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SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AFFIRMS TRANS-BOUNDARY INDIGENOUS RIGHTS THE ARROW LAKES BAND IS ONE OF MANY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES BISECTED AND DISRUPTED BY A BORDER ABOUT WHICH THEY WERE NEVER CONSULTED

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COMMUNITY CASH Local organizations are grateful for Fee For Service funding

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IN THE RUNNING

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SMALL WONDERS

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The fight for tribal recognition The Arrow Lakes Band is one of many Indigenous communities bisected and disrupted by a border about which they were never consulted.

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15 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Harrison Brooks writes about how the latest antics by Washington Capitals player Tom Wilson magnify the glaring problem within the NHL’s department of player safety.

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Let’s remember how to use the Valley Trail LOOKING BACK across the last 14 months, one of the things about our community that has saved my sanity is the Valley Trail network.

As we headed into lockdown and remote working in March of 2020, the daily cortisolfuelled cycle of getting the paper out in a re-invented process took its toll on everyone.

Personally, it forced me to think about some concrete things I could do to survive as it became clear this was going to be more

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than a brief change in my working and living circumstances.

That’s where the Valley Trail came in.

I committed to walking a part of the trail every single day no matter the weather, and I’m pleased to say that I have managed to do this for the most part. There were days, it’s true, where workload made it just impossible to get away from my desk while

foliage, the critters that frequent the hedges and trees, the sounds of my stroll, or interestingly the traffic on foot, bike and everything in between.

I watched geese come and go, a hare turn from speckled brown to white and oh, the many, many bears of the Whistler Golf Club go from lounging in the dandelions to disappearing into hibernation. (A shout-out here to golf course staff who apparently not only look after the greens, but also seem to manage the bears so they stay safe from wandering people and golfers—Whistler’s idea of animal husbandry.)

With more than 40 kilometres of trails, I have had lots of walks to enjoy.

One of the changes that has become most significant is the growing number of motorized transportation methods used by people on the trail. These include e-bikes, motorized scooters and a whole variety of different motorized skateboards.

It’s great to see in moderation because in many cases it signals that people are not using their cars to get around, and that supports the community’s push towards sustainability. (Love the inventive ways

“[T]here are also a fair number of riders on all sorts of motorized units who are literally treating the Valley Trail like a highway and going way too fast for safety’s sake.

(This is also true for riders of regular bikes!)” it was light (but, yay, it’s almost summer and light until 8:30 p.m.), but having that daily goal became an important focus, and getting outside became a lifesaver.

I know this may seem a trivial accomplishment in a town of triathletes, Olympians, yogis and general fitness gurus, but I’m standing behind it.

It’s been an interesting journey watching the trails I travel change through the seasons, whether it’s taking note of

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parents have set up e-bikes and trailers or child seats to get around town.)

However, there are also a fair number of riders on all sorts of motorized units who are literally treating the Valley Trail like a highway and going way too fast for safety’s sake. (This is also true for riders of regular bikes!)

Let’s recall that the municipal policy says that Class 1 e-bikes are allowed on the Valley Trail. These bikes have pedal-

assisted motors, with a top speed of 32 kilometres an hour—which is way too fast for the trail in my humble opinion. You are not allowed on the Valley Trail with a Class 2 (full-throttle bike, no human effort required) or Class 3 e-bike (similar to Class 1, but with a higher top speed).

Class 2 and 3 devices are considered motor vehicles by “senior legislation,” including the Motor Vehicles Act, and are therefore deemed not appropriate or safe for use on any recreational non-motorized trails on Crown lands.

Other “e-mobility devices” like lowspeed motorcycles, powered skateboards, stand-up scooters, segways and hoverboards are also classified as motorized vehicles by provincial legislation, and are also not allowed on the Valley Trail or other nonmotorized rec trails.

The policy was built within the framework of the provincial Motor Vehicle Act, ICBC regulations, the Off-Road Vehicle Act and the Wildlife Act, but perhaps most importantly a similar policy from Recreation Sites and Trails BC (RSTBC).

Our Valley Trail connects all of Whistler’s neighbourhoods from Function Junction in the south to Emerald in the north, passing through the Village, Upper Village and Creekside, as well as other residential areas on the way, and is an important lifeline for us for all sorts of reasons.

It also connects to the Sea to Sky Trail and is part of the Trans Canada Trail, which links up thousands of communities across Canada.

But it is not a road.

So remember when you are enjoying it: share it with everyone, Class 1 e-bikes only, stay right of the yellow centre-line and follow the rules-of-the-road, keep your speeds low so you have time to adjust when you meet other users (especially those crazy tree-tiger chipmunks), tell people you are passing them, dogs MUST be leashed, and right now, for goodness’ sake, watch out for bears. n

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Share the road with cyclists Last weekend two of us were cycling down from the gate at Whistler Olympic Park on Sunday morning [May 16] when a white pickup pulled out from the parking area downhill of the bridge to the Callaghan County parking.

The driver seemed to wait until we were almost at the parking area before pulling out in front of us and then driving uphill in our lane.

The only reason I did not run head on into him was because I was being cautious and had started to slow before he pulled out.

Myself and my riding partner had to come to a full stop (from over 50 kilometres per hour) to avoid a collision.

I would please ask that drivers be more aware of the cyclists on the road (and XC skiers on roller skis).

I will give the driver the benefit of the doubt that he did not see us, or realize how fast we were travelling, but not paying attention is no excuse in the event you run over someone.

Must admit, I am feeling a bit vulnerable here as I had a motorcyclist try and run me off the road the weekend before on Highway 99.

Everyone please ride and drive safe out there.

Bob Deeks // Whistler

Commercial operators at local park provide great service [This letter is] in response to the [cover feature]

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Over the past 30-plus years I have been impressed at how beautiful this [park] and all the Whistler parks are.

There is now a well-treed berm and nice

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A commercial operation has been in place for over 30 years providing a variety of boating pleasure options to locals and tourists alike.

Some 25 years ago I was enjoying the beach with my two young boys, while a young boy

struggled with his board and was attempting to rest with his hands touching the neighbour’s dock. He was angrily met by a woman … discouraging the youth from touching her dock. Later, when the police arrived … [and] handcuffed the [woman], I quickly grabbed the boys and left the park.

Glad the property owners now are brandishing pens and not [weapons]!

I am an off-the-lake property owner in Whistler and think the commercial operation is a great service for locals and visitors alike.

The operation is very neat and hidden well.

The operation in my mind does nothing to detract from the park, it only adds value and enjoyment.

To be able to walk or ride down to the lake and rent a canoe is just so convenient.

If this operation saves just one non-lake boat from entering the system and introducing an attaching species, we should be paying the operator for his service. If you know anything about mussels or Asian Milfoil, you will agree that the fewer boats that enter multiple waterways the better.

The past 30 years has seen residents go from 5,000 to almost 15,000. The parks have seen this increase and responded with flush toilets and parking to keep the residential streets free of traffic, and visitors to these parks from parking in residential areas.

In my humble opinion, I cannot see a reason why the commercial operation should be suspended, nor how it could possibly be rational to think that any noise, pollution etc. issues would be less if this operation was not there.

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Changes need to be made in the NHL’s department of player safety EXACTLY TWO WEEKS AGO, with boxes stacked to the roof of my Honda Civic, I completed my 1,600-kilometre move from Saskatoon, Sask. to Whistler, B.C. And this will be shocking to no one, but there are not a lot of similarities between Saskatoon and Whistler.

BY HARRISON BROOKS With new routines beginning, a new job on the horizon—I am Pique’s new sports reporter—looking for a place to live and getting accustomed to only seeing about 40 per cent of the sky, understandably, it didn’t take long before I was craving some normalcy and familiarity in my life.

Just four days after arriving, I got a small sliver of that normalcy—but not in a good way. On May 3, 2021, Tom Wilson, forward for the Washington Capitals, went on a rampage that included punching New York Ranger’s forward Pavel Buchnevich in the face repeatedly while he was already down on the ice and rag-dolling, and body-slamming and subsequently injuring Rangers’ star Artemi Panarin when he came to the aid of his teammate.

It was the most talked about moment

in the NHL that week, with hockey fans young and old wondering what size of suspension Wilson will get: Because surely he will get a suspension.

Tom Wilson has been terrorizing the league and injuring players since he first stepped on NHL ice, and he’s received his fair share of suspensions for it. So, as the repeat offender that he is, I was of the opinion that he should have been suspended for the remainder of the season, playoffs included.

So, was I shocked the next day when I heard news that he would only be receiving

for Wilson to be suspended indefinitely and for the firing of George Parros.

And they kind of have a point. Every year it becomes a talking point among fans that the suspensions handed out have no discernable consistency to them. So, when you combine that with the fact that Parros has probably caused way more concussions in his career than he received, it starts to become clear that maybe there are people out there better suited to the role of protecting the health and safety of NHLers. Perhaps someone like Paul Kariya or Marc Savard, who both know first-

[M]aybe there are people out there better suited to the role of protecting the health and safety of NHLers. a $5,000 fine, which accounts for just 0.096 per cent of his salary, and is equivalent to just a $50 fine for someone who makes $50,000? Nope. Not even a little bit.

We’re talking about a league that thought it was a genius move to hire George Parros, a former goon and the owner of a clothing company dedicated to making hockey violent again, as the head of the Department of Player Safety.

The New York Rangers, on the other hand, weren’t quite as unsurprised at the lack of a real punishment as I was, and even went so far as to release a statement calling

hand how devastating concussions can be, would be a good fit for the role and would take the job a little more seriously than the guy who owns Violent Gentlemen Hockey Club.

The magnitude of this particular screw up was front and centre just two days after the incident when the Capitals and Rangers faced off again. That game opened with a line brawl, had seven fights throughout and even resulted in the suspension of Pavel Buchnevich for crosschecking a Capitals player in the face.

The worst part about all of this is, all that violence, that maybe could have been

avoided had Wilson even received a one-game suspension, overshadowed what should have been one of the best stories of the year. In that game, TJ Oshie scored a hat trick in his first game played after the passing of his father.

And as much as I am a fan of physical hockey, it’s stories like Oshie’s that make us fall in love with sports. And it’s a real shame that was put on the backburner because the NHL dropped the ball again.

Whether it is player safety, suspensions or supporting things that are bigger than the game, like the Black Lives Matter movement, the NHL has been, and will continue to be, one step behind everyone else.

And the sad truth about all of this is that until the NHL’s old guard is finally removed and replaced by people who have a vested interest in actually making hockey a safe place for everybody, the NHL will always be playing catch-up on things that matter more than the game.

So, if like me, you ever find yourself in a situation where everything around you is new and different and you are craving some familiarity in your life, you can take solace in the fact that some things, like the NHL dropping the ball on important issues, will never change.

