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36 Indigenous Love Indigenous love means rising above the trauma, the generations of oppression, and being exceptional anyway. - By Yvonne Wallace

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It’s a time of transition IT HAS DEFINITELY BEEN heartening to read this week about the changes coming to forestry and the moves to protect oldgrowth forests.

Of course, we have to be realistic and realize that it is not all going to change overnight, and one factor that has been overlooked is that it remains true that the most money to be made in logging comes from cutting down old-growth trees.

Yes, First Nations appear to finally have

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a seat at the table on forestry but one can’t escape from the fact that, as the systems are put in place for them to take control of land as its stewards, the way forward financially may still be to log the old trees whether they choose to do it themselves or through operating agreements with logging companies.

foresters have struggled to find enough commercially harvestable trees given the long history of clear-cutting in the Whistler Valley throughout the 20th century.

If there is no old growth logging then the CCF partners, which include both the Squamish and the Lil’wat Nations, stand to lose $100,000 or more through the carbon sequestering program that the CCF is part of, not to mention the money from the logging and associated jobs—though there are only a handful of those.

How are the Nations going to make that revenue loss up?

The Squamish Nation’s deferral request comes on the heels of the Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Katrine Conroy’s recent comment that, ‘The first step is putting Indigenous peoples at the centre of land management in their respective territories.’”

At least 20 cut blocks within Squamish Nation territory are slated for old-growth logging at some point in the next five years, the Nation said.

Hundreds and sometimes thousands of years old, oldgrowth trees support a massive underground network of fungi, guiding nutrients and water between multiple species.

Last week the Squamish Nation asked the province to defer the harvest of old-growth forest on its roughly 690,000-hectare territory while the Nation develops long-term sustainability plans.

This land includes Whistler’s Cheakamus Community Forest.

At almost the same time, the Cheakamus Community Forest board formally announced it had passed a motion to defer commercial old-growth logging for 2021.

But there is a cost: with a current annual allowable cut of 20,000 cubic metres,

The Squamish decision was made just a couple of days after the Huu-ayaht, Ditidaht (the Caycuse watershed), and Pacheedaht First Nations made a similar request regarding the Fairy Creek Watershed lands, which have been the site of an active protest over logging old growth trees. Almost 200 people have been arrested at these blockades—most calling on the BC NDP government to keep its election promise to stop logging old growth.

These Nations decry logging’s impact on B.C.’s biodiversity. One area known as Dakota Bowl in the Squamish protected

area could lose 30 black bear dens if it was logged.

The Narwharl recently interviewed forester Garry Merkel, who helped lead the old-growth strategic review panel for the NDP government and asked about the issue of biodiversity.

He pointed to lack of understanding of the science by the general population, which reads stats and feels everything is OK. “But almost all of that 50 per cent [of old growth left] right now is at the tops of mountains and has tiny little trees,” Merkel told the Narwhal.

“That doesn’t make a landscape healthy.

Not having any connectivity between them and not having any of the richest sites that support the highest level of biodiversity, which tend to be down in the rich lowland areas, almost all of those are gone now.”

Hundreds and sometimes thousands of years old, old-growth trees support a massive underground network of fungi, guiding nutrients and water between multiple species. They play a significant role in maintaining forest biodiversity.

But according to the B.C. Council of Forest Industries, harvesting old-growth trees also supports 38,000 jobs in the province and provides $3.5 billion to B.C.’s gross domestic product.

But what we must understand is that there’s no way to save old-growth unless the government finances an alternative—an economy and jobs tied to saving old-growth forests.

We know it can be done, as we have seen success in places like the Great Bear Rainforest where conservation finance programs have created more than 100 businesses and 1,000 permanent jobs in ventures ranging from ecotourism to a sustainable scallop fishery.

I believe there is the will to finally take old-growth out of the logging equation.

What we need now is the way forward to protect the trees and support the people and communities as they transition into a sustainable economy. n

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I miss you all This past year has hit Whistler hard. If I’m honest, I’ve been lucky—I’ve made lemons out of lemonade. I’m comfortable, and it has made me face myself more than ever.

While this past year hasn’t been all roses and butterflies, there was, for me, one light at the end of the tunnel— going back to Neoalpine YYoga, when the COVID-19 gathering restrictions were lifted.

All of that changed exactly two weeks after I had my first vaccination. In the moment I was looking to go back to my yoga practise, I discovered that Neoalpine was permanently closing.

It’s taken me weeks to process that I’ve just lost my yoga community. It’s taken me weeks to come to terms with not being able to stare at myself in the mirror in an emotionally sterile environment. All of the instructors, all of their DJ skills, the joy of “Competitive Stationary Dance!?” Ugh, I am so deeply saddened by this loss.

Where is an introverted weirdo to go to express oneself in public outside of the village and also find a level of health and fitness they haven’t experienced since a two was in the front of their age?

To all that I’ve met along the way—big hearts. I miss you.

Thank you so much.

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Keeping schools open during the pandemic One year ago in British Columbia, schools were preparing for limited re-entry of students who had been learning online since the end of spring break amid the province’s first wave of COVID19. Survey data from this period gave an early indication of the detrimental impacts of school closures we’ve now observed

around the world: impaired learning for many students, decreased social connection and stress for families.

The return to classes in September came with both benefits for students and accompanying fears that schools could be drivers of community transmission. But thanks to the hard work of schools, staff, parents, caregivers and students, B.C. was able to achieve a collective goal—schools remained safely open in the

second and third waves to fulfil their essential function in the intellectual and social growth of students.

Over the past year we have learned a great deal about COVID19 and the risk in our schools. We now know that, although students and staff do test positive for COVID-19, they most often acquire the virus from the community at rates that mirror community transmission. The vast majority of the time these are

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR isolated events with no onward transmission in the school. Contact tracing studies conducted in Ireland, Singapore, Wisconsin, England, North Carolina and Utah, among others, have consistently demonstrated low rates of in-school transmission. In B.C., Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health have reported similar results.

Asymptomatic viral testing and seroprevalence studies addressing the potential for “silent” asymptomatic spread in Italy, Norway, Australia and B.C. have similarly suggested that widespread COVID-19 transmission is rare in the school setting.

