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Countdown to a snap election

The Sea to Sky’s provincial candidates make their case before election day

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THE ROAD AHEAD

Provincial report

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ELECTION COUNTDOWN Candidates weigh in, as community gets ready to vote

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32 Transceiver issues need answers The search for accountability regarding the alleged failures of the Pieps avalanche safety beacon. - By Vince Shuley

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THE ROAD AHEAD

A long-awaited provincial

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NOUVEAU ÉCOLE?

Village of Pemberton

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council starts the OCP amendment process after School District 93

Highway 99 through Whistler, but is there any appetite to fund them?

pitches a new Francophone school in the Tiyata neighbourhood.

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ELECTION COUNTDOWN

Community

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FARM TOUR

Calgary singer-songwriter Michael

leaders weigh in on what they are looking for from whomever is elected on

Bernard Fitzgerald realized even if he couldn’t tour conventionally in 2020, he

Oct. 24, and Pique reports on last week’s all-candidates meeting.

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08 OPENING REMARKS With just days to go, it’s time to consider who to vote for in the provincial election as you consider the most pressing issues facing our community.

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week consider what the world could look like on

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Alyssa Noel explores the power of putting down roots in a small community as she reflects on life in the corridor.

62 MAXED OUT The Resort Municipality of Whistler should make masks mandatory throughout the resort, Max argues, as B.C. continues to experience a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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34 SCIENCE MATTERS David Suzuki argues that climate action is in everyone’s interest and the sooner Canada adopts its clean fuel standard, the better.

36 RANGE ROVER Writer Leslie Anthony makes the case for why voters must cast a ballot for those who are serious about fighting climate change in the provincial election.

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42 VELOCITY PROJECT Writer Lisa Richardson explores the remarkable courage behind those working to revive local First Nations language in Part 2 of her series.

44 FORK IN THE ROAD Glenda Bartosh puts on her inventor’s hat this week and explores cool science in the kitchen—for kids and the young-at-heart.

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Make your vote count DOES ANYONE ELSE FEEL like they are between a rock and hard place voting in the provincial election on Oct. 24?

The Sea to Sky’s incumbent Liberal candidate Jordan Sturdy is well liked, well respected and many would argue has done a great job for his constituents.

From helping keep the Resort Municipality Initiative funding front and centre from the “opposition” bench to

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lobbying for Sea to Sky transportation, many believe he works hard and with integrity to support the issues of importance to our area.

But in many ways, this election is not just about voting for a local candidate. It is about using our vote to send a message

were looking for meaningful movement on environmental issues as well as changes to help families get ahead, such as affordable childcare. There was also heightened awareness around how we are dealing with the heavy toll that mental-health challenges are taking on ourselves, our neighbours and our community.

Many voters are no doubt still smarting over the NDP doing an about-face on the Site C dam. When the NDP was voted in in 2017 with a minority, with the B.C. Green Party holding the balance of power, there was a general understanding that the Site C dam project would be scrapped. But thennewly elected Premier John Horgan, after ordering a review of the multi-billion-dollar project, said it would go ahead.

However, since then, geotechnical issues have come to light, which have still not been adequately addressed, and the budget now looks to be closer to $14 billion.

(All of this an aside to objections raised by First Nations and environmentalists over

Personally, I feel that coalition governments can be very effective and often are more accountable—there are examples of this all over the world. about the issues that matter most to us now and for the next several years—and if corridor conversations are to be taken to heart, climate change and environmental concerns are second only to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in our community.

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the dam as well.) Last week, a group of 18 prominent British Columbians released a statement urging the government to reconsider continuing with the project.

They included former BC Hydro president and CEO Marc Eliesen, former ICBC CEO Robyn Allan, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs’ Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, and Harry

Swain, who chaired the Site C Joint Review Panel that completed its work in 2014.

While it is true that this will not be an issue that is a make or break for the election, it is disturbing that voters will not learn of the real cost of the Site C dam until the dust has settled and the NDP are likely back in power with a majority (at least that is what all the current polls are predicting at press time).

Personally, I feel that coalition governments can be very effective and often are more accountable—there are examples of this all over the world. Over the last three-plus years here in B.C., we have seen movement on environmental issues in good part because of the partnership between the NDP and the Greens. Green parties exist in nearly 90 countries around the world and in several have had lead roles in government including Germany, Sweden and Finland.

Even Labour’s Jacinda Ardern, who won a landslide victory in New Zealand this week, is considering asking other parties, including the Greens, to form a coalition to govern.

With only a couple days to go until we vote, it is pointless now to focus on whether an election should have been called at all during a pandemic.

Now is the time to consider what the three candidates (Keith Murdoch for the NDP and Jeremy Valeriote for the Greens joining Sturdy in the election) have said over the last month about what they can bring to the table for Whistler—a tourist resort reeling from the impacts of COVID19 that has consistently been the tourism engine of B.C., and on the frontlines of pushing for environmental change.

Do they have something to offer us? Are they thinking outside the box, or was all you heard their party’s platform dressed up for election day?

Choose wisely. n

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COVID-19: The altering of human society I can’t help but ask myself, and others, as we move through this world pandemic, how will things be when we reach the other side?

For the most part, COVID-19 has been a virus that is most lethal to those that are elderly and those people with underlying, major health conditions. It is also a virus that has taken the lives of many that are on the frontlines of healthcare and exposed to the virus daily in larger quantities. Many that have recovered from it are living with long-line symptoms afterwards or with compromised organs post-recovery. Some people [could] possibly [be affected] for the rest of their lives.

Here in Canada, had our governments not swiftly reacted to prop up businesses and society financially, the virus would have killed many small businesses within a month or two, and many people would be without a roof overhead and food on their table. It would have forced people into retraction where they would either have been sheltering with family or friends not yet impacted economically nor from a health point of view.

People eventually would have had to move out of their apartments or homes if they defaulted on rent or mortgages as landlords and banks closed in and forced them out. The winners would be few

and the losers would be many!

The one clear winner so far during COVID19 has been the environment, for we have quickly seen how a city filled with smog can clear and how manufacturing and consumption levels change when we are all in semi- or fulltime quarantine.

It’s not a life that any of us have enjoyed, as it has caused equal mental illness and stress to a point that we have questioned which is worse—to risk getting the virus or to become mentally ill from the effects of isolation and stress related to avoiding

contact with others, which is a natural part of our human makeup. Those that are happy hermits and content loners would be the exception.

The United States of America will soon have an election that may well determine the future of that country for many years to come and by close geographical association and economic relationship, possibly even that of Canada and Mexico.

While we are currently in a health crisis with COVID-19, we are also in an environmental crisis that has been ongoing, really, since

the Industrial Revolution, as populations increased, standards of living went up the world over, women joined the workforce and Earth’s resources were consumed.

A few U.S. federal elections ago, a man named Al Gore was running for president and willing to channel us into a new frontier and way of life, but the U.S. chose differently.

Gore carried on to produce a documentary film called An Inconvenient Truth that clearly explained to society the consequences of our ways if we did not change immediately. So time passed on and things got worse and many are now at the mercy of nature’s wrath.

For the past four years, the United States of America has also fallen into a nightmare of leadership and a state of denial that leads me to believe there are many that have lost their minds, and their way, south of the border. One thing is clear in 2020: The last chance at changing course to a possible brighter future is this election, be it here in British Columbia in October where far too many people are also in a state of denial regarding our own environmental needs, or in November south of the border in the U.S.A. where there is a big house on fire and a crazy man at the helm running for the president’s office once again.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR environment will take leadership far beyond one city, province, state or country if only because we share the atmosphere that all life depends upon.

We could be good as gold here in Canada and do everything just right for the environment in the future, but if other countries with large populations carry on as we all have over the past 100 years, we are largely doomed to burn up in the years ahead before 2100.

Being the new leader of B.C.’s Green Party, I wish Sonia Furstenau well in creating that vision for us, as it needs to start somewhere and grow at lightspeed!

I feel that the Green influence in government across municipal, provincial and federal levels needs to vastly increase as it does across the globe in all levels of government. For people with children, for those in their 20s just starting out in life and for those well positioned financially, there is no reason that could justify not voting Green at this point in human history, for the youth of the world are counting on it and so is Planet Earth, which each and everyone of us depends upon for survival and our own health and well-being.

With our 2020-21 winter and ski season approaching, those who are fortunate enough to be up in Whistler skiing and enjoying Mother Nature’s gift of icing sugar, please keep in mind that it is only because she has not yet reached the point of no return.

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Fungus festival thanks The Whistler Naturalists would like to thank everyone who was part of our 18th annual Fungus Among Us Mushroom Festival.

For our virtual event this year, we held our first-ever Fantastic Fungi Photo Contest.

Thanks to Joern Rohde and Andy Dittrich for judging the contest; we definitely needed pros to help choose winners from all the fabulous entries.

Congratulations to winners in each category: Captivating Colour, Kali TalmonLongden; Weird and Wonderful, Kate Siegel; Already Occupied, Monica Petrich; Mushrooms Magnified, Liz Barrett; and Fungal Fun, Johanna Aldred. These photos and other entries can be viewed on our website (as well as on page 49 of this edition of Pique).

We’d also like to thank our presenters who were part of Talks with Gurus on Friday: Veronica Woodruff for sharing An Enthusiasts Guide to Mushroom Picking; Bryce Kendrick for opening our eyes to the Marvellous Microscopic World of Spores; and Andy MacKinnon and Paul Kroger for their presentation on A Natural and Cultural History of Magic Mushrooms in B.C. Chef Bruce Worden did an amazing job of presenting Cooking and Preserving Wild Mushrooms. If only we could convey the smell of the wonderful dishes he was preparing!

His recipes are available to download on our website. If you missed either the talks or cooking demo, recordings will be available for a limited amount of time on our website.

For the local schools, in addition to limited in-person presentations with our gurus, we

put together a scavenger hunt activity and accompanying video. After all, knowing the proper name of a mushroom isn’t as important as finding something interesting about it just by looking at it! The activity sheet and video are available on our website for anyone else who would like to check them out.

On the science side of things, we are grateful to the gurus who made it up for a smaller and unfortunately non-public version of fungal forays. There will definitely be new finds from our forays to add to our list of over 900 species—check the Whistler Naturalists’ website in the next month for the updated list.

Finally, the Whistler Naturalists would also like to thank our key sponsors: The Whistler Community Foundation, AWARE and the Resort Municipality of Whistler. Thanks also to Nesters Market, Legends Creekside, Whistler Bike Co., Milestones, Armchair Books and the Whistler Biodiversity Project.

See you next year, as always, the weekend after Thanksgiving.

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Let’s try unity for a change I think Max is incorrect. “The majority of us will ... wind up with the government we deserve and desire.” (“Promises, promises …,” Pique, Oct. 15.) The majority of us desire to be divided, whether politically, economically, religiously or any other ways we can think of, so we will wind up with a divided government, which is what we deserve.

The lead in the CBC newsfeed today was the threat of an imminent federal election caused by the four opposition parties insisting on creating an anti-corruption committee so the Liberals can’t hide what the others think is the “WE scandal.”

I can’t wait to hear the five leaders stand on a stage and complain about the politics of division.

[B.C. NDP Premier] John Horgan is also incorrect but he is not alone. Even the TD Bank commercial promises it will help us “move forward.” More than 2,600 years ago, Aesop noted, “Divided we fall.” Now, 2,600 years later, humanity still can’t accept fact that, because we are divided, we are moving downward!

The most often cited defence of democracy is a Winston Churchill quote: “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.”

That is only because we haven’t yet replaced democratic division with unity. Aesop also noted, “united we stand.”

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I hope that I’m not getting charged for that phone call.

Couldn’t [Vail Resorts] just decentralize [its] season-pass offices from Colorado and have one in Whistler?

We (us Canadians) would be able to get our pass a lot more efficiently, and heck, I would even drive to the mountain and get my pass from guest services in person with a photo to boot.

In the email Vail Resorts sent me it says, “Action is required.” Almost sounding urgent.

Well, I’m not getting much action out of my phone call to Vail Resorts’ guest services but elevator music.

Wayne Binmore // Pemberton

again to guest services, but the response was a telephone loop, which said: Agents working hard/pass credit extended. It repeated twice, wished me a great day and hung up.

Hoping this was a fluke, I called back three more times, same loop, twice, and then a disconnect.

We purchased Edge Cards for 2019-20 season and they were unused—we lost 20 per

“I’m not getting much action out of my phone call to Vail Resorts’ guest services but elevator music.”

Soup was on!

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Myrtle Philip Community School’s Harvest Soup event looked a little different than in previous years due to our added safety protocols with COVID-19.

While we missed celebrating around a long table, the students and teachers loved enjoying the soup in their individual classrooms. From harvesting the veggie gardens to serving the soup, it was a huge success.

It is always a fun learning experience for the students and helps keep them connected to where their food comes from. From seed to harvest to table, the kids love it. It never gets old seeing the excitement of elevated voices and smiles from the children with the pulling carrots and potatoes.

I would like to give a big thank you to Marnie Melsted of Whistler Food Co. and Whistler Athletes’ Centre Lodge for use of their commercial kitchen where we did all our food prep. This could not have happened without you. As always, this is a group effort so thank you so much to our volunteers.

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- WAYNE BINMORE

cent? The borders are closed and probably will be for many more months. Exactly how can we use our credit?

I understand that this is difficult for Vail Resorts as well; hence we don’t expect a refund. Transferring the credit to next season or transferring a credit to someone else, or any solution to not lose $1,620 would be acceptable.

Even if the Canadian border opens in January or February, it will be too late to plan a family trip for us.

Pique letter-writer Ian Quek [on Sept.

3] said it well: “Their disgraceful business practices gives them a deservedly bad name.”

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Take action Frustrated with Vail Resorts For months, we had hoped to get a response to the telephone calls I made to Whistler Blackcomb Guest Services regarding Edge Card credits.

At one point, a manager gave me his direct line, said he was busy with opening the bike park in June and would call me back. I spoke to him two more times, each time he said he would call back but he never did.

On Sept. 11, in a last-ditch effort, I called

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Today (Oct. 15), I was so proud of [NDP] Premier John Horgan when he finally owned up to his white privilege and offered his sincerest apologies for it.

I will look forward to his immediately stepping aside from his current position in favour of a suitably racialized individual to atone for the unfair advantages from which he has benefitted as a result.

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The argument for planting roots THE OTHER WEEK, I had the very challenging task of condensing long-time Pemberton resident Shirley Henry’s life into a single story.

She was the village’s longest-serving mayor, she volunteered, spearheaded, and ran a mind-boggling number of community

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organizations, and she sat on a variety of boards until her passing on Sept. 28.

While I didn’t know her well, I certainly knew of her reputation as a tireless volunteer and a shining example of how to be part of a community.

You can imagine my shock, then, when her son, Mike, told me during an interview that when she first arrived 56 years ago, Shirley had initially been a little uncertain about her move to what was then (and maybe still is to some) the middle of nowhere.

It was eerie how much it mirrored my own arrival to the corridor. I didn’t find out exactly how Shirley transformed from reluctant community member to someone whose name is synonymous with that community, but I can imagine it well.

Since that story, I’ve been thinking a lot

about the value of putting down roots in a community—particularly a small one.

For most of my 20s, I couldn’t stop moving. Settling down felt like death—of my career, my personal progression, my life. I was gripped by fear at the thought of becoming stagnant.

Over 18 years, I have lived in eight different towns or cities and at least 15

The other day, for example, I ran to get contact lenses at Whistler Eye Clinic. The person who greeted me at the door knew who I was and what I was there for without me even having to open my mouth.

Afterwards, I went over to Forecast to grab some lunch. “Oh, I didn’t recognize you with a mask on,” the person working the till said.

These interactions, while short and small, go so far to make you feel connected to a place— like you’re part of something, you’ve built a home.

different apartments or houses. But whether it’s progress or stagnation, I’ve been working in the same little office in Function Junction going on eight years.

And in some ways I might have stagnated. But I’ve also learned that there’s a lot to gain by staying put and getting to truly know a community.

Out from the back came a cook, who used to oversee another neighbourhood coffee shop years ago, to say hello.

