s rendition of Little Women has been turning a lot of heads and the Academy knows they’ve shat the bed in the past for not recognizing female brilliance. There could be some make-up votes here, but Jo-Jo Rabbit is my pick.

Best Cinematography: Roger Deakin’s extended one-shot work on 1917 pretty much has to win here. It was bonkers.

Best Supporting Actor: Everyone says

Brad Pitt gets it this year. I won’t argue (Joe Pesci was pretty sick in The Irishman but was he really flexing his range?)

Best Supporting Actress: Maybe the tightest race of the night (Scarlett Johansson is good and Florence Pugh is a huge rising star no one knows about yet) but Shit Martha if Laura Dern might not have this one in the bag—that’s my gut feeling anyhow.

Best Direction: In my opinion, the way he builds tension in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood wins this category for Tarantino.

But Hollywood often gives this as a Best Picture runner-up, so beware of Sam Mendes and Bong Joon-ho here.

Best Picture: For my money, no film had the emotional impact and sense of cinematic magic that Jojo Rabbit did, but Hollywood thinks differently. This one is up between Parasite and (the favourite) 1917.

Both great flicks but I choose Parasite. 1917 was all visual; Parasite gets inside you.

We’re out of space, and the technical and short categories are too impossible to predict anyhow (does anyone even know the difference between Sound Editing and Sound Mixing?).

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BY ALYSSA NOEL THE BRAND NEW photography event Uprising has revealed its photography teams.

Origin, a local creative agency, the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, and Tourism Whistler banded together to put on the event after Whistler Blackcomb announced it would not be running the Deep Winter photography contest this year.

The new spin on the tried-and-true slideshow format: the teams will be made up of one established and one up-andcoming photographer.

They include: • Reuben Krabbe and Duncan Sadava • Mitch Winton and Matt Sylvestre • Erin Hogue and Vincent Emond • Scott Serfas and Rob Lemay • Mason Mashon and Tyler Ravelle The teams will capture athletes in action and show the resulting images at an event at the Fairmont on Feb. 22. Attendees will have the chance to choose who takes home the Best in Show People’s Choice award.

A portion of each $25 ticket will also go to Protect Our Winters Canada.

For more information or tickets visit https://www.originoutside.com/uprising.

ART FOR A CAUSE Five pieces of art rasied thousands of dollars for The Spearhead Huts Society last Wednesday, Feb. 5.

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up to the new Kees and Claire Hut to glean artistic inspiration—and enjoy a day of backcountry skiing. Participating artists included Andy Anissimoff, Kyle Chambers, Lucas Kratochwil, Nevada Christianson, and Zoe Pawlak.

When they returned back to the valley, they put brush to canvas to paint their impression of the scenery.

Those paintings were then posted as part of an online auction until Feb. 5 (at 32auctions.com/organizations/38759/ auctions/76015), raising over $8,000 by press time.

GET POKING The holiday crafting season might be long over, but felt art doesn’t have to be relegated to December.

To that end, Knitty Gritty Textiles will be hosting a Whistler-themed felted accessories class on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 10:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

Participants will learn how to make a key chain or magnet in the design of mountains, hearts, dogs, and maple leafs, to name a few of their suggestions.

“We’ll explore basic needle felting and embellishment techniques such as embroidery to create your one-of-akind accessory and set you up with the fundamentals needed to continue your felting journey,” the description reads.

All materials will be provided in the $35 fee, but you can bring your own wool roving.

Participants must be 16 and over, but no experience is required. For more information or to sign up visit showpass. com/needlefeltfeb/. n

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the Alta Lake Volunteer Fire Department (ALVFD), the Alta Lake area had no official response to fires—they were put out by the small community. But after two large fires in 1962, some residents decided to form their own fire department.

The first fire of 1962 is a little mysterious.

On a reportedly beautiful morning in April, a single passenger got off the Budd car at the Alta Lake Station. His outfit, a trench coat and dress shoes, drew the notice of everyone at the station as he asked Don Cruickshank, the station agent, how to get to the other side of the lake.

Later that same day, Dick Fairhurst received a call from Cruickshank to check on smoke coming from the area of an old empty lodge. Fairhurst and Louis White grabbed a small fire extinguisher and a bucket each and ran to Fairhurst’s boat. When they arrived at the lodge, they found that the fire had taken hold in some piles of lumber inside the three-storey building and that their buckets and extinguisher would be of no use. They also found a piece of candle at the back of the lodge, and footprints from dress shoes in the soggy ground.

By the time the evening train arrived, two RCMP officers from Pemberton were aboard and waiting to arrest the stranger in the trench coat, who had been pacing in the station while waiting for the train.

Though we don’t know what happened to this mysterious man after his arrest, we do know that the date of the trial was set for June 6, 1962, the date of the second fire.

This second fire appears to have been far more accidental than the first. The provincial government was building a new highway to connect old logging roads, small community roads and the Pemberton Trail.

The surveyors and their families were staying in cabins and lodges throughout Alta Lake. One couple, Bruce and Anne Robinson, were staying in a cabin at Cypress Lodge,

owned by Dick and Kelly Fairhurst. Anne chose June 6, a warm day with no wind, to make bread in the old Kootenay Range in the cabin. Dick was at the trial in Vancouver and Kelly had gone to vote at the Community Hall (it’s not clear what the vote was for but it is likley it was for the federal eelction). She and her children had just arrived home when Bruce arrived at Cypress Lodge to discover the roof of his cabin on fire. Kelly got on the party line, interrupting Alec Greenwood’s call to his mother-in-law to announce the fire.

Luckily, Bill and Joan Green and a group of loggers were hanging out at Rainbow Lodge after voting. Bill radioed to the Van West logging operation to bring their fire pump, and Alec loaded his pump onto his tractor. Soon everyone in the area knew about the fire, and many of them came to help.

The fire, which had started by smouldering sparks in needles on the shake roof, had spread to a storage shed, but the lack of wind prevented it from spreading further. Someone moved Dick’s truck onto the road, but other vehicles, piles of dry wood, and cans of gasoline, paint, diesel and propane were still around the property.

The two pumps were used to get the fire under control, and then to keep wetting everything down. The Robinsons lost almost everything in the cabin, and many pieces of Bert Harrop’s cedar-bark furniture that were stored in the shed were lost, along with the tow-rope for skiing on Mount Sproatt.

Alex Philip spent the night patrolling the area for sparks, but the fire was truly out by the time Dick arrived home the next day. The community came together again to help with the clean up.

When the ALVFD was formed, its members were Dick Fairhurst, Doug Mansell, Stefan Ples, and Glen Creelman.