If you have any sports stories you want to share don’t hesitate to reach out to me at sports@piquenewsmagazine.com. ■

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Whistler groups grateful for Fee For Service funding COUNCIL APPROVES ONE-YEAR SPEND FOR FIVE LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS AFTER SEEING municipal funding reduced last year due to COVID-19, Whistler organizations are grateful to see the spending come back in 2021.

At its May 18 meeting, Whistler council approved Fee For Service (FFS) funding for five local groups: Arts Whistler ($500,000); the Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association ($200,000); the Whistler Museum and Archives Society ($150,000); the Whistler Chamber of Commerce ($120,000); and Whistler Animals Galore ($101,071).

The financial boost is much appreciated by the Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association (WORCA), said president Dale Mikkelsen after the council meeting.

“It’s amazing … it’s going to be another hard year for everyone, and for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to find the resources to support us is pretty spectacular,” Mikkelsen said.

The money—up from $40,000 the

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group received last year (after it was scaled back from the originally promised $120,000)—will primarily be used for trail maintenance and tools, as well as major reroutes or corrections to trails, Mikkelsen said.

“Basically what it will allow us to do is employ a full trail crew of seven or eight folks for the duration of the riding season, which is amazing,” he said.

“Riding around trails early this season, we’re seeing the ones that definitely got ridden really hard last year, and certainly need some love this year, and so this will help us a lot.”

Some of those trails include those on the west side, and especially those at midlevel, or low elevation, “because they get ridden early and they get ridden all year long,” Mikkelsen said.

“So we’re talking like 99er, A Cut Above, AC/DC, a lot of those sort of Whistler classics that are in that low-elevation band.”

A 2017 economic impact study found that WORCA-maintained trails generated more than $13 million in initial expenditure and nearly $16 million in industry output.

At Arts Whistler, 2020 FFS funds dropped from an initial pledge of about $698,000 to $400,000, said executive director Mo Douglas, adding that the lower spend was still greatly appreciated.

“That made a big difference in us actually continuing to stay active … there was a point where we weren’t sure what our

future held,” Douglas said.

“So between the RMOW and the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy, it saved the life of Arts Whistler.”

In 2021, the $500,000 will help Arts Whistler operate the Maury Young Arts Centre, pay its staff, invest in and showcase local artists, and host events like Art on the Lake… Literally, the Anonymous Art Show and the Whistler Children’s Festival (to name just a few—find the latest at artswhistler.com).

“We’re also working on artist opportunities online where we can build up our artist database and opportunities to hire those folks, or people that are offering courses, that kinda thing,” Douglas said.

“So how can we support artists with their own initiatives along with where we can hire them?”

In the fall, Arts Whistler is looking at some “really robust programming,” Douglas said, including the Hear & Now festival, which showcases local musicians.

For the small-but-mighty team at the Whistler Museum, seeing its initial 2020 FFS commitment of about $178,000 shrink down to $81,724 may have spelled disaster if not for the help of museumspecific funding streams like the Museum Assistance Program and a grant from the BC Museum Association.

With those in play, the museum was able to close out 2020 pretty much even, financially, said executive director and

curator Brad Nichols.

“The museum is truly reliant on the FFS program to keep our three core staff members employed, and we can use that to leverage other grants and for projects and hiring other students and interns,” Nichols said.

“But that funding is essential for those three core staff members.”

Work in recent years to digitize the museum’s various collections proved fruitful when the pandemic hit, as it’s been incorporated nicely into the museum’s Virtual Speaker Series.

“We had a lot of content that we’d been digitizing over the past few years with our photos and videos, and were able to use that to engage the community as well,” Nichols said. “So we were really set up for that.”

The museum is still working towards building a new permanent home, and “finding a location has been the largest hurdle for us at this point,” Nichols said, adding that there will be more to say on that at the museum’s annual general meeting on June 16 (find more info at whistlermuseum.org).

The RMOW provides FFS funding to organizations providing services that, if those organizations didn’t exist, would fall to the municipality.

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‘I will be a relentless champion for climate justice’ WITH AVI LEWIS NOMINATION, FEDERAL NDP LOOK TO TURN THE TIDES IN THE SEA TO SKY

BY BRADEN DUPUIS IN THE 24 years since it was created, the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding has been anything but an NDP stronghold.

But with the announcement that filmmaker, author and activist Avi Lewis will be the party’s candidate in the next federal election, the New Democrats are looking to change that.

“I think that, in part, this hasn’t been an NDP stronghold because, you know, no party can prioritize 338 ridings,” Lewis said.

“So the truth is that the NDP has not been able to prioritize this riding—and we’re changing that.”

While he declared his intention to seek the party’s nomination in the riding on May 17, Lewis—a resident of Halfmoon Bay on the Sunshine Coast—said he has been working for “well over six months, flat out” in the riding.

In the 2019 election, the NDP didn’t name lawyer Judith Wilson as its Sea to Sky candidate until Sept. 17, leaving little room for campaigning ahead of the Oct. 21 vote.

Wilson finished fourth, taking 9,027 votes and spending just $5,518—a far cry from the $117,192 spent by the Liberal Party’s Patrick Weiler, who garnered 22,673 votes on his way to winning the seat.

Lewis’ family has deep roots in Canadian politics. His father, Stephen Lewis, is a former leader of the Ontario NDP, while his grandfather helped build the federal NDP, and served as leader from 1971 to 1975.

He is married to renowned journalist and activist Naomi Klein.

“My decision to run at this point in history is kind of like a personal political decision, but my decision to run here in this riding is really no decision at all,” he said.

“This is where I live, and this is where I’m making my stand, and I feel very, very passionately about this part of the world.”

Lewis originally followed in the journalism footsteps of his mother (the groundbreaking feminist activist Michele Landsberg), which led him to the world of climate journalism about a dozen years ago.

From there, he said, everything changed.

“Everything I’ve done since has been about advancing this idea that we live in a time of interconnected crises … The housing crisis is part of the climate crisis; the pandemic has played out in terms of the inequality crisis, and the racism crisis in our institutions and in our society,” he said.

“And we need solutions now—[because] we’ve left it all so late—that are gigantic, that improve people’s daily lives, and that

solve multiple problems at once.”

In Lewis’ view, those answers can be found in the Green New Deal, and the Leap Manifesto—the controversial political manifesto issued by Canadian progressives during the 2015 election, which Lewis helped write.

At a local level, “to me, the issues in the riding are climate, climate, climate, housing and transit,” he said, again noting that the issues are interconnected.

“When I say it is all one big thing, it does sound like a lot, but when you look at it in terms of peoples’ lives, these are the breadand-butter issues. Where do I work? What kind of work do I do? Where do I live? How do I get from one to the other?”

On May 6, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh unveiled a $14-billion plan to build 500,000 homes across the country, Lewis noted, adding that the country needs federally funded and operated (and green) mass transit.

What else can voters in the riding expect if he’s elected?

“I will be a relentless champion for climate justice,” Lewis said.

The first phase of the climate movement was “all about parts-per-million and percentages of this and that. It just didn’t connect with people,” he added.

“What we have come to understand in the climate movement, is that in order to build the consensus, the society-wide mobilization that we need to make vast changes as we know we need to make, we actually need policies that make people’s lives better in the day to day.

“And that’s what the NDP, traditionally, going back to my dad and my grandpa’s time, has been all about: it’s been focusing on working people, and making improvements that they actually feel in their daily lives.”

Addressing the climate crisis will mean rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in every sector of society, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

“Those changes can benefit everybody, where they live, where they work, and how they get from one to the other,” Lewis said.

“That’s what we need, and that’s what I’ll fight for in Ottawa.”

Lewis will be acclaimed at a virtual meeting/campaign launch event on May 22 on Zoom. Find more info and reserve tickets at eventbrite.ca/e/avi-lewis-campaignlaunch-tickets-153852080715.

Barring an early election call, the next federal election is slated for Oct. 16, 2023.

Lewis joins former Conservative MP John Weston and incumbent Weiler on the list of candidates already confirmed for the riding. n

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Whistler builders contend with RMOW ransomware attack HACKERS RELEASE MORE SENSITIVE INFO; NO INCREASE IN WHISTLER FRAUD REPORTS, CAFC SAYS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THE RESORT Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has done a good job adapting on the fly after a ransomware attack took services offline last month, say local builders— though the attack has presented new challenges in an already challenging year.

“We’re monitoring it, I suppose, and I think we have some concerns—of course we don’t want permits to be held up, but having said that, I think the municipality is doing a really good job of dealing with the situation,” said Chris Addario, founder of Ario Construction and president of the Sea to Sky chapter of the Canadian Home Builders Association.

“They’ve basically reverted to paper, and we’ve been able to get inspections, and they’ve been bending over backwards to make sure that’s happening.”

At this point, permits are still moving through municipal hall, Addario added.

“They definitely are working hard to keep things on track as much as they can,” he said.

“I think if this were to go on for a long time it might become more difficult, but at the moment they seem to have adapted, and they’ve been able to manage.”

The attack—which was discovered on April 27, after unidentified cyber criminals left an ominous message on the municipal website—continues to wreak havoc on RMOW services.

Documents posted to the dark web indicate the criminals had deep access to municipal servers, which will likely necessitate a complete rebuild of the network.

Not having access to online municipal tools like the Geographic Information System map or documents for quick reference is posing another challenge for

PAPER PROCESSING Whistler builders say the Resort Municipality of Whistler has adapted well after a ransomware attack took services offline in late April—but a longer shutdown would have financial implications.

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builders, said David Girard, president of Peak Ventures.

“We’re finding that we are able to book inspections, it’s just different … we’re having to book them directly with the individual inspector, cell phone to cell phone, so that’s unique,” he said.

“And they got their old paper inspection cards out that they used of yesteryear. I’m

glad they still have a stock of those, because they’re coming in handy now.”

But all things considered, the RMOW is adapting well, Girard said, though the situation has presented some unknowns for builders.

“We dropped off a new permit application, in person, hardcopy and all that,” he said.

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If the shutdown of services leads to a backlog in permit processing, it could spell trouble for local builders.

“Whistler has a very short construction season, and we’re right in the thick of it now, and so there’s probably going to be projects that don’t get to start this year,” Girard said, adding that it’s “too early to say” what the potential financial implications might be.

While the process is working so far, a longer slowdown would have trickledown effects on construction workers, Addario added.

“At the end of the day we want to keep people working, and if there is a slowdown, it will have financial implications for people that are on the ground working,” he said.

“If projects get stalled, then people don’t go to work, and that’s always top of mind for me when it comes to getting permits issued, is just keeping people employed.”

