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TO PRESERVE

The drive to preserve

the Lil’wat language New mobile recording studio is contributing to efforts to ensure the Ucwalmícwts language flourishes

HELPING HANDS

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WHAT’S IN A NAME

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OUT EAST

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

48 The drive to save Ucwalmícwts A new mobile recording studio is contributing to efforts to ensure the Lil’wat language flourishes . - By Alyssa Noel

TIME OF CRISIS

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pathway to reconciliation—but the conversation is far from finished.

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56 OUT EAST GOES WEST

Musicians Adam

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Ravalia and Jon Allan spend quarantine wisely, producing new EP as

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Out East.

COVER The Lil’wat Nation has done a great job ensuring their Ucwalmícwts language not only survives, but flourishes going forward. Bonding Beaver Media is offering one more tool—a recording studio on wheels—to help them in that pursuit. - Photo by Valerie St-Arnaud 4 JULY 2, 2020

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08 OPENING REMARKS The opening of the bike park this week offers some clues as to what winter operations might look like for Whistler and Blackcomb.

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week celebrate entering Phase 3 of the province’s reopening plan and offer some advice, while others suggest it’s time for everyone to wear masks.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Megan Lalonde tackles the importance of the rising awareness of racism against Indigenous people and asks some uncomfortable questions we all need to answer.

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70 MAXED OUT Max does a bit of daydreaming and pens a letter to former Whistler Blackcomb CEO Dave Brownlie discussing what might happen if a B.C. company bought WB from Vail Resorts.

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45 SCIENCE MATTERS David Suzuki says this pandemic is just one of several dangers we face and asks if this time offers an opportunity to reset priorities and the direction we, and our society, are heading.

46 RANGE ROVER Writer Leslie Anthony looks ahead to Opening Day 2025 and finds a hot day, long lift line-ups and leaves us questioning our choices today.

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OPENING REMARKS

Hints of what winter might bring WATCHING THE BIKE PARK roll into operation this week offers some hints at what ski season might look like. For months it has been hard to imagine how Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains (WB) might operate as COVID-19 turns resort operations on its head. For clues one can look Down Under at how Vail Resorts (VR) is handling the ski season at Perisher in Australia—though comparing the operations is like apples and oranges. At time of writing the first booking window for skiers and boarders, which goes to July 5, is already sold out at Perisher— VR instituted a reservation system as a way to control numbers on the slopes and help maintain physical distancing.

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

It’s unlikely a pre-booked reservation system will be used for WB, though it is likely that day-of tickets may be a thing of the past. Opening here is going to have to be a made-inWhistler strategy as Vail Resorts pivots from a

(However, the closure did not stop 201,866 border crossings from the United States into Canada in one week this month, according to the most recent data from Canada Border Services Agency.) The Denver-based National Ski Areas Association announced earlier this month that skier visits fell 14 per cent last season compared with the 2018-2019 season in the U.S. with an associated loss in revenue of US$2 billion. That takes into account not only revenue losses for the end of the 201920 season but an expected drop in future season pass sales, as well. We know that Vail Resorts saw its stock value plummet with the closure of its properties due to COVID but it has recovered somewhat from that position by taking pretty drastic action in controlling costs and preserving cash. Opening this summer even in a limited capacity will boost morale in the company and encourage travellers to come back if they feel risk of catching the virus is being handled on the mountains and in the resort. This is a situation where we are in a true joined-at-the-hip relationship—it’s not just up to Whistler Blackcomb to get it right, it’s up to every retail outlet, accommodation

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The line-up mazes on the plaza at the bottom of Whistler Mountain were significant, but they were also orderly and the flow was easy to follow. Will this work when the snow is flying? I expect so if numbers are managed. But it’s a different experience waiting to upload in freezing rain, or snow and bitter temperatures. Another key part of the equation is staffing levels. Whistler’s reliance on workers from Australia and others from afar is well known. But they won’t be coming to Whistler as long as our essential-travel-only rules are in place. Workers are going to have to be recruited locally, regionally and even nationally. How will this affect what terrain can be opened in winter, the management of skier safety, and the vibe of the on-mountain adventure? And if they keep the prices the same as last year, will mountain users feel pinched by a perceived lack of value? The challenges Vail Resorts is facing are unprecedented with COVID-19 and an economic recession. Added to this is the fact that many in Whistler and the Lower Mainland still have not embraced the company—remember the Make Whistler Great Again petition in February? Wow, it seems like a lifetime ago. If success is to be had in the next season, Vail Resorts has to overcome this chasm, communicate with users and really make the guest experience special. That’s a big ask in the time of coronavirus. The back end of this will be how to manage user expectations. Will skiers and boarders be given times for upload associated with their bookings? Will days you ski with your pass need to be booked in advance? Will services need to be reduced on-mountain due to fewer users and fewer available staff? And what will accommodation bookings and après and adventure offerings look like? If anywhere in the world can do this, it’s Whistler—after all, we were born to offer the best nature has to give with courtesy, great service and, for now, in a way that allows us to be kind, to be calm and to be safe. n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Adventuring differently in Whistler On June 24, Premier John Horgan announced B.C.’s transition into Phase 3 of our province’s Restart Plan, and that provincial health authorities had officially lifted their advisory against non-essential personal travel. This was the announcement we had all been waiting for, and was great news for Whistler, and for the tourism sector across B.C. After many months of sheltering in place, British Columbians have finally been given the greenlight by government officials to get out and explore our beautiful province. As we all know, tourism is Whistler’s lifeblood, so we are very excited to be welcoming visitors back to our mountain community! In the same breath, we also know that it is a huge responsibility, and that we need to manage the return to tourism carefully, so as not to expose our employees, visitors or residents to health risks, or our destination to reputation risk. Our community has been working closely over the past months to ensure Whistler’s return to tourism is managed thoughtfully and responsibly, with enhanced safety protocols in place, along with a new business directory and communications tools to provide accurate and transparent information on Whistler’s new tourism experience. We all have a key role to play in our community’s recovery, and we are

ready to take that next step. Throughout the pandemic, Tourism Whistler has been engaging with our business community and residents to gauge local sentiments on the return of tourism and we have conducted visitor surveys to gauge travel intentions and destination expectations. The feedback from all parties has been aligned: • Visitors want to know what to expect when they arrive; they want to know that there will be appropriate COVID-19 protocols in place to protect them; and they want to be welcomed

when they are here; • Local residents want the assurance that visitor volumes will be proactively managed, and that visitors will exude responsible behaviours when here to keep the community safe; • Resort businesses want a measured and manageable return to “new normal” tourism levels. While restrictions against international travel and gatherings of more than 50 people will remain in place for the foreseeable future, we know there is considerable pent-up demand from British Columbians for regional leisure

travel, and that is where Tourism Whistler will be focusing our efforts in the short term—encouraging extended weekend stays, week-long vacations, and midweek getaways in an effort to balance visitation. Building upon our research, Tourism Whistler has now launched our new Summer Marketing Campaign, Adventure Differently, into British Columbia. The campaign redefines what it means to vacation in a COVID-19 world, and provides guests with comfort and confidence in returning to Whistler, while encouraging them to do so mindfully and respectfully, with a focus on responsible behaviours. With this in mind, Tourism Whistler has developed four key messaging pillars, which provide guidelines for the changes we are asking of all of us who spend time in the resort this summer: • Let’s interact considerately • Let’s play simply • Let’s explore responsibly • Let’s enjoy patiently You can learn more about these four pillars, and our messaging to guests, at whistler.com/ summer. We have also launched a new Whistler Doors Open Directory on whistler.com detailing what businesses are open, what experiences are available, and what new COVID-19 safety protocols are in place across the resort. This is an important resource for locals and visitors alike, and will be a valuable tool for helping to manage visitor expectations and the in-resort experience this summer.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This is going to be a very unique summer in Whistler as we conduct business with new capacities and new protocols, but we are delighted that the resort is again open to invite visitors back in a responsible and welcoming way. Barrett Fisher // President & CEO, Tourism Whistler

More thoughts on grizzlies It was great to see Brad Sills’ thoughtful letter about co-existing with grizzly bears in response (Pique, June 18, “Letters to the Editor”) to a letter to council from the Whistler Section of the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC), whose suggestion is to tranquilize and move grizzlies far away so they are not a nuisance to hikers and bikers around Whistler. I’d like to add some more information that I hope will be helpful when discussing our commitment to support grizzly-bear recovery. First, I hope we can all agree that independent researchers that study grizzly bears and conservation are an invaluable resource to guide decisions related to their recovery. Researchers gave us the good news that the local grizzly bear population had been recovering from historic lows, and they are also warning us their recovery will not continue without well-informed recreation management. (See Pique, “Grizzly plan review reveals unanswered, and unasked, questions,” June 3, 2019.) One big issue is the sheer number of people using the trails. With the flip of a switch, thousands of people suddenly flooded into the home and feeding areas of recovering grizzly bears (about 2,500 users per month and 14,000 per year). While individually people can follow best practices, for an effective grizzly recovery strategy the cumulative affects of the number of users needs to be addressed. The grizzly recovery in Yellowstone National Park is a truly uplifting story, but as always when navigating the complex issue of conservation, context is incredibly important. Taking Yellowstone’s success story and assuming it will translate anywhere in the world is problematic. Yellowstone is four-and-a-half times the size of Garibaldi Provincial Park, which means hikers and grizzlies can avoid each other much more easily than in our small pocket of B.C. Mountain biking is prohibited in the backcountry and overnight trips are tightly controlled by a permitting process, which are other key differences. Comparing travelling in grizzly bear habitat to travelling in avalanche territory is an interesting analogy (as per Sills’ letter). It made me want to think about what an analogy might look from a grizzly’s perspective. Maybe we can compare humans in grizzly territory to ants in your home—how many can pass through before there is a serious problem? Banning dogs and e-bikes above the flank trail was a good start to support grizzly recovery. To fully meet our commitment, we still need to address limiting the number of trail users, rerouting trails to avoid grizzly habitat and halting expansion. I look forward to more

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Whistler—let’s all wear our masks Many in our community have been doing great things to get Whistler this far in the pandemic experience. Our community has gone from the sad look of the empty village and lonely parks and playgrounds to the recent days with people on the Village Stroll, sitting at cafes and going in and out of shops. It’s especially great to see the kids enjoying the playgrounds. It feels so much better. As we appreciate all of that could we ask one more thing—that we wear masks. Just trying to stay two metres away when indoors is not enough. Scientists and doctors say masks work to control the spread of COVID19. And, as it’s a new thing for most of us, if you wear a mask it encourages me to wear a mask. You protect me and I protect you. Everyone in our community needs to go out and have fun and socialize… but then when we are at work indoors or getting groceries, stopping into the bike shop or picking up our take-out, let’s wear a mask (Google how to wear a mask properly, of course). We now know people without symptoms of COVID-19 can be positive and without realizing it can spread the virus. So it’s good to see places in the community like Whistler Blackcomb making masks normal. We like to shop at Creekside Market where staff wears masks and many customers do, too. If we want to encourage the local economy and keep our jobs and businesses, then visitors and locals have to know Whistler is safe… or at least lower risk. Let’s make it our way of having good times, let’s make it our culture, that we keep others safe from COVID-19 because we wash our hands, watch our distance, AND WEAR A MASK. Leslie and Shep Alexander // Whistler

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The Sport Fish Advisory Board worked very hard since last year when Fraser River Chinook Management measures were put in place to make recommendations to DFO on recovery measures for the 4.2 and 5.2 spring chinook and 5.2 summer chinook stocks of concern. We asked for a recovery program that involved real actions, such as addressing water extraction, habitat degradation, pinniped predation, hatchery enhancement, enforcement of illegal in-river gillnets and selective fishing such as fish traps. I also personally met with [former] Minister [Jonathan] Wilkinson in May of 2019 to put forward these recommendations, even going so far as to put forward a written proposal by the Spruce City Wildlife Federation to aid in recovery that never received a response from the minister. So far, all you have announced is a smokeand-mirrors plan of massive closures without consultation that has proven to fail based on past management. Fishing restrictions have failed to save other salmon species such as early Stuart sockeye, Thompson coho and steelhead. During extensive meetings with DFO staff, the Sport Fish Advisory Board presented opportunities for mark selective fisheries for chinook salmon in areas of the South Coast that had a less than one-per-cent encounter rate with the chinook stocks of concern.

work done by your own department. This year I started doing chinook sampling for the DFO Avid Angler program. During days this spring, in a six-hour period of sampling chinook in Howe Sound and lower Georgia Straight, I caught and released 27 chinook between 55 centimetres and 81 cm in one outing. Several times this year I have sampled 12 to 15 chinook in three or four hours of fishing. The abundance of chinook in local waters is incredible, yet DFO chooses to ignore this and bring in management measures that are totally not science- and data-based. Minister, I urge you to immediately reconsider your decision and restore access to the public fishery to the abundant chinook salmon that can be caught by sport fishers in a very sustainable manner and take real recovery measures for chinook stocks of concern! Dave Brown // Squamish to Lillooet Sport Fish Advisory Board Vice-Chair

Wear a mask for others I’ve decided I’d like to rant a bit. We are up in Whistler and there are so few people wearing masks. I’ve chatted with a bunch of folks about the value of wearing them and am disappointed that we have a lot of friends who don’t like the idea and won’t [wear them]. My question is, “what can it hurt?”

