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Tourism takes a breath When COVID-19 recedes, will it be business as usual? - By Braden Dupuis
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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Megan Lalonde shares how learning of the deaths of 215 children at a Kamloops Indian residential school has changed her.
58 MAXED OUT Max calls out the hypocrisy of the Catholic church for its role in residential schools and shares the shame of a nation for its treatment of First Nation peoples.
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THERE ARE NO WORDS to describe the horror and soul-deep grief I felt when the news broke several days ago about the
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discovery of the remains of 215 children in a mass grave at the Indian Residential School in Kamloops, which operated under the Catholic church for 79 years starting in 1890. As a mother of two I made myself imagine what it would feel like to have my children ripped from me, and then to
Kamloops Indian Residential School has been traumatic all over again especially for direct survivors. “To put this into perspective, imagine for a minute your children, your nieces, nephews, and grandchildren were taken and were never to return home.” Please, go ahead… take a minute to imagine that. While it may be years before experts, in a culturally sensitive manner, are able to identify the remains and share the stories of the children, knowing that the Lil’wat people had their children taken to the Kamloops school, as well as others, brings this tragedy home to us. Indeed, I would argue that the people of Canada woke up changed the day the news of this mass grave was shared—at least I hope they did. As descendants of colonizing powers we are all implicated in the plan to culturally eradicate the First Peoples of what we call Canada.
“To put this into perspective, imagine for a minute your children, your nieces, nephews, and grandchildren were taken and were never to return home.” -DEAN NELSON
lose them altogether without it ever being recognized or acknowledged. I would never recover from that. In imagining my level of grief, I reached out to Lil’wat Chief Dean Nelson and when we spoke it felt like every word I said was meaningless because I, indeed all settlers, bear responsibility for this, and the uttering of words has not effected any meaningful changes for First Nations people so far. Said Chief Nelson by email: “To hear the breaking news of the finding of the two hundred and fifteen children at the former
As we talked, Chief Nelson said: “The biggest thing from the general public would be the understanding of it all, not to view it in a biased place. It has to be understood for what it was—it was genocide. That is a tough thing to swallow, but that is what it is. “But it is still here—the intergenerational trauma is still here, and we wrestle with it daily.” While the news of this mass grave was shocking to many, it was not news to First Nations, who have been sharing the story of the hundreds (perhaps thousands) of missing children for decades.
We know from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that 4,118 students died while attending residential schools in Canada, as they have been identified. But the real number is believed to be considerably larger. However, with many of the records stashed at the Vatican and the Pope refusing to formally apologize, we may never know where and who these missing children are. And we need to know. We need to put names to their faces and learn their stories, and as Chief Nelson said, we really need to understand in order for the dehumanization of First Nations people to stop. Recommendations 71 to 76 of the TRC call for the Canadian government and other stakeholders to find the graves of the missing children, and work is ongoing, but it is so slow as to be almost meaningless to survivors waiting for news of the fate of loved ones. How can we move forward from this place of shame and grief? How can we be partners in healing instead of perpetrators of harm? Chief Nelson believes we can move forward, but that in order to do so the Indian Act must be struck down. “I was asked what would be the greatest thing to make a difference and it would be the freedom to help ourselves, we would not be under the Indian Act, where we have to live by guidelines of Indian Affairs,” he said, his voice heavy with frustration and resignation. First Nations people will find their voice, their power, when they have the opportunity and authority to help their own people according to their own laws and traditions and culture. This means real action on the part of government and understanding and partnerships among all residents of Canada. I believe this is possible. So, I am not offering more words. I am committing to take what actions I can to fight settler supremacy and to work to understand the story of the Lil’wat and other nations—and to share it as well. n
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SLCC AMBASSADORS AND OUR PEOPLE MOURN FOR THE 215 CHILDREN DISCOVERED ON TK’EMLÚPS TE SECWÉPEMC FIRST NATION, AT THE SITE OF THE FORMER KAMLOOPS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL Many of our families were sent there; some of the remains are our children, relatives and friends. We have been mourning since they began taking our children away. We mourned when they never returned. We asked for them, we searched for them, we never stopped missing them. We mourned each birthday, each beautiful day we couldn’t share, each new child born, but not to them. We mourned when Elders spoke up, sharing their truth and trauma. We mourned when no one listened. We mourned when they finally did. Today we mourn again as the science proves what our People have known all along. The world lost leaders, Matriarchs, Warriors, Siyams (chiefs), mothers and fathers. A clearcut of family trees, uprooted and gone. The Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler is a place to celebrate the past, future and stewardship of our People, on our unceded territory, with love, partnership, and reverence. We are resilient and committed to our mission of sharing meaningful experiences, educating all, and lifting our distinct Skwxwú7mesh and Lílwat ways. We are open and invite you in. Be gentle in your journey, for many of us these stories are too fragile to surface. Celebrate our people through positive learning. Sit in contemplation in Gallery 3, at the brave intersection of mountain and Indigenous culture, in front of skateboards depicting the horror of Residential Schools. June is National Indigenous History Month, but this is not a dark part of Canada’s history. It is clear and present. Let this be our chance to connect as a community, learn the truth, feel the pain, reconcile the past, and change the future. The Ambassadors are more than staff, they are a service to a world that wishes to learn the beauty of our culture, language and history. Thank you to all community members who have reached out or laid flowers and gifts at our door. We welcome your love, feel it deeply, and hope this is the catalyst for change. 215. Pace your tears. It’s only the beginning.
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Businesses need better direction from government on re-opening After much anxiety and anticipation I was excited to hear that following 15 months of enforced restrictions and lockdowns the B.C. government has developed and released a [COVID-19] exit strategy. That excitement, however, was short lived. As a business owner, I am still frustrated that once again, the discussion of economic recovery and how it relates to the rebuild of our local economy was absent from the podium. There was little to no mention of a plan, no clear direction on what the next steps should be to ensure safety for our establishments and associated revenue. And most [noticeably] absent was clarity on steps for the thousands of businesses [that] are supposed to move forward in rebuilding their demolished livelihoods. When [B.C. Public Health Officer] Dr. [Bonnie] Henry was asked what the likelihood was that we would move backwards if there was a COVID-19 spike, she simply replied “never say never.” A terrifying response for anyone, let alone those of us that have had our businesses railroaded twice now due to swift
and unforgiving lockdowns. It has taken well over a year to rebuild my business since the original 2020 lockdown. And when I use the word “rebuild” I mean start from scratch. Brand new blueprint. Entirely new protocol. And it is going to take me another full year to adapt and adjust once again. The logistics of these rebuilds seem to be lost on Dr. Henry and the government alike. We as a society would like to avoid the one-step-forward, two-step-back scenario that has been riddling our business for the past 1.5 years. Give us some direction, give us some encouragement, give those of us that feed the economy the ability to provide [services] unobstructed and with confidence. Living in fear and uncertainty based on a “never-say-never” mindset is simply unacceptable and detrimental to the
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR W NE gardening and working with nature with ease for a productive garden (Pique, May 27, “A gardener’s gospel”). He sounds a little ungrateful to even have the space in his home [for a] garden. A 2-by-6foot space in a greenhouse in a community garden costs $75. Why is he complaining about gardening in his backyard with his raised beds? I would love to visit his house and listen to this man complain about the abundance of space to even have a garden where a bunk bed costs $1,000 a month just to live here let alone [having a] garden in his home. Is his plan to spoil gardening joy for others in the process? Why is this article so negative regarding the topic of gardening? He claims that organic gardening is torture, but it is far from it! “Gardens and disasters go together,”[he wrote]. Can you say “driving and disasters go together?” How about “airplanes and crashes go together?” I think he just needs to learn some basics and not be so negative about the natural aspect of human evolution; work with the land and choose plants that work well in his space. If you want tomatoes at all costs regardless of the site, soil, and sun exposure, then it doesn’t make it easy, and of course trying to grow tomatoes will be torture because you are trying to keep ice cream from melting in the sun. Silly. That’s because you aren’t listening and following simple queues from nature. Observation is free and requires no work! A simple concept GD Maxwell should learn about gardening is that observation is 90 per cent and actual labour is 10 per cent. Less work and more observation. I would love to show him how to have an abundant, edible garden without him complaining enough to write an entire article about it. Ya dig! I did enjoy the article! Thank you for writing it. Gabriel Pliska // Whistler
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•Wardrobe: go to the Re-Use-it Centre and purchase a used pair of snow pants and the most waterproof jacket available; many of us also have older ski jackets that could be used for this new purpose. No need to take off your jeans before putting on the snow pants! •Gloves: because cruising quickly on an e-bike creates lots of wind-chill, I find I’ve been wearing ski gloves every day. •Footwear: full winter boots are best for most of the year. Biking on an e-bike means you are going fast, and creating wind-chill, so best to be prepared. •Eyewear: always wear something.
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•Year Round Routing: Avoid Highway 99 at Lorimer. All our sketchiest bike moments have happened at that intersection—so many lanes of cars turning, and strange sightlines—best to cross Hwy 99 anywhere else; we actually recommend jaywalking at Whistler Cay Heights entrance over using that intersection. When crossing at intersections, beware of the grooves made by the intersecting traffic, it’s easy to toss stuff (kids) or spill your drink going over those woop-de-doos. There is no safe way to e-bike around the village, so you need to take a lane of traffic. Grit and bear the invariable backlash from drivers who have to move their hands and feet a tiny bit to avoid you! •E-biking with kids: They need the same outfit as you, but more! Kids need multiple pairs of gloves, pants and jackets. Kids tend to play outside after we get home, so they get wet and dirty. It seems like every time we go out, we see more people riding e-bikes as a form of transportation. The revolution in mobility, part of the disruption of the 2020s, is upon us. E-bikes are exploding. We look forward to seeing many more of you out and about on our e-bikes over the next year. Amanda and Brendan Ladner // Whistler
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215 children were buried at a residential school in B.C. Call it what it is. B.C. OFFICIALS announced the province’s restart plan, COVID-19 cases continued to drop, and the forecast called for actual sun and temperatures over 10 degrees. All in all, the last week of May was shaping up to be a pretty good news week by pandemic standards.
BY MEGAN LALONDE It was, that is, until Thursday, May 27, when Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir announced that the remains of 215 children, some as young as three, had been located in Kamloops, at the site of what was once Canada’s largest residential school. The unmarked grave was discovered using ground-penetrating radar. It confirms ”an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented,” the Nation explained in a news release. Worse yet? By all accounts, the discovery is the tip of the iceberg. The Kamloops Indian Residential School was just one of more than 130 governmentfunded, church-run residential schools that operated in Canada between 1831 and
1996, with the sole purpose of eliminating students’ Indigenous identities. During this time, they ripped an estimated 150,000 children away from their communities. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) estimates that 6,000 students died while attending Canada’s residential schools. If that estimate is correct, it means the odds of students being killed at these schools was one in 25. For reference, the odds of a Canadian soldier dying in the Second World War were one in 26. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last week called the finding of the remains in Kamloops “a painful reminder of that dark and shameful chapter of our country’s history.” His adjectives are right, but relegating them to a chapter of our history isn’t just incorrect, it’s insulting. Words matter. He, other leaders, and non-Indigenous Canadian settlers need to call it what it is. It’s not history. It’s our present. It wasn’t just a colonial policy, but a systematic, carefully-orchestrated genocide that the First Nations we share our country with are still reeling from. Today, more than half of the children in foster care in Canada are Indigenous. Last year, more than 30 per cent of Canada’s inmate population was Indigenous, even though First Nations account for five per
cent of Canada’s overall population. An Indigenous person in Canada is more than 10 times more likely to have been shot and killed by a police officer in Canada since 2017 than a white person in Canada, according to a CTV News analysis last year. Sixty drinking water advisories remained in effect in 41 First Nations communities in Canada as of November 2020, according to CBC. All this, while tens of thousands of residential school survivors are still alive. We need to do more than wear orange shirts and fly flags at half-mast. (It’s the bare minimum, but the decision still took federal officials three full days to make.) We need to enact every single call to action brought forward by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2015. (A December 2019 study by the Yellowhead Institute said just nine of 94 calls to action have been completed.) The Catholic Church needs to formally apologize and admit fault for the atrocities that took place in residential schools. (After Pope Francis refused a direct appeal for such an apology from Trudeau three years ago.) We can recognize the progress we’ve made since the last residential school closed while recognizing that there is so much more to do. The timing of this news feels almost
ironic. as June marks National Indigenous History Month in Canada. It makes me wonder what contributions those 215 souls would have made to history. What could they have accomplished if they were supported and encouraged to celebrate their culture? That’s the thing—Indigenous Peoples are more than the multigenerational trauma that we continue to inflict upon them. Despite our country’s best attempts at cultural genocide, their traditions survived and should be valued. First Nations’ collective connection to the land, in particular, is something we could all stand to learn from these days. This National Indigenous History Month, my aim is to grieve those 215 lives— plus the thousands of others we already knew about—by educating myself: by reading Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada reports and re-reading the Indian Act, by truly confronting the horrors that happened at residential schools. But more than that, my hope is to learn more about Indigenous history before we stepped in: the traditions that residential schools were trying so hard to erase. A 24-hour National Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available at 1-866-9254419 to provide emotional support and crisis referral services to former residential school students and others affected. ■
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From Hwy. 99 to Fairy Creek, Whistlerites stand up for old growth A NUMBER OF WHISTLERITES JOINED PROTESTS BOTH LOCALLY AND ON VANCOUVER ISLAND OVER THE WEEKEND
BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER’S EMILY Kane had been following the protests against old-growth logging in Fairy Creek for some time before she decided she wanted to help in whatever way she could. But with travel restrictions still in place, the small business owner and yoga teacher figured it best to wait until travel in B.C. loosened up. That was, until she messaged the Fairy Creek Blockade page on Facebook and learned how urgently support was needed. “They were like, ‘No, you are essential. Please come now. We need your help,’” she said. “I thought, if a logger can travel there to cut down this ancient temperate rainforest, then I can travel there to save it.” So, Kane packed her bags and went straight to Fairy Creek, joining members of the Pacheedaht First Nation and activist group, the Rainforest Flying Squad, in their fight against the logging of the last unprotected, intact oldgrowth valley on southern Vancouver Island. She was eventually arrested and now faces a potential civil charge. “Essentially I put my arm into a pipe and I was locked into that pipe. Then there’s concrete poured around it, so they had to shovel and jackhammer me out of that device,” she said.