HACKERS LEAK SENSITIVE RMOW EMPLOYEE INFO On May 15, the criminals leaked about 82 gigabytes of sensitive RMOW data on the dark web, including a host of whistler.ca web server files and documents from more than three dozen RMOW employees, including some in senior management.

Among the files leaked—contained in a

folder labelled “trash”—were confidential reports to council, personal T4 statements (complete with Social Insurance Numbers), and even the digital signatures of some high-ranking RMOW staffers.

“The RMOW has made credit/identity theft monitoring available through Equifax at no charge for all current and past RMOW employees. We are reaching out directly to employees to notify them if any of their sensitive information has been made public,” a municipal spokesperson said.

As for the implications of digital signatures being leaked, “while there is an active investigation we are not able to comment on any specific details,” the spokesperson said.

As it relates to the web server files, “no personal information is stored on the website server and all content has been in the public domain,” they added.

The municipality continues to work closely with cybersecurity experts, the RCMP and B.C. Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, and has still not found proof that personal information of Whistler residents was accessed.

According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC), there has been just one report from a Whistler resident regarding fraudulent credit card charges since April 27. “[W]e have not seen an increase in reports of fraudulent charges for credit cards located in Whistler over the past 2 weeks,” a spokesperson said.

Pique also reached out to six financial

institutions to ask if they had seen an increase in credit card fraud since April 27. While some declined comment, and others didn’t respond before deadline, none reported an increase in fraud relating to Whistler.

“While we can’t comment on this particular incident, we realize that any time a client is impacted by fraud, it can be a difficult and stressful situation for them,” said a Royal Bank of Canada spokesperson, in an email.

“We review each instance of potential fraud or unauthorized transactions on a caseby-case basis and, in all instances, we work with the client throughout the process. We encourage clients to regularly monitor their accounts and report any suspicious activity by reaching out to us directly.”

According to the Government of Canada, the best way to protect yourself if you are affected by a data breach is to contact Canada’s major credit bureaus to monitor your file (Equifax at 1-800-4657166 and TransUnion at 1-800-663-9980).

If you notice suspicious activity, you can file a complaint with police, and contact the CAFC at 1-888-495-8501.

Find more info at www.canada.ca/ en/employment-social-development/ programs/sin/protect.

COUNCIL PUSHES TAX DEADLINE TO JULY 30 In response to services being offline, at

its May 18 meeting, Whistler council gave first three readings to a bylaw that will change this year’s tax deadline from July 2 to July 30.

“The RMOW has adequate cash flows and sufficient access to funds to ensure that this change in collection date doesn’t disrupt the operations of the municipality.

Forecast cash flows have been reviewed under a number of scenarios and the RMOW appears well-positioned to continue to meet its obligations despite a delay in tax collection relative to a typical year,” read a report to council.

“Delaying the collection of property taxes will result in some lost interest revenue to the RMOW. For this reason and others, the Alternate Tax Scheme should be understood to be a temporary measure. Property owners should expect a return to payment dates that are in line with British Columbia’s general payment scheme in 2022.”

This year’s tax bylaws, adopted at a special council meeting on May 11, will enable a 1.08-per-cent tax increase in 2021, and no increase to sewer and water parcel fees.

In-person service at municipal hall is still suspended, but all departments can be reached (find specific contact info, as well as RMOW updates and a FAQ at whistler.ca).

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B.C. announces $10M grant to Avalanche Canada DOLED OUT OVER 10 YEARS, GRANT LENDS FUNDING STABILITY TO CANADA’S LARGEST AVALANCHE SAFETY ORGANIZATION

BY BRANDON BARRETT CANADA’S

LARGEST avalanche forecasting organization can expect some funding stability over the next decade after the B.C. government announced $10 million in grant funding spread over 10 years.

B.C.’s public safety minister Mike Farnworth announced the Avalanche Canada grant on Monday, May 17, highlighting the vital work the organization does in keeping British Columbians safe in the backcountry. “Avalanche Canada dedicates [its] work to keeping people safe from avalanche risk right across Canada, but it’s also true that about 90 per cent of Avalanche Canada’s services are delivered right here in this province,” he said. “That’s work that will help people right across B.C. and it’s work we’re proud to support.”

Avalanche Canada has been pushing for funding certainty from the province for years, said executive director Gilles Valade, and Monday’s announcement ensures the sustainability of its programming moving forward. “It was very difficult to plan when you’re six months into your fiscal year and you’re not sure how much money you’re going to get and when. This gives us a bit

of predictability and sustainability in the future,” he said.

Provincial funding could vary widely year over year, with, for instance, Avalanche Canada receiving approximately $400,000 from Victoria in 2020, down from roughly $650,000 in 2019, a recent high.

“When you’re moving forward and you get a quarter-million dollars less, it’s a pretty big hit on financing,” Valade said.

The grant will allow the non-profit to expand its programming, including added opportunities for youth avalanche training, and beef up regional forecasting in underserved areas, such as the Northern Rockies, where Avalanche Canada plans to add a second field team.

In the usually “data-rich area” of the Sea to Sky, without the usual number of professional forecasters in the backcountry this winter, Avalanche Canada had to increasingly rely on its Mountain Information Network (MIN), where the public can report riding conditions online in real time. Valade said reports to the MIN doubled this year, and he’s hopeful that’s one promising trend that continues after the pandemic. “I think chaos creates opportunities, and hopefully, the Mountain Information [Network] takes off even more,” he said. “It doesn’t have to be pandemic-

driven, but I think that people taking part in their own safety net, participating in their own information sharing, that helps us and it helps users too because we can’t be everywhere all the time.”

Another promising side effect of the coronavirus has been an uptick in avalanche training, with Avalanche Canada

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seeing record numbers enrolling in its safety courses this winter.

On average, B.C. has historically been home to three-quarters of the avalanche fatalities in Canada, and last year, nine of the country’s 10 avalanche deaths occurred in the province—including a handful in the Sea to Sky. Yet, in spite of an influx of

beginner and novice recreationalists into the backcountry and search-and-rescue crews across the province reporting their busiest winters on record, Valade said the data suggests the public is going to greater lengths to stay safe in the backcountry.

“When you look at the usage going up and up and up every year, and this year probably exponentially, our 10-year average in fatalities is actually on the decline, so clearly some things are being done right,” he said. “I don’t think it’s all because of Avalanche Canada because we’re not out there making decisions for people, but I think people have started paying attention and they’re being careful, even though there might be a sense that some are taking more risks.”

Between March 1, 2020 and March 1, 2021, Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) reported a similar call volume (92) to the same period last year (88), but a whopping 38-per-cent jump in calls requiring mobilization, from 55 to 76.

The volunteer organization is now holding its first membership drive since 2014, looking to add around a dozen new members to its 31-person crew, according to general manager Brad Sills. Applications are open at whistlersar.com/join-us until June 15. n

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SCHOOL DISTRICT 48 EVENT CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS CULTURE GOES DIGITAL FOR FIRST TIME

BY BRANDON BARRETT GRADE 11 PEMBERTON Secondary Student (PSS) Chenielle Qamu’ea7 Wallace had never seen a 24 Hour Drum, School District 48’s annual, student-led celebration of Indigenous culture and language, before last week.

It’s an event that, until the pandemic, would pack school gymnasiums with students, educators and Indigenous leaders from across the Sea to Sky eager to share the traditional songs, dances, and, of course, drumming of the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations. This year, however, it was forced to move online for the first time, and for all the obvious challenges the digital format presented—there was, like everything on Zoom these days, the occasional technical difficulty to work through—the power of the collective message shared reverberated through the screen, like the booming thud of a drum. “Even though we weren’t able to be in one room, you could still feel that power,” said Wallace, who is Lil’wat. “I think that’s what made the 24 Hour Drum this year so amazing and heartfelt and breathtaking.

Even though we weren’t in the same room, we could still create the same energy and feel the same empowering feeling.”

Going online came with other added benefits, too: Along with students from every public school in the district, the event was beamed into classrooms across the province, making it the farthest reaching 24 Hour Drum yet. “That is one of the gains of doing it on Zoom,” said Karen LaRochelle, district principal of Indigenous education.

“People from outside the district can always access the link on the website in the future, but this was interactive with each other, and we would love to grow that.”

The more than 110 streamers heard traditional songs like the Lil’wat’s “Groundhog Song” and “Women’s Warrior Song,” the Squamish Nation’s “Water Song” and drumming from Don Ross Middle School students. But the event also served as an important forum for difficult discussions on matters of systemic racism, white fragility and the ongoing impacts of colonialism, culminating in the screening of a 30-minute documentary that featured interviews with students from across the district. The conversations were at turns raw and uncomfortable, honest and heartfelt, reflecting a year that has seen reports of racial violence and discrimination surge across B.C. “There is some appreciation [of Lil’wat culture] but there are also some people that don’t understand and think of us as a big joke in the hallways, in the classrooms and even some of the teachers,” said a PSS student in the film. “We are people and we have feelings

DRUM CIRCLE Schol District 48’s 24 Hour Drum event went online for the first time this year. A past 24 Hour Drum is pictured.

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and we just want a little more respect of our culture just like everyone else.”

Wallace and her fellow Indigenous Student Leadership Team members developed the concept for the film, directed by Ed Carswell, and she was inspired to see so many of her peers charging headlong into discussions that can be difficult for anyone, let alone a 17-yearold. “It was very empowering for me to see all these other high-school students who are just as passionate as I am about this,” she said.

“It’s very important to shine a light on this issue, because people have swept it under the rug because it makes them uncomfortable.

I think it should make you uncomfortable because it’s not right at all.”

The Sea to Sky School District has gone to great lengths in recent years to incorporate elements of local First Nations culture and language into school life. But, as always, there are opportunities to improve, believes Wallace, who would like to see Indigenous history offered not just as an elective for upper-year students, but as a regular course offering that begins in Grade 8. “I feel like there’s so much that we’ve missed over the years,” she said. “In Grade 8 and 9, I felt very underwhelmed and kind of disappointed there wasn’t a class where I could learn every day about Indigenous culture and language.”

LaRochelle agreed there is a need to incorporate more Indigenous learning into the curriculum, and said the district is working with the Lil’wat Nation on an agreement to increase the visibility of Lil’wat language and culture and move away from a “Eurocentric way of scheduling” to a more inquiry-, project-based model.

“We have a lot of good work that has been done, but there’s so much more to go,” she said. n

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Remote learning turns students into night owls SFU STUDY FINDS STUDENTS GOING TO BED LATER, SLEEPING LESS EFFICIENTLY IN PANDEMIC

BY BRANDON BARRETT RALPH MISTLBERGER IS not what you would call a morning person.

“Night owls struggle with getting up early, and I’m a case in point,” he said.

“11:15 a.m. is when you suggested [for this interview] and that’s like the earliest time I take for meetings.”