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This would have created retention opportunities for the many healthy chinook salmon stocks that are in the South Coast waters. It would have protected critical social and economic opportunities for all Canadians. Now you have decided that one per cent still was not acceptable and closed. I ask you and your department, if a proposal that was built on DFO’s own science and data is not acceptable at one-per-cent encounter rate, then what is? You have put in place a politically driven, two-tier management system without consultation or scientific basis to only pander to the Marine Conservation Caucus (MCC) and Fraser River First Nations opposition to the public fishery. This unacceptable, politically driven decision will not be taken lightly by the public fishery and you will be held accountable for your management measures and complete failure to use science and data. I can tell you that from 20 years of fishing the South Coast and specifically the Howe Sound and Vancouver area for chinook salmon, that I have never seen so many chinook salmon in our local waters. There are abundant numbers of chinook from the Chilliwack/Vedder River, Puget Sound, summer 4-1 chinook and east coast of Vancouver Island rivers such as the Cowichan and Puntledge, along with significant improvements in Squamish chinook as a result of hatchery enhancement and improved habitat

Can all of the international epidemiologists, scientists, health professionals and the WHO be wrong? We are so proud (those of us in B.C.) of how we have “flattened the curve,” so why on Earth would we take the slightest gamble? It just seems absurd. Simply look 90 kilometres to the south! Look what’s happening down there because Americans feel it is their “right” to not wear face masks. So, how’s that working so far? When I go into a situation that doesn’t allow for social distancing, I wear a mask. Does it work? I’m not 100-per-cent sure. But I am 100-per-cent sure that it could. I’m wearing one for you and would like to ask you to please wear one for me and everybody else. I know that this is going to upset some of you and I don’t want an argument. Please don’t reply with reasons against wearing a mask. You’re not going to convince me. But I hope I convince you. If you need some more detail, visit here: ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/ still-confused-about-masks-heres-sciencebehind-how-face-masks-prevent. Unlike U.S. President Donald Trump and his hydroxychloroquine, what have you got to lose? Keep well. Chris Patrick // Whistler n

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Guilt, discomfort, and progress IN RECENT YEARS, it seems like Whistler’s community has been speaking out in the name of social justice more than ever. Last fall, hundreds showed up to a climate march, while earlier this month, hundreds again attended a Black Lives Matter rally in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

BY MEGAN LALONDE Every time I’ve attended one of these events I’ve felt my heart start to swell just a little with pride for this community I’ve come to call home. Time and time again, Whistler’s proved that when there’s something that really matters to us, we show up. That’s probably why I felt a small tinge of disappointment rather than the typical warm fuzzies when I showed up to Whistler Olympic Plaza to cover a vigil marking National Indigenous Peoples day on June 21. The event also honoured eight Indigenous Canadians who have died in police incidents in recent weeks. Instead of a crowd of hundreds, the people gathered under the Plaza’s overhang— practising physical distancing without even having to try—could be counted in the tens.

There were no RCMP representatives, or anyone from either of the First Nations on whose shared territory Whistler was built. I’m in no way trying to guilt or shame anyone who didn’t make it—just trying to make sense of my feelings about it. Part of my discomfort stems from the fact that some social movements, like climate strikes or Black Lives Matter, have occupied pretty prominent territory in the social conversation that Indigenous issues arguably haven’t. I’m not taking away from the significance of those issues, either—they deserve every ounce of attention they get and more—or insinuating that people in Whistler don’t care about First Nations. But while celebrities and influencers document protests and share “swipe-up” links to donate to organizations, I haven’t seen the systemic racism our country’s Indigenous people experience receiving the same treatment. Considering the discrepancy in turnouts between Whistler’s protests, it makes me question if the trendiness of a particular issue impacts how strongly people care about it. I guess my discomfort with the small crowd was mostly born from my own guilt. Growing up in suburban Ottawa, my interactions with Indigenous people were limited. I remember building longhouses and totem poles out of play-dough in elementary school. In high school, we learned about

Louis Riel, the Manitoban Métis leader who led rebellions against the Canadian government. I was so confused about why another nearby high school was named after him, if he was a criminal who was executed for treason. Most clearly, I remember the first-year university classroom where I learned what a residential school was. There could have been a mention of residential schools in our history textbook that I’m forgetting, but there’s no chance my Catholic high school fully exposed us to the horrors of what went on within their walls, largely at the hands of the same church we were expected to believe in. There was never any acknowledging that we were on anyone’s traditional unceded territory before announcements or assemblies. I remember sitting in that university class, stunned that no one had ever thought to tell me our country had done something so horrible. My jaw dropped a few inches lower when our professor informed us that the last residential school closed in 1996. I couldn’t, and still can’t wrap my head around the fact that something so obviously racist happened during my lifetime. As I learned more about residential schools and engrained racism over the next four years, my mind was blown with every fact and story I heard. I felt, and still feel, like there’s more I need to be doing to make up for this, but don’t know where to start.

Even now, as someone who likes to consider myself at least a little more knowledgeable about social issues than I was at 18, I’m still learning. I’m uncomfortable admitting it, but this was the first year I’d heard about National Indigenous Peoples Day. That said, Whistler is incredibly progressive when it comes to Indigenous relations, by most standards. The visibility of our local First Nations was already something that pleasantly surprised me when I first landed in town. Now, Whistler’s new Official Community Plan, adopted on June 23, contains historical contexts written by the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations and a chapter dedicated to reconciliation with both, and will also result in more development opportunities and enhanced visibility for both Nations. I can’t commend council enough for taking these unprecedented steps, but that progress doesn’t mean this town and those who live here can’t keep learning. It’s hard to forget the overwhelming guilt I felt when I first realized that my country wasn’t necessarily mine. While we can’t change the past, the least we can do (on Canada Day, nonetheless) is to show up, reflect on what more we can do as individuals and as a community to learn, make reparations and better support the peoples who called this incredible country home long before our relatives arrived and took it from them. ■

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More and more Whistlerites finding themselves in crisis WCSS SEES ‘ASTOUNDING’ NUMBERS OF FOOD BANK USERS, LOCALS IN CRISIS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS AS THE COVID-19 pandemic drags on, Whistlerites are feeling the strain. According to the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS), outreach workers have made 875 connections with community members since the pandemic began in mid-March—and have seen some concerning increases in the number of people who are in crisis. In February, pre-COVID-19, just 15 per cent of WCSS clients accessing services were “in crisis.” That number rose to 42 per cent in March, and an astounding 57 per cent in April. Numbers have yet to be compiled for May and June. “I would say it’s the unknowns that people are having trouble dealing with. The uncertainty, and the quick changes of things,” said interim WCSS executive director Lori Pyne. “Things are changing very quickly and people are having trouble keeping up with that, and that’s what we’re trying to normalize—is that it’s OK to not be OK, because everyone is feeling this way, and it’s important to know that everyone is going

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through it. I can’t reiterate that enough.” Since COVID-19 closures on March 16, the Whistler Food Bank has served 3,000 emergency food bags—just three short of the entire total for 2019. Many locals are accessing its services for the first time. “Thank you so much. Never had to do this before,” wrote one anonymous user to the WCSS. “Done lots of donations, personally and with work, but this was a humbling experience and I can not thank WCSS enough for their help. Twelve years in Whistler, trying to start a family. This helps more than you can ever know.” WCSS outreach workers are doing about 350 connections a month, Pyne said, boosted by the pivot to virtual counselling sessions, which can cut down on waiting times for clients. People are accessing services for many different reasons, she added. “We’ve seen a rise in domestic abuse. That’s not a secret … across Canada that’s happened, but we’ve noticed that in our statistics as well,” she said. “The other thing that’s interesting is a lot of people in the past have come to see us because they have concerns around housing, and those numbers have completely dropped, because there’s housing. There’s housing everywhere. “So now the anxiety is shifting to financial anxiety.” While the WCSS is open Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Pyne noted

that those in crisis situations should contact the BC Crisis Centre 24-Hour Support line (1-866-661-3311), the BC Suicide Support Line (1-800-784-2433) or Vancouver Coastal Health. In the view of Whistler Councillor Jen Ford, who sits on the WCSS board with Coun. Cathy Jewett, the organization has done “an amazing job” throughout the pandemic. “Oh boy have they ever come to the table in ways that we could never have expected,” Ford said. “They were nimble, and they moved programming around to make it work for the community … they did it so quickly, with such professionalism, and with the community really in the centre of everything that they did.” Despite the stress of a global pandemic, and record numbers of people accessing services, the WCSS team “is holding up really well,” Pyne said, and services that were previously suspended have now been restored. Fundraising efforts have been successful as well, she added. “We’re really honoured to be part of this community. Everyone has really stepped up,” Pyne said. “It’s been really, really amazing.” That being said, the WCSS is still looking for monetary donations, which afford it more buying power for the Food Bank, and can be directed towards necessary programming. “We’re still looking for donations

because of the uncertainty of the future, but we are prepared at this time to move forward and continue to serve our community,” Pyne said. “We are well positioned.” Find more info or make a donation at mywcss.org. Meanwhile, the Whistler Centre for Sustainability is working on a research project to make better use of food in the Sea to Sky corridor thanks to a provincial poverty reduction grant. “It’s a research project to really identify and understand what is the excess food that’s being created, where is it coming from, where is it going, what’s the need and demand now, and maybe in the anticipated future, what are the needs and demands for food programs,” said executive director Cheeying Ho. “How can the food that’s being generated be distributed through the region better, and help build the capacity of the existing organizations that are trying to deal with food distribution?” The $75,000 grant will help fund engagement with farmers, restaurants, grocers and other stakeholders in the corridor, as well as assessment of the current reality and strategies for the future. “It will benefit the service providers for sure, the food banks, etc., because they can be at capacity at times,” Ho said. “They’re really stretched, and they just don’t have the infrastructure and services to be able to do more.” n

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Reconciliation by committee ‘HISTORIC’ AGREEMENT EMPOWERS WHISTLER, FIRST NATIONS TO MOVE FORWARD IN PARTNERSHIP

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A NEW FRAMEWORK Agreement signed by local First Nations, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), Whistler Blackcomb and the provincial government provides a pathway to reconciliation, according to the signatories—but the conversation is far from finished. The agreement—signed on June 15 and announced by the province on June 26 following the adoption of Whistler’s updated Official Community Plan—expands on and supersedes previous understandings between the parties, including a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed in 2017 and a Protocol Agreement in 2018. It details the Emerald/Kadenwood land exchange, the formation of an Economic Development Committee and the potential development of Whistler Blackcomb Option Sites in partnership with the Nations—all of which were first mentioned in the 2017 MOU. “We’re creating a path forward around reconciliation, and unlocking the economic potential of the two Nations’ lands that we have within the valley,” said Squamish Nation Councillor and spokesperson Chris Lewis. “[It’s] creating a pathway forward in terms of how we would get there for the mutual benefit of everybody involved.” Key to the agreement is the Economic Development Committee (EDC), which is fundamental to the ongoing relationship between the parties, said Lil’wat Chief Dean Nelson, in an email. “In addition to the Working Group that was established by the previously signed MOU, the Economic Development Committee is another way of ensuring that First Nations’ interests in Whistler are continually heard and understood,” Nelson said. Where the MOU laid out key interests to be explored, “this is where we’re committing to these arrangements,” said outgoing Whistler chief administrative officer Mike Furey. “It’s an agreement between the parties that really provides for greater opportunities for the Lil’wat and Squamish to work with Whistler and the RMOW on economic development, tourism opportunities, and promoting cultural awareness. “Really, in my mind, it’s a reconciliation agreement between our communities.”

ECONOMIC POTENTIAL With the Kadenwood/Emerald swap (which was a straight land exchange, meaning

no money was included), the RMOW will receive the lands adjacent Emerald Estates, allowing it to finally restore access to the trails and other recreational opportunities in the area. The Lil’wat and Squamish will receive lands in the Kadenwood area— about nine hectares adjacent the existing development—on which the RMOW will support a new site-specific zone for “site sensitive and slope-responsive development of a mix of low- and mediumdensity detached duplex and townhouse dwellings that may also be used for tourist accommodation, with auxiliary residential dwelling units for employee housing,” as laid out in the OCP. “The Nations undertook a land-use planning exercise to get an understanding of what the land may support before approving this agreement,” Nelson said. “The land supports a development of between 40 and 60 units and the plan is to have a development that fits into the existing neighbourhoods. The Nations will have to rezone the parcel and the community of Whistler will have an opportunity to review and engage at that time.” Asked about the development value of the Kadenwood lands, Furey said it would depend on the timing, and how the Nations choose to pursue development. “If you look at that schedule in the OCP, it does talk about the opportunity for singlefamily dwellings, low- to medium-density in there,” he said. “So I don’t have any estimate on what the value would be, and it would be reflective of what the market is and the costs of servicing the lots, etc.” In terms of quantifying what the economic potential actually is for the Nations, there have been no targets laid out in terms of things like job creation or revenue growth at this point, Lewis said. “We’re going to have to have those discussions with the RMOW in terms of … density and build out, and all of those types of things,” he said.