These interactions, while short and small, go so far to make you feel connected to a place—like you’re part of something, you’ve built a home. There’s something comforting in imagining that

you’re a peripheral character in many people’s stories.

You might hit a lower ceiling in your career than if you were to move on to bigger places, but as Shirley’s life proved there is another option: stick around and build opportunities; leave things better than you found them.

Reading over her list of accomplishments and contributions over five-and-a-half decades, I couldn’t help but feel inspired.

There’s something strangely appealing about the idea of facing death and knowing that your legacy is woven into the fabric of your community.

After all, at the end of the day, will people remember you for your personal accomplishments or what you gave to those around you?

This isn’t an official proclamation that I plan to stay in the corridor forever.

Rather, it’s a declaration that I Officially Understand the value and appeal of staying in one small town for decades—something I certainly couldn’t say eight years ago when I first arrived here.

So here’s to all the remarkable community members in both Whistler and Pemberton that I’ve met (and interviewed) during that time.

Whether I plant my roots here or elsewhere, I’ll never forget the important lesson you’ve taught me. ■

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RMOW eyes transit gains and short-term wins on Highway 99 LONG-AWAITED PROVINCIAL REPORT OFFERS SOLUTIONS—BUT NO APPETITE FOR FUNDING

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A LONG-AWAITED provincial review of capacity and safety issues on Highway 99 through Whistler identifies some potential solutions—but with little appetite for funding, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is instead eyeing transit gains and short-term wins.

The review—conducted by McElhanney Ltd. at the expense of the provincial Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI)—lays out short-, medium- and longterm options for highway improvements.

The study considered options like a dual westbound left turning lane at Lorimer Road (shorter-term); counterflow lanes that could shift north or south depending on traffic volumes (medium); two southbound lanes from Taylor Way to Bayshore Drive, or Alpha Lake Road (medium); or two southbound lanes from Lorimer to Alpha Lake Road (long-term).

Cost estimates for the various options range from about $405,000 for the dual left turning lane at Lorimer to more than $60 million for a full twinning of the highway in Whistler.

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more, McElhanney recommended the improvements at Lorimer be considered, and that southbound lanes from Taylor Way to Alpha Lake Road are also viable, subject to funding.

“It is recommended that MOTI conduct additional analysis and design to determine the most appropriate medium-term option,” the report states, adding that MOTI should

Highway 99, Hallisey said: Whistler Road (through to Whistler Creekside); Meadow Lane; Autumn Drive/Emerald Drive; and Route 10-Valley Express bus stops.

Other trouble spots can be identified by the municipal Transportation Advisory Group as necessary, he added.

The report is mostly focused on southbound traffic on a peak winter Sunday,

“If our buses can be bypassing traffic congestion, you know our ridership is only going to increase.”

- JAMES HALLISEY

also further study the feasibility of the longterm option.

But according to the ministry’s own criteria, “none of these options that they actually reviewed came up as a particularly high benefit-cost ratio; none of them come out clearly as a project that sort of should be done right away,” said general manager of infrastructure James Hallisey.

“So that led RMOW staff to suggest we also need to embed some smaller projects into this report … We need to have some other options where we can step forward in a meaningful way by taking some smaller steps.”

As such, RMOW staff are currently in discussions with MOTI about pedestrian safety upgrades at four key locations along

noted Councillor Cathy Jewett, adding that improving the flow of traffic to the north is key as well.

And with so much housing going up or planned for Cheakamus Crossing, “I was really hopeful that we were going to see some more ideas about the transit queue jumper, and improving transit movement,” Jewett said.

The report does contain good info about potentially using the highway shoulder for traffic, Hallisey noted, which would be relatively easy to implement for transit.

“That is the idea that staff has been pursuing and will continue to push along, because that looks to have some real benefits,” he said.

“And if our buses can be bypassing

traffic congestion, you know our ridership is only going to increase.”

As for who would pay for such upgrades, “it’s a joint project,” said transportation demand management coordinator Emma DalSanto.

The RMOW does have some developer contributions to be used for transit improvements, which puts it ahead of the game in some respects, but the funds alone aren’t enough to pay for a project.

“There are various funding programs out there to do some cost-sharing or to apply for grants,” DalSanto said.

“At this point, we’ve talked about doing some design work with some RMOW funds, but when it comes to actually building things, it would be up for discussion.”

Coun. Arthur De Jong wondered about the long-term future of transportation to and through Whistler, with rapid advancements of technology predicted alongside burgeoning populations.

“How far should we be looking to try and anticipate the many changes coming at us?” De Jong asked.

Transportation will look very different in the next 15 to 30 years, Hallisey agreed, as technological solutions like autonomous vehicles may make things like congestion and timing issues a thing of the past.

“But in the meantime, we need to be planning for what can we do in the more short-term, and definitely getting more people into more transit and buses is an obvious win,” he said.

“And we’ve already proven that to be successful, so that’s definitely the thing we need to keep our eye on here.” n

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SLCC offers tips for reconciliation in wake of racist verbal attack RCMP SEEKING INFORMATION REGARDING OCT. 11 INCIDENT

BY ALYSSA NOEL STAFF AT THE Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) are focused on healing after a hate-speech incident on Sunday, Oct. 11.

That day, a man walked into the Whistler museum with the alleged intention of instigating an altercation, staff said.

“They were there for the purpose of hurting our staff,” claimed Heather Paul, executive director of the SLCC. “Without repeating what they said, it is a criminal offence, what they said. It was hate speech supporting the loss of life of Indigenous people.”

The incident was reported to Whistler RCMP and is currently under investigation.

While it’s not the first racist incident at the facility, it was the most aggressive, said Mixalhítsa7 Alison Pascal, curator at the SLCC. “Sometimes it takes our staff a long time to heal from it,” she said. “So right now, as an organization, as a family, especially since we have a really youthful staff, everybody is just really taking this time to heal and re-centre themselves and prepare to welcome more people into our doors and continue that work in a really good way, a pure way that’s not tainted by this experience.”

Many people in the community reached out after learning about the incident to offer support, express shock, and, for some, renew memberships.

However, SLCC staff and cultural leaders were not surprised at the alleged verbal attack. “There was no shock it occurred,” Paul said. “[There was] shock of it occurring in the moment, but [that’s the] divide between non-Indigenous people being flabbergasted this is occurring, and Indigenous people saying, ‘It has happened before and I wait for it to happen again. I go to work wondering if it will happen today.’

Somewhere in that divide is the work that needs to be done.”

Pascal speculated that the recent incident might also have been compounded by the high number of women working at the SLCC. “We’ve always been heavily staffed by females, which is really interesting,” she said. “On [that day], we were heavily staffed by females. Male aggression towards females also plays a role.”

Looking ahead, the SLCC will examine how they handle both aggressive visitors and those who use micro-aggression, Paul said.

But there are ways the wider community can help combat racism with a goal of reconciliation, too. “Educating yourself is a really great start,” Pascal said. “The Whistler library runs a program talking about Indigenous people; it’s an online

model. I believe it’s no charge or very little charge for those people who didn’t have Indigenous studies or First Nations studies in school. They can learn a little bit more about our history.”

(More information on that can be found here: whistlerlibrary.ca/events/moocindigenous-canada.)

One of the most valuable ways you can help is to start conversations at home as well, added Pascal.

“The first place to have these conversations, and talk to your family members who might hold onto stereotypes really hard or might be judgmental about what they’ve seen in the media, [is] at home where you’re not worried about onlookers,

“They were there for the purpose of hurting our staff.”

- HEATHER PAUL

or changing people’s perceptions or putting them on defense in public,” she said. “For me, that’s where a lot of the big topics are discussed in my family. We all share our opinions and if we have more knowledge about a subject, it comes out.”

Paul also suggested locals support Indigenous businesses. “Let your dollar by your ally-ship,” she said. “Do you have a membership to the SLCC? Are you exercising it? When you’re purchasing Indigenous art, are you buying it from an Indigenous business? The shop here is an Indigenous business. The money goes back into Indigenous businesses. This building is owned and shared by the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations.”

To that end, the SLCC is also looking at curating Indigenous reading material for people to purchase if they’d like to further educate themselves.

“We’re looking at … creating First Nations 101 baskets,” Paul said. “It will be reading material, reference material. We have some of those books in the store, but we’re bringing more in.”

But it’s also important to remember the SLCC isn’t just a place of education; it’s also where Indigenous culture is celebrated.

“Your journey to reconciliation can, the next time you come in for a celebration, morph into a realization,” Paul said.

In the meantime, police continue to investigate the incident. They hope to identify the person and ask anyone with information to call them at 604-932-3044 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 to remain anonymous. ■

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Local leaders share their thoughts ahead of election day ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES HOT TOPIC AT WHISTLER ALL-CANDIDATES MEETING make the adjustment or change.

It’s important for the community to think about how it will support employees through Phase 2 of COVID-19, which will force people into their homes if they or a dependent becomes ill, Dickinson said.

“So we definitely wanted to foster those types of conversations, and really acknowledge that women, specifically, in workforces and businesses and organizations, are the most commonly hit,” she said.

“And there’s repercussions to that as well.”

A full video of the event is live on the Whistler Chamber’s YouTube channel.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS FOR ALL THE anxiety tied to tourism recovery in light of COVID, it was notable that the first public question at Whistler’s all-candidates meeting on Oct. 15 was about B.C.’s opioid crisis.

“I think it’s a real representation of the strength of our own community, that we’re willing to ask those questions of these candidates very quickly when that floor opens up to a public voice,” said Jackie Dickinson, executive director of the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS). “[There were] lots of great questions around harm reduction and mental health.”

The candidates—incumbent Liberal Jordan Sturdy, the NDP’s Keith Murdoch and Green candidate Jeremy Valeriote—provided some “really great” answers to tough questions, Dickinson said (including two posed by WCSS: one related to enhancing food security and another about supporting women, who have been disproportionately impacted

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by COVID-19).

The pandemic has increased demand at WCSS, which is seeing more individuals seeking support for food security, financial assistance, and emotional and mental health, Dickinson said.

“Most family systems have had to have really hard conversations around how to maintain income and income earning, while having children in school or in daycare full-time,” she said, adding that, in most instances, it’s the woman who has to

Mayor Jack Crompton had the unique opportunity ahead of election day on Oct. 24 to sit down for one-on-one interviews with each of the Sea to Sky’s candidates (hear them yourself at whistler.ca/whistlerpodcast).

From Whistler’s perspective, the issues

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“They very much contextualized the issues and answered them from their point of view, and the point of view of their parties, which is what I found most interesting: when you’re considering the same issue, the approach that they’ll take is very much framed by who they are and [what] their party is,” he said.

“The theme that emerged was that the challenges that will be taken on by whoever our MLA is are very much the same.”

Asked if he feels any one candidate fits Whistler’s priorities better than the others, Crompton laughed.

“I am looking forward to working with whomever the voters elect for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky,” he said.

“The relationship with our MLA is a very important priority for myself and for council. We look forward to a strong working relationship moving forward.”

If Green candidate Valeriote is elected, that working relationship might include at least the perception of a conflict of interest, as Valeriote has been married to Resort Municipality of Whistler chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen for nine years.

But if elected, the conflict would be “minimal” due to the different natures of the roles (elected versus administrative),

Valeriote said in an email when asked about possible conflict of interest.

“We are both professionals and are bound by the confidentiality and conflict of interest requirements of provincial legislation, and will follow these requirements to the letter,” he said.

Crompton offered a similar response, noting it is mayor and council’s job to interface with elected counterparts.

“CAOs perform their roles in accordance with time-tested and robust provincial legislation like the community charter,” Crompton said.

“When viewed through that lens, I don’t see a conflict of interest here.”

TOURISM RECOVERY While all three candidates seem to understand the importance of Whistler’s tourism economy (which generates about 25 per cent of B.C.’s tourism export industry), there are “multiple levers” needed to generate recovery, said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher.

“There needs to be support to the supply side of the industry, while there simultaneously needs to be stimulus to the demand side of the industry,” she said, noting that federal and provincial aid programs like the federal wage subsidy are crucial.

That said, the programs could be improved in terms of eligibility and ease of access.

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got their noses to the grind, they’re just trying to survive,” Fisher said. “Some of these programs, they have to have easier application processes. The eligibility criteria needs to be relevant and easy.”

Key to keeping B.C. tourism afloat will be generating new customer demand through targeted marketing and travel incentives, she added, noting that TW is focusing on advertising non-ski and midweek activities.

“We need politicians who totally appreciate and understand the economic impacts that the travel and tourism industry generate, and how important they are to a variety of small, medium and large businesses that make up our communities, and drive local jobs and supports, “ Fisher said.

“But the solutions for recovery are multi-faceted.”

Like Crompton, Fisher wasn’t prepared to make an endorsement, though she did say it’s important for whoever is elected to engage local tourism stakeholders.

“That includes businesses, government, chambers of commerce, and tourism DMOs,” she said.

“All of the key stakeholders are part of the tourism recovery and tourism solutions, and we would like to see our successful local candidate and politician be well engaged.”

In response to a question from Chamber CEO Melissa Pace about support for small businesses rebuilding in the wake of COVID19 at the Oct. 15 all-candidates meeting, Murdoch pointed to financial support and

grants already provided by the current NDP government.

The Green platform, meanwhile, proposes a $300-million commercial rent subsidy for small businesses, a retooling of provincial grants and repayable loans for hospitality, Valeriote said.

“This is the time for government spending in this area,” he said. “The debt that we’re racking up is important but absolutely necessary. Cutting taxes is not going to help us repay that debt.”

The BC Liberals have proposed to waive the PST for a year and eliminate the small business tax, among other measures, Sturdy said.

“We’ve got some loan guarantees for businesses in hospitality and tourism to help with cash-flow; we’re going to keep in place the wholesale pricing, and we’re working with the feds on a tenant relief package,” he said, adding that the Liberals will also ensure Resort Municipality Initiative funding stays in place.

LABOUR With more than two-thirds of Whistler businesses saying they won’t have enough staff this winter, how will the candidates and their parties help the resort rebuild in the wake of COVID? The labour question must be discussed in broader terms, Valeriote said.

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“As your MLA I would work with local governments and BC Housing to get the funding here to build the right kind of housing in the right places at the right time.”

The labour shortage is an “acute issue” given the extended border closure, Sturdy said, and the provincial government must work with its federal counterpart to get working holiday visa and other temporary workers back in the province.

“Ultimately I would agree with Jeremy that housing and transportation are key parts to ensure that we have access to the workforce wherever we can, but the workforce for Whistler in particular should be drawn from the region, and that means a quality transportation system is key,” Sturdy said, adding that it will also be important to continue to engage the “young and growing population” in Mount Currie moving forward.

Many of the workers coming from Australia or other places are unfamiliar with local labour laws, Murdoch noted.

“Certainly the main thing that I would do to try to create a long-lasting fix to this challenge is get involved and do an assessment of the provincial nominee program,” he said.

“I think there are great opportunities here for us to offer citizenship to maintain and sustain a workforce within the region, within Whistler.”

Judging by the submitted questions from the event’s 200-some attendees, climate change and other environmental issues have not been overtaken by COVID concerns in 2020.

A sizable portion of the queries were related in some way to Whistler’s natural environment, whether it be curbing greenhouse gas emissions, stopping old growth logging, the future of Woodfibre LNG, enhancing parks funding or ending

end of the day we should be weaning these companies off of all subsidies, be it film and television, be it oil and gas.

“I think that we need to have a level playing field, at the end of the day, for industries right across the province.”

While both Sturdy and Murdoch talked about the various environmental and community processes attached to the Woodfibre LNG project in Squamish’s Howe Sound, Valeriote was the only candidate to outright oppose it.

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“If the environment and climate change are your top issues … then the Green Party is definitely the party for you, and I’m your candidate,” Valeriote said, noting the influence the party’s three Green MLAs had on B.C.’s current climate plan.

“None of this would have happened without the Green Party’s influence in this minority government.”

On subsidies for oil and gas, Sturdy said he believes subsidies should be used to help industries get started, “and then at the

“It’s not a good idea to reindustrialize Howe Sound,” he said.