FOREST FOR THE TREES Protesters gathered along Highway 99 on Sunday, May 30 to stand up for old-growth forest. PHOTO BY DAVE BUZZARD / MEDIA-CENTRE.CA
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Kane, who is white, said the arrest was mostly a peaceful experience, with RCMP officers treating her respectfully throughout, unlike some of the Indigenous protestors she heard from at the site. “I totally recognize the immense amount of white privilege I had in that situation, and I will tell you that not everyone has been afforded the same
this movement are taking time out of their short lives and doing their very best to make positive change in this world,” Jones wrote in a recent open letter. “If people are willing to put themselves in this vulnerable position— of standing on a logging road or speaking out on the internet about the damage to our mother earth and the destruction of
“If a logger can travel there to cut down this ancient temperate rainforest, then I can travel there to save it.” - EMILY KANE
amount of kindness and respect,” she noted. Police said that, since enforcement of a court injunction ordering the removal of blockades began on May 17, 142 people have been arrested, and at least nine of whom have been arrested more than once. Protest camps have blockaded logging activity in the area—part of Tree Farm Licence (TFL) 46 in the Pacheedaht First Nation’s traditional territory—since August 2020, and the protests have the support of Pacheedaht members like Elder Bill Jones, who has spoken out both against old-growth logging and members of the Nation’s leadership that have allowed it on their land through TFL 46. “We must trust that people involved in
our sacred places—then we must trust that although we might not always say the right things or walk the right path, we still deserve to be treated with respect.” Kane was one of a handful of Whistlerites who travelled to Fairy Creek to join the blockade last weekend, including Olympic skier Mike Janyk, as well as activist and owner of the now-shuttered Loka Yoga, Tina Pashumati James. James is no stranger to anti-logging movements, having taken part in the Blackwater Creek protests in the late-2000s to save a 17-hectare area where traditional medicinal plants were regularly harvested. Protesters at the time said there had not been proper consultation between residents of the area, the N’Quatqua First
Nation, and B.C. Timber Sales. But with the pandemic putting renewed focus on Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous land rights, and our impact on the environment, James feels the recent protests have a heightened urgency to them. “I absolutely feel that there is something different happening here,” she said. “There is something changing and I can feel it. I think it’s actually happening to all of us.” James also organized one of two protests against old-growth logging that took place in Whistler last month, joining similar events that were held in Mount Currie and Squamish. She is organizing another protest at noon this Sunday, June 6 at Whistler Olympic Plaza. “I want to see the old-growth [logging] completely stopped for the sake of our forests,” she said. “We owe it to our future.” The other Whistler protest was held Sunday, May 30, and drew roughly 120 people to the intersection of Highway 99 and Lorimer Road. “The government needs to commit to sustainable logging practices,” said Sierra Haziza, president of Whistler Secondary’s Eco Club, who was one of many local students to take part in the demonstration. “Obviously, logging is an important resource, but I think that we need to look at how it can be done sustainably so we’re not killing those massive old-growth trees that are so important and so diverse.” When it comes to some of Whistler’s oldest trees, between 30 and 55 per cent of the Cheakamus Community Forest’s (CCF) old-growth is protected, which for many
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Investigation into Whistler ransomware attack near completion MUNICIPAL SERVICES SLOWLY RETURNING, WITH MORE TO COME IN THE WEEKS AHEAD
BY BRADEN DUPUIS MORE THAN A
month after a ransomware attack on the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) took services offline (including email, phones and the municipal website), the municipality says an investigation into the incident is starting to wrap up. More than 300 employee laptops were restored from May 28 to 30 “as an important first step to ensure that we can relaunch our programs and services securely,” said manager of communications Gillian Robinson, in an email, adding that email services are gradually returning and the full version of whistler.ca should be available by week’s end. Other RMOW services—including payment systems, accounts payable systems and internal file sharing—should come back online over the next couple of weeks. “It’s important to note in most cases, the RMOW is starting from near-scratch, rebuilding and rehabilitating our systems to ensure that each is fully secure before bringing them back online,” Robinson said. “We are also working with cyber security experts to build further resilience in our system to evolving [cyber security] threats.” While a cyber investigation into the attack is wrapping up, the criminal investigation is still underway, Robinson added. “The RMOW expects to share its learnings from the [cyber security] incident
with the community and with other municipalities as appropriate,” she said. “The RMOW looks forward to sharing those insights when the forensic investigation is fully complete. As you can appreciate, this is a very thorough investigation but we hope to provide this by the end of June.” So far, the investigation has not found evidence that the public’s private personal information was accessed, Robinson said, adding that if that changes, the RMOW will notify affected individuals directly. Under the Privacy Act, the RMOW is allowed to collect personal information if there is a valid reason to do so and as long as it is only used for the purpose it was collected for. “The RMOW takes the storage and protection of personal private information under its care very seriously and is required to do so by law,” Robinson said. Meanwhile, on May 20, the RMOW engaged Pique in litigation over its ransomware coverage, seeking to dictate what details Pique can publish about the events. The RMOW argued that it was seeking to protect the privacy of staff. Pique opposed the application, arguing that there was no basis for any such order. The matter was heard briefly on May 21 by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson, who declined Whistler’s request for a temporary order restricting Pique’s coverage until the matter could be fully argued. Pique will defend itself in the lawsuit in due course. n
SURGE IN LOGGING FROM PAGE 14 locals doesn’t go far enough. One of more than 60 community forests across B.C., the CCF is managed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler, the Lil’wat Nation, and the Squamish Nation. Like other community forests in B.C., the CCF has an annual allowable cut, the volume of industrial roundwood that can be harvested, as set by professional foresters, that is meant to balance environmental, social and economic considerations. The CCF continues to log some old-growth, both for timber and fuel thinning, although experts like UBC ecologist Dr. Lori Davies have questioned the approach, arguing that old growth, which retains high amounts of moisture and helps to regulate the climate within a forest, is much more fire-resilient than second growth. At an April open house, CCF board chair Jeff Fisher said the plan is to eventually move away from old-growth logging, “but it’s a question of is it going to take 30 years, 20 years, 10 years or five years, and we
are still examining options to change our harvest planning that way.” Logging activity in B.C. has surged in 2021, fuelled by rising lumber prices that hit a record high in April, according to Madison’s Lumber Reporter. Provincial data shows that in the first four months of the year, 21.8 million cubic metres had been cut, up 65 per cent from the same period in 2020. The Fairy Creek blockades haven’t seemed to slow down Teal Cedar Products, the company that holds the logging contract for TFL 46. For the first four months of 2021, Teal cut more in the area than it had in the same period last year, which was the company’s largest cut since 2012. A review of old growth in B.C. last year commissioned by the province recommended a moratorium on logging old growth in areas where less than 10 per cent is still standing, which would include much of TFL 46. -With files from Megan Lalonde n
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Whistler adopts First Nations territorial statement ADOPTION COMES LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER HORRIFIC DISCOVERY OF REMAINS AT KAMLOOPS RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL
BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHILE MAYOR Jack Crompton has made a land acknowledgement statement before each council meeting since taking office in 2018, Whistler’s mayor and council made the practice official on June 1. At its June 1 meeting, council approved a territorial statement that will be issued before each public council and committee meeting going forward. “The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is grateful to be on the shared, unceded territory of the Lil’wat people, known in their language as Lilwat7úl, and the Squamish people, known in their language as Skwxwú7mesh,” the statement reads. “We respect and commit to a deep consideration of their history, culture, stewardship and voice.” The territorial statement speaks to the 2015 Truth and Reconciliation report, which was prepared in response to the existence of Indian Residential Schools in Canada and includes 94 different calls to action, said manager of legislative services Brooke Browning in a presentation to council. “The calls to action identify work that
must be done on individual community and governmental levels. One place to begin this work is through adopting the practice of making a territorial statement,” Browning said. “This practice helps to increase awareness about Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and it also encourages both those making and listening to the statement to learn more about whose territories they reside upon.” Whistler’s territorial statement was developed in collaboration with the board of the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, which includes leadership from both the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations, Browning said, adding that the statement represents a first step towards reconciliation. As a second step, the RMOW commits to learning more about the Lil’wat and Squamish, as well as the greater experience of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, Browning said. The RMOW will also be offering Indigenous cultural awareness training to all staff this summer, she said. Councillor Ralph Forsyth voted against adopting the statement, noting that, of the Truth and Reconciliation report’s 94 calls to action, only three are relevant to local governments, and that “action speaks much louder than any words can.” “I hope that no one thinks that this comes
from a place of ignorance,” Forsyth said. “I often say that a local government should do what local government can do. And there are several things that we can do,
“The mental health of the people, from all of this over time, it needs to be dealt with.” - DEAN NELSON
and I do find that often, these things ring hollow; we say it so many times in so many places and I just become numb to it.” The RMOW could start by changing the name of Squaw Valley Crescent, Forsyth said by way of example, or direct staff to develop policy to address First Nation employment gaps. A resolution on a new name for Squaw Valley Crescent (originally named for the Olympic venue) will be coming to council soon, said Mayor Jack Crompton. “And I agree with you, Coun. Forsyth;
there is a lot more to do as it relates to our participation in reconciliation, so thank you for the encouragement,” Crompton said. Though in the works for some time, the move comes less than a week after shocking revelations out of Kamloops, where the bodies of 215 First Nation children were discovered on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. On May 30, the RMOW lowered its flags in Whistler Village to half-mast to honour the victims, and mayor and council began the June 1 meeting with a moment of silence. The intergenerational trauma caused by residential schools is still felt among First Nations people in the corridor, Lil’wat Chief Dean Nelson told Pique. “The mental health of the people, from all of this over time, it needs to be dealt with,” Nelson said. “The biggest thing from the general public would be the understanding of it all, not to view it in a biased place. It has to be understood for what it was—it was genocide. That is a tough thing to swallow but that is what it is. “But it is still here—the intergenerational trauma is still here and we wrestle with it daily.” -with files from Clare Ogilvie n
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Northlands development open house set for June 17 RMOW STAFF PRESENTS GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR ENHANCED REZONING PROCESS
BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLERITES WILL get their first chance to weigh in on a major development north of Whistler Village at a virtual open house on June 17. The Northlands development—the largest remaining undeveloped piece of land in Whistler’s core village area, comprised of 4500 Northlands Blvd., 4711 Settebello Dr., and 4700 Blackcomb Way north of Whistler Village—is undergoing an “enhanced” rezoning at municipal hall after years on the backburner. “We’re looking forward to starting that process … [June 17] is basically the first point of contact with the public, and once that feedback comes in, we’re able to kind of move forward with the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) once they are able to synthesize that,” said Nicholas Dhaliwal, manager of residential development with proponents Beedie Living. The June 17 open house will introduce the guiding principles that will be applied in developing the site before gathering input from residents, Dhaliwal said. “So it will be fun to hear about what everybody has to say, and at least educate
them on how the process will unfold over the next few months, and the parameters within the site too,” he said. The site’s current zoning allows for a nine-storey hotel with a Phase 2 rental pool covenant, along with density for indoor recreation and employee housing, and the lands are identified as being in the Whistler Village Core Commercial Area in Whistler’s Official Community Plan, which allows for visitor and residential accommodation as well as commercial, recreational and institutional uses. A restrictive covenant on title provides for a maximum of 837 bed units on the primary site, while a secondary lot has 48 bed units committed for employee housing. The six hectares or so of land located at 4700 Blackcomb Way (bordering Fitzsimmons Creek) will remain as a conservation zone. Following the open house, a webpage and dedicated email address will be setup for the project, and a questionnaire will be available online. Outcomes of the first round of public engagement, and details of next steps, will be shared at a council meeting later this summer. The entire rezoning is targeted for completion in September 2022. RMOW staff is proposing six high-level
UP IN THE AIR Whistlerites can share their thoughts on the Northlands development at an open house on June 17. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE RMOW
guiding principles for the rezoning process, said planner Tracy Napier in a presentation to council on June 1. The principles include: balancing resort and community capacity; addressing climate change and sustainability; strengthening the community and sense of place; prioritizing walkability, connectivity, active transportation and transit; integrating nature through site design; and
providing diverse housing opportunities. “Through this enhanced process we will explore design alternatives for the site that reflect our [Official Community Plan] and policy direction, as well as identifying needs and gaps in the community, and it reflects the desire of the applicant to pursue something different from what’s currently permitted,” Napier said. Given its proximity to wetlands, environmental assessments will also be part of the project, Napier said in response to a question from Councillor Arthur De Jong. “That will inform what’s going to be possible on the site, what the preservation needs are, what the provincial regulations are, and how they overlay on the site,” she said. “So yes, that will be coming later in the process.” After three decades or so of stagnation, it’s good to see the development finally moving ahead, said Coun. John Grills, adding that the project also presents some challenges in terms of linking to the existing Village Stroll. “I think it’ll be interesting to see some of the thoughts and ideas that come out on how we can really make that an easy and open walk to the Village,” Grills said, noting that pedestrians will have to cross the busy Lorimer Road to access the Village. “[So] there’s some work there along with the development site.” n
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Whistler RCMP investigating vandalism to Myrtle Philip Community School POLICE BRIEFS: WHISTLER COUNCIL MEETS THE SEA TO SKY RCMP’S NEW OFFICER-IN-CHARGE
BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER POLICE are investigating vandalism to the exterior of Myrtle Philip Community School as well as three school buses. The RCMP was notified the morning of Sunday, May 30 of graffiti to a sign and exterior wall by the school’s gymnasium, which police believe happened sometime the night of Friday, May 28. Then, when maintenance crews arrived at the school on Sunday to clean up the tags, they noticed three school buses that were also vandalized. Investigators suspect the buses were likely damaged on Saturday night, May 29 “because we believe it would have been reported at the time of the first incident” if it had happened the day before, said Cpl. Nate Miller. The tags are “really rudimentary,” Miller added, “which makes me believe it might be someone younger.” With no witnesses to the incidents, police were hoping to review security footage from the school, but Miller said the cameras weren’t operational at the time.