They held regular practises and, until the formation of the Resort Municipality of Whistler in 1975, relied on fundraisers such as the Ice Break-Up Raffle and the Fireman’s Ball to buy supplies. The residents of the valley relied on them in case of emergencies. n

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1 NEW EXHIBIT Ann Thomas, curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and Curtis Collins, director and chief curator at the Audain Art Museum, help install The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs at the museum on Tuesday, Feb. 4. The show opens to the public on Saturday, Feb. 8. PHOTO BY ALYSSA NOEL. 2 WOMEN’S SKI DAY From left, speakers Barbara Turner, Shauna Magowan, Taylor Henrich and Karen MacDonald pose for a photo during Whistler Olympic Park’s fourth annual “Women’s Ski Day,” which invited women to the Callaghan Valley for a day of “cross country ski fun, learning and connecting.” PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 WHISTLER PRIDE This smiling check-in crew greeted guests as they arrived to the Whistler Pride Comedy night, held on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at the Whistler Conference Centre, featuring Pam Ann. PHOTO BY CATHERINE POWER-CHARTRAND. 4 JANUARY BABIES Pique celebrated the birthdays of all its staff members born in January— from left, Claire Ryan, Paige Brummet, Lou O’Brien, Joel Barde and Braden Dupuis—with homemade cupcakes courtesy of editor Clare Ogilvie. PHOTO BY MEGAN LALONDE. 5 HOCKEY HEROES Sixteen-year-old Whistlerite Jenica Felius, who plays for the North Shore Avalanche midget rep team and helps coach Whistler’s all-girls atom team, poses for a photo with hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser—and one of Wickenheiser’s several gold medals—at WickFest, held in Surrey Jan. 30 to Feb. 2.

Head to page 30 to read more about these teams’ WickFest experience. PHOTO BY TRISH NAKAGAWA.

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Small Town Artillery make upbeat music with a message CATCH VANCOUVER ROCKERS AT THE POINT ARTIST-RUN CENTRE ON FEB. 16

BY ALYSSA NOEL THE PIVOTAL MOMENT when Tom Van Deursen knew he had to forge his own path happened at the Skookum Festival in the middle of Stanley Park.

Vernon, B.C. alt-rockers Daysormay were on stage when it suddenly hit him.

“I was watching their set and looking at their lead singer Aiden [Andrews]—so young, doing such a good job—and I started crying because I wanted to be him when I was his age, but I joined a different band doing different music,” he says. “At that time I was 28 years old and looked at my life and said, ‘If I wanted to give this dream a real chance, I have to go all in.’”

Van Deursen was a founding member of the much-loved funk-and-soul infused Vancouver band The Boom Booms—which still plays occasional gigs—at the time.

“I [said], ‘I need to do this and break out on my own and try this out,’” he recalls. “I said, ‘I’m going to step back somewhat with this band.’”

It turned out the timing was right with other band members equally occupied with

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other pursuits from a jazz trio to a new baby.

Nearly two years removed from that conversation, Van Deursen is all-in with his new band, Small Town Artillery. It was “100 per cent” the right choice, he says.

“It’s been amazing.”

To trace that band’s origins, you have to go all the way back to the small town of Kaslo, B.C. where Van Deursen first picked up a guitar at 11-years-old and his brother Derek learned drums at age nine.

Van Deursen adds.

From the beginning, they decided they wanted to be a rock band with a robust horn section.

“I’ve always loved brass and wanted to [use] it in a way that was different from what you normally hear,” he says. “They’ll take big, lead lines that a synth would normally take in modern rock. It’s a bright, cutting sound.”

It’s also helped with their bookings.

“I’ve always loved brass and wanted to [use] it in a way that was different from what you normally hear. They’ll take big, lead lines that a synth would normally take in modern rock.

It’s a bright, cutting sound.”

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“The dream we shared was to move to the big city and make a go of a career,” he says. “I left first. I graduated. Through the grace of chance, I met The Boom Booms tree planting.”

Derek arrived in Vancouver two years later, along with bassist Carson Webber— about a decade ago—but they didn’t form Small Town Artillery for four more years.

“We’ve been super active for two years,”

“We say, ‘We have a horn section’ and they say, ‘You’re a rock band, but I think it could work because the brass brings an element of something different and timeless.’”

The music might be bright, light, and get you dancing, but don’t be fooled about the topics it covers—which range from oil consumption to capitalism.

“There’s so much going on in the world that needs a voice,” Van Deursen says.

“Finding ways to champion that while we’re on the road is important to me … I educate myself, but I’m not on the frontlines fighting as hard as some of my friends are.

It’s a duty I have to articulate their struggles in whatever way I can.”

The band will have a chance to spread that message across Canada when they kick off their cross-country tour on March 6 with a headlining show at Vancouver’s Rickshaw Theatre.

“We’re going from Alert Bay to Halifax,” Van Deursen says. “We booked a lot of smaller towns. The connections you make are more tangible … Growing up in a small town when we had bands come through and they stuck around after, you never forget. I can name all the bands that came through Kaslo as a kid.”

To that end, Small Town Artillery are set to play The Point Artist-Run Centre as part of the Cypress Point Winter Carnival on Sunday, Feb. 16.

Van Deursen has played Whistler “more times than I have fingers,” over the years, but never at The Point.

“There’s horn solos, drum solos, guitar solos,” Van Deursen says. “We’re going to ask you to jump, wave your arms around and ask some thought-provoking questions through our music.”

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BY ALYSSA NOEL VICTORIA PUNK rockers Dayglo Abortions have been touring the world and pushing boundaries since before most of the people in Whistler’s party scene were even born.

But after four decades, 10 albums, and countless shows, frontman Murray Acton “The Cretin,” still has boundless enthusiasm for the job.

We caught up with him ahead of the band’s show in Whistler at The GLC on Saturday, Feb. 8 in celebration of local legendary ski bum Johnny Thrash’s 50th birthday.

PIQUE: After four decades, do you ever get sick of rehashing the past?

MURRAY ACTON: Well, yeah, you know. To be honest, it’s been 40 years since we started.

Of course it has its moments. Then you start playing and you have so much damn fun it should be illegal. Once you start playing, the audience has so much fun. There’s something really special about walking into a place and have everyone just love you.

There aren’t too many places you can go and have that. But I’ve got other bands, too.

PIQUE: Who are you seeing at shows nowadays? Are there a lot of younger kids?

MA: I see a lot of younger kids being taken to shows by their parents. I’ve met three generations of fans at a show. You definitely see a lot of old farts. I just about had to stop playing in Toronto last time we were there. I was like, ‘Watch out guys, somebody is going to break hip!’ I consider myself fairly lucky compared to what people my age days do for kicks. It keeps me physically active.

PIQUE: Have you stayed in Victoria your whole career? It’s cool when musicians stay in smaller hubs.

MA: One of our guys lives in Vancouver right now. We had a guy for a while living in Toronto, but I’ve always lived in Victoria myself. When you go out and travel around the world you realize what a nice place Vancouver Island really is. It’s got a lot of elbow room here … It’s a government town, but there’s so much nice, natural stuff around here. I ride a bike everywhere.

PIQUE: The band’s last album was Armageddon Survival Guide, released in 2016. Are you working on anything new or just focusing on touring?

MA: We have a couple we’re working on.

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PIQUE: How do you build a set list for shows with so many songs to choose from?

MA: There’s got to be 10 or 15 songs that people will be upset if we don’t play. You get 24 or 25 songs on an hour-and-a-half set list, so we try to squeeze in the new ones. There’s this core people are not going to let us leave if we don’t play them. We might as well give them what they want.

PIQUE: After all these years, do you get sick of playing those songs?

MA: It’s pretty fun to do. Especially when everybody is singing. It’s crazy; it gives me goose bumps. They really put their back into it sometimes. I’ve been places where even the bartender was singing.