A psychology professor at Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Lab, Mistlberger is years removed from his dorm-room days, but he does share at least one trait with an increasing number of university students spending more time online in the pandemic. “People can make up their own schedules as they go along, they can sleep in, they can stay up late, and not surprisingly, that’s what they do,” Mistlberger said. “Among the students, there’s a significant trend towards later bedtimes, and later wake-up times.”

Mistlberger is the co-author of a new study, published this month in the science journal, PLOS One, that compared self-reported data on sleep habits from 80 students enrolled in a SFU course last summer with data collected from 450 students enrolled in the same

course dating back to 2007. Participants kept daily sleep diaries over a period of between two to eight weeks, completed questionnaires and submitted written reports. Fitbit sleep tracker data was also collected from a subgroup of subjects.

The findings showed that students learning remotely last summer slept less efficiently than their pre-pandemic counterparts, went to bed an average of 30 minutes later, and while they were more likely to sleep during the day than at night, they did not sleep more overall despite having no early classes and 44-per-cent fewer work days than before.

According to Mistlberger, it isn’t just the increase in remote learning having an impact on students’ sleep habits, but a lack of structure in daily routines. “Structure is an important thing for what we call sleep hygiene. You want to minimize problems with sleep and maximize the number of days you feel adequately rested,” he sad.

“You want to have a consistent bedtime and a consistent wake-up time. You want to be physically active and you want to get outdoors and get light exposure, or at least have an access to bright spaces indoors and seek those out regularly.”

Students who reported healthy sleep habits were more likely to establish

consistent routines and stick to them, helping regulate their body’s internal clock. Self-described night owls were also more likely to report the disruption of the pandemic as having a greater positive impact, getting to sleep in instead of waking up for that early class, while so-called morning people were more likely to report negative impacts.

Mistlberger noted high-school students, particularly those in their late teens, are likely to experience similar effects from a lack of daily structure, preferring to stay up and sleep in late.

“Kids are more or less early-birds until they start to approach puberty,” he explained.

“So high-school students would certainly be affected by anything that diminishes exposure to outdoor light: they would feel more jetlagged, they would have a harder time getting up in the morning.

“The less structure imposed on them, the more likely they are to stay up later and later and have a harder time getting up in the morning.”

It was a lesson Grade 12 Howe Sound Secondary student Grace Christensen learned firsthand when she decided to fasttrack graduation by switching nearly all of her Grade 11 classes online. It means she had several months to get into the remote-

learning routine before the pandemic hit, and it’s that established structure—and easy access to the outdoors—she said has helped her deal with lockdown. “With COVID and online learning, I actually feel like I was outside more,” she said. “Obviously you’re looking at a screen for X amount of hours during the school day, but you still have your own flexibility to be able to go for a hike, which you don’t necessarily have in a structured classroom.”

Lighting plays an essential role in managing our natural circadian rhythms. The less light we’re exposed to in the morning, the more our body clock tends to “drift,” Mistlberger explained.

“And it doesn’t drift randomly; it drifts systematically a little later each day because the human clock runs slow. It lags by about 20 minutes a day,” he said.

“That morning light exposure will readjust the clock, but for that day, you probably felt like you woke up earlier than you should. That’s what’s happening on a grand scale.”

Mistlberger suggests cool, blue lighting in the morning, and dim, warm incandescent light in the evenings before going to bed.

“That makes the light less affecting of your circadian clock and also makes it less alerting,” he said. n

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Naturespeak: yellow cedars in Whistler

BY CATHERINE LEE BEFORE MOVING TO Whistler, I had become interested in trees. I wanted to learn everything that I could about the different species that governed the forests of the Coast Mountains.

A month before I arrived in November, I signed up for a project with an organization called Adventure Scientists to sample trees in British Columbia. The project I was working on was illegal timber tracking.

The goal was to take leaf, wood, and cone samples of trees—all prized in the illegal timber market—and use the DNA to create a database to track genetic signatures.

Once the samples are collected and sent into the lab, researchers will use DART (Mass Spectrometry-Data Analysis in RealTime) and genetic analysis to understand natural variation within a species.

Both of these technologies will create a fingerprint of the geographic origin of a sample, with the hope that we can create a database to effectively combat the illegal timber market.

The tree that I set out to sample was called

Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, commonly referred to as the Alaska cedar or yellow cedar. From the B.C. coast all the way up to Prince William Sound, these yellow cedars are one of the only trees to grow from the waterline up to the alpine treeline.

If you have ever skied Whistler Mountain, you might have seen some of these stunning trees lining the Garbanzo chair—they are extremely skinny, with shaggy grey bark, and droopy yellowish needles.

Now you might be wondering, why do we care so much about protecting yellow cedars? First of all, their durability, insect resistant qualities, and unique yellow wood colour make them incredibly prized in the construction industry. And as you might have already guessed, climate change is threatening these majestic trees.

In Alaska, studies have found that yellow cedars depend greatly on coastal snowpacks to insulate their roots.

Increasing temperatures across the globe have gradually melted these snowpacks, causing trees to experience freeze damage and subsequent die-offs.

While the species has not yet been formally designated as endangered, as the climate crisis progresses, scientists

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project seeing more and more die-offs of yellow cedars.

After days of watching identification guide videos, looking for trails, and spending hours on the B.C. parcel map, I was finally able to grab my sample kit and start looking for trees. The first spot that I tried was the Rainbow Falls loop trail behind Alta Lake. Unfortunately, after about an hour of walking through the forest, no trees were to be found.

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New coalition aims to protect fish, wildlife and habitat ALSO, BEAR ALLIANCE LAUNCHED TO GIVE ORGANIZATIONS STRONGER VOICE

BY ALYSSA NOEL A NEW COALITION made up of 25 different B.C. organizations has banded together to ask the government to prioritize fish, wildlife and habitat management.

The aptly named Fish, Wildlife, and Habitat Coalition represents more than 273,000 British Columbians ranging from environmental organizations to hunting and angling guides, ecotourism companies, naturalists, hunters, anglers, and trappers.

In the Sea to Sky that includes the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, B.C. chapter (CPAWS-BC), and Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative.

“It’s been successive governments that have continued to not prioritize our fish and wildlife,” said Johnny Mikes, field director of Coast to Cascades. “Because the situation is so dire, really, collectively, a few of us started talking—hunting and fishing organizations talked to their colleagues and we talked to our [non-profit environmental group] colleagues and said, ‘Let’s try to do something together.’

Because … certain actions can help a certain population or species, but there are fundamental changes and rethinks that need to happen in legislation.”

Overall, the group said it wants the province to invest in healthy landscapes, waters, and fish and wildlife stewardship, in partnership with First Nations and communities.

The aim is to find solutions “guided by science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge for improved management of species and habitat in B.C.,” according to a release.

That includes: creating legislation to protect fish, wildlife, and habitat, using existing legislation to address those areas, increasing funding, and creating a new governance model for their management.

In the Sea to Sky, Mikes said some examples of concerns are the mountain goat population in certain areas as well as Chinook salmon that’s almost extinct in

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places like the Birkenhead River. On top of that, there’s ongoing work to help recovery of the grizzly bear population in places like Stein-Nahatlatch.

“Having habitat prioritized when there are resource decisions made, that’s the single biggest thing that will help us across the province,” Mikes added.

Tori Ball, senior campaign manager for CPAWS-BC, who’s located in Squamish, said the issue is pressing.

“We’ve seen collaborative efforts like this coalition moving forward on important issues in B.C., and we have no time to waste with the rampant global biodiversity crisis and declining wildlife populations across the province,” she said in a release.

“CPAWS-BC is looking forward to working collaboratively with the coalition partners of all levels of government to improve the state of the lands, waters, and wildlife in the Sea to Sky and across B.C.” Members of the public who are interested in supporting the coalition can encourage organizations they’re part of to become a member or reach out to their MLAs to

express their concerns about declining fish and wildlife in B.C., Mikes said.

“It’s not acceptable to the people of B.C. to have our fish and wildlife in the state they are,” he said. “We’ve come together to say the trends are not great. It’s brought us together and it’s time to ensure we reverse that trend.”

BEAR ALLIANCE FORMED The BC Bear Alliance, made up over more than two dozen bear organizations across the province, launched earlier this month.

The group is dedicated to finding solutions to protect and co-exist with bears, according to Christine Miller, who was the education coordinator and executive director of the North Shore Black Bear Society for 15 years before retiring last year.

Miller, who is co-chairing the new alliance, said the organization’s goal is simple: to consolidate the voices of dozens of groups across the province so they have a stronger front for advocating for a world where humans and bears can exist in harmony.

“When you’re trying to initiate positive

change, say at the provincial government level, they get letters and emails and correspondence from so many different individuals and organizations,” noted Miller. “It was decided that if we had a unified voice, it would be better.”

Sylvia Dolson, who started the Get Bear Smart Society in Whistler in 1996, is the alliance’s other co-chair along with Miller.

While standing together in solidarity, the alliance has outlined a number of priorities and initiatives it hopes to tackle going forward.

Among those priorities would be developing a standardized toolkit that municipalities throughout the province could look to when creating good bear bylaws, solid waste management plans and other educational initiatives to allow humans and bruins to co-exist peacefully in communities, said Miller.

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS A FORMER RESIDENT of Bralorne (in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District’s Area A, north of Pemberton) is raising concerns about transparency at the Bridge River Valley Community Association (BRVCA).

Steve Oakley has owned a home in Bralorne for more than 20 years, and prior to moving to Kamloops this year, lived full time in the community (which has a population of about 60 people) for four years.

In 2019, he sat as Bralorne’s representative on the BRVCA board.

“After a few meetings, I started asking some questions and realized quickly that they weren’t really going to be very forthcoming with any information, particularly around financials,” Oakley said.

“Just really basic, simple questions, you know?”

While BRVCA shares some financial information at its annual general meetings, “they’d just give a kind of a 36,000-foot view of the documents, and really no detail,” Oakley said.

“I asked for some of these documents and was essentially ignored, so then I started investigating well, how can I get a look at these records?”

Not-for-profits like BRVCA are governed by the Societies Act, and are not subject to the same Freedom of Information disclosure requirements as public bodies.

Under the Societies Act, any person can request copies of a society’s financial statements. Under the Act, the society must send a copy of the documents no later than 14 days after receipt of the request.

When BRVCA refused to turn over the requested documents under the Societies Act, Oakley contacted a lawyer,

who suggested he try the Civil Resolution Tribunal, where the matter now stands.

“In this matter, the [BRVCA] is balancing its obligations to protect the privacy of its members, volunteers, employees and contractors with its obligation to provide transparency to its members,” said Pat Dahle, BRVCA president, in a statement sent on behalf of the BRVCA board in response to an interview request.