TAGGED Graffiti being scrubbed off a school bus at Myrtle Philip Community School on Sunday, May 30. PHOTO BY CLARE OGILVIE
Mounties also searched the area for any sign the suspects may have left behind, such as spray paint cans, but had no luck. The RCMP is asking anyone who may have spotted someone in the area on Friday or Saturday night, or with any other relevant information, to contact the detachment at 604-932-3044, or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 to remain anonymous.
SEA TO SKY RCMP’S NEW OIC INTRODUCED TO WHISTLER COUNCIL Whistler elected officials got their first public face-to-face with the Sea to Sky RCMP’s new Officer-in-Charge at Tuesday’s council meeting, held over Zoom. Insp. Robert Dykstra takes over from Insp. Kara Triance, who left the role last summer. It was first announced in February that Dykstra would be overseeing police operations for Whistler, Pemberton, Squamish, Lions Bay,
Bowen Island, D’Arcy and Birken. He recently relocated to Whistler with his wife after serving the past seven years in Nunavut. “A lot of learning went into that and one of the biggest challenges that I learned [in Nunavut] was just about making sure that you’re engaging with people and that you’re compassionate and kind,” Dykstra said to council. “That’s the only way I think policing should be done and that’s the experience and also the perspective I bring to policing operations, and what I expect my members to do.” Dykstra began his policing career 14 years ago in Nova Scotia, where he spent time in the major crimes unit, which he described as “one of his loves.” Prior to that, he worked for the federal government, including a stint at the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat in Ottawa. With his home and main office in Whistler, Dykstra said he is excited to get to know the community and learn more about the policing objectives here. “Every time I meet [someone], I have a tendency to say that and I can’t express enough how excited I actually am to be here,” he said. “It’s very much a dream come true.” n
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Whistler business owners optimistic, but hurdles remain COLLABORATION WILL BE KEY AS WHISTLER NAVIGATES RESTART
BY BRADEN DUPUIS BUSINESS OWNERS in Whistler are generally optimistic about the province’s four-step restart plan, but that’s not to say local entrepreneurs are in the clear heading into the summer. Issues like staffing, debt loads and summer foot traffic are still top of mind for many local businesses. In the Upper Village, the prospect of a second straight year without the Farmers’ Market—which moved to the Whistler Racket Club for 2021 after a year at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre—is causing some consternation for business owners. “It does help push traffic up there and keep the Upper Village front of mind in non-ski season, when there’s not really a lift there,” said Scott Mant, of RMU Whistler. Having opened just a few months before COVID-19 hit, the ski shop/taproom has yet to enjoy a normal summer, Mant said, but the presence of the Farmers’ Market was one of the things that enticed the business to the Upper Village. According to Whistler Blackcomb, there will be no Adventure Zone or WestCoaster Slide in the Upper Village in 2021, as was the case last year, though the mini-golf course and ascent trails will be open, and sightseeing guests can upload on the Blackcomb Gondola. RMU has developed a good local following in its short time in business, and “with the Blackcomb bike trails starting to open there’s quite a few bikers coming in for beers afterwards,” Mant said. “But I mean, no doubt, the circuit breaker and the resort closing with basically 24-hours notice was a bit of a shock.” That said, the B.C. restart plan gives RMU hope for the summer ahead. “I don’t think Whistler has dropped off in terms of being a world-class destination, and fully expect both Canadians and international travellers alike to come back, so yeah, super optimistic,” Mant said. “[But] I guess cautiously optimistic, because it’s been quite a challenging 15 months.” Another major concern for all Whistler businesses heading into the summer is access to labour. For Pepe Barajas, owner-operator of La Cantina, Mexican Corner and Clean Perfect in Whistler, COVID-19 restrictions have added further delays to the already lengthy Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) process for hiring foreign workers. Though Barajas has several workers lined up in other countries with approved LMIAs, they are unable to enter Canada without work permits (which require biometrics—a process previously done upon landing at YVR). “The biometric centres in most of
the countries are closed, so without the biometrics, then they cannot get the work permit,” Barajas said, adding that he’s even flown workers to other countries to complete biometrics, but is still waiting on the proper permits to arrive so they can come to Canada. As Whistler ramps up and visitors return this summer, the lack of staff could have knock-on effects elsewhere, Barajas pointed out. While he may have cooks for his restaurants, without enough servers, he can’t open as many hours; without as many hours, he’s buying less product from suppliers, impacting their bottom line; and understaffed businesses may contribute to lineups and congestion if the resort gets busy, or lead some to cut corners. “When it comes to public health, now we need more bodies to ensure that we all can comply with all those sanitation practices, ensuring that nobody is cutting corners because they are understaffed,” Barajas said. Like Mant, Barajas expressed optimism about B.C.’s restart plan and the certainty it offers business owners, but the challenges now facing Whistler are complex, and demanding cooperation, he said. “It’s not a time of being critical and pointing fingers,” he said. “I think it is a time of sharing what challenges we have, and putting our heads together to work towards resolving all challenges that are out there.” A Whistler Chamber Advocacy in Action session with MP Patrick Weiler and MLA Jordan Sturdy on May 27 was well attended, with business owners able to share their concerns directly with elected officials. “What I heard from members is, sure, there seems to be light at the end of this long, dark tunnel, but they’re approaching it cautiously,” said Chamber CEO Melissa Pace, adding that labour, debt and housing continue to pose big challenges. “What I would say is our business community really needs all of us who can work to get back to work, and this is the time we do everything we can to keep every door open and give our businesses a chance to get back on their feet,” Pace said. “Because if we don’t, there is a real chance that some of these businesses that make Whistler the place that we want to live, won’t operate at full capacity this summer, which could result in permanent closures. We don’t want that.” The chamber is working on a labour strategy, she added, and looking to host a virtual job fair in collaboration with WorkBC. “I don’t think we’ll see what we’ve seen in the past in terms of international workers,” she said. “We’re going to have to rely more on the regional, B.C. [market], and across Canada. We don’t know what the borders are doing at this point, so all of that is up in the air right now.” n
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BY ALYSSA NOEL SIX WEEKS AFTER Sara Niblock had her baby, her doctor gave her the go-ahead to return to playing hockey. “She said, ‘You’re good.’ I realize she meant, ‘It’s been six weeks and the stitches won’t rip out,’” she said. However, with her experience as a kinesiologist, Niblock knew the work she still had to put in before her body was truly ready to return to sport. And then she started to notice other new moms around her struggling with post-partum injuries as they returned prematurely to their own mountain activities. “[I realized] how the information was lacking for other moms,” she said. To that end, she launched Mountain Mom Strong, a coaching program to help mothers regain core, pelvic floor, and body strength after giving birth.
“Especially in the Sea to Sky, moms are very active. Then when they try to get back to their activity and haven’t done the legwork, they can get away with it [at first] because they’re strong. But pregnancy brings out any dysfunction you had before with your hips or back. It can be really hard when you want to get back to your activity but you can’t. People get more injuries,” Niblock said. After launching Mountain Mom Strong, she learned just how many different resources existed for moms in the Sea to Sky—and she got an idea. With June designated as ParticipACTION’s Community Better Challenge month, Niblock applied for a grant from the national non-profit that promotes physical activity. After securing it, she decided to bring many of those resources together and host Active Mammas Pregnancy Postpartum Summit (AMPP), a free, online three-day event that addresses mental and physical health, as well as social challenges moms face after giving birth.
BACK AT IT Whistler kinesiologist Sara Niblock is launching a virtual summit to help pregnant and post-partum moms get back into sport safely. PHOTO BY JUSTA JESKOVA
“I really wanted to do it to bring awareness to pregnancy and post-partum and keeping active,” Niblock said. “It’s so important to everybody in this community. I want everyone to have a positive experience … There is a lack of knowledge of resources.” The virtual session lineup—with 11 in total—ranges from Pregnancy Training Considerations with Katrina Strand, a postpartum corrective exercise specialist, to Postpartum: The Seen and Unseen Season of our Motherhood Journey with clinical counsellor Candace Postal, and Return to High Impact Activities with Niblock, to name a few. “I have a connection with a bunch of the speakers,” Niblock said. “I know where their speciality areas are. I looked at a lot of the questions and struggles I’m getting from moms in the Sea to Sky.”