PIQUE: You guys are known for pushing the envelope. Has it gotten harder to do over the years?

MA: It’s almost easier to offend people now.

It’s not about offending everybody or an individual—that’s not fair. That’s just being a dick, really. It’s about provoking people to into thinking about stuff.

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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

SFU WRITER’S STUDIO WRITING CONSULTS

Need an expert opinion on your writing? The SFU Writer’s Studio offers free one-on-one, 45-minute consultations. Register at least one week prior to the consultation time required. Seven pages of poetry or a prose manuscript must be submitted one week prior to your scheduled appointment. Doublespaced with title and your name on each page with the page number on the bottom. For more information and to register, call the library at 604-935-8435. > 2, 3 & 4 pm > Whistler Public Library

information or to register for an upcoming session, please contact: jenniferfitzgerald2@capilanou.ca or 604-986-1911 ext. 3510. This is a partnership program with the Whistler Multicultural Network, Sea to Sky Community Services, and Capilano University. > 10 am-noon > Whistler Public Library

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

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SCOTT JACOBS

Scott Jacobs is a young and up-and-coming Canadian singer-songwriter from Vancouver Island. He has studied jazz music at Vancouver Island University and graduated with a diploma in Jazz Performance. > 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

THROWBACK THURSDAYS

Come lounge out, dance and listen to all the throwback hits one could need. For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. > 8 pm > Tommys Whistler

KARAOKE WITH JACK-QUI NO 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

DO IT TOGETHER, LEARN IT TOGETHER

This Family and Child Education Program is a great opportunity for parents, caregivers and children to learn new life skills through hands-on activities and crafts. We will be offering weekly workshops where participants can learn and create together. Snacks provided! This program is open to all ages, with activities particularly suited to toddlers. For more

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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

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Put it on the rocks and call it a show! Hosted by Jack-Qui No. > 8 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel

LEVEL UP > HOUSE & TECHNO

Featuring a rotating selection of DJs playing some of the best underground electronic dance music in house and techno, the Level Up nights are set to up your dance game. Hosted by DJ Miss KosmiK. Drink specials all night. For guestlist, 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

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WORKBC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DROP IN

Drop in to the Pemberton Public Library every Thursday afternoon and learn how WorkBC can assist you in your job search and career planning. All services are free.

For details, call 1-877-932-1611. > 1-5 pm > Pemberton Library (Pemberton)

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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

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

ART AFTER DARK

Art After Dark is every Friday, with artmaking for youth (18 and under) 3:30 to 5:30 pm, and adult artmaking 6:30 to 8:30 pm. > 3:30-5:30 & 6:30-8:30 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

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GARFINKEL’S THURSDAYS

Whistler’s longest running locals night! Every Thursday you can expect weekly giveaways and a mix of the hottest hip hop, trap, and EDM. Dancing. 604-932-2323. > 9 pm-2 am > Garfinkel’s

STEPHEN VOGLER

Stephen Vogler plays ska, reggae, blues and rock with a healthy mix of originals and covers. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

LEAGUE NIGHT

Come show us your dart skills at our league night. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

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

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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

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WHISTLER MUSEUM LADIES’ NIGHT

This is a night for the ladies! Ladies get complimentary entry and a glass of bubbly before 10 pm. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

BOTTOMBUNK @ ALPINE CAFE

An encore Alpine Cafe performance by the Irish lads of BottomBunk. Playing a mix of folk, rock and a few Irish classics, they are sure to bring all of the craic! Free. > 7 pm > Alpine Cafe

FREESTYLE FRIDAYS

Bringing you a different special guest DJ. > 8 pm > Tommys Whistler

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. Free. > Ongoing > Maury Young Arts Centre

COMMUNITY YOGA @ THE AUDAIN the Audain every Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME

Books, songs, and rhymes for preschool children, accompanied by a caregiver. > 10:30-11 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

> 2:30-5:30 pm > Brickworks Public House

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Dive head first into the weekend every Friday for après. It’s going to be a really good time. For table reservations, book through our website. 604-962-2929.

Every Friday, take advantage of our table service features while our resident DJ plays smash hits guaranteed to get you dancing. > 9 pm-2 am > Garfinkel’s

GAMES CAFE

Come in and enjoy a massive selection of popular games. Sunday to Thursday. > 4-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

MARCUS RAMSAY THE HAIRFARMERS

Celebrating 20 years as a band and voted Whistler’s Best Band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs—a Whistler must-see! > 3:30-8 pm > Merlin’s Bar & Grill

GREG NEUFELD

Armed with a guitar, stompbox and one of the most, soulful voices you will ever hear. > 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

YOGA @ THE AUDAIN

Yoga @ the Audain every Friday evening from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. > 6:30-8 pm > Audain Art Museum

CIROC FRIDAYS

FREEBY FRIDAYS

Featuring free live music from Pete McElroy (a.k.a.

Shcooby Shmecks) and free samples from the evening menu. All the way from Ireland, Pete is far from new, but new to Whistler. With his guitar and harmonica, he brings an eclectic mix of acoustic folk, rock and blues numbers covering everything from the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Foo Fighters and Hozier. > 5:30-8:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

Marcus Ramsay bring the noise with this footstomping, booty-shaking blues-rock style that everyone can enjoy! Playing catchy originals and tasty covers that you know and love. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

LIVE @ BLACK’S

Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. > first Friday of every month, 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

Triathlon-focused swim squads. Full details at whistlertriclub.com/training-sessions. Free to members for fall (includes entry into Meadow Park). Nonmembers $8 drop-in (includes entry into Meadow Park). > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE

Dance the night away to local live music. > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub

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

SAT

2.8

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

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PIQUECAL SHUTTERSTOCK.COM

WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

COMMUNITY

WEEKEND GETAWAYS

Lets send it on and off the mountain with Weekend Getaways brought to you by Tommys Whistler and DJ Dre Morel. RSVP for VIP reservations and guest list Inquiries at tommyswhistler.com. https://soundcloud. com/dremorel. > 8 pm > Tommys Whistler

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

MUSIC

THE HAIRFARMERS

Celebrating 20 years as a band and voted Whistler’s Best Band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs—a Whistler must- see! > 3-6 pm > Dusty’s Bar and Grill

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

DAYGLO ABORTIONS

Legendary B.C. punk band Dayglo Abortions return to celebrate a Whistler Ski Bum Legend Johnny Thrash’s 50th Birthday Bash. Tickets at https://www.showpass. com/dayglo-abortion-return-to-glc-for-johnnythrashs-5/. > 9 pm > Garibaldi Lift Co. (GLC)

SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY

This is Whistler’s biggest nightlife event each week.

From top 40s to big hits of today and classic rock, the dance floor will be bumping! > 9 pm-2 am > Buffalo Bills

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.