The percentage of exposures in school leading to transmission events has remained low even as we’ve seen a shift in the circulating variants of COVID-19 in B.C. This means that the safety measures in schools—including accessible testing for those who need it, keeping kids home when sick, practicing good hand hygiene and restricting entry— continue to be effective even against variants of concern. In B.C.’s third wave, while close contacts of COVID-19 cases were isolated, broad school closures were not implemented, and maintaining consistent in-school education did not prevent public health measures from effectively decreasing community transmission.

Perhaps most importantly, B.C. has been able to keep schools safely open for in-person learning, while still maintaining one of the lowest COVID19 mortality rates of any larger jurisdiction in North America.

We’ve also learned more this year about how closing schools hurts children and families, especially those who are the most vulnerable.

For many students, schools are important for learning and social development. For vulnerable children, schools can be a lifeline—the site of access to healthy and consistent meals, a place of connection to trusted adults and, for some, a source of stability in chaotic lives. School closures also place disproportionate burdens on women and lone parents who shoulder the responsibility of supporting childcare and online learning.

Finally, in recent months we’ve seen how effective vaccination against COVID-19 is at cutting community transmission and protecting those at risk of severe disease. In Prince Rupert in Northern British Columbia, where more than 60 per cent of adults were vaccinated in March as part of a whole-ofcommunity campaign, rates of new COVID-19 cases have dropped more than 90 per cent since their peak. Cases in other communities prioritized for vaccination in B.C., such as the town of Whistler, have also seen substantial reductions in cases. With many staff, parents, caregivers and children now eligible for vaccination, we will collectively be able to build on our ability to protect the vital role schools play in a healthy, equitable society.

By the fall, we can also look forward to a return to many of the extracurricular activities that keep students engaged at school and connected to their peers.

We have shown that, even during a pandemic, students’ education can be safely prioritized; vaccination will help us cement that success and support the school experience that

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Pique recognized at community newspaper awards Like so many events this year, the annual B.C. and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association Awards went online for 2021 due to COVID-19.

The celebration of local news and media was held June 10.

Pique took three Gold awards, two silver and two Bronze, across several categories including a silver for General Excellence.

Golds were awarded for Feature Article, “Every Face Tells a Story,” by reporter Brandon Barrett with graphic design by Jon Parris.

Said the judge, “Exceptionally written, well researched and interesting from start to finish.”

“Fight for the Forests,” by reporter Braden Dupuis with graphic design by Parris also took Gold for the Feature Series Award with the judge commenting, “Examining wildfire management ideology in its local context, this investigative series is an inspiring example of first-rate community newspaper storytelling.

“These stories are well-crafted, objective, well-researched and thoughtfully paced.

The series features good use of sources and presentation of differing viewpoints. Its attention to broad perspective and local detail absorb and inform the reader on a perennial issue that was seasonally pressing when published.”

Gold for Special Publications was given to Whistler Magazine, edited by Alison Taylor, art director Shelley Ackerman, and general manager Catherine Power Chartrand with the judge commenting, “A slick publication with strong, informative editorial. Excellent use of photos with a strong layout. Advertising content excellent and not too cluttered. Easily the best in this category.” Gold was also awarded for Newspaper Promotion for the Valentine’s Day Contest by former production manager Karl Partington, sales manager Susan Hutchinson and team.

Silver was awarded for Special COVID-19 Coverage, Advertising, “Thank You Whistler,” by Hutchinson, Partington, Parris and team.

Bronze awards were given for Business Writing for “From Farm to Table,” by former reporter Dan Falloon with graphic design by Parris. Said the judge, “The local-food movement has become significant business in the Sea-toSky region and the staff at Pique Newsmagazine took its readers through an engaging, wellreported journey about how it is managing to endure the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Pique also took Bronze for the John Collison Award for Investigative Journalism for “Inside an Air BNB bait and switch,” by Barrett with graphic design by Partington. “A frustrating look at a system where scams are all too common and solutions impossible, made especially impactful by the fact that housing is in such short supply at Whistler,” said the judge on this months-long investigation. n

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Why becoming a parent is a scarier prospect for Sea to Sky women OVER MY EIGHT YEARS of running and hiking around the Sea to Sky corridor, I’ve predominantly encountered one type of outdoorsy parent: the uber-fit dad who gets up early to squeeze in adventure before

BY ALYSSA NOEL arts@piquenewsmagazine.com

anyone starts to really miss him.

Alternatively, you might meet the very lucky dad whose partner “gifts” him one weekend day for fun and one for family.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, to learn a lot of outdoorsy women in this part of the world feel an extra dose of fear about starting a family. Does it mean entirely giving up the activities that bring you joy? Or is it temporary? If so, what kind of timeframe are we talking here? Three months? A season? Ten years?

At nine months pregnant, I did my pondering long ago and ultimately decided having a child was an experience I wanted more than backcountry hiking every summer weekend for the rest of my life (or until my knees give out). But that doesn’t

mean I haven’t had moments of fear about how much my life is about to change.

My optimistic husband is convinced we just have to be committed to the task of taking our kid hiking, camping and into the outdoors, even if it’s in a modified way.

As a journalist, I needed proof.

Naturally, as a geriatric millennial (a term that has appeared to replace the kinder “elder millennial”), I turned to Instagram.

While I wouldn’t call it a treasure trove

who just happened to be pondering the idea of motherhood and the outdoors and was hosting an online panel aptly named “Parenting in the Outdoors” with a few experts.

The first thing I noticed was of the three panellists, two were the wives of famous male athletes: climber Tommy Caldwell and ultra-runner Scott Jurek.

While they’re both athletes in their own right, let’s just say the first story that comes

My optimistic husband is convinced we just have to be committed to the task of taking our kid hiking, camping and into the outdoors, even if it’s in a modified way. of resources, my search did turn up some moms whose mission is to hike in the mountains with their babies—and offer others tips from their lessons learned.

Serendipitously, I also came across a post by Sanni McCandless (wife of famed climber Alex Honnold featured somewhat controversially in the 2018 Academy Award-winning documentary Free Solo)

up about Jenny Jurek on Google is one that chronicles her fertility struggles through the lens of her running.

It didn’t seem like a stretch to assume Tommy and Scott were much like the dads I’ve been encountering in the mountains over the years.

But I signed up for the Zoom session anyway, reasoning I’m far from a

professional athlete and therefore might relate more to these women than if they were as famous as their partners.