“It’s the jewel of our region, it represents a whole host of potential for green economy and tourism jobs as well as just a beautiful natural asset, so Woodfibre LNG is a project that is not for the future. It doesn’t make sense; no, thank you.”

REGIONAL TRANSIT If there was one topic all three candidates found complete agreement on, it was the

importance of establishing regional transit in the Sea to Sky corridor.

It’s an issue near and dear to Sturdy’s heart, and one he’s been actively working on for years.

“We put forward a proposal to the province, we had almost got it there, but unfortunately we had a change in government in 2017, and since then we just haven’t been able to find that funding formula,” he said.

The NDP wants a funding structure that will be sustainable over the long term, and the funding formula put forward by corridor communities last year included a fuel tax, Murdoch noted.

“So the NDP is committed to going after the gas companies who are gouging folks within the area [to] create room for a gas tax,” he said.

“I’ve already spoken to [Premier] John Horgan about this, he recognizes the importance, as do I, and if I’m elected, and the NDP forms government, it’s something we’ll be able to get done no problem.”

Election day is Saturday, Oct. 24. Voting places within the Sea to Sky Corridor include the Whistler Conference Centre, Pemberton Secondary School, and the Ts’zil Learning Centre in Mount Currie from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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BC Parks putting staff ‘at risk’ with outdated safety procedures: Report WORKSAFE BC INSPECTION OF ALICE LAKE JOBSITE LEADS TO FIVE COMPLIANCE ORDERS

BY BRANDON BARRETT A RECENT WORKSAFE BC inspection of BC Parks’ Alice Lake jobsite that could have provincial implications has raised concerns over outdated or unclear safety and training procedures for staff, according to a report obtained by Pique.

Occupational safety officer Lee Fletcher ultimately issued five compliance orders against BC Parks, all surrounding workplace safety and training protocols, as park rangers continue to contend with skyrocketing public use of provincial parks that has only been heightened by the pandemic.

In his inspection report dated Sept.

16, Fletcher said he had not received a copy of the office’s Safety Management and Accident Prevention manual, despite requesting it and staff reporting it had been updated as recently as February.

“Based on this information and no further information being provided by the employer at this time, the Annual review and updating is not being done. By not doing the annual review of this manual the employer is placing there [sic] employees and other workers at risk,” he wrote.

“The employer’s responsibility is to make sure staff are fully trained and oriented on dangerous work and pointing them to an outdated and incorrect manual to follow instructions before doing dangerous activities for the first time is not dully diligent.”

BC Parks staff carry out a number of potentially risky activities as part of their duties, including rigging helicopters to transport materials, managing and disposing large volumes of human waste, and ensuring public compliance in increasingly crowded provincial parks.

Rangers also regularly work with power tools such as chainsaws, operate boats, and are tasked with issuing tickets under the Park Act, as well as for more serious offences under the Motor Vehicle Act and Firearm Act, for instance.

Fletcher found that no standard training or operating procedures exist for workers “flying propane, lumber or honey pots from back country [sic] locations using a helicopter,” and that training records are “inconclusive, as I would need to interview each worker as to when they last did a task [versus] when they last received training.”

He went on to recommend that operating procedures be reviewed based on their associated risk, from high to low.

“The employer is expected [to] audit the workers’ current training against the duties

they have been performing to ensure policy and procedures are accurately followed,” he wrote.

In the office’s standard operating procedures, Fletcher found a broad reference to the potential for “violence from squatters” in provincial parks, without a subsequent referral to any existing violence risk assessment or protocol.

BC Parks last completed a violence prevention risk assessment in 2012, which Fletcher deemed “is not acceptable due to age and clarity to those using it.”

“This review is 8 years out of date and therefore there is another 8 years worth of data which needs to be reviewed to determine that the assessment is still accurate,” he wrote.

BC Parks and the Conservation Officer Service formed an occupational health and safety committee for the South Coast region just weeks prior to WorkSafe’s inspection, a joint structure that “doesn’t address the fact that the duties and functions within these various organizations are not necessarily the same,” Fletcher wrote. “Further, there needs to be a central committee, due to the geographical make[-up] of BC Parks and the limited numbers in a given office. This would be considered more appropriate to ensure there is a conduit between regions specific to the safety issues Park Rangers encounter throughout B.C.” Even pre-COVID, BC Parks was seeing steady increases in demand by recreationalists seeking access to the outdoors. Twenty-one million British Columbians reported visiting a provincial park in 2014/15, a number that had climbed to 26 million by 2018/19. While stats for this year have not been released, Google mobility data indicated between a 150- to 200-per-cent rise in visitation to parks through the spring and summer— even with the temporary closure of high-use parks such as Joffre Lakes and Garibaldi (Garibaldi later reopened under a pilot pass system].

BC Parks has been chronically underfunded, at least compared to its provincial and American counterparts, for years. Despite managing the sixth largest park system in the world, BC Parks ranks last on expenditure among the provinces, at just $2.80 per park hectare, compared to, for instance, $30 a hectare in Alberta.

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Masks to be made mandatory in all RMOW facilities COUNCIL BRIEFS: BUDGET BYLAW AIMS TO CORRECT PROJECT OVERRUNS; COUNCIL HEARS RECOVERY UPDATE

BY BRADEN DUPUIS STARTING NEXT WEEK, masks will be mandatory in all Whistler municipal facilities after council voted to approve the new policy on Oct. 20.

The policy, which begins Monday, Oct. 26, applies to all employees, visitors and contractors to all facilities operated by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), with a few exceptions: children under two, or under five if they refuse to wear a mask; those with medical conditions, or who can’t remove a mask without assistance; staff in non-publicly accessible areas with proper distance or barriers; people actively engaging in an athletic or fitness activity; people eating or drinking; or for any emergency or medical purpose.

Councillor Ralph Forsyth was the lone dissenting vote, saying that, while he

supports mask-wearing, he’s concerned about the lack of hard data to support the practice, the potential for legal challenges, and even the potential for abuse of municipal staff.

“I know we like to think that Whistler isn’t going to have any problems, people like that aren’t here … We’re not immune to it, to someone going in and harassing staff,” he said.

“I don’t wish to further put staff in harm’s way if we do have an incident like that.”

The RMOW’s health and safety team has already developed speaking notes and training procedures for frontline staff, noted general manager of corporate and community services Ted Battiston.

And while the policy isn’t a bylaw and won’t result in fines, RCMP officers do have powers during B.C.’s state of emergency to respond to people who aren’t in compliance with COVID regulations, added chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen.

As for a potential legal challenge,

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“I’ve heard discussion of some [in other jurisdictions], but there is nothing that I’m aware of that has gone forward into the courts,” Battiston said.

Coun. John Grills referred back to his long career in food and beverage, and the age-old adage of “no shirt, no shoes, no service,” noting that he can’t recall anyone ever taking that rule to court, either.

“If you did sue a community … you would probably have to wear a mask to appear in front of the judge,” Grills said.

“So I think it’s becoming the practice.”

The new policy was discussed amongst the RMOW’s recovery working group,

Cullen said, which felt it would help create consistency in the resort.

“This policy is basically bringing us in line with the higher safety practices of many of the businesses,” she said.

“This is about walking the talk and providing leadership that’s required.”

BUDGET BYLAW AIMS TO CORRECT COST OVERRUNS Aiming to correct cost overruns related to several projects, Whistler council gave first three readings to a bylaw amending the fiveyear financial plan on Oct. 20.

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NEWS WHISTLER The bylaw addresses overruns on six different projects.

A project to install 28 new electric vehicle stations exceeded its intended budget by $60,000 due to additional landscaping requirements, protection bollards, additional paving, torch-on decals and a ribbon-cutting event.

The amendment will add $60,000 to the Day Lot Operating Committee Capital Project Fund (original 2020 budget $217,000) from the General Capital Reserve.

The extra $60,000 was actually accounted for in the original project budget, but was removed during COVID revisions, said general manager of infrastructure James Hallisey.

“The change that we made for COVID was overly optimistic,” he said.

A project to install a new air conditioning unit at municipal hall is also overspent by $25,000 (original budget $80,000), due to unforeseen costs related to carpentry, overtime hours and electrical upgrades.

While total costs for a project to upgrade water mains in Alta Vista are not expected to increase, according to director of finance Carlee Price, the 2020 spend exceeded its annual budget by $500,000, necessitating another amendment.

The overspend is attributed to extra landscaping and tree removal required due to damage during the water main work; rock removal that far exceeded the anticipated amount; and the decision to pave Tyrol Crescent in 2020 rather than 2021 after the road was damaged during the water main upgrade.

Shifting the $500,000 to 2020 from 2021 will result in no net change at the end of 2021, Price noted.

Further, the amendment also increases the allocation to the RMOW’s Energy and Climate Program by $84,600 (to help cover costs associated with the recently-revealed Big Moves Strategy), with all funds coming from existing provincial Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program contributions.

The RMOW also had an unexpected deficit in the Wastewater Treatment Plant Operating Budget as a result of COVID-19, as drastically declining visitation led to flowrates that were 40 per cent lower than design criteria.

The low flowrates caused a “significant decrease in carbon and nutrient load entering the bioreactors,” according to a report to council, and acetic acid was used to ensure the effluent discharge met provincial regulations.

Pending a planned upgrade to the plant’s fermenter, the RMOW will keep using acetic acid to ensure a “stable and predictable operation.”

The budget amendment shifts $130,000 in unused funds from a different budget item associated with the plant to help cover the operating costs, and the change has no effect on forecasted utility reserves in 2020 or beyond, according to Price’s report.

Lastly, a project including the liquid waste management report, Cheakamus River Monitoring Report, WWTP Asset Management Planning, Confined Space Entry Program Update and DES Planning is also expected to exceed its $97,000 budget by about $10,000 (due

to an ongoing leak investigation and the associated reporting).

The total change of all the amendments taken together is $654,400.

RECOVERY UPDATE With the COVID-19 pandemic now closing in on eight months with no end in sight, Whistler council heard an update from the RMOW’s recovery working group at the Oct. 20 council meeting.

The working group consists of representatives from tourism, business, retail, arts and culture, social services, environment, health, housing, accommodation, pubs and clubs and human resources, said chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen.

“This was by design,” Cullen said. 'The aim was to have broad representation from the community, such that the solutions that are found benefit the greatest number of people.”

The group has had three meetings in recent months, spending time reviewing lessons learned from the summer, as well as key findings from the four community conversations held in July, Cullen said.

“The task was to find what areas need the most urgent help, and what are the most urgent areas of concern within the community,” she said, adding that in its work so far, the group has identified four main focus areas: community well-being, local business survival, the labour market and tourism sustainability.

“I’d say as a group we’re building muscle and gathering input and feedback from stakeholders and doing this in an effective way, and also having working meetings where we’re actually making measurable progress,” Cullen said, adding that the goal is to take a “measured and adaptive” approach.

“This means we make a change, we try something out … We reflect on what was learned and we move forward,” she said.

“So that makes the whole idea of recovery a little bit less daunting. We’re working on one small step at a time and learning as we go, because right now it’s much more difficult to see into the future than normal.”

The working group has also broken off into subgroups representing each of the four focus areas, with plans for things like increased mental health resources, information sharing for businesses, and campaigns encouraging people to shop local, or to find employment in Whistler this fall.

The group is also discussing lobbying the federal government with regard to increased access to the Working Holiday Visa Program, as well as specific employment and training sessions for First Nations people, Cullen said.

The working group will continue monthly meetings and smaller team meetings into the fall, with plans to provide another update to council in December, she said.

“I would say this is a true working group,” she said.

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TW launches Thrill Runs Deep campaign COVID-19 SAFETY MESSAGING STILL KEY FOR WINTER

BY BRADEN DUPUIS TOURISM WHISTLER’S (TW) longawaited revamped resort marketing—a product of years of research and community consultation—was initially supposed to be unveiled in the spring.

Then, a global pandemic changed almost everything about how we do tourism.

But after a pause for reflection, it was decided that the new campaign—with its tagline Thrill Runs Deep—is no less relevant than before COVID-19.

“It’s definitely intended to be a timeless campaign,” said Kirsten Homeniuk, TW’s vice president of marketing.

“I think our sophisticated, thrill-seeker guests, and even our resident community, in looking at those passions that people have, that still exists within everyone, now more than ever.

“We still look to the great outdoors, and if anything, I think the pandemic has caused people to almost try to have a little bit more balance in their life around things that are healthy and meaningful.”

Safety messages and resources developed in response to COVID, like TW’s Doors Open Directory, will still be in place for the winter, Homeniuk added.

“So even though our inspirational brand marketing will really dig into Thrill Runs Deep and encouraging people to continue to pursue their passions and get outside and enjoy the mountains, we will also have a layer of communication that continues to remind people to adventure safely and mindfully, [to] be patient with one another, and that the experience is going to be a little bit different,” she said.

“And so we’ll try and help visitors navigate that as best as possible.”

The place branding exercise, preliminary results of which were first shared with the community late last year, is the culmination of nearly two years work.

The exercise aimed to define what truly makes Whistler special, and chart the longterm vision and strategy for “ideal tourism” into the future.

The platform includes new brand colours, typography, photo and video guidelines, a new brand voice, and a refreshed logo, all of which will be used in Tourism Whistler

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In capturing the essence of “thrill,” Homeniuk noted it can mean different things to different people: adrenalinepumping, hard-charging adventure, or quiet moments of reflection and awe.

“We like to define thrill as a sudden magnified feeling of excitement or pleasure,” she said.

“And I think that is the positioning behind the Whistler brand, is that everything you do, whether it be rejuvenation at a spa or whether it be trying a new sport or something like that, it pushes you a little bit further, and it’s kind of addictive or magnified. It creates this feeling of excitement, that’s super, super captivating.”

In its new campaign, TW tried to capture those thrilling, personal moments through photography—the look on someone’s face as they conquer a new challenge on the mountain, or discover the holiday magic on the Village Stroll.

The campaign also makes use of First Person Drone technology to put viewers in the hot seat.

“We’ve got some skiing footage where it really makes you feel like you are in that moment, or we’ve got a shot going over Alexander Falls, and the falls are just rushing … it just really fuels that emotive element of thrill,” Homeniuk said.

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French-language school pitched for Tiyata COUNCIL BRIEFS: NO RESPONSE TO CHILDCARE PUBLIC HEARING Pedrini stressed that the purpose of the report was to kickstart the monthslong process as opposed to debate the project itself.

“We’re not in a position to do first reading yet. We’re just doing our early and ongoing engagement at this stage. We’re not here to determine the merits of the application today,” she said.

Should the OCP amendment pass, the only further VOP involvement would be for staff to issue the building permit.

BY DAN FALLOON A NEW SCHOOL could soon be coming to Pemberton.

School District 93, the Conseil Scolaire Francophone de la C.B., has applied for an amendment to the Official Community Plan (OCP) to build a public school for Francophone education in the second phase of the Tiyata development. The school would serve roughly 390 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 and also feature childcare spaces. The site would also feature playing fields and a community garden.

“The location of the school would be, basically, the second half of the Tiyata development, so it’s the vacant lands closest to Highway 99,” manager of development services Lisa Pedrini said in her presentation to council.

The land, currently zoned as residential, would need to be rezoned as civic and institutional and would also require designation as Development Permit Areas No. 1 (Environmental Protection) and No. 2 (Land Constraints).

In order to fulfill the requirements set out in the Local Government Act, council voted to proceed with two recommendations from staff to get the project underway.

“Council must consider an appropriate level of engagement for the OCP amendment in this application,” said Pedrini. “Therefore, you must determine which agencies, including local, provincial and possibly federal, and other bodies that you would like to be engaged on the application.”

Pedrini listed Lil’wat Nation, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, the Ministry of Education, the SquamishLillooet Regional District, Pemberton Valley Dyking District, CN Rail, School District 48, Pemberton and District Chamber of Commerce and utility providers Telus and

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She also recommended a public presentation of plans in the near future.

“We would also ask for the applicants to organize an online—I would imagine— opportunity for public engagement on the application before council would consider first and second reading of the OCP amendment bylaw,” she said.