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“Those particular sites are called options because the mountain has an option to purchase them from the province,” he said. “I know of no plans that the mountain has, or a timeline to look at developing those, but I can tell you they would go through a full rezoning process, and there would be obviously extensive community engagement on any development of those sites.” Asked about the appetite from Vail Resorts to move forward on the sites, Whistler Blackcomb’s director of community and government relations Sarah McCullough said the company is “laser focused” on its summer operations and the upcoming winter. “I think with what we don’t know, and what remains to be seen about the longerterm impacts of COVID-19, we don’t know what that means,” McCullough said. “And so I think it remains to be seen what that means for South Base (and the other Option Sites).” Vail Resorts has been focused on investing in existing infrastructure, she added, pointing to recent projects like the Blackcomb Gondola and upgrades to various lifts as one example. “That’s the focus right now,” she said. “Any development of the Option Sites including South Base would be guided by the new OCP, but right now we’re laser focused on Day 2 of summer [operations] and beyond.” From the Squamish Nation’s perspective, developing the sites would be a longer-term project, Lewis said. “Those are things that are a number

The EDC will be made up of one rep each from the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations, as well as two from the RMOW, and will serve multiple purposes: overseeing progress on the Kadenwood development and other projects; seeking longer-term development opportunities for the Nations on lands they own or may acquire in the future; facilitating an open and ongoing dialogue between the parties; and carrying out other responsibilities related to economic development opportunities for the First Nations. In the longer term, the committee will consider: the parties’ commitment to reconciliation, acknowledging that it has an economic component; tourism trends, market indicators and market demand (including affordability); Whistler Blackcomb’s MDAs and Master Plans, and the Option Sites identified within them; the need to balance resort and community capacity; and the growth principles outlined in Whistler’s new OCP. The agreement states that the EDC will meet at least once annually, and will attempt to make decisions by consensus. If consensus can’t be reached, the committee will proceed by majority vote, with the RMOW entitled to two votes and one each for the Squamish and Lil’wat. The EDC will provide updates and recommendations to the parties’ respective governments as required. While the core of the agreement is focused on the various economic considerations, the document also contains commitments from the RMOW to: promote a greater awareness and knowledge of the

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of years out, that we need to start having discussions with the [RMOW] in terms of how does it fit in with the OCP, how does it fit in with all of our goals and desires in relation to ensuring that we keep the integrity of the community, [and] keep the structure of a world-class resort,” he said, adding that it would be a matter for the EDC to discuss. “We’re really going to leave it up to the EDC to kind of figure out what the timeline is going to look like in terms of what’s going to be workable for all parties, in terms of ensuring that we get to a spot that’s mutually beneficial to everybody, and that it works within the growth of the resort, the growth of the valley and all of those types of things.” Added Nelson: “The Option Sites are identified in the OCP Schedule for First Nations development interests, however, Whistler Blackcomb will be taking the lead on these sites in the future.”

First Nations’ history in the valley; develop policies to protect archeological, heritage and other cultural sites; include the Nations on trail planning and maintenance; and strengthen the pedestrian experience between Whistler Village and the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre. The agreement between the parties is “historic,” said minister of municipal affairs and housing Selina Robinson, in a release. “After many years of negotiations and a lot of work on the part of the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations, the province, Resort Municipality of Whistler and Whistler Blackcomb, I am excited to see this agreement finalized,” Robinson said. “This step empowers the community to move forward with its partners on planning the future of Whistler, one of B.C.’s cherished resort destinations.” The agreement also formally removes the requirement for ministerial approval in future updates of Whistler’s OCP. n

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BY MEGAN LALONDE SEA TO SKY RCMP investigators are looking to confirm whether there are any additional victims of a long-time Whistler and Pemberton resident charged with sexually assaulting minors. Roger Amadio Molinaro, a 50-year-old Whistler man, was arrested in April of this year. He was charged on June 23 with two counts of sexual interference under the age of 16, one count of sexual interference under the age of 14, two counts of sexual assault under the age of 16, one count of invitation to sexual touching under the age of 16 and one count of invitation to sexual touching under the age of 14. The incidents allegedly occurred between 2007 and 2018, according to police. “While we have identified two victims, Sea-to-Sky RCMP is seeking to identify if there are any additional victims who may not have already come forward to police,” said Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes in a release. “For parents and guardians, this is an opportunity for you to speak with your children, regardless of their age, if you

believe they may have had contact with Mr. Molinaro at any point in their lives.” Pemberton RCMP launched the investigation in March of this year, immediately after receiving information regarding allegations of historical child sexual assault involving Molinaro.

feelings, and find some support within their community or within their families. And then to come forward when they’re ready.” In terms of concerned parents grappling with how best to broach this difficult topic with their children, Hayes acknowledged that guardians will have to cater their

“For parents and guardians, this is an opportunity for you to speak with your children ...” - PAUL HAYES

CHARGED Long-time Whistler resident Roger Amadio A publication ban has been put in place to protect the identity of the victims. In a follow-up call, Hayes confirmed Molinaro is not currently in police custody. Hayes encouraged any victims of sexual assault who are struggling with coming forward to “speak to someone that they trust, to work through those initial

approach to their child’s age, because “a lot of years have passed,” he said. “I think they need to sort of build that into the way they communicate with the child and try to be open and honest, as much as they can, about what they’re trying to seek out in terms of information.” RCMP ask anyone with information

Molinaro has been charged with several counts of sexual interference, sexual assault and sexual touching involving minors. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PEMBERTON RCMP

about this case to contact their local police department, the Pemberton RCMP detachment at 604-894-6634, Whistler RCMP at 604 932-3044, or Crimestoppers. n

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Whistler council to start renaming process for Squaw Valley Crescent RESOLUTION EXPECTED JULY 7; LOCAL FIRST NATIONS TO GUIDE PROCESS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS FOR MARY SANAGAN, giving out the address for her new home on Squaw Valley Crescent in Creekside is often an embarrassing exercise. “Usually, honestly, I apologize after I say it when I’m talking to anybody,” Sanagan said with a laugh. “The word is undeniably an ethnic slur. Like, I wince every time I have to say it … I’m surprised this is still a conversation.” Sanagan is far from the first to raise the issue. The last time it was broached, council was receptive to finding a new name, with Mayor Jack Crompton suggesting the local First Nations be involved in the renaming process (see Pique, Aug. 19, 2019: “Is Whistler’s Squaw Valley Crescent going to get a new name?”). In the past, officials have pointed out many street names in Whistler are named after past Olympic hosts—in this case, the 1960 Olympic Winter Games hosted by Squaw Valley, Calif.

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READY TO RECONCILE Whistler’s Squaw Valley Crescent could soon have a new name. FILE PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS

But with officials of that resort now exploring a name change themselves, the time has come to make the change in Whistler. At the July 7 council meeting, Crompton will introduce a resolution to begin the process of renaming the street. “This is a conversation we’ve been having with the Nations for some time. I’m grateful for their partnership and leadership

moving forward,” Crompton said, adding that the actual logistics of changing the name—from the legalities, to the impact on residents and the process of finding a new name—will be explored through the resolution (if it’s successful). “That’s part of the resolution, is to begin the process and return to us with that information,” Crompton said, adding that

he “expects and hopes” that residents of the street will have input. The announcement comes on the heels of the adoption of Whistler’s “historic” Official Community Plan and a corresponding Framework Agreement (see page 15), which place a strong focus on reconciliation with the local Lil’wat and Squamish Nations. “Reconciliation isn’t something you just talk about, it’s something that you do, and this is certainly one step in that very long journey,” Crompton said. “Naming says something about what we value, and making changes like this make a statement about our values, in my opinion.” For Sanagan, and others who have asked that the name be changed over the years, the resolution would be welcomed. “I’d be very happy, and proud of our mayor and town council to make that decision,” Sanagan said. “This should be part of our reconciliation process that we have with the Nations, and we should involve [them]. We’re lucky enough to have the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre here in town, why not engage them in a dialogue on the new name?” n

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Whistler council endorses mutual aid agreement COUNCIL BRIEFS: HYDRO TRUCK PURCHASE APPROVED; INTER-MUNICIPAL RIDE-HAILING BYLAWS ADOPTED

BY BRADEN DUPUIS FOLLOWING AN ORDER from the provincial government, municipalities in the Sea to Sky are working together to safeguard first responder, wastewater and drinking water services during the COVID-19 pandemic. At its June 23 meeting, Whistler council authorized a Mutual Aid Agreement that will allow the sharing of resources between Whistler, Squamish, Pemberton and Lions Bay. Under the agreement, if one municipality is unable (or expects to be unable) to provide adequate sanitary wastewater management or drinking water to its residents, it can request resources from another community. However, there is no obligation to provide requested resources if a municipality is unable to do so. The agreement also allows for cost recovery if Whistler were to loan equipment or people to another community, and vice versa. “While the ministerial order was speaking to specifically to the time during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was felt that this is a pretty worthwhile idea to have in place

for a longer term,” said general manager of infrastructure James Hallisey. “So we’ve put a five-year term on this, and that seems like a good step forward.” The agreement itself isn’t unique; Whistler already has first responder mutual aid agreements in place with Squamish, Pemberton and the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District communities of Black Tusk Village and Pinecrest Estates. “But what we’re looking at tonight is a new agreement that is for sanitary wastewater and drinking water resources,” Hallisey said. “This is something that none of us had before.”

HYDRO TRUCK PURCHASE APPROVED Council also approved the purchase of a new hydro excavation truck at the June 23 meeting. The contract for $565,491 was awarded to Burnaby-based Vimar Equipment. “It’s a critical piece of equipment in our fleet, and a valuable emergency responder to our community,” said central services supervisor Paul Klein, in a presentation to council. The new truck replaces one of the

busiest pieces of day-to-day and emergency responding equipment in the entire RMOW fleet, according to a staff report. On average, the truck is in use nine months a year, operating about 1,000 hours out of a possible 1,492 working hours. Having one in the municipal fleet also helps “recover costs” for internal departments, Klein said. “It’s hired by internal departments to tackle their hydro excavation needs at a very economical hourly cost as well as eliminating extra costs of contracting one out from the city,” he said. “The ones that come up from the city have a premium hourly charge; there’s also transport costs that are associated with it that can be up to $800 more just for getting the truck up and down the Sea to Sky (Highway) to us.” The new truck replaces an existing 12-year-old unit (which is expected to fetch $100,000 at auction, Klein said). RMOW staff did consider leasing options for the truck given the current economic realities of COVID-19, but “the leasing that was offered was going to cost us upwards of $30,000 to engage over the cost of the term,” Klein said. “We felt it was going to be a much better approach for us to actually go for the buy outright seeing as it was within our

approved budget for this vehicle.”

INTER-MUNICIPAL RIDE-HAILING BYLAWS ADOPTED Council also adopted bylaws allowing ridehailing companies to operate in multiple jurisdictions on June 23. The bylaws—part of an Inter-Municipal Business Licence (IMBL) agreement with 24 other municipalities in the Sea to Sky, Lower Mainland and beyond—will allow a central licensing authority (in this case the City of Vancouver) to issue licenses to ridehailing companies, which can then operate in any participating communities. A public comment period garnered no input. While only two ride-hailing companies— Whistle and Lyft—were previously issued Whistler business licences, with the IMBLs adoption, all nine ride-hailing companies currently approved for the region are able to apply for a licence. The proposed annual IMBL fee is $155 per company plus vehicle fees of $150 per standard vehicle, $30 per zero-emission vehicle and $0 per wheelchair-accessible vehicle. Revenue will be shared amongst participating municipalities. n

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Furey reflects on nine years at RMOW COLLABORATION KEY IN WHISTLER’S POST-COVID FUTURE, OUTGOING CAO SAYS

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nine-year tenure as chief administrative officer for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), there wasn’t much talk of salacious scandals, internal dissent, or mass outrage from the community. There were challenges, sure, and missteps, as well as warranted criticisms from council watchers—but no controversies so large that they overpowered the municipality’s authority to govern, as it could be argued has been the case in the past. “I did sort of take that approach … to not be creating headlines that there is a lot of turmoil, and challenges,” Furey said. “[I was] trying to create more an environment of stability, and a continuity of good governance and service delivery.” For many, the inner-workings of

EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING Anyone who has come within earshot of a Whistler council meeting in the past decade should be familiar with the phrase “evidence-based decision-making.” In the months and years following Furey’s recruitment to the RMOW, it would become the driving force behind all policy decisions at municipal hall. The idea was to look at research and data analysis as an important foundation for strategic planning, Furey said. “That part was important for me, but also balancing that off with trying to understand the community’s perspective, and different groups in the community’s perspective, on the various issues that were facing us,” he said. “And really trying to combine the sort of empirical analysis with the input from community members and community organizations.”

“Whistler is very fortunate in that it has a very engaged community.” - MIKE FUREY

municipal government are not a sexy topic—a fact not lost on Furey. “A lot of people may find the operations of governments and the mundane policies sort of tedious, but I’ve always felt that government and particularly public policy was one of the more important callings you could have,” said Furey, who has worked in the public sector across all levels of government over a 34-year career. Good governance is particularly relevant in the current context of COVID-19—and in comparison with how other jurisdictions have handled it, Furey said. “In today’s world, there is a lot of turmoil happening all across the globe, and particularly (with) our neighbours to the south … I don’t think people take it for granted, but having a strong order of government and the recognition of the importance of our social programs, and even our taxation, as contributing to the great society that we have (is important),” he said. “Having that stable and orderly government is what makes our country able to respond in a very compassionate and empathetic way to things like the coronavirus.” With his final council meeting on June 23, Furey is officially retired from the RMOW, and new CAO Virginia Cullen has taken the reins—but his impact will no doubt be felt for years to come.

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That balance isn’t always easily achieved, as evidenced by the community opposition to housing projects in certain neighbourhoods as of late. “Whistler is very fortunate in that it has a very engaged community … I think we have over 125 local volunteers on our committees, and they’ve been instrumental in informing our decisionmaking,” Furey said, adding that there has been challenges in finding a balance between localized neighbourhood interests and the overall wellbeing of the community in regards to some of the aforementioned housing projects. “We certainly appreciate that when something comes into an individual’s neighbourhood, we want to understand and take into account their views, but at the same time … trying to balance that off while the community does have a significant housing challenge,” he said. “And it’s very difficult to find the perfect location, that meets all parties’ interests, including the taxpayers.” Though the decisions are council’s to make in the end, Furey’s emphasis from the beginning was on evidence-based decisionmaking, “and using research and data analysis to inform staff’s advice to council,” he said.