I can’t remember exact details about their advice (other than the recommendation of an Osprey Poco for a baby hiking backpack), but the most valuable takeaway was the feeling of being virtually surrounded by a group of people seeking the same assurances as me.

They wanted to retain a little of what brings them joy, but equally, share that with their kids too.

In the end, I was actually most struck by something the lone male panellist, Mario Molina, executive director of Protect Our Winters, said.

His goal taking his children into the mountains, he said, was to help create a future generation of outdoor citizens.

In that moment, I realized bagging peaks, backcountry camping on a whim, and trail running for as long as I want might bring me joy, but my upcoming task is bigger than that.

As long as I can share that joy with this tiny person and teach her the value to be found in the outdoors, I just might help contribute to a future generation that thinks it’s worth saving. ■

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B.C. restart proving challenging in Whistler AN EXHAUSTED WORKFORCE AND BUSINESSES BURIED IN DEBT CREATING PERFECT STORM

BY BRADEN DUPUIS B.C. IS NOW IN Phase 2 of its four-phase restart plan, but after 15 months of COVID19, success is anything but guaranteed in Whistler.

The pandemic has created a perfect storm of fed-up workers and business owners desperate to recoup losses and pay off debt.

Most summers, Eric Wight, owner of Backroads Whistler, has no trouble at all finding the workers needed to staff his business at Alta Lake.

“This year we’re not getting applicants.

It’s crazy,” Wight said.

“I usually get 50 applicants a year, and I don’t even advertise. This year I’m advertising.”

At this point, Wight said he’s six employees short—about half his usual allotment at this time of year.

“I think they’ll come. I hope they come,” he said, relaying a story of one worker who recently didn’t show up for his first day

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after being hired.

“I phoned him and said, ‘Well, you know, training was supposed to start an hour ago, where are ya?’ [And he said] ‘Oh I changed my mind, because my visa runs out at the end of August, and I’m on EI [Employment Insurance]. So I’m just gonna party,’” Wight said.

“It was amazing that he would actually say that, but he did, and then it’s out there,

as possible, that’s hard to determine, but what’s being felt in the community is that’s what happening.”

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS After phasing out the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) last September, the

“I usually get 50 applicants a year, and I don’t even advertise. This year I’m advertising.”

- ERIC WIGHT

you know? Why work if you don’t have to?”

While there’s no way to quantify exactly how often it’s happening, other Whistler businesses are reporting the same thing, said Melissa Pace at the Whistler Chamber of Commerce.

“I would say a handful are seeing people come in to apply for the jobs, they get the job, and then they turn the job down,” Pace said.

“Whether that’s because of EI, and that they’re wanting to stay off work for as long

federal government introduced temporary changes to its EI program to continue assisting people left unemployed by COVID19.

According to the government, people applying for regular EI benefits must demonstrate that they are capable and available for work each day they claim benefits and must actively seek employment to maintain their eligibility.

They also have a number of responsibilities, most of which relate to

documenting their search for employment— things like registering for job search tools or employment agencies, or attending job fairs; “networking;” contacting potential employers; submitting applications; and attending interviews.

EI claimants are required to accept offers of suitable employment (though they are not required to have employers sign their job search forms, or provide them with a letter confirming they have applied for a job).

They also have to keep a detailed record of their job search efforts, and let Service Canada know when they refuse any offers of employment.

“Service Canada takes the integrity of its programs seriously and uses data analytics and intelligence capabilities to actively monitor and identify cases of error and fraud,” a government spokesperson said.

“When it is found that a client is not available, capable of working, or searching for work, the department will take the appropriate action, which could include disentitlement or disqualification from receiving benefits.”

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staff to serve the expected influx of visitors is “critical,” Pace said.

“We are already in such a labour crisis; it’s so critical that if you can work, get back to work,” she said, noting that businesses have to take advantage of the busy summer before what could potentially be a very quiet fall.

“I can’t say it enough how critical it is for people that are enjoying their lifestyle in Whistler that to sustain that lifestyle and keep our businesses and the doors open, they need to go to work,” she said.

“I mean, we just need them to go to work.”

WORKERS RESPOND But for a workforce that has long been the underappreciated beating heart of Whistler’s tourism economy, COVID-19 appears to have taken its toll.

A call-out for responses on Facebook by

“I have been relying on EI to help pay my bills and treatment,” they said. “I am sure a lot of people that have been working through COVID are probably suffering a great deal from either customer or employer abuse.”

But of course, some are just living their best life.

“Been milking that government money since [January 2020] and I have no shame whatsoever,” said one.

“I could easily go back to work if I wanted to but I honestly have no motivation. I’m free to do what I want, when I want. Just one less thing to stress about during these crazy times.”

FINDING SOLUTIONS The easy answer to finding and retaining staff is to pay more than what government benefits are offering, but for many businesses—particularly small businesses

“While I am now working a job I enjoy with great people, I would still rather be a gentleman of leisure.”

- LOCAL WORKER

Pique generated an almost overwhelming number of opinions—but the common theme was one of exhaustion.

One worker, speaking anonymously, said they’ve been on CERB and EI since October, working about two 40-hour work weeks since then.

Though they asked for more hours in that span to top up their benefits, the request fell on deaf ears while newer employees were favoured.

“Now with restrictions lifting, they’re ramping up to hire more employees for summer, so all the trainees get hours now because they’re paid from a different ‘pool’ of money allotted for training wages compared to existing employees,” the worker said.

“Now that things are opening up, and you’re allowed to see people, etc, I’m trying to use this time to take care of [my mental health] a bit more, rather than working all the time, and being berated by customers on a daily basis, which doesn’t help the mental health situation.”

Another worker in the tourism industry said they’re now back to working full-time after only working two and a half months since March 2020.

“I loved the time off—called it my midlife retirement (as it may be the only retirement I get),” they said.

“I went out where and when I wanted, immersed myself in old and new hobbies, learned and volunteered. It was great for the mind, body and soul. While I am now working a job I enjoy with great people, I would still rather be a gentleman of leisure.”

Yet another said they have been on EI for the last eight months due to an “abusive employer and environment” during the pandemic.

still slammed by COVID-19 shutdown effects—that’s simply not possible.

“That’s a big challenge,” Pace said, adding that the solutions have to come from the federal government.

“They have to look at the criteria, they have to look at the way individuals are reporting their application process.”