SPORTS

COMMUNITY

SUPER SPORTS SATURDAY

Don your best jersey and come cheer on your favourite team at Whistler’s premier sports bar. > Tapley’s Pub

LIVE @ BLACK’S GREG NEUFELD

> 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

> 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

LADIES’ NIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

Featuring Brett Down. This young rising star is making his mark in the local Whistler music scene. By day, he’s training hard to make the Canadian biathlon team and by night, he’s playing music to support road to the Olympics. Come help support this incredible musician on his road to gold. > 5:30-8:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

UK DAVE @ ALPINE CAFE

The Saturday night addition of the acoustic mastermind, local legend UK Dave! Enjoy a sweet selection of classic rock, pop, jazz and blues for your listening pleasure. Free. > 7-9 pm > Alpine Cafe

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

Supreme Saturday features a rotation of Canada’s best DJs, playing alongside local talent. > 10 pm > Garfinkel’s

SUN

2.9

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

MADE IN WHISTLER MARKET AT THE WESTIN RESORT & SPA

The Made In Whistler Market, held at the Westin Spa & Resort on the retail level 1, is a carefully curated collections from artists and artisans from the Sea to Sky area. Find the perfect gift or a wonderful keepsake of your time in Whistler. From 12 to 5 pm. > 12-5 pm > Westin Resort & Spa

MUSIC

SUNDAZE WITH DJ NAT MOREL

Spend your Sundays in a heady daze. Head over for DJ Nat Morel’s Brickworks residency, Sundaze, every week for après from 3 pm. 604-962-2929. > 3-6 pm > Brickworks Public House

EVAN KENNEDY WALK AND TALK SERIES, SPECIAL EXHIBITION > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

Evan creates a unique live performance mixing in lesser-known album songs with the songs of today. > 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

THE HAIRFARMERS

Celebrating 20 years as a band and voted Whistler’s Best Band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs—a Whistler must-see! > 3:30-6:30 pm > Garibaldi Lift Co. (GLC)

Go Girls!

• 2.5 hours, once a week, at a local community centre for 10 weeks.

Big Brother/Big Sister • 2-4 hours, once a week, in your community, for 1 year minimum.

In-School Mentor • 1 hour, once a week, on school grounds, during the school year.

Learn more today: sea-to-sky.bigbrothersbigsisters.ca (SQUAMISH): 1-604-892-3125 (WHISTLER): 1-604-966-1030

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PIQUECAL 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! > 8-11 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel

SUNDAY FUNDAY

Darragh will be kicking it off. To RSVP for guest list and VIP reservation request, please reach out to info@ tommyswhistler.com or visit www.tommyswhistler.com. > 8 pm > Tommys Whistler

LOCALS’ SUNDAY SESH

You are invited to party like a local at the locals’ house party. Enter as a stranger, leave as a friend. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

ACCORDION RECITAL

MON

Catch a solo accordion performance by musician Sharon Schrul. > 6 pm > Whistler Museum

2.10

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Artist Shannon Ford will be painting in the Fairmont lobby as part of an artist-in-residence program. > 10 am-4 pm > Fairmont Chateau Whistler

COMMUNITY

MUSIC & WORDS

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

SOULFUL SUNDAYS

Soul Club Whistler spinning that funky soul soundtrack. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

OPEN MIC JAM NIGHT

An open stage invitation for all who can sing, perform or even just wanna jam out with our house band.

Whistler’s longest-running jam night every Sunday at Crystal Lounge. All instruments are provided. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

SUNDAY NIGHT THEORY

tyMetal’s diversified taste translates to deep cuts featuring classics and future gems, guaranteed to tweak your brain stem! No cover. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

FAMILY APRÈS

Sip a hot beverage and enjoy live music, dancing, face painting, hula hooping, characters in costume, balloontwisting animals, arts and crafts, popcorn, cookies, doughnuts, juggling and games—all in the heart of the Village at Whistler Olympic Plaza. > 3-6 pm > Whistler Olympic Plaza

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

IT’S YOUR TIME TO SHINE OPEN MIC & 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. Always looking for new musicians, singers and poets to joins us. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

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

RECOVERY MONDAYS

Whistlers biggest party every Monday Night. DJ Fidel Cashflow and Jacky Murda help you dance your hangovers away with the best in EDM. 604-935-1152. > 9:30 pm-3 am > Moe Joe’s

MONDAY MIX MADNESS

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

GAMES NIGHT SPORTS

FIRE & ICE SHOW

A free, all-ages night of entertainment. Whistler’s top skiers and riders (including Whistler Blackcomb ski school instructors) spin and twist through a burning hoop. > 7 pm > Skier’s Plaza

Join the Friends of the Library for fun and games. Bring a friend, play an old favourite or learn a new game, enjoy refreshments, and win prizes! No registration required. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

> 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre

SPEED DATING

Speed dating comes to The Living Room at the Pangea Pod Hotel They will host 14 men and 14 women looking to spice things up a little (or a lot...). $15 entry. > 7-9 pm > The Living Room @ the Pangea Pod Hotel

MUSIC

TUE

2.11

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Artist Shannon Ford will be painting in the Fairmont lobby as part of an artist-in-residence program. > 10 am-4 pm > Fairmont Chateau Whistler

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

COMMUNITY

WHISTLER SINGERS COMMUNITY CHOIR

Whistler’s community choir where everyone (ages 13 and up) is welcome. If you’d like to sing some great songs with others in a community-minded environment, come and join them. No auditions, no music reading ability necessary. 604-932-2979. > 7-9 pm > Myrtle Philip Community Centre

MUSIC

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. > 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES

Blues night with Sean Rose. > 8 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

NOT YOUR GRANDMA’S BINGO

Join us every Tuesday for a BINGO night like no other.

These games will have you crying with laughter. > 8 pm > Tapley’s Pub

EVAN KENNEDY

> 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

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PIQUECAL NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTING BY-ELECTION FOR THE ELECTORAL AREA A DIRECTOR PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of Electoral Area A of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) that an election by voting is necessary to elect a Director representing Electoral Area A and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are

Director – One (1) to be Elected Surname

Usual Name

Residential Address

DEMARE

SAL

Gold Bridge, BC

OAKLEY

STEVE

Bralorne, BC

VOTING DATES AND LOCATIONS ADVANCE AND GENERAL VOTING will be available to qualified electors of Electoral Area A as follows:

TYPE

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

Advance Voting Day

Monday February 10, 2020

8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

SLRD Administration Office 1350 Aster St., Pemberton, BC

General Voting Day

Saturday February 15, 2020

8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Gold Bridge Community Club 699 Gun Lake Rd., Gold Bridge, BC

ELECTOR REGISTRATION There is no pre-registration. Registration of all qualified electors for this by-election will take place at the time of voting. To register, you will be required to make a declaration that you meet the following requirements: •

18 years of age or older on general voting day; and

•

a Canadian citizen; and

•

a resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding the day of registration; and

•

a resident of Electoral Area A or registered owner of real property in Electoral Area A for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration; and

•

not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law.

TOMMY TUESDAYS

DJ Dre Morel and weekly guests turning it up every Tuesday night all winter long. Pop, rock and hip hop to crank up your Tuesday night.For guest list and VIP reservations, visit tommyswhistler.com. > 8 pm > Tommys Whistler

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

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

WE RUN WHISTLER: WEEKLY GROUP RUN

Group run for intermediate runners and above. We offer two distance options,~6 km and ~10 km. Check our Facebook page (facebook.com/groups/werunwhistler) for weekly updates. Visit werunwhistler.com to plan your winter of running. #werunwhistler rain or shine!