With the corridor in the midst of a baby boom, the summit could be coming at just the right time. “We have 80 women signed up so far,” she said. “Each session will have 20 to 30 people in them. Different sessions speak to different people. Maybe some are dealing with stress, anxiety, mental health. There are three or four sessions there to help with that. If you’re pregnant, you can learn about pregnancy training considerations, yoga, and pelvic floor. Even if you’ve given birth once, there’s a return to high-impact session if you want to learn more.” The AMPP Summit is set for June 10 to 12. Registration for the free sessions is open now at mountainmomstrong.com/ampp-summit. For more information on other free postpartum and new parent support in Whistler, visit mywcss.org/services.n
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BY HARRISON BROOKS FOR THE FIRST time since 1993, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) will be putting a little more focus and care into one of the town’s hidden gems—Eva Lake Park. Eva Lake, built in 1973 by Walter Zebrowski and named after his daughter, was brought to the attention of the RMOW by Ewa Zebrowski after she noticed the lake looking a “little sad and little neglected” during a visit from Montreal in 2019. “I think it’s a very beautiful spot. It’s like a magical hidden jewel at Whistler. It’s important to have something that can be enjoyed by residents and also that was created by somebody who was really one of the early, early settlers of Whistler Mountain,” said Zebrowski. “And, you know, to me this has sentimental value because it kind of represents my father’s determination his imagination, his love for his community and his wanting to leave a mark that would be enjoyed by others.” According to Heather Beresford, environmental stewardship manager at the RMOW, some preliminary tests on the pond including measuring the depth of water, water quality analysis and a survey of amphibian egg masses have already been done. All of which showed positive results. While the pond used to be a spot where people could catch and release rainbow trout, there hasn’t been any fish other than sticklebacks for “probably close to a decade” since the Ministry of Environment stopped stocking the lake, according to Beresford. Despite Zebrowski thinking the park was in need of some upkeep, one of the few locals who has private access to the lake, but requested to not be named, has
some concerns about the work the town is planning to do. “To be honest, it’s just nice the way it is. One of the things that makes this place beautiful is that it is a spot for solitude,” she said. “It’s one of the best kept secrets in Whistler, that’s what’s made it beautiful. I kind of like it the way it is. I’m not looking for any major improvements to turn it into a tourist attraction.” According to Beresford, the RMOW isn’t planning on making any major changes to the park and would also like to keep it preserved the way it is now. “I have to admit that it’s a little place that we haven’t spent a lot of time on. It seemed to be OK on its own, but Ewa has certainly brought it to our attention, and we certainly recognize the history and fully respect what her dad did,” said Beresford. “So, we will be keeping Eva Lake more on our radar now. The intent is to let it be a natural little pond with vegetation on the sides. We won’t be clearing any of the vegetation or anything like that.” The main work the RMOW will be doing is digging out the sediment that comes from the clearing of the roads and builds up in the stream and ponds that feed in to Eva Lake and updating the interpretive signs that display the lake’s history. The digging out of the sediment will be done sometime this summer and is now permanently on the road crew’s schedule. And the interpretive signs will be updated and replaced by 2022. “This was certainly not intended as any disrespect [to Walter Zebrowski]. It’s a beautiful little park and it’s really a great little quiet oasis in the neighbourhood,” said Beresford. “And we want to continue to make sure that the pond is in good shape and be respectful to what [Ewa’s] dad created." n
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‘It’s easier to get to heaven than it is to get to the end of the street’ SIFTING THROUGH THE PREVAILING ISRAEL-PALESTINE NARRATIVE WITH PLAYGROUND BUILDERS’ KEITH REYNOLDS
BY BRANDON BARRETT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE for him to know it at the time, but it was a spot of bad weather that launched Whistlerite Keith Reynolds’ 35-year connection to Palestine. On a globetrotting backpack trip in 1985, he was enjoying some uzo with friends on a rainy day in Greece, when a plan was hatched. “Somebody said, ‘It’s been raining here for too long. If it rains tomorrow, let’s go to Tel Aviv.’ And that was it,” Reynolds recalled. “I had no idea that that little side trip was going to impact the rest of my life.” Reynolds admits his initial window into Palestinian life was limited, at best. Like so many Westerners, he saw the Palestinian people as something of an abstraction, a symbol of a geopolitical conflict too long and complicated for any outsider to truly grasp. “At that time, part of it was that I was
misled,” he said. Reading Israeli and Western news, Reynolds said he was fed a narrative that has largely persisted since the end of the Second World War “creating Israel as this wonderful place [representing] the struggle of a nation.” The Palestinian perspective was much harder to find, until, that is, he met a young Palestinian man named Sami at a hostel who invited him to his hometown in the West Bank. “A big impression was when we went by some Israelis in Hebron. He said, ‘I think these people will cause trouble.’ That stuck with me to this day. He was correct,” Reynolds recalled. “I came back to Canada and [realized] it wasn’t quite the narrative that I had been told and taught about.” In the years since, Reynolds has visited the Palestinian territories more than a dozen times, first as a private citizen eager to learn more about the situation on the ground, and later as the founder
PLAYGROUND BUILDERS A playground in Gaza, funded by Whistler-based charity Playground Builders, which was destroyed in the recent Israeli-Palestinian conflict. PHOTO SUBMITTED
of Playground Builders, a Whistler-based non-profit that builds playgrounds in waraffected areas of the Middle East, including 31 in Palestine. He has been a guest of the Knesset, Israel’s national legislature, met with Palestinian leaders, and has had a sitdown with Israel’s consul general. Through the years, the ever-curious Reynolds has always sought a deeper understanding of the plight of the Palestinian people, and as he has watched the latest tensions unfold, which, until last month’s ceasefire, had resulted in the deaths of at least 254 Palestinians and 13 Israelis, he saw it as his responsibility to speak up to counter the common prevailing narrative in the media. Stacked on a coffee table at his home overlooking Green Lake is a pile of journals, each representing a different trip to
Palestine. “It’s not easy for me to go back there,” he says, looking over his notes, “but it’s something I feel I need to do.” The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. PIQUE: You said you first noticed the differences in how Israelis and Palestinians lived on your initial trip in 1985, but when did the realization fully set in that the narrative you had heard about the State of Israel was misguided? REYNOLDS: 1987 was the first intifada, and that was shocking when I was listening to our local radio station say that an eight year old and an 80-year-old were killed in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. How does an eight-year-old and an 80-year-old get killed
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possibilities … Palestinians want hope. Going back to a line somebody said: ‘Yesterday was better than today and tomorrow will be worse than today.’ This is their belief, so there’s really nothing optimistic in their lives. It’s very frustrating. Everybody wants the same thing as everybody else does: stability, they want a car in the driveway in a secure house. It’s pretty difficult for them to achieve that. Building permits in the West Bank alone are almost non-existent; the permits are controlled by the Israeli authorities in certain areas. Gaza is called the largest open-air prison in the world. There are people who’ve gone through four wars in the last little bit, so by the age of 13, you’ve already been through four wars? PIQUE: What advice do you have for people wanting to gain a better understanding of the situation? KR: Like I say to people, ‘Go and you’ll know.’ Take every bit of information you can gather, throw it in the blender, push it on and see what you get. Don’t just read one newspaper, read ‘em all, read as many as you can, and then you can get a good balance. Look at the facts. It’s very misguided. I was just looking at my notes and some of my quotes that I wrote from the last 25 years, and they’re pretty shocking. I just saw something that I wrote: ‘If the UN knew in 1947 what Israel is doing today, the vote would never have passed.’ From what is going on, the way the UN is having to step in now, I think that’s true. n
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École La Vallée school project closer to breaking ground COUNCIL BRIEFS: COUNCIL DEBATES FUTURE OF LILLOOET RIVER PARK
BY ALYSSA NOEL ÉCOLE LA VALLÉE is one step closer to having a new school. Pemberton council voted on Tuesday, June 1 to give first and second reading to amendment bylaws to both the Official Community Plan and zoning that would change the area from residential to school use. The French-first school, which would be located north of Highway 99 before entering the Village in the Tiyata development, is currently housed in portables near Signal Hill Elementary School and serves Kindergarten to Grade 8. The new Kindergarten to Grade 12 school would serve 390 students, 12 infant and toddler childcare spaces and 25 preschool spaces, limited to Francophone families only, said Lisa Pedrini, manager of development services, during the meeting. “In terms of future enrolment, the School District 93 expects to see enrolment of the new proposed school from nearby areas, such as Whistler, mostly for its secondary program,” she said. While the building would be three storeys, the school footprint would be about 5,000-square-metres with a basketball court and full-size playing field, as well as a
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full-size gymnasium. Amenities would include community gardens, new emergency access for the Tiyata development, a proposed commuter trail, and access to the Friendship Trail. The school district also said the new school would see 60 teachers and support staff hired, six clerical positions and opportunities for community work with construction “based on this $40 million capital investment by the province of B.C.,” Pedrini said. Potential drawbacks, however, include the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) only guaranteeing right turn in and right turn out of the property off Highway 99 (that could change, but MOTI won’t further weigh in until after third reading) and complications with the proposed pedestrian bridge over Pemberton Creek that was promised under the Tiyata development. “It is important to advise that our community amenity contribution policy would not require an amenity from this redevelopment because we only ask for contributions for residential land-use changes,” Pedrini said. “However, there is willingness on the part of the applicant to collaborate with the Village and see that the pedestrian connection does occur in the future.” A segment of the area that would be rezoned to accommodate the school was initially negotiated with the developer to be affordable housing as part of the amenity contribution package. Though it was not “a great piece of land to begin with,” Pedrini
said. While mayor and council discussed some of those issues, ultimately, they gave the project first and second reading. “I feel like the school brings some good, professional jobs,” said Mayor Mike Richman. “I agree with the comments that the bridge was part of the plan from the beginning and I want to make sure that it’s clear to the applicants and throughout the process that it is a priority for us.” The next step for the project will be a public hearing on July 13.
DISCUSSION OVER USE OF LILLOOET RIVER PARK The future of public use of Lillooet River Park on the north side of the Lillooet River Bridge is up in the air. The land is technically within the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District’s (SLRD) jurisdiction, but the Village of Pemberton had a 30-year lease agreement over the lands, set to expire in March 2027, in order to access a sewage treatment plant in the area. (A 20-year statutory right of way agreement expired in April 2019 and was not renewed.) However, back in 2010, the wastewater treatment plant in the area was decommissioned and relocated to Airport Road. Because the Village still has tenure of the land, officials considered expanding, establishing a park and adding a boat launch. To that end, in July 2020, council
voted to move the process further along. Since then, however, some concerns have come up, said CAO Sheena Fraser. “The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure … identified, ‘This is a great idea, but there is a right-of-way off the road at the edge of the bridge.’ They would need to look at what we were planning to do and we would need to put in significant upgrades to the access area and these would be at our cost,” she said. Other issues, including human waste and garbage in the area due to overnight camping—although it is prohibited—have also drawn complaints. The Village doesn’t have enforcement jurisdiction over the area and its public works department cannot accommodate the extra clean-up, Fraser said. For those reasons, staff recommended council withdraw its application for Crown land tenure of the area. Council wasn’t quite convinced. Councillor Leah Noble raised the idea of gating the area off to traffic, allowing access only for people via the Friendship Trail, as well as adding an outhouse and garbage bin. “I think closing off highway access is a great idea, except I know it’s used by a lot of people to launch their [water] craft,” added Coun. Amica Antonelli. “What I want to see is have this referred back to staff to look at all our options.” Ultimately, council decided to direct staff to have a conversation with the SLRD about use of the area and explore options for future use. n
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BY BRANDON BARRETT DESPITE ITS proximity to the Pacific Ocean, Squamish has always felt like more of a mountain town than a seaside town. “Even though we’ve got Howe Sound right there, I think a lot of people think of us as a mountain town. I was in that same boat, too,” said Minna Koskela-Wild of Blue Mar 4 Change. “Sometimes when we think ocean, we think of long stretches of sand, we think about that surf coming in, and we actually forget about how special Howe Sound is.” The ocean advocacy group is hoping to shift that perception ahead of the United Nations’ World Oceans Day on June 8, teaming up with My Sea to Sky, Ocean Wise, the Squamish Arts Council, the Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative and the Howe Sound/Átl’ka7tsem Marine Reference Guide to host a range of programming this month that looks to deepen the Sea to Sky’s connection to Howe Sound. “It’s an opportunity for us to really think about our environment, this amazing Sea to Sky corridor that we live in and our Howe Sound community,” Koskela-Wild said. “We want to broaden our reach and really think about what we can do in our own backyard to make a difference for the oceans.” The events began last week with the third annual Howe Sound Art Challenge, which invited students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 to submit artwork that meets the theme of “Ocean Life.” The winning artwork from each grade will receive a cash prize and be featured in a 2022 school-year calendar. Students will present their art on June 8, from 9 to 10 a.m. The presentation will also feature a special message from Squamish Mayor Karen Elliott and an announcement of the art challenge winners. Local students have been learning about Howe Sound thanks to a special education kit, Átl’ka7tsem/Txwnéwu7ts/Howe Sound, developed by Ocean Wise Education that includes seven weeks of lesson plans, workbooks and teacher training tools meant
to further develop ocean literacy. “The engagement and education that our World Oceans Day programming brings to the students is inspiring. It is fostering a generation of ocean advocates for years to come, and it’s been a privilege to be a part of it from the beginning,” said World Oceans Day team volunteer Anne MacKenzie in a release. From 7 to 8 p.m. on Monday, June 7, the Marine Reference Guide invites the public to Celebrate Howe Sound/Átl’ka7tsem 2.0, where they will learn more about Howe Sound through the virtual launch of two online maps. The first is an interactive tool three years in the making that helps visualize how people, industry and marine life use the area. “It’s really helping to lift the veil of the ocean surface,” said Gibsonsbased project director Fiona Beaty. The interactive map’s main use, she said, is for marine spatial planning and to help inform decision-making in areas that include ecological health, as well as economic, social and cultural values. It can also help identify conflicting uses, such as between sensitive habitat and industrial activity or a tourism hotspot, in an effort to protect not only the environment, but also access and livelihoods. A second map shows a community network of all the people and groups in the area, including the stakeholders and rights holders, “like a visual directory,” Beaty said. “We use the map to show who is doing what, where.” The following day, June 8, from 7 to 8:15 p.m., the Howe Sound Biosphere Region Initiative will host Glass Sponge Reefs and the Amazing Underwater World in Howe Sound with Sheila Byers, marine biologist with the Marine Life Sanctuaries Society, who will be discussing Howe Sound’s ancient glass sponge reefs and the diversity of marine life that rely on them. For more information, and to register for any of the events on offer, head to howesoundbri.org/latest-news/2021/5/7/ world-oceans-day-2021-in-howe-sound. -With files from Keili Bartlett, courtesy of The Coast Reporter n