“As the [BRVCA] is currently awaiting instructions from the justice system regarding its competing obligations, we do not think it is appropriate to comment at this time.”

BRVCA declined to offer further comment, or to clarify what “instructions from the justice system” it is waiting on.

Oakley also had no luck when he appealed to the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD), which funds BRVCA in part through tax requisitions and grants.

Oakley himself served a brief stint as the SLRD’s Area A director (which boasts a population of 187, according to the 2016 census) from fall of 2019 to February 2020, when he lost in a byelection.

The SLRD declined to comment on the matter, noting BRVCA is governed by the Societies Act. Oakley said he isn’t insinuating that money is being misused, or that there is something nefarious going on.

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Does fracked methane deserve “natural” label?

ON HIS FIRST DAY in office, U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to impose limits on methane emissions from oil and gas the previous administration cancelled.

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The UN Environment Programme and Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s “Global Methane Assessment” said, “Reducing humancaused methane emissions is one of the most cost-effective strategies to rapidly reduce the rate of warming and contribute significantly to global efforts to limit temperature rise to 1.5° C.”

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Methane is a powerful but relatively short-lived greenhouse gas. Unlike carbon dioxide, which can remain in the atmosphere for hundreds of years, methane breaks down within a decade or so, but it’s 84 times more potent in trapping heat over a 20-year period.

Scientists estimate methane has caused about 30 per cent of heating to date, with emissions rising at record rates.

Cutting methane emissions is a costeffective way to quickly reduce greenhouse gases and pollution. The UN report found they could be cut by 45 per cent by 2030 using readily available methods.

According to a Guardian article, “Achieving the cuts would avoid nearly 0.3C of global heating by 2045 and keep the world on track for the Paris climate agreement’s goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C.” The report also concluded that, because methane causes ground-level ozone, or smog, “a 45 per cent reduction would prevent 260,000 premature deaths, 775,000 asthma-related hospital visits, 73 billion hours of lost labour from extreme heat, and 25 million tonnes of crop losses annually.”

The report estimated 42 per cent of human-caused methane emissions are from agriculture, mainly from livestock flatulence and manure, and rice cultivation.

Intentional and unintentional leaks and venting from fossil fuel operations make up about 36 per cent and waste sites cause 18 per cent. Some methane comes from natural sources such as decay in wetlands and melting permafrost. (Various studies, including by the David Suzuki Foundation, found industry and governments consistently underreport oil and gas methane emissions.)

Fossil fuel industry emissions are largely from leaks and venting in development of “natural” gas (which is mostly methane, much of it fracked).

In labelling it “natural gas,” industry has convinced people it’s benign, or a “bridge fuel” as the world transitions from dirtier sources like coal to renewable energy. That’s led governments to tout it

as an economy booster and to go into full fracking mode.

For example, B.C.’s 2021 budget confirmed the province will continue to subsidize and rely on the liquefied natural gas industry (mostly fracked methane), one of the province’s main sources of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

If methane were truly a bridge fuel, when will we have crossed the bridge?

The David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute released a study in 2011 showing that, even then, the transition fuel argument wasn’t valid.

Among the simplest ways to rapidly reduce methane emissions are to stop venting and leaks at gas operations (in part by replacing outdated technology), reduce organic waste sent to landfills and improve sewage treatment. Captured methane can be used rather than wasted. A recent Environmental Defense Fund study found half of all methane emissions cuts could be achieved at no net cost—about 80 per cent of those from oil and gas.

Reducing methane from animal agriculture is more of a challenge.

People eating less meat, especially cattle, would bring emissions down substantially, but that will take time. Small measures such as changes to feed and better herd management could reduce methane from agriculture by about 25 per cent by 2030, the report estimated.

While changes to diet and agricultural practices can have a range of beneficial effects for climate, the environment and human health, the most efficient, cost-

If methane were truly a bridge fuel, when will we have crossed the bridge?

effective way to quickly cut methane emissions and reduce their contribution to global heating is to address fossil fuel industry emissions.

We need federal and provincial regulations to ensure methane emissions drop at least 75 per cent by 2030, including requiring fossil fuel companies to cut them at the source by preventing leaking and venting. And, as with coal and oil, we should be winding down natural gas production and shifting to renewable energy.

“Natural” gas may come from nature, but releasing it into the atmosphere is upsetting the natural balance that makes the planet habitable. There’s nothing natural about that.

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

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IT’S NO SURPRISE that the pandemic has had an effect on what we buy and how we go about it. It ignited sales of some products and flat-lined others; it made online shopping an everyday affair for many who’d never even dabbled. There was also an initial surge in people buying in a more socially responsible way, only to fall right back to 2019 levels of I-don’t-give-a-shit-where-it-comes-from-justget-me-my-thingism. What happened?

BY LESLIE ANTHONY When the pandemic started, we were literally drowning in stories of brands giving back—distilleries shifting gears to produce hand sanitizer, car manufacturers assembling respirators, and everyone pumping out medical gowns and other supplies for frontline healthcare workers.

Of course, we all thought the pandemic was a short-term crisis, that we’d just hunker down, have each other’s backs, keep calm and carry on until life returned to “normal.”

Cue summer, and most of the feel-good headlines transformed to divisive debates on masks, health orders, and testing.

Quarantines were joined by curfews and protests in response to yet another brutal police murder. All amidst one of the most polarizing presidential elections in U.S. history, one that unequivocally showed

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what many already knew to be true: science-denying conservatives were only in it for themselves and Shareodin—the god of greed and corporatocracy.

The brutality of the pandemic, whine of political propaganda, and endless sewer-hole of social media left us with more questions than answers. People struggled with what to believe and who to trust; patience was lost with health recommendations and lives placed on perpetual hold. Sick of operating in survival mode, the predictable end result was compassion fatigue. This fatigue also extended to the environment.

A February 2021 survey of 4,000 adults in the U.K. showed that 52 per cent of people declared themselves more environmentally conscious than prior to the pandemic; almost half claimed “a lot more” so. This wasn’t, however, mirrored by action; the survey found people were taking considerably fewer steps towards sustainable consumption than in December 2019, when a similar survey was conducted. Where 37 per cent reported eating local and seasonal produce to reduce food-transport CO2 in 2019, the figure was down to 25 per cent by February 2021. Comparable figures for the number of households claiming reductions in meat consumption were 31 per cent vs. 21 per cent. Veganism fell from five per cent to four per cent. And there was a huge drop in the rate of those claiming to be engaged in recycling over the period: from 73 per cent to 51 per cent. And while 61 per cent of people claimed to avoid single-use plastics pre-pandemic, this had tumbled to just 36 per cent in February.

And so, it seems, we’re back on the consumption train with little care to what we run over. This is indeed unfortunate given early pandemic-induced awareness that consumerism was at the root of most of the world’s problems, from environmental degradation, the biodiversity crisis and pandemics, to the plastics catastrophe, climate change and inequality. Is there a way out of this? Would we care if there was one?

Enter J.B. MacKinnon (The 100-Mile Diet, The Once and Future World) and his new book The Day the World Stops Shopping, in which the prize-winning B.C. author considers what would happen to our economy, environment, products and persons if we simply got off the consumption train. “We can’t stop shopping.

And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma,” he begins.

As the book’s promotion puts it, the planet says we consume too much: in North America, we burn the Earth’s resources five times faster than they can regenerate.

And despite efforts at green consumption— recycling, increased energy efficiency, solar power—we’ve yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions. The economy counters that we must always consume more, because, as per the pandemic, even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment and bankruptcy. Addressing this paradox head-on, MacKinnon investigates whether there’s a way to reduce consumption to Earth-saving levels without triggering total economic collapse.

One big takeaway is that changes can—and must—be made in the system at large to encourage companies to make longer-lasting products, and to

build a part of the economy dedicated to repairing and up-cycling products. France, for instance, recently said you cannot deliberately plan for your product to fail (e.g., think of the planned obsolescence of cellphones). Europe is also talking about lifespan labelling for products, and tax deductions for repair. Other solutions exist in sustainable fashion: one company can now dissolve cotton, reconstitute it as cellulose and remake that into fabric; it can also dissolve polyester, turn it into plastic pellets, then re-spin these into more polyester—classic circular economy stuff.

During an online Vancouver Public Library conversation between MacKinnon and Tzeporah Berman of Stand.org, a viewer questioned society’s focus on GDP growth as our standard economic metric. “Trump is the clearest example yet of what a total focus on economic growth can result in,” said MacKinnon of the administration’s willingness to scrap literally every environmental and climate regulation “to jack up GDP so the economy looked great at the end of an election cycle—but all governments are participating in that now.”

Clearly governments won’t lead us away from the sacred feedlot of consumerism after the pandemic, leaving it up to companies to instil sustainability in their business and marketing models. Though it’s anathema to talk about it in corporate circles, they know, as we do, that buying fewer things is the greenest thing you can do.

Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. ■

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he United States and Canada closed their shared border to “non-essential travel” to curb the spread of COVID19 on March 21, 2020. Spring turned to summer and then fall, and the closure was extended; it was the first

time in a long time that Rick Desautel, a member of the Arrow Lakes Band and a descendant of Sinixt First Nation, did not drive north across the border from his home on the Colville Reservation in Washington to hunt in his tribe’s ancestral lands.

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Desautel’s right—and by extension, disrupted by a colonial border they were the right of any tribal member of the never consulted about.

Arrow Lakes Band—to hunt those lands Throughout court arguments, has been the focus of litigation that began attorneys representing the Canadian after a strategic elk hunt by Desautel a government maintained that the hunt decade ago in 2010, at the direction of the was illegal, calling Desautel a “foreign Colville tribal council. He hunted without national.” They insisted that the Sinixt a licence, and then he turned himself in people had “enthusiastically” moved to the Canadian game wardens. It was south to take up farming, abandoning part of a concerted effort by Desautel their traditional lifeways—practices and the tribe to reaffirm their rights as like hunting, salmon fishing and Indigenous people and thereby challenge navigating the Arrow Lakes in sturgeonthe Canadian government’s 1956 nose canoes. During an appeal in the assertion that the Sinixt were “extinct.” lower courts, attorney Glen Thompson The case, which was heard in October by told the judge: “If you say, as [Desautel] the Supreme Court of Canada, asked the does, that Aboriginal Peoples of Canada question: Do today’s U.S.-based Arrow can live anywhere, you effectively say Lakes Band tribal members, as Sinixt that Canada’s borders don’t matter. The descendants driven from their ancestral sovereignty of Canada gets erased.” lands in Canada, have a legal right to hunt In every lower court decision, however, their historic territory in British Columbia, judges had ruled in Desautel’s favour. without being Canadian citizens?