In a resort town dealing with a perpetual housing crisis, having eligible workers choose not to work only exacerbates the staffing crunch, she added.

“To have many of them come here to live here, take the space in rooms and homes, to then not work, it’s really putting a damper on our ability to retain staff,” Pace said.

“I guess it’s the pros and cons of living in such a beautiful place, right? People want to be here, which is great … but we need the people that do come, that can work, to work.”

The issue is not just constrained to Whistler, or even B.C., Pace said, noting that resort communities across the province are meeting on June 17 to discuss the labour shortage, and the Whistler Chamber will continue to advocate with MP Patrick Weiler.

From Wight’s perspective, the government needs to step up to fix the problem.

“I think it’s absolutely fantastic that the government came to the plate and got people who were hurting because of COVID some income. Absolutely, they jumped to the pump quick; great,” he said.

“And I think they’ve got to jump to the pump quick again, with getting people back to work. If business is opening up and we can’t get staff, the economy is not going to push forward.” n

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Employee housing project on Alta Lake Rd. headed for adoption COUNCIL BRIEFS: PERMIT ISSUED FOR CHEAKAMUS PHASE 2 SUBDIVISION; DES EXPANSION APPROVED public hearing before recommending some minor changes to the proposal.

The changes include a five-per-cent reduction in the gross floor area of the market units; improved pedestrian connectivity by extending the sidewalk on Nita Lake Drive through to the new park located on the property; and a permanent split rail fence to separate the nature conservation parcel from the development parcel.

Though RMOW staff first requested that the developer explore the possibility of removing a market unit altogether to reduce density, “the applicant considers that it’s not financially viable to remove a unit without removing multiple employee units,” said planner Roman Licko in a presentation to council.

“This would be counterproductive to the intent of the rezoning application, and to the intent of the private sector employee housing initiative.”

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS A REZONING FOR A controversial employee-housing project is headed for adoption—with some minor amendments— after council gave related bylaws third reading on June 15.

The project at 5298 Alta Lake Road located on the shores of Nita Lake has generated a massive response from the community since first being introduced in September 2019, including a virtual public hearing in March of this year attended by more than 80 people.

The Empire Club Development Corp. proposal currently calls for 11 market tourist-accommodation units, 11 market residential units and 21 employee-restricted units on the lakefront site.

At council’s June 15 meeting, Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) staff walked through the comments heard at the

APPROACHING ADOPTION Developer Michael Hutchison speaks at a public information meeting for the project at 5298 Alta Lake Road at the Whistler Conference Centre in 2019.

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completed by the proponent, and supported its conclusions, Licko added.

“Traffic generated by this proposal is well below the traffic operation capacity of both Nita Lake Drive and Alta Lake Road,” Licko said. “The development-generated trips are minimal in comparison to the total traffic volume on Highway 99, and further mitigation improvements are not required on the existing road network over and above improvements already included in this development.”

The proposal has evolved significantly since it was first presented in 2019, “and the current rezoning proposal before you delivers significant amenities to the community, the primary amenity of which is employee housing,” added planner Melissa Laidlaw, noting that a related Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment bylaw, which council also gave third reading on June 15, “is really a minor, more technical amendment, which will result in more

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“With consideration of all the concerns expressed in the public hearing process and the changes that are currently presented to the bylaw this evening, staff consider that the project … is in the community’s best interest,” she said.

Council, which approved third reading unanimously, agreed.

“This location is walkable to lakes, skiing and buses, it has stunning views, it has great access to Nita Lake Lodge, Roland’s and Creekside,” said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“This is one of the, I think, very best sites in Whistler, as is clear based on the property values and the market homes built near it. I am convinced housing for locals should be in the very best locations in Whistler—this proposal does that, and so I will be voting in favour of it.”

CHEAKAMUS PHASE 2 SUBDIVISON PERMIT ISSUED Council also approved the issuance of a Development Permit that will subdivide the lands in Cheakamus Crossing’s Phase 2 to allow for the construction of more employee housing on June 15.

The subdivision is required under the Local Government Act, said planner John Chapman in a presentation to council, adding that the parcels in question, previously known as Parcels A through E, will now be labelled lots one through six in the subdivision plan.

One hundred units of employee

“So [this development permit] authorizes just the subdivision of the Phase 2 lands. It’s not granting development rights,” he said.

“The form and character of individual buildings will still be reviewed through the development permit process.”

Once fully developed, Phase 2 will add

“This is one of the, I think, very best sites in Whistler, as is clear based on the property values and the market homes built near it.”

- JACK CROMPTON

housing in two buildings are currently under construction on Lot 1 (previously Parcel A), while Lot 4 (previously Parcel D3) will be further subdivided into individual parcels to build 18 market lots next to the Cheakamus River.

“This second subdivision process will not require an additional development permit, and the staff is working with the applicant to ready the lot for subdivision after this subdivision of the Phase 2 lands is finalized,” Chapman said, adding that as future developments come forward, they will be subject to their own development permit application processes.

about 295 units of employee housing and 18 market for-sale lots.

DES EXPANSION APPROVED Later in the meeting, council approved the expansion of Cheakamus Crossing’s District Energy System (DES) to include Lots 1, 2, 3 and 5 in Phase 2, while excluding Lots 4 and 6.

The move comes after an RMOW consultant created a thermal hydraulic model of the existing DES (which services about 500 dwellings, or 55,000 square

metres of habitable space), said manager of development services Jeff Ertel.

“Their analysis has shown that in addition to the existing neighbourhood, the DES has the thermal capacity to service Phase 2 buildings proposed on Lots 1, 2, 3 and Lot 5, and as new lots reach build-out there are potentially only minor upgrades required to the system,” Ertel said, adding that the current system can provide service up to a maximum elevation of 650 metres.

“In order to expand the DES to Lots 4 and 6 (both above the 650-metre elevation limit) an additional pressure zone would need to be created in the DES loop. The additional capital costs for a second pressure zone is estimated at approximately $500,000.”

While Ertel said using the DES to service Lots 4 and 6 is technically and financially possible, it is recommended that the system’s remaining capacity (about 27,000 square metres of habitable space) is used for the lower Phase 2 lots, as well as the future Phase 3 lands located between Bayly Park and the Cheakamus River.