Headlamps are mandatory. Free. > 5:55 pm > Lululemon

• if there is more than one owner of the property, written consent from the majority of the property owners. (Please contact the SLRD ahead of time for the required consent form - it must be signed by a majority of the property owners. Unsigned or incomplete consent forms will not be accepted); and • Please note that no one can vote in respect of property that is owned (in whole or in part) by a corporation.

MAIL BALLOT VOTING Qualified electors are eligible to vote by mail if they: •

have a physical disability, illness or injury that affects their ability to vote at another voting opportunity, OR

•

expect to be absent from Electoral Area A on general voting day and at the times of all advance voting opportunities.

Until 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 13, 2020, you can request a mail ballot package by submitting the following information to the SLRD Administration Office by mail (Box 219, 1350 Aster Street, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0), by fax (604-894-6526) or by email (kclark@slrd.bc.ca): (1) Full name; (2) Residential address; (3) Address of the property in relation to which you are voting (for non-resident property electors);

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• regular letter mail service through Canada Post to residential address, OR • regular letter mail service through Canada Post to an alternate address that you provide when requesting the mail ballot package; (5) To ensure you receive the correct registration application form in your package, you must indicate whether you are going to be registering as a resident elector or as a non-resident property elector.

The SLRD will send out mail ballot packages by regular letter mail service (or have them ready for pick up at the SLRD Administration Office in Pemberton).

To be counted, your completed mail ballot package must be received by the Chief Election Officer no later than 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 15, 2020 – please see more detailed information at https://www.slrd.bc.ca/byelection regarding how and where to return your completed mail ballot package.

Kristen Clark, Chief Election Officer

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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

MUSIC

Belfast Busker of the Year 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. > 3:30-6:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

DINO DINICOLO

> 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

2.12

A Louisiana fairy tale from somewhere over in Rainbow.

With a voice that embodies 100 years of music, a finger style guitar rooted in the Delta, this local legend presents covers new and old in an Americana Roots Swing Style. Free. 604-966-5711. > 6-9 pm > Cure Lounge at Nita Lake Lodge

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

INDUSTRY NIGHT ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Artist Shannon Ford will be painting in the Fairmont lobby as part of an artist-in-residence program. > 10 am-4 pm > Fairmont Chateau Whistler

Join us for a pool game, and wing-eating competition starting at 8 p.m., where the winners win a bar tab. Partygoers will also have a chance to win a K2 Snowboard or a Ride snowboard. > 8 pm > Buffalo Bills

BOOK & CRAFT CLUB

Drop in for this casual session, where preschool-aged children will enjoy a short story and then use different media to create a fun craft. A great opportunity for parents to connect with other parents of young children! > 10:30-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

JAM NIGHT

Jam night with Kostaman and friends every Wednesday night from 9 pm. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

LETS GET QUIZZICAL WALK AND TALK SERIES, PERMANENT COLLECTION > 1 pm > Audain Art Museum

COMMUNITY

(4) Method of delivery of your mail ballot package (your choice of the following options) • pick up at the SLRD Administration Office (1350 Aster Street in Pemberton), OR

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

MONTY BIGGINS LOCALS NIGHT

Non-resident property electors must produce: • 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature) to prove identity; and

QUEER WEDNESDAYS

CONOR FITZPATRICK

SPORTS

Resident electors must produce 2 pieces of identification (at least one with a signature).

Photo identification is not necessary. The identification must prove both residency and identity.

• proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property (recent Land Title Office certificate, property tax bill, or property assessment notice); 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

Whistler’s funniest night of the week! Stache hosts outrageous rounds and hilarious tasks for a trivia night with a Whistler twist. Celebrity degenerates, corporate scandals and a host of fun-filled rounds will leave your squad in stitches. $100 bar tab for winning team, spot prizes and so much more. Free. > 9-11 pm > Three Below

CAKE & QUATCHI

Our friend Quatchi is back in town! You’ll have a chance to get a photo with this larger-than-life 2010 Olympic mascot Sasquatch. Please bring your own reusable mug. > 12-1 pm > Whistler Public Library

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

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

ASTROLOGY

Free Will Astrology

STARTS TODAY!

WEEK OF FEBRUARY 6 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have the power to make connections that have not previously been possible.

You can tap into an enhanced capacity to forge new alliances and strengthen your support system. I urge you to be on the lookout for a dynamic group effort you could join or a higher purpose you might align yourself with. If you’re sufficiently alert, you may even find an opportunity to weave your fortunes together with a dynamic group effort that’s in service to a higher purpose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Victory won’t come to me unless I go to it,” wrote the poet Marianne Moore. In other words, you must track down each victory you’re interested in. You must study its unique nature. And then you must adjust yourself to its specifications. You can’t remain just the way you are, but must transform yourself so as to be in alignment with the responsibilities it demands of you. Can you pass these tests, Taurus? I believe you can. It’s time to prove it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): While at the peak of his powers as an author, Gemini-born Nobel Prize-winner Jean Paul Sartre consumed an array of mood-shifters every day. He quaffed at least a quart of alcohol, smoked two packs of cigarettes, and drank copious amounts of coffee and tea. His intake of pills included 200 milligrams of amphetamines, 15 grams of aspirin, and a handful of barbiturates. I propose that we make Sartre your anti-role model during the next four weeks, dear Gemini. According to my analysis of your astrological indicators, your ability to discover, attract, and benefit from wonders and marvels will thrive to the degree that you forswear drugs and alcohol and artificial enhancements. And I’m pleased to inform you that there could be a flood of wonders and marvels.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I don’t think I’m boring.

How could I be? I have an abundant curiosity and I love to learn new things. I’ve worked at many different jobs, have read widely, and enjoy interacting with a broad range of humans. Yet now and then I’ve had temporary relationships with people who regarded me as uninteresting. They didn’t see much of value in me. I tend to believe it was mostly their fault—they couldn’t see me for who I really am—but it may have also been the case that I lived down to their expectations. Their inclination to see me as unimportant influenced me to be dull. I bring this up, my fellow Cancerian, because now is an excellent time to remove yourself from situations where you have trouble being and feeling your true self.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Soprano Helen Traubel and tenor Lauritz Melchior performed together in many productions of Wagnerian operas, often at the Metropolitan in New York City. Friends and colleagues but not lovers, they had a playful relationship with each other. A favourite pastime was figuring out tricks they could try that would cause the other to break into inappropriate laughter while performing.

According to my quirky reading of the astrological omens, Leo, the coming weeks will be a propitious time for you to engage in similar hijinx with your allies. You have a poetic licence and a spiritual mandate to enjoy amusing collaborative experiments, playful intimate escapades, and adventures in buoyant togetherness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Eighteenth-century author Samuel Johnson singlehandedly compiled the influential A Dictionary of the English Language, which remained the definitive British dictionary for 170 years. We shouldn’t be surprised that it was a Virgo who accomplished such an intricate and exhaustive feat. As a high-minded Virgo, Johnson also had a talent for exposing hypocrisy.

In commenting on the Americans’ War of Independence against his country, he noted that some of the “loudest yelps for liberty” came from slave-owners. I propose that we make him one of your role models in 2020. May he inspire you to produce rigourous work that’s useful to many. May he also empower you to be a candid purveyor of freedom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Is there a project or situation

you’d love to create but have lacked the confidence to try? Now is a time when you can finally summon the necessary courage. Is there a long-running dilemma that has always seemed too confusing and overwhelming to even understand, let alone solve? Now is a favourable time to ask your higher self for the clear vision that will instigate an unforeseen healing. Is there a labour of love that seems to have stalled or a dream that got sidetracked? Now is a time when you could revive its luminosity and get it back in a sweet groove.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Was there a more influential 20th-century artist than Scorpio-born Pablo Picasso?

