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FREE YOUR HEART

The pandemic’s

DOG DAYS COVID-19 has complicated international pet adoption in myriad ways

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CASH INFUSION

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HONOURING A LEGACY Remembering Bicycles for Humanity founder Pat Montani

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SHOW GOES ON

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28 The pandemic’s dog days COVID-19 has complicated international pet adoption in myriad ways.- By Dan Falloon

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CASH INFUSION

Both the federal and provincial

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PEMBY CRIME STATS

RCMP share

governments are pledging big spends for tourism in 2021—but the

Pemberton’s crime statistics with council—and offer some insight into

industry’s road to recovery is marked by unknowns.

the unusual year.

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FUTURE SHOCK

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MONTANI MEMORIAL

Bicycles for Humanity

SHOW GOES ON

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15 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST The hotter-than-ever real estate market is one of the most talkedabout topics in Canada these days. But where do Millennials go from here?

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38 MUSEUM MUSINGS Before summers in Whistler drew mountain bikers to the area, the resort was gaining a reputation for a sport that took place on the water: Windsurfing.

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That morning, the media and a good deal of the province lined up to hear the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth basically repeat what Premier John Horgan, Health Minister Adrian Dix and Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry have been telling us for weeks: Don’t leave your community,

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whether that is Surrey or Whistler.

The whole misdirection by the government was like watching a magic trick—look over here while this minister says exactly the same thing, but differently.

And like that famous saying, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again

The hope was that these mysterious “road checks” would fall occasionally before Whistler and stop casual travellers from reaching the resort until the order ends after the May long weekend.

But with a casual slight of hand Farnworth slipped into his speech that the, “periodic roadside checks like the counter attack program [will be] at strategic points into and out of the defined regions.”

So, in other words, at the borders of the health authorities. Our health authority, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), has been combined with the Fraser Health Authority for this exercise, so it’s obvious there won’t be any checks anywhere near the Sea to Sky region.

Farnworth’s message wasn’t anything new, and perhaps that is why it was so discouraging. It’s great for places like Vancouver Island, as this new rule means people can’t catch the ferries for recreation (assuming that travellers tell the truth about this to BC Ferries ticket sellers), after all we don’t want the virus to spread there any more than it already has from VCH and

Farnworth’s message wasn’t anything new, and perhaps that is why it was so discouraging. and expecting different results,” here we are with lots of people camping, day-tripping etc. inside their massive allowed-to-travelin health authorities.

(And just as an aside, Einstein is not the author of the above quote.)

As Whistler slowly gets its case numbers under control and coming down (at 72 for last week) many here are willing to make the sacrifice and close their businesses short-term, shut down hotels and Airbnbs, hunker down for a few weeks in order to have a good summer.

the Fraser region, which do account for the majority of cases in the province.

But there was little good news for us.

All the government leaders on this file have specifically mentioned Whistler in issuing their orders, suggestions and guidelines, asking people to stay away for now. So far it hasn’t worked. I mean, consider for a moment that our local RCMP has handed out close to $70,000 in COVID19 related fines since last October!

It would be easy to get dragged down by this endless merry-go-round of government

announcements and a feeling of doom, but it also struck me that the very fact that Whistler is mentioned so often should give us hope.

Look at it this way: Our resort and our welcoming community are so popular and such a draw to restore the souls of the COVID-weary that specific mention has to be made about our home all the time.

We also know that last summer was much busier than we expected considering we were in the full throes of the pandemic with no vaccine in sight— indeed, traffic levels were near normal in October 2020. Now, we are learning that with the province’s vaccination plan we should see about 51 per cent of B.C. residents vaccinated with one dose by the end of May. While that is not herdimmunity level it is a significant portion of the population and it could go a long way to helping our summer be one that gets Whistler on the road to recovery.

Surely what we can take away from some of this messaging is that no matter what, Whistler is a place people want to come whether it is to let loose (not helpful right now, that’s true), re-connect with nature, or spoil themselves—and that gives me hope.

That is the light at the end of my tunnel. It is what will help businesses keep their doors open, it will help keep our amazing restaurants, activity providers, accommodation sector operators and all the others that make Whistler tick survive this pandemic.

So, yes, right now we need to keep to ourselves, but travellers know we are safe, we are vaccinated, and we will be welcoming when it is time.

And the government also knows that— this is where people want to visit, this is where they want to spend their vacation funds and I would urge all those at the provincial and federal levels not to dismiss the power of those dollars when it comes to supporting Whistler. n

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Logging has ruined Riverside Trail The Riverside Trail along the Cheakamus River has been a special place for the 20-plus years that my family and I have called Whistler home.

Every spring I cannot wait for the snow to melt enough to get back on the trails. What I witnessed there two days ago absolutely stunned me and broke my heart.

The seemingly thoughtless devastation in the name of firesmarting has transformed Riverside into an unrecognizable area.

I understand the need to FireSmart, but is it not possible to re-think the process when it is that close to our wonderful trail systems?

It is with immense sadness that I will not be returning to what was once a truly magical place.

Elaine Rempel // Whistler

Government and health officers need to be accountable The letter writer [“Local doctors warning about new variants deadly serious,” April 15] makes the vapid conclusion, “Do your part, be part of the solution, or you are part of the problem.”

Let us pause for a moment to consider who is part of the problem.

The medical profession, and the B.C. government they serve, has failed to respond to the pandemic with a coordinated and

of the problem when the real problem from the beginning was a lack of leadership from elected officials and officials of the PHO. Probably the most pathetic thing heard these past months was Dr. Henry stating, “we are learning as we go.” Really? That is not leadership, and the general populace understands this.

Rolling up our sleeves and getting a vaccination is the right thing to do to help protect ourselves, our families and friends, and our community.

However, we must not forget the failure of the B.C. government and PHO to prepare and execute aggressively a plan to defeat a virus. They were, and are, no doubt “part of the problem” and must be held accountable.

Dix Lawson // Whistler aggressive effort to stamp this disease out.

They are not even on the same page as we see from the banal missives of the duelling MDs right here in Whistler.

COVID-19 is a virus, it is not a thinking enemy who can make choices and keep us off balance.

Why is it that after 100 years to prepare our response to the next Spanish Flu (which COVID-19 is not), there was not a coordinated plan to isolate and destroy this enemy?

The communication from the B.C. medical

and government systems is feeble. The daily infection, hospital and casualty counts are akin to the casualty lists from the Great War. The Public Health Officer (PHO) [Dr. Bonnie Henry’s] stop-and-start reactions and health orders are destabilizing and debilitating, and seemingly always two weeks behind the “enemy’s” movements.

The people are tired of the lack of leadership and are showing their disdain more often. They find it particularly galling to read they are part

Controlling broadleaf tree species an issue Regarding Pique’s [cover feature] “The Forest for the Trees,” which addressed management (harvesting) of old growth trees, another worrying situation in some areas of B.C. is the method used to control broadleaf tree species in favour of harvestable timber (Pique, April 15).

At the BC Wildlife Federation Convention in Spring 2019, James Steidle, who owns a woodworking company and has experience in the industry, gave a presentation on the negative effects of the forest industry’s aerial spraying.

The issue is that every year in B.C., forest companies and government agencies spend

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The majority of the areas affected are done with the use of aerial application of glyphosate formulations, the most common being VisionMax, which is composed of glyphosate and a variety of proprietary, unregulated additives that make glyphosate more toxic but

birch and other broadleaves in the fall, another blow to struggling moose, deer and elk populations, no frogs to keep you up at night and glyphosate cocktails left in the water table.

Field estimates showed that spraying with the herbicide glyphosate reduced forage availability by 60 and 96 per cent in summer

“The issue is that every year in B.C., forest companies and government agencies spend millions of dollars to eliminate broadleaf species...

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which remain unregulated.

This vast conversion of our forests from biodiverse stands with many broadleaf species to conifer monocultures results in a plantation forest with far less biodiversity than before.

The effect is less brows[ing areas] for moose, deer and elk, potentially higher rates of mortality amongst amphibians and thus those up the food chain. Plus, less resistance to wildfire where aspen and birch might stand as a barrier.

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Researchers have also found that the typical application rates used to kill plants have the ability to kill up to 30 per cent of some adult amphibians on land. So that means overspray from aerial application hitting seasonal ponds and wetlands is moonscaping these little remote biospheres.

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Bursting the home-buying bubble EXCLUDE COVID-19, the weather and the Vail Resorts takeover a few years ago, and I dare you to come up with a more talked-about topic in this town than housing.

In my experience, the conversation normally goes a little something like this: Someone brings up the fact that they need to move again. Someone else talks about how

BY MEGAN LALONDE much easier it would be to just buy, if prices weren’t so high. I talk about a 320-square-foot studio apartment in my building that was recently listed for more than half a million dollars. Someone brings up the listing price of the house their friends just bought.

“That’s crazy,” everyone keeps repeating.

As crazy as it is, Whistler’s and even Vancouver’s wildly expensive markets make sense. Limited supply, high demand, best backyard on the planet, I get it.

But the thing is, it’s not just British Columbians having conversations like the one above anymore—home prices across Canada have skyrocketed this year. Recently released statistics from the Canadian Real Estate Association show home sales from coast to coast set another all-time record in

March 2021, “as increased supply became available,” while the actual (not seasonally adjusted) national average home price hit a record $716,828 in March 2021. That’s up 31.6 per cent from the same month last year.

I’ll preface the rest of this column by admitting that I’m approaching this topic of unattainable real estate from a pretty privileged place. I was raised in a suburb where every family I knew owned their homes, and grew up imagining that my twenties would follow a specific path of milestones that would eventually culminate in figuring out where I want to live and slapping a “sold” sticker on a for-sale sign.

That said, my parents paid $230,000 in 1996 for the four-bedroom home I grew up in, on a quiet cul-de-sac in Ottawa—a notoriously stable housing market until this year, for what it’s worth.

According to Statistics Canada’s inflation calculator, that price should translate into $362,802.26 today. A brief scroll through listings in the area will tell you that that’s nowhere close to what that house would sell for now. Wages, meanwhile, haven’t risen in the same way, and homeownership is becoming increasingly unattainable.

With the way things are going, even realestate experts can’t seem to agree on what’s coming. I recently read one article quoting an expert who predicted Canada’s housing market will just continue to rise and rise

as long as demand for it does—and with borders eventually opening, that demand isn’t expected to go anywhere. This month, another article from the Georgia Straight quoted a realtor who warned that Canadian home prices could fall 40 per cent in the next five years if the average mortgage rate rises to the same level it sat at a few years ago.

Owning a home has always been framed as a marker of success and something to strive for, for all the obvious reasons that anyone ever tells you it’s a good idea: Security, stability, achieving the next level of adulthood. Most of all, because “why would you throw your money away paying rent?”

I dream pretty much daily about having the freedom to renovate my kitchen or go adopt a pet without asking for permission, but the prospect of having to drop double what my parents bought my childhood home for to own a legitimate shoebox with the world’s thinnest walls isn’t exactly an exciting one—even if it does have the world’s best backyard, and even if it was in the realm of possibility for me at this point.

As prices keep going up and that prospect seems to be moving farther away, why do I even feel the pressure to put all of my effort and resources towards owning something with four walls, just so I can call it mine? Why do I feel like without the title of “homeowner,” I’m failing at some imaginary test of adulthood?