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 30 Key, too, was the strengthening of resort partnerships. “One of the other things I’ve focused on was partnership and collaboration, both with the partners within the community but (also) outside and with the provincial government, and also working with our First Nations partners in the corridor,” he said.

RECORD-BREAKING SUCCESS, UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES When Furey joined the RMOW in 2011, “the community was facing pretty strong economic headwinds,” he recalled. “There were a lot of ideas on how to go forward, and how to respond to that, and with the Economic Partnership Initiative (EPI) that we brought together, that has resort partner leaders involved in it and a lot of community engagement involved in it, we really went back to basics.” By applying the evidence-based decision-making lens to Whistler’s economic engine—tourism—Furey and the RMOW were able to identify things like gaps in visitation, and where the best return-oninvestment was in terms of marketing. A focus on attracting world-class attractions like the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and Ironman Canada helped transform Whistler into a year-round tourism powerhouse, while keying in on cultural

tourism offerings like the Audain Art Museum helped round out the resort’s offerings. The work of the EPI, in part, lead to a record-breaking 3.4 million visitors to Whistler in 2018. “There wasn’t a specific (visitation) target that was in mind at that time,” Furey recalled. “And it certainly wasn’t just the work of the EPI; it was global factors like the U.S. exchange rate, and Tourism Whistler marketing and Whistler Blackcomb investments, etc.” But with the success came consequences, most notably in the form of a housing crunch that hit the community hard in late 2015. The response from municipal hall at the time was to form the Mayor’s Task Force on Resident Housing, with a mandate to address the issue—but there were broader lessons as well. “I think we sort of learned from that, and this you’ll see embedded in the OCP, is [the concept of] balanced community capacity,” Furey said. “It’s really trying to find the balance between maintaining Whistler as a wonderful place to live and play, with maintaining a healthy and strong economy.”

COVID CHAOS For all the peace and order that defined Furey’s tenure, the COVID-19 pandemic has turned the resort on its head. The pandemic has added a convoluted sidebar to the narrative of Whistler’s success, “but at the same time, I think COVID offers

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an opportunity to revisit and continue to work on a balanced resort capacity, and refresh the ideas coming out of [the Official Community Plan],” Furey said. “I still believe the OCP, which was developed pre-COVID, is as relevant today as it ever was in terms of maintaining the core of Whistler’s strengths around our environment and our mountain culture, etc.” On the topic of COVID, another priority for Furey during his tenure was emergency response planning, he said—including wildfire mitigation, evacuation planning and more. Investments into the RMOW’s Emergency Operations Committee helped set the municipality up for success when worse came to worst. “When COVID did arrive, I felt we were as prepared as we could have been, and the Emergency Operations Committee just hit the ground running,” Furey said. It also helped that the RMOW was in a strong fiscal position at the outset of the pandemic, he added. “We did take a significant hit on our revenue sources, but I think we are able to be in a place of some stability in this storm to plan for the future.” And speaking of the future, it’s hard to say when or if Whistler will return to its former tourism glory once the pandemic finally flames out. “One of the keys to success going forward is already in place, and that’s the collaboration between the resort partners, which has never

been more important,” Furey said. “There is lots of diverse views in the community, and with the different resort partners, but I think overall there is an underlying consensus on making Whistler a world-class resort and preserving and building that mountain culture.”

MOVING ON While Furey is “retiring” from the RMOW, he’s not ready to call it a career just yet. “I think I have more to contribute on the work side, and I generally think I’m more programmed for work than play,” he said. “I’m hoping to find more balance around that.” In the meantime, he and his family will be staying in Whistler. Asked for his highlights from his time with the RMOW, Furey had a long list of projects and achievements of note—work on housing, securing Resort Municipality Initiative funding, adopting the Official Community Plan, and enhanced relations with local First Nations among them—but the dedication of municipal staff tops the list. “That’s been a great part of the last nine years, and really trying to create an environment where staff had the room to be innovative; I tried to support failures and support things we weren’t successful at, because that’s how you enable innovation,” he said. “And I tried to demonstrate on a daily basis that I had staff’s best interests in mind constantly.” n

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SCOPE OF WORK: The scope of work shall include the construction of a new single storey wood framed health and administration building. The new 423 m2 (4,553 ft2) building will include a Community Health / Multipurpose Room, staff kitchen, reception, offices, medical exam / treatment spaces, offices, administration spaces, and general support spaces.

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The construction includes concrete slab on grade, wood framing and engineered wood trusses. The entry area and exterior canopy feature glulam and t+g wood decking. Exterior site works will include clearing and grubbing, stripping, subgrade preparation, grading, landscaping, concrete sidewalks, gravel parking area, generator and garbage enclosure, BC Hydro and sanitary services, septic field, water connection and storm infrastructure.

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TENDER CLOSING: Sealed tenders will be received at the offices of David Nairne + Associates Ltd. at 250-171 West Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3J9 on or before 23 July, 2020, 2:00pm P.S.T.

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Tender Documents are available online at the Regional Construction Association / Bid Central websites. Tender documents will be available on and after 2pm P.S.T on 30 June 2020. Contact Sharon Russell at David Nairne + Associates Ltd. reception (604.984.3503) for registration. All other inquiries / RFI, please contact: Sal Gallagher by email at sgallagher@davidnairne.com

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Extending temporary layoff provision ‘huge win,’ says Whistler Chamber EMPLOYERS RELYING HEAVILY ON FOREIGN STAFF STILL WORRIED ABOUT RECRUITMENT

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THE HEAD OF the Whistler Chamber of Commerce is calling the B.C. government’s decision to further extend the province’s temporary layoff provision a “huge win” after businesses feared paying out severance during the pandemic would have dealt them another devastating financial blow. Victoria made the decision to extend the layoff period from 16 to a maximum of 24 weeks, expiring Aug. 30, after hearing from business leaders that a wave of terminations would have crippled them financially. “Depending on the size of your business, [paying severance] could be from a few thousand dollars to over $100,000,” explained Whistler Chamber CEO Melissa Pace. “When you look at that and you understand how difficult revenue is for businesses, let alone payout on top of loss of revenue, it’s huge.” The extension is meant to give employers and their staff added flexibility to support economic recovery with the idea that businesses will reach agreements with their employees in the event a further extension is required. “This extension will provide even more certainty and flexibility,” said B.C. labour minister Harry Bains, in a release. “This will also give additional time to ensure that employers and workers are able to craft agreements if there is a need to further extend temporary layoffs, while still protecting workers’ rights to compensation for length of service. “Employers who are not able to return to full operations and need additional time can do so with agreement from their employees, but we expect those employees will be recalled when operations have resumed.” Employers and workers have the ability to extend temporary layoffs by making a joint application to the Employment Standards Branch. Bains added that it is “important to ensure that workers know they have to be involved in the agreement with the employer” and have the right to decline the layoff and accept the compensation they are entitled to. According to the chamber’s most recent survey, 11 per cent of responding Whistler businesses said that not extending the layoff period would have either forced them into insolvency or prohibited them from reopening. Thirty-four per cent of those surveyed said it would have forced

them to terminate valued, long-serving staff, while 42 per cent said the cost of rehiring and training new staff would put the viability of their business in question. Even still, Pace was clear that the layoff provision held more weight to some local businesses than others, depending on their respective situations. Alistair Cray, GM of Whistler Cooks Catering, said that, because much of its foreign, seasonal staff was forced to leave the country when COVID19 hit, the company was able to hire back a core team of full-time employees to work as business levels rose incrementally. “There’s been only a couple of people who decided to go in another direction [in agreeing to be terminated], so actually, the layoff piece itself hasn’t had a huge impact on us,” Cray said. Businesses that rely more heavily on foreign workers, such as Whistler’s hotel sector, are faced with a distinct dilemma as rubber-tire traffic looks to pick up this summer. With many frontline foreign workers waiting out the pandemic in their home countries, hoteliers are worried they won’t have the necessary staffing in place to weather the expected bump in visitation this summer. “If the business starts running even into strong weekends, who is going to provide that coverage, because we’ll all be looking at the same hiring pool of staff?” asked Hotel Association of Whistler president Saad Hasan. “That is certainly a concern for all the hotel members. Where are we going to get the staff to do the frontline jobs?” Temporary Foreign Workers are permitted to continue travelling to Canada, and Ottawa has also committed to improving the program’s flexibility and remove red tape for employers. But convincing foreign workers to travel at the height of a global pandemic could prove difficult. Hotels are pivoting to focus recruitment on local and regional employees, but Hasan said enticing nearby workers, particularly frontline staff, to Whistler is not as easy as some might expect. “When you start getting into the management and supervisory positions, maybe there’s a career interest that kicks in and people may choose to do that. But if you’re looking at the frontline level, where a lot of our frontline staff comes here to ski, to mountain bike, to work and enjoy all that, you can [do much of that] in Vancouver,” he noted. “That enticement is not as much as one would think.” n

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RELIEF GRANT Long-time Whistler tour company Japanada Enterprises was one of 62 businesses across Canada that recently received a $10,000 grant to help innovate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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BY BRANDON BARRETT THEY SAY NECESSITY is the mother of invention, and as the head of a tour company that relies on steady international traffic, Hisae Yanagisawa had to get creative to stay afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Until March, our main customers were tourists coming from Japan, but now we need to target other people, like people in the province, but we still want to provide tours for hiking and camping,” explained Yanagisawa, who has run in-bound tour operator, Japanada Enterprises, with her husband for the past 23 years. With her business trickling to “almost zero” during the pandemic, Yanagisawa has had to pivot her business model—an effort that will be bolstered by a $10,000 national grant provided by the Canadian Business Resilience Network, in partnership with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and software company Salesforce. Salesforce has also provided similar grants to businesses in the U.S., U.K., and Australia. Japanada was one of 62 recipients selected from more than 1,100 small businesses across Canada that applied. Recipients were those that best demonstrated the financial strain they’ve experienced and how the company will use the grant to innovate during COVID19, according to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. “[Yanagisawa] is one of these chamber members that just lets us do our work,” said Whistler Chamber of Commerce CEO Melissa Pace. “She understands the significance of a chamber, so I thought this whole story is super cool. To be one of 62 businesses across all of Canada, I was really

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excited to see what she got out of that.” In operation since 1987, Japanada handles roughly 5,000 clients a year, arranging guided ski trips, hiking and camping tours, accommodation and language interpreters. Now, Yanagisawa said the company would ramp up its marketing efforts to regional and provincial guests—Japanese or otherwise—as well as expanding the selection of products available for sale in its retail shop, and offering a new baggage storage service. “We have an office space in the Westin and we used to use it as a tour desk, but now we are putting more weight on the retail and hoping to carry artworks by local artists,” she said, adding that the store will also expand its inventory of camping gear. While acknowledging the challenges that still lie ahead, Yanagisawa said there continues to be strong demand from the Japanese market to visit Whistler. “We’ve been having inquiries for the winter and even the summer,” she said. “We have a big school student group come year after year so we are getting those inquiries but they’re just waiting for the border [to reopen].” Along with the much-needed financial boost the $10,000 grant provides, Yanagisawa is also grateful for the show of support it symbolizes. “We are really thankful to be selected for this grant,” she said. “It definitely helps to make the changes that we need to right now, but it doesn’t only mean financial support. It means the kindness of others and encouragement to me, and that means a lot.” Japanada is located in the Shops at the Westin, and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit japanada.com for more information. n

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Mount Currie receives grant for used-oil recycling facility LIL’WAT-LED ZERO-WASTE GROUP LOOKS TO INSTALL SIMILAR FACILITIES IN OTHER INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES

BY BRANDON BARRETT MOUNT CURRIE is the first Indigenous community in B.C. to receive an infrastructure grant from the BC Used Oil Management Association towards a return collection station—and the Lil’wat are now working with other First Nations to install similar facilities. The six-metre modified sea container, which has been in place in Mount Currie for several months, helps facilitate the collection and recycling of used oil and antifreeze filters and containers. “Because we’re one of the bigger nations, we have a lot of used oil that comes in to our transfer stations,” explained Calvin Jameson, the Lil’wat’s public works superintendent and president of the Indigenous Zero Waste Technical Advisory Group (IZWTAG). “We did have one at the previous gas station, an oil tank there, but

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the corporations were getting annoyed because [people] would drop off their full jugs and wouldn’t dump them out or anything, so they always had to clean it up.”

behalf of the First Nations communities to make it easy for us and other recycling organizations to work with them,” said Lawes. “As well, they have some collective

“If we don’t start cleaning up our reserves, where are our children going to be in 10 years?” - CALVIN JAMESON

The grant was for approximately $25,000, said David Lawes, CEO of the BC Used Oil Management Association, which also recently became the first associate member of the IZWTAG, a nonprofit founded last year by Jameson and others with a mandate to assist and train First Nations in implementing zero-waste programs. The group is currently working with more than 60 communities across the province. “I see it being a coordinated effort on

initiatives and an action plan that they’re working on and we want to support.” Installing more return collection facilities like the one in Mount Currie is just one benefit of the partnership with IZWTAG, Lawes added. “That’s one of the obvious practical results we hope to get, but there are other things, too: province-wide communication with the First Nations communities; we see [IZWTAG] being the home of all that,” he said. “I also really like the training aspect

that they’re talking about putting together to be able to go into communities and train local people on how to operate the depots.” Jameson said he was proud to see the Lil’wat being such an integral part of IZWTAG’s work, and he’s hopeful to play a role in improving how waste is collected and managed in different First Nations communities. “We have burnt our garbage throughout some of the First Nations and we’d put the garbage in the ground. Well, that contaminates our drinking water,” he said. “Part of being the public works superintendent is also being a water operator … So if we don’t start cleaning up our reserves, where are our children going to be in 10 years?” Each year, approximately 50 million litres of oil and 3 million litres of antifreeze are collected and managed through the BC Used Oil Management Association. “We’re looking to put more of these facilities into similar communities, so if anyone is interested, give us a call,” Lawes added. To learn more about IZWTAG and its mission, visit izwtag.com. Read about the BC Used Oil Management Association at bcusedoil.com. n

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This well-treed, flat, agricultural lot has a peaceful creek meandering the property and offers complete privacy, beautiful mountain views and nature at your doorstep. With an existing driveway, the possibilities are endless!