The DES—touted pre-Olympics as a state-of-the-art green technology that extracts heat energy from treated wastewater to provide space and hot water heating—has a checkered history at best.

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LAST WEEK’S decision to defer old-growth logging for the year signals a paradigm shift in how the Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) is managed, say forest partners and local ecologists.

On Thursday, June 10, the CCF’s managing partners—the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), the Lil’wat Nation and Squamish Nation— decided to hit pause on old-growth logging for 2021 as they resolve “to work together on finding consensus on old-growth management in the CCF through a process of ongoing dialogue between the partners,” according to a statement.

Acting board chair and Whistler Councillor John Grills (who replaced former chair Jeff Fisher following his recent departure) said there were a number of factors that went into the decision, between the dearth of commercially harvestable old trees, Whistler’s growing popularity over the years as a tourism destination, and the spotlight on old growth brought on by this year’s Fairy Creek blockades.

The deferral means a project slated for this summer that would have harvested 11,440 cubic metres of old forest over a 17.4-hectare area of Callaghan Creek— which would have been the first old-growth logged in the CCF commercially since 2018—won’t go ahead.

“I really do see it as a positive and I do see it as an opening to move beyond oldschool, industry-focused resource extraction

and talk about how to manage the land base better,” said forest ecologist and Whistler Naturalists co-founder Bob Brett.

“I really do feel like the community forest is in a very different place than it was last year and I feel quite optimistic that we’re going in the right direction.”

Thursday’s decision dovetailed with the Squamish Nation’s call for a twoyear deferral of old-growth logging on its roughly 690,000-ha. territory “while the Nation develops long-term sustainability plans,” a release said. “[Seventy-eightthousand] hectares of the Nation’s old-growth forest are at risk unless the Province immediately halts new clear cuts. These forests belong to the Squamish People and were never ceded.” (Requests for comment sent to both the Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation—which has been in mourning in recent days following two deaths in the community—were not returned by deadline.)

As calls from British Columbians to end old-growth logging have grown louder this year, coupled with the renewed attention on Indigenous autonomy and land rights in the pandemic, Brett believes the province has also shifted its thinking.

“In spite of what everyone says, I believe this provincial government, as much as they want to set the rules, are coming to a new reality where communities, especially First Nations communities, get to make these decisions,” he said.

On Tuesday, June 15, Victoria announced it had started negotiations with the Tahltan First Nation in northwestern B.C. on the first consent-based decision-

NEWS WHISTLER making agreement to ever be negotiated under the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The agreement would give the Tahltan greater authority and land-use predictability on its territory, where two mining projects are planned.

The CCF partners will use the rest of the year in part to explore alternative revenue sources at the forest, which could include greater emphasis on ecotourism, recreation and Indigenous cultural tourism opportunities.

Given how successful Whistler has been in monetizing forested areas throughout the valley, Brett said there should be no shortage of ways to generate revenue in the CCF. “I think we answer these questions as if the CCF is a monolithic area and of course it isn’t,” he said. “In terms of annual income that comes from our forests, there wouldn’t be anywhere else in the province that creates more tax revenue and more employment through our forests than Whistler. And it’s not logging; it’s recreation and tourism. So it’s about who gets the jobs and who gets the benefits. That’s where the discussion is right now. It hasn’t been equal that the benefits have accrued to non-First Nations communities and not First Nations communities, and that’s what has to be addressed.”

Even still, there are several other hurdles to overcome if the partners do ultimately decide to put a permanent end to old-growth harvesting. With a current annual allowable cut of 20,000 cubic metres, foresters have

struggled to find enough commercially harvestable trees given the long history of clear-cutting in Whistler Valley throughout the 20th century. (It’s worth noting that, generally speaking, the amount of timber harvested on public lands in B.C. regularly falls below the set annual allowable cut.)

So CCF manager Simon Murray has floated two ideas, both of which would

250 years old, which Murray said earlier this month would represent an estimated 10 per cent of the remaining trees in the forest.

But continually harvesting young second growth doesn’t make much sense from a commercial or ecological perspective, posited Brett.

“I just think it’s a very shortsighted way of creating jobs to log forest that not only

“I really do feel like the community forest is in a very different place than it was last year and I feel quite optimistic we’re going in the right direction.”

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require buy-in from the board and the province: reducing the CCF’s annual allowable cut to 15,000 m3, and lowering the minimum age limit of harvestable second-growth trees through the CCF’s carbon credit program from 70 to 50 years.

Since 2015, the CCF has had an agreement in place with the province to sell carbon offsets, independently verified credits for net greenhouse gas reductions that are used to compensate for the emissions of the buyer. Bringing in an average of around $100,000 a year, Murray said, the CCF is only permitted to sequester carbon from trees that are between 70 and

has very low [economic] value, but by any professional forester’s analysis in past years, it would have been way too early to cut [young trees] because it’s not when they’re putting out the most volume and the most valuable volume. So even from a timber perspective, it doesn’t make sense,” he said.

“From an ecological perspective, the areas that would most likely be looked at to log are among the ones that need to be recruitment forest that would at least help us come closer to restoring the historic level of old growth in this valley over the next couple centuries.”

Brett also pointed to the Mount Currie

log sort yard as a prime example of the type of “value-added” forestry work that can be done in the corridor.

“Right now, British Columbia creates the fewest number of jobs per cubic metre [of forest logged] in Canada, and within a community forest, it doesn’t make sense to me to cut logs that end up getting shipped overseas without any value added,” he said.

Gaining a full view into the economics of the CCF can be challenging. There hasn’t been an annual report posted to the CCF website since the 2018 edition (Grills said the 2019 and 2020 reports would be posted soon), and while figures like total sales, expenses, and jobs generated are publicly available, the revenue generated for each of the three partners is confidential, Grills noted.

“Transparency is really critical to finding out what people really want and what is really happening in the forest,” Brett said. “If we’re looking to create more jobs for First Nations, then we need to know how many full-time equivalents are currently being produced for First Nations—and I don’t mean the contractors they hire, but directly for band members …

I think that once the numbers are out there, it’s easier to make choices that make sense for everyone.”

In 2018, the CCF generated 5.2 full-time equivalent jobs, which involved a total of 38 people. Its total value of sales that year was $1,141,319, while its expenditures totalled $1,045,819. It had a rate of return of $7.85 per cubic metre of forest logged. n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT IT DIDN’T TAKE long for Tourism Whistler (TW) to see travel bookings pick up after Monday’s announcement from the province that B.C. would begin moving into Phase 2 of its pandemic Restart Plan.