Yes, mortgages exist that aren’t exorbitantly higher than what most people are paying for rent these days. Getting to pick my own paint colours, rip up that “no pets” clause and live without fear of getting renovicted? Dream come true, definitely.

But at what point does the “throwing your money away” argument also apply to things like paying property taxes, or replacing a broken furnace—costs you won’t necessarily recoup in a sale? There are advantages to renting, too, but why is paying rent and putting whatever’s left over into non-realestate investments viewed as less responsible than funnelling everything into a mortgage?

Especially when no one is 100-per-cent certain what’s going to happen to Canada’s housing market in the next decade.

These are all questions I really don’t have answers to. The conclusion I’m settling on is that no one has any control over the real estate market in its past, present or future state. While I still hope it will happen one day down the line, becoming a homeowner just isn’t the priority or the possibility that I thought it would be at this stage in my life— and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Instead, I’m going to keep being grateful for my tiny apartment that I could leave whenever I need to, keep scrolling through listings in my spare time and attempt to roll with whatever real-estate punches come my way when I do feel ready to put down roots. ■

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Feds, province proposing big tourism spends in annual budgets GOVERNMENTS ARE GOING TO BAT FOR TOURISM IN 2021—BUT THERE’S NO OUTSPENDING THE UNKNOWNS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS BOTH THE FEDERAL and provincial governments have heard the dire message from tourism operators loud and clear, and responded in their annual budgeting—but the wildcards still surrounding COVID19 mean the path to tourism recovery is a twisted one.

There is lots to like in B.C.’s 2021 provincial budget, according to the Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC), including: $195 million to continue the Small & Medium-sized Business Recovery Grant Program; $100 million to support tourism recovery including help for major anchor attractions; $20 million for community destination development grants to help with new tourism infrastructure like trails and airport improvements; $83 million (over three years) for BC Parks; and $6 million in capital improvement grants for the Arts Infrastructure Program.

But when you consider that tourism went from a $22.5-billion industry prepandemic down to under $7 billion—all from the pockets of operators—“there is probably no amount that will really be able to make up for the shortfall in revenue,” said TIABC’s CEO Walt Judas.

“Many businesses have already folded shop, more are on the brink, and some will

CASH INFUSION Tourism leaders are welcoming supports in the federal and provincial budgets, while keeping one eye on the long road to recovery that lies ahead.

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determine whether they can make it on the support that’s being offered at the federal or provincial level,” Judas said, adding that what’s in the budget (along with a further announcement on April 26 of an additional $75 million for the Circuit Breaker Relief Grant) is “welcome and helpful.”

But the travel restrictions now in place until at least the end of the May long weekend will continue to handcuff operators, and specifically operations focused on transportation, like tour bus companies or float plane operators.

“Then there is a whole list of still smaller operators—in some cases they’re sole proprietorships, they have contract employees only, they rely almost exclusively on international business—that can generate anywhere from [$1,000] to a few hundred thousand or more annually in revenue, but they really haven’t seen anything for 12 to 16 months,” Judas said.

“They’ve been able to access the odd program, including the recovery grant, but again, it’s not nearly enough to sustain them over the course of a year or more.”

The federal budget earmarks $1 billion over three years to support tourism’s recovery, including $400 million for festivals ($200 million each for major and community festivals); $100 million for Destination Canada to market to Canadians; and a $500-million Tourism Relief Fund.

There’s also $82.5 million this year to support major Canadian airports with COVID-19 testing infrastructure; $105.3 million over five years to advance touchless technologies and secure air travel, and $6.7 million for sanitization equipment.

Judas also highlighted the extension

of the federal wage and rent subsidies into September.

“We’ll likely need that through to the end of the year … but just the mere fact that they extended it [shows that] they recognize the need for that program to continue,” he said.

The budget supports have not gone unnoticed at the local level, either.

“I think both governments recognize that the tourism industry has been one of the first hit, one of the hardest hit, and will be one of the last to recover,” said Barrett Fisher, president and CEO of Tourism Whistler.

“There was really, I think, a wide range of important commitments to investments for the tourism industry.”

That said, there remain many unknowns in terms of the finer details, like in the federal government’s $500-million Tourism Relief Fund, or the province’s $195-million for recovery grants, Fisher added.

“How that gets rolled out, and the details of that, are still to be determined,” she said.

The good news is that both budgets recognize tourism’s short-term recovery as critically important, and “I think with the rollout of the vaccines there is room for optimism,” Fisher said.

But the COVID-19 wildcards make the overall picture of recovery murky.

Certain sectors (like conference business) will be more sluggish bouncing back; likewise with some key markets, due to the varying vaccination rates of different countries.

“For example … markets like the U.K., they’re very resilient, they’re very buoyant,

they’ve got a strong vaccination program in place, and our in-market intel is saying that there is interest to return to travel there; there is pent-up demand,” Fisher said.

“But then we look at other markets that maybe are a little slower in their vaccination program, or maybe a little bit more conservative from a travel perspective, so I think we’re going to see really a mix of different sectors, as well as different geographic markets—and yes, for full recovery, this is going to take several years.”

Though all signs point to another busy summer in Whistler as people desperate to get outdoors flock to open spaces, where the overall tourism industry finds itself at the end of 2021 depends on a wide range of factors.

If travel restrictions are lifted after the May long weekend, as TIABC expects them to be, this summer will look much like last summer, Judas said, adding that, as the vaccination rollout continues, it’s possible international travel starts to return in the fall.

“It’s not as though we’re going to have hundreds of thousands of people visiting starting the day the borders reopen, but that will be positive as well,” Judas said, noting that international guests tend to stay longer and spend more money, which might be the key to salvaging the fall and winter seasons.

But that’s just one more wildcard the industry is contending with this year.

“There is no guarantee [that international travel will return in the fall], so if that doesn’t happen, we will have as difficult a year as we did last year,” Judas said.

“For some it might be worse, for others it could be slightly better. It’s really difficult to predict.” n

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Navigating the everchanging future of ski tourism A Q&A WITH TOURISM CONSULTANT AND FORMER DESTINATION CANADA CEO GREG KLASSEN

BY BRANDON BARRETT EVEN BEFORE THE COVID-19 pandemic, Whistler was already considering how best to balance its rising visitation numbers with the well-being of a community ready to burst at the seams.

That has only been accelerated by a global health crisis that has forced destinations the world over to hit pause and rethink the future of travel.

As the former CEO of Destination Canada and a partner at Vancouver-based tourism consultancy firm Twenty31, it’s Greg Klassen’s job to try and navigate the murky future of destination travel—and that includes ski tourism.

With more than 25 years experience and a diverse portfolio of clients ranging from Discover Halifax to Tourism Jordan, Klassen was invited to speak virtually on April 26 as part of the Canada West Ski Areas Association’s spring conference, where he spoke to both the challenges and opportunities facing the ski industry in a post-COVID world.

The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

PIQUE: What do you think ski tourism will look like coming out of the pandemic?

KLASSEN: The tourism landscape will be different and of course destination skiers will look differently through the tourism lens, but I don’t think skiing is going to change significantly. It’s already aligned with trends in the future. We’ve seen trends in terms of rural tourism, wellness tourism, in terms of getting fit and getting fresh air, support for things like mental health and exercise. There’s something called slow tourism, which basically means rather than flying out to Cancun for a threeday getaway, we’ll be taking more time and being a lot more thoughtful about tourism.

Nobody wants to go back to 2019. In 2019, the globe set a record for the number of visitors. Almost no country that I work with, even some of the more challenged countries I work with—I’m working with Egypt right now, I’m working with Jordan and South Africa—none of them want to go back to 2019 numbers. They’re all more aware of the social, cultural and environmental consciousness that this pause has given us to think and rethink about how travel is going to work. That will extend to the ski industry and it will mean people will be more aware of where they are and the land they’re treading on. I think destinations themselves and the tourism industry will have to rise to that occasion because consumers will be demanding it.

PIQUE: You’ve touched on some of the opportunities. What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing ski tourism post-COVID? GK: The challenge for tourism in general, and I think ski tourism is the same, is confidence.

Tourism has lost its mojo. There’s a perception out there that if you’re carrying a suitcase, you’re carrying COVID-19.

Less than one quarter of Canadians are confident enough to actually get on a plane and stay in a hotel right now, even prior to the recent wave. So we’ve got a lot of work to do in the tourism industry to instil [confidence] when it’s safe to travel again.

We need lots of help from government to tell that story and we need lots of help from the tourism industry to tell everyone they can come out of their basements now.

We don’t know when that’s going to happen because government continues to say that travel will open up again when it’s safe to do so or when the time is right, but they’re not defining that for our tourism industry. We don’t know what our goalposts are. We don’t know what ‘when the time is right’ means—so let us know. We can take it.

Many countries around the world are providing that level of clarity. The EU has just said to Americans that they can travel into Europe this summer if they have proof of vaccination. That’s not on our radar right now. We’ve got 100 million Americans right now who have been vaccinated and who pose little to no risk. There still needs to be some level of research to determine what level of risk they pose, but most of the research tells us they pose little to no risk right now, and we have no plan to open Canada up to those Americans.

PIQUE: Cost is often cited as a major barrier to entry for new prospective skiers and snowboarders. Do you think the industry needs to look at affordability if it wants skiing to be sustainable long-term?

GK: A hundred per cent, I agree with that.

The cost is quite crazy … but then that also goes against the trend of slow travel because conscious travel is going to cost more. If you want lower volumes, then you’re going to have to charge higher prices to support infrastructure and the development. Those are probably two trends that are at a point of tension. Fewer visitors means more and higher costs. Maybe there are pricing models [that could work]. There are ways of using price as a lever that can encourage more visitation without affecting the overall quality of the experience. n

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Whistler RCMP declined to break up house party over concern for officers’ safety POLICE SAY THEY HAVE TO BALANCE PUBLIC AND OFFICER SAFETY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER POLICE chose not to attend a reported house party this month over concern for officers’ potential exposure to COVID-19.

The 30-plus-person indoor gathering at a Vale Inn townhome was initially reported to police at about 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 17.

“The Whistler RCMP has and will be responding to all calls for service including COVID-related calls but their response will be primarily [focused on] the safety of the community and their response will also account for safety of our police officers,” said RCMP Sgt. Sascha Banks in an email, when asked about the why the RCMP did not attend the gathering, adding that police are continuing to follow up with the complainant to identify those responsible.

Between October 2020 and March 2021, Whistler RCMP issued $69,940 in COVID-19related fines, including for large gatherings, as recently as Tuesday, April 20, Banks noted.

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Whistler’s COVID outbreak, police declined to respond to Saturday’s gathering.

“I have worked with my team to go over any concerns they have regarding their safety and our protocols for attendance to calls,” Banks added. “As with everyone during this pandemic, we have to address concerns and fears that arise and myself and my police officers are not immune to this.”

While Banks did not directly address a question about the specific factors that went into the decision, there was a confluence of circumstances that led to police not attending, said Vale Inn strata council president Paul Hothersall, who spoke with Banks about the incident.

According to Hothersall, Banks relayed that police were short-staffed at the time with several officers in self-isolation, while a number of serious criminal incidents in Vancouver that night meant that he was unable to get through to the RCMP E-Comm non-emergency dispatch, which is based in the city.

“I think the [term] Sascha Banks gave to me was that it was a ‘perfect storm,’” he said.

“I understand that. However I’m acting as a person who has been asked to deal with the

situation and [is] trying to get help.”