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1.5 Celsius. Considering the alternative— continuing to burn limited supplies of environmentally destructive, polluting, climate-altering fossil fuels—the sane course is the cleaner path. It’s fast becoming less expensive to generate electricity from renewable energy than from fossil fuels and new nuclear plants. “More than half of the renewable capacity added in 2019 achieved lower electricity costs than new coal. New solar and wind projects are undercutting the cheapest of existing coal-fired plants,” a 2020 International Renewable Energy Agency study found, adding the trend will continue. The report outlines dramatic price drops in solar and wind, “complementing the more mature bioenergy, geothermal and hydropower technologies.” Solar photovoltaic costs declined 82 per cent from 2010 to 2019, concentrating solar power dropped 47 per cent, onshore wind 40 per cent and offshore wind 29 per cent. Costs to store energy are also falling quickly. That means energy produced when there’s an oversupply (during daylight hours with solar, for example) can be stored for use when it drops (at night for solar). It shows that government policy and technological innovation can produce results. Many gains in battery storage are a result of clean energy and fuel policies and tax incentives that sparked advances in increasingly smaller, cheaper and more efficient lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Higher-capacity batteries for power storage were the next step. Batteries aren’t the only way to store energy. For example, hydro facilities can pump water from a lower to a higher reservoir during off-peak hours and release it through turbines when demand is high or when solar or wind aren’t available. Compressed air storage offers another method. But lithium-ion batteries are
currently among the best methods for efficiently storing energy. Because battery installations are made of stacked cells, they can be employed at the scale needed. One issue is that obtaining materials for batteries often comes with environmental and human rights abuses, especially for minerals like cobalt, most of which comes from Africa. Lithium and nickel also come with problems, although strong environmental regulations can help fix those. Technological advances aim to reduce social and environmental impacts, with better mining methods, improved recycling and more efficient batteries that use fewer or none of the most problematic elements. And because many lithium-ion batteries are mainly useful for storing energy over short periods (up to four hours), other medium- to long-term storage options are also being developed. Along with improvements to lithiumion technologies, research continues into flow, sodium-ion, zinc, liquid metal andother types of grid-storage batteries. It’s important to note, though, that even today’s renewable energy and storage technologies don’t cause nearly as much environmental and social damage as exploiting and burning coal, oil and gas for energy. Thanks to good policies and a culture of innovation, California leads the world in deploying high-capacity batteries to balance renewable sources’ intermittency. At Monterey Bay, a massive former gas generator is being converted to the world’s largest battery energy storage system, with capacity to discharge enough electricity to power about 300,000 homes for four hours when energy demand outstrips supply. It’s one of a number of projects in the state. Renewable energy and storage are gaining momentum in other parts of the U.S. and worldwide, in countries including the U.K., Lithuania, Australia, Germany, Chile and Saudi Arabia. Distributed energy—small-scale power-generation systems operating as an alternative or enhancement to the grid system—can also speed the deployment of renewable energy. At the individual level, a house or workplace could generate power from solar or wind and store excess energy in a lithium-ion car or similar battery, even selling excess back to the grid. As a recent International Energy Agency report pointed out, there’s no room for new coal, oil or gas development in a rapidly heating world. It’s time to clean up our act. No more excuses! 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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Worth more standing THIS PAST WEEK, an open-air hearse bearing the corpse of a single slaughtered giant rolled through Nanaimo. It was nothing new, but with public awareness piqued by the Fairy Creek blockades—most recent imbroglio in B.C.’s longstanding oldgrowth standoff—someone had the presence of mind to snap a photo of this felled
BY LESLIE ANTHONY behemoth. It went viral, as it should have— the hubris and arrogance surrounding it on display for all to see. I’ve seen trucks like that rolling through Whistler, bearing three, two, or even one log because they’re too large to otherwise accommodate. It made me sick to my stomach each time, and the Nanaimo photo was no different. B.C. logging blockades have been the stuff of national—and often international— news for half a century. As an evolutionary ecologist who had seen firsthand the inexplicable clearcuts of B.C.’s scant remaining old growth, and who well understood the ravages of anachronistic forest practices, I was predisposed to join the fight. Thus, I came to revere battlegrounds like Haida Gwaii’s South Moresby, and Vancouver Island’s Carmanah Valley, Meares Island, and Clayoquot Sound; my frontline heroes comprised First Nations, the Western Canadian Wilderness Committee, and the Friends of Clayoquot Sound; the enemy was forestry (a.k.a. forest destruction) companies and the toady governments who facilitated
CLEAR CUT The impacts of old-growth clearcutting on the coast of Lyell Island in Haida Gwaii, B.C. PHOTO BY JOEL W. ROGERS / GETTYIMAGES.CA
them. In my university days in Ontario I dutifully signed on to receive newsletter updates and copies of related government documents. I read a lot. I got angry. From afar I cheered on the thousands who gave enough of a damn to fight for these last redoubts of coastal biodiversity, thousands of years in the making. Despite some empathy for the loggers— folks just trying to make a living, mostly caught in the middle, and primed by their employers with hollow logaganda talking points—it was hard to fathom the collective industrial-level ignorance required to fell a 1,000-year-old tree with a clear conscience, or the seemingly bizarre entitlement of those who would happily continue such conceit until the last giant lay dead on the
base and sequestered a further 17.6 per cent in “special management areas.” The false magnanimity fooled no one, as it was well understood that 66 per cent of the area remained open to logging. The resulting massive protest saw Clayoquot Sound become another international symbol of all that was wrong with industrial logging—a touchstone for a change in forestry practices that would preserve some of what serves as home to thousands of unique organisms and which should be a heritage birthright for all British Columbians. The region became the beating heart of a widespread environmental awakening, inspiring large-scale peaceful actions and engendering a strategy since utilized in environmental campaigns around the globe.
Fairy Creek is happening now, but the fight that most encapsulated this to the world took place 28 years ago.
forest floor. Fairy Creek is happening now, but the fight that most encapsulated this to the world took place 28 years ago. On April 13, 1993, after a decade of logging issues in the area, B.C.’s NDP government of the day (sound familiar?) announced a land-use decision for Clayoquot Sound it believed would balance environmental, economic and social needs (First Nations concessions weren’t even included). On paper it reduced B.C.’s odious annual allowable cut by a third and took back 95,000 hectares from forest companies which, added to existing setasides, protected 33.4 per cent of the land
In addition to government and logging companies, protestors targeted global corporate customers of B.C. products, costing the province millions. The scofflaw logging industry circled its wagons, but to no avail. Although the protests wrapped in October 1993, this “War in the Woods”— Canada’s largest-ever act of civil disobedience—saw 12,000-plus protesters, 856 arrests (300 in a single day), visiting celebrities like Robert Kennedy Jr., and a spontaneous concert by the political Aussie band, Midnight Oil. While the fight drove a wedge between neighbouring Tofino and Ucluelet, tensions eventually
deliquesced into important breakthroughs: the Clayoquot Sound Scientific Panel for Sustainable Forest Practices led to B.C.’s first forest-practices code; Clayoquot’s First Nations signed a groundbreaking agreement under the province’s new treaty system; and the protests influenced future environmental movements, including the Great Bear Rainforest, tar sands, and antipipeline campaigns. As a British Columbian these days, the most important upshot for me was how forest areas I now enjoy were saved by the War in the Woods—a winning cause I plan to uphold in my own community because, make no mistake, old growth is being unjustifiably logged here, too. Fairy Creek isn’t just déjà vu for me but for a generation—and for people like Tzeporah Berman, a resource policy advisor to various governments, International Program Director with Stand.Earth, and Global Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative who cut her teeth as blockade coordinator in Clayoquot Sound. Arrested at the time and charged with 857 counts of abetting civil disobedience (she got off all of them), last week she visited the Fairy Creek blockade. She was arrested again, and proud of it. If we’d been allowed to travel this week I would be there, too. The other day I listened to a call-in show on CBC radio about the blockades and it was pretty much the same as 30 years ago. One side, informed by science: we are literally killing an entire ecosystem that will never regenerate. The other side, informed by entitlement: jobs, jobs, jobs. Well, the bottom line is that loggers have no more right to make a living killing the last ancient giants than commercial fishermen in Newfoundland had to take the last cod when the Atlantic stocks crashed in 1991; in the latter case a moratorium was declared and the fish still haven’t returned. Is that where old growth is going in B.C.? ■
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Tourism takes a breath When COVID-19 recedes, will it be business as usual? BY B R A D E N D U P U I S 28 JUNE 3, 2021
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IN DUBROVNIK, CROATIA, STAND-IN FOR GAME OF THRONES’ ICONIC KING’S LANDING, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AVID TV WATCHERS ARRIVE BY CRUISESHIP, BRINGING NOISE AND CROWDS BUT SPENDING LITTLE, FORCING RESIDENTS TO MOVE AWAY IN EXASPERATION. THE SMALL ISLAND OF SANTORINI IN GREECE—WITH ITS WHITEWASHED BUILDINGS AND FAMED SUNSETS—IS CHOKED AS TOURIST NUMBERS DOUBLE IN A DECADE FROM 15 MILLION TO 33 MILLION. A 12TH-CENTURY HINDU TEMPLE IN SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA IS DAMAGED AFTER MORE THAN 2 MILLION TOURISTS FLOCK TO ITS RUINS IN ONE YEAR AFTER SEEING IT IN A TOMB RAIDER FILM. MACHU PICCHU, PERU—STRUGGLING WITH INCREASING VISITOR NUMBERS FOR DECADES—IS ON THE BRINK OF BEING ADDED TO UNESCO’S “LIST OF WORLD HERITAGE IN DANGER” AFTER VISITOR NUMBERS TOPPED 1.5 MILLION IN 2018. THE CROWDS MAY HAVE THINNED WITH THE ADVENT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, BUT THE ISSUE OF OVERTOURISM ISN’T GOING AWAY IN THE LONG TERM. “We know that growth in tourism is anticipated to almost double from 1 billion tourists in 2012 to close to 2 billion in 2030. So there is a real concern that too many travellers could visit a destination to death,” said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher, during a May 14 virtual panel discussion on the future of tourism hosted by the Whistler Institute. Overcrowding or overtourism can negatively impact sensitive ecological environments, while simultaneously undermining the guest experience and the lives of local residents, Fisher said. “So the goal for a destination to truly be successful is to find alignment, stability and balance,” she said. COVID has provided a moment of sober reflection for tourism, but the core challenges haven’t gone away. Will the industry use its forced pause to shift to true sustainability, or will the years ahead be business as usual?
will help Whistler realize it? The end result of the place-branding exercise was a renewed purpose for Tourism Whistler, Fisher said. “So Tourism Whistler’s new purpose is to honour and celebrate the magnitude of Whistler’s rugged mountain environment, and the bold and adventurous spirit of the people who love it—and that includes both residents and visitors,” she said. Tourism Whistler’s new updated vision, Fisher added, is to be the most valued, respected, and sustainable four-season mountain destination in the world. “To be clear, the focus there is on being the most valued, not the most visited; on ensuring respect, both for our people and for our place, and for being sustainable, socially, economically and environmentally,” she said. As visitor numbers explode, the role of tourism bureaus has shifted, she added. Rather than being solely about destination marketing, it’s also about management. “Awareness building and growth are no longer the sole goals, but rather managing and shifting visitor travel patterns, influencing and changing visitor behaviours, and identifying challenges and opportunities within the visitor experience to recommend and/or to make improvements to,” Fisher said. “So from a marketing perspective, it’s no longer about mass-marketing and mass-growth, but rather laser-focused, data-driven marketing to targeted, high-value audiences, who are passionate about and Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Whistler (much like respectful of our place and people.” the popular destinations listed above, if to a lesser In Whistler, that means focusing on strategies extent) was feeling the squeeze of overtourism. to smooth out year-round visitation; reducing the “After many economically challenged years peaks while growing the valleys by offering off-peak ranging from 2008 through 2014, Whistler programming and “dynamic” pricing. experienced exponential growth from 2015 through Having consistent (but manageable) year-round 2019, and that growth reached a tipping point for visitation attracts year-round employees that can local residents,” Fisher said. then secure more affordable year-round housing, In response, Tourism Whistler undertook a “which creates greater well-being,” Fisher said. tourism visioning and place branding exercise to “It’s also about educating new visitors on expected gather input from the community. behaviour, specifically with regards to the outdoors “We wanted to understand what is special and and sensitive natural environments … and it’s about unique about Whistler, and what do we want to monitoring both resident and visitor sentiments to protect and celebrate for generations to come?” determine whether we are winning or losing against Fisher said. our goals, noting that that does take time. Further, what does ideal tourism look like in the “We know we have a lot of work ahead of us, but future, and what are the barriers and solutions that we also are up for the challenge.”
“To be clear, the focus there is on being the most valued, not the most visited; on ensuring respect, both for our people and for our place, and for being sustainable, socially, economically and environmentally,”
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DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONMAKING Despite several painful months for tourism operators— precipitated by a 63-per-cent downturn in B.C.’s tourism industry since the advent of COVID—the pandemic has presented an historic opportunity for destinations, said Megan Epler Wood, director of Harvard’s International Sustainable Tourism Initiative (ISTI). “What some scholars have found is that when we have these difficult times, we always reinvent ourselves,” Epler Wood said. “It’s part of our creativity as a species, apparently, and it’s quite exciting to see that in fact, despite this difficult time, a lot of creativity and innovation has been brought to the table.” Overcrowding at tourist destinations is lowering their desirability while increasing the demand on local resources—a metric that is currently unaccounted for, Epler Wood said. Local authorities are left carrying the biggest burden, which may lead to hefty tax increases for locals as demand
for services like electricity, water and waste management skyrocket. “Obviously, the idea is to find a greater balance between tourism’s use of vital resources, and it does take data,” Epler Wood said. “What we really want to know is how to begin the process of transitioning from managing just demand to managing supply and demand.” What’s missing is destination-specific, sciencebased data that includes regular monitoring and local participation, with a focus on critical tipping points, she said, noting that the ISTI team has been working to fix that in recent years. “What we wanted to do was discover how we could measure the invisible burden, but also with the same measures, help to have ongoing reports on how destinations are meeting [sustainable development] goals and lower greenhouse gas emissions,” Epler Wood said. The idea is to create a data hub that can “measure on an ongoing basis the requirements to keep tourism at the lowest possible GHG emissions, and also cover the cost and mitigate the impacts of the invisible burden,” she added. “We do believe that will require a very modest centre for destination information technology and capacity building to help all the partners build up their own capacity to manage this kind of centre and this kind of data.” Wherever the future of tourism goes, the massive amounts of greenhouse gas emissions the industry creates remain the most pressing challenge.
