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Building back better Whistler enters a new,

COVID-fuelled era of engagement

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RESORT SUPPORT

Emergency funding

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HELP FOR SAR

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SHOW GOES ON

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42 Building back better Whistler enters a new, COVID-fuelled era of engagement. - By Braden Dupuis and Brandon Barrett

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54 LIGHTS, CAMERA, STREAM

SAFETY MEASURES Local officials come up with

new ways to educate visitors on COVID-19 pandemic protocols in the resort.

The Maury Young Arts Centre is set to transform into a studio for livestreaming performances.

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08 OPENING REMARKS BC Parks has reopened some popular trails in the Sea to Sky, but will it help ease congestion in the backcountry?

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters this week question the environmental impact of a new townhouse development and defend those with U.S. licence plates.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Andrew Mitchell likes to play devil’s advocate, but he’s pretty certain about one thing: we should all be wearing masks.

70 MAXED OUT Bullies come in all shapes and sizes, but one that’s not-so-expected: our governor general. This week, Max questions why the position even still exists.

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39 SCIENCE MATTERS Talk of climate change might often take aim at oil, but this week, David Suzuki takes a look at coal as a culprit.

41 RANGE ROVER Take a trip to Armenia on the hunt for an elusive viper—and meet some memorable characters along the way.

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PICTURE THIS: it’s a beautiful summer day. You and your friends are on the final stretch of a hike. Hot and hungry, but decidedly happy, you catch a glimpse of a shimmering green alpine lake in the distance.

Then you hear it, “Buzzzzz, buzzzz, BUZZZZZZZZ.” It’s a drone zipping right over your head—destroying any semblance of outdoor serenity you so desperately need in one robotic swoop.

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This is the scene I encountered last weekend. Our small group of four knew every trail in the Sea to Sky would be busy, but we attempted to find one of the lesserknown options.

While our pick was still relatively busy, the amount of people paled in comparison to places like Lake Lovely Water and

Along with the other heap of problems 2020 has brought, this year has created the perfect storm for an overrun and outof-control backcountry. First, people want to get outside and away from their homes and COVID-19 has derailed their regular summer plans. Second, the outdoors have proven to be safer for socializing than indoors. Finally, the most popular BC Parks in the Sea to Sky corridor have been closed due to the pandemic.

As a result, people who would head to those easily accessible and stunning spots have been pushed further out into new territory that doesn’t have any amenities, particularly for newbies who might not know how to navigate backcountry travel safely and with low impact. (Don’t get me wrong; I absolutely believe in equal access to the outdoors, whether you’re toting a Canadian Tire tent fresh out of the package or a wellworn, ultra-lightweight bivy sack. Just make sure you understand and follow etiquette.)

On Monday, July 27, some of the BC Parks sites that have been shuttered since spring reopened under a new, free day-pass

[P]eople who would head to those easily accessible and stunning spots have been pushed further out into new territory that doesn’t have any amenities, particularly for newbies who might not know how to navigate backcountry travel safely and with low impact.

Watersprite. Advocates for both locations have painted a nightmare picture saying recent weekends have seen dozens of tents squeezed into every nook and cranny. Now, they’re asking people to stay away—or at minimum, follow backcountry protocols like pack in what you pack out, leave your loud music at home, don’t drink to excess, and follow wildlife safety protocols.

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pilot project program. Locally, they include three Garibaldi Park trailheads (Diamond Head, Rubble Creek, and Cheakamus) as well as the Stawamus Chief. (No, Joffre didn’t make the list.)

Reaction has been mixed. Most people seem happy to have access back, but many take issue with a few details. For one, you can only reserve your day pass starting at 6

a.m. the morning you want to hike.

This actually could bode well for locals— many of whom have lamented the restricted access to their backyard while our provincial health officer was encouraging everyone to get outside. Ostensibly, if you wanted to hike to Garibaldi Lake, you could set your alarm for the morning, try your luck, and, if you secure a pass, hit the trail by 7 a.m.

If you’re coming from Vancouver or the Lower Mainland, you might not have enough time to make it back to your car before dark.

To that end, the day pass might not do as much as we’d like to curb visitation to other backcountry areas.

On top of that, critics say BC Parks should be more transparent about the number of tickets available each day—and, judging by numbers for the North Shore—potentially increase them. According to a North Shore News story, for example, Mount Seymour typically sees a million visitors each year while Cypress attracts 2 million. The day pass program will allow 500 people per day on the Howe Sound Crest Trail, 300 on the Hollyburn Mountain trails, 500 for Black Mountain Plateau, and 800 for Seymour Main Trail, Mystery Lake, and Dog Mountain.

The logic goes many of these trails have been built for high use so keeping higher numbers there—rather than wearing down more sensitive, far-flung paths—is better for everyone.

Details aside, it’s great to see these trails opened up again with measures in place to ensure hikers aren’t standing shoulder-toshoulder at lookout points, as is the case many summers.

It remains to be seen if the pass program will ease congestion on all trails, but, either way, it should go hand-in-hand with education on safety and etiquette.

For starters, that includes keeping your drone at home—or at least away from other hikers. ■

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For the sake of winter, we must stay vigilant (Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz to communities, guests and employees.)

What will the 2020-21 ski and snowboard season look like? We are still in the heat of July—still celebrating the successful opening of our resorts for summer—and that is the No. 1 question we are getting across our 34 North American resorts. What lies ahead for winter? We remain optimistic that we’ll have a great ski season. And we are actively preparing our resorts to ensure our employees and guests have a safe and enjoyable experience this winter amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. But we also know that without strong, healthy communities, none of that matters.

We often talk about how our mountain resorts and communities are joined at the hip. We operate in the same ecosystem, we need each other to succeed and survive. The importance of this partnership was evident in the collective effort it took to safely reopen for summer. But that was not the end of the race—it was the beginning. For the sake of winter, we must stay vigilant with safety

as our No. 1 priority—now and through the entire winter season. There are two things we collectively must keep top of mind: 1. We cannot get complacent. With the recent COVID-19 resurgence in the United States and around the world, we need to assume that we will still be dealing with the impacts of the virus throughout the winter season. Even if new COVID-19 cases decline—nationally or locally—we must assume the virus will reemerge. We cannot relax restrictions or protocols. We cannot get caught trying to play catch-up to the virus

during the ski season. We have to remain out front in our approach. Exacerbating that reality is the fact that each one of our communities is a destination for visitors from countless other cities. This is our greatest strength, but it can also be a weakness. We cannot only look at the COVID-19 data in our local communities.

By welcoming people to our resorts from other locations, we need to realize that we will be taking on their COVID-19 experience as well.

Therefore, for us to be successful we need to enforce protocols and procedures now that can work all season.

2. Safety is not optional. At Vail Resorts, we are strong advocates for face coverings and believe that in public gathering spaces—indoors and outdoors—everyone needs to wear a face covering at all times.

There should be limited exceptions in areas designated for eating and drinking, but just as other tourist destinations have required, we must ensure that face coverings are not optional if you are walking around with a drink or snack in your hand. We also believe that physical distancing between unrelated parties is a must—which means events or other public gatherings that don’t allow for 2 metres of distancing should be restricted or limited. This goes for gatherings in town and on the mountain. We need to accept that this will likely be the reality for the full season. We are certainly not experts on infectious disease and cannot dictate the local regulations of our communities, but these are simple measures that will contribute to our collective success. And they need to be executed now, so they become ingrained well before the ski season begins.

To our guests, visitors, employees and residents: We need your support, compassion and understanding that staying vigilant in our communities now, and in the months ahead, will help us all have a successful winter. While we cannot completely control the behaviours of visitors, we are committed to enhancing our communications to our guests to ensure they at least understand our expectations of them when they come. We all know enforcement can be a challenge, but with repetition and local

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR called for a “reset.” Take a step back and challenge what we are doing and why.

For Whistler, this means many things but importantly, it means how we balance sustainability and environmental standards with managing growth and development.

I am very concerned that the proposed rezoning and 43-townhome development at 5298 Alta Lake Rd., on the west side of Nita Lake, has got this balance wrong. I have read the environmental report (not easy to read and not easy to get hold of!) which describes these lands as having many mature trees (some 250 to 300 years old), being potentially the habitat for some endangered species and likely to have many rare plants. It also outlines that there are severe constraints to development and suggests some key recommendations and mitigation strategies. One of these is to ensure a detailed study of rare and endangered plants and wildlife before development proceeds.

According to the report, there are 40 animal species at risk potentially occurring onsite, in addition to 13 at-risk plant species and 11 at-risk ecosystems. Another recommendation is the preservation of as many of the mature trees as possible with guidance from an arborist.

The current report clearly states that it is an “initial” report; have any of these further reports and studies been completed, and if

alignment, we can ensure people comply and respect this approach to safety.

COVID-19 has significantly impacted every one of our mountain resort communities.

The closure of our resorts in March came with a heavy financial and human cost to our company, as well as to so many businesses and people throughout the towns, cities, counties, provinces and states where we operate. In the midst of these challenges, it has been inspiring to see how everyone has come together to support one another and help chart a course forward. We cannot lose that momentum.

All of us want to protect our local economies and our communities. All of us want a great ski and snowboard season. To make that a reality—all of us must remain vigilant.

Together, let’s set a tone and demonstrate that we are leaders in offering the safest and most enjoyable experience, anywhere in the world.

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Concern over proposed rezoning and townhouse development As we move through these strange and challenging times, it has provided a chance for many of us to reflect about what is important to us and our community. Some people have

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR so, what are the results? What if we find out that there are many rare plants and wildlife on these lands?

Surely, this is a material piece of information that the council needs to know.

And yet this project has already been in front of council three times and is soon to have a public hearing. Discussion of the environmental issues for this development have been far from detailed and have lacked transparency and rigour.

To be clear, the environmental report does not provide an opinion on the project’s viability and some progress has been made to provide for green spaces and to provide for a riparian area next to the lake. However, key and demanding questions are still not being debated and the recommended additional reports do not appear forthcoming.

Clearly, these are special and sensitive lands on the shores of one of our precious lakes. How many times will Whistler have this opportunity to develop or protect such unique lands? In an age when environmental issues are so important, surely the council and the community should demand a comprehensive discussion of the environmental impact.

This does not mean no development, but it means developments which are held to the highest environmental standards and one where the environmental impact is transparent and keenly debated. I am asking council to commit to the Whistler community that these additional environmental reports are completed, made available to the public and that there is a full and transparent

debate about the environmental impact of this development.

In five years’ time, when we ride our bikes and walk around Nita Lake, we will all be very thankful that a rigourous process has been followed.

I urge you to make your voices heard about the environmental impact of this rezoning by writing a letter to mayor and council at corporate@whistler.ca.

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Not all vehicles with U.S. plates ‘headed to Alaska’ This letter is in response to Natalie Rock and Jim Brown’s letter to the editor, (Pique, July 16), “How pathetic are we as Canadians.”

Before you report a U.S. plate vehicle to the RCMP, please recognize that there are several possibilities that might justify the presence of a U.S. vehicle in Canada and locally here in Whistler.

Per Canadian government policy, immediate family members of Canadian citizens from the U.S. are legally permitted to cross to border and remain in Canada.

That U.S. plate vehicle might also— importantly—belong to a essential worker, in the medical field or otherwise, or might also possibly belong to a Canadian who had been working in the U.S. who has returned home for their own safety during the pandemic, or who might have lost their U.S.-based job.

As Dr. Bonnie Henry has urged, the plate

of a vehicle does not tell the whole story of the circumstances of the individual driving it.

Please curtail your xenophobia, not all us vehicles are “headed to Alaska!”

Nick Morrissey // Whistler

Don’t judge American plates This letter is in response to the letter from Natalie Rock and Jim Brown entitled, “How pathetic are we Canadians” (Pique, July 16).

Yes, you are pathetic.

I am a Canadian citizen living in Pinecrest, B.C. and I’m driving a car with an American plate. For the last 10 years, I have been living in Athens, GA. I am not an American citizen and don’t have many rights there. We drove back to B.C. in May because we have also been majorly impacted by the pandemic. We obeyed the two-week quarantine. So if you are criticizing and judging Americans right now for their xenophobic, racist and bigoted administration while also taking pictures of American license plates and reporting them to the cops, then you are a hypocrite.

I’m saddened and full of shame that my fellow Canadians are acting in such a petty and small-minded way. Is it “Canada first now?” Are you hoarding your supplies and building a wall? Why don’t you wait by the cars, put your mask on and have a conversation with the driver?

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Losing faith in the feds It’s with great sadness that I tell you that I’ve lost complete faith 100 per cent in our government, financially, and from a role of any type of leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau.

Their excuses are absolutely disgusting.

Our government should be held to a higher standard. We become the laughingstock of the world not to be compared to the United States, but it’s almost like the headlines read as a joke as a Canadian. I call for the immediate dismissal of the finance minister and the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister who has tarnished and shamed the office that he is supposed to be upholding. His lack of judgment is repugnant.

Furthermore, if a Canadian business owner had done the exact same thing that our finance minister and our leader has done, which, by the way numerous senators and how many other politicians are doing the same thing, the Canadian Revenue Agency would freeze assets, charge them, fine them and in this particular instance, they would be in jail. So why is it that a simple apology falls on so many deaf ears?

Being a part of the Liberal Party unfortunately paints [our MP] with the same brush. I certainly hope this is not true. Please restore faith in the corrupt political system. I know it’s not possible to end corruption but this is beyond ridiculous.

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Masked man I HAVE A TENDENCY to play devil’s advocate, which, trust me, is no fun at parties. While I do enjoy a good argument for the sake of arguing—it’s how my family communicated—the main reason I can’t just shut up and go along is because I’ve learned that there is almost always more than one side to every story.

BY ANDREW MITCHELL Journalism, once my chosen profession, was all about transient, temporary truths and developing stories—everything you knew for certain on Wednesday could turn out to be completely wrong on Thursday. You tend to question everything more closely after years of watching stories evolve and change before your very eyes—sometimes just a few hours after going to print.

The coronavirus story is very much still in development, which is why I haven’t been able to jump on the bandwagon celebrating the success of Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry or federal health officer Dr. Theresa Tam. While I know both have been working incredibly hard and deserve a lot of credit for Canada’s relatively strong performance on the pandemic—and it really

is exciting to watch doctors and scientists get the celebrity treatment—the devil’s advocate in me has to ask if we could be doing better and getting through this faster.

Two weekends ago, there were over 102 new cases reported in B.C., prompting a rare lecture from Dr. Henry on personal responsibility. All those new things we got when we shifted to Phase 3, like bars, parks and bubble friends? They could all be taken away if we can’t learn to share them with proper physical distancing. And you can just forget about Phase 4…

The scary thing is that if antibody testing in California is accurate then only one in 10 people with the coronavirus will feel sick enough to see a doctor and get a swab.