Last weekend’s incident also speaks to the muddied waters of COVID-19 enforcement in B.C. After receiving a noise complaint and observing several taxi cabs full of revellers arriving to the townhome, the onsite caretaker contacted Hothersall, who then contacted Whistler Resort Management (WRM), which he said told him to call either security or the RCMP. A spokesperson for Sea to Sky Security confirmed the company was called, but acknowledged that there wasn’t much they had the authority to do, other than inform the occupants of the possibility of a fine. (A representative for WRM was aware of the report from April 17, but said he didn’t know of any strata fines being prepared.)

After waiting on hold for more than an hour with police, Hothersall said he drove into the village RCMP detachment to speak to law enforcement. Eventually, he met a group of Mounties on patrol, and said one officer told him that police would not be attending large, indoor gatherings until their vaccines took effect. (Banks did not address a question over whether the timing

of officers’ vaccines was a factor, but at a presentation to council earlier this week, she told officials that local members were immunized on Friday, April 9, eight days before the house party. Health guidance says it takes at least 14 days for the first dose of the vaccine to provide some protection.)

Hothersall, who penned a letter to mayor and council outlining his concerns, said as strata council president he is usually satisfied with the response from local police, “but this was not the response I was expecting or requiring.”

Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton said the nearly $70,000 police have handed out in COVID-19-related fines is proof they are taking the issue seriously, and he remains confident in Mounties’ enforcement strategy.

“Personally, I have full confidence in the RCMP as they assess each situation that they encounter and respond accordingly,” he said.

“I think it’s outrageous and selfish that anyone would be having parties, especially inside right now. It puts our first responders at risk, it puts our entire community at risk, and I can’t emphasize enough how careless those actions are.” n

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‘I just hope there’s some good I can do up there’ WHISTLER CITIZEN OF THE YEAR, PHILANTHROPIST PAT MONTANI DIES FROM CANCER AT 71

BY BRANDON BARRETT

You aren’t invincible after one dose

AS AN ENTREPRENEUR with a long career in telecoms, Whistler’s Pat Montani started and sold a number of businesses in his day. But it was a grassroots non-profit, Bicycles for Humanity, which he started with his wife later in life that gave him the most pride.

“A comment he always said to me was, ‘The greatest business I ever founded was the one I never got paid for,’” said daughter Angie Holmstrom.

The 2019 Whistler Citizen of the Year, Montani died on Friday, April 23 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 71.

Family and friends remembered him as a tireless visionary ahead of his time who had a knack for bringing people together through sheer force of will.

“He’s super passionate and people were always drawn in by the passion,” recalled wife Brenda, who said she realized she was going to marry Pat the moment she first laid eyes on him as a 19-year-old student at Wilfrid Laurier University. “He didn’t do any small talk or anything. He was a big thinker and passionate about the things he thought about.

I think that’s what drew people to him. There was nothing boring about hearing him.”

It was that tenacity and foresight that served Montani so well over the course of his career, first as an innovator in the videoconferencing field, and later on as a dedicated philanthropist. Longtime friend and Whistlerite Dave Ormerod, who first met Montani in 1969 as his defence partner on the Laurier hockey team, considered him to be “one of the world’s greatest salesmen,” even if Montani didn’t quite see it that way.

“Some of the things he could do and the way he could get people on his side no matter how outlandish some of the schemes and opportunities were was incredible,” he explained. “He was as smooth as a gravel road but he always got things done.”

A committed family man, Montani always had a big heart. Local realtor Shauna O’Callaghan said she was looking for “grandparents for hire” when she was a single mother in the mid-2000s, and even considered placing an ad in the paper.

When Brenda, a school counsellor, heard the news, she asked O’Callaghan if Pat and her could apply for the job.

“That started almost 20 years ago. We share every special occasion, every Sunday dinner, and that’s how our journey started together,” she said. “Pat was definitely family to me and my children, and I couldn’t have raised my kids without him.”

Although always generous with loved ones, it wasn’t until middle age that Montani’s philanthropy began to spread beyond the community level. What started as a small project to collect and deliver used bikes to Mexico eventually gained traction

CYCLE OF HOPE Pat Montani, right, with best friend and former pro cyclist Paul Sherwen, in Uganda, a place that left a profound impression on the late Whistler entrepreneur.

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in the media and blossomed into Bicycles for Humanity, which today counts more than 50 chapters worldwide and has delivered more than 300,000 bikes to the developing world.

“That’s really the impetus that took us out of small-time thinking into big-time thinking,” Brenda said.

The organization really grew legs after a chance encounter between Montani and the late professional cyclist and Tour de France commentator Paul Sherwen, who leveraged his contacts in the cycling and business worlds to grow the non-profit, which aims to empower distressed communities through the gift of mobility. It was also through the cyclist that Montani first visited Karamoja, Uganda, where Sherwen lived, a place that left a profound impression on the entrepreneur.

“When I went there with him, he was the most peaceful I’d ever seen,” said Holmstrom. “The people gave him the strength, really. I don’t think he gave the people as much as they gave him.”

Montani’s experiences in Uganda also imprinted on him the grassroots approach that has come to define Bicycles for Humanity. Counting no paid staff and little overhead, the organization is centred around an “empowerment-first” approach that puts people over profits.

“He’s so anti-NGO. He thinks they’ve done more damage over there than good and he knows that a lot of the money doesn’t go to the people, it goes to the organization and the bureaucracy,” Brenda said. “He’s always tried to do everything he’s done without it being about money.”

An excellence centre planned for Karamoja offering educational resources and training, primarily in technology, will only further cement Montani’s legacy.

It’s telling that even in his last days, Montani was still focused on giving back.

“I was joking about him and Paul [Sherwen] causing trouble up in heaven, and he turned and looked at me and said, ‘I just hope there’s some good I can do up there,’” remembered Holmstrom.

In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the Sea to Sky Community Hospice in Squamish, where Montani spent his final days. n

You can still catch and spread COVID-19 Public Health Orders and guidelines still apply: Take it outside Avoid indoor get-togethers Wear a mask and keep your distance in public Stay local, don’t travel to other parts of B.C.

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New grant application could help Whistler’s most vulnerable COUNCIL BRIEFS: WMSC REZONING HEADED FOR ADOPTION; WORK TO PROTECT MUNICIPAL DRINKING WATER ONGOING

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A NEW GRANT application to the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM)—endorsed by Whistler council on April 20—could provide up to $450,000 for social services in the Sea to Sky working to support vulnerable people during COVID-19.

The UBCM Strengthening Communities’ Services grant aims to support unsheltered homeless populations and address related community impacts of the pandemic. In Whistler, the money would be used for new outreach services at the Whistler Public Library and Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, as well as for a new temporary housing initiative.

“Some of society’s most vulnerable members face challenges that have worsened in the context of COVID-19, and more so than those who are not necessarily as vulnerable,”

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said emergency program coordinator Ryan Donohue in a presentation to council.

“The lack of access to services, [and] the reduced number of venues where they can go for refuge, has caused a very negative or hard impact on them in particular.”

The RMOW has worked with the Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) and other social services groups throughout the pandemic, Donohue added, helping to increase capacity for the local food bank and assisting in the facilitation of COVID-19 isolation sites for those living in high-density housing (among other initiatives).

If the grant is successful, “the proposed project will increase support services to seven days a week, providing 60 hours of outreach,” Donohue said.

The RCMP has reported an increase in domestic violence calls over the past year, and the Howe Sound Women’s Centre (HSWC) has housed women escaping domestic violence for roughly 1,700 nights

CLUB CABIN A rendering of a new Whistler Mountain Ski Club employee housing building at 2028 Rob Boyd Way. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE RMOW

in the Sea to Sky, he added.

A secondary objective of the project is to gain insights and data regarding the need for temporary shelters beyond the grant funding’s one-year mandate.

“We’re looking to prepare the data over a one-year project timeline, and as a needs assessment for more permanent solutions through provincial agencies such as BC Housing,” Donohue said.

Prior to the pandemic (in fiscal 2018/19), the HSWC provided 1,095 bed nights for women. In 2019/20 that number climbed to

1,329, and was estimated to hit 1,721 by the end of fiscal 2020/21.

Councillor Cathy Jewett noted that, according to the HSWC, 25 Whistler women turned down services because they were not able to leave Whistler for the safe homes in Squamish or Pemberton.

“Is that the kind of volume that you’re looking at housing?” she asked.

The hope is that the new funding can help alleviate some of the demand on Sea to Sky safe houses, particularly in Whistler, Donohue said.

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“These will be high-needs individuals who are not able to leave the community because of various situations due to employment or family circumstances or what not, “ he said. “So unfortunately we don’t anticipate [being] able to help everybody, but they will be triaged on a highest-needs basis.”

The grant application is exciting for Coun. Jen Ford, who has worked closely with the corridor’s “superhero non-profit agencies” over the past year.

“When we put the money in the hands of these groups, that money goes a long way, and it really touches the people that it means the most to,” Ford said.

“So I really appreciate the work on this, to everybody involved.”

While Coun. Ralph Forsyth was also supportive, he voiced concern about what happens with the project after the one-year funding commitment ends.

“I just want to make council aware that we’ve done this before; we take temporary money for a permanent program, and we all know mental health issues aren’t going away,” he said.

“And so my fear, as always, is that the government giveth, and then the government walketh away, and who’s left holding the bag but our staff and our taxpayers?

“It is important, it is valuable, [but] mental health is a provincial issue … hopefully we’re going to present such a compelling case that they’re going to continue to keep funding this.”

A rezoning for a new Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) staff housing building is headed for adoption after Whistler council gave it third reading on April 20.

The bylaw will rezone the lands at 2028 Rob Boyd Way to a new site-specific Leisure Recreation 11 zone, paving the way for a new employee housing building intended for WMSC coaches and staff.

“There is a lot of history in there—as an old patroller, I can attest to that.”

- CATHY JEWETT

A public hearing was held for the rezoning in March 2020 before the WMSC requested the application be put on hold.

Seven people made submissions at the public hearing, with the main concern being maintaining access to an existing unauthorized trail through the site.

“This trail is not identified on our trails master plan, [but] the ski club has confirmed that they have historically permitted use of

the trail and that there’s no intention to close this trail or limit access in any way,” said planner Roman Licko in a presentation to council.

With the bylaw’s adoption, the WMSC can begin construction on a new fourunit building (two three-bedroom and two two-bedroom units) next to the existing WMSC club house. The new building will also include common storage, laundry and parking.

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

The existing patrollers’ cabin on site— predating the RMOW itself and boarded up for several years—will be removed as part of the project.

“I just want to say goodbye to the patroller cabin,” said Councillor Cathy Jewett.

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WORK ON PROTECTING WHISTLER’S WATER ONGOING Council also heard an update on the RMOW’s Cross Connection Control program at the April 20 meeting.

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Of 46 “high hazard” properties (typically institutional buildings like hospitals or dry cleaners), 43 have been deemed compliant, with the rest expected to be brought onboard in the coming months, said manager of development services Jeff Ertel in a presentation to council.

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Vancouver family ‘amazed’ at WFRS’ care and attention in fire response WHISTLER FIREFIGHTERS SAVED SENTIMENTAL PAINTINGS IN APRIL 21 FIRE IN RAINBOW

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THERE’S A painting that has hung in James Dayson’s home in Whistler since he and his family moved into their Rainbow townhouse in 2016.