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Reflections from an elder in isolation I’M FORTUNATE. This slowdown is giving me time with my grandchildren who are with me, and to think about what has mattered most in my life, what has given me the greatest joy and satisfaction, and where I hope the world may go after I’m gone. As an older male, I’m in the population facing the highest risk from COVID-19, but my reflections on this pandemic go beyond my own life and death. Difficult as it is now, this pandemic will subside and we’ll be able to think about how to move forward. This is a challenge for all people. I’ve always been struck by science-fiction

BY DAVID SUZUKI movies in which alien invaders arrive and begin killing humans. Governments worldwide unite against a common enemy as ethnic, religious, economic and political differences fall away. Maybe COVID-19 is the alien invader that could unite our species. But the pandemic is just one of several dangers we face. Collectively, these offer an opportunity to reset priorities and direction for ourselves and society. My parents married in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Those were difficult times, but work, family and community got them through. “You have to work hard for the necessities in life, but don’t run after money as if having a new car, a big house or fancy clothes makes you a better or more important person,” they often said. Money is not the goal of existence; the goal is a life well-lived.

joined more than 1,600 senior scientists from 71 countries to sign the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity. “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course… Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about,” it stated. Humanity did not act. Twenty-five years later, more than 16,000 scientists signed a second warning, saying the planet’s state has grown worse and we must act with urgency. Still little or no action. In October 2018, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report warned that a rise of more than 1.5 C above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100 would make it difficult or impossible to adapt to and cope with climate chaos. We’re now heading toward 3 to 5 C warming! You’d think that would be big news. But shortly after the report came out, Canada legalized cannabis, and that pushed aside other news, including the possible collapse of our species. In May 2019, a UN study reported human activities threaten a million plant and animal species with imminent extinction. But, Prince Harry and Meghan had a baby and media stories about extinction—including our own—vanished. A trifecta of economic crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, stock market troubles and plummeting oil prices—is exposing systemic flaws. Nature is already responding to the pandemic-induced slowdown: cleaner air over China, clearer waters in Venice’s canals, smog-free skies in Los Angeles and more. But it’s likely temporary. If we could take a different path, away from the impossible dream that unbridled consumption and endless growth are necessary for progress,

NOTICE OF ONLINE PUBLIC INFORMATION AND INPUT OPPORTUNITY REGARDING REZONING APPLICATION RZ1169 A PROPOSAL TO SECURE KEY FOOD AND BEVERAGE LOCATIONS THROUGH ZONING The Resort Municipality of Whistler invites interested members of the public to participate in an online public information and input opportunity for this rezoning application. In-person public open houses have currently been paused during the COVID-19 pandemic. RZ1169 proposes to implement zoning amendment bylaw(s) and land use contract amendment bylaw(s) to restrict key food and beverage locations in the Whistler Village and Whistler Creek core commercial areas that are considered important to the resort experience and local tourism economy, to such use only. The Whistler Village and Whistler Creek core commercial areas are illustrated on the map attached to this notice. The purpose of this online public information and input opportunity is to provide the public with information about Rezoning Application RZ1169, and the opportunity to provide input in the form of written comments, prior to Council’s further consideration of the application. For information on Rezoning Application RZ1169, refer to the RMOW website www.whistler.ca/RZ001169 or contact the Planning Department at 604-935-8170 / planning@whistler.ca. To provide input on the application members of the public are asked to provide written comments. Your name(s) and residence address (or business address if applicable) must be included. Please note that your comments will form part of the public record for this rezoning application. Comments can be submitted via email to planning@ whistler.ca or by mail to the RMOW at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler BC V8E 0X5 c/o the Planning Department. To ensure the consideration of your views at this stage, your written comments must be received on or before July 25, 2020.

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A trifecta of economic crises—the COVID-19 pandemic, stock market troubles and plummeting oil prices—is exposing systemic flaws.

We’ve had multiple calls to change our ways because the sum of human activity has become toxic to the planet’s life-support systems. But we’re caught in political and economic systems that render environmentalists as “special interests” with impossible agendas. Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring documented the ecological impacts of pesticides like DDT. It appeared to be a powerful tool to control insect pests, but we didn’t understand its full implications. We still don’t know enough about how the world works to anticipate the repercussions of our powerful ideas and inventions. In 1992, before the Rio Earth Summit, more than half of living Nobel laureates

we might find our way to a different future. Can we relearn what humanity has known since our beginnings, that we live in a complex web of relationships in which our very survival and well-being depend on clean air, water and soil and biological diversity? Or will we celebrate the passing of the pandemic with an orgy of consumption and a drive to get back to the way things were before? In this disaster lies an opportunity to reflect and change direction in the hope that if we do, nature will be generous. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. ■

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Opening Day, Whistler, 2025 FEW THINGS are more heartwarming than the annual mid-summer ritual of Whistler Blackcomb’s (WB) reopening.

BY LESLIE ANTHONY Depending on the magnitude and reach of the previous winter’s pandemic outbreaks, climate change catastrophes, and global social unrest, the actual date can range anywhere from May to August. But no matter when the rope finally drops, rest assured that legions of hiking-, biking- and sightseeingstarved tourists and locals alike will descend upon these two majestic peaks in the Coast Range to reclaim their outdoor entitlements. In fact, the wife and I did so just yesterday. Let me tell you how it went. On an uncharacteristically sunny day of somewhat blazing heat (meaning, somewhere north of the mean June-uary temperature of 15˚C) we arrive at Blackcomb Base to challenge the formidable Ascent Trail and ride the lift back down. This will require picking up previously ordered passes at Guest Services. Finding our place in the physically distanced, 100-metre-long lineup of creatively masked humans vying for both passes and lift-ride day tickets, we

FIRST STEPS Better late than never, Whistler Blackcomb is officially open for the 2020 summer season. PHOTO BY LESLIE ANTHONY

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settle in for the hour-long wait. This lasts all of two minutes. With the trail tantalizingly close, it seems more to the point of exercise, enjoyment and Shinrin-yoku to forgo any illusion of slothful lift-riding in favour of just hiking up the damn trail to whatever point our jellied limbs can manage, then turning around and walking back down. By then, the pass line-up will be reasonable and we can rejoin it. A friendly, masked WB employee staking out the several-kilometrelong lift corral concurs with this brilliant strategy and up we go. Upon our first steps into the cool of the forest, the magic of nature-bathing is rekindled. Our nostrils flare at the primitive miasma of dirt and detritus, our eyes wander up and down the vertical bricolage of bark and greenery rooted in a mossy carpet that was once—before the now biblical annual rains of March, April, May and June—wellfossilized by this time of year. There are other plants as well, manifold in their variety, at least according to the PlantSnap app I point at several unfamiliar leaf clusters. (Did you know we have serviceberry in Whistler?) Wildlife cavorts around us—slugs, blackflies and crows all immersed in their respective natural rhythms of sliming their way toward a meal of animal feces, attacking foolishly exposed neck veins, and screaming righteous indignation at our presence. Only the large brown-colouredblack-bear we encounter reacts differently than the non-reaction we expect: looking up from where it grazes clover in the chest-high grass of a meadow linking chunks of betweenski-run forest, the bear pricks its round little

ears and nose toward the offensive sounds and noisome smells we doubtless emit as if to say, in the well-understood body-language of bears who’ve been deliriously free of loud, intrusive humans for months, What the flying f*ck? Also during open grassy breaks, we spot the patient gentry who’d waited in line for lift-tickets, now slung overhead. As they zip past in their COVID-bubble groups some can be seen pointing at us in the timehonoured way of sightseers everywhere that says: Look—people are actually walking down there! We beam with pride. Not to make too much of it, but this gesticulation means that all is suddenly right with the world (at least here) as the natural balance between tourists and locals has been instantaneously restored. Upward we forge, perhaps taking more pleasure in having circumvented both a lineup and the presence of fellow humans than we should. That is soon shattered by a group of six non-physically distanced teenagers who are genuinely worried that the fearsome sound of a WB lawnmowercum-bushwhacker that just roared to life was actually a bear. Moving off the trail to avoid their chattering slipstream, we assure the wide-eyed, out-of-element pilgrims they are safe, and loved, and that the real bear we have just passed would never deign to make such a noise. Oddly, this seems to deliver little comfort. No matter, it’s a lovely day in the trail’s womb-like enclave and after reaching its midpoint, we snack on dried

thingies recovered from the bottom of a pack where they’d been stashed during a previous pandemic survival blitz, and then continue—at a much greater pace now— back down the marvellously maintained trail with its well-constructed stone and wooden steps, quaint bridges over charming bogs, and informative interpretive signage. Occasionally we encounter huffing, GrouseGrinder types—like a shirtless, running Adonis showing off his quarantine abs, and a couple training with ski poles no longer used for skiing. They all seem equally happy to be sprung from Netflix hell by the coincidental opening of WB and the sudden reappearance of the star at the centre of our decaying solar system. Back at the bottom, we happily join the now much-shortened pass line, chatting amiably (albeit muffled) from behind our buff/homemade-mask combo with people wearing their own duct-tape creations, purchases, plexiglass visors or surgical handouts from WB staff—the latter whom must be commended not only for jaunty mask wearing and hand-sanitizer distribution (much like the intake at the Whistler Health Care Centre) but a friendly, conversational and helpful manner in the face of the inevitable cranky or pushy postlockdown customer. But of course, these folks are pros in dealing with the restless human energy of opening day—whenever it might come. Leslie Anthony is a Whistler-based author, editor, biologist and bon vivant who has never met a mountain he didn’t like. ■

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FEATURE STORY

The drive to preserve

the Lil’wat language New mobile recording studio is contributing to efforts to ensure the Ucwalmícwts language flourishes BY ALYSSA NOEL

In mid-March, Valerie

St-Arnaud and her husband Dave Leveille found themselves hurtling cross-country in a large, black RAM Promaster van during not just a snowstorm, but also a burgeoning pandemic. The couple had just purchased the van from Ontario and were in the process of bringing it back home to Pemberton. “We were at our family’s house in Quebec and heard about social distancing, but we had to bring the van in 10 days because our registration was expiring,” St-Arnaud explains. “We did the road trip across Canada and there was no one on the road. It was just the two of us. We got back on March 23 just in time. There was a huge snowstorm and we were freaking out.” Fast forward a few short months and not only has so much changed globally, but the couple has also completely transformed the van in that time. JULY 2, 2020

Johnny Jones, cultural technician with the Lil’wat Nation’s lands and resources department. PHOTO BY VALERIE ST-ARNAUD

Lil’wat Nation elder Priscilla Ritchie records Ucwalmícwts words in the Bonding Beaver Media van studio with Lexlixatkwa (Maya) Nelson, a student who is helping with recording efforts. PHOTO BY VALERIE ST-ARNAUD

On Thursday, June 18, the van officially began to fulfill its destiny as a mobile recording studio as part of Bonding Beaver Media— St-Arnaud and Leveille’s company that aims to foster and support the preservation of Indigenous languages through multimedia—when they travelled to the home of Lil’wat Nation elder Priscilla Ritchie to record. “It’s beautiful,” Ritchie says about her first impression of the van. “It’s neat to have it come to my place instead of trying to find a way to get [to a recording studio].”