The absence of Arrow Lakes Band people Last month, seven of the Supreme from their ancestral lands and their move Court justices affirmed the lower courts’ south across the border did not constitute rulings and answered: Yes. The Sinixt never a de facto cessation of their lands, judges ceded their lands or their rights, and they found: “The Sinixt did not voluntarily persisted through colonization. A decision and enthusiastically choose allotments that would deny rights to Indigenous and farming over their traditional life; it people “who were forced to move out of was a matter of making the best choice Canada would risk perpetuating the out of a number of bad choices,” wrote historical injustice suffered by Aboriginal Provincial Court Judge Lisa Mrozinski in peoples at the hands of Europeans,” the her 2017 decision in Nelson. “Nothing in majority wrote. Two justices dissented, the evidence supports a finding that in arguing that the Arrow Lakes Band did not doing so the Sinixt gave up their claim to fit the definition of “Aboriginal peoples of their traditional territory.”

Canada,” a previously undefined term, and For Desautel, the man behind the case, that they had not established “continuity” it marks the end of a 10-year journey filled with pre-European contact practices. with courtrooms, appeals and testimony.

The immediate result is that Arrow “Boy, I tell you I’ve been about as nervous Lakes Band tribal members officially as a goddamn long-tail cat in a room full have a legal right to hunt their ancestral of rocking chairs for the past few days,” he lands in Canada. It also means that the said by phone following the ruling. But Canadian courts recognize that the Sinixt after years of holding his breath, waiting to people persist, with their Indigenous hear a final verdict, he can finally exhale. rights to land, culture and resources intact. “I’m feeling very relieved, I’m feeling very Because of Desautel’s case, tribal nations happy. I’m feeling all kinds of things.” based in what is now the U.S., with historic ties to what is now Canada, can seek to have This story was originally published in High their rights recognized in Canada. Twelve Country News on April 21. A companion tribal nations and organizations from either HCN story, “A hunt for tribal recognition at side of the border had intervened in the the U.S.-Canada border,” was republished case, which drew international attention. by Pique on Nov. 21, 2019.

The Arrow Lakes Band is just one of many Anna V. Smith is an assistant editor for Indigenous communities bisected and High Country News. ■

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Another slow climbing season expected with COVID-19 restrictions still in place WITH FEWER INTERNATIONAL CLIMBERS ABLE TO TRAVEL THIS YEAR, IT COULD BE A GOOD SEASON FOR NEW CLIMBERS TO GET OUT OF THE GYM

BY HARRISON BROOKS WITH THE snow beginning to disappear and the weather slowly but surely starting to warm up, Sea to Sky locals have switched focus from the slopes to the trails and crags.

And with COVID-19 restrictions continuing to linger and fewer international climbers able to travel to enjoy local routes, the Squamish Access Society (SAS) expects another slower year for the upcoming 2021 climbing season.

However, fewer crowds on the crags and cliffs could be good news for new climbers that are looking to make the jump from gym climbing to outdoor.

If you are a new climber looking to get outdoors for this season, there are some things to keep in mind to both stay safe and make sure everyone can enjoy the mountains.

According to Will Stanhope, pro climber for Arc’teryx, who will be giving a crack climbing clinic at the upcoming Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival in June, a couple of easy things that can be done to get the most out of climbing include avoiding the use of leaky hydration packs,

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which often become more of a hassle than anything, and also packing real food.

“I think the big mistake people make is they basically just bring candy when they go climbing and kind of crash when the sugar buzz wears off,” said Stanhope.

“So a tasty sandwich and an apple goes a long way.”

when they come across a slower climbing party, “not to get too aggro” and to just “be nice and give everyone the time of day.”

And if you are still nervous about getting out there, or don’t know where to start, there are organizations like Belay All that are dedicated to helping people get started while making climbing a more inclusive

“I would just say if you’re new, a great investment is to hire a certified ACMG guide and learn the basics.”

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But the No. 1 thing for new climbers, according to both Stanhope and the SAS, is to go with an experienced climber until you get your feet under you.

“I would just say if you’re new, a great investment is to hire a certified ACMG guide and learn the basics,” said Stanhope.

“That is really well worth the money and a lot safer than freestyle. Also, place protection early and often—don’t be afraid to do some mock leading before you do some real leading—and clean up after yourself.”

Stanhope also urged any veteran climbers who might be a little annoyed

sport for everybody.

Founded in 2018 by Anaheed Saatchi and their climbing partner at the time, Belay All started as a simple meet up group for people like Saatchi to get together and create their own community of climbers.

“And then, since 2018, we’ve grown in the sense that there’s a lot of need for different spaces,” said Saatchi. “But there’s also a need to challenge climbing culture.

A lot of the power in the industry is pretty uniformly in the hands of [cisgender] white dudes. And at this point, you know, that just doesn’t bode well.

“Everyone’s welcome [in Belay All]. We talk about things pretty transparently and are intentionally challenging norms. So asking folks who would normally take up a lot of space to take up less space, asking folks who would normally be really shy to try new things and see if climbing can be something that they vibe with.”

Along with raising awareness and consulting with industry, Saatchi and Belay All still continue to set up weekly climbing gym meet-ups and monthly training meetups to teach new members some of the basics like “intro to rope,” how to anchor and “all that sort of technical stuff.”

However, much like everything else during the pandemic, those things need to be postponed until the vaccination rollout is complete and the travel restrictions are lifted.

But Saatchi is still hopeful that they will be able to take a group out climbing later this summer.

“It doesn’t really make sense for me to go to Squamish while focused on the process of being vaccinated,” said Saatchi.

“And so that just looks like more lowkey, less formal gym meet-ups and then there’s a few things in the works maybe later in the summer, but it’s kind of on hold until that artery of travel feels better.”

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In the first five years of this program, 17 of 24 athletes have gone on to compete for the Canadian National team. When asked about that success, WNDC head coach Etienne Letondeur pointed to some of the unique advantages that training at the 2010 Olympic venue in the Callaghan Valley can offer that other places can’t.

“I think there’s a lot of different reasons for that [success], the first one is probably the quality of the program. It’s usually a big step forward in their pathway, compared to what they do at home. Not all the biathletes in the country have access to the Olympic facilities,” he said.

“And that’s a huge bonus for us. We’re training every day on world-class facilities so it’s pretty amazing. Also, we have access to snow a lot longer than some of our competitors and then we get back on snow earlier, usually like early November. That gives us a lot of time to practice and get better at the technique and the efficiency.”

However, according to Logan Pletz, one of the WNDC’s top athletes, a lot of the credit needs to also go to Letondeur himself and his focus on making them more wellrounded athletes.

“I really enjoy working with him because he gets straight to the point with whatever he wants to tell you, and it’s super effective in the training environment because you always know exactly what he thinks,” said Pletz. “[Letondeur] definitely advocated for us to be complete athletes, so not just excelling in the sport of biathlon, but also helping us with our running technique, our gym technique when we’re working out, mountain biking or road biking and just sort of considering the skills required for all these different sports.

“And so because of that, as a group, we’ve been able to improve not only in the cross country skiing but also in a bunch of other physical areas as well.”

Pletz, who hails from Regina, Sask., is one of five athletes in the WNDC’s Podium Program, where the focus is on taking that next step and making the Canadian national team. The six other full-time athletes are in the Performance Program, which focuses on the technical things needed to become elite athletes.

With most of the athletes still too young to compete for spots on the 2022 Olympic team, Letondeur said the goal for this season is to get his team more international exposure at

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events like the World Junior Championships and ultimately take these athletes, who are at the top of the provincial level, and get them ready to make the national team.

But that doesn’t mean members of the Podium Program, like Pletz, don’t have their sights set on the Olympics in the future.

“I like to keep [the Olympics] in mind.

For anybody on my team or anybody training at the level that we are, that’s just going to be the end goal. But I think that 2026 and 2030 would be more realistic expectations for me,” said Pletz.

“This coming season. I think that I’m definitely looking to qualify for the World Junior Championship again. There’s the World Cup races and then there’s what’s called the IBU circuit which is sort of feeder races that are the level under the World Cup. And I think that would be a challenging goal for me but definitely pretty realistic.”

However, these Olympic dreams don’t come without their fair share of outside challenges, too. One of the biggest struggles for biathletes is money, as the sport isn’t funded at the same level as some of the other Olympic sports. According to Pletz, the cost for each season can be upwards of $30,000, which can add the additional challenge of balancing work and training.

Going into his sixth year as the WNDC’s head coach, Letondeur is extremely impressed with the commitment level of his athletes, especially considering the burden those financial challenges can have on his young team.

“These athletes are all pretty young and some of them are coming from quite far [away],” he said.

“We have people from Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and moving here is a big commitment. Like, time and money. So I’m pretty impressed by that because not everyone is that committed to their sport.” n

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A little taste of paradise; a little rocket fuel HONEY DELIVERS A SWEET BOOST WHEN YOU GET THE RIGHT STUFF AN OLD BEEKEEPER interviewed on CBC Radio ages ago shared a secret I’ll never forget: He eats a teaspoon of honey every night before bedtime. Rocket fuel for the brain, he explained. Rocket fuel to keep those neurons firing all night long.

Delores Franz Los has a honey secret, too. She’s got loads of them, actually, but

BY GLENDA BARTOSH this is a favourite: “People say if you eat a teaspoon of honey a day, you’ll never get a cold,” she says. She does (eat a teaspoon a day) and she never does (get a cold).

Imagine how healthy the beekeeper is who lives on the Greek Island of Ikaria and reports that he eats a kilo of honey a week!

Delores, in case you didn’t meet her in Alyssa Noel’s great article in Pique, April 8, has set up something wonderful—a community beehive project in Pemberton so anyone, especially kids, can get up close and personal with bees. Given she’s kept bees for more than four decades (she first moved to the Sea to Sky in 1977), she’s also pretty much a honey expert in my books.

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Powerful, good for you, and embedded in our cultural lexicon since ancient times—the Greek term for golden strands of dripping honey also means “paradise”—you can’t go wrong with a jar of good honey in your cupboard. The key is the word “good” and that means knowing where your honey comes from and how to keep it properly.

“Just be careful which honey you buy so you don’t get corn syrup or rice syrup in it—but you just get real honey,” Delores cautions. I bet you’ve heard that in the news, too: Stories of honey adulterated with corn syrup, glucose syrup, you name it—anything cheaper to produce than that real thing.

Thankfully, Canada has strong standards for ensuring honey produced here is 100-per-cent genuine. In fact, Delores’ honey has been used to develop testing protocols for honey purity. But that isn’t the case around the world. Even the U.S. has pretty lax regulations. To top things off, you don’t know how carefully processors have handled it, so buyer beware.