However, in the interest of expediency, Councillor Ted Craddock wondered if first and second reading would be possible and worthwhile in advance of the engagement.

“The OCP, it’s not a big change in that situation, so to hold off first and second for another month, I’m just looking to try to facilitate moving this project forward as quickly as they can,” he said. “Obviously, if they can get it organized and into the ground in the spring, it certainly makes a lot more sense than going through this for another couple of months.”

Chief administrative officer Nikki Gilmore noted that the process doesn’t allow for such a quick turnaround.

“Typically, when we make our referrals, we allow about a month for external agencies to provide comment and we would most likely wait until we get those comments to bring first and second reading to council,” she said.

Pedrini added that it would be a time saver if the applicants held the community information session during that monthlong commenting period.

“We wouldn’t bring back the bylaw until we’ve received all the referral comments as well as convened a meeting of the Advisory Land Use Commission on the land-use change,” she said. “It could take time for them to do it before first and second reading.

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Council gave first two readings to the bylaw on Oct. 6 and gave third reading later in the meeting.

There were, however, four letters of support received before the Oct. 15 deadline, including one from Shannon Beecroft, whose application to operate a childcare centre in the former Portage Station Restaurant space brought to the fore the realization that zoning did not allow childcare centres in commercial zones. Two additional letters of support came after the deadline.

After the vote passed, Coun. Ryan Zant inquired as to the remainder of the process, as the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure must be consulted before fourth and final reading.

Gilmore confirmed that staff has already been in contact with the ministry to let them know it would be forthcoming.

“I don’t see that being hung up too much, although I don’t have a timeline,” she said. “It depends where it is in the queue.”

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BY BRANDON BARRETT THE TEAM BEHIND the vision for a high-speed rail line connecting the Sea to Sky to the Lower Mainland have pointed to a number of potential benefits that would make the proposed Mountain Valley Express (MVX) an attractive commuting alternative to Highway 99: a 31-minute trip from Downtown Vancouver to Whistler, a massive reduction in carbon emissions, the creation of 1 million B.C. jobs, and up to $61 billion in estimated “transportation benefits.”

If the concept put forward by a team of academics sounds too good to be true, it’s because, at least according to one prominent B.C. urban planner, it may be.

“Well, I’ve been fooled before, but my feeling is that it’s overblown and too expensive,” said urban designer Patrick Condon, who is also a professor at the University of British Columbia.

First unveiled on Oct. 6, the MVX’s final cost is pegged at between $7 and $16 billion, which would make it one of the largest and costliest infrastructure projects in B.C.’s history.

It’s also not the first time a high-speed rail concept has been proposed for the Sea to Sky; a similar project was put forth in the lead-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics that was seen as “financially unachievable” at the time, recalled Tourism Whistler president Barrett Fisher.

“The forecasts at that time were around $15 billion, so not dissimilar to the range that is being discussed now,” she added.

Condon believes that then, as now, there isn’t the political will to make a project of that scale and cost a reality.

“I think there are better uses of taxpayer dollars,” he said, pointing to an inter-urban rail transit line proposed between Surrey and Chilliwack as a more realistic, costeffective option for the Lower Mainland.

“If you run the numbers on this so-called high-speed rail project, the cost per passenger would be in the hundreds of dollars amortized over a 30-year repayment period. It’s really not reasonable.

“We’ve gotten in the habit in B.C. of thinking if a big project is good, then a gigantic project is great—but that doesn’t really respect the taxpayer.”

But urban planner and PhD candidate Alex Gaio, who is the spokesperson for the MVX project, said that, given the worsening climate crisis and growing highway congestion, now is the time to consider innovative transportation solutions.

“There are a lot of things we know we need to do and there are ways we know how to achieve them, especially to reduce our carbon emissions,” he said, adding that upgrades to

both Highway 99 and Highway 1 are inevitable given increasing congestion. “We know that 30 per cent of our emissions comes from transportation uses, so why not now propose a really bold vision to bring forward a highspeed rail connection to build back better?”

Considering the rugged, mountainous terrain found in the corridor, Condon believes the MVX would run into significant engineering challenges as well.

“Usually with high-speed rail—and they’ve encountered this in California—the thing has to go almost perfectly straight for long distances. When it hits a curve, the curve has to be very gradual, otherwise the train falls off the track,” he explained. “When you think about the topography between Downtown Vancouver and Whistler, it’s not exactly forgiving. It’s not the Prairies, that’s for sure.”

Condon also took issue with the number of stops along the suggested route. With just 11 stations between Chilliwack and Whistler, he believes the project won’t achieve the kind of cost savings needed to warrant the expense.

“It rules out having a number of stops along the line, which is particularly important south of the Fraser, so that you could pick up a lot of communities and actually have development areas within walking distance of a rail line,” he noted.

Then there’s the question of community impact on a resort town that, pre-COVID at least, was already wrestling with how to balance surging visitor numbers.

For Fisher, the proposal has several alluring potential benefits, such as lowering carbon emissions and traffic congestion as well as the added convenience of trimming travel times by three-quarters, but she also hopes to learn more of the project’s possible “unintended consequences.”

“High-speed transportation could create high volume of day visitors that the destination might not be able to handle,” she said. “The other thing I think would be important to consider is could it potentially have Whistler become a bedroom community of Vancouver?

Could that potentially displace local housing for our tourism employees and/or inadvertently dilute our strong local community and culture?”

The MVX team hasn’t analyzed the project’s potential impact on community character, “but it’s obviously something we take very seriously,” Gaio said. “But the idea is, what’s the alternative?

“Although it’s a massively expensive infrastructure project … the big thing we want to hammer home here is that this is a big conversation starter to get people talking about this.”

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or years, the tagline for the Whistler Community Services Society’s (WCSS) outreach counselling services was “Stuff Getting You Down?”

“That was the poster tagline we would use in our outreach,” explains executive director Jackie Dickinson. “But it wasn’t a great campaign because it acknowledged that people maybe weren’t always feeling well or maybe were struggling.”

Since then, Whistler’s social-service provider has reimagined its messaging, a reflection of the ways even those on the frontlines have adapted to evolving language around mental health.

“We shifted that campaign to ‘You Talk, We Listen,’ because what we noticed is people would sometimes say to us, ‘I don’t know if my down is as much as somebody else’s down’ or if what I consider down is worthy of a phone call. But if we frame it as ‘You Talk, We Listen,’ we’re opening up that conversation to be about anything that’s impacting you. There’s value in sparking that conversation and value in listening.

It’s just one example of how COVID-19 has shifted the tenor of the conversation around mental health, a trend that you could argue was already underway pre-pandemic, but has only been accelerated in the meantime.

“I think we’ve all had days where we’ve felt the despair of the pandemic and that longing for a return to normalcy,” reflects Mei Madden, executive director of the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation (WBF), which in July launched a media campaign emphasizing that mental health challenges are “Part of Our Nature,” along with a website listing available resources. “To me, that’s a really good thing, because I think people are recognizing that it is OK to not be OK and that they can reach out.”

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You can see the proof in the numbers as well: In February, weeks before the pandemic forced the country into lockdown, just 15 per cent of community members seeking counselling services at WCSS reported being “in crisis.” By April, that number had ballooned to 57 per cent. A recent WBF survey also found that 42 per cent of community members polled had accessed mental health support in the past year.

Going through such a widespread crisis has had a way of tapping into society’s collective consciousness that can engender empathy in a deeper way, Dickinson posits.

“It’s the first time in a long time that this collective consciousness came together,” she says. “I was born in 1978 and I gotta tell you, there wasn’t a war that drafted me. There wasn’t an experience that really made me think about a unified collective consciousness and not just my inner circle and my family but what was happening in our community, in our province, across Canada, and then across the globe—until now.”

Even with that meaningful progress, there is still work to be done. One of the recurring barriers to accessing mental-health services in Whistler is a general lack of awareness of where to find them. In fact, WBF’s survey showed that 35 per cent of respondents weren’t able to access the support they needed simply because they didn’t know where to go.

While raising awareness of available supports will always been necessary in a resort town that relies on the constant turnover of seasonal workers from around the world, part of the issue also lies with how our medical system is designed to treat mental health, says local clinical counsellor Greg McDonnell.

“One of the things I learned from [mental health advocate and part-time Whistlerite] Andy Szocs … was if you had a heart attack or some health issue, the system goes vertical for you immediately.

You get treatment immediately,” he says. “If you have mental health [challenges], the system is a very slow learning curve to find services.

So we need to do better as a society, not just Whistler, making that trajectory more vertical.”

It’s part of the reason why McDonnell teamed up with local youth sports coach and 2020 Whistler Citizen of the Year Dave Clark, along with a host of other notable locals, to launch the Sea to Sky Healing Project, a website set up during the pandemic that lists locally available services along with a slew of non-clinical strategies to support mental health, including videos, podcasts, and real-world advice from community members such as Dickinson, Mayor Jack Crompton and photographer Chad Chomlack.

“We come at it from different angles to find tools that worked either in our daily personal practice or in tour professional practice with clients,” Clark says. “There clearly is a need outside of the COVID pandemic to have really accessible, non-clinical tools for people to help maintain their emotional and mental health.”

In a perfect world, McDonnell would also like to see both more frontline outreach staff as well as a wider diversity of skilled therapists in town to continue knocking down barriers to support.

“I would have better access to psychiatry, not better as in [Vancouver Coastal Health] isn’t doing a good enough job, but just more diverse entry points to psychiatry,” he says.

“We’ve got to keep these conversations going around mental health at all levels.” ■

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Pieps transceiver issues need accountability “PACK YOUR TRANSCEIVER, shovel and probe, and know how to use them.” This has been the credo for avalanche safety for as long as the equipment has existed.

Since I began ski touring almost 15 years ago, introductory avalanche education (i.e.

AST courses in Canada, AIARE courses in the U.S.) has become culturally accepted as a backcountry prerequisite. It’s now socially

BY VINCE SHULEY acceptable to not let a backcountry beginner come ski touring with you—no matter how hard they may shred—until they have taken that course, or at the very least, spent time with someone more experienced (in a controlled setting) to learn how to pull their

AVY AWARENESS The popular Pieps DSP Sport (pictured) and the DSP Pro transceivers are being criticized for having a faulty sliding switch. Pieps has claimed the transceiver functions to the appropriate standards and specifications.

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friends out of an avalanche burial.

This winter, added to this safety check, global ski-touring communities will likely be ensuring that no members of their group are using an older Pieps DSP Pro or DSP Sport transceiver.

What is prompting this? In a nutshell, the sliding switch mechanism on these transceivers is allegedly compromised. It has been anecdotally reported that when pressure is applied to the unit (either stowed inside or without the transceiver harness) the switch can move from the SEND mode to either SEARCH or OFF modes, essentially turning the transmit function off. The plastic lock mechanism that keeps the switch in place can allegedly develop cracks that allow the switch to move, though plenty of users of this transceiver have also been able to replicate the movement of the sliding switch (with applied pressure) leaving no visible damage to the unit. A number of YouTube videos from owners of this transceiver show this reported malfunction.

On Oct. 17, Vancouver law firm Rice Harbut Elliott LLP commenced a claim in the Supreme Court of British Columbia against Black Diamond Equipment Ltd., Clarus Corporation, Pieps GMBH and Pieps Canada

in a potential class-action lawsuit on behalf of all Canadians who have purchased one or more of the Black Diamond Recon BT; Black Diamond Guide BT; Pieps DSP Sport; Pieps DSP Pro; Pieps Powder BT; and Pieps Pro BT.

AN ULTIMATE FIELD TEST The latest example of this alleged malfunction came via social media earlier this week from Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG) Christina “Lusti” Lustenberger and pro skiers Nick McNutt and Ian McIntosh. While filming for the latest TGR ski film last March in the Duffey Lake area east of Pemberton, McNutt collided with a moving pocket of snow (one he had dislodged while skiing a pillow line), which sent him crashing into the trees near the bottom of his run. He came to rest fully buried under more than a metre of snow.

“It gave me a big sense of calm knowing who I was with, knowing that (the rest of the film crew and athletes) were all right there and ready to act,” said McNutt. “I obviously didn’t realize that my transceiver wasn’t transmitting.”

With no surface clues and no transceiver signal from the victim, the team members got out their probes and shovels and readied

for the dreaded probe line: a needle-in-ahaystack technique that combs an area in the hope that someone will strike the victim with their probe. One of the cinematographers luckily struck McNutt with his probe, which was quickly verified as a “human” strike, and a careful excavation ensued. The crew had him out in less than six minutes. “(The transceiver) had been switched into OFF mode due to whatever weird movements I experienced when I was hit by the snow,” said McNutt. “After the fact, we inspected the transceiver closely and it had no damage and appeared to be working perfectly fine. If that can happen, what’s to say it won’t happen anytime someone gets in an avalanche?”

McNutt and the film crew were experienced professionals and they had an ACMG guide with them assessing conditions.

Everyone on set felt good about the snowpack that day and a routine beacon check was carried out at the trailhead before heading out to the filming zone on snowmobiles. McNutt was unlucky with his crash, but the piece of equipment he needed to work at that moment didn’t work.

The size of the team that responded and the collective experience of that team is what saved his life. (At print deadline none

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Transceivers are meant as a lifeline in the event of a catastrophe. In this case, the transceiver failed with no signs of impact or duress and the lock button displayed no cracks, said McNutt.

“Afterward, I could have gone and sold it online and it looks like it’s working perfectly,” he said. “That’s really concerning.”

TAKING ACTION The question many are asking is: If it happened in March, why are we only hearing about this now?

“Immediately after Nick’s accident, we were put in contact with [Pieps’ parent company Black Diamond] and right from the get go, our crew felt strongly about removing this product from sale and issuing a product recall and public statement,” said Lustenberger. “Between all of us, but especially Nick, we spent around 20-plus hours of phone calls and emails with [Black Diamond] pushing for that objective.”

For a professional group of athletes, filmmakers and a ski guide all serving the same industry, this is the high road you want to take; give the company a chance to address any alleged issue, acknowledge the issue and take responsibility for it if warranted. Lustenberger did her homework.

She put a callout on the ACMG Informalex (a mountain guide forum and information sharing network community) and received 10 responses that highlighted alleged issues with the two Pieps DSP models in question. Those included accounts of the sliding switch moving into the SEND or OFF position, and accounts of the locking mechanism cracking.

“My decision was that come the fall, when it was nearing ski season, that was my time limit for giving [Black Diamond] the opportunity to make a move, get ahead of it and hopefully issue a recall,” said Lustenberger. “I needed to share this and get it off my chest. The rest of the team wanted it out there, too.”

Lustenberger’s recent Instagram post prompted the team at Black Diamond to organize a conference call with her and McNutt a few days later. Black Diamond wanted to work out a solution, but would not (or could not) commit to a product recall. Shortly thereafter, a public statement

was issued on the Pieps Instagram account with a video featuring Pieps VP of Quality Rick Vance. Vance demonstrates “proper inspection and use” of the Pieps DSP Pro and DSP Sport transceivers, urging users to inspect the lock button for cracks and to not force the slider while locked. If users find cracks or have forced the slider, his advice is to retire the beacon immediately.

McNutt and his team didn’t find the video particularly comforting.

‘IT PERFORMS TO OUR STANDARDS’ I emailed Pieps to give the company a chance to respond. On Friday, Oct.16, John Dicuollo, a public relations spokesperson for Pieps and Black Diamond called, and while he didn’t have answers to all my questions, he was willing to put me in touch with the engineers and quality assurance staff if I wanted to go deeper on the test data.

Here’s a summary of what I learned during our conversation: • The DSP Pro and DSP Sport transceivers still operate according to certifiable standards; • A product recall isn’t off the table, but product recalls don’t happen overnight from a global company with tens of thousands of units in circulation; • In addition to all the in-house product testing and quality assurance (QA) done by Pieps and Black Diamond, the actual certification for transceivers is handled by European third party standards organization ETSI; • Cracked lock buttons on Pieps DSP Pro and DSP Sport transceivers have been getting warrantied “for a while.”