MOBILE IMMERSION St-Arnaud first began working with the Lil’wat Nation around five years ago when she came on board as a contractor to help edit down 200 hours of film into a one-hour movie. “I volunteered a lot of my time initially, so it created a really good connection, and meeting the elders was awesome,” she says. “They started realizing online resources and videos are the best ways to preserve language and culture. A lot of my [subsequent] contracts were focused on preserving language.” The Lil’wat Nation has made a huge push in recent years to not just preserve its Ucwalmícwts language, but also help it flourish in the community and increase the current rate of fluent speakers, which sits at less than three per cent. A major concern with elders getting older was that the language could disappear along with them. At the post-secondary level, Mount Currie’s Ts’zil Learning Centre offers language skills classes; Ucwalmícwts is part of the curriculum at local elementary and high schools; and at the Xet’ólacw Community School, students from Kindergarten to Grade 3 can take part in an Ucwalmícwts immersion program. The Lil’wat Nation also hosts the First Voices website as a community resource for language learners. Anyone can simply log on, click on various words and phrases and hear the Ucwalmícwts word as

well as its proper pronunciation and English translation. That latter online resource is what St-Arnaud’s roving recording studio is contributing to. “It’s really in demand right now,” she says. “My end goal is not just for me to be able to drive the van around and record with elders, but also train the youth so they can go see their grandma and record the language. Our objective is to see more of those overall fluent speakers in their community and assist them to be able to do that.” (St-Arnaud, who is not Lil’wat, has also taken language classes to learn Ucwalmícwts.) Initially, she and the Lil’wat elders were holed up in the dedicated recording space at the Ts’zil Learning Centre to record. But it was tricky. “It’s so hard for them to travel around [and] they come to the community centre to record language, and you can hear everyone in the building,” St-Arnaud says. “We have this equipment that’s high end, but you have trouble hearing the audio.” One day, St-Arnaud was talking about her company, Bonding Beaver Media, and the language preservation work she was doing with Dawn Johnson, former executive director at Stewardship Pemberton, where she had done some volunteer video work in the past. By chance, Johnson had recently chatted with Verna Stager, the education director at the Xet’ólacw Community School, who had an idea. “How cool would it be to have a van and travel everywhere and preserve language and [shoot] video?’” Stager said to Johnson. “She was laughing about it saying, ‘There’s a van for everything now,” St. Arnaud recalls. Immediately struck by the concept, St. Arnaud quickly followed up with Stager, who was keen to go head with the project. When she first conceived of the idea, Stager imagined it would save time trying to arrange travel with elders and, on top of that, would allow elders with limited mobility or health issues to take part. “The other advantage, of course, was being able to share it,” Stager says. “The cultural centre, the school, the band office, when they’re doing work on inherent rights and wanting to record elders, it makes a lot of sense for sharing. I’m thinking that it’s this little space everybody will come to know.” She also believes it will add to the resources teachers at the school will have. “At Xet’ólacw, we have an immersion program, so we’re translating a lot of information and writing our own curriculum … We just finished some of that work,” says Stager. “So the staff are eager to get to have enough resources to do a really good job of teaching the language. It will be online and I think

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FEATURE STORY there’s a number of ways that the teachers can use it in the classrooms, but it also can be used to improve the fluency of the language teachers.” Overall, Stager was surprised to see just how quickly St-Arnaud turned the project around after that call. “I was actually a bit shocked that Val jumped on the way she did,” she adds. “But I’m thankful she did.”

LOST IN TRANSLATION Translating an entire dictionary is no quick or easy task. In one session, St-Arnaud and the fluent Ucwalmícwts speaker she’s working with can record 50 to 100 words per hour. But the challenge is some Ucwalmícwts words don’t have direct English translations. (The written version of the language, in fact, was only created in 1974 by Simon Fraser University linguist Dr. Jan Van Eijk.) One example of an English word without a direct translation they ran into was “stewardship,” so they settled on an Ucwalmícwts translation of “keeper of the land.” “Sometimes we could be there for hours until they have a proper translation for it,” St-Arnaud says. But for Ritchie, a Lil’wat elder who’s been part of the project, the effort is well worth it. She learned Ucwalmícwts from her father, who university researchers would consult about the language. “This is just another step towards what he was trying to do: preserving our language and our way of life,” Ritchie says. “I spoke the language growing up, but the more you don’t use it, the more you lose. This way, it seems to be encouraging us to use our language more or try to find more ways to say things in our traditional way.” Language isn’t just spoken words, she adds. It’s identity. “A lot of words have personal meaning for us, especially our place names and river names and our own personal names that are handed down … It was getting lost. “Here we have technology that can do these things now. We can record

them and save them on the computer or even for people to be using them on their iPad nowadays. It’s exciting.” It’s a fulfilling personal challenge too, Ritchie adds. “I enjoy it. It challenges my vocabulary and my pronunciation. We do one word at a time or everyday sentences.” St-Arnaud initially grappled with being a white woman coming into the community to work on a deeply cultural project. To that end, it was important for her to build relationships, try to learn the language herself, and, most importantly, mentor young community members so they could carry on the work. “I’m so happy I get to do something so fulfilling,” she says. “At first I was like, ‘Who am I to come in and do that?’ But eventually, you realize you’re helping and it’s such a great community to work with … The difference between me and other companies that aren’t located in B.C. is I can mentor. At the end of the day, it’s their language, their community, it gives them the opportunity to record their own elders and create jobs.” Eventually, St-Arnaud hopes to bring the van to other Indigenous communities that are also working on language preservation. “For sure there’s going to be a little bit of hesitation when we work with new nations,” she says. “If you work with that nation, you need to know where they’re coming from and where that resistance comes from.” Before COVID-19, Bonding Beaver had arranged to travel to a band near Chilliwack for recording, but that’s been put on hold due to the pandemic. “At the end of the day, I think we just have to go for it,” St-Arnaud says. “We just had such good feedback and we see such a need for it.” ■

David Leveille works on turning the Bonding Beaver Media van into a proper recording studio. PHOTOS BY VALERIE ST-ARNAUD

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Sports adaptating to new reality WORCA, WHISTLER HALF MARATHON AMONG EVENTS GOING ONLINE

BY DAN FALLOON EVEN AT A time when gathering hundreds of bikers together for a race isn’t feasible, Adam Francis felt it was important to keep the tradition alive in some sense. The Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association (WORCA) director of race pivoted quickly to determining how to hold the stalwart Toonie Races in the new pandemic world. For WORCA, it means hosting “virtual” races, in which members tackle designated trails on their own time in smaller groups, and record progress using the Trailforks app (all while maintining proper physical distancing, of course). “We were feeling a pent-up demand for mountain-bike activities given everyone was in lockdown all spring,” Francis said. “This is an opportunity to provide an outlet for that demand, and help engage our membership base.” When considering hosting the events, WORCA received approval from Whistler Health Care Centre medical director Dr. Bruce Mohr and the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) before progressing. Race rules require physical distancing and prohibit group rides with people outside one’s household, and Francis noted that even with Phase 3 of the provincial

RUN OF THE ROAD Don Schwartz completes his Whistler Half Marathon virtual race in June.

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re-opening plan getting closer to coming into effect, he’s unsure if the race format will change this season. Still, with two biweekly races in the books and six to go (Race No. 3 ended June 26), WORCA members can check out Trailforks for the courses and go from there. Citing safety concerns, Francis opted to utilize blue trails rather than the usual black options. “What we didn’t want to do is have neck-to-neck racing, black terrain and drive people to the clinic,” he said. “They’re traditionally maybe a little bit easier than the traditional Toonies.” Francis added that the virtual events are welcoming a higher proportion of women, rising from 25 per cent at in-person events to 40 per cent virtually. The club drew nearly 200 for the first event and while attendance for the second was only 86, Francis sees it as a sign that riders erred on the side of safety, given that the five eligible days were rainy, creating wet and slippery conditions. The races have proved to be a boon for the organization, as Francis said that holding the virtual Toonies resulted in WORCA selling approximately 250 additional memberships, providing needed income after its fee-for-service agreement with the RMOW was slashed to one-third of what was originally planned. Holding the races has also kept sponsors engaged and active with the organization, Francis said. “Some of the sponsors related to food, concessions and restaurants were unable to have the bandwidth to contribute in the

COVID environment, so the sponsorship was downturned a little bit, but there is some interest through some of the historical Toonie sponsors,” he said.

HALF MARATHON SAW ONLINE SUCCESS Meanwhile, when Whistler Half Marathon founder Dave Clark came to the decision in March to call off this year’s version of the race, scheduled for earlier this month, one of the commitments he made was to hold a virtual version. Clark, who started the Sea to Sky Healing Project as a mental health resource in response to the pandemic, said encouraging wellness was a major consideration when developing the virtual race. “It gave us a lot of opportunity to continue to engage with our running audience, which was super important to us,” he said. “We give them training plans and we try to keep them on track with those and try to keep them excited about their event and really reaching for whatever their goal might be. “The virtual part became this piece for us of helping people keep motivated because we felt that the mental health aspect of staying motivated and still having that goal to work towards is super important.” Nearly 500 participants took part across all the offered distances during the first two weeks of June, with roughly 200 of those being people who hadn’t registered for the in-person event. “It’s much higher than I assumed. I

thought we’d get a couple hundred people to take part,” he said. “Hopefully it’s kept those people motivated and, from the event’s perspective, hopefully it keeps us on their calendar for next year or future years.” While the lion’s share of participants were from British Columbia or nearby states such as Washington and Oregon, Clark received submissions from as far away as the state of Maryland, and Colombia, the United Kingdom and Australia. While unsure of exactly how the word spread far and wide, Clark anticipates that most international participants were previous registrants who kept up with the event. There are no prizes for those with the fastest times, though Clark will draw for and ship door prizes to some lucky winners in the coming weeks. Clark noted virtual races were starting to emerge pre-pandemic, so there was a precedent for them, but they came to the fore as in-person races fell like dominoes this spring. Clark said the half marathon will consider holding a similar virtual event even when in-person racing resumes. “It’s something we would look at. It’s intriguing, for sure,” he said. In other half marathon news, Clark noted that participants donating their entry fees provided roughly $6,000 to help feed families in the Sea to Sky, with local businesses stepping up to add another $5,000. All told, roughly half the funds have been dispersed to 75 local families in the form of Nesters Market and Pemberton Valley Supermarket gift cards. n

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Pemberton Aerothlon set for Labour Day ORGANIZER CONFIDENT EVENT CAN RUN SAFELY

BY DAN FALLOON THERE MAY very well be an in-person race in the Sea to Sky this summer after all. With its third year on tap, the Pemberton Aerothlon is making plans to ensure COVID-19 precautions are in place in order to run on Aug. 30. Organizer Peter Chrzanowski said the first two editions of the alternative triathlon, made up of paragliding, mountain biking and trail running, have had small turnouts of less than 50 competitors, and that’s been when international athletes have registered. “When I saw this happening, I thought, ‘We really did have a really small event.’ The only bigger congregation we had was, really, the start,” he said, noting that staggering starts to two minutes between competitors could easily be done if necessary. Neither event held in Pemberton has seen an injury thus far, while at the contests in central and South America, the largest issue has been heatstroke as athletes compete in temperatures in the mid-tohigh 30s. Chrzanowski said he’s been in contact with the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and the provincial Ministry of Health, noting he’s preparing a plan for the ministry detailing precautions that he’ll put in place. Chrzanowski said only about a dozen volunteers are required throughout the course, and, due to the contest’s backcountry nature, there are never many people along the route. “It’s never really been a spectator event in Canada,” he said. “I would love it if they were able to run like the Ironman, through town, but it’s too difficult here.” However, Chrzanowski said the Aerothlon’s sister events in Mexico and Colombia, held before the pandemic, have enlisted the services of airtribune.com, a GPS tracker to allow fans to follow the proceedings online. “Several thousand people were watching,” he said. “You could pick your athlete and watch them do the flight and the whole run on Google Maps. “What we’d really like to do here is use that but incorporate even more images like live video coming in along the route as well.” Chrzanowski is expecting a field that is primarily local, depending on how quickly Canada opens up its borders. He said one past international participant, an AeroMexico pilot, expects to have clearance to compete. He’s also been in touch with others who may or may not be allowed into the country for the contest, but is also advising them that if they do enter the country, they may be required to quarantine.

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Still, the focus is on those nearby. “More than anything, I’d just like to encourage local people. They’re the ones that are here. They can’t travel,” he said. “There are some great athletes here in Whistler—runners and bikers.” Past participant and Pemberton local Scott Flavelle is looking forward to competing in the full contest this year while his wife will take part in the relay, flying tandem with a paraglider before completing the run and biking sections. He feels confident that the race can run safely. “I don’t think it’s any different than going out to do many sports in the outdoors. It’s a fairly individualistic sport. There’s no stadium,” he said. “It would seem no different than a regular day out of hiking on the trails, flying in the skies, or mountain biking.” In addition to the event being a smallscale, grassroots contest, Flavelle noted that participants are talented and experienced. “The competitors are all people who have done lots of flying, same with the hikers,” he said. “I couldn’t imagine a better type of event to put on.” Chrzanowski said that previous Aerothlons have inspired runners and bikers to look into paragliding and vice versa, creating more cohesion in those communities. Still, he’s hoping to see that continue to increase as time goes on. “The trouble I’ve always had here is to persuade all those ripping riders that do the Nimby to sign up. I haven’t had that much luck,” he said. Registration is underway with a suggested donation of $100. For more information, visit raceroster. com/events/2020/27108/the-pembertonaerothlon. n

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Quit cherry-pickin’ those cherries AND OTHER TIPS FROM A 12-YEAR-OLD LEADING THE WAY ON FOOD WASTE IF EVER WE THOUGHT we’d make our way to a radically better world, this has to be it, and it’s going to be young people who lead us there. From students defending democracy in Hong Kong to the brilliant young leaders pushing for action to protect our climate, there’s no limit to how our smart young citizens can improve our world when they’re fuelled by the power of imagination and conviction.