“The elephant in the room is that travel is built almost entirely upon fossil fuels … [If you] fly more than once a year, especially if you take an international flight, you’re causing a huge amount of greenhouse gas pollution,” said Rodney Payne, CEO of DestinationThink!, a consulting firm focusing on sustainability in tourism. “There’s currently no pathway to decarbonization within a meaningful timeframe, and aviation is one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, sectors in our global economy to decarbonize.” The push for decarbonization will be as disruptive to tourism as the internet was, but it’s something the industry can’t afford to ignore. “If the rest of the economy is decarbonizing without us, we risk losing our social license to operate, and we can’t afford to do that,” Payne said. It’s an immense challenge, to be sure, but some destinations are beginning to step up. Valencia, Spain is the first city to measure its carbon footprint as it relates to the visitor economy. A recent report determined the 2 million or so annual visitors to Valencia account for 1.3 million tons of carbon emissions (81 per cent of which come from people getting to the city itself, either by plane or automobile). The city has a lofty goal of becoming carbon-neutral by 2025. With no answer to the air-travel conundrum in sight (at least not before 2025), Valencia will have to focus on reducing emissions in other categories to reach neutrality,
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such as public and private infrastructure, waste and water management and transportation within the city. Ideas being floated include maximizing the use of renewable energy sources (including a fully-electric public transport system) and enhancing more than 2 million square metres of natural spaces to absorb more CO2. “This doesn’t need to be about sacrifice,” Payne said. “It can lead to incredible benefits for the community— public health, clean air and water quality, economic opportunities—and I think destinations don’t need to be rudderless and at the mercy [of external forces]. “Every place can have conversations to determine where they want to go, starting with first principles and really thinking, what’s the most [equitable] outcome we can imagine?”
BUILDING BACK BETTER For tourism destinations to move towards true sustainability, they first have to understand what the costs are “per tourist,” Epler Wood said. “Once we can put some numbers around that I believe
we should go for what I would call recovery packages that essentially invest in a more low-impact and lower greenhouse gas emission economy,” she said. Epler Wood’s next recommended step is to follow in Valencia’s footsteps, and look at what it will take to become carbon neutral. “What is the carbon emissions per tourists, and then what will it take to lower that impact? [Then] figure out the best investments that can be made in that category,” she said. “It’ll move a lot of interest—it will get the national interest, and it will also get business interest as well.” Engaging Whistler’s business community in a conversation about fundamentally shifting how the resort does tourism may be difficult at the moment, Fisher pointed out. “It would be a challenging [discussion], because many of them aren’t going to survive past this year … The economic indicators are at nil,” she said. The flipside of that, she added, is the real possibility that pent-up demand for outdoor spaces after more than a year of COVID-19 will lead to another surge in visitation to Whistler this summer. “I think from our perspective, that’s about how we’re going to use education to build back better—how we’re going to talk about the importance of responsible behaviours when you’re visiting outdoor places, and that we have to go beyond our own potentially selfish needs and we have to think of the greater good. “[We want to] have messaging that strikes a chord with
people, that each and every one of us have to step up and do our bit.” While things like hotels have built-in capacity limits, the same restraints don’t exist for outdoor spaces, she added. “And so this is where it’s a tricky one—how do we find systems where we can welcome people to come enjoy our natural environment, but recognizing that we can’t all do it on the same day?” she said. “Is it reservation systems? Are there ways that can help different destinations? And I’m thinking specifically of sensitive ecosystems and park areas where we can monitor those volumes. “These are tricky subjects, and we’re all, I think, working through them.” While every aspect of tourism is hurting right now after more than a year of COVID-19 restrictions, the answers to the industry’s big questions lie in strong leadership, Payne said. “What’s our responsibility as leaders to get really real about … what’s coming in the future?” he said. “Is it fair to build back dependent on a fundamentally unsustainable industry, or is that a conversation we should be forcing right now and take the medicine while we can? “It’s not easy; if it was easy, we’d all be doing it, and we wouldn’t be stuck in this place, worried about [if we are] going to build back better or snap back to 2019.” Watch the full panel discussion at whistlerinstitute. com. ■
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Truth Smith looks to grow skateboarding among local youth LOCAL SKATEBOARDER, TRUTH SMITH, IS THE NEWLY FOUNDED WHISTLER SKATEBOARD CLUB’S HEAD COACH AT JUST 17
BY HARRISON BROOKS TRUTH SMITH first stepped on a skateboard approximately 14 years ago at just three years of age, sparking a love for the sport that could last a lifetime. Now just 17 years old, Smith is going into his fourth year of coaching, and his first as the head coach of the newly formed Whistler Skateboard Club (WSC). Using the knowledge passed down from his father, Smith started as a coach by volunteering his time at the local skate park, teaching other kids tricks and giving them tips on how to get the most out of the park. And he did all this for one simple goal—to change skateboarding’s bad reputation. “I just wanted to see more kids skateboarding and loving the sport,” said Smith. “People used to think it [starts with skateboarding] and then you’re going to smoke weed or do drugs and I just wanted to show that the skatepark isn’t a bad place and skateboarding isn’t a bad sport. “So, I do these lessons and get these kids kind of going so that if they wanted to,
THE TRUTH Local skater, Truth Smith, shows off some skills at the Whistler Skateboard Club’s weekend camp as the kids cheer him on. PHOTO BY JOSH DOOLEY
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they could come back by themselves. I just wanted to share the love for the sport.” Given Smith’s dedication to being a positive influence in the sport and his incredible talent level, he was an obvious choice for WSC owner, Harrison Gray, to bring in on the ground floor of the new club
looking to compete and in need of more detailed instruction. But what really gets Smith fired up as a coach is seeing the excitement on the kids’ faces when they accomplish something they didn’t know they could and then begging their parents to let them stay longer
“It’s like I’m feeling all the same things that they’re feeling … I’m pretty much shivering because I’m so excited for them.” - TRUTH SMITH
when he had the idea for it last fall. “Truth couldn’t live up to his name more,” said Gray about what Smith brings to the WSC. “I’ve known [him] now for almost 10 years … He’s an amazing, super talented, smart kid that has the world ahead of him. He’s always got the best attitude at the skatepark, he’s always the one smiling the most and he’s there the most as well.” According to Gray, Smith has a great ability to break down the techniques that he’s teaching the kids in a way that is easy for them to understand whether they are a true beginner or an intermediate rider
and ride more. “Oh, I get stoked. It’s like a blast from the past, you know?” said Smith, reminiscing about the feeling he got when he landed his first back 180 disaster nose grab on the mini-ramp his dad built for him when he was eight years old. “It’s like I’m feeling all the same things that they’re feeling, just because I’m there with them and I’m taking them through the steps and I’m feeling like how I felt when I was doing those things. I’m pretty much shivering because I’m so excited for them.” For the month of June, while kids are
still in school, the WSC will be holding weekend programs from 8 to 11 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. But once summer vacation hits, it will shift focus to threeday camps running Monday to Wednesday each week. It also has private lessons available, will be hosting a couple of proday sessions this summer with members of the Canadian National Olympic Team including Adam Hawkins and Maddy Balt, and will be holding a Skate and Create program later in the summer with local artist and skateboarder Dan Poechman. Moving into next year the WSC is hoping to continue expanding the programs it offers and incorporate a more high-performance, competitive program to the club. But whatever the future of the WSC may be, one thing that is for sure is that Smith will be a part of it and will continue to pass down the life lessons he has learned through the sport to the next generation of shredders. “I’ve learned so many life lessons from skateboarding, that I probably would not have learned if I never went to the skate park,” said Smith, citing things like independence, determination and resiliency. “So yeah, get your kid on a skateboard, send them to the camp. It’s a lot more than just skateboarding. You meet new friends, you learn lessons, it’s rad. And I’m stoked that we get to do it.” n
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Whistler Mountain Bike Park opens for season THE DOWNHILL PARK IS UP AND RUNNING BUT WILL CONTINUE TO ENFORCE COVID-19 PROTOCOLS ALL SEASON
BY HARRISON BROOKS BIKERS LINED UP all the way through the snaking barriers and into the village at the base of the Fitzsimmons Express chairlift for Whistler Mountain Bike Park’s opening day on Monday, May 31. For some, like local rider Victoria Armstrong, who has been riding the mountain for the past 10 years, there’s a sense of relief at hopefully having a full season ahead after the shortened one last year. “We’re just stoked that it’s opening. We were pretty nervous that it was going to be a late start or not having extended play was a big thing that everyone was worried about,” said Armstrong. “Last year they closed at five o’clock every day but this year they are open until 8 p.m. So that’s sweet for people working every day. They can go and do after-work laps, whereas last year it was impossible to get many days in if you were working every day nine to five.” According to communications and resort marketing manager for Whistler Blackcomb, Jennifer Smith, only the Fitzsimmons Express will be running for the first few days, but the Whistler Village Gondola will be up and running by the weekend to help ease congestion for riders. The Blackcomb Gondola has also been opened for sightseers and hikers. “This year unlike last year, we are going to have a singles line, similar to what we did in the winter,” said Smith. “So, you just get in that line and two singles who are not in the same cohort will be able to ride together just obviously spaced between. So exactly the same thing we were running in the winter, but it is different than what we were running in the park last summer.” A few other changes Smith wants to note this year include no eating or drinking
in the lineup, so riders should make sure to grab their drink before they get in line for the lift. The mountain is also no longer using the reservation system for buying tickets they were last year, so riders can purchase online or in person like usual. However, according to Smith, the Timeto-Dine reservation system that was in place last year can still be used if riders want to “pre-book their table for après” at Dusty’s Bar & BBQ or Garibaldi Lift Co. Bar and Grill. Roundhouse Lodge and Rendezvous Lodge will also be open this year in a similar capacity to the winter, with grab-and-go food options and the same safety protocols
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in place. However, the big difference is you no longer have to reserve a spot like you did in the winter. Smith went on to say that the park will be running with COVID-19 safety protocols “regardless of immunization status” and will keep them in place for the entire season, even as more people become fully vaccinated. While a good portion of the Fitzsimmons Zone is up and running already, some popular runs like Dirt Merchant, Rippin’ Rutabaga and Golden Triangle still need a little more time to dry. In addition to those, the top two sections of A-Line are not open yet as the mountain is still finishing rebuilding it. “So, we are doing a new build on them, which is targeted at safety and adding more jumps. We are making it a little bit safer and a little jumpier,” said Smith. “I don’t have a timeline for it other than it will be fairly quick off the top. They’re just about done.”n
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Sea to Sky Moves asking community members to join ParticipACTION challenge THE PARTICIPACTION CHALLENGE HAS A GRAND PRIZE OF $100,000 FOR CANADA’S MOST ACTIVE COMMUNITY
BY HARRISON BROOKS SEA TO SKY MOVES, in partnership with Whistler Sport Legacies, is putting a call out to the community to get active and help the Sea to Sky be recognized as Canada’s most active community through the countrywide ParticipACTION challenge. “This is a big event that has been going on for at least a few years across Canada and what happens is ParticipACTION Canada puts out the challenge to any communities and the goal of it is just to get everybody up and moving,” said Meredith Gardner, project mentor for Sea to Sky Moves. “The other thing we really want to do is get everybody posting really positive images of themselves out moving as much as possible and to inspire people right now when a lot of people have been feeling trapped inside.” The ParticipACTION Challenge is open to anyone to join and tracks the minutes of activity that everyone from each community logs for the entire month of June. At the end of the month, whichever community has the most minutes logged
per capita will win $100,000 to go towards physical literacy initiatives. To get involved, just download the ParticipACTION app, put in your postal code and begin logging all of your minutes of physical activity each day. Everything
to Sky community win the national contest, there are weekly prizes for participants who share photos or videos of them getting active on social media with the hashtag #s2smoves. “I think the biggest thing is this is meant to run across social media so it will really
“We have this extraordinary playground, and we have all these extreme athletes ...” - MEREDITH GARDNER
counts whether it is an intense workout, just walking to the store, or anything in between. The app can also connect to your Fitbit to track your minutes automatically. Organizations that are planning to participate can also log the minutes from their workplace all at once online at participaction.com. In addition to potentially helping the Sea
be that if somebody in the community sees this and they join in, they just need to post it on Instagram and Facebook and just encourage their friends,” said Gardner. “And our plan is, we’re hoping that it’s kind of contagious or airborne and it goes out and people find out about it, and they log in and participate and our numbers will climb.” From the outside, Whistler, and the
entire Sea to Sky corridor, seems like the perfect community for a challenge like this based on the overall activity level of the people who live here. However, according to Gardner, there is actually a high level of inactivity here as well. “We have this extraordinary playground, and we have all these extreme athletes, and we do have a lot of very active people, but there is a shocking number of people that are inactive and especially youths right now,” she said. “But because we have this really competitive sector of our community, I’m hoping those people will get excited about the idea of winning the title [of] the most active community in Canada. And then, for the people who are more socially motivated, we hope that they are going to be challenging their friends and their families and making it a fun social challenge.” Organizations that are currently planning to be involved once the challenge starts June 1 include Whistler Gymnastics, the Whistler Mountain Ski Club, Meadow Park Sports Centre, Brennan Park Recreation Centre in Squamish and the Pemberton Community Centre. n