Portraying a mountain vista with a cascading waterfall and surrounded by forest, it’s not a particularly unique painting, and Dayson doesn’t believe it to have much monetary value.

But when he heard from a neighbour on Wed., April 21 that his home was on fire, the painting—which used to hang in his grandparents’ home, before they passed away in the mid 2000s—was the first thing that crossed his mind.

“It was definitely a more traditional painting,” Dayson said.

“There wasn’t anything abstract to it, it wasn’t like an impressionist style, so just a basic sort of landscape … [and] obviously every time walking in and out of our place, you would see it.”

Walking into the townhouse and surveying the damage the morning after the fire (and noting the now-bare wall where his grandparents’ painting was once mounted), “I had already kind of resigned myself to the

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fact that it was gone. I had accepted it in my head,” Dayson said.

But in stark contrast to the disaster zone in the rest of the house, once he made his way into the garage, he found everything just as he had left it—aside from the curious fact that the tailgate to his SUV was now open.

In the back of the vehicle he found his grandparents’ painting, along with others from inside the home, carefully stored, preserved and awaiting his return.

replaced,’” Dayson said. “‘For me, it’s what you guys did … taking the time to pull this off the walls.’

“It’s just absolutely remarkable that they had that thought to do that, in the middle of dealing with that raging fire that engulfed all of our house.”

The fire on Ashleigh McIvor Drive was reported at 8:10 p.m. and knocked down before 9, said WFRS Chief John McKearney.

“We had it under control probably within

“It’s just absolutely remarkable that they had that thought to do that...”

- JAMES DAYSON

“I was like, ‘I can’t believe that … that is the most amazing thing, that [Whistler Fire Rescue Service members] had that care and thought to save them,’” he said.

When Dayson got a chance to speak with two members of the Whistler Fire Rescue Service (WFRS) who were on scene the night before, he was overcome with emotion.

When the firefighters told him they understand his loss, “I said to them, ‘It’s not about the loss. Virtually all of that can be

30 minutes, but we were chasing it through the ceiling of (townhouse units four and five),” McKearney said, adding that about 35 paid-on-call firefighters responded to assist four WFRS career staff in responding.

Two people were displaced as a result of the fire, McKearney said.

“The good news is that no firefighters were injured, [and] no civilians were injured,” he said.

The fire started on the balcony of the

fourth townhouse before spreading to the fifth, he added.

“It looks like the barbecue malfunctioned … and it caught the cedar siding on fire,” McKearney said (Pique reached out for futher details but did not receive a response before press time).

“It got in behind the cedar siding, behind the rainscreen, climbed up to the roof, and then went into the sofits of the end suite, which was No. 5, and travelled right across the ceiling.”

The fire is a good reminder of the importance of sprinkler systems, particularly on balconies in multi-family structures, McKearney said.

“We’ve seen this time and time again,” he said. “To be sprinklered is so important, because these two structures, they’re going to be months before they’re habitable.”

For the Daysons, who live full-time in Vancouver, the fire will likely mean a full rebuild—but they’re grateful for the WFRS members who went above and beyond.

“I just wanted to share the story, because especially in today’s day and age with everything that’s going on in the world, I think any really good, positive news needs to be shared,” he said.

“And especially for firefighters that do so much for our society, wherever they are.” n

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WCF hands out spring grants with eye towards racial equality ORGANIZATION DOLES OUT $180K TO SEA TO SKY NONPROFITS AND CHARITIES

BY ALYSSA NOEL WHEN

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Whistler Community Foundation (WCF) board and grant committee sat down to plan how to deliver the organization’s spring 2021 grants, they realized they had an opportunity.

“With everything that happened in the last year, with the need for racial equality, we started to look at ourselves and the foundation, community, and granting,” said executive director Claire Mozes.

“What’s one small step we could take to [forward] racial equality?”

As a result, the WCF’s callout included a new request: Would applicants consider putting forward any projects working towards anti-racism?

“We were hoping to start the conversation and be part of the conversation,” Mozes said. “We don’t have it all figured out and we’re doing lots of learning ourselves, but if there was one small step we could take, we thought this was a good starting point.”

One outcome was the Whistler Writing Society’s scholarship for an emerging writer who is Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour.

While the scholarship wasn’t new, it had been put on hold for 2020 during the revamped, online festival, said Rebecca Wood Barrett, manager of the Whistler Writers Festival.

“We didn’t run it last year because we didn’t run the writer-in-residence program, but it seemed like a good fit to apply for the grant,” Wood Barrett said. “We are hoping to run the writer-in-residence program this year—we’re keeping our fingers crossed that the health orders will allow us to have small gatherings.”

The funding (which came in at $350) will allow a burgeoning writer of colour to either participate in the aforementioned program or—if they don’t yet have the requisite partially developed piece of writing ready—attend the festival for oneon-one writing consultations.

“I think in the last year it’s become obvious that we need to do more work towards anti-racism and anti-colonialism—our own learning and the work we need to do towards learning to make conscious choices—and actually take action,” Wood Barrett said.

“This scholarship fits well into that.”

Last year, WCF put its callout for grants in January and voted on recipients in March. Given the timing, it resulted in plenty of back-and-forth as the recipients adjusted the programs for which they received funding.

“There’s a lot of strength and trust in our relationship with recipients,” Mozes said. “We knew if they needed to move something online, they could do it and

go forward with it … The needs changed for some of these organizations; what was pressing in January changed greatly by the time summer rolled around.”

To that end, organizations applied for grants with a little less uncertainty this year. In fact, some of the lessons and trials from 2020 have served them well.

The Whistler Writing Society, for example, received funding for its Authors in the Schools program.

Last year, it moved online and was accessible to students across the province, but this year they anticipate, potentially, a hybrid approach.

“We hope that if we do an in-person presentation, we’ll also be able to broadcast that as well,” Wood Barrett said. “We got great feedback, especially from teachers that were working with kids who were at home. [They] were looking for different content and outreach. That was great. It also meant community members could tune in as well.”

For 2021, the WCF doled out grants under three pillars: Caring Community, Learning and Environment with grants that were in keeping with the sustainable development goals outlined by the United Nations—in particular the goal to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.”

In total, they handed out $180,000 in grants. Perhaps not surprisingly, there were many applications—and grants given—for mental health support.

Pathways Serious Mental Illness Society, Family 2 Family Education Workshops received $1,500, Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia, Whistler Suicide Prevention Training Program was granted $3,000, and Whistler Community Service Society outreach services was given $2,000, to name a few.

As always, there was also a strong emphasis on the environment. “The environmental legacy fund is the largest fund,” Mozes said. “We do $125,000 in granting each year. It has its own granting.”

The largest grants in that category were $19,000 to the Sea to Sky Invasive Species Council for invasive species inventory, control, and monitoring as well as $18,000 for education and outreach training programs.

The Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) also received $15,000 for its climate action and awareness project, $4,000 for its value of old forest education project, $25,500 for 2021 capacity support and advocacy, and $8,500 for its global observation research initiative in alpine environments.

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Calls to police for domestic violence, mental health up in 2020 RCMP SHARES CRIME STATISTICS FOR PEMBERTON, WITH OVERALL DECREASE IN MOST AREAS

BY ALYSSA NOEL CHANGING CRIME statistics reflected an usual year for Pemberton in 2020.

Village of Pemberton council heard an overview of RCMP crime stats at its meeting on Tuesday, April 27, that covered January to December 2020.

“When it comes to the Sea to Sky, when it comes to the province and country, you’re seeing quite a large percentage of decrease in particular areas and we tend to be seeing an increase in areas such as assault and domestic violence,” said Sgt. Sascha Banks. “You have a decrease in harassment, which is something that we’ve seen an increase of in most areas, so I think that’s a positive thing. But your biggest change is you have an increase in domestic violence. This is something we’re seeing across the board.”

Domestic violence was up 31 per cent, from 16 calls in 2019 to 21 calls in 2020.

Banks attributed the spike to the pandemic.

“I’m not a criminologist, but my only assessment of something like that would be due to COVID and 2020. There’s a lot more people who are within homes and that increasing stress levels.”

While sex offences were up by 15 per cent, sexual assault fell from eight cases to four.

CRIME STATS RCMP Sgt. Sascha Banks presents 2020 crime stats to Pemberton officials in a virtual meeting this week.

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Overall, assaults were up by two incidents.

Property crime was down across the board with a handful of exceptions—most notably mischief to property, which saw a 45-per-cent increase, from 33 to 48 incidents.

“That was mainly due to around the One Mile [Lake] Nature Centre,” said Cpl. Mike Hamilton with the Pemberton detachment, adding that foot patrols have been increased in the area. “[A]nd also there was one time a few months ago where a particular youth

decrease, though the cannabis-related charges from previous years are no longer relevant now that it has become legal.

“My only assumption would be you’re having [fewer] people in your area. With [fewer] people in your area, supply and demand decreases,” Banks said.

Intoxication in a public place dropped 35 per cent, likely for the same reason—that the streets overall are quieter, she added.

Another spike—which has also been observed in other communities—is an

“I’m in the midst of writing a business case to try to increase that budget for backcountry policing.”

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damaged about six or seven vehicles— kicked the side mirrors off.” The Whistler youth responsible carried out communitybased rehabilitation, he added.

Possession of stolen property also rose, from zero cases to six. While there was one additional break-in to a business, breakand-enter into residences was down 60 per cent and fraud saw a 53-per-cent drop. “[That’s] fantastic to see,” Banks said.

“Over this past year we’ve seen [fraud] increases in other communities.”

Drug possession saw a 50-per-cent

increase in calls for mental health. In Pemberton those calls rose by 14 per cent, from 87 in 2019 to 99 in 2020.

“This is definitely a trend for 2021 as well,” Banks said. “And this is definitely something we’ve looked at and how we can address this effectively going forward in communities that maybe don’t have a strong mental health and addictions program in their health units. But it’s definitely something that we’re … dealing with a lot more often.”

Overall, traffic safety incidents were

down, with the exception being collision with damage over $10,000—up from seven incidents to 11—and collisions with damage under $10,000—up from 27 to 36.

Impaired driving was down 51 per cent.

While calls for service were down by 12 per cent, Banks said they would’ve expected that drop to be more drastic. It’s likely attributed to calls for help in the backcountry.

To that end, some RCMP officers have taken specialized training, such as crevasse rescue, for calls to the backcountry.

“I’m in the midst of writing a business case to try to increase that budget for backcountry policing,” Banks said.

Another area of concern for which RCMP is seeking a solution is a rise in motorcycle accidents, particularly on the Duffey Lake Road.

Last year, after realizing around 20 per cent of motorcycles—which are faster and more agile than police cars—were fleeing police, RCMP began using an unmarked police truck for enforcement.

“With this unmarked pickup truck I think I towed about 15 of them last year for street racing and excessive speed just in the Pemberton area alone,” Hamilton said. “So that was very valuable.”

For his part, Hamilton has concluded his term in Pemberton and will be leaving the Village for the Okanagan. In his place will be Cpl. Scott Langtree.

“I don’t want to go, but the RCMP deemed Pemberton a four-year maximum spot, so we have to leave, unfortunately,” he said. “But you’ll be in good hands.” n

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Leading thinkers call for fossil fuel halt IN 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons. (Only India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and South Sudan are not signatories.)