“We are working on the solution, but right now, the data is telling us we don’t have a recallable device according to the standards set for the industry,” explained Dicuollo. “But we’re listening to the community and we know that it’s not necessarily just about data … it also has to do with confidence. We’re interested in the safety of all backcountry skiers and we’re taking it very seriously.”

A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH McNutt’s close call was earlier this year, but in 2017, an avalanche in the Hanging Lake area of the Callaghan Valley took the life of 32 year-old father Corey Lynam. He was wearing a Pieps DSP Sport transceiver, which he had plenty

of experience with, and his ski partners from that day verified he was transmitting when they left the parking lot that morning. After the avalanche came to rest and the rescue was initiated, Lynam’s transceiver emitted no signal. It had been inadvertently switched from SEND to OFF during the avalanche.

Lynam’s widow Brianne Howard sought answers. The transceiver was the subject of a third-party investigation and according to Black Diamond, was found to be working correctly. She hired lawyers to investigate whether a lawsuit was possible, but ultimately did not pursue legal action.

“I was a new single mother working fulltime and trying to make ends meet,” said Howard. “The thought of going after a big American company was too much to take on.”

Instead, in December 2017, she sent an official letter to Black Diamond president John Walbrecht and all the senior management, recounting the avalanche incident involving her late husband. She implored them to take this transceiver off the market and issue a recall so no one else would have to suffer the same fate.

“It never went anywhere,” said Howard. “They said they were sorry about what happened, that they’d do their own internal investigation and get back to me. I never heard back from them, they never followed up.”

Howard tried a more localized strategy, approaching retail stores with her story about this model of transceiver. But retail managers and buyers often tend to trust the word of sales reps more than their customers, so there was little attention given to Howard’s story.

“I was shocked by the reactions a lot of people had,” she said. “A lot of people would say, ‘It’s great, it’s one of our best-selling beacons.’

“I posted my story on social media groups but it was taken down multiple times. It was so frustrating and I felt helpless. But now that Nick (McNutt) has gone public with his accident, I’m happy to add my story to his.”

A LESSON LEARNED? With a PR crisis of monumental proportions on their hands, it will be interesting to see what the next move is from Black Diamond and Pieps. Design standards could probably use a comprehensive review, not just for Pieps, but for all transceiver manufacturers.

But that’s a reactive solution.

One root of the problem is in our retailsales culture. I worked at a backcountry gear

store in Whistler for about five years and I saw the attitude of some sales reps. They will listen to the concerns of retail associates, who are often great gear testers, and who will in turn hear concerns from the customers they serve. Sometimes those concerns are taken seriously and passed up the chain of command at the brand. But more often than not, the concerns are dismissed as some sort of statistical anomaly.

Last year, I was invited to a Black Diamond/Pieps product knowledge session (hosted by a local retailer) that showed off the impressive search-and-transmit functionality of the latest Black Diamond transceivers, which outperformed a handful of other transceivers on the market (note that the sliding mechanism has been updated and redesigned since the older DSP models). A local ACMG ski guide mentioned he had a fleet of older Pieps DSP transceivers (like the ones McNutt and Lynam used) and was seeing the sliders jam on almost every unit when guests were practising beacon drills.

Not exactly what you want to see during a life-or-death scenario. The sales rep looked surprised and said that Black Diamond absolutely stands behind its products and he would look into it. I doubt this point of concern went any further than that.

Global companies need to not just look to their warranty return rate, they need to listen to stories from the field (anecdotal or otherwise) and properly investigate them, especially when we’re talking about a lifeline device like an avalanche transceiver. The blame, of course, does not fall solely on sales reps or quality-assurance teams—it’s up to us as consumers to properly voice our concerns and not ignorantly carry on using defective devices. That’s best done directly to the brands rather than through social media vitriol. If everyone does their part, perhaps we can help avoid any more needless avalanche deaths due to equipment failure.

On Oct. 20, Pieps issued a statement via social media to owners of the DSP Sport/Pro to contact the company via email for an offer to upgrade to its latest models of transceivers.

No recall had been issued as of press time.

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The standard prompts a switch to lowcarbon fuels by setting limits on greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels. To meet it, fossil fuel suppliers can buy or generate credits by offering low-carbon alternatives, like biofuels from waste organics or electric vehicle charging stations. The clean fuel credit market is expected to attract investment in low-carbon fuel production and distribution in Canada.

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by 30 million tonnes by 2030. That’s the equivalent of taking seven million cars off the road and accounts for 15 per cent of Canada’s current emissions reduction target—more than can be achieved with any other single climate policy instrument.

Climate fires sweeping the American West Coast, affecting air quality throughout western North America and beyond, are a potent reminder that climate disruption is increasing the frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Climate change was a factor in most of the 7,000 extreme weather events over the past two decades, which claimed 1.23 million lives and caused nearly US$3 trillion in global economic losses—a major increase over the previous two decades, when 4,212 extreme weather events caused economic losses of US$1.63 trillion.

Industrial polluters have long relied on inflated claims about environmental regulation costs—and ignored the massive costs of inaction. We heard it decades ago when governments proposed reducing acid rain and phasing out chlorofluorocarbons to protect the ozone layer. Those regulations reduced pollutants and industry’s predicted doomsday cost scenarios were largely avoided.

The Economic Policy Institute, a nonprofit, non-partisan Washington, D.C. think tank, analyzed a dozen historical examples of U.S. emissions reduction regulations that industry opposed based on projected high costs. Across the board, compliance costs were routinely much lower than expected.

B.C.’s low-carbon fuel requirement has been in place since 2010, and the sky hasn’t fallen. It’s credited with delivering one quarter of B.C.’s emissions reductions

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Clean Energy Canada estimates the regulation could spur the need for up to 31,000 skilled workers to build, operate and supply new facilities.

Navigator, the PR firm engaged to develop an anti–clean fuel standard action plan, advises its unnamed clients to use a “counterpunch strategy”—to pay lip service to government’s climate agenda, wait for the clean fuel standard announcement, then orchestrate a hard pushback. Part of the scheme is to convince Canadians that “fighting climate change is a losing battle” by arguing action is too costly.

It’s dishonest. Energy companies—and the politicians they’re seeking to influence— know Canada must decarbonize the fuel supply to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

All the major federal political parties have pledged to meet or exceed Canada’s 2030 targets. The clean fuel standard is projected to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions

between 2007 and 2012, with limited impacts to consumers’ pocketbooks. As part of its CleanBC plan, the province recently announced further reductions to the carbon intensity of transportation fuels over the next decade using this instrument.

California, Oregon and the European Union have parallel policies. Their experience shows a clean fuel standard can reduce emissions, drive innovation and increase renewable alternatives’ availability.

Too often, industry opposition to environmental policies isn’t driven by facts but by vested interests. Climate action is in everyone’s interest. Government must stand firm on the policies needed to achieve timely emissions reductions. The sooner Canada adopts its clean fuel standard, the better.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Policy Analyst Lisa Gue. ■

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RANGE ROVER

Vote for climate WHETHER OR NOT British Columbia needs the election scheduled for this Saturday is a moot point. Ours is not to question why, ours is but to vote. And the numero uno consideration for choosing a candidate or party should be their stance on climate action. Why? First, because we haven’t just been hearing about climate change for decades now, but actually experiencing and coping with it (hello,

BY LESLIE ANTHONY wildfires; goodbye, Horstman T-bar!). And second, everything else—from the current pandemic to tourism to the viability of small business to educational opportunities and positioning for the future are intricately tied to our action on climate in the next few years.

I won’t draw out those connections for you, but they’re obvious enough that when you go to the polls you should keep in mind that “Business as Usual” is what got us into the current climate emergency, biodiversity crisis and pandemic messes, and BAU going forward is simply not an option. For example: to even make a dent in emissions, fossil fuel subsidies must end, renewables must not just be courted but embraced, and B.C.’s tiny remaining stands of old-growth forest must be left in place.

“I’m a non-partisan person who votes for what makes the most sense,” says Mike Douglas, chair of Protect Our Winters Canada.

“The world is a rapidly changing place and the science is clear that we have to act in

PROGRESSIVE POLICIES Mike Douglas (centre) and the Protect Our Winters crew at the Fridays for Future climate march in Vancouver in 2019.

FILE PHOTO BY CLARE OGILVIE

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the next decade to avoid the worst effects of climate change. With the environment intimately tied to the economy, to keep business moving in this town we need the most progressive representation possible.

After doing a ton of research, I’d say that’s the local Green candidate.”

I won’t be quite as blunt, but red (which is really blue in this province) is still very much an alarm colour to me, and orange isn’t quite as good as it looks. In fact, my choice is as clear as the colour of Whistler’s mountainsides—uh, between wildfire smoke events.

drought and water shortages; larger, more frequent wildfires; changes in streamflow patterns and lake levels; further rising sea levels and stronger storm surges; changing forest conditions; changes in plant and animal distributions; smaller snowpack and continued loss of glaciers; increasing ocean acidification.

Let’s take a look region by region.

The Coast will see continued ocean warming and acidification, with range changes for marine animals and the influx of invasive species and disease. Low salmon returns responsible for emaciated grizzlies

“With the environment intimately tied to the economy ... we need the most progressive representation possible.”

- MIKE DOUGLAS

In case you’re undecided, I’ve gathered data from B.C. government climate websites as a reminder of where we’re at and where things are going.

What’s Happened: data from 1900 to 2013 indicates B.C.’s average annual temperature has warmed by 1.4 °C, the average overnight minimum in winter by 3.1 °C; precipitation is up across the province; sea level has risen along most of the coast; lakes and rivers are now ice-free earlier in the spring; and the Fraser River’s lifeblood water is warmer than ever.

What’s Coming: warmer temperatures in all seasons; more frequent and intense heavy-rain events; changes in growing seasons for crops and gardens; increased

and killer whales will be exacerbated by “the blob,” a huge patch of warmer-thannormal water in the North Pacific (the blob first appeared in 2013, lasted through 2015, and after a two-year hiatus made a return in October 2018), as well as low-water in ancestral spawning streams due to drought.

Victoria and southern Vancouver Island can expect rising sea levels, more storms, wetter winters, drier summers, and increasing expansion of terrestrial invasive species.

Vancouver and the Lower Mainland will suffer increasingly variable weather that includes: increasing frequency of storms, increasing strength of storms with accompanying damage and risk to life and infrastructure, and increasing summer

drought, wildfires and water shortages.

With increasing temperatures will also come soaring air-conditioning costs, worsening smog and associated health problems, summer droughts followed by severe autumn rain events, and invasive species threatening forests and agriculture. Glacier melt will continue in all ranges, revealing unstable slopes. Higher winter rainfall and spring temperatures will increase the risk of natural disasters like debris flows and largescale landslides. (The Mt. Meager landslide in 2010 was the largest in Canadian history, and similar climate-driven slope destabilization triggered the collapse of Joffre Peak in 2019 that came within a few hundred metres of Highway 99.)

In the Okanagan and other agricultural areas, insect phenology (the time of appearance) is affecting crops: e.g., cherry growers might spray their annual insect control at a certain time, but if fruit flies emerge two weeks earlier because of a warming climate, the crop will be hammered. This also affects insectivorous birds that time their migrations through areas to coincide with insect emergence.

The Cariboo-Chilcotin is seeing increasing temperatures and drought, the result of which was the record-breaking, treasury-draining wildfires of 2017 and 2018.

Northern B.C. is experiencing the province’s highest rate of warming; this isn’t the good thing it seems as it’s bringing increased precipitation (Terrace just had its most miserable summer in memory).

The change to average freezing levels in the north since the 1980s is apparent in the historic loss of low-altitude ski areas in Terrace (Kitsumkalum), Kitimat (Hospital Hill), and Prince Rupert (Mt. Hay).

If all this has you seeing red and wondering why orange tastes a bit sour, maybe it’s time to vote Green. ■

We’re Hey, lucky in Whistler.

Mr. Invincible!

We don’t Wake up.have light pollution.

Drivers can’t But that means see you. we can’t see you.

Whistler Magazine is in the works for this winter’s 40th anniversary edition.

With alternate distribution regionally to Vancouver, on more stands in the Sea to Sky and still in some Whistler hotel rooms with our new 'safe' poly bag option.

Plus our new digital spotlight where every advertiser will have a profile page.

We have so many awesome stories and photos ready for this winter’s new normal! We will include some F.A.Q. elements like maps and ‘Covid Things to Do’.

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Thanks & Stay Well!

The foodbank has graciously received financial donations from so many compassionate, generous people and groups. In our attempt to acknowledge the help received, we missed a few and want to make sure we honour all those who contribute to the foodbank's essential service to community members and families in need.

• Edward Craddock

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• Royal Canadian Legion- Branch 201

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• Pemberton Women’s Institute

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• Porsche Club of America- Canada West

• Whistler Medical Marijuana

• George & Barbara Brooks

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LAND ACT: NOTICE OF INTENTION TO APPLY FOR A DISPOSITION OF CROWN LAND

Take notice that the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District from Pemberton, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forests Lands Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNROD), Surrey for a Statutory Right of Way situated on Provincial Crown land located at Britannia Beach, Parcel A, Except Part on Plan BCP10055, District Lot 891, Group 1 New Westminster, District Plan BCP7077.

The Lands File number for this application is 2412400. Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: 1)

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World Junior Nordic Ski Championships coming in 2023 TWO MAJOR EVENTS ON TAP IN LEAD-UP TO CONTEST

BY DAN FALLOON HEADING INTO HIS second winter in Canmore, Alta., Pemberton’s Joe Davies still hopes to retain some home track advantage at Whistler Olympic Park.

That’s because Whistler will be hosting its most significant Nordic skiing event since the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in 2023.

Earlier this month, the International Ski Federation (FIS) approved Canada’s bid to bring its World Junior and U23 Nordic Ski Championships to Whistler Olympic Park, organizers revealed on Oct. 19.

“It’s pretty exciting, for sure,” said Davies, who will be eligible to compete in the U23 age division. “I’m not living there anymore, but it still feels like my local area.

Hopefully it’ll be an advantage.”

The Black Tusk Nordic Events Society was officially formed last year with an eye to bringing the event to the Sea to Sky corridor, according to chair Norm Laube.

“It’s very exciting. The steering committee has been working towards this over the last several years,” he said.

It will be the third time that Canada has hosted the event and the first occurrence since Canmore, Alta. welcomed the

RISING UP Pemberton’s Joe Davies, a member of Canada’s junior development team, could be in contention when Whistler hosts the World Junior and U23 Nordic Ski Championships in 2023.

PHOTO BY DOUG STEPHEN

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championships in 1997. The championships will bring roughly 700 athletes from 50 countries to compete in cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined events.

Whistler sent two athletes to the 2020 event in Germany with Benita Peiffer and Michael Murdoch competing, while Davies, who was named to the national junior development team this spring, was an alternate.

Since Black Tusk formalized its committee about a year ago, it completed a feasibility study that included both the Resort Municipality of Whistler and District of Squamish as co-hosts, eventually making its submission to FIS in August.

Laube feels all the ducks are in a row, ranging from funding to volunteers on both the sport and hospitality fronts, which he said is one of the lasting legacies of the 2010 Games.

Over the winter, the committee reached out to all levels of government for hosting grants, and connected with the corporate community.

“And then, of course, COVID came and turned everything upside down,” said Laube.

“The good news for us is we thought we were far enough out for actually putting on the event in 2023 that everyone had hopes that … the main wave of COVID will have passed.

“It was a tough decision to make, to go ahead applying two-and-a-half years out, or do you just fold your tent? We felt it was worth pursuing and the world would be a better place two-and-a-half years from now.”

The park will also host two major events in the lead-up to the championships, with

the Canadian world championships trials coming this January and a Nordic Combined Continental Cup and FIS Ski Jumping Cup in December 2021 in order to prepare.

Roger Soane, president and CEO of Whistler Olympic Park operator Whistler Sport Legacies, credited Black Tusk for its hard work to land the event.

“They have done a great job in rallying everyone to get this thing up and running and to get the nomination,” he said. “We’re just the facility. Obviously, we want to host these things, but it takes a great organizing committee to pull it together as well.”