“It’s interesting, because when Phase 1 opened up to our health regions—which for us included both the Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) region and the Fraser Health region—we saw a little bit of pickup but not that strong,” said TW president Barrett Fisher, adding that the restrictions were met with confusion from some prospective visitors.

“But now that Phase 2 has opened up to all British Columbia, we are definitely seeing much stronger pickup, because I think people recognize now that when [provincial health officer] Dr. Bonnie Henry, the premier and all the ministers are welcoming British Columbians to travel, then people know they’ve got the greenlight.”

Fisher noted that TW is working closely with municipal hall to get the message out that Whistler is “open for business and welcoming visitors back.” But with the Canadian border still closed and nonessential interprovincial travel discouraged, TW is focusing its marketing efforts on B.C. after targeting only the Lower Mainland in Phase 1.

Recognizing that the provincial tourism market “can only grow so much,” Fisher anticipates similar visitor volumes as last summer.

This week, Ottawa warned that Canadians eager to travel as vaccination rates climb and restrictions begin to ease may need to prepare for quickly changing processes when crossing the border. (See related story on page 22.)

Canada is set to slightly loosen restrictions for its own citizens returning home beginning next month.

Instead of quarantining 14 days, fully vaccinated Canadians will need to show proof of a negative COVID-19 test prior to departure before taking another test upon arrival. They will then need to self-isolate until the second test comes back negative.

The second of B.C.’s four-step reopening, Phase 2 means recreational travel is now permitted across the province.

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respectful while visiting communities, particularly in smaller, rural towns and in Indigenous communities where local travel advisories may be in place.

Public health protocols, such as maskwearing in indoor public spaces and physical distancing, will remain in place during Phase 2.

“The hospitality and tourism sector have sacrificed so much in the fight against COVID-19. Now we’re encouraging British Columbians to say thank you by exploring B.C. this summer,” read a June 15 joint statement from B.C.’s tourism ministry, Indigenous Tourism BC, the Tourism Industry Association of BC, the BC Hotel Association, Destination BC and the BC Regional Tourism Secretariat.

“Every dollar British Columbians spend at a local hotel, restaurant, attraction, experience or shop helps people and families, the tourism sector, our communities and our province create jobs, restart and recover.”

New things you can do under Phase 2 include: •Outdoor personal gatherings up to 50 people (birthday parties, backyard BBQs, block parties); •Playdates; •Indoor seated organized gatherings up to 50 people with a COVID-19 Safety Plan; •Liquor can be served until midnight instead of 10 p.m.; •Banquet halls can operate with limited capacity and a COVID-19 Safety Plan; •Indoor high-intensity group exercise allowed with reduced capacity; •Indoor games and practices for both adults and youth group/team sports allowed; although no spectators are allowed at any indoor sport activity; •Outdoor spectators up to 50 allowed at sporting events.

B.C. moved into Phase 2 after exceeding its original target of having at least 65 per cent of adults vaccinated with a first dose.

Currently, 76.1 per cent of all adult British Columbians and 74.4 per cent of British Columbians 12 and up have received at least one dose. As of June 10, 91.5 per cent of Whistlerites 12 and up have received at least one dose, giving it the highest vaccination rate of any community in the province, according to VCH. The metrics to move through the next phases of the Restart Plan—active COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations—continue to decline. n -With files from Tyler Orton, Business in Vancouver

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AS CASES OF COVID-19 recede and

vaccinations ramp up, talks of reopening the Canada-U.S. border are ongoing—much to the relief of Canada’s tourism operators.

But with the current restrictions (set to expire on June 21) almost certain to be extended, what the tourism industry is looking for at this stage is guidance, said Walt Judas, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC).

“Give us some dates or some markers that we can work toward, and let us know the criteria by which we can get there,” Judas said, pointing to the B.C. government’s four-step restart plan as a “very helpful” example.

“We know that it’s a combination of vaccinations and seeing COVID transmission rates being reduced, etc. (in B.C.), and so that allows tourism operators to plan for various stages … That’s kinda similar to what we’re saying to the federal government.

“What’s the criteria that we’re working toward? Is it herd immunity or 75 per cent of fully vaccinated Canadians, or is it a combination of one dose of vaccinations,

but two doses for people that are travelling into Canada? And what are we looking at as far as dates?”

If the borders are to remain closed for an extended stretch, financial support for businesses, particularly those in the tourism and hospitality sector, can’t be reduced at the same time, Judas added.

According to the TIABC, nearly 4 million people from the U.S. visited B.C. for overnight stays in 2019 (the last “normalized” year, and the best year on record for Canadian tourism), accounting for about two-thirds of the 6 million overnight international visitors who came to B.C. that year.

“And then we had 2.3 million same-day visitors. So that represents over 6 million,” Judas said.

“Last year that dropped to a million in total, and that obviously was mostly people coming here for essential travel.”

The border closure is especially critical for the industry when you consider that Americans and visitors from other countries spend about three to five times as much as Canadian visitors, Judas added.

“So that’s where it really gets tricky for operators,” he said.

“They might be full of B.C. or Canadian residents over the course of the summer, but they don’t spend nearly the same amount

that internationals do.”

International travel is also “critically important” to Whistler, said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher,

“We, like everyone else, are waiting to hear what health officials are saying.”

- BARRETT FISHER

noting that international visitors make up 60 per cent of the market in winter and 40 per cent in summer (with the U.S. accounting for 30 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively).

“We are very hopeful that the speedier rollout of the vaccination program across Canada will in turn mean that borders can successfully open up sooner than some of the original forecasts,” Fisher said.

“But yes, we, like everyone else, are waiting to hear what health officials are saying.”

Canadian and U.S. officials met June 15 to discuss how to eventually lift border

restrictions, with Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LaBlanc saying afterwards that a “phased approach” may be necessary in the coming months as the federal government works with provinces to ensure Canadians have a reliable way of proving their vaccination status.

With the expectation that international travellers show proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Canada’s constitutional setup complicates the federal government’s efforts to facilitate vaccination passports.