Those 102 new cases may actually mean that over 900 more infected people were walking around the last two weeks without realizing it.

The devil’s advocate in me is tired of this.

Being nice and trusting people to do the right thing isn’t working fast enough.

We gave people a chance and people blew it. We don’t need a lecture on personal responsibility right now; we need a kick in the ass and some strict rules to follow. A more aggressive response from Day 1 would have saved lives and hundreds of billions of dollars, while getting us back to normal sooner.

Look at South Korea. They had one

of the worst early outbreaks, and quickly brought in an aggressive trackback and GPS contact-mapping system to identify anyone who may have been exposed. They also set up testing stations every few blocks in the cities, ensuring everybody could get a test.

Meanwhile in B.C., we wouldn’t even tell people the name of the town where cases were detected for privacy reasons. And I barely know anyone who’s been tested.

South Korea didn’t make masks mandatory in all situations, but strongly recommended them and almost everyone wore one as their patriotic duty. When factories there were jacking up the price of masks, the South Korean government stepped in and took over, and ended up sending everyone in the country, 51 million people, a reusable cloth mask to wear in public.

B.C. has never strongly recommended or mandated masks despite ample evidence that they work. Even Ontario eventually required them, but only when they hit a point where they were recording over 600 new cases a day. Instead of masks, the focus on the West Coast has been almost entirely on physical distancing because, apparently, we can’t do two things at once—wear masks AND stand the length of a hockey stick apart.

There are other differences in response and culture, but the key takeaway is that South Korea, a county with 50 per cent more

people packed into a much smaller area, has had fewer than 300 deaths—around one 30th (!) as many in Canada in roughly the same timeframe. They never really closed their economy at all either, aside from a few restrictions at restaurants and bars.

A lot of other countries have also had a lot more success than Canada, including Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, all of which were more aggressive in their response and either promoted or mandated masks.

So while we’re not doing badly compared to other countries, in particular our neighbours to the south, it’s also true that we probably could have done better.

I’m not a doctor—I barely have my First Aid—but stats are stats. As we wrap up our fifth month of restrictions and the number of infections is starting to edge back up, it’s time to stop being so nice and bring in mandatory masks for a little while—especially with new evidence that COVID-19 might actually be an airborne virus, a development that means two metres of social distancing was never enough to prevent the virus from spreading.

The devil’s advocate in me is OK being wrong most of the time. I will also happily argue against things I actually believe in because someone needs to bring up the opposing view. But this is one unpopular opinion where I think I might actually be right. ■

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CWSAA proposes mountain resort funding program SKI INDUSTRY LOOKS TO 1978 STIMULUS PACKAGE THAT HELPED SPORT EXPAND AS PRECEDENT

BY BRANDON BARRETT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, scientists and media have all been quick to remind us at every turn just how “unprecedented” the COVID-19 pandemic is. But for as uniquely disruptive as the past four months have been, it’s not the first time B.C.’s tourism industry has sat on the precipice of disaster.

In 1978, the governments of Canada and B.C. established the Tourism Industry Development Subsidiary Agreement (TIDSA), a $50-million investment to stimulate a sector that officials were hopeful could expand to the point of rivalling other globally renowned destinations.

The decision worked. Coming in the form of grants and low-interest loans, TIDSA proved to be the catalyst for many mountain resorts across B.C. to eventually establish themselves as world-class destinations and ultimately helped push skiing into the multibillion-dollar industry it is today.

“Within the province, that laid the foundation of many aspects of the B.C. ski industry that is now a global leader, and from a return-on-investment standpoint,

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the industry now generates $2 billion a year for the provincial economy, and north of $121 million per year in tax revenue specific to the province,” explained Christopher Nicolson, president and CEO of the Canada West Ski Areas Association (CWSAA).

While the circumstances are different, the Western Canadian ski industry is hopeful for a similar outcome postpandemic through a CWSAA-led proposal to establish a Mountain Resort Community Emergency Funding Program that, like TIDSA, is aimed at diversifying rural town

the proposal’s intent is to enable mountain resorts and their host communities to implement “shovel-ready” solutions to their most pressing problems, namely: addressing the immediate impacts of operating under COVID-19; a lack of affordable housing; the ever-increasing cost of building and upgrading infrastructure; and a lack of facilities, services and high-paying jobs needed to attract a year-round workforce.

Whistler’s Brent Harley of mountainresort design firm Brent Harley and Associates, who helped draft the proposal,

“We can’t come back post-COVID with the same product...”

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economies and employment opportunities as well as upgrading infrastructure and tourism assets.

“It really is a competitive world out there, and around the world, more and more countries are competing with Canada,” noted Sun Peaks mayor, ski-industry visionary and original Whistler councillor Al Raine. “We can’t come back post-COVID with the same product and expect that we are going to beat other countries. We’ve got to have better attractions, better tourism infrastructure, better employees and a better product.”

Sent to provincial officials last week,

said the funding isn’t intended “to create competitive benefits to all of the resorts that may be struggling; it’s more oriented towards addressing affordable housing, sewer and water, workforce issues, liveability issues.

That’s where the opportunity lies.”

Job creation will be crucial to the ski industry’s recovery, with more than 100,000 full- and part-time tourism and hospitality jobs either temporarily or permanently lost during the pandemic, and another 120,000 job losses predicted by the end of the year.

“When you start to think about the words ‘sustained’ and ‘sustained prosperity,’ you want a stable workforce. You don’t want to

have this constant turnover,” Harley said.

“So figuring that out and using that as a model to strive for is key compared to constantly expecting people to put up with it for a year or two and then leave.”

Attracting and retaining a stable workforce will mean recruiting more domestic labour as well as shifting the general perception on the kind of career prospects the industry offers, Nicolson believes.

“As an industry and more broadly as a key driver within the tourism industry, one of the challenges we have is the perception of tourism as being seasonal and not a viable career,” he said. “That is absolutely not the limit of it and does not fairly describe the industry. If you think of the number of trades, whether we’re talking millwrights, electricians, those highly specialized, very talented, highly skilled vocations, or you look at the advancement of culinary, the wine and food industry, and now the opportunities for those people to get trained in those areas and now have a family-supporting career in those communities, that’s something that didn’t exist decades ago.”

Of course, the visitor makeup of B.C.’s tourism and ski industries is also bound to look quite different this winter, and while attracting a broader base of clientele has been an emphasis for ski resorts in the past several years, COVID-19 has accelerated the conversation.

“It’s very easy to point to ski areas and the activities of skiing and snowboarding as

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BY BRANDON BARRETT SEARCH-AND-RESCUE groups across the Sea to Sky are hailing the province’s announcement last week that it would be providing a long-awaited, annual funding contribution to support the 2,500 searchand-rescue volunteers across B.C. “B.C.’s ground search-and-rescue groups have been calling for long-term, sustainable funding, and we’ve worked with them to meet this need,” said public safety minister Mike Farnworth in a July 21 release.

The BC Search and Rescue Association (BCSARA) has been working with Victoria since 2013 to develop a more sustainable, long-term funding model, which led, in March 2019, to a one-time, $18.6-million investment for SAR groups around the province. That funding will be doled out in annual instalments through 2021.

Last week’s announcement formalizes the province’s support by dedicating $6 million a year to SAR groups as a line item

in the 2020 budget. The annual funding will kick in in 2022-23. Victoria also already covers the operational costs for the 79 volunteer-run SAR groups in B.C. “It always makes a difference,” said WSAR manager Brad Sills. “Our budget is approaching a quarter of a million

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RESORT FUNDING FROM PAGE 14 being expensive and out of reach,” Nicolson said. “But when you look within B.C., there are 37 ski areas across the province that attract and appeal to a whole breadth of age as well as demographic within the province.

That’s a big part of it. That profile of the industry is something we need to improve upon and share within communities.”

Envisioned as part of the province’s $1.5-billion recovery plan, Nicolson said CWSAA is hopeful the funding amount will hit a minimum of $200 million—the rough equivalent, once inflation is factored in, of the $50 million handed out through 1978’s TIDSA program.

But Harley was hopeful federal officials will take a page out of their predecessors’ book by kicking in some money of their own.

“Wouldn’t it be great if the feds could be enticed to match that [provincial] money?

You never know,” he mused. “There’s enough of an economic argument when you consider Whistler generates $1.37 million a day in taxes. A big chunk of that is federal taxes and that’s a 2016 number, so that number was even bigger last year.”

And while the proposal is targeting mountain resort towns, Nicolson envisions it as a framework that other rural communities could consider as well.

“That’s the point to the proposal: it’s not exclusive to; it’s inclusive of mountain resort communities and all kinds of other

communities,” he said.

There is also overlap with other recent funding requests, such as the $680-million tourism and hospitality stimulus package that was floated last week by the Tourism Industry Association of BC. Harley recognizes the similarities, and is hopeful “the government will consolidate those and take the best elements out of each and apply them to a solution.”

With his decades of perspective on Whistler as a former councillor and GM of the Whistler Resort Association, Raine had plenty of tips for the community as it navigates the pitfalls and opportunities of the pandemic.

Chief among them: reshaping our perspective on overtourism.

“I’m totally opposed to this opinion that the slightest overcrowding of a tourism facility means we’ve been a failure. In my opinion, it means we need to pick up our pace and get more facilities available for the right number of people,” he said. “We do need an environmental balance between the number of people at an attraction and the carrying capacity of the attraction, but I don’t think we have to light our hair on fire because of the crowding.

“I was once, along with a handful of other nuts, a person who thought Whistler would become a great year-round resort and Whistler has done a hell of a job. I think we should be proud.” n

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 15 Part of the roughly $85,000 in provincial funds handed to WSAR last year was used to replace an aging, three-quarter-ton response vehicle that Sills called “hugely overloaded” with a new, five-ton Dodge truck. This year, the group has its sights set on the renewal of its long-line rescue kit, a crevasse rescue frame “because of the increased traffic in the Spearhead,” Sills said, and some specialty training for its members.

Pemberton Search and Rescue Society (PSAR) president Pete Schimek said it was crucial to have the certainty in funding the province is providing.

“The Village of Pemberton and the [Squamish-Lillooet Regional District] contribute to an annual budget for us, but that basically keeps the lights on, so to get the funding for any capital expenditures, equipment and training, [the provincial funding] really does help us out and move us forward,” he noted.

Squamish Search and Rescue, one of the busiest SAR groups in the province with close to 100 calls a year, is on pace to match that number in 2020 despite a slow winter due to COVID-19.

That busyness hasn’t bled into Whistler or Pemberton, where the respective SAR groups have seen only a handful of calls since the pandemic began.

“I think people have been generally responsible this summer and we certainly

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appreciate it,” said Sills, adding that recreationalists’ reluctance to place undue strain on a healthcare system already dealing with the novel coronavirus is a likely factor, while the closure of busy parks like Garibaldi has also stemmed the tide of calls.

(Garibaldi reopened July 27 as part of a pilot project that will see the introduction of free day-use passes in sections of the park as a way to manage crowds. See story on page 22.)

PSAR, which received nearly $72,000

in provincial funds last year, has only had about a half-dozen calls since January, compared to the 25 or so it usually sees in the quarter, noted Schimek—but it’s not a trend he expects to keep up, judging on the higher volumes of traffic he’s seeing come through the community.

“I think things are going to get busy in a hurry just based on what I’m seeing, so time will tell,” he added.

In the release, Jennifer Rice, B.C.’s

Parliamentary secretary for emergency preparedness, urged British Columbians to do their part this summer “by being prepared and staying safe” while recreating outdoors.

“Every time someone takes a risk in the backcountry, by going off established trails or not being prepared, the safety of ground search and rescue volunteers is put at risk,” she added.

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WHISTLER’S key resort stakeholders have been meeting weekly to discuss the ever-evolving crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic (and adjust accordingly—see the fresh signage and directional line-painting in Whistler Village as one recent example), the weight of it all remains lost on some.

“To be really frank, it’s challenging because when people are here on vacation, they aren’t always aware of some of the protocols,” said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher.

“We’ve heard feedback from some people saying that they got away from the city because they wanted to get away from some of the challenges with COVID, thinking that Whistler is removed from that. Certainly we’ve been fortunate that we are a very healthy outdoor community, but in order to keep it that way, we need visitors to understand that … even though they’re on vacation, COVID is not.”

That’s part of the key messaging now being rolled out in the village, Fisher said, but it’s far from the final word—Whistler’s management of pandemic protocols has

been an iterative process with all the key players at the table.

“We’ve put in a number of important safety precautions, but there’s certainly more to do. It’s not something we’ll be finished with,” said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“It’s iterative; we need to continue learning and improving our safety performance. COVID-19 is very much a new world.”

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is launching a program to help drive alignment of safety protocols between various village businesses, and recognize those with numerous, visible safety measures in place, Crompton added.

By completing an RMOW COVID-19 protocol checklist (covering everything from occupancy and lineups on the stroll to cleaning and hygiene measures), businesses can receive a sticker showing their compliance.

“Our goal is to drive safety alignment in the village,” Crompton said.

“We’ll be more effective with a uniform safety experience for visitors to the village.

We want to ensure that visitors feel invited and secure while also ensuring they are treating our community with respect, and are taking the necessary precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19.”

STROLL SAFETY New measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in Whistler Village include new signage and line painting—but the work isn’t done.

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Other initiatives are also being rolled out, including 12 new picnic tables at various locations to assist restaurants with takeout options and more action to reduce crowding at local parks.

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Parking violators will be ticketed and possibly towed.

The RMOW is looking at bringing in a shuttle service, potentially from Creekside and the village, to get people to and from parks, the mayor added.

The RMOW wants to encourage a unified approach to COVID-19 measures to ensure confidence in both visitors and residents, said chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen.

“What our teams observed this morning was really encouraging—we visited many businesses that have visible measures in place such as clearly marked physical distancing for lineups, Plexiglass barriers between staff and customers and maximum occupancy signs on entrance doors,” she said.

“I’m really encouraged that Whistler businesses want to do their best to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and we’re happy to provide resources such as signage to the business community to do so.”

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Garibaldi Provincial Park, Stawamus Chief reopen under new free day-pass program PILOT PROJECT AIMS TO CURB OVERCROWDING AT SIX OF B.C.’S MOST POPULAR PARKS

BY MEGAN LALONDE AFTER RECENTLY moving to Vancouver, Poonam Bhasin was eager to get aquainted with her new home province—and celebrate her birthday—atop the summit of the Stawamus Chief earlier this month.

That idea was squashed when some prehike research revealed the trail remained closed after shutting to the public in March amidst COVID-19 concerns.

Instead, Bhasin and her sister were two of the first hikers to tackle the monolith for a belated celebration when the provincial park’s Chief Peaks Trail finally reopened on Monday, July 27—“the perfect day for us to go,” she said.

They were also two of the first to access the Chief under BC Parks’ newly implmented free day-use pass system, requiring hikers to book a same-day reservation before they can hit the trail.