BY GLENDA BARTOSH Here in the Sea to Sky, you can count among them young Sam Tierney, who just finished Grade 7 at Signal Hill Elementary School in Pemberton. In his goal to tackle food waste as a way to tackle climate change, Sam wrote such an eloquent Letter to the Editor in Pique, that I had to give him a call. (See “Flatten the curve of food waste” in the May 21 issue.) Like so many other young people, turns out Sam’s been more than worried about climate change. “The whole reason I started this whole

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climate change thing was because for a long time it was really stressing me out and overwhelming me,” he says by phone from the beautiful acreage near Mount Currie where he lives with his mom and dad, Erin and Ian Tierney, and their veggieand cheese-loving dog, Blaze. Sam was so worried last winter, he couldn’t even fall asleep at night. But taking action was the key. It made him feel better, and drove his family “to go mostly vegetarian.” Then Sam figured he could maybe tackle climate change by getting the recycling improved at his school. He made a presentation to his classroom, and so many hands of future volunteers shot up, it felt even better. His Letter to the Editor was just one more step. “I am a person who has a very large conscience and recently have become very concerned about climate change,” it starts. He goes on to explain why he’d been working to help improve the school’s recycling system but then, with the unexpected shutdown due to COVID-19, how he had to figure out “other ways I can make a difference.” (That’s another thing you gotta love about young people— they’re so flexible and creative, they quickly bounce to a new strategy.) Sam is also the student leader of the WE Club at Signal Hill, part of WE Charity’s initiatives—the not-for-profit organization started in 1995 by Canadian, Craig Kielburger (who at the time was also 12 years old) and his brother, Marc, to empower youth and improve life in developing countries. WE Day events normally attract thousands of young participants around the world, but this

year’s WE Day in Vancouver, like most, was cancelled due to COVID-19. Until the lockdown hit, the Signal Hill WE Club’s first project was going to be Sam’s idea of improving the school’s recycling system. To that end, he was going to make a video about it. But when that got disrupted, their teacher, Ms. Jazic, suggested he watch an award-winning documentary, Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story, which highlights the adventures of a Vancouver couple who were so concerned about food waste that they decided to live on nothing but food “rescued” from dumpsters and retail castoffs for six months. That included perfectly edible chocolate (Sam’s favourite), a dumpster of President’s Choice hummus, and oodles of Cuddy homestyle hams—all trashed because it wasn’t perfect enough for grocery retailing. “What I saw was shocking,” Sam writes. “I learned that globally, about one-third of the food produced is wasted, normally due to tiny cosmetic imperfections or misinterpreted best-before dates. In Canada, the number is even bigger, coming in at roughly 40 per cent. “… Of the food waste in Canada, about 63 per cent could actually have been eaten.” The pandemic, with all its ensuing disruptions in the supply chain—including our own personal shopping disruptions, like hoarding or over-buying and then wasting the stuff we bought too much of—is only making things worse. Just ask some of the Pemberton Valley farmers who’ve had to compost tons of beautiful fresh produce because of delays in opening the Whistler Farmers’ Market this summer. (Fingers crossed it will be up and running 11 a.m.,

this Sunday.) But what I really like about Sam is that he doesn’t just point out problems. He describes solutions and offers practical ideas for making things better. He learned that Nesters Market either composts what would otherwise be food waste, or gives it to the food bank. Pemberton Valley Supermarket bundles up usable, but not perfect, produce that’s still fine to eat and sells it for only 99 cents; things that aren’t suitable for us go into scrap bags farmers can have for their chickens or cows for a $2-donation to the food bank. Sea to Sky Soils near Pemberton does a great job of turning food waste from local grocery stores and restaurants into rich soil and compost, some of which ends up back in the Tierneys’ garden, enhancing their own personal composting efforts. As for our own food habits, Sam urges us to stop cherry-picking those cherries and other fresh produce. Take home those little orphans with a small bruise or ding that otherwise will end up in the garbage. Plan meals ahead of time, and don’t neglect your leftovers just because you don’t “feel like” eating them. And don’t forget to eat your vegetables. They’re not only good for you, they definitely cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and the amount of food and land we give over to livestock. But you know all that. Now just do it. And stand by for Sam’s next big idea. Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who has total hope for the future every time she meets a smart, caring young person. ■

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BY ALYSSA NOEL WE MIGHT HAVE all had ambitious projects when the world first went into lockdown earlier this spring, but how many of us followed through on our to-do lists? On that front, Squamish musicians Adam Ravalia and Jon Allan can count themselves among the elite few. Throughout quarantine, the duo picked away at self-producing and recording their four-song debut EP under the name Out East, a nod to their Newfoundland and Labrador roots. And now He’s is ready for its July 3 debut on all streaming platforms. “I’d call it atmospheric pop. It’s a little tough to pinpoint a genre. I haven’t been great at that,” Ravalia says with a laugh. But the album is exactly that. Filled with hazy synth and peppered with airy harmonies, back-to-front, it serves as a perfect sunny summer day soundtrack. “Wasted Afternoon,” in particular, is a standout. Its sing-songy “I’m not alone anymore/ I’m not alone,” refrain deftly toes the line between melancholy and hope. “We wanted to take a DIY approach,”

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Ravalia says. “We recorded everything from home. It was really nice. We all know how tough it’s been—especially in the earlier days of the pandemic when the weather was shitty—there’s only so many Netflix specials you can binge. To say, ‘We’re going to take today and work on this song or vocals.’ It became part of our routine until these songs were finished.” (Don’t worry: Ravalia lives with Allan’s partner and early on they committed to being in each other’s “bubbles.”)

There are shows every night of the week.” Around three years ago, Allan made the move to Squamish. Last year, Ravalia took the plunge and moved cross-country to Vancouver and then, in September, decided to call Squamish home. The move was “to be a little closer to the band in Whistler and also the natural beauty of Squamish. I’m pretty into mountain biking and hiking. It feels like home,” he adds. “The band,” he refers to, meanwhile,

“We all know how tough it’s been—especially in the earlier days of the pandemic when the weather was shitty—there’s only so many Netflix specials you can binge.” - ADAM RAVALIA

The pair first began playing music together back in St. John’s vibrant music scene. “Coming from the East Coast, I played in bands in the St. John’s music scene for years and years,” Ravalia says. “Everyone knows everyone, everyone goes to each other’s shows, everyone plays in multiple bands.

is up-and-coming garage-rock outfit Lazy Ghost. Allan first hooked up with the Whistler group after answering a “bass player wanted” ad on Craigslist. “Then I moved out here and met the guys,” Ravalia says. “I play keys in the band. They didn’t have a keyboard player, so I started jamming with them.”

Making that connection has been a solid entry point into life in the Sea to Sky. “First and foremost, it’s a really good group of people. These guys are some of my best friends outside of music. Then just going through the creative process with them, we’re working on a Lazy Ghost EP right now. It’s been a great exercise for me as a musician— to grow and flourish—specifically in my keyboard playing,” he adds. While Lazy Ghost’s tours around North America and to Australia have been cancelled this year, before the pandemic, Out East had a chance to test their material and hone their chops opening for the band a couple times. “That allowed us to steer the direction of our tunes and figure out how we’d do the duo thing in this setting,” Ravalia says. In the meantime, Out East might be holding off on any touring to promote their new release, but they have their first gig in several months at Howe Sound Brewing on Wednesday, July 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. (The full gig runs with other musicians in a socially distant format until 9 p.m.) “In terms of silver linings, we’ve been able to focus on writing new music,” he says. “All of a sudden, I’m part of two bodies of work being released over the summer.” To check it out, head to facebook.com/ outeasttunes/, instagram.com/outeasttunes/, or outeasttunes.bandcamp.com/. n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL AT THE END OF 2018 , Blair Kaplan Venables found out her dad was terminally ill. The news felt particularly crushing because they had only reconciled when Kaplan Venables was in her 20s after many tumultuous years. “My dad and I decided our legacy piece was we’d share our story together to help people,” she says. “We thought about sharing stories of resiliency.” While Kaplan Venables has writing experience as a long-time Sea to Sky public relations professional, she decided to enrol in a Squamish writing workshop to help her hone her chops for her debut book—an accomplishment she had dreamed of since she was a little girl. It was during that workshop she realized, “the book I want to write will be so much work,” she says. “I don’t want that to be my first work. It’s a legacy piece for me and my dad. It’s so important. But [I had] always wanted to write a business book. So I decided to write a business book.” To that end, Kaplan Venables is still collecting stories of resiliency from around the world (visit iamresilient.info for more) with the aim of creating a coffee table book, but she dove headfirst into writing a business book. That project came to fruition in June when her self-published book Pulsing Through My Veins: Raw and Real Stories From An Entrepreneur was officially released. “The goal of the book was to inspire entrepreneurs,” she says. “I learned a lot of stuff the hard way so you don’t have to.” It might have been her debut, but Kaplan Venables says the writing process came easy.

“I love writing so it was never a daunting task. I’ve been writing blogs since blogs were a thing. I wasn’t writing a novel. I wasn’t writing fiction. I was writing from personal experience,” she says. While it is, at its core, a business book, she also delves into deeply personal stories too. Using her marketing skills, she spent the week leading up to the book release promoting it before heading to Birkenhead Lake to disconnect away from cell service for the weekend. “I didn’t feel vulnerable until people started buying my book,” she says. “I freaked out.” The weight of it all hit her. “I started going into my own head,” she says. “There’s a lot of self-doubt because I am my worst critic.” But when she returned home, she discovered the book had spent an entire day as the best seller in the entrepreneurship category on Amazon. “For a week—the whole first week—I was No. 1 in Hot New Releases in Entrepreneurship and Hot New Releases in Women in Business,” she says. “The category I wanted to get No. 1 in was Entrepreneurship and I did it.” While it’s been fulfilling to get feedback about the book from readers around the world, it’s been a challenge to launch a new release during a pandemic. But, Kaplan Venables has come up with some outsidethe-box solutions. For one, she’s going to be doing “roving readings” around Pemberton. “I can’t throw a big party, so instead I’m arranging for my friends to show up in parks and driveways around Pemberton,” she says. “I’ll ride around on my bike and do readings and make a video. I don’t know if anyone has ever done it, but it seems fun.” Find the book at Amazon.ca by searching Pulsing Through My Veins. n

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Arts Whistler firms up plans for Anonymous Art Show ARTS NEWS: WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL’S INDIGENOUS FILMMAKER FELLOWSHIP SEEKS SUBMISSIONS

BY ALYSSA NOEL THE ANONYMOUS Art Show, one of Arts Whistler’s biggest fundraisers of the year, was postponed back in the spring due to COVID-19, but now organizers are planning for a pandemic-friendly revamp. Starting on Aug. 1, art buyers can check out the 333 pieces of art from more than 200 anonymous artists in an online gallery. Participants are advised to pick 10 to 20 of their favourite pieces ahead of bidding. “We have sitting in our offices [333] pieces of art,” says Mo Douglas, Arts Whistler’s executive director. “It had all come in. We were going to prepare the walls and do the hang just as the building needed to be closed. All those wonderful pieces are waiting to be snapped up by people.” As in the past, the tier of ticket you purchase will determine the buying order. Those tiers range from $500 for first pick— which is new this year and, with only one spot available, is already sold out—to $250 for the top 10, $150 for the next 50 spots, $100 for

another 50 spots and $50 for 100 final spots. If you would like to see the art in person ahead of the online bidding night, Arts Whistler is planning to reopen the doors to the Maury Young Arts Centre on Sept. 1 for daily viewings of the exhibit. Then on Sept. 11 bidders will log on to a “buying room” in groups and choose their piece based on a randomly assigned order. And, of course, the artists of each piece won’t be revealed until after the purchase is finalized. “We’re really glad we can move forward with it,” Douglas says. To buy tickets, or for more information, visit artswhistler.com/anonymous-art-show.

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development that already has a script. Designed to advise Indigenous Canadian talent by developing short-form projects, this year the program will take place virtually over five months. It will begin in November with workshops and meetings and lead up to the Whistler Film Festival and Content Summit, which is set to take place from Dec. 2 to 6. Afterwards, the fellowship continues with three months of mentorship on a project and online workshop sessions that will run through to March 2021. “Entering its eighth edition, our Indigenous Filmmaker Fellowship continues to shine the spotlight on Indigenous stories and content creators from across Canada with a unique [point of view] or story to tell who are looking to take their short-form concepts from script to screen,” says Angela Heck, WFF’s director

of industry programming, in a release. “We’re honoured to have the support of tremendous mentors, alumni, industry leaders, and our community to be able to expand the fellowship over a longer period of time, and facilitate deeper engagement and development of the projects.” Overall, participants gain experience in scripted storytelling with access to filmmakers, broadcasters, and industry leaders. “I learned so much in a short period of time and made meaningful connections with both fellow artists and funders,” says Stefany Mathias, who participated in the program in 2019, in a release. “It was a fantastic experience on a personal and professional level.” The deadline to submit a short script is Sept. 10. For more information, visit whistlerfilmfestival.com. n

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UP THE CREEK Alex Philip takes Rainbow Lodge guests Sadie Underwood, George Donaldson, Ivan Ackery and an unknown woman out on Alta Lake, despite not seeming to have any paddles. PHILIP COLLECTION.