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How do we grow our tolerance for discomfort? Keep asking how. I READ RECENTLY that if you want to get to the heart of something, ask the question “why?” five times. (So, parenthood has been preparing me for something!) “I worked in group dialogue for years: often in dialogue to do with conflict
BY LISA RICHARDSON and peace,” wrote Pádraig Ó Tuama, poet, theologian and host of the Poetry Unbound podcast. “That field of work— often called Narrative Medicine—has a lot of models for how to hold group discussions. Group processes are always a certain exercise in looking at a singular thing—a single story, a single reason, a single purpose—and making them plural. One technique that I learned was one that was attributed to a Japanese methodology. The way of discussing is simple. When someone says something of importance, ask the question ‘why?’ five times; not as a cornering or an accusation, but as an exploration of some of the layers supporting what is important to them.” I’m kind of interested in the how, more than the why, at the moment—it came more alive for me on May 5, a National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. How is genocide still happening? So, let’s ask how. How do we
QUESTIONS TO FIND TRUTH ‘When someone says something of importance, ask the question ‘why?’ five times; not as a cornering or an accusation, but as an exploration of some of the layers supporting what is important to them.’ PHOTO BY EVAN DENNIS FROM UNSPLASH
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confront genocidal policies? How do we do reconciliation? Understand it’s a process, and it involves unpacking a lot of inherited racism. How do we address/solve/eliminate racism? Local athlete, and anti-racism and diversity consultant Anita Naidu distilled it: get accustomed to feeling uncomfortable. She told Pique, “At the root of dismantling covert racism is White discomfort. So the best thing those who are committed to fighting racism can do is be willing to get really uncomfortable.” How do we deal with discomfort? Build tolerance for the sensation. How do we build tolerance? If you’re an athlete, you’re used to the sensation of discomfort. Your goal (to be faster, get to the top, clean a particularly technical section of the trail) pulls you through the sensation, until you get to where you’re going. And then you can puke. Or maybe you won’t, because you’ve built the stamina you needed to endure, as you pushed through the discomfort. My partner has spent the past 10 weeks recovering from an injury. Part of that process is working through daily discomfort, massaging scar tissue, increasing mobility, sometimes just reminding yourself that the discomfort is part of the healing, sometimes seeking reassurance from your physio or emotional support person, (because your wife hit peak compassion weeks ago and gets an eyes-glazed look when you start talking about your injury): yes, this is part of the process. It won’t be like this forever. I’ve been soothing my discomfort through the pandemic by trying to let go of the need to be right, to be sure, to be certain (i.e., let go of the shore, the floating dock, the fixed thing) and stepping into the flow, trusting that there’s a greater intelligence
at play, that’s greater than me, greater than Bonnie Henry, greater than COVID19, greater than anything I can really understand, and it’s love, and I can choose to grapple and wrestle and rationalize and resist, or I can choose to unlock myself, and just step into the flow of all-things, and I’ll recognize the feeling of going with it, because it feels like being in love. Even if it means letting go of the shore, and having no idea where it will lead. How do we be OK with grey, movement, nuance ... how do we cultivate that ability to flow beyond the familiar? Through developing a deeper sense of connection. How do we feel a deeper sense of connection (especially when in circuit-breaker, stay-back-from-people, don’t-gather mode)? By exploring what it means to be in relationship. (I don’t have to be in the physical presence of someone, to be in relationship with them.) Whether the COVID-19-related restrictions are heavy, light or some place in between, what is constant is that we’re living in a time of discontinuity and disruption. Discontinuity is a word that futurist Alex Steffen uses, for a watershed moment, “where past experience loses its value as a guide to decision-making about the future.” Discontinuity, he wrote, is no longer a choice. It’s a simple fact of our lives. History is instructive, but “what we’ve done before” is no longer a helpful guide. We’re going to need to let go of the familiar, and become more adept at being uncomfortable and still being our best selves, if we want to tackle systemic racism, climate disruption, or explore the regenerative opportunities coming out of the pandemic. How do we best do this? Honestly, who
is at their best when they’re scared, in pain, uncertain, feeling mentally wobbly? And yet, my sense is that we grow this skilfulness in community. Not alone. Divided, we are conquered. We’ve got to keep nudging ourselves out of our comfort zones, into the messy process of community, of group, of trying to work out this stuff together, of putting it out there, of hearing people share things that make us uncomfortable and realizing that’s OK, that’s progress, that’s what we’re growing together—our tolerance. How do we come together when there are so many things pulling us apart, starting with economic inequity? I can stall out so easily before I’ve even started, when I pigeonhole myself into this dichotomy: privileged White homeowner living on stolen land. It’s not inaccurate, but it’s not the most helpful lens. I can’t fix structural racism single-handedly. And I think it might be another colonial fantasy to assume that it’s on me to come up with the solution. How do we approach these systems and remake them? In relationship with each other. How do we navigate that, when so many things, spoken and unspoken, pull us away from each other? After I listened to a recent Accidental Gods podcast with Ece Temelkuran, author of the new book Together: 10 Choices for a Better Now, I came away with the key to it: dignity. By treating each other with dignity. Ask it one more time, for good measure. How did you get from “how do we do reconciliation” to “treat everyone with dignity?” I walked backwards through a maze and ended up with a map. The Velocity Project: how to slow the f--k down and still achieve optimum productivity and life happiness. ■
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Back in a Moment dials in on the allure of rotary phones WHISTLER ARTIST FERAL NIFTY FEATURED IN SOLO SHOW AT THE GALLERY
BY ALYSSA NOEL FERAL NIFTY’S SOLO exhibit, Back in a Moment, can be traced back to an orange rotary telephone that hangs on the wall of Function Junction’s Delish Café. “They know I was very excited about their phone,” she says. “I awkwardly went in there going, ‘You don’t mind if I photograph your phone, do you?’” It might seem like an arbitrary object, but for Feral Nifty—who you might also know as Robyn Forsyth—those old-school phones actually carry a lot of different meaning. For one, most people (of a certain age, at least) have shared memories of dragging the phone cord around a corner, away from curious ears, for a private conversation—or being interrupted during a call and resting the receiver on their chest while responding.
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“The stories are unique, but also we all shared it, and I quite like that,” she says. To that end, the Whistler artist created a series of about 12 pieces all featuring rotary phones in the scene. Some include
While she finds the objects themselves compelling, after painting them (and, in some, carving designs into the pieces) she also discovered an added bonus: viewers tend to imagine a whole other storyline
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those phones as the main subject. Others depict characters—young and old, male and female—engrossed in conversation, or, in one case, seemingly waiting for a call. “There’s one called Another Delay,” Feral Nifty says. “My husband travels a lot; he’s in aviation. I’ll think he’s coming home on Tuesday, but then it’s a Thursday.” The paintings are set to be on display at The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre as part of her solo show from June 3 to 13.
about who’s on the other end of the line. “That’s quite cool to think my viewer is that much involved,” she says. “There’s a lot of paintings where the story is in the piece, but it’s not often the story is a jumping-off point for a bigger story.” While she’s been creating and sharing her music for some time, Feral Nifty says exhibiting her art is a relatively new endeavour—encouraged by the pandemic. “I [kept my art to] myself for a long
time,” she says. “The pandemic gave me the platform and the timing in life to put in the work so I could feel confident to spread it and share it.” To that end, the title piece from her exhibit, Back in a Moment, was also accepted into the 2021 Federation of Canadian Artists Vancouver exhibit called On The Edge, set for July. “It is a competition; I have no idea where I’ll stand in that, but that doesn’t matter,” she says. “I get to hang with other great Canadian artists and that makes me happy.” Having a solo show in Whistler is its own honour too. A little insider secret: while all the paintings are square, you just might be able to tell which are the newest, judging solely by their size. “The scale ranges from 16 inches to 36,” she says. “As I got braver, I went bigger. To take up that kind of space was scary at first for me. My next plan is big. Whatever it is, it will be bigger.” Catch Back in a Moment on display at The Gallery from June 3 to 13. To see more of Feral Nifty’s pieces, visit feralnifty. com. n
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Doors Open June 10 SHAKIN IT UP Little Earthquakes are set to hit the screen on June 5. PHOTO BY LOGAN SWAYZE
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BY ALYSSA NOEL HELEN HAMILTON managed to find the silver lining in a long-haul case of COVID19. “I think my voice has somehow gotten better,” she says. “I can reach a lower range of notes after COVID. There are some songs I can sing now that we’d normally have to change the key for.” The Whistler musician caught the virus from a housemate back in January. Her symptoms were fairly severe and the impact on her energy levels and lungs lasted for three months, she says. Then, just as her vocal capacity was returning, her Little Earthquakes bandmate Charlie Stenner got sick. “We were watching each other battle our lungs back to health,” she says. “It was a really sad time, but it’s amazing now we’re both through it.” To that end, Hamilton says she plans to do her best not to get too emotional when the duo performs as part of Arts Whistler’s The Next Level streaming series on June 5. “If you look at our first live session in December [with the Hear and Now series], we’ve come full circle through illness and recovery since then,” she says. “We’ve come back to where we were and maybe even better. We’ve got all this gratitude that we can sing again.” Little Earthquakes were one of five bands selected to take part in Arts Whistler’s Creative Catalyst program earlier this year— the culmination of which is a series of livestreaming shows from the Maury Young Arts Centre theatre. The program really lived up to its name, Hamilton says. “One of the best sessions we had was with Dear Rouge—this band from Vancouver. We just sat with them on a Zoom chat one evening and they were so lovely. They were like, ‘You just need to do it. There’s nothing
holding you back here. Just write some songs and release them!’ It sounds so simple. They were pushing us away from doing covers,” she says. Initially, Little Earthquakes invested their energy into crafting a tight three-hour set of cover songs—with their own alt-rock twist— to appeal to the bars and venues in Whistler. But when the Hear and Now streaming series required at least a few original tracks, it inspired them to get to work. “I needed timelines and deadlines to be able to write,” Hamilton says. “It was the perfect way to get us to finish songs.” They tackled the task by writing separately then adding to the other’s framework. “He said I write like primary colours,” Hamilton laughs. “I’m not that knowledgeable about chords. He’s got almost a classical training; he knows how to make chords interesting and song structures. He’ll come to rehearsal with a song and I can sway him to a more alt-vibe. We pull each other out of our own styles.” They’re also drawn to different topics for inspiration. Where Hamilton is drawn to heartbreak and politics, Stenner is partial to hopeful themes. “He does that lyrically and melodically as well,” she says. “Lyrically I’m trying to write about heartbreak. It’s what spews out of my mouth, but I want to bring in political stuff too. I feel like the similarities and differences between us unite us really well.” Looking ahead, they hope the summer brings more opportunities to play for in-person audiences again as well. “It’s been nearly a year since we performed for the public,” Hamilton says. “[The Next Level show] will feel like a proper show … I’m hoping it will feel like a live show. I’m going to imagine an audience. When everything is dark you can pretend you’re anywhere. It’s fun to imagine it’s a huge, full theatre of people. That will help me to step up my game.” Catch Little Earthquakes on June 5 at 8 p.m. through links available at artswhistler. com/creative-catalyst-little-earthquakes. n
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For residents and visitors alike, Whistler’s parks are a favourite place to spend a summer day. Each park offers something different, whether it’s the playground at Alpha Lake Park or a history lesson from the cabins at Rainbow Park. Lost Lake Park offers swimming, biking, nature walks, and even disc golf. Back in 1982, when the park was still being developed, there was a debate about whether Lost Lake Park should offer even more than it does today. Lost Lake Park almost didn’t become a park at all. In the 1960s the two timber licences in the area were set to expire and developers, who knew the licences were about to expire, had already started preparing to apply for the waterfront property. Don MacLaurin saw what was happening and contacted his friend Bill in the Parks Branch. With help from Bill and other contacts, the area around Lost Lake was assessed and set aside by the provincial government as a potential Use, Recreation and Enjoyment of the Public (UREP) site. By 1980, residents were regularly using Lost Lake for recreation. In summers, freestyle skiers were training and even holding competitions on a ski jump. In the winters the Alta Lake Sports Club was cross-country skiing in the area, having begun work on their first course in 1976. The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) received official approval for the transfer of the UREP surrounding Lost Lake to the municipality for the purposes of creating a municipal park in August 1980, and plans were made to clear a beach area at the south end of the lake and to further develop the trails already in place. These plans were still underway in June 1982, when Municipal Parks Planner Tom Barratt was creating a five-year plan for Lost Lake and the surrounding area (500 acres of Crown Land surrounding the lake was also transferred to the RMOW in 1982). Like before, this plan included clearing the beach area and upgrading the trail system while retaining the area’s “wilderness
character.” Most people seemed to have accepted these parts of the plan but the idea of including a permanent concession stand offering snacks, drinks, and paddleboard rentals at Lost Lake Park evoked differing opinions from residents. An editorial in the Whistler Question on June 3, 1982 pointed out that opinions on further development of Lost Lake were “sharply divided.” While not agreeing with those who thought the area should remain untouched by the municipal government, the editor wrote: “We understood that the original concept of Lost Lake was that the area was to be cleared up, landscaped, seeded and generally made more attractive, but we really cannot endorse any plans that could well turn this pristine area into Whistler’s own Coney Island.” One letter to the editor in June 1982 argued that developing a beach for visitors was enough, but offering “paddleboards, rubber rafts, canoes, rowboats, fishing rods, towels and fast food” was going too far and asked the question, “How big do our elected members think the lake is?” Another letter supported the building of a moderate concession that could also be used as a warming hut in winter. The Question asked six residents what they thought about the proposed concession stand for their “Whistler’s Answers” feature, and while some accepted the sale of food and drink, most did not support boat rentals. (You can read their responses on our Whistorical blog). By July, the debate appeared to have quieted, most likely because the RMOW would only grant Dave Lalik, who had applied to run the concession stand, a oneyear lease while he calculated he would need at least two summers to earn back his investment. Work on Lost Lake Park continued throughout the summer, but no concession had opened by the time the park was officially opened on September 11, 1982. Today the beach at the south end of Lost Lake is incredibly popular, as are the trails that surround the area. There is a concession building that is used as a warming hut for cross-country skiers and snowshoers in the winters, but anyone wanting to float on Lost Lake is still required to bring their own boat. n