The new pilot program is intended to help manage crowding across six of the province’s most popular parks, including the Stawams Chief, and the busy Diamond

Head (Elfin Lakes), Rubble Creek (Garibaldi Lake) and Cheakamus trailheads in Garibaldi Provincial Park, the province announced last Wednesday, July 22.

Other parks now requiring day-use passes the pilot include Cypress, Golden Ears, Mount Robson and Mount Seymour provincial parks. The amount of passes available each day varies from park to park, while trail users could face a $115 fine for hiking without a permit.

“People in B.C. love the outdoors, but some of our most popular parks are experiencing a high number of visitors, resulting in crowded facilities, packed parking lots and safety issues, such as parking along the highway,” said B.C. environment minister George Heyman in a release.

The passes are available online through the Discover Camping portal beginning at 6 a.m. daily. Passes cannot be transferred to another date or location, or shared with anyone beyond the group reserved.

Some passes, like the ones needed to access Garibaldi, are valid for the entire day, while passes for the Stawamus Chief trail are valid for one of two time blocks—a.m. pass holders must arrival before 1 p.m., while p.m.

passes require holders to arrive after 1 p.m.

Day-use passes are not required for overnight campers, though a camping reservation is required.

Bhasin said the new reservation system seems to be accomplishing its goal of limiting crowds—she estimates her and her sister only encountered a total of 30 other hikers during their visit to the park. She said the pair also witnessed “a couple of people” turned away by park rangers for failing to display a pass or confirmation number before embarking on the steep trail.

After some initial confusion about where to find the mobile link for the passes, Bhasin said she had no problem procuring an a.m. pass when she woke up at 8:30 a.m. on Monday.

Meanwhile, Squamish’s Riece Tosh said in an email that she was online at 6 a.m. sharp to reserve her pass—“As soon as I could,” she added. “I was pretty excited.”

Tosh, who runs the Instagram account @reclaiming_a_dream, said she would typically hike the Chief three or four times a week prior to its closure, called the booking process “a little difficult at first,” and noted she didn’t receive a confirmation email for

her afternoon pass until 3:42 p.m.

For some parks, including Garibaldi, a day-use pass isn’t required for all trails— meaning if the park is open and your preferred trail or trailhead isn’t listed, you do not need to reserve a day pass to access it. In Garibaldi, this applies to both the Wedgemount and Singing Pass Trails.

Noticeably absent from the list of recently reopened parks is Pemberton’s perpetually-crowded Joffre Lakes Provincial Park.

While questions to BC Parks about that specific trail’s reopening were not returned before Pique’s deadline, a spokesperson pointed towards BC Parks’ ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ web page.

In response to, “When will the rest of the parks open?” the website reads, “A number of parks and protected areas remain closed near vulnerable and remote communities or those that might experience very high visitor numbers.

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D’ARCY SCOTT BURKE Nov. 2, 1971 – July 24, 2020

IT IS WITH BROKEN HEARTS we announce that on a Friday (his favourite day), in his Chromag T-shirt, with his family by his side, D’Arcy Burke—partner in life and love, son, brother, uncle, godfather and friend— died after a 2-year struggle with prostate cancer.

D’Arcy will always be remembered as the soulmate to Jeannette Nadon, a devoted son to Willa and Dennis Burke, and treasured brother to Christianna. Also missing him dearly are his brother-in-law Andrew Elgee, father-in-law Dan Nadon, sister-in-law Rochelle Shukalek, nieces and nephews Lilith, Noah and Rhys Burke-Elgee, and Alyssa and Julianna Shukalek, and countless friends in the Whistler community and beyond. He is predeceased by Betty Nadon, his mother-in-law who adored him.

Born in Cordova Bay (Victoria), BC, D’Arcy moved to Whistler at 17, following his heart and the call of the mountains. Although a passion for skiing brought D’Arcy to Whistler, he became an inspiration and pioneer in the world of mountain biking. The stories run deep and his legendary status is cemented in the history of Whistler mountain bike lore. Known for his beautiful tenacity of spirit, warm and humble nature, and infectious enthusiasm, D’Arcy was a kind soul with an inspiring zest for life who could easily draw others into his exploits, shenanigans, and adventures, on two wheels or two planks.

Starting his 30-year Whistler Mountain Ski Corp career as a liftie on Peak Chair, D’Arcy spent most of his winters as a Grooming Supervisor.

D’Arcy was a respected leader and mentor with a calm, easy energy, quiet confidence, and an ability to support others to be their best. In his early Whistler days, he spent the summers honing his skills as a machine operator and trail builder for both WB and RMOW, helping to build some of Whistler’s most iconic trails. There are too many to list, but if you have ridden B-Line, Flank Trail, Hand of Doom or South of Heaven, D’Arcy Burke helped make that happen. Eventually D’Arcy traded his excavator for a wrench, spending the last 20 summers as a bike mechanic, first at Evolution Bikes and later joining the team at Chromag. Everywhere D’Arcy worked, he created family.

D’Arcy met his cancer diagnosis with courage and grace. Despite his challenges, he still got after it every day that he could, following his passions and spending cherished time with his family and friends. He remained positive, calm and lighthearted to the end.

The family would like to thank Dr. Kim Chi and the amazing oncology staff at the BC Cancer Agency, as well as Drs. Brenda Miller and Peter Bull and the Sea to Sky Palliative Home Care Nursing Team for their compassionate and professional care. We would also like to thank all of D’Arcy’s amazing friends for their unwavering love and support, which brought much happiness and comfort and made this difficult journey easier to bear.

One day, we will gather with our hundreds of hearts together. Until then, smaller memorials and tributes are being planned and will be announced in the coming days. Those who loved D’Arcy are invited to share their memories at www.lovingdarcyburke.com.

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Still time to apply for neighbourhood grants to reduce social isolation WHISTLER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WILL GIVE UP TO $500 FOR COMMUNITY-ORIENTED PROJECTS

BY BRANDON BARRETT IF YOU’VE BEEN feeling the twinge of loneliness that comes with months of relative isolation, the Whistler Community Foundation (WCF) can help with that.

The non-profit has streamlined its longrunning neighbourhood grant program to better respond to projects that promote community cohesion during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Partnering with the Vancouver Foundation, WCF is helping administer the Responsive Neigbourhood Small Grants Program, which offers funding for smallscale projects aimed at reducing social isolation.

The application deadline is end of day on July 31.

“The whole point of the [traditional neighbourhood grants] program is to share skills and talents and connect people. But obviously with COVID, it wasn’t going to be as easy to do that,” explained Claire Mozes, executive director of the WCF. So with limited opportunities

to physically gather, the Vancouver Foundation switched focus by reducing the turnaround time for grant approval.

Typically, community foundations like the WCF will wait until their application window closes to decide on which projects will receive funding, and for how much.

Now, the WCF is processing the applications as they come in, with the goal of deciding on and issuing grants within 10 days.

“It’s just a different style of granting,” Mozes said.

So far, only four applications have come in, including a virtual clay-making workshop offered by local artist Penny Eder; a tiny lending library in Taluswood; and an online writing workshop led by author, filmmaker and Whistler Writers Festival manager Rebecca Wood Barrett.

“I look forward to connecting with people because, in my own experience, when I’ve gone to workshops, it fuels me for months afterwards,” said Wood Barrett, noting that the workshop will likely take place in September. “It’s not just a one-time thing that helps people.

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The community initiatives must be free to attend, and, with the COVID-19 situation relatively under control in B.C., Mozes said in-person neighbourhood events will also be considered alongside virtual ones, provided the applicant can show their idea will work in a physically distant manner with a smaller group.

Mozes said there are “endless” possibilities to the kinds of projects that will be considered.

“Think about what would help ease social isolation and/or finding a way to share your skills and talents with somebody else,” she said.

The grants are for up to $500, and can cover basic material and labour costs, as well as an honorarium for the applicant’s time. Successful projects in other areas have included online cooking classes, a carepackage delivery program for seniors, and even virtual fishing tutorials.

“A small, simple idea can be really powerful and meaningful, so just jump in.

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Quick-acting Whistlerites douse small Alpine fire HIGH TEMPERATURES SPARK REMINDER TO STAY VIGILANT ON WILDFIRES

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A SMALL FIRE at the top of Whistler’s Alpine Meadows neighbourhood on the afternoon of Monday, July 27 could potentially have been much worse if not for some fast-acting Whistlerites.

Alpine resident Frank Salter said he could already smell the smoke when he got a call from a friend on Green Lake— coincidentally also a paid on-call firefighter.

“He phoned me to ask if my house was on fire, because they could see smoke rising from right in my vicinity,” Salter said.

After a quick investigation, Salter found a pair of tree stumps engulfed in flames on either side of the Mandatory Suicide bike trail near Alpine Way. “We grabbed all the neighbours and my friends and called the fire department, who had already been alerted by my buddy on the lake,” Salter said.

“Then we ran back with buckets and an axe and started chopping up the stump, and watered it.”

The group of six formed a small “bucket brigade” from a nearby creek and managed to quell the flames by the time Whistler Fire Rescue Service (WFRS) crews arrived to finish the job and clean up remaining hotspots.

The quick response from residents “most definitely” prevented the fire from growing, said WFRS deputy chief Chris Nelson.

“That’s a positive takeaway,” Nelson said.

“We do have eyes and ears around this valley, and people are hyper sensitive, and the call came in with a whiff of smoke.”

That said, the event is a “cautionary tale,” he added.

“There was lots of people out there, we got it really early, and that’s the whole key,” he said.

“But the fire started anyways.”

While no cause has been determined, it’s possible it was improperly discarded smoking materials, Nelson said.

“The thought is it was near the head of the trail, and someone sat down and had something before they went for a bike ride, and put it away incorrectly,” he said.

FAST ACTION Some Whistlerites made quick work of two flaming tree stumps in Alpine on July 27.

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With the resort experiencing the first real bout of hot weather this year and crowds returning to Whistler en masse, what is Nelson’s level of comfort right now?

“As you can imagine, I don’t sleep as well as I normally do on a nice winter’s day, when there’s no immediate threat to the valley,” he said.

But some changes to BC Wildfire’s approach this year have eased his anxiety somewhat, he added.

“This year they’ve gone to the model of ‘let’s hit it hard and let’s hit it quickly,’ so it’s a much better response model,” Nelson said.

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and visitors alike need to stay vigilant.

“Be diligent; call 911 without hesitation,” Nelson said, adding that if the fire is still small, you can try to contain it with water or dirt.

When calling in a fire, particularly in the backcountry, it’s important to give good coordination—Nelson recommended staying in the general location if possible.

“So tell us where it is, but better yet, stay there with your cell phone on so we can call you back to know exactly where it is,” he said.

Report all fires in Whistler by calling 911.

Outside of Whistler, call 1-800-663-5555 (*5555 on a cell phone).

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Vancouver man drowns in Alta Lake WITNESS RECALLS SCARY INCIDENT THAT SAW A TEAM OF BYSTANDERS PULL THE MAN TO SHORE

BY MEGAN LALONDE A 20-YEAR-OLD Vancouver man has died after spending several minutes under the water in Alta Lake on Tuesday, July 28.

While bystanders managed to pull him to shore, according to witnesses, and he was rushed to hospital, Whistler RCMP said on Wednesday, July 29, that the man had died.

Vancouver resident Lina Serrano and her family were seated at a picnic table near the Alta Lake shoreline, enjoying the sunny afternoon at a packed Rainbow Park when she said she heard two young women calling out from the edge of the swimming boundary.

“They were holding on to the rope, they were waving and it sounded like, ‘Hey, hey!’” Serrano said.

She recognized the friends as the same group that had been occupying the neighbouring picnic table all afternoon.

“I turned around and I didn’t see anybody at the picnic table beside me,” she said. “Then it looked more frantic when I seemed to catch their eyes.”

Serrano walked closer to the water. “And then I heard them and it was ‘Help.’ And

that’s when I said, ‘What?’ and then they said, ‘He hasn’t come up from underwater.’”

Serrano began echoing the women’s calls for help until four men jumped in the water and began swimming towards the boundary rope. “The girls were saying, ‘Over here, over here,’ but they were pointing

‘From the moment that you yelled help, it has been five minutes.’”

The firefighter was yelling for more help and more swimmers, “so that’s when I let my [16-year-old] brother go,’” Serrano said.

She estimates around four more men swam over, as well as a paddleboarder.

“A man had been counting, and he said, ‘From the moment that you yelled help, it has been five minutes.’”

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to the outer bounds,” recalled Serrano, referencing the lake’s floating docks.

Serrano said a witness who identified himself as an off-duty firefighter began asking for goggles, “and people just started chucking goggles at him.” After a few minutes of searching, that firefighter yelled, “‘We found him,’” said Serrano.

“A man had been counting, and he said,

“I just could see them lifting his body up and putting him on the paddleboard, and between six to seven guys just pushed him to shore.”

The busy park was “quiet as could be.”

By that point, Serrano was speaking with a 911 operator.

Serrano said witnesses began performing CPR, until police officers arrived and took

over approximately four minutes later. She estimated first responders performed CPR for about 20 minutes, during which time the off-duty firefighter stated that they had found a pulse. Serrano said the man was then taken away by ambulance.

In a release on Tuesday, police said they received report of a man who was unable to be located after swimming in Alta Lake around 4:10 p.m. Whistler RCMP confirmed the man was found and treated by police and paramedics before being transported to hospital.

“Many people worked together to help locate and provide medical care yesterday afternoon and we want to thank everyone for all their efforts,” said Sgt. Sascha Banks, in a press release on Wednesday. “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man.”

Police ask anyone who witnessed the incident and has not yet spoken with RCMP to contact the Whistler detachment at 604932-3044.

While Serrano said on Tuesday night that she and her family were anxiously awaiting word of the man’s condition and remain unclear about what exactly led to the distress, the scary incident is serving as a sobering reminder: “Don’t underestimate the water.” n

HEADING TO WHISTLER’S PARKS THIS WEEKEND? SO IS EVERYONE ELSE! KNOW BEFORE YOU GO • Parking will be extremely limited to manage crowding and public safety. Ticketing and towing will be in effect for parking violations.

• Consider walking, biking or taking free transit to the nearest park.

Visitor accommodation may offer a shuttle drop off service.

• Pack out what you pack in–this includes garbage. Never leave garbage or recyclables next to garbage bins.

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COVID-19 ISN’T ON VACATION. • Enjoy open spaces with fewer faces. Find a quiet, secluded place to explore.

• Maintain two metres of space from others. Avoid large group gatherings.

• Wash your hands. Stay home when sick.

INTRODUCING A FREE SHUTTLE TO RAINBOW PARK • Street parking will be very limited starting this weekend for the safety of pedestrians and to help manage park crowding.

• Shuttle service is available this Saturday through Monday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• Pick up and drop off is available every 30 minutes between Rainbow Park, Creekside and Whistler Village.