Canoeing through Whistler’s past BY ALLYN PRINGLE THIS COMING TUESDAY , July 7, the museum will be hosting its first virtual Speaker Series, an adapted version of the talk and film screening with Mike Stein that was originally planned for March. Though Whistler is known internationally as a ski resort, the film features a different form of recreation and transportation that is commonly found in the valley: canoeing. Canoeing has a much longer history in the area than snowsports, as canoes are important to both the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations. The Great Hall of the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) features a 12-metre long Salish hunting canoe carved from a single cedar tree, which at times is removed from the exhibition and taken on an ocean journey. (Learn more about this canoe and others by visiting the SLCC, which reopened last week.) The Whistler Museum has records of canoes being used to transport people and products around the valley for more than a century. In the early 1900s, the Barnfields established a dairy farm on their property at the northeast end of Alta Lake. As summer tourism became more popular in the area following the arrival of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway in 1914, the Barnfields’ dairy began supplying the lodges and visitors with fresh supplies. They used a dugout canoe to deliver milk, cream, eggs, news and gossip to the different lodges on Alta Lake. By 1920 its largest customer was Rainbow Lodge, which had a daily order of 80 quarts of milk, four quarts of cream, and two quarts of table cream. Rainbow Lodge itself had a number of boats, including canoes, for guests and staff to use for fishing or paddling down the River of Golden Dreams, one of which now

resides in the museum’s collection. In 2011 the museum, with the generous support of the Province of British Columbia, was able to purchase a cedar canoe bought by Alex and Myrtle Philip in 1916 for Rainbow Lodge. After the Philips sold the lodge in 1948, Myrtle kept the canoe for her own personal use for the next 25 years. The canoe had aged and, before coming back to Alta Lake, was restored by Dave Lanthier, an expert vintage canoe restorer and member of the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association. The canoe is currently displayed in the Whistler Public Library, as the museum does not have the space to exhibit such a large item. The popularity of canoeing continued even after skiing came to Whistler. In 1975 canoes represented the water part of the first Great Snow Earth Water Race, with cyclists passing the baton to canoeists who worked their way up Alta Lake to the first weir on the River of Golden Dreams, where they handed off to the runners. From all reports, the canoeing was the most fun for the spectators. According to Dave Steers, “Most of the teams had members who could tell the front of a canoe from the back. A few teams didn’t even have that.” As you can imagine, quite a few canoes tipped and those watching got to see a lot of splashing. Three years before that inaugural race, Mike Stein, Adolf Teufele, Wink Bradford, Ferdi Wenger and Jim McConkey set out on their own journey by canoe on the Liard River. Teufele captured their adventures in the Grand Canyon, a 20-kilometre stretch of the Liard, on 16 mm film, which has now been digitized, edited, and is narrated by Stein. On Tuesday, July 7, we’ll be hearing from Stein about the film and the journey, as well as screening Highways of the Past: Canoeing the Grand Canyon of the Liard, via Zoom. (Visit whistlermuseum.org/events to find out more about the event and how to register. Space is limited.) n

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Teacher Shelley Ledingham is retiring from Myrtle Philip Community School. She was honoured at a leaving ceremony, held last Wednesday night, June 24, at Nicklaus North Golf Course. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 ROTARY LEGENDS From left, Joan Deeks, Gail Wensley, Isobel MacLauren and Erika Durlacher, all longtime members of the Rotary Club of Whistler, celebrated their birthdays during the same week, from June 13 to June 20. They snapped this photo on June 23, under the Rotary Club of Whistler Shelter in Rainbow Park – it was built and donated to the community around 1993. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 VIRTUAL PEDAL PARADE While the Pique team is disappointed our annual Canada Day pedal parade couldn’t go ahead this year, these adorable virtual pedal parade participants make it a little better. Brothers Lucca, 5, and Leo Da Corte, 3, get ready for a ride around their Brio neighbourhood, while Hiro Leduc, 6, gets in the Canada Day spirit with a very well decorated bike. PHOTOS SUBMITTED.

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Free Will Astrology WEEK OF JULY 2 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Marge Piercy

writes, “The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.” The Aries people I love best will do just that in the coming days. Now is not the right time to wait around passively, lazily hoping that something better will come along. Nor is it prudent to procrastinate or postpone decisions while shopping around for more options or collecting more research. Dive, Aries, dive! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip by Bill Watterson. It features a boy named Calvin and his stuffed tiger Hobbes. In the first panel of one story, Calvin is seated at a school desk looking perplexed as he studies a question on a test, which reads, “Explain [Isaac] Newton’s First Law of Motion in your own words.” In the second panel, Calvin has a broad smile, suddenly imbued with inspiration. In the third panel, he writes his response to the test question: “Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz.” The fourth panel shows him triumphant and relaxed, proclaiming, “I love loopholes.” I propose that you use this scenario as your victorious metaphor in the coming weeks, Taurus. Look for loopholes! And use them to overcome obstacles and solve riddles. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves,” wrote philosopher and activist Simone Weil. I’m hoping that this horoscope of mine can help you avoid that mistake. In the coming weeks and months, you will have a stronger-than-usual need to be seen for who you really are—to have your essential nature be appreciated and understood by people you care about. And the best way to make sure that happens is to work hard right now on seeing, appreciating, and understanding yourself. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some readers wish I would write more like Cormac McCarthy or Albert Camus or Raymond Chandler: with spare simplicity. They accuse me of being too lush and exuberant in my prose. They want me to use shorter sentences and fewer adjectives. To them I say: It ain’t going to happen. I have feelings similar to those of best-selling Cancerian author Oliver Sacks, who the New York Times called, “one of the great clinical writers of the 20th century.” Sacks once said, “I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density of reality and try to capture this with ‘thick description.’” I bring these thoughts to your attention, my fellow Cancerian, because I think it’s important for you to be your lavish, sumptuous, complex self in the coming weeks. Don’t oversimplify yourself or dumb yourself down, either intellectually or emotionally. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Travel writer Paul Theroux has journeyed long distances by train: once from Britain to Japan and back again, and then from Massachusetts to Argentina. He also rode trains during part of his expedition from Cairo to Cape Town. Here’s one of his conclusions: “It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.” I’d like to offer a milder version of that counsel as your metaphor for the coming weeks: The funky, bumpy, rickety influences will bring you the best magic. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno declared, “Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.” This idea will be intensely true for and applicable to you in the coming weeks, Virgo. It will be your sacred duty—both to yourself and to those you care about—to enlarge your understandings of how the world works and to push your awareness to become more inclusive and empathetic. What’s your vision of paradiseon-earth? Now is a good time to have fun imagining it. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What do you want to be when you grow up, Libra? What’s that you say? You firmly believe you are already all grown up? I hope not! In my

vision of your destiny, you will always keep evolving and transforming; you will ceaselessly transcend your existing successes and push on to accomplish further breakthroughs and victories. Now would be an excellent time to rededicate yourself to this noble aspiration. I invite you to dream and scheme about three specific wonders and marvels you would like to experience during the next five years. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has advice that would serve you well in the coming weeks. She says, “Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.” In accordance with your astrological potentials, I’m inclined to amend her statement as follows: “Keep a sizable space in your heart for the improbable. You’ll be rewarded with catalytic revelations and intriguing opportunities.” To attract blessings in abundance, Scorpio, be willing to set aside some of your usual skepticism and urge for control. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Malidoma Somé lives in the U.S. now, but was born in the West African country of Burkina Faso. He writes, “In the culture of my people, the Dagara, we have no word for the supernatural. The closest we come to this concept is Yielbongura, ‘the thing that knowledge can’t eat.’ This word suggests that the life and power of certain things depend upon their resistance to the categorizing knowledge that human beings apply to everything.” I bring Somé’s thoughts to your attention, Sagittarius, because I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will encounter more than the usual number of experiences that knowledge can’t eat. They might at times be a bit spooky or confounding, but will mostly be interesting and fun. I’m guessing that if you embrace them, they will liberate you from overly literal and materialistic ideas about how the world works. And that will be good for your soul. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Pioneer Capricorn scientist Isaac Newton is often hailed as one of history’s greatest geniuses. I agree that his intellectual capacities were sublime. But his emotional intelligence was sparse and feeble. During the time he taught at Cambridge University, his talks were so affectless and boring that many of his students skipped most of his classes. I’ll encourage you to make Newton your anti-role model for the next eight weeks. This time will be favourable for you to increase your mastery of three kinds of intelligence beyond the intellectual kind: feeling, intuition, and collaboration. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When future writer (and Aquarius) Charles Dickens was 12 years old, his parents and siblings got incarcerated in a debtors’ prison. To stay alive and help his family, he took a job working 12 hours a day, six days a week, pasting labels on pots of boot polish in a rotting, rat-infested warehouse. Hard times! Yet the experiences he had there later provided him with rich material for the novels that ultimately made him wealthy and beloved. In predicting that you, too, will have future success at capitalizing on difficulty, I don’t mean to imply you’ve endured or will endure anything as harsh as Dickens’ ordeal. I’m just hoping to help you appreciate the motivating power of your challenging experiences. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe you feel that the ongoing pandemic has inhibited your ability to explore and deepen intimacy to the degree that you would like to. But even if that’s the case, the coming weeks will provide openings that could soften and remedy your predicament. So be extra receptive and alert to the clues that life reveals to you. And call on your imagination to look for previously unguessed and unexpected ways to reinvent togetherness and tenderness. Let’s call the next three weeks your Season of Renewing Rapport. Here’s this week’s homework: Decide on three special words that will from now on serve as magic spells for you. Keep them secret! Don’t even tell me. RealAstrology.com

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Sometimes I dream of winning…. DEAR DAVE, Hey, buddy, bet you never thought I’d open a column with that salutation again, eh? Well.... As I said the last time, I—and I believe I speak for many of us here in the bubble— miss you. Wow, Dave, no matter how many times I think, say or write that, the irony hits me like the clapper on Big Ben, not that I have any firsthand knowledge of Big Ben’s clapper but, interestingly, the name, generally used to denote the whole clock tower, is actually the name of its largest bell. Surprising the things you learn when you want to say them in public and not look foolish. Of course, I long ago stopped worrying about looking foolish in public. But I digress.

BY G.D. MAXWELL There’s an old southern song called, “You Don’t Miss Your Water,” written in the early 1960s by William Bell. Hmm... Bell, maybe that’s how Big Ben popped into my head. Anyway, no one knows who William Bell is, Otis Redding having had the first notable cover of the song in 1965, the first time I heard it, and The Byrds did a smokin’ country cover on their Sweetheart of the Rodeo album a few years later. Now, if you’d permit an even deeper dive into music trivia, William Bell also penned the words to “Born Under a Bad Sign;” Booker T did the music. It was covered by... oh, never mind. To get back to, or started on, wherever this was going, the whole line in the song, written about a bout (don’t see that word combo too often) of homesickness, not lost love, goes, “You don’t miss your water ‘til your well runs dry.” This, of course, should not be confused with the song, “You’re Still On My Mind,” which is about a lost love and contains the line, “An empty bottle, a broken heart and you’re still on my mind.” Another relative unknown, Luke McDaniel, wrote that song and guess what? The Byrds covered it on the same album. Weird, eh? Oh dear, there I go again. At any rate, Dave, missing you falls somewhere between homesickness and lost love and if I had to place any money on it, I’d go with homesickness because, well... should be obvious. Did you ever play the what-would-Ido-if-I-won-the-lottery game? Most people have. I certainly have. You kind of won the lottery so I’m not sure if you have but I suspect you did before you won. It’s mindless fantasy and makes most people feel good about pissing money away on a 14 billion-to-one chance at riches beyond their wildest dreams. One of the best things about playing it

DEAR DAVE Former WB executive Dave Brownlie. FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF WHISTLER BLACKCOMB

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is hearing what people say they’ll do when they’ve won big. I remember one guy who was going to go on a vacation to Florida... in July. I’ve been to Florida in July and unless you’re investigating what it’ll be like in Hell, it’s no place you want to be in July. When I hear things like that I think they ought to give the money back. I always thought if I had enough left over after buying a Porsche I could never drive legally in B.C., I’d buy Whistler Blackcomb (WB). But then I found out how much it would cost. I still wish WB was owned a little closer to home but my eyes popped out when I read Vail Resorts paid just over $1 billion U.S. dollars for it. I wonder what it’s worth today?

for Revy. And, famously, the Gaglardis and Aquilinis are in a pas de deux with the ongoing saga of Garibaldi at Squamish. Neither here nor there but along with restaurants, hotels and sports teams, Northlands is a player and it’s a B.C. company so, at a minimum, they speak Canadian and they were smart enough to hire you, so there’s a rumour I can fantasize about like winning the lottery. Sort of. You see how all these things get stewed in my mind. But back to, I wonder what it’s worth today. Man, I have to believe the whole pandemic shutdown of the hospitality and event industry might have knocked a few zeros off the value of WB, not to mention closed borders, the highest unemployment since the Depression and the unappealing

At any rate, Dave, missing you falls somewhere between homesickness and lost love and if I had to place any money on it, I’d go with homesickness because, well... should be obvious.

Which is why I’m writing to you. Rumour on the street has it the Gaglardi family is interested in buying WB. I don’t put any stock in that rumour but then I poo-pooed the rumour about Whistler and Blackcomb merging and the Peak 2 Peak gondola ever being built, so what do I know? Rhetorical question; don’t bother answering. The Gaglardis, through their Northlands Property Corp, own Revelstoke and Grouse, of which you’re president, last I heard, at least

appeal of flying. But things aren’t as tough for Vail Resorts as they were for, say, Fortress when they had to unload WB. Wading through Vail Resorts’ most recent 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, there’s nothing to suggest any of Vail Resorts’ creditors are about to set their hair on fire over the company’s debt. Of course there’s some interesting language regarding the Third Amendment to

the Vail Resorts Holdings Credit Agreement hammered out in late April, granting some exemptions to compliance with maximum leverage and minimum interest coverage ratios, that provide some additional breathing room during these limited opening times. They make interesting reading if you’re a finance wonk or suffer from insomnia. Guilty on both counts. They may also have something to do with the announcement Vail Resorts would suspend paying dividends, although that preceded the Amendment by a couple of weeks. They do restrict dividend payments, capital expenditures of more than $200 million per year and a few other items one might consider the ebb and flow of business but, like I said, nothing suggestive of the kind of barrel over which Fortress was bent. At any rate, Dave, it’s a rumour many of us wouldn’t mind waking up and finding out wasn’t a rumour at all. So if you have any pull with Tom and the family, here’s my sweetener. If by some feat of legerdemain, ownership transfers and we find you back at the helm, I promise, without being too unctuous, to be all sweetness and light towards WB and not write anything critical or uncomfortable about the operations with the notable exceptions below: Resurrecting Renaissance in any form, but particularly one that includes a water park, voids the deal; Replacing the admin building with a five-star hotel voids the deal; Any rumours of a Ferris wheel, obviously, voids the deal. Other than that, consider me part of the team. Yours musically, Max n

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