He was a revolutionary innovator who got rich from his creations. Once, while visiting a gallery showing of art made by children, he said, “When I was their age I could draw like Raphael [the great Renaissance artist].

But it took me a lifetime to learn to draw like they do.”

In accordance with your current astrological omens, Scorpio, I suggest you seek inspiration from Picasso’s aspiration. Set an intention to develop expertise in seeing your world and your work through a child’s eyes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I know a Sagittarius man who has seen the film Avengers: Endgame 17 times.

Another Sagittarian acquaintance estimates she has listened all the way through to Billie Eilish’s album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? 135 times. And then there’s my scholarly Sagittarian friend who has read the ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad 37 times. I have no problem with this behaviour. I admire your tribe’s ability to keep finding new inspiration in sources you already know well. But in my astrological opinion, you shouldn’t do much of this kind of thing in the coming weeks. It’s high time for you to experiment with experiences you know little about. Be fresh, innocent, and curious.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Athens was one of the great cities of the Ancient World. Its vigorous art, theatre, philosophy, architecture, and experiments in democracy are today regarded as foundational to Western culture.

And yet at its height, Athens’ population was a mere 275,000—equal to modern Fort Wayne, Ind. or Windsor, Ont. How could such a relatively small source breed such intensity and potency? That’s a long story. In any case, I foresee you having the potential to be like Athens yourself in the coming weeks and months, Capricorn: a highly concentrated fount of value. For best results, focus on doing what you do best.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my analysis, the year 2020 will be a time when you can have dramatic success as you re-evaluate and re-vision and revamp your understandings of your life purpose. Why were you born? What’s the nature of your unique genius? What are the best gifts you have to offer the world? Of the many wonderful feats you could accomplish, which are the most important? The next few weeks will be a potent time to get this fun and energizing investigation fully underway.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Physicist Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize for his insights about quantum mechanics.

But he was humble about the complexity of the subject.

“If you think you understand it, that only shows you don’t know the first thing about it,” he mused. I’m tempted to make a similar statement about the mysteries and riddles that are making your life so interesting. If you think you understand those mysteries and riddles, you probably don’t. But if you’re willing to acknowledge how perplexing they are, and you can accept the fact that your comprehension of them is partial and fuzzy, then you might enjoy a glimmer of the truth that’s worth building on.

Homework: You can fling imaginary lightning bolts from your fingers any time you want. Prove it!

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RESIDENTS AND OWNERS OF BUSINESSES MAY COMMENT BY WRITING TO: Planning Department Resort Municipality of Whistler 4325 Blackcomb Way Whistler, B.C. V8E 0X5 PETITIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. To ensure the consideration of your views, your written comments must be received on or before March 7, 2020. Your name(s) and residence address (or business address if applicable) must be included.

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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 Sea to Sky Community Services - running dozens of programs in Whistler to help people through times of crisis and with everyday challenges. www.sscs.ca 1-877892-2022 admin@sscs.ca Stewardship Pemberton Society and the One Mile Lake Nature Centre- Connecting community, nature and people through education, cooperation, and community involvement. www.stewardshippemberton. com

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 For meetings, trips and events: accwhistler. ca/Events.html 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

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Whistler Adaptive Sports Program Provides sports & recreation experiences for people with disabilities. Chelsey Walker at 604-905-4493 or info@whistleradaptive. com

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Sea to Sky RC Flyers - Model Aeronautics Association of Canada Club active in the Sea to Sky Region flying model airplanes, helicopters and multi-rotors. Contact S2SRCFLY@telus.net

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Whistler Singers Rehearsals are Tuesdays from 7 to 9pm at Myrtle Philip School in the Toad Hall room.

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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.

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Sea to Sky Singers - Invites new & former members to join us for an exciting new term, the spring & fall terms culminate with a concert. Choir meets Tues, 7-9pm at Squamish Academy of Music, 2nd Ave. Veronica seatoskysingers@gmail.com or 604-892-7819 www.seatoskysingers.net

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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

YOUTH ACTIVITIES 1st Whistler Scout Group - outdoor & adventure program for girls and boys aged 5-17. Times and locations vary.

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Whistler Children's Chorus Rehearsal Tuesdays at MILLENNIUM PLACE (4 - 5:30 pm) contact whistlerchorus@gmail.com Whistler/Pemberton Girl Guides Adventures for Girls age 5 & up. Sparks & Brownies (Gr K,1,2,3) Guides (Gr 4,5,6) Volunteers always welcome. coastmountaingirlguides@gmail.com Whistler Youth Centre - Drop - in: Fridays 3:30 - 11 PM & Saturdays 6 - 10 PM for ages 13 - 18. Located downstairs in the Maury Young Arts Centre (formerly Millenium Place). We offer: a Ping pong table, Pool table, Skateboard mini ramp w. skateboards and helmets to borrow, Free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, Guitars, Board games, Projector and widescreen TV's. Facebook THEYC Crew, www.whistleryouthcentre. com or call 604-935-8187.

LEISURE GROUPS Duplicate Bridge 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 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

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HOUSEKEEPERS Whistler Health Care Center Compensation: $15.57/hr during probation period, after $16.82/hr, Benefits & 4$/hour remote allowance Please send your resume to Francis.Massicotte@cgc-healthcare.com

Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium Meets every Thurs at 12:15pm at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 604-932-7782 Shades of Grey Painters Meet on Thursdays from 1-00 - 4:00 pm @ the Amenities building, Pioneer Junction, Vine Road, Pemberton. We are like-minded 50+ acrylic painters who get together to paint and learn from one another. No Fee. 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 Whistler Valley Quilters Guild - Meets most 1st and 3rd Tuesdays from September through May. Visitors interested in Quilts and other Fibre Arts are more than welcome to join us. Experience not a requirement. For location and topics of upcoming meetings email: whistlerquiltguild@gmail.com , visit www.whistlerquilters.com or look us up in the Arts Whistler calendar under What's On.

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Maury Young Arts Centre - Whistler's community centre for arts, culture & inspiration. Performance theatre, art gallery, daycare, youth centre, meditation room, meeting facilities. www.artswhistler.com or 604-935-8410 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

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

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 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.

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Pemberton Men's Shed - Weekly social meetings WED. 11-2 in the Seniors/youth Rec. bldg. beside library. Social meeting with BYO Bag lunch, card games and pool/ snooker. Help out in YOUR community, operating the Pemberton Tool Library.

Senior Citizen Organizations - Is an advocacy group devoted to improving the quality of life for all seniors. Ernie Bayer 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 - Expert in green cleaning offers tricks, info & advice on the best way to green clean your home or work space! Call France 604-6987479. Free private presentation on request. www.healthylivingwhistler.com 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.