Now the world faces a threat as great as or greater than nuclear weapons: global warming. That’s led to calls for a “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.” Recently, 101 Nobel laureates—in peace, literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and economic sciences, including the Dalai Lama—signed a

BY DAVID SUZUKI letter to world leaders endorsing the proposal.

“Climate change is threatening hundreds of millions of lives, livelihoods across every continent and is putting thousands of species at risk,” they write.

The letter points out that burning coal, oil and gas is responsible for 80 per cent of carbon dioxide emissions since the Industrial Revolution and that “pollution, environmental and health costs associated with extracting, refining, transporting and burning fossil fuels … are often paid by Indigenous peoples and marginalized communities.”

It also notes that the Paris Agreement doesn’t mention oil, gas or coal and that the industry—funded by major banks—continues to expand. By 2030, 120 per cent more of these fuels will be produced than is consistent with meeting the agreement’s

change—could trigger widespread adverse effects, including unpredictable collapses of critical biological systems whose interactions and dynamics we only imperfectly understand.”

It called for action in areas including “ozone depletion, freshwater availability, marine life depletion, ocean dead zones, forest loss, biodiversity destruction, climate change, and continued human population growth.”

Twenty-five years later, more than 15,000 scientists issued a second warning, noting that “with the exception of stabilizing the stratospheric ozone layer, humanity has failed to make sufficient progress in generally solving these foreseen environmental challenges, and alarmingly, most of them are getting far worse.” That warning pointed to the increasing threat of climate disruption from fossil fuel burning, deforestation and agricultural production and to the growing mass extinction crisis.

When will we heed these voices of reason?

When will we stop listening to those who have been telling us for decades that “we can’t stop using fossil fuels overnight” as they ramp up production and make no attempts to stop at all? Why do politicians continue to talk about their climate commitments while buying and supporting fossil fuel pipelines and other infrastructure, and expanding production of fracked gas and oilsands bitumen?

We talk about the urgency of the climate and biodiversity crises but act as if we have all the time in the world to address them.

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In 1992 and again in 2017, top scientists issued “warnings to humanity.” aspirational goal of keeping global average temperature from rising more than 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels.

As the laureates write, “The solution is clear: fossil fuels must be kept in the ground.”

The letter calls for ending coal, oil and gas development expansion; phasing out existing production in a “fair and equitable” manner; and investing in a transitional plan “to ensure 100-per-cent access to renewable energy globally, support dependent economies to diversify away from fossil fuels, and enable people and communities across the globe to flourish through a global just transition.”

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Electrifying your recreation A GLOBAL pandemic notwithstanding, it’s been an encouraging week for the planet. Not only did we all valiantly share photos on social media last Thursday for Earth Day, Grandpa Joe steered the United States back into the 21st century climate science with his global climate summit.

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Our own leader ratcheted up Canada’s contribution by reducing our climate emissions by 40 to 45 per cent by 2030,

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a ways off, are all very expensive and will no doubt have teething problems as they hit the mass market.

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Electric dirt bikes with their reduced weight and increased agility are getting more mainstream, though Sur-Ron owners need to remember that these e-motos aren’t to be ridden on the same trails as Class 1 e-bikes.

I don’t think a lot of expert motocross riders are seriously considering going electric yet given the disparity in power output, but it does open up the market to those wanting an alternative access for their recreation.

Think about the hikes you could do if you could blast up an overgrown, drainage ditch-ridden logging road that even some trucks struggle to get up. This past winter a couple of environmentally minded friends of mine in Italy were driving Cake Kalk electric

motorcycles to access ski touring zones (with appropriate winter tires, of course). The Swedish company Cake has also launched an initiative to use this electric motorcycle for anti-poaching measures in Africa. The poachers can’t hear the rangers coming on electric motorcycles. Brilliant!

In motorized winter sports, a Canadian company is leading the industry of electric snowmobiles. Taiga was founded by three former McGill engineering students in Montreal, and was in full start-up mode when it first came to demo its sleds with Whistler Blackcomb and Canadian Wilderness Adventures back in 2017. Since then it has received significant investment and is scaling up its production to include snowmobiles that will soon realistically compete with the gas-powered status quo.

Many snowmobiles are being purchased exclusively for ski touring access, and for that, electric is pretty much a no-brainer.

Like mainstream electric cars, we’re not quite at the point in motorized recreation where we can say goodbye to the petroleum industry. But it’s coming, and a lot sooner than we thought.

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up from the previous figure of 30 per cent.

While there’s always room for improvement, I’ll take that as good news. We have our own targets at the local level as well with the RMOW’s “6 Big Moves” climate action policy, mainly geared for reducing vehicle and building emissions.

While I hope that you, outdoor recreationist, are doing your part already to keep our winters cool and summers from turning into a fiery blaze, there is some technology in the pipe that will hopefully move us closer towards carbon neutrality while we recreate.

Let’s start with the big one. While manya-real-Canadian man or woman wouldn’t be caught dead in an off road electric vehicle, trucks that run on batteries are on their way and there is a big market for them. The startup company that caught the most attention a couple of years ago is Rivian, which has publicized that its R1T pickup truck is delivering as early as June of this year. Not far behind Ford’s all new electric F-150, which hasn’t been unveiled yet but is scheduled for production in mid2022. Owning the lion’s share of pickup truck sales in North America, it will be interesting if Ford continues to dominate on the electric side. There are a handful of other upcoming entries in the electric pickup truck category including Chevrolet’s new electric Silverado and Tesla’s ghastly Cybertruck, but don’t sell your gas guzzler just yet. These vehicles are still

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COVID-19 has complicated international pet adoption in myriad ways // By Dan Falloon CLOCKING IN AT OVER A YEAR NOW, the COVID19 pandemic has seen its share of offshoot trends ebb and flow: sourdough and banana bread; Zoom happy hours; the 7 p.m. cheer for healthcare workers.

But one persistent thread throughout the global health crisis has been what would seem to be, at least in normal times, a relatively simple ask: adopting a new pet.

01 Our adoption tail tale My wife and I were among those searching for a new furry friend last spring and summer, eventually ending up with our Korean Jindo mix, Mary, late last September.

We’d talked about adopting a dog for a couple years prior (read: “Why don’t you ever get me a puppy?”), but with both of us working long hours and commuting on top of it, there didn’t seem to be the right opportunity to add to our family, which already comprised of cats Patrick and Otis.

But as the pandemic took hold, with stay-at-home orders in place and with precautions seeming as though

they’d extend for months (if not years), we started doing a bit more due diligence to determine what kind of dog we might want to bring home while also mapping out other considerations, such as deciding which necessities to buy and charting a long-term plan for when we did have to return to office life.

My wife had grown up with dogs—some absolute sweethearts and one hellspawn that would alternatively seek to claw and pee on any available sleeping head—but had never owned one as an adult, and she admittedly spearheaded the process. I’d been all cats, all the time and had some hesitance over bringing in a new animal I thought would be more high-maintenance. She reassured me, though, that any extra effort would be paid back manifold in affection, so I wised up, decided to take the leap and started looking.

Seems as though countless others had the same idea.

In the United States, a March study by TOP Data found puppy adoption rates rose 34 per cent year-over-year.

While similar hard Canadian data isn’t available, there are numerous reports of agencies receiving hundreds of

applications for a single pooch.

After zeroing in on some preferred characteristics and narrowing down to a few different breeds from there, we started our search in earnest, trawling the websites of a handful of rescues in the Lower Mainland and the Sea to Sky. Our parameters starting out made it feel a bit like threading a needle at the best of times: we wanted to avoid larger breeds but also, well, smaller, yappier breeds.

In many cases, inventory was low to begin with, and those that were available didn’t seem to be the right fit for our situation.

When we did find a rescue with a seemingly steady flow of potential adoptees, including a couple that seemed to be prime candidates, so we diligently filled out and submitted the applications, hearing nothing and, later scrolling through the rescue’s social media accounts, found ourselves somewhat befuddled to find photos of some dogs being placed in what appeared to be less-than-ideal situations, such as families with younger children.

The weeks wore on, but we continued our search locally, fruitless though it was at that moment.

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03 The waiting game

One late-spring Sunday morning, though, I had an email from Free Korean Dogs saying that they’d like to discuss our application for two-year-old Mary.

“Mary is a very sweet and affectionate to people; she loves to cuddle and is very friendly. She plays OK with other dogs, but is a little bit nervous around hyper, bossy, or large dogs,” her bio on the website read. “Mary is also easy-going and smart; she learns new things very quickly.

She will be good for a first-time dog owner.”

Mary had been saved from being sold for meat (a practice that, though waning, is still active in South Korea) living with her rescuer for some months before moving into a boarding house, waiting for adoption.

We reviewed the provided literature from the Torontobased agency, including a lengthy manual, and made sure to set up our initial interview and home study with executive director EK Park right away. While part of the conversation was to assess our suitability as owners, a significant portion was Park laying out Free Korean Dogs’ policies and procedures and giving us the chance to withdraw if it wasn’t a good fit. Park was thorough

With the t’s crossed and the i’s dotted in early June, we made sure to assemble the usual dog supplies; bowls and dishes, gates, toys, leashes, collar, tags and a Webmaster harness.

The items arrived one by one, but with no clear ETA, we eventually packed them away to avoid the reminder that we didn’t know when they’d be put to use. As summer progressed, we started to wonder if they’d ever be necessary at all.

Flights from Seoul to Vancouver were minimal and, for the few travellers that did make the journey, signing up to be a pet escort was not top of mind during the health crisis.

There were points where we saw on social media that the odd dog was trickling across the border into its forever home here or there, and if that rate continued, it seemed likely that it’d be years, not months, before we’d have our new addition, even with Park and her team doing everything in their power.

and committed to finding a good home for Mary (and all the other dogs, of course). Not only do she and the volunteers care so much for each dog, but even at the best of times, the cold, hard costs and logistics of bringing a pooch overseas is a momentous achievement each time, and it’s been complicated immensely by the pandemic.

As airlines have slashed the number of flights they offer over the past year, many have also reduced their cargo capacity, with some only allowing pets to be stored under cabin seats, limiting the number of adoptions from abroad.

Canada’s quarantine hotel program, which requires international air travellers to book a three-night stay at a quarantine hotel on their own dime, has only added to the challenge, given many adoption agencies rely on escorts to travel with adopted dogs from their home country.

Park admitted it was an especially raw time for the organization: an adoptive family had left their freshly arrived pup in the care of family members (a huge no-no); the dog escaped and was immediately struck and killed by a passing car.

We committed to caring for Mary and Free Korean Dogs committed to us, noting it was unclear exactly when she would be able to get on a flight. We completed our paperwork, paid our fees and began waiting.

When the leaves started to change colour, we grew concerned. Our hope had always been to adopt, but with few options, we started scouring the online listings, wondering if we should shell out some more money (up to a couple thousand dollars) to purchase a pooch and have her home in short order.

We entered discussions with a handful of sellers but talks broke down for one reason or another: timelines, distance, even wariness of the sellers’ integrity.

At our lowest points, we were nearly resigned that dog ownership might not be in the cards for us.

04 Becoming a globetrotter As we approached the four-month mark, there finally seemed to be some possibilities for Mary to fly cargo instead of commercial.

The first couple of attempts failed to come to fruition, but then, all of a sudden, there was good news. Mary had a flight to Seattle.