NEWS WHISTLER

Provincial monitoring program gauges health of Sea to Sky lakes JULY IS LAKE APPRECIATION MONTH

BY BRANDON BARRETT FOR THE PAST six years, the province has been monitoring 53 of B.C.’s lakes, including several in the Sea to Sky, and, by and large, researchers’ findings have reaffirmed what most residents already know: Our lakes are in pretty good shape.

Researchers compiled data on several key physical, chemical and biological indicators, such as temperature, water clarity, plankton and algae levels, as well as testing for pH, dissolved oxygen, metals and nutrients.

In Whistler, Alpha, Nita, Lost and Green Lakes had been monitored by the RMOW for water quality, but those efforts were not in alignment with the provincial program, while Alta Lake is considered a high-priority, long-term trend site that is monitored by provincial researchers.

Last year, the municipality worked with the BC Lake Stewardship Society to implement a new monitoring program to better align with the province, which was scheduled to begin this year, but was eventually postponed due to COVID-19. The RMOW continues to monitor beach water (including for E. coli), stream water and storm water quality, however.

While provincial officials have monitored some of B.C’s lakes in some form since the late ‘60s, Mike Sokal, a provincial water quality-monitoring limnologist, said this most recent program was launched to standardize researchers’ approach and strike a more diverse balance of lakes across the province.

“Before this program was initiated, we had monitored from a variety of different offices … and people were monitoring the lakes for specific regional reasons. Sampling was done using different techniques and that was specific to the questions being asked,” he explained. “So all sorts of different aspects we tried to cover off to get a really good, cohesive picture of what lake quality is like around the province and how that changes over time.”

The most recent data shows that all of the studied Whistler lakes fall within acceptable safety guidelines.

Closer to Squamish, Brohm Lake is also a long-term trend site, where experts say the overall water quality is “quite good,” with moderately clear water and relatively low levels of nutrients and metals, according to an email from the province.

Alta Lake has been a fascination of researchers for years, given it was considered unique because it historically drained at both the north and south ends into Nita and Alpha lakes (today, the lake’s outflow is now entirely redirected to the north end), and

was situated in close proximity to both rail and land development.

In a 2005 monitoring report issued by the BC Lakes Stewardship Society, researchers said that Alta Lake did not follow the pattern of most lakes, which typically sees algae levels decrease as temperatures drop.

“Further monitoring of the lake will provide a better interpretation of data,” the report stated.

For several years, Ian Spooner, head of the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia University, and his students have been doing paleolimnology work, taking core samples of lake sediment to compare the state of Alta and Lost Lake— the former home to significant development nearby, while the latter has largely avoided those pressures.

In the case of Alta Lake, core samples show copper and arsenic levels returning to normal background levels after spikes in the 1880s with the advent of the PGE Railway and Pemberton Trail, and the 1960s, when some believe copper was dumped into the lake to rid it of an invasive species, a potentially harmful strategy that was more common at the time. Meanwhile, productivity and human-caused “nutrient loading”—signalled by an increase in nitrogen—continue to increase.

“With nitrogen, it’s a signal of human nutrient loading—so poop and pee,” Spooner told Pique last year. “And it’s not going back either.”

With the provincial monitoring program only going back six years, Sokal said the kind of long-term data that Spooner can offer is invaluable to researchers.

“The water quality data that we’re collecting as part of our program, even though it is a snapshot in time, we are tracking it longer term,” he said. “So we’re getting information in the spring and in the late summer, and the water quality there is quite good and is not heavily variable. But we only have a small dataset of about three years, so that’s why in that study it’s quite good to have some of that longer-term history.”

With July being Lake Appreciation Month, Roger McCarthy, former Whistler councillor and organizer of the Great Lake Clean Up, is looking to set a date for this year’s annual community event, likely in August. Held since 2013, the event sees upwards of 40 volunteers—including trained divers from the Lower Mainland— take to Whistler’s major lakes and waterways to remove any trash found.

McCarthy said the event has made “a huge difference, and not only in the cleanliness of the lakes, but I think we’ve raised an awareness to take [your trash] with you.” n

PATRICK WEILER MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT / DÉPUTÉ

Happy BC Day! While we enjoy the summer weather and all British Columbia has to offer, I would like to recognize the hard work and sacrifices that our communities have made so far to allow us to avoid the worst impacts of COVID-19. While we continue to follow the advice of our public health experts, the Federal Government has brought in support measures to assist individuals, non-profits and businesses to get through the pandemic.

As we begin to re-open our economy, we are protecting the health of British Columbians, getting people safely back to work, and preparing for a potential second wave through our Safe Restart Agreement. The Federal Government is making much needed infrastructure investments such as the replacement of the Jack Webster Bridge and the revitalization of the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre, among many others, to create good jobs, help our economy recover, and leave our communities with important leg I wish everyone a responsibly fun and relaxing long weekend! As Dr. Henry says – be kind, be calm and be safe.

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VALLEY TRAIL NOTICE STAY

2 METRES

APART

• Stay at least 2 m (6ft) from others • No groups • Walk in single file on far right when passing others • Leash dogs • Avoid busy times Please visit www.whistler.ca/covid19 for the latest updates from the RMOW.

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NEWS WHISTLER

Tiny toads set to migrate once more COUNCIL BRIEFS: KOTG REGISTRATION GOES CONTACTLESS; TAX SALES DEFERRED

BY BRADEN DUPUIS ONE OF WHISTLER’S favourite summer traditions is about to emerge from Lost Lake—with some added assistance from the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW).

Tens of thousands of tiny Western toadlets will begin migrating from the shores of Lost Lake to the forest in the coming weeks.

The RMOW has added new infrastructure including a toad underpass under the Valley Trail behind the events lawn and a toad boardwalk under the Blackcomb Creek bridge at the intersection of Lost Lake Loop and Cedar Way, said Mayor Jack Crompton at the July 21 council meeting.

“These are the first of several infrastructure upgrades that are planned to be built over the next few years. The RMOW has also installed a permanent migration corridor fence that safely guides the toadlets out of the park area,” Crompton said.

“In addition to the fencing, a number of temporary signs are being installed during the migration to advise the public where the toadlets are migrating. These efforts should greatly reduce the toadlet mortalities and help reduce trail closures and detours.”

The RMOW won’t be taking on volunteers this year to help with the toads because of COVID-19, Crompton added.

During the migration, which typically lasts two to four weeks, the Lost Lake access road and parking lot will be closed to all vehicle traffic, while the Ceach cut trail will also be closed when toads start to migrate.

The Lost Lake beach and adjacent lawn areas will stay open, but are subject to closures if the toads start using that as a migration route.

The RMOW has been monitoring the Western toads at Lost Lake since 2005, Crompton said.

“We’re very lucky to host such a large population of this sensitive species right here in our own backyard,” he said.

“Despite being barely the size of a dime, the Western toadlets are an integral part of the Lost Lake ecology.”

Read more at whistler.ca/toads.

KIDS ON THE GO REGISTRATION SHIFTS ONLINE Registration for Whistler’s Kids on the Go (KOTG) afterschool program is going contactless.

“That means big news: no more lining up in the middle of the night to register for KOTG programs for the 2020-21 school year,” Crompton said at the July 21 council meeting.

TOAD PATROL Whistler’s tiny Western toads are set to make the leap to the forest surrounding Lost Lake in the coming weeks.

FILE PHOTO

As in previous years, families are asked to only register for the days they are certain they will use the program to ensure more families are accommodated.

“Families with children who attended KOTG from January 2019 to August 2020 need to email KOTG@whistler.ca by Monday, Aug. 3, 2020 with all of their requested dates for this upcoming school year,” Crompton said.

“New families will be able to register for a waitlist position starting on Sunday, Aug. 29.”

Find more info at whistler.ca/kotg.

COUNCIL PASSES TAX SALE DEFERRAL BYLAW Also at the July 21 meeting, council gave all three readings and adopted a bylaw that will defer its annual tax sale to September 2021.

Under the Local Government Act, the RMOW is required to hold a tax sale each year on the last Monday in September. The sale is a public auction of properties in the municipality that have unpaid property taxes going back two years.

With COVID-19 wreaking havoc on personal finances, the deferral will offer additional relief for taxpayers.

It would be an “extraordinarily rare occurrence” that someone’s home is sold at a tax sale, said director of finance Carlee Price.

“We do our very best to ensure that we do reach out to the homeowner and that they have every opportunity to repay their back taxes and keep control of their property,” Price said.

“In the case where a property does sell, they do have one year following the date of sale to rebalance those accounts before ownership actually transfers, so it’s exceedingly rare.”

There are currently about 50 homes in the RMOW with two years of unpaid taxes.

Nearly half of residential property tax bills (46 per cent) were paid by July 2, compared to 69 per cent last year, according to an RMOW spokesperson, keeping in mind that no penalty will be imposed on unpaid taxes until Oct. 1 this year. n

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

New Pemberton park proposed COUNCIL BRIEFS: VOP COUNCIL DEFERS TAX SALE; ATTENDANCE REPORTS CANCELLED

BY DAN FALLOON VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) council expressed support for two tenure applications that would allow for a public park by the Lillooet River at its regular meeting held via Zoom on July 28.

The Village has held a lease at the site, north of Highway 99 at the Lillooet River Bridge, since 1997, as it hosted the wastewater treatment plant until 2010. When the plant moved to its new site on Airport Road, the Village’s intention was to restore green space at the site. In her report, legislative assistant Elysia Harvey said Friendship Trail construction has hastened that need.

One application is for Crown land tenure and the second is for a right-of-way for a small section of the land. The current lease agreement is good until 2027, but is for utility purposes. The Village had a rightof-way agreement previously, but it expired in April 2019.

Additionally, Harvey noted that the Lil’wat Nation and the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) have jointly requested a public boat launch. There is one on the south side of the highway, but it is no longer available for public use.

Another consideration, Harvey notes, is that the location is popular for unauthorized camping and establishing a park would reduce litter and fire risk associated with the activity.

Councillor Ted Craddock said he is in favour of the application in general, but has some concerns over the public boat

BY THE RIVER A new park is proposed to be

situated on Crown land near the Lillooet River.

FILE PHOTO BY JOEL BARDE

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launch aspect.

“The issue that comes up is traffic turning left just before the bridge pulling a boat or [Sea-Doos] or what have you is a very serious traffic issue,” he said, noting it may make more sense for Pemberton Search and Rescue, the Pemberton Valley Dyking District and the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to build and maintain a launch there.

Couns. Amica Antonelli and Leah Noble pondered whether it would be possible to get more waterfront access for the park, and while manager of corporate and legislative services Sheena Fraser said she’d explore whether it would be possible to secure that tenure, the focus at this point is to maintain the existing tenure.

TAX SALE DEFERRED With residents struggling financially in the wake of COVID-19, council is providing a measure to help homeowners.

At the meeting, manager of finance Lena Martin presented a report that explored postponing until 2021 the sale of properties whose owners are delinquent on their taxes.

The provincial government allowed for the possibility with Ministerial Order M159 on May 15.

Taxes were due on July 2, and Martin noted that 12 properties owing nearly $36,000 are currently in the tax sale listing.

“We are looking to support those property owners that are having a bit of a struggle this year,” she said.

Martin explained that property owners are able to make payments to remove themselves from the list, which is what has been done in recent years.

“They do have from July 2 until the tax sale date to pay a portion of those taxes to keep them off of the tax sale list,” she said.

“Every year, we tend to see the same similar properties that struggle and I think we’re seeing similar properties this year.

“Every year, especially the last two years, those properties have been able to come to us and pay down their taxes before the tax sale date. We’ve had no tax sale the last couple years.”

In a follow-up question, chief

“We are looking to support those property owners that are having a bit of a struggle this year.”

- LENA MARTIN

administrative officer Nikki Gilmore confirmed that the number of properties in the tax sale listing is in line with other years.

Property owners who are behind on their taxes accrue daily interest.

Council passed four readings of the bylaw to defer the sale until 2021.

ATTENDANCE LIST ONE AND DONE This time last year, council directed staff to create an annual attendance report for the mayor and councillors.

That report was presented at the July 28 meeting, but council ultimately voted not to bring the report forward in future years.

According to the report, Mayor Mike Richman had perfect attendance, as did

Coun. Leah Noble, while Couns. Amica Antonelli and Ted Craddock each missed a special meeting. Coun. Ryan Zant had two missed days, with committee of the whole, regular council and in-camera meetings, and attended one special meeting electronically (before the pandemic made all meetings virtual).

Noble, however, noted her record wasn’t accurate—she missed one meeting due to a severe migraine.

Antonelli, meanwhile, expressed concern over the lack of context. The special meeting she and Craddock missed, for example, was called at the last minute, lasted a total of four minutes and was only held to formally appoint an interim chief building official.

Antonelli added that there are any number of legitimate reasons a councillor could miss a meeting here and there, and if attendance is an issue, it can be dealt with internally.

“Thinking about how this is reported in the media and how the public views this, I don’t think this report has a lot of context,” she said. “Several of us have had deaths in the family and missed a meeting.

“If there are any issues with attendance, I think a more appropriate way to address it is, rather than a public report, is to have a conversation.”

If there are no issues, Antonelli continued, then it’s a lot of staff time and resources devoted to putting together the report.

Report author Fraser grappled with whether to include the rationale or not.

“I did debate whether I identified why people were absent in some of the cases,” she said. “I did feel that that was personal and it may not be something that the council member necessarily wants to have put out there if it’s a personal matter.” n

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Future of Meager Creek, Keyhole hot springs in discussion FURTHER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PLANNED

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THE PROVINCIAL government and Lil’wat Nation are continuing work on visitoruse management plans regarding the future of the Meager Creek and Keyhole hot springs.

The most recent developments came in the form of a survey that saw 773 respondents provide feedback between January and March.

Both sites have had some form of closure for years, with Meager Creek officially closed since the 2010 Capricorn landslide (and remains closed due to public safety concerns even though road access has been restored through another location), while Keyhole has been closed seasonally since 2017 because of wildlife conflicts.

Still, the results showed that 26 per cent of respondents have accessed Meager Creek since the 2010 landslide.

Susie Dain-Owens, a land and resource specialist for the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development’s Sea to Sky Natural Resource District, said that among the survey highlights were respondents acknowledging the importance of environmental values of both sites and understanding concerns regarding unauthorized use or effects of visitor behaviour.

“You see wilderness values being highly rated. You see recreation values being highly rated, of course,” she said, adding that the results show what people think is important for future management, such as maintaining the natural state of the springs and protecting wildlife ranking slightly ahead of allowing the public to visit.

“It’s a complex issue for us, but I think it’s important to see that people value the environment and ecological and wilderness values of both places and realize that it’s important to protect those,” she said.

The survey is part of a larger process when considering future visitor-use management of the sites. Dain-Owens notes that on the provincial side, there are wildlife biologists, Rec Sites and Trails BC staff and ministry staff involved in the efforts.