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

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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

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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

SPECIALIST, GOLF & GROUP SALES Full Time, Year Round

The Specialist, Golf & Group Sales, manages all reservations generated from Golf Whistler, and oversees the sales and marketing initiatives to grow Whistler as a premiere golf destination. The Specialist also supports the Manager, Reservations & Group Sales in proactively selling all aspects of Whistler, generating new group business and maintaining relationships with existing clients.

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 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.

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Our ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of Golf and Whistler, experience with online booking software, and sales experience in a resort setting.

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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 11am-12:30pm at Pemberton Public Library.

Pemberton Strong Start Family Drop-InA play group for you and your under-5 child.

Signal Hill Elementary, Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 9am-12pm. Thurs only 12pm-3pm. Call 604894-6101 / 604-966- 8857 Whistler Public Library - Open Mon-Thurs 10am-7pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am5pm. Music & Words, Mon 10am. Rhyme & Song, Tues 10:30am. Parent & Infant dropin, Thurs 11am. Preschool Story Time, Fri 10:30am. Singing with the babies, Sat 11am.

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Basalt Wine + Salumeria are currently looking to fill the roles of:

COOKS Please send your cover letter and resume to skeenan-naf@crystal-lodge.com Wages are very competitive (based on experience), great perks and benefits. Come join the best team in Whistler!

(FULL TIME) DISHWASHERS COOKS Wages are very competitive (based on experience), great perks and benefits.

Come join the best team in Whistler!

Interested applicants please email your resume to or contact Samantha at skeenan-naf@Crystal-Lodge.com

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.

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

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Looking for a dog to adopt?

Look for WAG’s bright orange bandanas on dogs being walked by volunteers! These dogs are looking for their forever home.

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We are currently hiring an Assistant Manager and a Full Time Sales Representatives with personality!

Please stop by our Whistler Village location with your resume to fill out an application and say Hi to Michelle or Tina.

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AutoCAD/ Resort Planning Technician

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Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners Ltd. of Whistler B.C. specializes in the planning and design of four-season mountain resorts, resort village and real estate and Winter Olympic Alpine and Nordic competition venues.

NOW HIRING AT OUR WHISTLER LOCATION

We are currently seeking a skilled AutoCAD / Resort Planning Technician for a full time / permanent position. The ideal candidate will have completed at minimum a diploma-level program in Landscape Architectural Technology or Architectural Technology or similar and will have related work experience.

If you are a student 15 years or older, we have flexible hours and we want you!

This entry-level position consists of general AutoCAD and graphic support for our resort planning design team. Typical project work will include working with large topographic mapping data sets, preparation of hand drawn and computer rendered site plan drawings and profiles, conceptual grading and drainage plans and production of digital and paper presentations and technical reports.

A keen eye for details and graphic presentation is essential as well as a general understanding of the design process and problem solving.

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

A comprehensive understanding and strong working knowledge and experience of AutoCAD, Adobe Creative Suite (particularly Photoshop and InDesign) software is essential. Must be proficient in MS Office including Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The ability to visualize and work in 3D, with familiarity using programs such as Civil 3D, 3DS Max and SketchUp would be an asset.

The successful candidate will be a team player and must be prepared to work in a deadline-oriented office environment. A positive attitude and interest in outdoor activities and a mountain resort lifestyle will be an asset. Hourly pay rate will be commensurate with experience.

Please submit a letter of application, including a resume and portfolio to the attention of:

Mr. Ryley Thiessen President Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners Ltd. P.O. Box 63 Whistler, B.C. Canada V0N 1B0 Email: info@ecosign.com

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Whistler Premier Resorts, Whistler’s leading property management firm is currently recruiting!

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SOCIAL SERVICES 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 ProgramLearn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101 Meadow Park Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eligible for a $131.20 municipal recreation credit.

Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org.

North Shore Schizophrenia Society Services for family, friends & community.

Mental illness info, support & advocacy. Call Chris Dickenson at 604-966-7334 Pearl's Safe Home - Temporary shelter for women & children experiencing abuse in relationships. Locations in Whistler & Pemberton avail 24/7. All services are free.

1-877-890-5711 or 604-892-5711 RMOW Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eligible for a $127.60 municipal recreation credit. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 www.mywcss.org Sea to Sky WorkBC Centre - Provides free one-stop employment services to job seekers and employers. Services available in Whistler, Squamish, Pemberton & Mt. Currie.

For more information, call us: 1-800-7631681 or email: centre-squamish@workbc.ca Support Counselling - For women regarding abuse & relationship issues. No charge. Call 604-894-6101 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 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. 604-388-5511 www.whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com Whistler Opt Healthy Sexuality Clinic - Professional sexual health services at a reduced cost. Free HIV testing. Clinics at Whistler Health Care Ctr, 2nd floor on Tues 4:30-7:30pm. Winter hours Thurs. 5:00pm7:00pm. Confidentiality assured.

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)962-8711. 24 HR Crisis Line: 1-877-890-5711

SUPPORT GROUPS Are you troubled by someone's drinking? AlAnon can help.

Al-Anon meeting, multi-purpose room, 2nd floor, Whistler Health Care Centre, Wednesdays, 5:30 pm. 604.688.1716 Are you troubled by someone's drink-ing?

Al-Anon is for you! Pemberton sat-ellite group to Whistler Al-Anon meets every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month at St Francis Catholic Church, 1360 Pemberton Farm Rd. Pemberton, BC 6:00-8:00pm.

Call 604-688-1716

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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 nonjudgmental 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 postconcussion symptoms. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an outreach worker about upcoming sessions or visit www.mywcss.org.

Do you want to share in something special this winter?

Epilepsy Support Group- For individuals & families seeking guidance or support.

Contact eswhistler@gmail.com 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

If challenge & fun at work is what you desire, come see us today!

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.

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SMART Recovery Whistler (SelfManagement and Recovery Training) A Cognitive-Behavioural group for individuals with substance abuse con-cerns.

Drop-in: Registration is not necessary.

Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm Whistler Health Centre (2nd floor-group room)

Join us! Go to www.earlswantsyou.com and apply through our site. We will be in touch soon!

Whistler Alcoholics Anonymous: 12-step support group for men and women who want to stop drinking or are recovering from alcoholism. Evening meetings are held 8:00pm Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays and 7:00pm Monday. Whistler Medical Center, 4380 Lorimer Road, 2nd Floor multiple purpose room; 604-905-5489, https://www.bcyukonaa.org

RELIGION Jesus Rock Of Ages Ministry- A bible based church that holds services at Millennium Place's main floor theatre at 4:30pm. www. jesusrockofages.com Roman Catholic Church- Come celebrate mass at Our Lady of the Mountains, Whistler on Saturday 5pm, Sunday 9am, Tuesday 5:45pm, Wednesday 7pm, Thursday/Friday 5:45pm. St. Francis of Assisi, Pemberton on Sunday 12:30pm and Friday 9am. St. Christopher's, Mt. Currie on Sunday 11am.

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Sea to Sky Healing Room - For Blessing/Prayer/Encouragement In the Community Church building, 7422 Dogwood Street, Pemberton.

Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday: 4-6 PM Whistler Church- Join us for worship and fellowship around Jesus. Sunday 10 am at Myrtle Philip Community School, 6195 Lorimer Rd. Nursery, Sunday School to gr. 6, Youth gr. 7 and up. Call Pastor Jon 604-7983861 / Kelvin 204-249-0700 or www.whistlerchurch.ca

FUR & FEATHERS Get Bear Smart Society - Learn more about coexisting with bears. To report a conflict, garbage or attractant issue call 604-905BEAR (2327) www.bearsmart.com Pemberton Wildlife Association Advocates for the conservation of fish, wildlife & wilderness recreation. Also offering target shooting & archery facilities. www.pembertonwildlifeassociation.com WAG - Whistler Animals Galore - A shelter for lost, unwanted, and homeless cats and dogs. Let us help you find your purrfect match...adopt a shelter animal! For more info 604-935-8364 www.whistlerwag.com

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WSET Wine Classes in Whistler Level 2 Starts: March 23; Exam: May 25 evenings from 6-9 at the Whistler Chamber of Commerce You do not need WSET Level 1 to take Level 2!

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The Recrea�on Services Manager is responsible for the efficient management of recrea�on facili�es and programs, including policy development, planning and contract management, budge�ng, and long-term facility and program planning.

We are seeking an individual who inspires ac�vity, to provide Pemberton and area community residents of all ages and abili�es with opportuni�es to be ac�ve, crea�ve and involved. The ideal candidate has proven experience in recrea�on and program development, facility management, team leadership and financial management. A degree or diploma in recrea�on management and a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in a similar posi�on is desired.

Interested? Let’s talk. Please send your resume and cover le�er to recrui�ng@pemberton.ca by 4:00 pm on Friday, February 14th, 2020.

For a detailed job descrip�on and more informa�on on the Village of Pemberton visit www.pemberton.ca.

Permanent positions include opportunities for professional development and a health and fitness package for all you active folks.

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MAXED OUT

Stop the insanity…I want to get off WHILE IT MAY not be fashionable in this populist era to admit it, I’m a capitalist.

Not the rape and pillage, impoverish your employees while you enrich yourself, poison the consumers of your products, befoul the planet and focus on nothing but shareholder wealth kind of capitalist.

More the kind of capitalist it seems is becoming extinct—the Leonard Lee, Aaron Feuerstein kind of capitalist who believes it is employees, not management, who create the wealth of companies.

BY G.D. MAXWELL I believe in free—but regulated— enterprise. I believe in the right of employees to unionize and bargain collectively if they believe they’re getting a raw deal from the people managing their labour. I believe in the immutability of supply and demand to set a fair price on goods and services. I believe if you can’t make a profit from what you’re producing you shouldn’t be producing it.

And it’s those beliefs that set me apart from Albertans chomping at the bit to get federal approval for development of the Frontier tarsands project.

Frontier is the next big thing in Alberta’s tarsands strategy to increase production of a product with a limited market, a deep discount and insufficient current transportation capability. It’s a project being touted, kind of, by Teck Resources Ltd., Canada’s largest mining company. The massive project—24,000 hectares—would produce an additional 260,000 barrels of bitumen daily for, perhaps, 40 years.

Jason Kenney claims it’s a “must have” for Alberta’s future and an acid test for national unity. Teck claims it’ll be as green as green can be when measured in GHG emissions per barrel. Oh, and it’ll create thousands of jobs and billions, tens of billions even, in tax revenue.

It would also produce something like six megatonnes of CO2 and make the country’s climate targets vanish like a fart in the wind.

But, circling back to capitalism, the project makes no sense. Says who? Says the CEO of Teck.

Don Lindsay, who holds that title, told attendees at an investor conference in Banff, Frontier was a maybe. Maybe, because it hadn’t got government approval yet. Maybe, because current energy prices make it unprofitable. Maybe, because they’re not even sure how much it’ll cost to bring it online, having yet to conduct a feasibility study. Maybe, because they’re not sure they could raise the capital or find a sucker, er, partner.

As an aside, that conference in Banff was a conference that was supposed to be held in Whistler. Guess which letter from

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which mayor made organizers decide to move it to Banff?

Now, most capitalists would look at that menu of maybes and say, ‘maybe we should be looking at some other project?’ After all, smart money seems to be exiting the fossilfuel business like rats deserting sinking ships.

Chevron has just written US$1.6 billion off their balance sheet associated with their half interest in Kitimat LNG, one of those

Money is fleeing the oil patch faster than Fort Mac residents fled the firestorm that ravaged their town.

Ironically, or perhaps pathetically, the money that isn’t fleeing fossil fuels is yours and mine. Governments around the world continue to prop up—socialize—oil and gas producers. As a group, fossil-fuel producers make Cadillac-driving welfare queens look like street beggars.

The subsidies ladled out by Canada amount to almost $60 billion. How’s that for a level playing field? In case you’re wondering, that’s over $1,600 per Canadian—and you thought you were paying a lot at the pump, chump.

LNG projects that Kristi Clarke said would make B.C. swim in tax dollars. And they’re looking for someone to buy it.

The CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, recently announced a sustainability strategy that will see them divest significant pools of assets away from fossil-fuel producers. They’re hardly alone.

The International Monetary Fund, in May last year, pegged global subsidies for 2015 (the last year figures had been aggregated) at US$4.7 trillion. Yes, that’s 12 zeros after the 4. And they project that number getting bigger!

The subsidies ladled out by Canada amount to almost $60 billion. How’s

that for a level playing field? In case you’re wondering, that’s over $1,600 per Canadian—and you thought you were paying a lot at the pump, chump.

Financial insanity and corporate welfare aside, the next hurdle to moving forward— backward—with Frontier rests with Federal Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.

His office has to green light the project and he’s promised to hand down a decision by month’s end...maybe.

He can, of course, hide behind the joint federal/provincial panel that earlier this year recommended the feds approve the proposal. Notwithstanding all the reasons no self-respecting capitalist would touch this project, the panel found it would provide “significant economic benefits for Alberta and Canada.” This was largely based on Teck’s own projections of job creation, tax and royalty revenues, projections from a company that has yet to do a full feasibility study of the project!

Noting “significant adverse environmental effects,” the lure of jobs, and money swayed the panel’s decision.

Wilkinson was splashed across last week’s media, not for his musings about Frontier, but because of his chest-thumping announcement that Ottawa would shortly reveal its plan to ban so-called single-use plastics, a solution in search of a problem.

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I’d just like to point out the total greenwashing behind the term single-use plastics. High on the hit list are things like drinking straws, food-court cutlery(sic) and shopping bags— one of the few plastic bags that may be reused. Totally absent from the list is an array of truly single-use plastic, including the packaging virtually everything comes in and garbage bags such as the ones we see municipal employees remove from every garbage container in Whistler, frequently only fractionally full but nonetheless replaced with brand new plastic bags.

That our Federal Environment Minister would even think of green lighting the Frontier project while applauding a straw ban pretty much tells you everything you need to know about how the “climate crisis” is likely to play out.

The only rational course of action is to say no to Frontier. That’s why it’s unlikely to happen.

In November of last year, Iran announced discovery of a new oil field containing 53 billion barrels of crude. Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil company, floated an initial public offering to raise $25+ billion last fall and quickly became a $2 trillion company.

Iran and Saudi Arabia can produce crude for around $9 per barrel. Crude, not bitumen.

It doesn’t take a financial genius to figure out Frontier only works if each and every Canadian continues to subsidize it. I’m not enough of a socialist to buy into that insanity. n

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