In normal times, this would be welcome news. But with the border closed, and social media reports of adopted dogs en route to Canada stuck with fosters in Washington state for months on end, we weren’t sure if this meant we were all that much closer to Mary, at least figuratively.

When Mary and a group of other dogs were kenneled up and flown across the Pacific, Free Korean Dogs was still looking to lock down a date for an essential driver to bring all the pups across the border to B.C. We were, however, told to be on standby and that we’d likely receive less than a day’s notice to retrieve Mary.

As with the flights, there was hope before it was dashed on more than one occasion. But just couple of days after she arrived in North America, we got word that Mary would indeed be joining us in the late morning of Sunday, Sept. 27.

In a WhatsApp chat that Park coordinated from Toronto, we arranged to meet the driver at a South Surrey strip mall mere metres from the American border.

We definitely had butterflies as we saw the truck pull up, park, and the driver started pulling crates out. Soon enough, all the dogs were unloaded, we had our photo snapped with Mary in the crate, and we placed her carefully in the backseat of the car.

My wife rode in the back with her, noticing that she wouldn’t lie down much in her kennel, but she leaned on the side my wife was on; our first sign of love, trust and

affection seemed to come before we had even let her out.

There have, of course, been growing pains, trial and error and frustrations with bringing in an adult rescue who likely spent some time as a street dog, but they melt away as Mary grows more comfortable with us each day, and she snuggles us more, and is genuinely happy to be with us.

05 The Sea-to-Sky experience Up the road, Pemberton Animal Well-Being Society (PAWS) shelter manager and executive director Anna Scott explains that they adopted out more than 50 kittens last summer, but had a slow intake of dogs, with just two last year and none in 2021, as of early April.

“Last year was very busy as far as intakes and adoptions.

We’ve had a very steady stream of applications coming in: applications for volunteers and fosters and all of that,” Scott says. “It’s sort of dropped off and slowed down a bit now.”

Scott notes that PAWS has seen a spike in applications during the pandemic, but the shelter’s thorough vetting process weeds out those who aren’t quite as serious about taking care of a pet.

“By the time people are coming out to meet us, they’re usually pretty good applicants, but it does seem like there are more applications that are done sort of more on a whim, not thinking long-term about it,” she says. “There are definitely more people who are just kind of bored and looking to fill the gap.”

While the rise in requests has the positive effect of increasing the likelihood of placing an animal in a quality home, the flipside is that fewer applicants are matched with a placement, at a time when there are fewer animals to adopt out. That, combined with the increased workload of sorting through the number of applications, has led to a

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My wife rode in the back with her, noticing that she wouldn’t lie down much in her kennel, but she leaned on the side my wife was on; our first sign of love, trust and affection seemed to come before we had even let her out.

perception in the community that it’s “impossible to adopt” through PAWS, explains Scott.

“It’s great to have lots of applicants to choose from, but people forget we’re all volunteer-run at PAWS as well so sometimes we don’t have as quick response times,” she says. “At the end of the day, we have to pick the best match for the animal and, at the end of the day, we’re working for the animal and trying to help them.”

While it’s difficult to predict when the volume of adoptable dogs may again increase, Scott says PAWS has space for those that need to be taken in. She also encourages families to remain patient and, even with low rates currently, to avoid purchasing from sources that may not be reputable.

“It is a bit worrisome for us to not have any dogs or puppies coming in because we do think that people are just going directly to purchase dogs from these backyard breeding situations, which is concerning because people have the incentive to keep having litter after litter if they’re making money off of it,” she says.

Scott advises applicants to remain in communication with PAWS, following up if they haven’t heard back in a timely manner. As well, she reiterates that just because someone wasn’t a fit for one animal doesn’t preclude them from being the right home for another.

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Mike Janyk named Whistler Mountain Ski Club’s new executive director THE THREE-TIME OLYMPIAN AND WMSC ALUM IS COMING HOME AFTER FIVE YEARS AS GROUSE MOUNTAIN TYEE SKI CLUB’S PROGRAM DIRECTOR

BY MEGAN LALONDE AFTER FIVE YEARS of regularly making the trek down the Sea to Sky Highway for his role as program director of the Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club, Whistler local Mike Janyk is gearing up for a much shorter commute.

The three-time Olympian has been named Whistler Mountain Ski Club’s (WMSC) new executive director, the club recently announced.

“I have to pinch myself a little,” Janyk admitted. “It really is kind of wild to come full circle … I’m humbled by it, one, and stoked and excited on the other side of it too.”

Janyk officially takes over the reigns from Bob Armstrong May 15. Armstrong will return to the prestigious ski-racing club in his longtime role as sponsorship manager and coach, after stepping in as executive director one year ago when the club’s former leader, Mark Tilston—Janyk’s brother-in-law—accepted the job as Alpine Canada men’s head coach.

“I’ve already chatted with Mark,” Janyk said. “It’s nice to have someone to bounce off of. With Mark and with Bob who’s there now … there’s good support around me, that’s for sure.”

While he didn’t relocate from Whistler while working at Grouse, the new gig is still

FULL CIRCLE Three-time Olympian Mike Janyk is returning to his roots. He’s taking over as Whistler Mountain Ski Club’s executive director in May, where he’ll be able to pass on his experience to a whole new generation of ski racers.

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serving as a homecoming for the 39-year-old.

He began skiing in Whistler Blackcomb’s J4 program, before rising through the ranks of the WMSC himself. He went on to join the Canadian national team, and in 2009 become the first Canadian man to ever land on the slalom podium at the world championships with his bronze-medal win. Janyk retired from racing in 2014.

With WMSC’s history as one of the strongest ski clubs in the country, Janyk

that an athlete might expect to feel after landing on top of the podium. “I think my biggest strength in coming back is not playing into that falsehood of getting your identity caught up in the results,” he said.

In addition to that shorter commute, the WMSC alum also said he’s most looking forward to re-connecting with his hometown through his new position. “To be here in the community and be able to engage with where I live and now where I work, there’s

“That’s such a passion of mine—facilitating performance, but helping [skiers] tap into the emotions around performance and working on mindfulness and body awareness and those kind of things.”

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also said he’s motivated by the potential to have a greater impact on the sport he loves most. He’s hoping to use his experience on the slopes and the world cup circuit to help develop the next generation of athletes in a few ways.

“I have a technical eye for the sport, so that helps. I know what it took for me, and for my teammates—the work ethic—and so I can help guide a lot better, because I have an understanding of what it takes,” Janyk said.

But perhaps most importantly, he knows that good results aren’t always accompanied by the sense of fulfilment

some super cool collaborations” that can be pursued, he said.

Reflecting on his last half-decade spent working on the North Shore, Janyk said he’s proud of his work to help retain athletes through to the program’s end, and to shift the club’s culture over the course of his tenure.

For one, implementing a slogan that challenged both athletes and coaches to “Dare to Care,” he explained. That, in turn, helped inspire kids to put in the effort and believe in themselves, and to dream big and believe those dreams are possible, he said.

“You realize how much of a killer apathy

is,” Janyk added.

What he’ll take from his time at Grouse— as well as his work consulting with the BC Alpine Ski Team as a performance coach in the off-season—is a continued focus on creating a well-structured program and providing a clear vision, and most importantly, prioritizing holistic development that puts athletes’ and coaches’ well-being first.

“That’s such a passion of mine— facilitating performance, but helping [skiers] tap into the emotions around performance and working on mindfulness and body awareness and those kind of things,” he said.

In addition to his experience as an athlete, Janyk also co-founded the Mike and Manny Foundation, which provided an annual fourday ski camp with all expenses covered for 10 to 15 young ski racers from across Canada, prior to running the Tyee program.

“The WMSC Board was quite excited when the opportunity presented itself to have Mike take on the Executive Director role at WMSC. Mike’s World Cup experience speaks for itself; however, it is Mike’s five years as Tyee’s Program Director, proving his ability to manage a ski racing development program to the highest standards, that makes Mike the perfect candidate for this role at WMSC,” wrote WMSC board chair Robert Toole in a release.

“Taking on the Executive Director role at WMSC is a natural progression for Mike and it positions the Club with a leader who can take the Club to the next level in the decade ahead. Particularly as we come out of the challenging global pandemic period, it’s exciting to look forward with renewed excitement to next season.” n

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FORK IN THE ROAD

Exhausted. Period.

RUNNING OUT IN WAYS ONCE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE AS WE CLIMAVORES KEEP EATING YES, WE’RE TIRED. Tired of four walls.

Tired of not seeing loved ones. Tired of same-ol, same-ol with barely a glimmer of relief in sight yet, not even that quick trip, from days of yore, to Havana, Hell’s Gate or Hollywood that would perk us up at the prospect of something, anything new. (A change is as good as a rest, my parents often wisely counselled. Oh, yes.)

BY GLENDA BARTOSH Flat brain. Fog brain. Pandemic brain.

We’re stuck. Tired. Exhausted.

Think about that word: Exhausted. I have been for a while now, but it really hit home last week with Earth Day. I was thinking about how exhausted so many things are, beyond our flattened selves and store shelves.

Consider the exhaustion of our homesweet-home planet: Soils exhausted. (“Feeding the soil puts food on your plate,” touts a classic Statistics Canada web page, noting how commercial farmers in 2010 used twice the amount of nitrogen from fertilizers than they did 30 years prior.)

Fish stocks exhausted. (Ninety per cent of the large-fish populations in our oceans are gone, disappeared, fished out.). Water supplies exhausted. (Hello, Mexico, where drought has hit 85 per cent of the country, lakes have turned into dust, and thousands

PARCHED We may all be suffering from COVID19 exhaustion, but the Earth is exhausted too, as illustrated by this Mexican lake that is drying out.

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of thirsty people can’t get a drop out of their taps. Hello California, providing some 70 per cent of the fresh fruits and veggies we gobble down in B.C., and where aquifers are so depleted the land is sinking.)

Apparently all this exhaustion has grabbed other minds, too, for “exhausted” is the trope, the theme, for an interesting new project sprung from an art show in Istanbul.

Exhausted is a collaboration between SALT and e-flux Architecture around a new solo exhibition by the Londonbased Cooking Sections, a duo of spatial artists—Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe—who’ve been making art since 2013 that’s been featured in places like Tate Britain and the Venice Biennale.

Before we get into Cooking Sections, let me unpack SALT: It is a very interesting, very open-minded cultural institution in Turkey that welcomes research-based exhibitions and provides space via its centres in Istanbul and Ankara, free of charge. (Whistler artists with an eye to a broader reach, take note!)

As for e-flux, whose cool emails are also free, it’s a wonderful publishing/archival platform and artist project that started on New York’s Lower East Side almost 20 years ago. It has several arms, including the Architecture one, which is collaborating with SALT on Exhausted. (Sign up for e-flux’s mind-lifting emails on architecture and art from around the world at e-flux. com—a perfect pandemic dollop of artsy distraction.)

As for Cooking Sections, it’s their interest in art, politics and food that grabs me, including this recent exhibition and public project, CLIMAVORE: Seasons Made to Drift, at SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul.

We’ve got your basic omnivores, herbivores, carnivores, locavores. Now CLIMAVORE explores how what we eat and the way we do it changes the climate, and vice versa. It also examines how our bodies themselves are changing with all the changing matter we’re putting into them. “Microplastics now discoverable in human organisms” read The Guardian headline last summer and, yup, those microplastics accumulate in us, just like they do everywhere.