Soane anticipates some minor tweaks to the park in advance of hosting the championships.

“The biggest challenge in putting these games on will be in the ski jumping. That’s the one area that needs the most sophisticated equipment. The ski jumps at that point will be almost 15 years old, so we know that there are some upgrades that need to be done there,” he said, noting the timing system and chairlift as two areas that will need some work.

Soane added that there are no plans to utilize the ski jumps this winter, so there will be time to complete any necessary work before the December 2021 test event.

Added Laube: “The jumps and the cross-country ski trails as they stand today are fully homologated.

“That said, the jumps in particular could use some fine tuning and so we’re budgeting some dollars for doing that.”

In terms of this winter’s world trials, Laube said the ongoing pandemic has thrown

a wrench into some plans, though organizers remain in close contact with provincial health authorities and are currently anticipating running races with 50-person limits while also ensuring that the park can continue to run its public operations.

“The big question is whether interprovincial travel for the athletes will be allowed in January. We’re seeking an exemption [from quarantine] for that, working very closely with viaSport on that,” he said. “We’re working collaboratively to make that happen.”

After the championships come and go in just over two years, Laube said Black Tusk would remain committed to keeping the venues up to date and ready in case the Olympics come calling again. The park was mentioned as a possibility to host ski jumping and Nordic combined as part of an abandoned Calgary-led bid, though some, including Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee president and CEO John Furlong, have floated Vancouver as a possibility as soon as 2030.

“It would be an amazing thing if that were to happen again,” Laube said.

For more on the event, visit blacktusknordic.com.

As for Davies, he’s entering his final season as a junior as a newly minted member of the national development team.

In the midst of the pandemic, he said while the atmosphere is sometimes “weird,” he and his teammates are trying to stick to regular training as much as possible.

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O’Rourke captures golf pro of the year honours FAIRMONT CHATEAU WHISTLER PRO RECOGNIZED BY PGA OF BC

BY DAN FALLOON IN WHAT WAS a challenging summer for golf professionals across the province, as was the case for those in myriad industries, Padraic O’Rourke of the Chateau Fairmont Whistler Golf Course managed to set himself apart.

On Oct. 14, O’Rourke took home the Dick Munn Golf Professional of the Year Award at the PGA of BC Awards Celebration.

“It’s great to get recognized by your peers, for sure,” said O’Rourke, who tuned in to the virtual ceremony from the Fairmont.

“In the province, we have so many good golf professionals and it feels really good.”

While he wasn’t entirely sure what might have set him apart, O’Rourke said he not only takes part in numerous association events, getting to know other pros on the links, but also truly looks to advance the careers of up-and-comers and the game itself.

“I’ve been in Canada for over seven years and I’ve worked at networking within the region. I’m always there to help other professionals if they need a bit of advice, I help assistants with their resumes when they’re applying for jobs outside of my own club,” he said.

This summer at the Fairmont, O’Rourke described a season that saw a change in focus after the COVID-19 pandemic struck and Whistler’s status as a bustling international tourism hub ground to a halt.

“It was interesting without the border [open], for sure, and without our big corporate groups,” he said. “The big advantage was our members had more access to the tee sheet than ever before.

They got to play more golf and that was definitely a huge positive for us.

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XC SKI SWAP The Whistler Nordics annual ski SWAP is happening!

AWARD WINNER Padraic O’Rourke of the Chateau

Fairmont Whistler took home the PGA of BC’s Dick Munn Golf Professional of the Year Award on Oct. 14.

SKI SWAP THIS WEEKEND On the local level, Whistler Nordics will host its annual ski swap in a COVID-19-friendly manner this Saturday, Oct.24.

Taking place at the Whistler Creekside underground lots, the swap will open at 11 a.m. for club members and at noon for the general public, running until 2 p.m.

“Our swap is going to be geared towards members first, so we do encourage people to sign up and be part of the Nordic community,”

Purchase used cross country and *backcountry ski gear or sell your used equipment. Local retailers will also attend with great deals.

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This also translated into plenty of new members over the summer, said O’Rourke.

“It was busy, for sure. I gave a lot of lessons this year because we didn’t have the big groups.”

This year, the clubhouse absorbed employees from the hotel to keep those workers active, O’Rourke said, and everyone pulled their weight. He credited superintendent Dan Nash and assistant Matt McColeman for keeping the course in strong shape.

“They did a phenomenal job. It’s the best condition I’ve ever seen the course,” he said.

Should the pandemic continue well into 2021, O’Rourke is confident that the club will put forth an even better offering.

“We’ll be better prepared for next year, for tapping into that Vancouver market a little more,” he said. “We’ll be prepared for next summer when it looks like it’s going to be a very similar season to what 2020 was.”

Whistler Golf Club’s Alan Kristmanson was also nominated for the Cec Ferguson Executive Professional of the Year Award. ■

WORLD JUNIORS FROM PAGE 39 “It was like any other summer, pretty much,” he said.

That said, Davies has enjoyed more individual coaching since coming under the Nordiq Canada banner, and even got on snow earlier this week as the Canmore Nordic Centre has Frozen Thunder, snow stored from last winter.

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said club president Tony Peiffer.

Peiffer is excited for the coming winter, noting on Oct. 16 that this year’s registration numbers were roughly equal to the 2019-20 season, at around 220 members, with weeks left to go before the campaign set to begin.

“It’s going gangbusters. We can’t get enough coaches,” he said.

Peiffer added that the club is building on its partnership with Sea to Sky Nordics to offer masters and high-performance programs, with Sea to Sky supporting Whistler’s masters programming and, on the flip side, Whistler supporting Sea to Sky’s high-performance offerings. Whistler also has an arrangement with Spud Valley Nordics.

“We just want to get members to come out regardless of which club they’re affiliated with,” Peiffer said.

For more information, visit whistlernordics.com. ■

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Resort Municipality of Whistler NOTICE OF INTENTION TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE UNDER A PARTNERING AGREEMENT Pursuant to section 24 of the Community Charter, Council of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) proposes to provide safety improvements, noise and dust abatement works adjacent to the Cheakamus Crossing neighbourhood.

NATURE OF PARTNERING AGREEMENT: LAND IMPROVEMENTS INTENDED RECIPIENT:

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TERM:

2020-2021

EXTENT:

WITHIN OR ADJACTENT TO ALPINE PAVING TENURE AREA ADJACENT TO CHEAKAMUS CROSSING NEIGHBOURHOOD

The RMOW would be providing safety improvements, noise and dust (airborne particulate matter) abatement works along the access road into the gravel quarry and asphalt plant tenure area located adjacent to the Cheakamus Crossing neighbourhood.

Brooke Browning Municipal Clerk

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We are sorry to announce the sudden passing of

BRIAN WAYNE SHERK

LOCAL EXPERTS GLOBAL REACH

Brian Sherk is survived by his loving wife Dianne, their six children and eight grandchildren.

He was born in 1949 and passed away on October 7th, 2020.

Brian worked in Whistler for over 25 years in the building supply industry.

He was an avid fisherman and loved the outdoors.

“Those we love don’t go away They walk beside us everyday Unseen, unheard but always near So loved, so missed, so very dear.”

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STRANGE SEASON Natalie Corless (shown completing an FIL World Cup doubles run with Caitlin Nash) is prepared for a long season of training primarily at the Whistler Sliding Centre in 2020-21.

FILE PHOTO BY DAN FALLOON

Luge athletes ready for anything 2020-21 SEASON APPROACHES WITH SOME UNCERTAINTY

BY DAN FALLOON CANADA’S NATIONAL LUGE team will spend much of the season on home ice at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

Earlier this month, Luge Canada announced that its senior team would forgo the four pre-Christmas World Cup races.

“Over the past few weeks, we have weighed all of our options and risks that may arise while travelling with this team of athletes throughout Europe,” Luge Canada’s high-performance director Sam Edney said in a release. “These athletes are a young group, and obviously, quarantine restrictions complicate things for us in bringing them home for the holiday break, so we felt the safest thing to do is to stay home, and train on one of the top tracks in the world in our own backyard.”

Canadian athletes are currently slated to start the season at Konigssee, Germany on Jan. 2 and 3, skipping the next week’s race at Sigulda, Latvia to stay at the track to train for World Championships at the same track later in the month, before rejoining the circuit for stops at Oberhof, Germany and Igls, Austria before World Champs. The season will end in China at the Olympic test event near Beijing.

For Whistler’s Reid Watts, currently the only male competitor on the senior team, the time on home soil is appreciated.

“It’s such a weird situation right now and either way we take it, I’m happy that we get the chance to race this year,” he said. “Missing out on the first half of the season, I actually think it’s good time for us to have at home.”

One major benefit of the team’s extended time in Whistler will be to perfect its sleds with new assistant coach Duncan Kennedy, who excels on the technical side.

“No matter what, big or small, it always takes time to dial it down and make sure it’s running fast,” Watts said.

In terms of Olympic qualifying,

meanwhile, the intensity doesn’t ramp up until the 2021 portion season anyway, with 2021-22 being the most significant period.

As for junior athletes, Luge Canada will determine the course of action for 2021 in late December.

Natalie Corless, who made her World Cup debut with Caitlin Nash in Whistler last year, becoming the first female athletes to line up in doubles, expects to be part of the junior program this season.

“The senior team is going to be quite small just because of restrictions for travel and they just want us to be as safe as possible,” said Corless, who turns 17 next month. “Right now, the way it’s looking is that I’m going to be with the juniors again this year.”

Corless anticipates the bulk of the season will be training at the Whistler Sliding Centre, and she has been told that there is the possibility of heading to Europe for training in the New Year.

She appreciates the opportunity to work closely alongside the senior team members for the several weeks they will all be at the track together.

“It will be a good opportunity to learn from them and we’ll be able to get into their environment,” said Corless.

There will be a little bit of competition as part of the season. In addition to the national events, Luge Canada is set to host a pair of Junior World Cup events exclusively for Canadian athletes from Dec. 8 to 13.

Corless, who won the youth ‘A’ women’s singles Crystal Globe and, alongside Nash, the women’s doubles Crystal Globe in 201819, will miss the international competition this year, but understands why it’s necessary.

Being on her home track of Whistler, Corless will be able to fine tune the basics while also further improving her doubles familiarity with Nash.

“At first, I was a little disappointed,” she said. “It’s going to be good to step back and be able to develop our skills again.

“At least we still get the opportunity to come back in the future even stronger.” n

Resort Municipality of Whistler 2021 Bid Opportunities for Infrastructure Capital Projects

1. Alta Lake Rd Sewer upgrade - E320-07-2020 • installation of sewer gravity main • Pre-bid public site meeting: Tuesday, October 20 - 2 p.m.

2. Alta Vista neighbourhood services upgrade – E320-E205-T001-2020

• Includes water, sewer, storm, valley trail upgrades

• Pre-bid public site meeting: Wednesday, October 28 – 1:30 p.m.

3. Sewer Lift stations Upgrades – E301-2020

• Includes odor control and electrical upgrades at three sewer pump

stations including: Crabapple, Spruce Grove, and Nicklaus North

lift stations.

4. Pressure reducing valve station upgrades – E204-2020

• Includes demolition of three sites and upgrade of three sites

• Pre-bid public site meeting: TBD 5. West Side of Fitzsimmons Sewer upgrade – E320-02-2020

• Upgrades of three man holes and sewer mains on west side of

Fitzsimmons Creek.

Work includes: Civil construction, mechanical, and electrical upgrades on sewer, water, road, and storm systems.

The bid packages for these projects will be posted between December 2020 and March 2021. See link for bidding opportunities at whistler.ca/bid.

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Rise of the Revivers: Part 2 IT’S JUST A T-SHIRT. IT’S NOT JUST A T-SHIRT WHEN LISA SAMBO, the Director of the N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre, returned last June to her home in D’Arcy, she was carrying medicine for her community and a big bundle of overwhelm.

The 1,000-person conference on Indigenous language revitalization knew this was the fate of language champions and revivers— that the mountain feels impossibly high, or, as keynote speaker Dr. Lorna Williams would later share at the UN Conference

BY LISA RICHARDSON in Paris, “the work is like trying to put together a mirror that has been shattered into a million pieces.”

Sambo also learned at HELISET TŦE SḰÁL that one of the top five things you can do to revitalize your language is to learn a greeting and use it with everyone you meet.

She committed to try this one thing.

She is not a fluent speaker. Her mother lost her language and culture at residential school. So, Sambo opened the First Voices language app, and copied out the greetings on sticky notes, and stuck them to the surfaces all around her desk. Áma Sq’it!

Good day. Kúkwstum’ckacw. Thank you.

K’alhwá7alap? How are you folks?

She began to use an Ucwalmícwts greeting when she answered the phone. “No one knew I was looking at my cheat sheets,” she said. The telephone didn’t have caller ID—she couldn’t screen—she greeted people in Ucwalmícwts without discriminating. “I’d

LANGUAGE LOVE LEFT: Words on language

revitalization landed like a love-bomb in Lisa Sambo’s lap, and she turned them into sticky notes and daily reminders to step outside her comfort zone. RIGHT: Wanosts’a7 Dr Lorna Williams’, pictured here speaking at the HELISET TTE SḰÁL ‘Let the Languages Live’ conference in June 2019.

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fumble the phrases like a toddler.”

She’d hear an awkward pause at the other end of the line, a “maybe I dialled the wrong number” pause. Or she’d hear a response from a St’át’imcets person— "Ay.” (Meaning yes, all right!) Or she’d hear something else in the pause, in the space between what can be said, and what is actually said … Shame. Sadness. A longing.

A lament. And she’d breathe into that.

A gentle woman, she’d talk to herself gently, trying to coax her wild self out of its corner: You’re building a muscle. She’d allow her pronunciation to be corrected.

She’d listen to the First Voices app over and over again. She kept putting herself out there.

“I started doing it outside the office, around N’Quatqua, with people I know.

And then at Lil’wat Gas Station, with people I didn’t already know. Then I started doing it in the Pemberton Valley Grocery store with St’át’imcets elders, and then at Stay Wild, with the people there, because I love them. And when I say, Kúkwstum’ckacw, I am thanking them dearly. So then I felt super brave, because I did it at Stay Wild with sort of strangers … ” Because she was never just saying hello, it’s good to see you, thank you. She was practising saying, “We are not totally dead and broken and our language is not completely gone.”

There were times her courage faltered.

“I’d say hello or thank you in English, and I felt ashamed.” So she’d congratulate herself for noticing that emotion, and kept on coaching: “If you want language to come back, you need to be proud. Let that colonization and intergenerational trauma go.” More breaths.

A year after the conference that gave her her marching orders, Sambo had funding for language work that couldn’t be used in the way initially envisioned, due to COVID19. The community had been extremely careful, protecting its elders, supporting each other with food, physical distancing, asking non-residents to stay out of the

region, keeping apart from each other.

Sambo was missing people. Missing connection. Missing walking with friends and hugging people hello. What if, she thought, we could print a greeting on a T-shirt, and give a T-shirt to every community member, the 200 who live at N’Quatqua and the 200 who live elsewhere. What if they could choose the shirt, the colour, the style, so it looked good and felt good and they’d want to wear it? What if it had no logo, just a greeting?

Just a phrase: Áma s7at’sxentsína written on the front of the T-shirt. 'It’s good to see you,' written across the heart.

“And if you read between the lines, it really means, I love you! I’m out of my house! I’d really like to smoosh you with a huge hug. But it’s good to see you,” laughed Sambo. “And the phrase is in the First Voices app, so I’m not setting people up for failure. It’s an invitation to play with it, like kids play with sticks and rocks. And we can make it fun, not heavy or sad or unattainable.”

She imagined this heartfelt greeting: it is good to see you, emblazoned on people’s bodies, all over St’át’imcets territory, prompting people to practice, to fumble, to give voice to a beautiful language that is not dead, not broken, not gone. “I hope it does good things. I hope there’s some healing within St’át’imcets territory, and a sense of pride and playfulness.”

There is a gap that exists between your great ideas, sketched out in your head or on a piece of paper, and societal transformation.