Ultimately, what the province hopes to achieve is to figure out a “desired state” and the best way to achieve it.

“It has us starting out by identifying the values and the concerns of this area, the issues, and then coming together to discuss a vision or a desired state for these areas—what we want to protect, what we want these places to look like and feel like using a long-term lens,” she said.

In addition to the public input being sought, several other groups are specifically being asked to take part.

“We’ve also been engaging with stakeholder

groups, local government, and this also includes recreation organizations, the Pemberton Wildlife Association as well as industrial groups in the area. We’re trying to understand their values and concerns,” Dain-Owens said.

From the Lil’wat Nation perspective, Chief Dean Nelson said that while the Nation wants to find a workable solution for smooth access, with people doing their part to take care of the area, he acknowledges that there have been frustrations in the past.

“As far as alcohol, food and garbage, the majority of people that do go there ruin it for those that really care about the place, the local people, the First Nations,” he said.

What Nelson hopes visitors keep in mind is the importance of the lands to the Lil’wat, in both spiritual and practical senses, as they use the lands for hunting and harvesting fruit and berries.

“They’re still being used. They’re harvesting areas. They’re spiritual areas,” he said. “There are still natural values there for the people.

“That’s one thing that needs to be understood. That part hasn’t changed.”

Noting that the Lil’wat had land stewards in the past, Nelson would like to see the Nation have greater involvement in the management plan going forward.

“We’d like to have more presence as far as overseeing sites that are within our traditional lands and be the people that are there taking care of it, voicing our concerns about it and actually doing the caretaking on the land,” he said, noting education is one area in which he’d like to see the Nation take on a greater role.

“It’s not just these two. It’s places like Joffre that have gone way beyond capacity.

“Everybody wants to enjoy them, but who’s taking care of it?”

Dain-Owens said collaborating with a First Nation such as the Lil’wat is a “new process” and as such, takes extra time as they work through complex issues and review a number of potential scenarios with both short- and long-term priorities.

An admittedly optimistic target, DainOwens hopes to have a draft plan available for public review by the late summer or early autumn.

“We want to work in a good way with Lil’wat Nation and not rush through these steps,” she said. “We want the outcome to be something that really respects Lil’wat’s values and culture in this area.”

Both Dain-Owens and Nelson reiterated that even once a plan is decided and implemented, it will still be a work in progress, with Nelson describing a “circular process” and Dain-Owens saying changes will be made if the goals aren’t being met.

For project updates and survey results, check out landuseplanning.gov.bc.ca and search Sea to Sky under “list of projects.” n

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SCIENCE MATTERS

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DURING

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his 2016 campaign, the current U.S. president promised to make coal great again. He also claimed climate change was a hoax, so it’s no surprise that he’d promote a cheap, outdated, polluting, climate-altering fuel even as cleaner alternatives continued to become more efficient and cost-effective.

Since then, U.S. coal companies have seen share prices plummet and many have gone bankrupt. A decade ago, more than half of U.S. electricity was generated by coal. Now that number is down to one-fifth

BY DAVID SUZUKI and dropping steadily, in part because of a shift to natural gas, but also to renewable energy. Wind power is now the country’s fastest-growing electricity source.

Coal isn’t coming back, nor should it.

From start to finish, it’s one of the most destructive energy sources. Extracting it often requires blasting away entire mountaintops, polluting air, water and soil. Burning it creates enormous amounts of deadly pollution, along with CO2 and methane emissions that drive global heating.

The climate emergency demands that we use less energy and that we get what we need from cleaner sources. We shouldn’t be using 19th-century fuels in the 21st.

But the U.S. president isn’t alone in wanting to double down on archaic, deadly coal in the face of a climate crisis. Alberta,

A metallurgical coal mine in B.C.’s Elk Valley, Teck’s Castle Mountain, is also attempting to avoid federal review by claiming the project is an expansion rather than a new mine.

Alberta is even overturning regulations enacted by its Conservative government in 1976 to protect ecologically sensitive areas—substantially increasing locations for open-pit mines. The Alberta government’s relationship with the coal industry is almost as cozy as with the oil industry. The province’s former environment minister is now president of the Coal Association of Canada.

It’s always the same story from those who lack the imagination, wisdom and foresight to learn and change with the times, who prioritize the human-created economy over the air, water, land and biodiversity that we need to survive, and over human health and well-being.

Economic costs and benefits should never be the only factors in considering industrial policy and regulation. But coal fails even on that front. Although electricity from existing coal power plants is often less expensive than wind or solar, many plants worldwide are nearing their end.

Building new coal power plants would make the costs far higher—while prices for renewables are dropping rapidly as the technologies improve. Of course, the costs to human lives and health, wildlife, habitat and the climate are immeasurable.

It seems strange to write about the push for coal well into the 21st century.

Those who would go on destroying the environment and fuelling the climate crisis all for the sake of short-term profits and

Alberta, not content to drive global heating to catastrophic levels with its dirty bitumen, is now moving to expand its coal industry— with little or no environmental oversight. not content to drive global heating to catastrophic levels with its dirty bitumen, is now moving to expand its coal industry— with little or no environmental oversight.

Even though Canada is moving to phase out coal-fired electricity, we’re happy to export it to other countries. It’s like a drug dealer who knows the harms of addiction, and so quits a personal habit but continues to sell to others.

The proposed Vista mine expansion near Hinton, Alta., will increase thermal coal production from about 7 million tonnes a year to between 10 and 15 million tonnes.

Even though it will destroy ecosystems and put endangered species at greater risk, the project isn’t required to undergo a federal environmental assessment—in part because the company revised its estimate of the “project area” to fall below the threshold that requires review for any “increase in the area of mining operations of 50 per cent or more.”

a few jobs—when so many better options exist—are demonstrating their shortsightedness and illustrating the flaws in our current economic systems.

Even within the current paradigm, more and better jobs could be created by facilitating clean tech and renewable energy industries rather than relying on outdated, destructive energy sources that the world has agreed must be phased out if we are to survive.

The pandemic crisis hasn’t slowed the climate and extinction crises, but it’s shown that rapid action can have positive results.

It’s time to do better. Coal is over.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington.

Learn more at davidsuzuki.org. ■

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The Armenian viper caper: Part I I FOUND MY FIRST Armenian viper a hundred metres from camp.

High on a windswept col, I’d been searching around a crumbled stone shepherd’s hut. Twisted chunks of cheap Soviet sheet-metal lay scattered amidst an abundance of the corrugated, asbestoscomposite roof tile diagnostic of all former

BY LESLIE ANTHONY Soviet states in Asia Minor—as if some Moscow functionary decreed that every dwelling in the southern empire adopt the same dull grey pallor in order to promote unity. This was a generous assessment; the tile—an inferior material that went brittle in the sun and disintegrated into toxic dust—more likely promoted asbestosis.

Finding nothing, I’d headed back toward the tents. Passing another pile of haphazardly stacked roofing, I’d absently flipped a piece with the toe of my boot, exposing nothing but scurrying earwigs.

Beneath it was a second slab. And beneath that was the viper.

It lay tightly coiled, a chocolate, tangerine-spotted band hovering like a Magritte illusion over bland grey, as if it, too, were fighting the soulless rule of

CRAY-CRAY FOR CRAYFISH Aram Aghasyan with his daily bowl of Sevan crayfish.

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communism. This perfect juxtaposition of natural and unnatural was tantamount to finding buried treasure—in the same instant serendipity and deserved reward for a godforsaken trip.

For a moment, my reverence knew no bounds: the Armenian viper was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.

Then it moved.

Though I knew better from years spent in his company, I’d consented to accompanying my former doctoral supervisor, Dr. Bob, to this heat-blasted land to study the endangered Armenian viper. Conservation and journalistic goals overrode memories of past Bob-style expeditions: stretched out in the fetid box of a pickup truck in the searing Baja desert, a bag of live rattlesnakes at my feet… curled sick and fetus-like on a pool table at 40 Celsius and 90-per-cent humidity in a banana warehouse in Vietnam, sweat stains spreading like blood across the green felt… and being held at gunpoint—pretty much everywhere we’d gone together.

On a hot July night in 2006, I’d exited the airport in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, and scanned the crowd. It didn’t take long to spot Bob, face obscured by a massive camera, taking pictures of me… looking for him. The digital photo revolution had pushed hobbyists like Bob to new heights on the useless-photo ladder. At least he no longer risked being arrested for carrying illegal film because postage-stamp memory cards were so much easier to hide.

Nikolai “Kolya” Orlov, from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, stood to Bob’s side, meaty

hands stretching inadequate pockets. A mercenary snake wrangler with a dozen Armenian expeditions under his belt from the country’s days under the (broken) USSR umbrella, I’d been in Vietnam with Kolya twice, where he’d proven invaluable in dealing with communist bureaucracies, exchanging foreign currency, and wrangling venomous reptiles. Alone among us he truly knew no fear when it came to snakes or food, the latter getting him in far more trouble.

Clasping hands, we half-hugged L.A.gang style as Bob took a photo and turned the display to us, like a beach vulture hawking vacation shots. “Bop,” groaned Kolya, his truncated pronunciation chopping the last consonant as he rolled his eyes in mock disgust. I hadn’t seen these two together in a decade, but it may as well have been last week.

In Kolya’s considerable shadow lurked our diminutive Armenian host, Aram Aghasyan, whose abiding trait was a permanently smouldering cigarette.

Aram lived in a cluster of Stalinesque highrises in northern Yerevan; bleak towers of disintegrating concrete with garbage chutes that fired waste directly to the ground outside where an army of dogs distributed it in all directions. My duffel barely hit the floor in his cramped three-bedroom flat before a king’s banquet of roast chicken, cucumber, tomato, pepper, sour cheese, and bread appeared. Aram’s wife, Margo, and son, Levon, hectored us toward the table. I was embarrassed thinking they’d waited dinner on me, but they hadn’t: it was all for me.

Tradition dictates that after a long journey—the only kind one can make in Asia Minor—you put out food and drink for the traveller. I dug in while the others picked listlessly over a plate of suppurating watermelon. Except Aram, who was busy dissecting a bucket-load of extra-large Sevan crayfish fetched from the eponymous post-Pleistocene lake that pooled in the country’s midsection, his appetite for these organisms as great as it was for cigarettes. An indeterminate number of vodka toasts later, I lay in the dark on a church-bench-stiff sofa that also proved a head too short—a discomfort I’d only suffer for the next three weeks. I would have gladly slept on the floor, but I’d already seen a swarm of cockroaches scatter when I turned on the light in the phone-booth-sized bathroom. I nodded off only after surrendering to the fact that the start of Bob’s expeditions were usually far worse: this time there’d been no shakedown in customs, no hovering government officials, no side trip to any ministry, no one to pay off, and, so far, no radical change of plans.

Thirty minutes later, an entire nation’s worth of ownerless dogs cranked up, and the tortuous squeals of fighting and copulation continued until dawn, when the hounds handed off to the birds for an hour in a triumphant coda that heralded the end of any hope for sleep.

Next time: Hitting the road.

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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Building back better Whistler enters a new,

COVID-fuelled era of engagement

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sk any of the old guard, founders-club Whistler locals, and they’ll likely tell you that Whistlerites have always been an engaged bunch.

Even way back in the mid-‘70s, when the resort’s original leaders were still trying to settle on a location for Whistler Village and the town’s population still numbered in the hundreds.

“In those days, we’d certainly have regular public meetings and information meetings so people had a chance to kind of understand what was happening and get some input into it,” recalled Al Raine, one of Whistler’s original council members, in a 2018 interview with Pique about the resort’s early days.

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“Those meetings, as I recall, we had one in the gondola base there, and the room was almost full.

There was well over 100 people there. People were really interested, because the strategic direction for Whistler was on the table.”

Many things about Whistler have changed over the years, but that passionate, engaged community has remained a constant—even as the COVID-19 pandemic forces community members to stay apart.

Over the course of four virtual town halls in July, Whistlerites gathered online to share their experiences of the pandemic, and discuss the path forward.

“We tend to distill history into a single moment with a couple names, rather than all of the moments that made that one possible,” said Mayor Jack Crompton at the first session on July 14, after recounting some of the key moments in Whistler’s short but colourful history.

The mayor then shared a favourite quote from author and historian Howard Zinn: “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change,” he read.

“History is instructive, and what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things—if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to the local newspaper—anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of story, and when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.”

The townhall sessions are a part of that story, Crompton said.

“They are the stuff of our future. It’s hard to compare today with town bankruptcies or major recessions or of course 9-11, but it’s safe to say that Whistler has always worked together to come back.

“It’s my firm belief that this is an all-hands-ondeck effort. Government will not fix this for us. It will take individuals, families, businesses, community groups and governments to deliver a shared response that is up to the challenge.”

Coming to our senses Hearing the individual experiences of Whistlerites as it relates to the pandemic is an important, contemplative exercise for the RMOW ahead of actually taking action, said chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen.

“As humans, we tend to assume that our individual experience is ours alone, and when we talk with each other we can be surprised that there’s a collective

experience,” she said.

“And when we see this, and we see that there are patterns in experience, it reminds us that we’re part of a larger system … If we find solutions that are associated with patterns, then we will find things that will benefit larger amounts of people.”

The ideas for how Whistler recovers from the pandemic are hidden in all of our heads already, Cullen added.

“We just need to create space and opportunity to surface them, and that’s why we’re having these conversations.”

Throughout the sessions, participants were invited to share their own COVID-19 experience as it related to the day’s theme: Sense of Place, Environment, the Tourism-based Economy and Community.

For Crompton, the weight of the pandemic hit home during a walk with his family on Friday, March 20—a crisp, late-winter evening that, situated in the middle of Spring Break, would typically be one of the resort’s busiest.

While the lights shone brightly on the stroll during that walk through the village to Marketplace at 9 p.m., there was no sound.

“My little family of six didn’t see a single other person as we walked through the village to Marketplace and back. It was like this incredibly crisp, wonderfully lit village experience was set up just for me and the five people in my family,” Crompton recalled.

“It was an experience I won’t soon forget, but what struck me was my feeling that it wasn’t Whistler. My COVID experience has been a very clear realization that Whistler is about people for me. I love Whistler the place, but without people, it’s not that thing that I love and I know so well.”

For Cullen, who officially started with the municipality on April 20, a full month into the pandemic, the experience was one likely relatable to many: anxiety over proper safety precautions, and a sense of loss for time with extended family.

“But I will say that in that emptiness, I’ve been able to find and notice vitality in other places in the community,” Cullen said.

Vitality in the driveway, where we connect with neighbours on a deeper level; in the forests, which somehow look greener than before; and in the kitchen where food is prepared with loved ones.

“So even though there’s been loss in some places, we’ve gained vitality in others,” she said.

“And maybe as it all comes back together again we will be more vibrant on a whole.”