Changing rain patterns; changing water tables; changing fishing grounds; changing ecosystems; changing soil content and microbes—all changed by us, the climavores.

All of it getting quite … well, exhausted.

Appropriately, Exhausted features a series of thoughtful essays mulling over just how exhausted so many aspects of our world’s fertility is, from farming regions in India, to seed supplies, even human fertility. It all springs from that CLIMAVORE show, but British Columbians might also be interested in Cooking Section’s earlier project, Salmon: A Red Herring, a book that unpacks the provenance and power of colours, starting with salmon pink. Ever wonder about salmon, as a colour, when we have so much farmed salmon around?

I’ve used the term “Fertile Crescent” more than once in this column over the years, mostly in the context of that so-called “cradle of civilization” where farming originated some 12,000 years ago and we humans seemingly forever tossed aside our former nomadic ways (see this year’s Best Picture, Nomadland) in exchange for a richer, easier, more sedentary lifestyle.

Fertile fields and forests for the taking.

Seas filled with so many fish you could walk on their backs. Crazy, paper-thin illusions of perpetual, indissoluble fertility that conquering, colonizing climavores thought would never end.

While a rebranding to the Not-So-Fertile Crescent is overdue, the original crescentshaped area in the Middle East covered countries like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon (home of exploding fertilizer piles), and Palestine, as well as southeastern Turkey. The irony of basing an art project on examining the exhaustion of fertility in part of the old Fertile Crescent is not lost on anyone.

If you’re not too exhausted contemplating all this, a multi-link to the fading glory of taken-for-granted fertility, the Oscars, and more homebased entertainment is the documentary, Honeyland, which you can stream from Knowledge Network until May 20.

More on Honeyland and bees next col, I promise, but in the meantime, this excellent film from Macedonia was what got me thinking about all this exhaustion in the first place.

Honeyland, nominated for a couple of Oscars last year, features Hatidže Muratova, a lovely woman who lives in a tiny village in North Macedonia, about an hour’s flight from Istanbul. Hatidže, who happens to be Turkish, harvests honey from wild bees in a method used long before bee colonies came in boxes.

For now, let’s just say her neighbours have a whole other approach to raising bees, one that’s very exhausting.

More to come… gosh, I’m tired.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL PEMBERTON SECONDARY School’s drama class might have had to push back its production of A 1930s Odyssey “O Brother Where Art Thou?” but, in the end, it worked out for at least one of its stars.

Chris Beaton, who is playing Pete, wound up with a broken jaw after an ill-fated run down Air Jordan (more specifically the drop below, called Third Step), while skiing this winter.

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The production—which marks the program’s 20th since 2015—has been marred by challenges, but it was kind of fitting with the story they’ve set out to tell, says drama teacher and director Renata Zablotney.

“We’ve all gone through these huge hurdles in the making of this play, which is representative of the characters in this play,” she says. “We fought very hard to make it happen and have gone through our own personal suffering for it and we’re ready to put on an amazing show.”

The production is based on the 2000 Cohen Brothers’ comedy-drama O Brother Where Art Though, but they’ve added additional elements from Homer’s Odyssey.

“We say it’s loosely based because we’ve added more elements from Homer’s Odyssey, which the original movie is based on. We’re drawn to this play because it’s the tale of the forefront of Western civilization. It’s a message that’s filled with hope. We need some of that this year,” Zablotney says.

More specifically, the production tells the story of three men who break out of jail in the 1930s and find themselves on a treasure hunt.

“What they don’t realize is the treasure hunt is an exploration into their souls,” she adds.

“They undergo a lot of changes.”

For his part, Beaton’s Pete, who is one of those men, is full of rage and resentment, but eventually transforms becoming remorseful and reflective. Having acted in a few other PSS productions featuring whacky characters, the Grade 12 student says the change of pace was welcome.

“It was super different,” he says. “The other ones have been silly and fun … This one is more [about] people going through changes and finding themselves.”

Because COVID-19 restrictions are still in full swing, the production—which features two casts for two different shows— will be recorded at the Maury Young Arts Centre and posted for sale, with the purchaser owning both copies.

However, rather than shooting one take

of the play, it will be shot and edited more like a movie.

“I want to treat it like a studio experience,” Zablotney says. “It’s not a stage experience … We have to accurately shift the direction to ‘We’re making a movie. We’re making a dramedy.’ I think there will be more to gain from that. This is also to the benefit of having the media studies crew working on it.”

To that end, the finished product will also serve as a portfolio piece for the actors, musicians, set designers, camera people, and editors who worked on the film.

“We’re trying to showcase as much as we can to showcase the work that we put into it the last couple months,” Zablotney says. “That’s all we have to immortalize it is these videos.”

The videos will be available for purchase for $27.54 on eventbrite.ca (search PSS Presents A 1930’s Odyssey “O Brother Where Art Though?”). You can pre-purchase it now for the May 14 release date. It will be on sale for one week after that. n

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BY ALLYN PRINGLE BEFORE SUMMERS in Whistler drew mountain bikers to the area, Whistler was gaining a reputation for a sport that took place on the water: Windsurfing. As the sport of windsurfing became more popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Alta Lake became a hotspot for many Canadian windsurfers, as shown in the many photos from the 1980s that feature windsurfers of various ages, skill, and standards of dress.

According to Jinny Ladner, a former Canadian windsurfing champion, the first board was brought to Whistler by Mark Dufus in 1975, though not many people in the valley knew much about the sport at the time. Looking at reports from the summer of 1981, however, it would appear that once windsurfing was introduced to Whistler, it took hold and grew quickly.

While you might think that May 1981 would have marked the beginning of the windsurfing season in Whistler, apparently a few hardy souls had already been seen with the boards on Alta Lake as of Jan. 1.

For most windsurfers, however, in May the season was just getting started.

According to the Squamish Citizen Shopper, Whistler Windsurfing and Blackcombe Sports were the two main

which included free use of a board for the summer, discounts on lessons and sales, and free entry into all club-sponsored events. Whistler Windsurfing co-sponsored an instructor course with the Canadian Yachting Association and the British Columbia Sailing Association. They also ran the Whistler Windsurfing Summer Series, a series of weekly races beginning in early June. Race results were tallied to come up with a monthly winner and at the end of the summer, the monthly winners would compete to become the overall winner.

Other windsurfing events held on Alta Lake that summer included the Whistler regatta in June, the British Columbia Championships in August, and Whistler’s first Great Waters Race in September, though the Great Waters Race was not strictly speaking a windsurfing event. As part of the Whistler Fall Festival, five-person teams (at least two of which had to be women) competed in canoeing, swimming and kayaking along with windsurfing. The windsurfing portion of the race may not have been the most successful, as it was later described by the Whistler Question as “a paddling race due to lack of wind.”

Whistler residents were well represented at the Canadian Windsurf Championships in September that year. Jinny Ladner and Andrew Stoner (one of the organizers of the Summer Series along with Doug

“In consideration of the fact that learning how to windsurf involves falling in the water quite a bit, anyone wishing to take lessons should be able to swim.”

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For newcomers to the sport, the Citizen noted that, “in consideration of the fact that learning how to windsurf involves falling in the water quite a bit, anyone wishing to take lessons should be able to swim.”

In 1981 there were plenty of ways for those interested to get involved in the sport, from novices to international competitors.

Blackcombe Sports offered membership to the Blackcombe Boardsailing Club,

Schull) earned places as two of the five Canadians travelling to the Windsurf World Championships in Okinawa later that year.

Windsurfing remained a prominent sport on Alta Lake through the 1980s and 1990s, but the sport experienced a decline in popularity in the late 1990s. While it is less often that you will come across windsurfers on Whistler’s lakes, windsurfing has seen a resurgence in the last decade and windsurfers and kitesurfers will often be found in Squamish. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Allen Ginsberg despairingly noted that many people want MORE MORE MORE LIFE, but they go awry because they allow their desire for MORE MORE MORE LIFE to fixate on material things—machines, possessions, gizmos, and status symbols. Ginsberg revered different kinds of longings: For good feelings, meaningful experiences, soulful breakthroughs, deep awareness, and all kinds of love. In accordance with astrological potentials, Aries, I’m giving you the go-ahead in the coming weeks to be extra greedy for the stuff in the second category.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In her poem “Mirror,” Taurus poet Halina Poświatowska wrote, “I am dazed by the beauty of my body.” I applaud her brazen admiration and love for her most valuable possession. I wish more of us could genuinely feel that same adoration for our own bodies. And in accordance with current astrological omens, I recommend that you do indeed find a way to do just that right now. It’s time to upgrade your excitement about being in such a magnificent vessel. Even if it’s not in perfect health, it performs amazing marvels every minute of every day. I hope you will boost your appreciation for its miraculous capacities, and increase your commitment to treating it as the treasure that it is.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini poet Buddy Wakefield writes that after the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004, “the only structure still standing in the wiped-out village of Malacca [in Malaysia] was a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. I wanna be able to stand like that.” I expect you will indeed enjoy that kind of stability and stamina in the coming weeks, my dear. You won’t have to endure a metaphorical tsunami, thank Goddess, but you may have to stand strong through a blustery brouhaha or swirling turbulence. Here’s a tip: The best approach is not to be stiff and unmoving like a statue, but rather flexible and willing to sway.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): No educator had ever offered a class in psychology until trailblazing philosopher William James did so in 1875. He knew a lot about human behaviour. “Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being,” he wrote.

“They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a person who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using only his little finger.” I’m going to make an extravagant prediction here: I expect that in the coming months you will be better primed than ever before to expand your access to your consciousness, your resources, and your potentials. How might you begin such an adventure? The first thing to do is to set a vivid intention to do just that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Someone in me is suffering and struggling toward freedom,” wrote Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis. To that melodramatic announcement, I reply, good for him! I’m glad he was willing to put himself through misery and despair in order to escape misery and despair. But I also think it’s important to note that there are other viable approaches to the quest for liberation. For example, having lavish fun and enjoying oneself profoundly can be tremendously effective in that holy work. I suspect that in the coming weeks, Leo, the latter approach will accomplish far more for you than the former.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo novelist Agatha Christie sold hundreds of millions of books, and is history’s most-translated author. While growing up, she had few other kids to associate with, so she created a host of imaginary friends to fill the void. They eventually became key players in her work as an author, helping her dream up stories. More than that: She simply loved having those invisible characters around to keep her company. Even in her old age, she still consorted with them. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because now is a great time to acquire new imaginary friends or

resurrect old ones. Guardian angels and ancestral spirits would be good to call on, as well. How might they be of assistance and inspiration to you?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “To hurry pain is to leave a classroom still in session,” notes Libran aphorist Yahia Lababidi. On the other hand, he observes, “To prolong pain is to miss the next lesson.” If he’s correct, the goal is to dwell with your pain for just the right amount of time—until you’ve learned its lessons and figured out how not to experience it again in the future—but no longer than that. I suspect that such a turning point will soon be arriving for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In her poem “Every Day,” Scorpio poet Denise Levertov wrote, “Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.” I think that captures the expansive truth of your life in the coming weeks. You’ve entered a phase when the sheer abundance of interesting input may at times be overwhelming, though enriching. You’ll hear—and hopefully be receptive to—lots of provocative stories, dynamic revelations, and unexpected truths. Be grateful for this bounty! Use it to transform whatever might be stuck, whatever needs a catalytic nudge.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I hope you’re not too stressed these days. There has been pressure on you to adjust more than maybe you’d like to adjust, and I hope you’ve managed to find some relaxing slack amidst the heaviness. But even if the inconvenience levels are deeper than you like, I have good news: It’s all in a good cause. Read the wise words of author Dan Millman, who describes the process you’re midway through: “Every positive change, every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness, involves a rite of passage. Each time we ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): We can safely say that Anais Nin was a connoisseur of eros and sensuality. The evidence includes her three collections of erotic writing, Delta of Venus, Little Birds, and Auletris. Here’s one of her definitive statements on the subject: “Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, jealousy, envy, all the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, stories, dreams, fantasies, music.” In response to Nin’s litany, I’m inclined to say, “Damn, that’s a lot of ambiance and scaffolding to have in place. Must it always be so complicated?” According to my reading of upcoming cosmic rhythms, you won’t need such a big array of stuff in your quest for soulful orgasms— at least not in the coming weeks. Your instinct for rapture will be finely tuned.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “One is always at home in one’s past,” wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. I agree.