Your best source is a reliable beekeeper and, yes, Delores does sell some of the 400 pounds of honey her hives in Pemberton Valley produce annually. But, sorry, she has no capacity for new customers, so ask around wherever you live for a reliable producer. There are dozens from Lillooet on down through the Fraser Valley, plus check out your local farmers’ market when it’s up and running. Squamish Climate Action Network and Pemberton Farmers’ Institute are also good resources.

Once you get your good, reliably produced

honey home, take good care of it. Real honey will crystallize over time. To liquify it, just set it in a pan of warm water. Never boil or microwave it, warns Delores. And if you need to store it a while, simply pop it in the freezer to keep it fresh, like she does, then let it warm up at room temperature.

BEES LOVE IT WHEN YOU MESS UP Honey is so amazing, if I could, I’d personally thank each and every one of the 50,000 to 80,000 honeybees in a hive that make it and pollinate our crops and wildflowers at the same time.

Honeybees aren’t native to B.C. but hundreds of wild bee species are, and at one time harvesting wild honey was the only way to go. It’s a dying art now, which was why it was so exciting to see Hatidže Muratova of Macedonia harvesting beautiful wild honey in the award-winning documentary Honeyland I described last column. Her neighbours, on the other hand, brought in too many hives, which drove away the wild bees.

You might not believe it, but thanks to our huge variety of ecosystems, we have 450 to 500 species of wild bees in B.C. alone! Unfortunately, dozens of species are endangered due to the climate emergency and other human interference. So good organizations like the Master Gardeners Association of B.C., UBC’s BeeHIVE Research Cluster and the Native Bee Society of B.C. are trying to reverse the trend.

Most wild bees fly for only two to four

weeks, depending on the species, the weather and the availability of forage.

Unlike honeybees, which Delores says travel up to 12 kilometres in search of nectar and pollen, wild bees don’t fly far—the length of a football field, max.

That’s where we humans can lend a hand.

Adding wildflowers bees love to your garden and lawn is a great first step. East Van Bees, for one, makes it easy with their wildflower pollinator bee blend. (They also run a “host a hive” program you can join, and sell beeswax food wraps like Pemberton’s young activist, Sam Tierney, is a fan of.)

As for lawns, join the craze and stop mowing it! Think of the time and energy you’ll save on all levels by letting those dandelions bloom. Even local park managers are finally following a popular strategy in Europe—only mowing small areas in parks, allowing the rest to go “au natural” for bees and their buddies.

Let your hair down and your yard get messy. Stop raking up those leaves! Seventy per cent of B.C.’s hundreds of wild bee species nest in the ground in tunnels, and often struggle to find a safe place to lay their eggs. Messy gardens and lawns provide the hollow stalks and leaves they need. These bees also use mud, so leave out water to help them make their own.

Happy bee helping! I’m off for a teaspoon of rocket fuel now.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who keeps two sources of clean water outside year-round, one on the ground. n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL STEPHANIE LOWE might have an arsenal of compelling personal anecdotes, but there’s one in particular that she says sums her up best.

She and her husband Murray were living in L.A. when he got offered a job in Whistler. Lowe, an American originally from New York State, had never been to the resort. “[Murray] said, ‘I got offered this opportunity in Whistler, Canada,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘Cool. Let’s do it!’”

That’s how, in 2018, the couple became new Whistlerites—sight unseen.

The move might have been spurred by Murray’s job, but it ended up being equally fruitful for Lowe. While she had started her career as an artist—earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in sculpting from the University of Central Florida, after getting married and having kids—her life unexpectedly took her down another path.

After relocating to L.A., Lowe had been researching opportunities for ceramicists in the art scene when she came across a

CLAY ART This fox sculpture is just one of 13 pieces Stephanie Lowe will have featured in Small Wonders at the Foyer Gallery.

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program called Free Arts for Abused Children.

“Something dragged me there,” she says. “I finally got into their training program and it lead to [teaching art in a] level-four lockdown facility for damaged teens.”

Her learning curve was steep. She quickly discovered lessons like the coilbound sketchbooks she wanted to bring the kids weren’t allowed (the metal coil proving too dangerous) with the same holding true

evenings and on the six-week summer break was not realistic.

“It possessed me,” Lowe said. “When I first started I thought, ‘Well, I’ll teach during the day and work in my clay studio at night or in the summer.’ It literally took everything out of me. I had no creativity left.”

So, when the prospect of moving north to the mountains came up, she realized it could be a good opportunity to retire

“COVID, as horrible as it’s been and tragic for so many people, it’s allowed me to stop and make … It’s one of the things I can feel gratitude for.”

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for her typical sculpting tools.

Still, she says, “it sparked a passion. I loved my studio, I loved what I was doing, I wanted to continue being a full-time artist, but what happens to kids with trauma when you give them the tools for art, it impassioned me.”

Ultimately, that led to her earning teaching credentials and working in tough, inner-city L.A. classrooms.

While she loved the work, she realized her plan of focusing on her own art in

from teaching and throw herself back into her art.

It turns out, that instinct was right.

While it took a while before their Black Tusk Village home was renovated, once Lowe had her studio space, she immediately set to work again.

“With clay work, I was experimenting with finishes on cups and bowls—not doing sculpture much. I literally spent from July 2019 to now experimenting with clay finishes—lots of colour, shapes, layers,

things like that,” she says.

While she first started her sculpting career working in woodcarving, clay has long been her medium of choice.

“I love clay,” she says. “A lot of my work has feminist leanings—even though a lot of men use clay, the medium itself is like a woman. It’s malleable and forgiving, but push her too far and she breaks.”

To that end, holed up in her studio throughout the pandemic, Lowe has been prolific in creating both functional art and sculptures.

“This is just the start for me,” she says.

“COVID, as horrible as it’s been and tragic for so many people, it’s allowed me to stop and make … It’s one of the things I can feel gratitude for.”

Another is her debut Sea to Sky corridor art show called Small Wonders at Squamish’s Foyer Gallery.

Lowe will have 13 sculptures featured alongside the work of textile artist Lorna Moffat. They will run the gamut from her popular figure vases to different characters wearing masks. “I’ve done masks for many years and I returned to it because masking is such a big subject for all of us now,” she says. “I almost want to say tongue-in-cheek, remember when masking was fun?”

Small Wonders runs at the Foyer Gallery from May 21 to June 29.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL LOOKING FOR A SAFE, fun activity to do with your friends? Maybe you just want to pick up a new hobby—or even brush up on your art skills in time for wildflower season.

Cary Campbell Lopes—who you might know from her Paintertainment business— has just started hosting acrylic painting classes on Zoom. The sessions—which require a minimum three-person sign up— take place Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.

However, groups of four can reach out to start new classes at different times as well.

Classes are $120 per person for a set of three sessions. Participants will need a basic primary acrylic paint set along with burnt sienna (recommended), flat and round brushes, a small canvas, and carbon or transfer paper or white pastel for tracing (optional).

To sign up, or for more information, email cary@paintertainment.ca.

If you want to get a taste of what’s on offer you can also check out Lopes’ free downloadable paint session from the Lost Lake Dock as part of the virtual festivities for this year’s GO Fest.

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POP-UP SHOP RETURNS Remember the Dream Big Vintage Collective, a pop-up shop that showcased hand-picked vintage clothes and sold them alongside other local artisan goods?

Well, Helen Hamilton is set to rebrand that concept as Strange Daze Collective after her partner left the company to pursue new projects late last year.

First up: a three-day pop-up store inside Gone Eatery on May 20 (10 a.m. until 6 p.m.), 21, and 22 (10 a.m. until 4 p.m.). With public health orders keeping people from indoor dining, the shop will be set up in the dining

area with all manner of pre-loved pieces for men and women, along with art prints, second-hand books, local jewelry and more.

Tickets are available now for $5 at eventbrite.com for early access between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. with the ticket applied as store credit. However, walk-ins are still welcome.

Hamilton, meanwhile, is also launching an online store to host her limited edition Strange Daze apparel. Head to instagram. com/strange.daze.collective.

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SUMMER PROGRAMMING FOR KIDS AT THE POINT The Point Artist-Run Centre has a range of children’s theatre, music, and arts camps on the horizon for this summer—adhering, of course, to provincial health orders and guidelines.

First up will be Into the Groove Music Camp with Papa Josh from July 12 to 16 and 19 to 23. Open to ages eight up to teens— and limited to eight participants—students who play any instrument are invited to join the band, develop their sense of rhythm, and “deepen their understanding of music,” according to the description. Early bird sign up is $300 then $350 after June 15.

Then, from July 26 to 30, local children’s entertainer and performance coach Ira Pettle will be offering a week of Improv and Acting (for kids seven to 10) as well as a filmmaking program (ages 10 to 14) from Aug. 10 to 14. Early bird sign up is also $300 up until June 15 then $350 after that.

Finally, Making Art with Nature with Kassandra Turmel is set for Aug. 17 to 20.

That four-day camp will lead kids (capped at eight participants) in making natural ink and paint out of plant and earth pigments, exploring eco-printing with plants and flowers, and creating a group art project.

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In May of 1975, Bryan Walhovd organized a race that would become a longrunning springtime staple in Whistler: the Great Snow Earth Water Race. When it began, the four stages of the relay race were skiing, cycling, canoeing and running. The teams of five were required to have at least one woman on each team. The race started on Whistler Mountain, where skiers raced

much they enjoyed the experience. The first years of the race did not have many rules, leading to inventive ways of getting around the course and memorable stories featuring motorcycles, trucks, and even downloading in the gondola with varying degrees of success. It would appear that the race made a lasting impression on those who attended whether they were running down Whistler Mountain with ski boots around their neck or watching the chaos of the canoes.

To find out more about the race and those who raced in it, the Whistler Museum is adding an extra event to our 2021 Virtual Speaker Series on Tuesday, May 25. We’ll be speaking with Bryan Walhovd, Nancy Raine, Trudy Alder, and others to learn more about this race that is remembered so fondly.

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Whenever conversations turn to the Great Snow Earth Water Race, those who have participated invariably describe how

we are busy at the museum preparing for an exciting summer. Our Valley of Dreams Walking Tour will run daily through July and August, with the same precautions and restrictions that we introduced last year.

Crafts in the Park, a partner program with the Whistler Public Library, will also return this summer in a remote format. Thanks to Young Canada Works, we’ll have help with our programs and museum operations in the form of two student employees.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries playwright Samuel Beckett wrote the play Waiting for Godot. At one point in the tale, the character named Estragon suggests it might be possible, even desirable, to “dance first and think afterwards.” In response, the character named Pozzo says, “By all means, nothing simpler. It’s the natural order.” With that in mind, and in accordance with astrological omens, I am going to encourage you to dance first and think afterwards as much as possible in the coming weeks. In my opinion, your ability to analyze and reason will thrive to the degree that you encourage your body to engage in enjoyable free-form play. Your power to make good decisions will grow as you take really good care of your physical organism and give it an abundance of pleasure and release.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you enter a phase when gradual, incremental progress is the best progress possible, I offer you the concluding lines of Taurus poet Adrienne Rich’s poem “From a Survivor”: “not as a leap, but a succession of brief, amazing movements, each one making possible the next.” I especially want to call your attention to the fact that the small steps can be “brief, amazing movements.” Don’t underestimate the power of minor, subtle, regular breakthroughs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s a public service announcement for you Geminis from the planet and god Mercury: You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were three years ago, or six months ago, or last week—or even five minutes ago, for that matter.