Familiar patterns If one of the goals of the sessions was to identify patterns, there were some clear consistencies arising from the first two meetings.

More than one attendee spoke of how grateful they were to be in Whistler when the pandemic began, surrounded by nature and supported by community.

Like Cullen, many found deeper connections with neighbours.

For Leslie and Shep Alexander, the slowdown of society has prompted them to think more about the things that have sat on the backburner for some time: shopping locally more often, FireSmarting their property, and even planting vegetables for the first time since moving to Whistler.

“Rather than getting together with a big group or going for a potluck or something, where you have all these little snippets of conversation, we actually sit with two other people on the patio, appropriately distanced,” Shep said.

“And you have longer, I think, better conversations, in a way, during this time.”

What’s great about that slowdown, and those deepening connections, is that it’s happening everywhere, said Mary Ann Collishaw.

“It’s not just us slowing down and appreciating where we live. It’s everybody,” she said.

“I’m really hopeful that it changes Whistler, but [also] that it changes the world. We kind of were getting on this crazy treadmill, or hamster wheel, where we have quick interactions.

“This slowed us down, we’re talking with fewer people for longer. It’s nice.”

While some patterns have already become apparent to Cullen, she’s holding out for the full dataset before making any assumptions.

“We’ve been collecting the info as we’re having the conversations. I haven’t had a chance to review all of that yet, so I’ll refrain on noting patterns, but there have been key insights that have come forward,” she said.

“One of them (on July 20) was around ecotourism, and what does that really mean, and how do we provide guidance and mentor people who are visiting Whistler on how to be a good tourist?”

While virtual town halls are a new frontier for Whistler community engagement, the process has been enjoyable, Cullen said.

“I think they provide an important point

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Heather Paul The Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre’s new executive director, Heather Paul kicked off Whistler’s Community Conversations on July 14 with the theme of ‘Sense of Place.’ Photo by David Buzzard / media-centre.ca

Mike Douglas Freeskiing legend and Protect Our Winters Canada chair Mike Douglas led the second Community Conversation on July 16, focusing on the theme of ‘Environment.’ Photo courtesy of Protect Our Winters Canada

Chris Wrightson Zero Ceiling co-executive director Chris Wrightson led the final Community Conversation on July 23, focusing on the theme of ‘Community.’ Photo by Sean Easton

Danielle Kristmanson Origin Design founder and creative director Danielle Kristmanson led the third Community Conversation on July 20 with the theme of ‘Tourism-based economy.’ Photo submitted

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of connection for a diverse group of community members to come together, and they’re sharing experiences and reflections on where we find ourselves given our COVID-19 situation, so I’ve really enjoyed hearing insights from people as well as the concerns, and I’m grateful for their participation and willingness to engage,” she said.

“I also hope that this is the beginning of a new way of gathering information and input from the community so that we can make decisions that are well informed and aligned on what is needed going forward as a community.”

-Braden Dupuis

Striking a delicate balance between economy and community The discussions Whistlerites have been having during these past few strange, trying months are ones that we’ve been having in some form for years: around managing visitation, protecting our natural environment, and making the community a more affordable, inclusive place for the young, seasonal workers that make this town run. But something feels different about the tenor of the current conversation.

Maybe it’s the opportunity to slow down, pause, and reflect the pandemic has afforded us, a rare luxury for so many locals caught up in the frenetic, breakneck speed of North America’s busiest ski resort. Or maybe it’s how times of extreme disruption tend to distill what’s truly important to us in a way that the good times never seem capable of. I’m positive the conversation has also been informed and deepened by the relentless calls for social and political justice that started south of the 49th Parallel and has pushed societies the world over—Canada included—to come to terms with their own histories of racial and economic injustice, and ultimately, strive for something more. Something better.

In a town that has it as good as we do here in Whistler, relatively speaking, you’re starting to see everyone from resort officials to local highschoolers—Whistler’s recent Black Lives Matter rally organized by a group of four Sea to Sky teens is a prime example—begin to reckon, in truly profound ways, with their own positions of privilege.

“I’ve seen the best and the worst of Whistler,” said Chris Wrightson, co-executive director of Zero Ceiling, a non-profit dedicated to ending youth homelessness.

“I’ve seen time and again the power of the community and the mountains to really transform people’s lives.

I’ve seen amazing support for the young adults in our program, incredible generosity from the local foundations and all our businesses, who always say yes to the non-profits when they ask for help, and immense support for the other non-profits to fill the gaps in our community. I’ve also seen racism, sexual assault, physical assault, discrimination and stigma, poverty, financial distress, deep-rooted systemic issues and damaging colonial practices that continue today.”

Invited to host the fourth and final COVID Zoom talk, focused on Community, Wrightson asked the question that seems to be on an increasing number of minds lately: “How do we value every single member of our community?”

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like the Whistler Community Services Society that were inundated with demand for its services, Wrightson urged the community to build on that level of collaboration “so it doesn’t just happen as a crisis response but is the framework underpinning our community.”

“We know from working around the world that it’s the societies that have a high level of integration between the government, the private sector and nonprofits that have the strongest woven social fabric throughout the community,” she added.

Of course, Whistler’s social fabric is weaved a little differently than most towns. In a place where the visitors outnumber the locals 250 to 1, there’s no getting around the fact that our resort doesn’t exist without the massive economic engine driving it. But with global travel patterns likely to look much different coming out of the pandemic, there’s no reason we can’t be more mindful about how and who we attract to our scenic little ski town.

“How will we manage volume in terms of the impact it has on who gets access to us? If volume has to be managed, and maybe visitation somehow altered—I don’t want to say ‘diminished,’ but altered— the big question for me is: do we want to make sure that Whistler doesn’t become a place that can only be accessed by the one per cent?” asked Origin Design’s Danielle Kristmanson, creative and marketing strategist for several big-name outdoor sport and tourism brands, such as Whistler Blackcomb, MEC and lululemon. “That is potentially a risk when we have to manage volumes in a particular way. Do we want to protect a degree of accessibility that we have when max capacity is possible to a broader range of people?”

It’s a dilemma that Whistler, and by extension our resort stakeholders, will have to face sooner rather than later, with the resort’s modern cash cow, the well-heeled, long-haul destination skier, more than likely staying closer to home this winter.

Our regional and domestic guests have long been key markets for Whistler, and will be an even bigger piece of the puzzle this winter, but are there opportunities to reach a different kind of guest?

“It’s a different market,” said Councillor Duane Jackson during the July 20 Zoom talk, hosted by Kristmanson, on the tourism economy. “Danielle, if you’re right about micro-tripping and all that, we have to get to know a new customer.”

Kristmanson gathered several key trends Origin has gleaned from their mountain resort clients, which includes Park City, Utah, Jay Peak, Vt. and Taos, N.M., during the pandemic.

Some of the insights you might expect: short-haul travel, or “micro-tripping,” is set to surpass destination tourism; large events and group business travel—a much-needed boost to the resort’s shoulder seasons—will become virtually non-existent, while so-called “digital nomads”—a growing subset of remote workers— may increasingly look to wild places like Whistler to set down roots.

But there are other, less obvious trends borne out of COVID

that Whistler could also capitalize on. Due in part to the stigma attached to air travel, both because of its outsized environmental impact and the inherent COVID-19 risk, the global travel population “may be becoming more thoughtful citizens of the world,” Kristmanson mused.

“Gone are the days when we didn’t understand the impact of our travels. Gone are the days where we couldn’t connect the dots between climate change and wildlife and nature management and pandemics and the impacts on tourism,” she said. “What we see is a bunch of people who don’t want to stop travelling but are becoming more cognizant of the impacts of their travels. I think it could potentially create a new class of leisure travel that is going to be more thoughtful in the ways it engages with destinations like ours.”

It was a trend Origin already picked up on as part of the rebranding work it did with Tourism Whistler in the fall, but the realities of the coronavirus and the tectonic shift to the way we as a society consider travel has thrust that discussion into the forefront.

“The big question is: Can we be the destination for enlightened global citizens? That’s something that’s really inspiring to think about,” Kristmanson said.

At the end of each Community Conversation, the facilitators have been asking participants to discuss an “a-ha moment” they took away from the discussion. Joining the call all the way from Sydney, Australia, Russell Meares and his wife, Win (parents to Zero Ceiling’s Wrightson) helped me arrive at my own a-ha moment: Whistler is uniquely positioned not only to reimagine what it can be in a postpandemic world, but to actually put those ideas into action in a timely and impactful way.

“There are endless opportunities to move forward as a community. You’re small enough to talk to each other and know each other, but big enough to make a change,” he said. “Our community of Sydney is so big that we just drift along with the other 7 million people, pretty much. But in Whistler, you have a chance, a real chance to make change.”

View the public feedback as well as recordings of the Community Conversations at whistler.ca/stayconnected/my-whistler.community-conversations. ■ -Brandon Barrett

“The big question is: Can we be the destination for enlightened global citizens?

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Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area D Zoning Bylaw No. 1350-2016, Amendment Bylaw No. 1673-2020

This Public Hearing will be held electronically pursuant to Local Government Meetings and Bylaw Process (COVID-19) Order No. 3 (Ministerial Order M192/2020).

BYLAW INFORMATION SUBJECT LANDS The lands that are the subject of the proposed Bylaw are shown outlined in a heavy bold black line and identified as “subject lands” on the map attached to this notice.

PURPOSE OF BYLAW 1673-2020: The SLRD received a zoning amendment application for 5 Callaghan Valley Road in the Callaghan Valley (Whistler Olympic Park). The Crown land tenure area is currently zoned Backcountry Commercial 3 (Whistler Olympic Park) (BC3) in Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area D Zoning Bylaw No. 1350-2016. The proposed zoning amendment is to allow for seasonal campground use (May 15 – October 31 annually) with 26 tent sites and 20 RV sites as a permitted use on the land. The proposed locations for campground use within the tenure area are shown on the map below.

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General information on participating in the SLRD’s electronic public hearings is available here: slrd.bc.ca/PublicHearings A copy of the Board resolution making the delegation is available for public inspection along with a copy of Bylaw 1673-2020 as set out in this notice on the SLRD website.

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Crankworx launches provincial Summer Series GM DARREN KINNAIRD PART OF GROUP PURCHASING FESTIVAL

BY DAN FALLOON IN THE FACE of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crankworx has been forced to pivot on the fly.

After successfully running its stop in Rotorua, New Zealand in early March, the world tour postponed its Innsbruck, Austria festival from June to late September and ultimately cancelled the cornerstone Whistler event for August.

But there was plenty of work going on behind the scenes.

In separate announcements coming out on Monday, July 27, Crankworx announced that it was running a Summer Series across the province with stops at Sun Peaks, Kicking Horse and Silver Star resorts, commencing immediately and running until Aug. 14.

As well, Vail Resorts announced the sale of Crankworx Events Inc. to Crankworx Live Marketing, headed by Crankworx World Tour general manager Darren Kinnaird, and Montreal-based Boombox Group, led

by TJ Walker.

“It’s a dream come true, to be honest,” Kinnaird said from the site of the first Summer Series races at Silver Star. “I’m really thankful for the opportunity, thankful for the support of Whistler Blackcomb in this. I’ve got an amazing team that is still going to work with Crankworx and an

FLYING FINN Whistler’s Finn Iles cruises en route to winning the enduro race at Silver Star on July 28.

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amazing business partner with TJ Walker of Boombox.”

Kinnaird expects a smooth transition of ownership, especially in terms of what longtime attendees will experience.

“I don’t think it’ll change much for fans,” Kinnaird said. “Hopefully it’ll just mean more Crankworx, if anything.”

When asked for more detail, Kinnaird said: “More of everything, given time.

That’s the hope.”

Though Vail Resorts is stepping out of

Whistler or Squamish. Those taking part include Lucas Cruz of Pemberton and, from Whistler, Georgia Astle, Leonie Picton, Trevor Burke, Finn Iles and Jesse Melamed. Disciplines on the docket include downhill, Air DH, enduro and dual slalom.

Kinnaird said the team has been developing the series since early April, after realizing the opportunities that British Columbia presents.

“We have all these amazing athletes

“Enjoy it and let the athletes compete safely so we can make this series happen.”

- DARREN KINNAIRD

its ownership role, it will still play a role in producing the Whistler element of the festival.

“We are very pleased that Whistler Blackcomb will continue to be a part of Crankworx as the host venue for this iconic round of the Crankworx World Tour,” said Whistler Blackcomb chief operating officer Geoff Buchheister in a release. “We look forward to partnering on the event with the Crankworx team and are excited to see how they will continue to innovate and grow the sport.”

The Summer Series, meanwhile, features 25 B.C.-based athletes, with 15 participants residing in Pemberton,

who live here. We have all these amazing bike parks in British Columbia, and it’s such a cool opportunity to bring mountain bike racing back at a time when probably not a lot of places could do something like this,” he said. “We talked to the province and they were keen.”

After getting sponsors onboard, things seemed to gain some propulsion.

“We’ve been jokingly saying that we were building the plane as we were trying to take off right until the very last second,” he said.

In terms of coming down to the last second, putting out the announcement the day before

competition officially started was also by design, Kinnaird said, to discourage spectators from coming up to the TV-only events.

“We kept things on the DL as long as we could,” he said. “Normally, I would say, ‘Everyone come to Crankworx,’ but with this, we are trying to just tell people to watch from home.

“Enjoy it and let the athletes compete safely so we can make this series happen.”

Kinnaird said that onsite, athletes are wearing masks, following distancing protocols and having temperature checks.

“We have groups in teams, and there are little pods within the teams,” he said.

Kinnaird added that all races are taking place during the week at times where the host resorts are less busy. As well, on the competitor side, mountain biking is a sport that can be spaced out without significant changes.

“We’re in a strange time but it’s a unique opportunity for the whole province to be showcased as the best mountain biking destination in the world, so that when things get back to more normal times, people will want to come back here to B.C., to Whistler, to all these amazing destinations and bring their bikes with them,” he said.

For more information on the Summer Series, or to tune in, visit crankworx.com/ festival/crankworx-summer-series.

As for the world tour, Kinnaird added that the Innsbruck stop on the circuit, slated for Sept. 30 to Oct. 4, is still looking good at this point.

“There will be more info there when we have it, but we’re still definitely hoping for an exciting event over in Austria,” he said. n

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Brisson takes over at Alpine Canada FORMER HOCKEY STAR BRINGS ATHLETICS, BUSINESS EXPERIENCE TO PRESIDENTIAL ROLE

BY DAN FALLOON IN THE MIDST of a shift in its business model, Alpine Canada’s new president and CEO strikes a balance between where it’s been and where it’s going.

Former national team hockey player Thérèse Brisson has an athletic background, to be sure, having served as a director with the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and director, corporate treasurer and secretary of Own the Podium. However, she has also held senior marketing and sales roles in large organizations such as Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble and brings business perspective, which looks to the direction Alpine Canada is going, as well.