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ASTROLOGY John Charles Blaylock "Chuck" October 2, 1929 - May 21, 2021 Chuck was born in East York/Toronto, Ontario, grew up in Montreal, Quebec, moved to Vancouver, B.C. in 1953, Alta Lake/Whistler in 1968 and finally to Squamish in 2018. Chuck loved his kids and took great pride in their accomplishments. He is survived by his wife, Karen, his children: Louise Gordon (Jim), John F. (Karina), Glenn (Elaine) and Scott (Andrea), several grand and greatgrand children. Chuck lived a full and interesting life. He travelled the world as a pilot with Air Canada, played Junior hockey and internationally, raced Formula 1 cars, operated a construction company in Whistler, enjoyed golf with friends and took up paragliding in his 70’s. While best known around Whistler for helping set up and manage the Whistler Hockey Association, Chuck volunteered for many groups. He was most proud of his time volunteering with the Whistler Health Care Society. And while playing hockey kept him young, Chuck was at his happiest when chatting with people. Many thanks to everyone who spent time with Chuck especially as his dementia progressed. Your visits were priceless and will be forever appreciated. A big thank-you also to Chuck’s physician, Squamish Hospice staff and everyone else on Chuck’s care team! To write a condolence to the family, please visit www.squamishfuneralchapel.com.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “There is ecstasy in paying attention,” writes Aries author Anne Lamott. That’s always true for everyone, but it’s extra true for you Aries people. And it will be extra ultra especially true for you during the next 20 days. I hope you will dedicate yourself to celebrating and upgrading your perceptual abilities. I hope you will resolve to see and register everything just as it is in the present moment, fresh and unprecedented, not as it was in the past or will be in the future. For best results, banish all preconceptions that might interfere with your ability to notice what’s raw and real. If you practise these high arts with exhilarating diligence, you will be rewarded with influxes of ecstasy. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your guiding wisdom comes from Taurus author Annie Dillard. She writes, “I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.” I suspect that Dillard’s approach will enable you to maintain a righteous rhythm and make all the right moves during the coming weeks. If you agree with me, your crucial first step will be to identify the nature of your “one necessity.” Not two necessities. Just the single most important. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “All I want to be is normally insane,” said actor Marlon Brando. Yikes! I have a different perspective. I would never want to be normally insane because that state often tends to be sullen and desperate and miserable. My preferred goal is to be quite abnormally insane: exuberantly, robustly, creatively free of the toxic adjustments that our society tells us are necessary. I want to be cheerfully insane in the sense of not being tyrannized by conventional wisdom. I want to be proactively insane in the sense of obeying my soul’s impulses rather than conforming to people’s expectations. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I believe the coming weeks will be a fruitful time for you to be my kind of insane. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “It’s one thing to make a mistake, it’s another to become wedded to it,” advised author Irena Karafilly. Let’s make that one of your key truths in the coming weeks. Now is a good time to offer yourself forgiveness and to move on from any wrong turns you’ve made. Here’s a second key truth, courtesy of composer Igor Stravinsky: “I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” Third key truth, from Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan: “Don’t be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the number of perfect moments you will experience during the next two weeks could break all your previous records. And what do I mean by “perfect moments?” 1. Times when life brings you interesting events or feelings or thoughts that are novel and unique. 2. Pivotal points when you sense yourself undergoing a fundamental shift in attitude or a new way of understanding the world. 3. Leaping out of your own mind and into the mind of an animal or other person so as to have a pure vision of what their experience is like. 4. An absolute appreciation for yourself just the way you are right now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There is strong shadow where there is much light,” wrote Virgo author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). That’s a good metaphor for you these days. Since I suspect you are currently shining as brightly as you possibly can, I will urge you to become acutely aware of the shadows you cast. In other words, try to catch glimpses of the unripe and unformed parts of your nature, which may be more easily seen than usual. Now, while you’re relatively strong and vibrant, investigate what aspects of your inner world might need improvement, care, and healing. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to physicists, it’s impossible for a human being to suck water up through
a straw that’s more than 10 metres long. So please don’t even try to do that, either now or ever. If, however, you have a good reason to attempt to suck water up a ninemetre straw, now would be an excellent time to do so. Your physical strength should be at a peak, as is your capacity for succeeding at amazing, herculean tasks. How else might you direct your splendid abilities? What other ambitious feats could you pull off? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio poet Ezra Pound had character flaws that bother me. But he also had a quality I admire: generosity in helping his friends and colleagues. Among the writers whose work he championed and promoted with gusto were 20th-century literary icons James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Hilda Doolittle, William Butler Yeats, Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. Pound edited their work, arranged to get them published in periodicals and anthologies, connected them with patrons and editors, and even gave them money and clothes. In accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to be like Pound in the coming weeks. Make an extra effort to support and boost your allies. Assist them in doing what they do well. To do so will be in your own best interest! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Tess Gallagher praises those times “when desire has strengthened our bodies.” I want you to have an abundance of those moments during the coming weeks. And I expect that cultivating them will be an excellent healing strategy. So here’s my advice: Do whatever’s necessary to summon and celebrate the strong longings that will strengthen your body. Tease them into bountiful presence. Treasure them and pay reverence to them and wield them with gleeful passion. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,” observed poet Emily Dickinson. That’s the truth! Given how demanding it is to adjust to the nonstop challenges, distractions, and opportunities of the daily rhythm, I’m impressed that any of us ever get any work done. According to my astrological analysis, you Capricorns are now experiencing a big outbreak of this phenomenon. It’s probably even harder than usual to get work done, simply because life keeps bringing you interesting surprises that require your ingenuity and resourcefulness. The good news is that these surges of ingenuity and resourcefulness will serve you very well when the hubbub settles down a bit and you get back to doing more work. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarius-born August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a masterful and influential playwright. He also liked to dabble in painting and photography. His approach in those two fields was different from the polish he cultivated in his writing. “I am an amateur and I intend to stay that way,” he testified about his approach in the visual arts. “I reject all forms of professional cleverness or virtuosity.” Just for now, Aquarius, I recommend you experiment with the latter attitude in your own field. Your skill and earnestness will benefit from doses of playful innocence, even calculated naiveté. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Which of the astrological signs feels the deepest feelings? I say it’s you Pisceans. You’re connoisseurs of deep feelings, as well as specialists in mysterious, multi-splendoured, brusheswith-infinity feelings. And right now, you’re in the Deepest Feelings Phase of your personal cycle. I won’t be surprised if you feel a bit overwhelmed with the richness of it all. But that’s mostly a good thing that you should be grateful for—a privilege and a superpower! Now here’s advice from deep-feeling author Pearl Buck: “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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Wake up, Canada—time to atone “Hey, you know something people? I’m not black. But there’s a whole lotsa times I wish I could say I’m not white.” -Frank Zappa, 1965
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE WEEKS. As a rule, I’m not a big believer in visiting the sins of the fathers on their children. It is a stultifying tradition that forms the kernel of many old, British mystery novels and does violence to my belief that each generation has to sing its own song. I’ll take responsibility for myself, thank you. But there are times I cringe at the magnitude of barbarity humans seem
BY G.D. MAXWELL capable of, and this week bright lights were cast on two singularly sordid examples. Not coincidentally, both were perpetrated by white folks, one in the name of racial hatred, one in the name of God. Both make me shake my head wondering how in the world such cretinous humans came to wield the power to do so and how they continued to live their lives believing they were somehow justified, righteous even. The “discovery” of the remains of hundreds of children who died while in state-sponsored, church run, forced custody at the Kamloops Indian Residential School has shocked Canadians—well, many Canadians—in a way no other single atrocity committed against First Nations people has in the past. Detected by ground-penetrating radar, the unmarked, mass grave is not the first that’s been discovered and it won’t be the last. But it comes at a moment when the dominant white culture of this country has been repeatedly forced to face up to the brutal reality of its ancestors and the myth of an inclusive Canada innocent of the kind of enslavement we like to believe we can still get away with claiming. Perhaps it’s the effect of large numbers. Hundreds of bodies in an unmarked grave, the kind of thing we think of as a crime against humanity, a genocide practiced by less enlightened nations engaged in warfare, is an easier concept to sicken our senses than seemingly random violence targeting one or two individuals. Perhaps it’s because the remains are those of children, not adults. Children are the innocents. It is easier for people who harbour prejudice against other people to feel empathy for children, regardless of how they may discriminate against their parents. Either way, this discovery, and the ones that will inevitably follow, may mark a watershed moment in the country’s faltering path toward dealing with its—our—history
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of shameful dealings with the people who lived here before we “discovered” the country. And make no mistake, that history is as contemporary as it is historic, and learning how to deal with it honestly and fairly is going to take a lot more than mouthing words of acknowledgement before every public meeting. Wake up, Whitey, it’s time to atone. But we are not alone in our guilt. The great white father of the one true church bears silent witness to, once again, the atrocities visited on the oppressed in the name of God. All organized religions are like aging magicians who are left with only one trick. Mind you, it’s a good trick. So good no one will ever solve the riddle lying its core. That wouldn’t be important except for the fact pretty much everyone wants to know the riddle. The riddle? What happens when I die? That’s it. That’s all there is. It is the
the country, from its opening in 1890 until 1969. The federal government ran it until it closed in 1978. As shocking as it is to be reminded this didn’t happen in sword and flintlock times, it’s even more shocking to be reminded the last residential school, in Saskatchewan, wasn’t closed until 1997. So much for being the sins of the fathers. But it was the Fathers and the Nuns of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate order who ran the Kamloops school. Pious one and all. Death and funeral protocol is the cherry on the sundae of the Catholic Church. It is the moment when those who believe get to cash in their chips and ascend into heaven to live the rich afterlife they’ve been promised for so long. There is abundant instruction in Catholic canon law regarding funeral proceedings that seek spiritual support for the deceased, honouring their remains and, at the same time, bringing solace and hope to the living. None of it suggests throwing children’s
All organized religions are like aging magicians who are left with only one trick.
organizing theory of religion. Each in their own way say they know the answer and if you pay the price of admission, they’ll let you in on it. Blissful hereafter in exchange for your true belief. The Catholic church ran the Kamloops school, the largest residential school in
bodies in unmarked, mass graves. None of it suggests not bothering to keep records of their names and deaths. None of it says don’t contact their parents, after all, they were only “savages.” I can only hope every priest, every nun, every pious God-fearing one of them
is burning in the fires of hell they so often conjured to browbeat heathens into converting. I can’t think of any group more deserving. And if this means more statues of John A. Macdonald will be removed to storage, it is the just harvest the country earned for turning blind eyes for so many decades, including ones during which many of us were alive. Suck it up, Whitey. This ain’t a question of being woke; this is part of a pathway toward a more just nation. I was 14 when Frank Zappa wrote the words at the opening to this column, 15 when I first heard them in a song, “Trouble Every Day” on The Mothers of Invention’s first album. Written during the Watts riots, it was a hard blues-rock song indicting racial violence, social injustice, and sensationalist journalism, an epic poem that foreshadowed rap by decades. It changed my world at a time The Beatles were still singing about girls and love, The Temptations were still singing about girls and love, and a recently killed Sam Cooke was finally singing about a change we’re still waiting to come. But it was decades later I first heard about the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 when good, God-fearin’ white folk, with the active participation of police and National Guard, burned out a prosperous section of their own city because it was home to uppity folk who were prosperous, successful and, well, Black. I didn’t know because it was a secret well-kept by Oklahoma and the rest of the U.S., until a detailed report about it was finally authorized 75 years later and released in 2001. I’ve never been proud of my race any more than the colour of my hair. But this week, I am feeling almost shameful to be a part of it. ■
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