Mercury furthermore wants you to know that you have been authorized to begin a period of improvisation and experimentation, hopefully guided by a single overriding directive: what feels most fun and interesting to you. In the coming weeks it will be more important to create yourself anew than to know precisely who you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a Zen Buddhist priest for 47 years, Kōshō Uchiyama was knowledgeable about the power that illusions can wield over our imaginations.

“If we’re not careful,” he said, “we are apt to grant ultimate value to something we’ve just made up in our heads.” I won’t tell you the examples from my own life that prove his point, because they’re too embarrassing.

And I’m happy to report that I don’t think you’re anywhere near granting ultimate value to something you’ve just made up in your head. But I do advise you to be on the lookout for milder versions of that phenomenon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo-born professor Sibelan Forrester is an expert on charms, spells, and incantations in Russian folklore. She wrote, “An empty place where no one can see or hear what one says is the proper locus for working magic.” Spells often start with these words, she added: “I rise up, saying a blessing. I go out, crossing myself, and I go to an open field.” Whether or not you have Russian heritage, Leo, I see the immediate future as being a good time for you to perform magic in an open field with no one else around. What might be the intention of your magic? How about something like this: “I ask my guides and ancestors to help me offer my most inspired largesse so as to serve the health and inspiration and liberation of the people whose lives I touch.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Spiritual author Stephen Russell wrote, “Don’t mask or deny your vulnerability: It is your greatest asset.” That’s an exaggeration, in my opinion. Vulnerability is a greater asset than your intelligence, compassion, and creativity? Not in my view. But I do recognize the high value of vulnerability, especially for you Virgos during the next three weeks. “Be vulnerable,” Russell continues.

“Quake and shake in your boots with it. The new bounty and beauty that are coming to you, in the form of people, situations, and things, can only come to you when you are vulnerable—open.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My friend Jenny’s Swedish grandmother used to say to her on a semi-regular basis,

“åh tänk om vi vore korkade, vi skulle vara så lyckliga,” meaning, “If only we were stupid, we would be so happy.”

In the coming weeks, I am asking you to disprove that folk wisdom. According to my analysis of the astrological potentials, now is a favourable time for you to explore ways in which your intelligence might enhance and deepen your enjoyment of life. Your motto should be: “The smarter we are, the happier we will be.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometime soon I invite you to speak a message similar to what poet Kenneth Rexroth once delivered to a special person in his life. He wrote, “Your tongue thrums and moves / Into me, and I become / Hollow and blaze with / Whirling light, like the inside / Of a vast expanding pearl.” Do you know anyone who might be receptive to hearing such lyrical praise? If not, create a fantasy character in your imagination to whom you can say it. On the other hand, maybe you do know a real person who would appreciate an earthier, less poetical tribute. If so, please convey it; something akin to this: “Your influence on me amplifies my ability to be my best self.” Now is a perfect time to honour and extol and reward those who move you and excite you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Aldous Huxley said, “I can sympathize with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.” To that I reply, “Other people’s pleasure and happiness bored you? Maybe you were suffering from raging narcissism and an addiction to cynicism.” In any case, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t be like Huxley in the next few weeks. I believe you could glean useful insights and derive personal benefits from knowing about and appreciating the joys of others.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn businessman Howard Hughes (1905–1976) had great success early in his life. Working as a film director and aviation pioneer, he became a wealthy philanthropist. But as he aged, he became increasingly eccentric and reclusive. For the last 10 years of his life, he lived in expensive hotels, where he placed strict and often absurd demands on the hotel staff.

For example, if he called on room service to bring him a meal that included peas, he would measure the peas with a ruler, and send back any he deemed too big. I do hope that you Capricorns will also have an intense focus on mastering the details in the coming weeks—but not as intense or misguided as that nonsensical obsession.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was famous and popular.

Audiences packed the halls where he did public lectures and readings. His favourite way to prepare for these evening events was to spend the day drinking a pint of champagne, as well as generous servings of rum, cream, and sherry with eggs beaten into the mix. I don’t have a problem with that—whatever works, right? But I suggest a different approach for your upcoming appointments with greater visibility and prominence. Like what? How about sexy meditations on the gratitude you feel for your expanding possibilities? How about fun fantasies focusing on how you’ll use your increased clout?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his upcoming book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig proposes that we begin using “monachopsis,” a word he coined.

He defines it as follows: “the feeling of being out of place, as maladapted to your surroundings as a seal on a beach—lumbering, clumsy, easily distracted, huddled in the company of other misfits, unable to recognize the ambient roar of your intended habitat, in which you’d be fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.” Even if you have spent too much time lately experiencing monachopsis, my dear, I predict this malaise will soon dissipate and give way to an extended phase of being fluidly, brilliantly, effortlessly at home.

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How far are we willing to go to attract the Right Kind of tourist?

BUILDING. BACK. BETTER. Hmmm ... sounds vaguely familiar?

One of the benefits of having a porous memory, courtesy of introspection, indifference and quite possibly certain excesses of the 1960s and ‘70s, is the frequent inability to pull pertinent facts out of my random access memory. Infuriatingly, I seem to be able to remember rivers of trivia the value of which diminishes as I age and the cultural references I toss out are received with numb silence. While I remember a rich treasure of detail from, say, The Firesign Theater and the Fabulous

BY G.D. MAXWELL Furry Freak Brothers, I dare not mention either unless I’m writing something for the CARP journal ... which I don’t ... ever.

But Building Back Better, B3 should it become necessary to reference it again, sounded so, so, borrowed? Plagiarized?

Lifted? For a minute, I thought maybe Smokin’ Joe or Kamala might be coming to town. Virtually, of course.

Instead, it was a presentation, panel discussion, Q&A hosted by the Whistler Institute last week as part of its Global Perspective Speaker Series. While I would generally be engaged in something more manual and less enlightening at noon on Friday, I tuned in to hear what the panel had to say about post-pandemic tourism in Tiny Town.

It was, in a word, frightening.

Billed as a vital discussion about the future of tourism, the promotion hinted at a wide-ranging discussion covering: • Adjusting our tourism practices to protect and manage the vital ecosystems, cultural wonders, and community life that attracted residents and visitors to our destinations in the first place; • Uncovering and accounting for tourism’s hidden costs to ensure we build environmental and social resilience, while simultaneously achieving economic recovery; • Understanding how travel can be truly transformative when we uphold what we value, mitigate our impacts, and recognize a prosperity in sync with place, community and environment.

Don’t expect me to explain any of those points; I’m still trying to figure out what they mean.

With Happy Jack as moderator—at least when his microphone was working and hadn’t been hacked by ransomwear miscreants—our own Barrett Fisher spoke first and gave a brief synopsis of Tourism Whistler’s (TW) rebranding launched before the good ship Tourism went aground in pandemic seas. I won’t go into detail except to say this was the laser

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focus TW wants to implement to go after the Right Kind of tourists, those who will stick around longer than it takes to lick an ice cream cone and who share at least one of our community values.

I’ve written glowingly, if uncharacteristically, about that effort and hope to see it brought to fruition when we are once again open for tourism.

But I question just how far we—and by we I mean the Resort Municipality of Whistler, TW, the Chamber of Commerce and the business community—are willing to go to attract the Right Kind of tourists and the corollary, repel the Wrong Kind. I suspect much effort will go into the former and basic Canadian timidity will preclude doing much about the latter.

If we want curious, longer-stay tourists, should we still embrace, OK, tolerate, the day-trippers? Herein lies the conundrum.

Epic (trademark infringement) Rides.

Well, maybe the latter. I mean the folks who wander the village aimlessly, maybe ride the Peak 2 Peak gondola, but generally view Whistler like an ersatz shopping mall. Their saving grace is they’re coming on buses instead of all driving private cars. But are they, in fact, the Right Kind of tourists? Just askin’.

After Jack’s vocal interuptus, Megan Epler Wood took control and gave a thoughtful talk on sustainable tourism. So far, so good.

But Rodney Payne, speaking about those hidden costs of tourism, spun out a future for tourism with, possibly, no place for a place like this place. The specific hidden costs that may spell the death knell for Whistler centre on our cumulative carbon footprint. No, not the one the RMOW keeps harping on, the one

[T]here simply is no building back better. We’ll have to be content with muddling through, hoping for the best...

What, other than bulk, is the value of the busloads of day-trippers? You know the ones, they come on big buses, the buses park in lot 4 for the duration of their stay, they all shuffle back on the buses and go back to the Lower Mainland at the appointed hour.

I’m not talking about the shuttles run by, for example, Whistler Connection or

to which we contribute every time we get in our private auto instead of taking the bus, but the whole carbon enchilada.

Referencing Seville, Spain, Mr. Payne spoke of that tourist town’s efforts to measure and mitigate the totality of its carbon Sasquatch—the carbon cost of visitors coming, holidaying and leaving

town plus the internal generation of CO2 generated by the townsfolk. In the über woke future, the desirability of a destination may, it is posited, hinge on how lightly it treads on the atmosphere.

We have seen the enemy and it is us.

I fear if Whistler were to accurately measure our total carbon footprint and if it were to become a significant component of a go/no-go decision, we would become the regional ski hill we were when Blackcomb was still a mountain full of trees and people living here had to go somewhere else for the necessaries of life.

The population Whistler has to draw on in a decarbonized future is tiny. Arguably the Lower Mainland, albeit only with significantly enhanced mass transit or a wholesale uptake in electric vehicles. The rest of Canada is out, compliments of being about as far west as we can be and still have dry feet.

The U.S.? Well, it’s not like they’re going to care one way or another once the border’s open again.

International? As Mr. Payne pointed out, none of us will live long enough to experience electric airplanes much bigger than Cessnas and it’s unlikely atmospheric carbon capture technology will be developed to a scale capable of keeping up with what’s being added, let alone what’s already bouncing around our thin, breathable layer.

Particularly so if the projections for postpandemic travel pan out.

In that sense, there simply is no building back better. We’ll have to be content with muddling through, hoping for the best, whistling past the graveyard and making tiny, incremental steps to maintaining, hopefully reducing, our collective carbon footprint.

At least until the snow disappears. ■

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