Sometimes that’s not a good thing, though. It may lead us to flee from the challenges of the present moment and go hide and cower and wallow in nostalgia. But on other occasions, the fact that we are always at home in the past might generate brilliant healing strategies. It might rouse in us a wise determination to refresh our spirit by basking in the deep solace of feeling utterly at home. I think the latter case is likely to be true for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting,” writes author Emery Allen. “Not everyone is going to stay forever.”

Her message is a good one for you to keep in mind right now. You’re in a phase when transitory boosts and temporary help may be exactly what you need most. I suspect your main task in the coming weeks is to get maximum benefit from influences that are just passing through your life. The catalysts that work best could be those that work only once and then disappear.

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I’ve caught Covid Fatigue CAUTION: Pivot-free zone.

People speak and talk about Covid Fatigue. I have it. But not, I believe, in the way they mean. I’m not fatigued about being careful, washing my hands, using smelly hand sanitizer, not flying, not eating in restaurants, limiting my social circle to virtually nothing, dashing in and out of grocery stores so quickly they may think I’m shoplifting—I’m not.

But I do have Covid Fatigue. I’m tired of hearing about it. Tired of reading about it.

Really, really tired of some of its done-todeath images and messages.

Pivot is a good place to start. Covid has put the boots to the word. It’s rendered it meaningless, hip, au courant, fashionable, nauseating. Everybody is pivoting. Every

BY G.D. MAXWELL organization is pivoting. Governments are pivoting. Style is pivoting.

When everybody is pivoting is anybody pivoting? Or are we all just channelling our inner whirling dervish and spinning like tops?

The word used to mean something. It used to invoke both action and stability.

One pivoted around a base, generally a stationary base. But it’s come to mean any change in direction, focus, intent, frame of mind. And used that way it is as absurd as if I said I was driving to the village but pivoted to Function Junction instead.

It’s annoying. So stop it. Right now.

Before I make you actually pivot until your head spins.

I’m tired of watching news with the inevitable footage of someone having a swab shoved so far up their nose it looks more like someone performing a primitive lobotomy than an effort to corral some mucus. It’s enough to know there is testing. It’s more informative to know there isn’t enough.

I’m tired of seeing people get placidly vaccinated. When I got vaccinated I wanted to feign some kind of seizure just to inject a bit of theatre into the ordinary. I was warned not to by someone I blindly obey.

I’m tired of hearing hospitals and ICU wards are “nearing” capacity. With every wave we’ve heard the same claim, day after day. Like the boy who cried wolf, we’ve become numb to it. Maybe if they do close access to ICU and we see people wheezing and gasping for breath in hospital hallways people will begin to take it seriously.

I’m referring to the ones who continue to believe their parties are immune. Some of who live among us. In mansions up in Sunridge where a big spring break party took place. Like the ones that didn’t work out so well and ended up with their host in ICU. I wonder whether doctors who are haunted about having to make live-or-die decisions might look at someone like that and say, “Hope you enjoyed your parties. No ICU for you.” I’m really tired of those people.

I am hugely empathetic hearing

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about doctors and nurses and aides and first-responders facing and experiencing burnout. But like nearing capacity, it’s information thats effect has been blunted by repetition. It’s good to see some of them taking to the streets. It’s good to hear some of them have influenced local health officers to take steps beyond those tepid initiatives coming out of provincial leaders. It’s heartening seeing some protesting. We owe all of them an unpayable debt of gratitude and a very long paid vacation. But it’s not sufficiently changing the dynamic.

And that dynamic is what I’m mostly tired of. That dynamic is this: The decision makers at all levels of government are

honesty uncharacteristic of high-ranking public officials, said, a number of months ago during a controversy over the province’s inaction, that she and her office advise politicians—it’s the politicians who make the decisions.

And so it is.

I have no doubt most, perhaps all, health officers are hugely scienceoriented. Not nonsense internet science but the real kind. I have no doubt they know what needs to be done. And I have no doubt they’re frustrated as hell watching the upstream politicos making a hash out of their advice and blundering their way into third and fourth waves, making decisions that place healthcare facilities

Clearly there are a lot of doctors out there who understand the steps needed and are increasingly making their voices heard as premiers and mayors continue to try ineffective half measures.

failing us. Miserably. F—Failing.

Unfortunately, there are far too many people—and I use the word loosely—who are blaming the wrong people. They’re blaming the public health officers. They’re threatening them, acting like real life is their very own antisocial media network.

Imagining they’re anonymous because they’re wearing a mask. You know, morons.

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer of Health, in a moment of

near capacity and healthcare workers well past burnout.

Clearly there are a lot of doctors out there who understand the steps needed and are increasingly making their voices heard as premiers and mayors continue to try ineffective half measures. Their voices are beginning to be taken seriously.

The most reluctant provincial leaders are finally taking some of the steps they should have taken months ago. More lockdowns.

Finally embracing paid sick leave. Targeting hot zones with vaccinations instead of treating the decision of who gets them the same way airlines used to board planes.

Yet, in our own province Health Minister Adrian Dix plays political badminton with the federal government over the issue of paid sick leave. It’s long been the Canadian national sport and I consider it one of the answers to the perennial, navel-gazing question of what makes Canadians unique.

Minister Dix acknowledges the importance of paid sick leave. His response? Blame the federal government for not including it in the recent budget. On April 27, B.C. Premier John Horgan weighed in saying he would look at introducing a made-in-B.C. program.

It amounts to the tiresome game the feds and provinces play. “It’s provincial jurisdiction.”

(Insert eye-roll here.) “No, it’s federal jurisdiction.” Supposedly sentient adults believe this divide provides cover for each other’s inaction. But it comes off sounding like a playing field argument—”You’re out; no I’m safe. No you’re not. So’s your old man.”

Finally, I’m tired enough to fall over dead at the day-late, dollar-short approach that our federal government has taken to protecting our country’s borders. While claiming we have robust travel bans, the reality is we have among the most porous borders in the world.

While banning flights from India—finally— the work around is travellers getting out of the country and then flying in from somewhere else. Duh. It ain’t the planes bringing the mutants in; it’s the people.

But despite my layers of tiredness, I continue to lead an almost monastic life.

It’s the only safe course until this nonsense is over. I hope you can continue to focus through your own Covid Fatigue. See you on the other side. ■

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778-834-2002 Allie Smith

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604-902-5422

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604-966-7640

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2034 Watson Way

$1,750,000

Unique Opportunity! Enjoy views overlooking Nita Lake and mountains in all directions.

Close proximity to Nita Lake in Whistler’s Creekside, and all of Whistler Creek’s amenities. Current Cabin has 2 bedrooms and a studio suite for use or long term rental, and is prime for redevelopment. Call today to arrange a viewing of this rare property.

Matt Chiasson

3.5

604.935.9171

#4 - 4661 Blackcomb Way

Situated in the prestigious Benchlands area surrounded by nature within close proximity of Lost Lake and the Whistler Valley trail system, this three bedroom, two bathroom town home has it all.

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#107 - 4910 Spearhead Drive

$1,799,000

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604.907.2717

#62 - 4335 Northlands Blvd.

$695,000

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604.905.6326

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9099 Corduroy Run Court

Michael d’Artois

Lot 1 - Heather Jean Properties

$950,000

4045 sq ft home with 7 bedroom on 1.89 acres, spectacular lake and mountain views from huge sundeck. Unique features are: Pelton wheel hydro generator for all electrical needs & a private gravity-feed water purification system, private boat basin shelter plus community boat launch, sun deck & beach. It’s a sharehold property with no conventional mortgage.

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604.932.8629

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$1,495,000

1

604.905.9337

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This fabulous studio townhome is centrally located in Stoney Creek Lagoons in Whistler Village. It allows for unlimited owner usage and short or long term rental. This studio features a fully equipped kitchen, murphy bed, pull-out couch, gas fireplace, washer/dryer, sundeck and views of Blackcomb Mountain.

Sally Warner*

$988,000

A rare opportunity to have a ski in/ski out location at the base of Blackcomb Mountain and minutes to Whistler Village. The 1 bedroom 2 bathroom floor plan allows for the bedroom and studio to be locked off and rented separately. Le Chamois is a concrete building with a gym, pool and hot tub after a hard day skiing or biking. 2 personal use parking stalls.

3

604.999.8665

#211 - 4557 Blackcomb Way

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The Woodrun is one of the few concrete buildings in Whistler and #107 is conveniently located on the ground floor facing the green belt. The unit features a boot heater, huge owner locker, Washer, and Dryer in suite and the gym and pool access is just across the hallway.

Richard Christiansen

$1,998,000

SOLD

#422 - 4800 Spearhead Drive $1,050,000

#215 - 4338 Main Street

Located just 12 minutes north of Whistler Village and 5 minutes from the new grocery store and liquor store in the ‘Rainbow’ neighbourhood, the lots at Wedgewoods offer privacy, views and light. Each property has been carefully designed to have the best building site available and the services are at the lot line.

Enjoy this freshly renovated one-bedroom suite in Whistler’s favourite slopeside accommodation, the Aspens Lodge. Perched on the 4th floor, this suite enjoys the peace and privacy of the forest next door while still enjoying the pool, hot tubs, exercise room, ski concierge, and common social spaces.

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Ann Chiasson

Dave Beattie*

Dave Sharpe

604.932.7651

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1

604.905.8855

3D Tour - rem.ax/222aspens

$1,250,000

604.902.2779

2

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#305/306 - 4591 Blackcomb Way $1,550,000

#222 - 4800 Spearhead Drive

This luxurious 2 bedroom suite is an end unit featuring two spacious, ensuited master bedrooms. Two private patios to enjoy a main living area with a pull-out sofa. Enjoy the Four Seasons Resort Whistler including 9000 square foot spa, outdoor pool, health club, in-house restaurant and lounge, room service, and ski concierge.

SLOPESIDE on Blackcomb - this 1 bed Aspens unit is a true ski-in/ski-out property with views of the slope from the outdoor pool and several hot tubs. Enjoy being slope side in one of Whistler’s most popular complexes - walking distance to the Village or access the bus system free of charge.

This 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom stylish condo is located on Blackcomb Mountain.

You’ll love the forested setting with quick access to the ski hill, golf course, Valley Trail, Lost Lake and more! This unique, spacious layout offers tons of options for sleeping areas, giving your family flexibility for both personal use and rentals.

Doug Treleaven

Laura Barkman

Madison Perry

604.905.8626

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