Brisson said in a July 27 interview that she’s eager to take on the work that lies ahead when she officially starts on Aug. 4, taking the reins in the midst of a global pandemic.

“It’s a challenge. We have a lot of operating and financial challenges ahead of us, certainly complicated by COVID, and the new opportunity to innovate and transform our business model was very exciting to me,” she said.

“The first priority is to get with the team,” she added. “By mid-August or so, we’ll know a bit more about what the World Cup calendar is going to look like, so we can have the right plans in place for this year but also pull in our strategic plan until 2026.”

In her time working with such organizations as the COC and Own the Podium, Brisson observed that while there’s room for the organization to grow, there are already good pieces in place.

“I was hoping to see more progress from Alpine Canada. Sports on snow and ice are just so much a part of our identity,” she said. “I saw an opportunity, from that lens, that the organization could be better and make more progress in achieving its objective with vision, with aspiration.

“It’s really exciting that there are a lot of really talented athletes and there are a lot of skilled coaches.”

On the athlete side, Brisson—a 2002 gold medallist and six-time World Champion— highlights her ability to build successful competitors as an athlete and director with both the COC and Own the Podium.

As for the business side, she stressed that her strengths include communication, identifying and filling gaps and eliminating overlap.

She added that she would draw from her

background as a winter athlete, though not a ski racer.

“I’m not a ski racer so I don’t have entrenched points of view on ‘Oh, it’s got to be this way because we’ve always done it this way,’” she said. “I get to work with all of our stakeholders and skills and excellence that we have, as well as the passion and commitment in our very dedicated ski team.

“I get to work with all of these people and bring some fresh eyes.”

Brisson said she’s onboard with Alpine Canada’s ambitious goal of becoming a top-three skiing nation at the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, which would be a significant turnaround. Though Canada has enjoyed plenty of success on the ski-cross side, the nation hasn’t enjoyed a World Cup alpine win since early 2016.

Brisson said the new board, which was installed last fall, is off to an encouraging start, while she has confidence in the high-performance directors that are in place. Still, there are plenty of questions left to be answered.

“Some of the steps have already evolved,” she said. “Certainly the business model transformation and bringing someone like myself to help with that is another building block.

“These are all parts of the steps that we’re taking. We really need to figure out another way: how do we get athletes on snow 180 days a year in a sport where it’s very Eurocentric? We’re going to have to have our own unique Canadian solution for that.”

Whistler, of course, will carry a lot of the load with not only veterans like Whistler Mountain Ski Club grads Manny Osborne-Paradis and Marielle Thompson returning, but also up-and-comers like Brodie Seger, Riley Seger, Jack Crawford, Broderick Thompson, Cameron Alexander, Asher Jordan, Kyle Alexander, Stefanie Fleckenstein and Mollie Jepsen all expected to play key roles in the years to come.

“When I think about some of our team veterans like Manny coming back from injuries and having his leadership in the group, it’s going to be amazing to some of the up-and-comers like Brodie and Riley, Jack Crawford,” Brisson said.

“Having Marielle back on the ski-cross side, Whistler’s always played a role.”

While Brisson has been to Whistler, she’s never skied here. As an avid skier growing up and, admittedly, early in her hockey career even after signing agreements that she wouldn’t take part in such sports, she’s looking forward to hitting the local slopes. n

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FORK IN THE ROAD

Keep your eye on the balls THE C-THING HAS SUPERSEDED THE OTHER C-THING—AND IT’S AT OUR OWN PERIL THERE’S A FUNNY PART to this whole coronavirus/COVID thing. But not sure how I mean the word “funny.”

It’s definitely not funny, as in, laughingemoji funny. And it’s not funny, as in, odd or difficult to explain because it’s right in keeping with so much we know about ourselves. Maybe it’s the “makes me feel uncomfortable” kind of funny.

Right, uncomfortable-funny, as in, it’s

BY GLENDA BARTOSH not at all funny the way the coronavirus has pointed up our greatest human folly, and rubbed our collective nose in it—how we play the short game when we should be focused on the long haul. The real long haul. The climate crisis that’s still out there.

Greta’s fading from hearts and minds— and the headlines. Extinction Rebellion has taken on a whole new meaning.

Government and corporate policies and foci have, for the most part, changed course, while our very consciousness has seemingly been subsumed by a seemingly tiny thing, a new virus, which would count itself, if it could count, as one of the most abundant living things on Earth.

Though they’re not exactly alive.

They’re what Stanford virologist Jan

WAIT AND “C” We’re currently juggling

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Carette, as reported on Stanford Medicine’s highly recommended blog, describes as being only maybe, or sometimes, alive.

Depends on where they are.

Outside of a cell, a virus is inert. It can’t reproduce, or do anything much, on its own. Remember that next time you don’t “feel like” keeping your distance or wearing a mask to keep it contained.

The coronavirus, or any virus, is the ultimate parasite—you might say “poison” (the Latin root vīrus refers to poison and other noxious liquids). It can only “live” and spread, doing its damage, in conjunction with your, my, or just about any living thing’s cells, each virus having its own preferred host, as it were.

Animals. Plants. Even bacteria. Any cell in a storm will do.

As for the fact that viruses are, indeed, the most abundant thing on our planet, I really like how the Stanford Medicine blog illustrates that. If you multiply a billion by a billion, then multiply that by 10 trillion, you’ll get 10 to the 31st power, or 1031—the mind-bogglingly huge number of how many individual viral particles are estimated to populate Earth.

Funny thing (there’s that “funny” bit again), though the climate crisis can’t be considered or enumerated the same way, it’s also the most abundant thing on our planet, permeating every corner, impacting every biosphere, on land or water, in the atmosphere (birds aren’t breeding as much because of the increasingly warmer temperatures).

As for it being poisonous or noxious, I’ve often said at dinner parties and the

like, when we happily and so innocently indulged in such pleasantries, that I wished climate change was a sulphurous yellowgreen colour, or stunk like a gas leak. The worse it got, the stinkier or more biliouscoloured it would be. Maybe then, as we better sensed the danger, our limbic brain would override our supposedly logical one and drive us to be as effective and allhands-on-deck-it’s-our-Dunkirk-moment selves as we’ve been with the corona crisis, if you’ll permit me the shorthand.

The other funny thing is the climate crisis needs us to perpetuate it, just like the other “C” crisis. The more unconsidered and careless our activities, the bigger and bolder and more destructive each gets. Do nothing and all hell doesn’t just break loose, it’s hell on Earth. Period.

I couldn’t believe the wishy-washy comforting self-talk in the pandemic’s early days about the bright side, or the silver lining, or whatever you want to call it. At least we were doing good for the climate, staying home. Uh, where was the scientific evidence backing that claim?

Carbon dioxide report, Scripps Institution of Oceanography based in San Diego, my old hometown. Carbon dioxide report, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) based in Silver Spring, Md.: The amount of CO2 in the air in May hit an average of just over 417 parts per million—the highest monthly average ever recorded. Ever.

We’ve got more CO2 in our atmosphere now than there’s been since humans first walked the Earth, some 315,000 years ago.

And while it’s hard to pin these sorts of

things down, given much of the data is from pre-history and scientists have to rely on things like measuring the amount of CO2 in bubbles in ice core samples hundreds of thousands of years old, and extrapolating from that or other geologic evidence (I’ve held one of those ice cores, a 120,000-yearold one, at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge in the U.K., and I’ve seen the readings), it is possible to do so.

So here’s another one of those funny/ not-so-funny things about the sea of “C” changes surrounding us: Even though there is more CO2 than ever in our atmosphere, there are fewer planes flying. And fewer flights mean less weather data.

According to a free-access research letter in Wiley’s online publication, Geophysical Research Letters, weather forecasts have become less accurate during the pandemic because fewer commercial aircraft are in the sky gathering data along their flight path, like temperature and pressure, relative humidity and wind. With so many flights grounded, the world has lost 50 to 75 per cent of its aircraft weather observations.

Not to confuse weather forecasting with climate, but you have to admit there’s irony at play there as well.

So what’s it going to be, folks?

Coronavirus/COVID-19 or climate change?

Surely we’re not stupid enough to think it’s an either/or game. We can’t take our pick. We have to keep both balls in the air, and play them both right.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who sees climate change as far more dangerous than COVID-19. n

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Live from the Maury Young Arts Centre ARTS WHISTLER REVAMPS THEATRE TO ACCOMMODATE HIGH-QUALITY LIVESTREAMING

BY ALYSSA NOEL ARTS

WHISTLER is preparing to transform its theatre into a studio in preparation for ongoing physical-distancing restrictions.

The organization is hoping to have three to four cameras installed in the Maury Young Arts Centre’s theatre by September in order to host high-quality livestream arts events and performances in the fall.

“We’ll work to do what we can in person, but this allows for more consistency of programs,” says Mo Douglas, executive director at Arts Whistler. “This is the focus for the next six to 12 months until we’re in a position to do live stuff in the theatre.

[Livestreaming] might still have a role once we’re back.”

The new setup—which also includes adjusting the theatre lighting to make it more conducive to studio lighting—was made possible thanks to a combination

SHOW GOES ON The theatre in the Maury Young Arts Centre might have been a hub for in-person performances before COVID-19, but now Arts Whistler is turning it into a livestreaming base.

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of grants and shuffling funding that was originally allocated for in-person events.

“We have some program grants allowing us the opportunity to do this,” Douglas adds.

While programming plans are still underway, Douglas says the first production livestreamed from the revamped space will likely be a variety show featuring all kinds

and Now music festival could become the debut streaming event from the theatre in September if restrictions prevent it from taking place outside in the village.

“If health conditions allow, it might be at [Whistler Olympic Plaza],” Douglas says. “If not, we can bring it into the theatre and shoot it more as a series where we spend a little

“What they learned is how affordable some of the technology is now. (And) to make a live show dynamic, how many cameras do you need?”

- MO DOUGLAS

of local talent.

That could then serve as a testing ground to see what kind of entertainment could get its own show.

“We want this to be local and relevant,” Douglas says. “That’s what will make it different. There’s a lot of streaming stuff out there, but we’ll have some fun with the eccentricities of Sea to Sky and Whistler as well.”

There is a possibility that the Hear

more time with each band. It would be a great opportunity for the local music scene.”

Eventually, Douglas also envisions streaming in musicians from across Canada as well.

“We thought it would be fun, once we get local stuff under out belt, to bring in songwriters from further afield,” she adds.

“We could do a songwriter exchange with a musician in, say, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia …

Whistler is such a magnet for people across

the country. Canada is a small country.

Connections get made.”

The new space will build on the experience Arts Whistler gained hosting the Bike Shop Sessions with concerts streamed from Coastal Culture in May and June.

“That team did an amazing job and it was a learning curve,” Douglas says.

“What they learned is how affordable some of the technology is now. (And) to make a live show dynamic, how many cameras do you need? We went from two cameras to three. It really makes that performance way more dynamic. The musicians understand which camera is live and play to that camera. Being able to change the angles and for the audience to get a different perspective really does change how you perceive the show. We did learn a lot.”

Meanwhile, Arts Whistler also plans to connect with other local arts organizations to see if they have ideas for the space as well.

(It will also benefit the Resort Municipality of Whistler council when it resumes in-person council meetings in the space.)

“We’ll be the guinea pig, so to speak, and reach out to colleagues as we get it running,” Douglas says. “It’s an opportunity for folks to do programs and share information through this medium as well.” n

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FLOAT ON A dancer performs on the floating stage at the Flag Stop Theatre and Arts Festival in 2019. The event is returning with new protocols on Aug. 7 and 8.

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The show goes on at the Flag Stop Theatre and Arts Festival ANNUAL EVENT AT THE POINT SET FOR AUG. 7 AND 8 WITH NEW PROTOCOLS

BY ALYSSA NOEL THE FLAG STOP Theatre and Arts Festival is taking place on Aug. 7 and 8.

In normal times, that fact alone wouldn’t warrant highlighting in the first sentence of an article, but with nearly every summer festival around the world cancelled, it deserves top billing.

“When the press release went out a week ago and the tickets went up, in two days, half were gone,” says Stephen Vogler, artistic director at The Point Artist-Run Centre, which puts on the annual festival.

“I’ve never seen that happen before.”

Of course, the festival will look a little different this year. The most notable change: the annual stage production will take place entirely outside under a tent over two days with smaller groups of 50 people each night rather than one big night.

“As [the province] went into Phase 2 and then Phase 3, we thought we could pull it off with the outdoor aspect and fewer people,” Vogler says. “You have to plan a lot to follow protocols and think your way through how it will work. You have to think ahead way more than you normally would.”

Both evenings will start with an aerial silks performance by Treeline Aerial, followed by music from Vancouver rock ‘n’ roll duo Old Soul Rebel on Aug. 7 and Squamish powerhouse Cat Madden the following night.

There will be “no mosh pits, for sure,” Vogler says with a laugh. “It will be a little on the mellower side.”

Festivalgoers will also have the option to buy a ticket that includes a picnic dinner from Vancouver café Aphrodite’s as well.

“People are buying tickets in blocks of two and four,” Vogler adds. “They can be seated together. That kind of stuff fell into place nicely.”

Finally, both evenings will culminate in a performance of a play called Shipwreck Casserole and Other Family Secrets, by local playwright Karen McLeod.

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“Throw in a mysterious distant relative from Australia and new revelations on the deed to the cabin, and this shipwreck casserole gets mighty tasty,” the description reads.

This year, for the first time, Kathy Daniels and Amy Reid from Squamish’s Between Shifts Theatre are directing the small, five-person cast.

“They’re really great to work with; they really know what they’re doing,” Vogler says. “It’s fun to try working with new people.”

As usual, the play will take place on a floating stage on Alta Lake, but this year, it will be under the cover of darkness.

“The play will end in the dark, which will make the lighting more effective for the outdoors,” Vogler says.

If you can’t make it—or it sells out quickly—don’t worry. They will be livestreaming the whole thing.

“You can watch it from the comfort of your home for $10 a ticket,” Vogler says.

“It seemed like a nice way to extend it and stretch our technical capabilities … We brought together an amazing team.”

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WHEN ALFRED BARNFIELD first came to the Sea to Sky area, he likely wasn’t planning to one day be delivering milk and cream by canoe.

After arriving in Canada, Alfred spent a few years working various jobs before settling in Squamish in 1891. Around that time, the provincial government paid him $1,000 to inspect the condition of the Pemberton Trail, which had not been widely used since its construction in the 1870s. The result of his inspection allowed the Pemberton Trail to reopen to packhorse traffic and would have provided Alfred with his first views of Alta Lake.

In 1903, Alfred formed a group with a few other Englishmen, imaginatively named The London Group, and prospected around the Garibaldi and Black Tusk area but never made any substantial finds. Two years later, he returned to the Alta Lake area to preempt and clear land on the northeast end of the lake.