“The provinces, by virtue of their jurisdiction, have ownership of the health information, the vaccination information regarding their citizens. So the conversation began a few weeks ago and it’s been ongoing between deputy ministers of health,” LaBlanc said.

“We are working with allies, obviously, in the European Union, the United States and others to find the most appropriate way to recognize proof of vaccination for citizens who want to travel internationally.”

LaBlanc said more details about Canada’s vaccination passport strategy would be made available in the coming weeks.

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Robert Dykstra started in his role as the Sea to Sky RCMP’s new Officer-in-Charge (OIC), and he admits the transition has come with a bit of a learning curve.

“It’s been two months, but I still feel like I’m a baby learning to walk,” he said.

“It’s fascinating and exciting, but it’s a lot.”

Good thing Dykstra is no stranger to change. The 48-year-old’s winding career path has taken him from the orderly government buildings of Canada’s capital to the streets of Antogonish doing frontline policing before moving with his wife to the far north of Nunavut, where he spent the past seven years.

Replacing former Insp. Kara Triance, Dykstra also takes over as the corridor’s top cop at a time of major reckoning for the role police play and have played in Canadian society.

“I think what is expected of police officers today is different than 15, 20 years ago. We need to be engaged in that conversation,” he said. “Society has to change, and I think we have to be at the forefront of that. We shouldn’t be hanging back and waiting for society to change

and then the police organization changes.

I think we need to be at the front of that because people look to us as a behaviour benchmark.”

Pique caught up with Dykstra this week for a wide-ranging conversation about his unique career path, improving community engagement and rebuilding the relationship with the Sea to Sky’s Indigenous communities after generations of mistrust.

Pick up next week’s Pique for Part 2 of the conversation, which will focus on policing priorities in Whistler, how the RCMP is gearing up for a return to post-COVID life, and police’s role in responding to mental health calls.

(The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.)

Pique: How did you get your start in policing?

DYKSTRA: It’s an interesting story and not a linear one in any shape or form. I actually started my career after university in the public service. I had gone to university. I got my Master of Arts and Masters of Public Administration, and I was just about to start looking at my PhD, when my wife told me, ‘We have two young kids. You need to get a job.’

So that’s what I did. I got a job with

NEWS WHISTLER the [federal] Department of Finance and started out there as an economist. I was there for about a year and then I went on to the Treasury Board Secretariat, which is one of the central agencies, along with the Department of Finance.

I got to do a lot of policy work, a lot of financial analysis, a lot of program analysis, and it was during that period of time that I actually started working for the RCMP for the first time.

I actually was the program analyst for the RCMP for a period of about two or three years, when I was involved with working with senior managers and policy folks at the RCMP, working on their various

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what it looks like and how it works …

Then, one thing that was brought up to me by [acting Whistler-Pemberton NCO Staff Sgt.] Sascha [Banks], something she had done last year, is a program called Coffee with a Cop. I just think that’s one of the best ideas in the world. One, because I love coffee.

But two, it’s this reminder that we’re just people as well.

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program and services, so providing advice and guidance in terms of how they can actually get the money that they require to do contract policing.

Pique: How did you go from there to working major crimes in Nova Scotia?

RD: When I became a member, I had a buddy of mine who was working with me at the RCMP headquarters when I was a public servant. He got me on to the bug of policing and I realized that was what I wanted to do, so I went through depot, did my training and then came out.

I went to Nova Scotia and went from being a senior policy analyst with the RCMP to being a constable on the road: pulling over cars, answering calls for service, conflict management, investigating domestics, thefts, break and enters, 911s, you name it. It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had in my entire life.

Pique: One of Triance’s goals was to improve the RCMP’s engagement with the Whistler community. How do you want to build on that effort?

RD: I’d love to do a town hall with the community once a year just to increase accessibility with police officers. They can come and ask questions and we can engage in an open environment and have a conversation about what’s going on. Reminding ourselves that we are here to support and serve the people of the communities in which we are working.

So for [Whistler], we’re here for the visitors, but we’re also here for the people who live here. We want to hear from them about what their concerns are, what they like and don’t like, what they expect. This is important.

We’re looking at maybe having some open houses as well as a way to invite people in to see our space and get to know

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light of instances like that, as well as the RCMP’s role in Canada’s terrible legacy of residential schools, how do you rebuild that relationship with our Indigenous communities?

RD: It’s a very big question and not an easy answer. I think the most important and probably first step that needs to happen is reminding ourselves that we need to listen, and actually not just listening but hearing what’s being said.

It’s hard for someone to have a real understanding of what someone else’s circumstances are unless they themselves have been in those circumstances. So what’s the only tool that we have to understand it or at least become better aware? That’s listening. Being out there meeting the members of our Indigenous communities, meeting with elders.

It’s really easy to say that we are no longer going to think of this particular term or this particular word for describing a people, or we’re no longer going to do a certain process in this way and therefore everything is better. But people forget that it took decades or hundreds, if not thousands of years, depending on certain places, for that thing to be engrained in society.

It’s not going to disappear just because we say, as a society, we’re going to do things differently. But we have to actually be really active in ensuring that the things we do and the things we say take into account the people that we’re serving.

So with local Indigenous people, we understand there is a lot of trauma. There is mandatory training for members on trauma-based investigations and traumabased points of view. And again, that’s all about understanding context but you have to practise it, and practise it, and practise it, every single time you go to a call.

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Third reading of Amendment Bylaws Nos. 1712-2021, 1713-2021, 1714-2021 and 1715-2021 is scheduled for June 23, 2021. All persons who believe that their interests are affected by the proposed bylaws shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the bylaw. Written submissions (mail or email) must be received at the SLRD office no later than 9 am Wednesday June 23, 2021.

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At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 12, Whistler RCMP was notified of the accident in the 600 block of Callaghan Road. Investigators attended the scene and learned that two males in their mid-20s had been injured after an ATV crashed into them while they were standing beside their own ATV. Police said the injuries are not life threatening.

The attending officer conducted a field sobriety test and obtained a breath sample from the driver of the ATV, which confirmed that drugs and alcohol were not a factor in the collision, police said.

The RCMP is still investigating the incident.

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Having a local analyst would help corridor officers be more efficient and focus on police work out in the community rather than paperwork back at the detachment, Kermer said.

“It can show crime trends: what kinds of crimes are happening in Squamish, when, what is being stolen—anything like that.”