Sambo has been sitting in that gap. Each Thursday, she phones Albert at Urstore, where they’d set up the T-shirt offering, to see how many people have ordered their shirt. She has budget to provide a free shirt for 400 community members. But the numbers are low. Albert suggested offering only white ink, to reduce costs. Sambo bounced this idea off a few people. “They were not in favour of this,” she said. “They had taken the time to choose their colours.”

Instead of just giving her a number, Albert sent her a spreadsheet of the

T-shirts ordered. “I got to see the names and people’s choices—fabric type, colour, size, ink colour.” It made her smile—see possibility instead of disappointment.

Seeing power in the colour choices people had made. She saw the story behind the number … all the stories of people thinking about what they want to write across their hearts, and how.

She spoke with a quiet gentleman who mostly greets her with a nod, and yes, he was interested in her T-shirt offer. They worked through his preferences so she could log his order, as they walked.

Green.

What shade of green?

Lime green. With white writing. White for snow. For light. For hope.

A quiet man, not a man of words, Sambo could see his agency, his spirit, in those choices. He is known for going up into the mountains. In that space that she held, Excel spreadsheet on her desk tracking people’s hearts and all the ache and hope they contain, he could step towards that great greeting: it is good to see you. And be seen. “He spoke to me in Ucwalmícwts,” said Sambo. “He told me his Ucwalmícwts name. He expressed sadness that people don’t understand him when he speaks Ucwalmícwts to them.” Perhaps, by wearing the T-shirt, that will give people permission, will be an opening.

In Ucwalmícwts, the word for family, community, gathering and nature is the same: snu’kwnu’kwa7.

The root of that word is nuk: to help and be helped.

That kind of wisdom is something the world needs right now. These are the words we need. That need to be spoken out loud. That warrant all of us fumbling towards.

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Cool science in your warm kitchen FROM OOZY OOBLECK TO EXPERIMENTS YOU CAN EAT, THIS COMING WINTER CALLS FOR FUN WE NEED 10-YEAR-OLDS for all kinds of reasons. They’re funny. They’re smart.

And they know about all kinds of cool things like oobleck.

It was at one of our safely distanced picnics this wonderful, golden fall that Noah, my 10-year-old great-nephew (greatnephew, as in son of my nephew, Lee, although he’s definitely a great nephew, too) introduced us all to oobleck.

BY GLENDA BARTOSH For me, the whole event nicely illustrated how Noah is a true Bartosh, taking after his great-grandad in his enthusiasm for science and discovery. In the grander scheme, I loved how Noah’s excitement about oobleck centred on the crazy fun of it as much as the fact it’s made from simple ingredients. For if anything is going to get us through this long, boring pandemic-style winter rolling in, it’s going to be a sense of fun and discovery with a big dollop of simplicity.

After all, how many Netflix shows and virtual Zoom events can you pile on, anyway, before glazing over? So let’s get to that real-life oobleck …

MAKING FOOD FUN Nathan Johnson Graham,

a.k.a. Unspeakable, and his assistant Kayla. They’re making 10,000 pounds of oobleck using 23-kilogram bags of bulk cornstarch in a wading pool.

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Noah learned about oobleck watching one of his favourite YouTubers, 22-year-old Nathan Johnson Graham from Texas, better known as Unspeakable. Nathan’s a loveable, high-energy prankster kind of guy.

Moms love him because he doesn’t swear. But what I like about his projects— besides the fact they’re fun and use everyday stuff—is how they hover around art and science. Like Unspeakable wrapped an entire house in bubble wrap, à la that famous husband/wife duo known for their huge-scale environmental art interventions, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Their first wellknown project back in the ’60s entailed wrapping a million square feet of coastal cliffs near Sydney, Australia, in erosioncontrol fabric. It took four weeks and 17,000 manpower hours to do it, and all the fabric was recycled.

While Noah and his mom just used a bowl of cornstarch and about a quarter cup of water to make oobleck, and mixed it up with their hands, Unspeakable and Kayla, his assistant, used an inflatable wading pool and needed paddles and, eventually, their feet to mix thousands of pounds of oobleck. (Note: If you handle cornstarch when it’s totally dry, it’s amazingly silky and beautiful. “I’ve never wanted to be a baker more in my life,” says Kayla as she runs her hands through a giant sack of it.)

But here’s the crazy thing about oobleck—it defies traditional boundaries between liquids and solids. Like Unspeakable discovered when they made their pool full of it, it can be all oozy and gooey, or grab you like quicksand. Noah and his mom discovered a similar contradiction.

“When you go really fast, do impact on it, like if you punch or slap it, it reacts as a solid. But if you go nice and gentle, it’s slime,” says Noah.

You can add food colouring to your oobleck and make it colourful, and once you’re done playing with it, you can leave it to harden as a solid and toss it in your organics bin, or just add lots more water and wash it away.

COKE-POWERED ROCKETS Fireworks banned this year in your neighbourhood for Halloween? No prob.

Noah’s got more experimental fun you can try.

For this one you need a two-litre bottle of Diet Coke, a roll of Mentos peppermints, and lots of space outside that doesn’t matter if you make a mess and where you and your pals can run for cover.

All you do is carefully unscrew the bottle of Coke, drop in the Mentos superfast, then screw the lid back on and shake it up. The more Mentos you add the higher your rocket will go. Once you’ve got it all shaken up, toss it as high as you can straight up in the air — then run like heck before it lands. Once the bottle hits the ground, the cap usually breaks off, then the bottle will fly six to nine metres into the air, propelled like a rocket.

Be prepared—it makes a mess. All the better if it already snowed. The results will be even more exciting as all that brown Coke makes a spontaneous drawing on the beautiful snow canvas.

Don’t forget to eat the rest of the

Mentos, and wear your mask when you’re near your pals!

KITCHEN EXPERIMENTS MEANT FOR EATING For more fun in the kitchen this winter or anytime, Vicki Cobb has created one of the best books any kid or kid-at-heart will enjoy: Science Experiments You Can Eat. Her Mango Egg Yolks, for instance, teach us the basics of molecular gastronomy—the food trend that applies the basics of chemistry and physics— plus you’ll have yummy results you and your friends can enjoy. (Pass them around on a cookie sheet to keep your distance.)

Her fun book also teaches you about buffers, and how and why colour changes in chlorophyll when you cook spinach, and what’s really going on when you whip egg whites (that nine per cent protein in the whites is what gets them to whip up into shapes).

Another great book for kitchen fun is National Geographic’s Edible Science: Experiments You Can Eat. From Baked Alaska where ice cream is insulated in the oven using that meringue mentioned above to colour-changing cookies, you’ll have loads of fun playing with your food while learning real scientific principles.

Who knows? Maybe you’ll even be inspired to invent your own names for what you make and discover. I’m sure you’ll find a tasty match for Unspeakable’s “oobleck.”

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Live music, a super-secret location, and an elaborate tent CALGARY SINGER-SONGWRITER MICHAEL BERNARD FITZGERALD PERFORMS IN WHISTLER (OR SOMEWHERE NEAR THE RESORT) ON OCT. 25

BY ALYSSA NOEL EVEN BEFORE the pandemic hit in midMarch, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald had a COVID-friendly concert idea.

“Back in January as I was finishing up this album Love Valley, I was thinking it would be nice to tour these songs in a different way and to play them in a different setting,” he said. “This idea of travelling around with the venue, I thought it was interesting, based on all the years I’ve done of travelling already.”

When the world shut down, he sat on that album for a short time, but ultimately decided 2020 would be the year to release it.

“I decided to put out the music and revisit the tent concept,” he said.

And that was how the Calgary singersongwriter spent his summer: performing for small cohorts under an elaborate tent in his backyard.

“I played 58 shows from June 3 until the end of August in my backyard,” he says. “Five days a week, with an average of six people a night, then six days, some weeks seven days, playing for people in this beautiful tent.”

It turns out, Calgarians had a pent-up

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appetite for live music in a safe setting; the entire summer’s worth of shows sold out in less than five hours.

“It’s been my favourite adventure as a performer,” Fitzgerald says. “It combines a lot of my favourite things. It’s a house concert, but we put a beautiful little PA set up in the tent, then the song starts and it’s like a concert hall, mini-theatre.”

After the success in his own backyard,

to go for a slow drive in the country or on the highway,’” he says. “That’s what it’s for.”

Only 20 tickets are released, with seating under the tent in cohorts, and guests aren’t notified of the exact location of the show until the morning of (they are, however, assured it’s within a maximum 45-minute drive of the town listed).

“We did that for a couple reasons,” he

“I tell people, ‘This is the right record to go for a slow drive in the country or on the highway.’

That’s what it’s for.”

- MICHAEL BERNARD FITZGERALD

Fitzgerald has decided to take that concept on the road across Western Canada. (Plans to visit Quebec and Ontario have been put on hold due to a surge in COVID-19 numbers.)

The twist: in keeping with the inspiration of his new album—a collection of warm, shimmering, acoustic-driven tracks that land somewhere between the vibe of Nick Drake and Jack Johnson—the “Farm Tour” is setting up on private farms or rural areas.

“I tell people, ‘This is the right record

says. “No. 1, I thought it’d be fun to add that element of fun. Having a little fun this year is probably a good idea. No. 2, it would buy us more time to find locations.”

Fitzgerald and his team personally called landowners or farmers to pitch the unconventional idea—which took some time. “Sometimes it was a contact of a contact—or a brand new call. ‘We have this idea, can we set up on your land?’ You can imagine all the different reactions we got to that concept.”

On top of hunting down venues, setting up the tent for three hours, performing for two hours, and then tearing down for another two hours is a massive undertaking, but one Fitzgerald says is worthwhile.

At a time when most musicians aren’t touring, it also helps promote his new album, which was largely recorded in Calgary with help from his producer friend Josh Rob Gwilliam.

“We did go to Memphis to record one song and saxophone and to Nashville to record one song and peddle steel,” he adds.

“Even the Calgary stuff [we recorded], when that March 15, 16 timeframe hit, we would’ve been stopped right there. I’m so thankful that was the case [that it was done].”

Fitzgerald will be playing songs from that album in Whistler (or the surrounding area) on Sunday, Oct. 25. While tickets are sold out, there are still a few available for Vancouver on Halloween.

And don’t worry, he plans to return to the Sea to Sky corridor next year as well.

(Sign up for his newsletter to keep abreast of that.) Despite the fact that he’s shared the stage with everyone from Ben Harper to Sam Roberts and Kings of Leon, there’s something appealing about those smaller shows.

“The nice thing is, if the tent has to reduce in size, it will. If it can grow in size, that will be the case,” he says. “We’ll take it day by day.”

For more, visit michaelbernardfitzgerald.com/. n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL LAST YEAR, Kylie T Millar had a piece featured in the unconventional Arts Whistler exhibit, Off The Wall.

As the name hints, it featured pieces of art plucked from the walls of Arts Whistler staff members.

“What I found the most interesting about the show was their opinion about the artwork and the stories that they were told about those works,” Millar says. “Whether it was how they found it or stories from the artists, I was just thinking about how much more context really does help a viewer, especially one that isn’t trained in art history. When you can listen to somebody speak about it, it creates more of a connection for the audience. I really liked that idea.”

It turned out, Imogen Osborne, programs and events coordinator with Arts Whistler, brought in one of Millar’s pieces for the show and her description of it was different from what Millar intended but “I was intrigued by it. I thought it was so great,” she says.

That inspiration—coupled with the widespread, ongoing Inktober challenge in which artists are given a word to spark a drawing each day in October—gave her an idea for a show to pitch to Arts Whistler.

“There have been a lot of different things happen in 2020.”

- IMOGEN OSBORNE

“I wanted to combine those two ideas— someone thinking of a word, working in their own medium, and showing how they interpret it [in a] piece. And then bringing some context to that as well to show how it evolved throughout the process,” Millar says.

Arts Whistler liked the idea of giving artists words to interpret in their work.

But then a global pandemic happened— and that got them re-thinking what words to choose.

“We didn’t want to mention specific events,” says Osborne. “We just wanted people to think about their own experiences of 2020 in relation to the question: what inspires you to evolve and move forward?”

As part of preparing for the exhibit, Think-It-Over, which opens at The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre, on Oct. 29, Arts Whistler sent out a survey to pose that question to the community and find

SPELL IT OUT Kylie T Millar’s painting interpreting the word “Justice.”

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out what one-word answers they would respond with.

The results were wide ranging, including “potential,” “resilience,” “justice,” “intimacy,” “humility,” and “learning.”

“Now, the artists are creating pieces with that question and the words at the same time,” Osborne says.

Four artists—Millar, Jessica Soparlo, Catherine Mitchell Roy, and Alli van Gruen—have created a piece for each word, while additional artists from the community have submitted a smaller selection.

“I think it’s a little broader than just the pandemic,” Osborne says. “There have been a lot of different things happen in 2020. We wanted it to be a broad cross-section of the experiences of the four featured artists and the community artists without nailing down their thinking to one particular thing.”

Millar, who lives in Pemberton and is best known for her unique encaustic wax art, said her submissions started out as word maps.

“I’m still putting the final touches on my works,” she says. “Some of [the words] I had immediate connections to and some I didn’t.

That’s exactly what I wanted. I didn’t want it to be easy. I wanted it to be a challenge.”

Another challenge is hosting an exhibit during a pandemic. Arts Whistler already has one show under its belt, so safety protocols are sorted out, Osborne says.

However, they’ve had to reinvent how to celebrate a show’s opening.

“There isn’t going to be an opening party, but we do have some cool virtual things happening online,” she says. “We’ll have a virtual tour like the Anonymous Art Show, we’ve done some spotlight blogs on all the featured artists that we’ll be releasing throughout the first four weeks of the exhibit on Thursday, and a few other things in the works we’re almost ready to announce.”

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BY ALLYN PRINGLE SOME OF THE MOST memorable images of advertising by both Whistler and Blackcomb mountains come from the posters the two companies produced in the 1980s and 1990s. It is not unusual for the Whistler Museum to be contacted by someone trying to track down that last Saudan Couloir Ski Race Extreme poster for their personal collection, or hoping to find a copy of Whistler Mountain’s 20th anniversary poster of the flying Volkswagen.

In 2015, Mike Hurst, previously the vicepresident of marketing, shared stories from behind the scenes of some of Whistler Mountain’s memorable posters.

Posters were a relatively inexpensive and, based on how popular they continue to be today, effective form of advertising. Both Whistler and Blackcomb worked with Brent Lynch (the artist behind most of the Saudan Couloir posters, the flying Volkswagen, and many more) to create some of their most beloved posters. According to Hurst, though, there was usually at least one thing about the posters that he and Lynch didn’t agree on: the promotional tagline.

Lynch wanted the art on the poster to represent itself, without any marketing language to distract from the message of the art; Hurst wanted every poster to include a promotional line that would be remembered by those who saw it. As Hurst put it, “I won on getting the promotional line, but he won by trying to bury it as softly as he could so you couldn’t read it.” Despite this claim, you don’t have to look too closely to find the tagline on at least one of Hurst and Lynch’s posters featuring Whistler’s mother.

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to find a way to say, as cheaply as possible, that Whistler was the superior mountain to Blackcomb. He had an idea of Whistler’s mother skiing down the mountain, riding the gondola and the lifts, and, after checking with Kastle, Whistler Mountain’s suppliers, Lynch created the image of artist James McNeill Whistler’s mother riding the Red Chair.

Hurst gives his wife credit for coming up with the promotional line “Whistler, Mother always loved you best,” that was included on the poster. Blackcomb Mountain had been advertising their long runs and their status as a “Mile High Mountain” and so Hurst was glad to sneak this poster in on them.

Not all of the posters Whistler Mountain produced in the 1980s were created by Lynch. The first poster for the Ski Scamps program featured a photograph of three children with skis, on top of snow, obviously dressed for a day in Ski Scamps. What you might not know from looking at the poster is that Whistler Mountain didn’t have much money for a photo shoot, the children are Hurst’s three children, the ski clothes were borrowed, and it was shot on Grouse Mountain. Apparently. they had planned to shoot on a sunny day in Whistler but each time Hurst called to check the weather, Whistler had fog. As the deadline for the advertising campaign approached, Hurst reached out to Gary Kiefer at Grouse and asked to “borrow his mountain.”