That same year, Daisy Hotchkiss came to Brackendale with her sister and brotherin-law at the age of 15. Alfred and Daisy were married five years later and the pair continued clearing the land at Alta Lake.

As Alta Lake gained a reputation as a fishing destination and summer resort, Alfred and Daisy and their four children (Fred, William, Vera and Charles) established a dairy farm on their land to supply the lodges and cottages around the lake with fresh milk, cream, eggs and butter.

While grocery orders could be delivered from Vancouver by train, fresh dairy products would have been hard to come by on a daily basis. At one point, the Barnfields kept 14 cows, as well as chickens and a few pigs.

In an interview with the museum in 1993, Vera Merchant remembered her father loading his canoe with boxes of milk and

delivering it around the lake. According to Vera, he made his deliveries every morning, even when the weather was questionable.

She recalled, “He never missed a morning and sometimes it would be so stormy he just couldn’t hardly make that canoe go.”

Luckily for Alfred, he was able to end his deliveries with a visit in the kitchen at Rainbow Lodge, where he would be brought up to date on all the local news and gossip.

The Barnfields moved their dairy farm to Brackendale in 1926 but the family continued to spend their summers at Alta Lake, delivering milk and cream by canoe.

Vera remembered that every summer they would rent a cattle car and load up the cows, crates of chickens, and pigs for the rail journey to Alta Lake.

For the Barnfield children, summers weren’t all about work. Their father taught them to swim and apparently they took to the water like fish. The Barnfields kept a horse for working on the land and, as a small child, Vera would take him for rides, going so far as Green Lake where she would visit her friend at the Lineham Mink Ranch.

She recalled that she never worried about the bears and cougars known to be the area, feeling safe atop the large horse.

Even after the Barnfields stopped bringing their dairy up to Alta Lake for the season, they kept ownership of the land at the northeast end of the lake until after Alfred’s death in 1960.

In the 1970s, Daisy sold most of the property to Robert Bishop and Bernard Brown and it was developed as Adventures West and the Whistler Cay neighbourhood.

She gave each of her three surviving children (Charles had been killed in the Second World War) about an acre of lakefront property.

Though there are no traces of a dairy left, in 1988, the last of Alfred’s property was sold and the family can be seen in the addresses of those who live there: Barnfield Place and Daisy Lane. n

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VINTAGE DREAMS Eight local artisan vendors joined the Dream Team to create a mini-market in the afternoon sunshine at the Dream Big Vintage Pop-Up Shop, held Friday, July 17 at the Whistler Racket Club. Shoppers could enjoy plenty of space to browse at the sold-out clothing sale due to limited guest-list entry. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 HEAT WAVES AND HAMMOCKS Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for Whistler and the Sea to Sky corridor on Sunday, July 26—the perfect opportunity to grab the paddleboards and hammocks and head to one of the many nearby lakes. PHOTO BY MEGAN LALONDE. 5 SNOW SIGHTING From left to right, Marie-Jeanne Moreau, Natascha Nobert-Laurin, and Alyssa Reid headed to the top of Whistler Mountain to find some leftover snow and beat the over-30-degree C temperatures Whistler experienced during Monday’s heat wave. PHOTO BY JAN BRYLOWSKI.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The coming weeks will be an especially favourable time for you to rise to new heights in fulfilling this aspect of your lifelong assignment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I live in Northern California on land that once belonged to the Indigenous Coast Miwok people. They were animists who believed that soul and sentience animate all animals and plants as well as rocks, rivers, mountains—everything, really. Their food came from hunting and gathering, and they lived in small bands without centralized political authority.

According to one of their creation stories, Coyote and Silver Fox made the world by singing and dancing it into existence. Now I invite you to do what I just illustrated: Find out about and celebrate the history of the people and the place where you live. From an astrological perspective, it’s a favourable time to get in touch with roots and foundations.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “When I look down, I miss all the good stuff, and when I look up, I just trip over things,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. I wonder if she has tried an alternate approach: looking straight ahead. That’s what I advise for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. In other words, adopt a perspective that will enable you to detect regular glimpses of what’s above you and what’s below you—as well as what’s in front of you. In fact, I suggest you avoid all extremes that might distract you from the big picture. The truth will be most available to you if you occupy the middle ground.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Italian word nottivago refers to “night roamers”: people who wander around after dark. Why do they do it? What do they want to accomplish?

Maybe their ramblings have the effect of dissolving stuck thoughts that have been plaguing them. Maybe it’s a healing relief to indulge in the luxury of having nowhere in particular to go and nothing in particular to do: to declare their independence from the obsessive drive to get things done. Meandering after sundown may stir up a sense of wild freedom that inspires them to outflank or outgrow their problems. I bring these possibilities to your attention, Cancerian, because the coming days will be an excellent time to try them out.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Notice what no one else notices and you’ll know what no one else knows,” says actor Tim Robbins. That’s perfect counsel for you right now, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your perceptiveness will be at a peak in the coming weeks. You’ll have an ability to discern halfhidden truths that are invisible to everyone else. You’ll be aggressive in scoping out what most people don’t even want to become aware of. Take advantage of your temporary superpower! Use it to get a lucid grasp of the big picture—and cultivate a more intelligent approach than those who are focused on the small picture and the comfortable delusions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else,” wrote playwright Tom Stoppard. That’s ripe advice for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when every exit can indeed be an entrance somewhere else—but only if you believe in that possibility and are alert for it. So please dissolve your current assumptions about the current chapter of your life story so that you can be fully open to new possibilities that could become available.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One must think with the body and the soul or not think at all,” wrote Libran author and

historian Hannah Arendt. She implied that thinking only with the head may spawn monsters and demons. Mere conceptualization is arid and sterile if not interwoven with the wisdom of the soul and the body’s earthy intuitions. Ideas that are untempered by feelings and physical awareness can produce poor maps of reality.

In accordance with astrological omens, I ask you to meditate on these empowering suggestions. Make sure that as you seek to understand what’s going on, you draw on all your different kinds of intelligence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army,” says singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco. I think that goal is within sight for you, Scorpio. Your power over yourself has been increasing lately. Your ability to manage your own moods and create your own sweet spots and define your own fate is as robust as I have seen it in a while. What do you plan to do with your enhanced dominion? What special feats might you attempt? Are there any previously impossible accomplishments that may now be possible?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your meditation for the coming weeks comes to you courtesy of author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau. “We can never have enough of nature,” he wrote. “We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.” Oh, how I hope you will heed Thoreau’s counsel, Sagittarius. You would really benefit from an extended healing session amidst natural wonders. Give yourself the deep pleasure of exploring what wildness means to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author and activist bell hooks (who doesn’t capitalize her name) has taught classes at numerous American universities. She sometimes writes about her experiences there, as in the following passage.

“My students tell me, ‘We don’t want to love! We’re tired of being loving!’ And I say to them, if you’re tired of being loving, then you haven’t really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.” I wanted you to know her thoughts, Capricorn, because I think you’re in a favourable position to demonstrate how correct she is: to dramatically boost your own strength through the invigorating power of your love.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Langston Hughes (1902–1967) was a pioneering and prolific African American author and activist who wrote in four different genres and was influential in boosting other Black writers.

One of his big breaks as a young man came when he was working as a waiter at a banquet featuring the famous poet Vachel Lindsay. Hughes managed to leave three of his poems on Lindsay’s table. The great poet loved them and later lent his clout to boosting Hughes’ career. I suspect you might have an opening like that sometime soon, Aquarius—even if it won’t be quite as literal and hands-on.

Be ready to take advantage. Cultivate every connection that may become available.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Faith Baldwin has renounced the “forgive and forget” policy. She writes, “I think one should forgive and remember. If you forgive and forget, you’re just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look upon what you remember and know you’ve forgiven is achievement.” That’s the approach I recommend for you right now, Pisces. Get the relief you need, yes: Forgive those who have trespassed against you. But also: Hold fast to the lessons you learned through those people so you won’t repeat them again later.

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EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR AND/ OR ABORIGINAL SUPPORTED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT WORKER The N’Quatqua First Nation is seeking a qualified Early Childhood Educator and/or Aboriginal Supported Child Development Support Worker to fill a full-time position at N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre. The successful candidate will join our NCFDC team, the function of the Early Childhood Educator and/or Aboriginal Supported Child Development Support Worker is to provide the extra staffing support to a child care center in order for children with extra support needs to fully participate in the child care settings chosen by their families. The Early Childhood and/or Support Worker works as a team member with child care setting staff and with all the children and families providing general support to the whole program to ensure effective inclusion of the children.

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• Physically ability to carry out the duties of the position.

• Planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum that supports community, inclusion and is culturally significant for young Aboriginal children • Understanding and working knowledge of Child Care Licensing regulations • Interpersonal, written, oral communication skills and maintaining positive communication with parents • Collaborating with community service providers, Self-directed and able to initiate and complete projects In addition, the Early Childhood Educator and/or Aboriginal Supported Child Development Support Worker will have: • A minimum of 2 years work experience in a child care setting • Valid Early Childhood Education Certificate, Special Needs License to Practice or going to school to take Early Childhood Educator and/or special needs.

• Special Needs certificate or relevant experience preferred • Clear Criminal Records Check & Current First Aid • Food Safe, or willingness to obtain • Some knowledge of curriculum and philosophies in First Nations Early Childhood settings Terms of Employment: • Full-time Permanent, Monday to Friday hours to be determined • Start Date: As soon as possible • Wage: (negotiable depending on experience) Cover Letter & Resume to: Title: Lisa Sambo, Manager Agency: N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre Email: lisa.sambo@nquatqua.ca Fax: 604-452-3295/3280 Deadline: until position is filled We thank all those who apply. Only those candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

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A bully is a bully is a bully “But all the people who don’t fit Get the only fun they get From people puttin’ people down” -John Prine

IT’S A TOUGH TIME to be a powerful, public person. Or, for that matter, a vaguely powerful, sometimes public person. It might be harder being either of those and male but more likely it isn’t—it just seems that way because so many males seem determined to act like cretins. Call it the Weinstein Syndrome. Or call it something else; I don’t care as long as you understand the allusion.

In the last few years, say, since the beginning of the #MeToo movement, hundreds of people, mostly men, have been

BY G.D. MAXWELL laid low by allegations of sexual harassment and harassment in general. They’ve covered the spectrum from politicians to entertainers, captains of industry to mad scientists.

While far fewer women have been sidetracked for harassing or berating others, it’s not an exclusively male domain. It also lives in the twists of xx DNA. And so we come to the current situation we—Canada—finds itself in with a Governor General who has, shall we say, people issues.

After the initial glare of the spotlight, the issue has nearly gone silent. I’m pretty sure that has more to do with the Queen than the issue. Or is it that the Queen is the issue?

In case you were in either deep isolation or partying your head off, more than a dozen employees and former employees of Rideau Hall, the GG’s office, have referred to their workplace as toxic, claiming the GG, former astronaut Julie Payette and her deputy, Assunta Di Lorenzo, belittled, screamed at, publicly humiliated and generally verbally abused them and others and, at least in one case, called their work shit. Some have left; some haven’t.

For those of you never quite certain, the GG represents the Queen in Canada. For those of you who still have no idea what that means—completely understandable— here’s a list of the official duties of the GG, broken down in highly meaningful categories.

The GG’s parliamentary duties are: summoning, proroguing and dissolving Parliament; reading the Speech from the Throne; and giving Royal Assent, magic words that make acts of Parliament law.

Until Stephen Harper’s Reign of Error, probably no one knew what prorogue meant but when you peruse this list, you have to wonder why we need the Queen’s representative to perform such simple, administrative matters. Well, at least I wonder.

The GG also has ceremonial duties. For example, these are supposed to promote

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a sense of identity—something Canadians admittedly struggle with; give out awards to outstanding Canadians; receive foreign dignitaries, although most of them come to see the PM; represent Canada overseas, preCOVID, of course; and host official events.

Oh, and the GG is Canada’s Commanderin-Chief, visiting military bases and celebrating military personnel on the Queen’s behalf.

To put this in perspective, and again, for those of you who aren’t sure, Canada is still part of the Commonwealth and the Queen is titular head of state, whatever that means.

All this is a historical holdover that goes hand-in-hand with pretending the Monarchy has any real relevance to modern

acknowledging no one in their right mind would ever complain about working at Rideau Hall without good reason. I mean it should be like working at Party Central— absolutely nothing of consequence and lots of yummy receptions.

So to have as many people yelling “fire” as there are currently, chances are pretty good Ms. Payette and Ms. Di Lorenzo are, collectively, a piece of work. Bullies if you will.

Remember bullies and bullying? It used to be a pretty hot topic. Everyone was up in arms about garden-variety bullies. But then it got relegated to the back of the bus by racist and sexist bullies. The police killings of Black and Indigenous people, systemic “-isms,” the never-ending subjugation of

The GG’s parliamentary duties are a joke; the ceremonial duties are capable of being performed by any public person who hasn’t been charged with harassment.

Canadian life. It is currently a $32-million per year indulgence in pomp and circumstance, sound and fury signifying nothing.

The GG’s parliamentary duties are a joke; the ceremonial duties are capable of being performed by any public person who hasn’t been charged with harassment.

Which brings us back to the unfortunate and shameful situation in which we currently find ourselves. Let’s start with

women by small-dicked men have made run-of-the-mill bullies irrelevant. Pity.

Whether their victims are women, Black, Indigenous people, LGBTQ folks or other oppressed, identifiable groups, bullying is the common denominator. Bullies are bullies and they’re just people puttin’ people down.

Bullying has its roots in people with inferiority complexes trying to over

compensate by bullying people they view as less than them, whether that “less” is based on unequal power, gender, race, physical differences, ice cream preferences, what have you.

I have no idea what the issues are for Ms. Payette and Ms. Di Lorenzo but I do know this: if they worked in any other government department, they’d probably be on administrative leave right now. The corona of the Queen puts them nearly off limits. Kind of like her son, Andrew, who in any civilized society would be, at best, out on bail.

And I’m pretty sure if they were men engaging in this bullying, they’d be toast by now.

So is this a good time to think about nuking the office of the GG in Canada?

Rhetorical question. It’s always a good time to think about why we collectively feel we have to keep up this pretence of being a distant part of an irrelevant monarchy.

Financially, the GG’s budget is a drop in the bucket, although I’m sure the many folks whose pandemic-related income/ subsidies are about to run out but whose jobs haven’t come back yet might disagree.

Do we still need someone to read speeches someone else wrote, hand out medals and awards on behalf of the office and inspect the troops? Well, yes, but it’s a role easily performed by a Minister of Awards and Glad-Handing, perhaps a postPM role for Justin Trudeau.

And if it makes you feel all jelly-legged just thinking about divorcing Canada from the Queen, think longer term. After all, it isn’t the Queen we’d be leaving, it’s the Monarchy. And just look at what’s coming down the line after Liz shuffles off this mortal coil. n

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