We have many posters in the archives from the 1970s through the 1990s, ranging from World Cup races to Music in the Mountains advertisements, but surprisingly few from the past 20 years. The posters are a great example of what events were happening in Whistler, what milestones the area was commemorating, and what art styles were popular at the time, and we are always looking to add to the collection. n

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Your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries, is to refine and deepen your own hunger.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Renata Adler expresses my own feelings when she writes, “Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.”

I bet if you’re honest, Taurus, you would say the same.

It’s almost certainly the case that the people you regard as worthy of your love and interest are absolutely unique.

In the sense that there are no other characters like them in the world, they are superstars and prodigies. I bring this to your attention because now is an excellent time to fully express your appreciation for their oneof-a-kind beauty—to honour and celebrate them for their entertainment value and precious influence and unparalleled blessings.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If you cannot find an element of humour in something, you’re not taking it seriously enough,” writes author Ilyas Kassam. That’s a key thought for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Levity and joking will be necessities, not luxuries.

Fun and amusement will be essential ingredients in the quest to make good decisions. You can’t afford to be solemn and stern, because allowing those states to dominate you would diminish your intelligence. Being playful—even in the face of challenges—will ensure your ultimate success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m hoping the horoscopes I wrote for you in late August helped propel you into a higher level of commitment to the art of transformation.

In any case, I suspect that you will have the chance, in the coming weeks, to go even further in your mastery of that art. To inspire you in your efforts, I’ll encourage you to at least temporarily adopt one or more of the nicknames in the following list: 1. Flux Luster 2. Fateful Fluctuator 3. Shift Virtuoso 4. Flow Maestro 5. Alteration Adept 6. Change Arranger 7. Mutability Savant 8.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too,” wrote author Anne Morrow Lindbergh. “If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one’s own core, is one connected to others.” In bringing these thoughts to your attention, Leo, I don’t mean to imply that you are out of touch with your deep self. Not at all. But in my view, all of us can benefit from getting into ever-closer communion with our deep selves. In the coming weeks, you especially need to work on that—and are likely to have extra success in doing so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My cosmic tipsters told me that you will be even smarter than usual in the coming weeks. As I scoured the heavenly maps, I detected signs that you have the potential to be a skilled code-cracker, riddle-decipherer, and solver of knotty problems and tricky dilemmas. That’s why I suggest you express gratitude to your beautiful brain, Virgo. Sing it sweet songs and tell it how much you love it and find out which foods you can eat to strengthen it even more. Now read Diane Ackerman’s description of the brain: “that shiny mound of being, that mouse-gray parliament of cells, that dream factory, that petit tyrant inside a ball of bone, that huddle of neurons calling all the plays, that little everywhere, that fickle pleasuredome.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I vote in American elections, but I’ve never belonged to a political party. One of my favourite politicians is Bernie Sanders, who for most of his career

has been an Independent. But now I’m a staunch advocate for the Democrats. Why? Because Republicans are so thoroughly under the curse of the nasty, cruel, toxic person known as Donald Trump. I’m convinced that it’s crucial for our country’s well-being that Democrats achieve total victory in the upcoming election. In accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to do your personal equivalent of what I’ve done: Unambiguously align yourself with influences that represent your highest, noblest values. Take a sacred stand not just for yourself, but also in behalf of everything you love.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity,” said fashion writer Diana Vreeland.

Here’s how I interpret that: People who care mostly for their own feelings and welfare, and who believe they’re more important than everyone else, are boring and repellent. But those who enjoy looking their best and expressing their unique beauty may do so out of a desire to share their gifts with the world. Their motivation might be artistry and generosity, not self-centredness. In accordance with cosmic potentials, Scorpio, I invite you to elude the temptations of narcissism as you explore benevolent forms of vanity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Yes, do let people see you sweat. At least for now, be forthright and revelatory.

Let people witness your secret fire, your fierce tang, your salty tears, and your unhealed wounds. Hold nothing back as you give what you haven’t been able to give before. Be gleefully expressive as you unveil every truth, every question, every buried joy. Don’t be crude and insensitive, of course. Be as elegant and respectful as possible. But make it your priority to experiment with sacred vulnerability. Find out how far you can safely go as you strip away the disguises that have kept you out of touch with your full power.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Between 2008 and 2017, Southern California had two sizable earthquakes: 5.5 and 5.1 on the Richter scale. But during the same period, the area had 1.8 million small quakes that were mostly too mild to be felt. The ground beneath the feet of the local people was shaking at the rate of once every three minutes. Metaphorically speaking, Capricorn, you’re now in a phase that resembles the mild shakes. There’s a lot of action going on beneath the surface, although not much of it is obvious. I think this is a good thing. The changes you’re shepherding are proceeding at a safe, gradual, well-integrated pace.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): No American woman was allowed to earn a medical degree and practice as a physician until Aquarian-born Elizabeth Blackwell did it in 1849. It was an almost impossible feat, since the allmale college she attended undermined her mercilessly.

Once she began her career a doctor, she constantly had to outwit men who made it difficult for her. Nevertheless, she persisted. Eventually, she helped create a medical school for women in England and made it possible for 476 women to practice medicine there. I propose that we make her your patron saint for now. May she inspire you to redouble your diligent pursuit of your big dream. Here’s your motto: “Nevertheless, I’m persisting.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Henry David Thoreau wrote, “I fear my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.” You’ll be wise to have a similar fear, Pisces. According to my analysis, you can generate good fortune for yourself by transcending what you already know and think. Life is conspiring to nudge you and coax you into seeking experiences that will expand your understanding of everything. Take advantage of this opportunity to blow your own mind!

Homework: Name five things you do to make yourself feel good. Then think of another thing to add to the list.

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We are looking for an energetic, results-oriented individual with great customer service and interpersonal skills and a can-do attitude to join our busy oversee plan checking and building inspections. The operating environment of the Chief Building Official is split between the Regional District office and the field, where the Chief Building Official travels throughout the Electoral Areas of the Regional District, conducting field work which includes inspecting construction to ensure that design, material, workmanship and safety features meet or exceed standards and conform to accepted plan specifications established by the BC Building Code and SLRD bylaws and regulations.

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• Comprehensive understanding of the BC Building Code, which includes the ability to read and interpret building plans, recognize requirements and accept or reject plans as required.

• Knowledge of geotechnical matters as they relate to building safety.

• An understanding of the statutory duties of the Building Official pursuant to the Local Government Act. • Ability to deal diplomatically and communicate effectively with elected officials, staff and customers, using good oral and written communications skills.

• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact and diplomacy in the interpretation, application and enforcement of all regulations, acts, standards, codes and bylaws.

• Ability to work independently and assume responsibility for technical decisions.

• Graduation from a post-secondary institution with a diploma in Building Technology along with related field experience, or a building trades Journeyman with experience is preferred but not essential.

• Related experience in a local government setting is preferred.

For further information, please see the full job description at www.slrd.bc.ca/employment.

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Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume with a covering letter by email to: Nathalie Klein, Executive Assistant Squamish-Lillooet Regional District nklein@slrd.bc.ca Please reply by 5 PM on November 22, 2020.

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BAND ADMINISTRATOR The Band Administrator is responsible for the efficient and effective operations of the Band. The Band Administrator will work closely with

each of the Departments of the N’Quatqua Band and will serve as the Supervisor of the Department Managers. The Band Administrator will administer multiple programs and services, including financial assets of the band, property, natural resources and information and will manage in accordance with policies and priorities set out by Chief & Council. He/she will forecast program needs and plan for future program requirements. He/She will ensure effective financial management of programs and services, including accountability and will seek funding enhancements to improve service opportunities. The Band Administrator will keep abreast of new initiatives and will ensure programs are managed, delivered and evaluated in a coordinated and integrated approach on a fiscal basis and in a culturally appropriate and responsive manner. The Band Administrator will develop a detailed annual budget for Council approval, and will assist Department Heads in preparing annual departmental budgets. He/she will maintain sound working relationships with Staff, representatives of other departments, governments and outside agencies.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Supervision/Performance Management: Provides a structured process for the supervision of Staff to ensure that required standards and program policy guidelines are met; Provides consultation on a day to day basis to the Department Managers, as appropriate, in the performance of their duties in relation to: a) Policy interpretation d) resource management practice b) Program eligibility e) workload management c) Case management practice f) conflict resolution Works closely with Chief & Council in policy updates and/or developments; Administration & Financial Management: Maintains information, records, monthly calendar, schedules; Ensures that files are secure; Consults with Chief and Council on a regular basis; Provides regular reports and ensures the financial systems of the programs are maintained and accountability is in place; Monitors revenues and expenditures of all departments and works closely with department heads and/or Finance Manager on budgets; Identifies new sources of revenue for programs and services and applies for additional funding; Identifies and informs Council about new economic opportunities and risk assessment; Meets deadlines;

Part-time Brewery General Hand This is a hands-on position that performs various tasks in both Packaging Centre & Cellar, including operating equipment & cleaning work areas.

Duties: • Assist on the canning line • Prepare & clean packaging equipment • Tank cleaning • Wash & fill kegs • Maintain the overall cleanliness of the facility • Lift & move heavy objects (up to 60kgs) • Work in a fast-paced environment doing repetitive tasks

Experience requirements: Experience in a production/manufacturing environment an asset Able to handle exposure to loud noises & wet working conditions Must supply own steel-toed footwear & be 19yrs of age.

Wage: $15.75- $16.50/hr

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: - Degree in Business Management or combined post-secondary education and work experience; - Previous work experience in a First Nations Band Office; - 3 to 5 years working experience with a First Nation;; - Must have experience in planning, conducting and managing programs and projects in a First Nations setting.

- Must have knowledge of First Nations history, traditions, lifestyles, culture, including approaches to community development and programming; - Must have experience and good skills in proposal writing, strategies, policies, operational and financial planning; - Must have excellent communication skills; - Must have ability to prioritize goals and objectives within timeframes; - Must have a sound understanding of financial management and preparing detailed annual budgets with working experience; - Must have good understanding of outside government organizations and funders; - Must have experience in supervising Managers and Staff; - Must have experience in negotiations; - Must have strong leadership skills; OTHER: - Must pass a criminal records check; - Must be able maintain flexible hours.

- Must have transportation and a valid BC driver’s license.

- Must have ability to work as a team member.

- Must have excellent public relations, interpersonal and communication skills.

- Must be able to work independently and serve as a Team Leader.

Please forward resume, cover letter to Jenn Levine, jennifer.levine@nquatqua.ca at N’Quatqua Band Office. Only those shortlisted will be contacted for an interview. We would like to have a minimum of 3 applicants prior to setting up interviews.

The closing date for this job posting will be August 20, 2020 at 4pm

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Masks should be mandatory throughout Whistler ALL OF US NEED SOLACE at some point or another. We need a safe harbour, a retreat, the warmth of loving arms—literal or metaphoric—succour in times of trouble and stress, reassurance when doubt drills into the core of who we thought we were and exposes us for the frauds we really think we are.

Relief comes in many forms. Drink, drugs, religion, anonymous encounters in strange beds, the comfort of familiar friends and even more familiar foods, routine, ritual, travel, escape, the enveloping warmth of a hot bath or the jolting reality of a cold shower, movies, books, music and art,

BY G.D. MAXWELL just about anything you can think of brings comfort to some.

The essence of comfort is generally rooted in familiarity, friends, family. If it wasn’t, we’d all be comfortable with the idea of walking into a party full of strangers or delivering a speech before a large audience.

Comfort is, as well, most often grounded in simplicity. Mac & cheese is comfort food for many. Wasabi-encrusted filet of endangered species draped in raspberry infused, so-virgin-it’s-actually-unborn olive oil, and piled high on a plate of unidentifiable vegetable matter is not only uncomfortable but quite likely just leaves us with an overwhelming desire to grab a framing hammer and head for the kitchen to explain the concept of food to the chef.

But now is not a time of comfort. Now is a time for sacrifice. Now is a time to not eat our marshmallows but wait for more in the future. What?!

I refer to the Stanford University marshmallow experiment in delayed gratification. In which, children who were able to refrain from eating their marshmallow immediately were rewarded with more of the same in the future. Longitudinal studies correlated the ability to delay gratification with more “success” in later life.

If we don’t stop eating our marshmallows, there may not be a later life. At least for an unnecessary, sybaritic playground like Whistler. Imagine the impact of another shutdown in, say, mid-December because COVID-19 cases have ballooned to levels threatening the province’s healthcare capacity. Happy Halloween. Scary, isn’t it?

That’s the reality happening right now in hotspots across Europe. That’s the reality happening right now in some states not ruled by libertarian Republicans in the U.S. That’s the reality happening right now in parts of Ontario and Quebec. That could be our reality.

And the only ones who can keep that from happening is us. Collectively.

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bad. Hate wearing a mask? Tough. Don’t want to miss the party, bonfire, gathering of your tribe? You poor baby. Grow up, suck it up and start whistling “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow.” But understand, if we don’t get our act together today, tomorrow is definitely going to be cloudy.

There should be no confusion at this point about how this virus is spread and the best practices to avoid it. Person-to-person transmission is responsible for all but the tiniest fraction of infections. The best ways to avoid it are, in no particular order: Wear a mask when you’re out in public; maintain physical distancing whenever possible; wash your hands ... a lot; use sanitizer when you can’t; spent as little time as possible

Wearing masks isn’t a question of infringing anybody’s rights or freedom.

Your rights stop at my freedom from contracting your infection. You’re required to wear seatbelts, motorcycle helmets and, depending on the sports you play and where you play them, other safety gear. Even where not mandatory, like on the ski hill, the few stalwarts not wearing helmets stand out in every lift line. Stop whining about masks for chrissakes.

If you’re confused about best practices at this point, you’re not paying attention.

I’m sorry if your brain is having problems processing the fact consensus opinion used to advise against masks and now strongly recommends them. Perhaps you’d be

Suffering from pandemic fatigue? Too bad. Hate wearing a mask? Tough. Don’t want to miss the party, bonfire, gathering of your tribe? You poor baby. in crowded places; keep your bubble small and consistent; stay home if you can but certainly if you’re ill or have symptoms; stop touching your face.

Simple, for anyone who hasn’t wolfed down their marshmallow already.

In an attempt to head off the inevitable emails, allow me to counter some of the tiresome arguments swirling around like so many tumbleweeds.

happier having your doctor bleed you to balance your four humours next time you’re feeling unwell. Science evolves; keep up.

Sorry we keep learning new things and shaking up your world order.

Want to ski or board this winter? WB requires you to wear face coverings. Want to ride transit? So does BC Transit.

RMOW council considered a move to make masks mandatory at RMOW facilities

this week. Since I’m writing this before the council meeting, I don’t know what the discussion was, but I’m assuming no one on council is rabidly libertarian enough to oppose the recommendation (See page 22 for more on council’s decision). Unfortunately, the recommendation doesn’t go far enough.

The common areas of the village are as much RMOW facilities as is muni hall. It’s time for the mayor to ascend his bully pulpit and let people know if they want to come to Whistler, they need to cover the lower part of their happy face with a mask. Or stay home.

Herd immunity is not going to be the answer, unless you mean the kind of herd immunity that comes from widespread inoculation with a vaccine that’s been proven effective. Get off social media and stop spreading the things you think you’ve learned reading the Great Barrington Declaration. It’s bullshit.

The main failings of that piece of sketchy reasoning are two: It fails to explain in any detail how a vast number of infected people will somehow protect those who are vulnerable. More importantly, it doesn’t even begin to address how many people would have to die for the remaining population to achieve herd immunity. The answer is more than you can imagine.

Try reading real science, not selfinterested nonsense.

Oh, and the next time someone tells you COVID-19 is less dangerous than the flu, roll up a Pique and hit them with it. The World Health Organization estimates worldwide deaths from flu number between 290,000 and 650,000 per year. The current global death count from COVID-19 stands at more than 1.1 million ... in less than a year. Math isn’t that hard.

I look forward to your letters. Clare, less so. n

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