They can also link what is happening here to other places.

“When I first came here, there was a bike theft operation going on. The bikes were being stolen here and then transported to Edmonton, I think it was, to be ripped apart and sold in pieces and such. That is what the analyst can do because they have access to different pieces,” Kermer said, adding that Mounties are not trained to be analysts so it is not the best use of their skills.

The analyst’s findings may also be shared with the public.

An RCMP-provided example from Saskatchewan is that in 2020, analysts saw an increase in break-and-enters at churches and places of worship throughout that province.

“In December, the RCMP issued a crimepattern alert highlighting the problem and listing tips to help prevent future breakins,” read a piece in the RCMP’s Gazette magazine.

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“Analysts’ roles can include linking crimes, [and] determining crime ‘hotspots,’” said Cpl. Angela Kermer, media relations officer with the Squamish RCMP. “Saving time for police resources, [they] are part of a coordinated approach to crime reduction and prevention.”

Analysts use police data, in other words, to help guide officers’ enforcement and prevention strategies.

Their tools may include spreadsheets, databases and specialized software.

In B.C., training for such positions with police is through post-secondary institutions including the Justice Institute of British Columbia or British Columbia

Currently, if crime analysts are needed in the Sea to Sky, they are borrowed from the provincial body of the Mounties for specific one-off situations.

The current Sea to Sky RCMP ask is for one designated, full-time crime analyst.

While the RCMP didn’t provide the dollar figure needed for the position, online salary portals such as Glassdoor, Indeed, and Talent.com show an RCMP analyst position starting at about $76,000 per year.

A business case for the position is being prepared.

“We will be seeking funding sources from various funders, and the funding arrangement may include multiple partners,” Kermer said.

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DOUBLE DOSE Whistler workers who received a dose of AstraZeneca vaccine in March will have the option to either receive a second dose of the same vaccine or an mRNA vaccine.

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VCH provides details on second dose of AstraZeneca INDIVIDUALS WILL HAVE OPTION TO RECEIVE EITHER SECOND ASTRAZENECA DOSE OR MRNA VACCINE

BY BRANDON BARRETT VANCOUVER COASTAL Health (VCH) has offered more details on the process to obtain a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine for Whistler workers who have received their first shot of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine.

The majority of British Columbians who have received a dose of AstraZeneca were booked through their pharmacy, but for the Whistler workers who were part of pop-up immunization clinics in March that received the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine, they will be invited to book their next dose through the Get Vaccinated provincial registration system at gov.bc.ca/ getvaccinated.

Those workers will have the option to either receive a second dose of AstraZeneca or the Pfizer or Moderna messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine.

Last week, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) updated its recommendations on mixing and matching vaccines, and while health officials say it would be ideal for people to get the same product for both their shots, they insist that getting a second dose of a different vaccine is safe.

In a briefing this week, deputy provincial health officer Dr. Reka Gustafson said the new NACI recommendations offer more flexibility amid the supply constraints in light of concerns some British Columbians have about rare blood clots linked to the AstraZeneca vaccine.

“We certainly wouldn’t want anyone not to get a second dose of vaccine because of that concern,” she said, adding the province would recommend an AstraZeneca

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recipient to not get a jab with the same product if they were one of the few people to develop the rare blood clot.

There have been three cases reported in B.C. since the AstraZeneca vaccine was deployed in the province in April.

Canada is facing supply issues with AstraZeneca, which is a viral vector vaccine, while mRNA vaccines like Pfizer and Moderna have made up a far more significant portion of the country’s supply.

“I would say that vaccine supplies are actually being managed quite carefully,” Gustafson said when asked about the possibility some AstraZeneca doses may go unused if recipients opt to receive one of the mRNA vaccines.

To date, 3,321,549 British Columbians— or 72 per cent of the eligible population 12 and older—have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Another 314,246 people have received two doses.

As of June 9, 91.5 per cent of Whistlerites aged 12 and up had received at least one dose of vaccine, which would give it the highest immunization rate of any community in the province, VCH confirmed.

Planning is now underway for additional second-dose clinics in Whistler in the coming weeks, VCH said.

April’s mass vaccination of eligible Whistlerites seems to be having its intended effect, with only three new cases of COVID19 recorded between May 30 and June 5 for the entire Howe Sound health region, which includes the resort, Pemberton, Squamish, Lions Bay and parts of the southern Stl’atl’mx Nation. That’s down from five cases recorded the week prior.

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FREE AS A BIRD

Birding is a popular pastime in Whistler. Pictured here is the elusive Pacific wren sharing its

song.

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Naturespeak: My journey from animal enthusiast to bird nerd

BY BRIAR SEXTON THERE WAS a large gap between my first and second “aha” birding moment. The third was followed by a healthy dose of humble pie. My first “aha” moment was in the Maasai Mara. I saw a brilliant flash of turquoise several hundred metres away.

I actually screamed a little. The guides knew instantly that I had spotted a lilacbreasted roller. I was mesmerized by the colour palette, and I couldn’t get enough of watching the differences in the bird between flight and posing for my husband’s camera.

This led to my love of African birds.

We birded avidly when we were in Africa (four trips so far since then) but at a pretty amateur level. I remember my husband and I mocking an older British chap for his indignation that a very young Rwandan guide confused a European beeeater and a blue-cheeked bee-eater. Simply “bee-eater” was good enough for me. “ That will never be us,” I said.

Flash forward to the spring of 2020.

Back in Whistler, my husband and I began to walk the Valley Trail and even further afield on a regular basis. One day we saw a number of waterfowl we couldn’t identify making their home on Green Lake. Sadly, they were just out of view. My second “aha” moment was to start to always walk with my binoculars. A Sea-to-Sky birder was born.

All of last summer I tried to discern between the different types of mergansers.

Then, there were the pine Ssskins, warblers,

vireos and flycatchers—all of which were in the category of “yellow bird.” Anything that lacked colour was dismissed as a LBB or “little brown bird.” I was in it for the glory.

Less than a year later we are getting pretty adept at differentiating types of warblers and have now learned how to do bird counts of large flocks. I am starting to get better at identifying by sound. This is where more humble pie comes in.

While walking the Valley Trail along Fitzsimmons Creek I heard an incredible noise. Right out on the trail at eye level was a little brown bird singing its heart out. It posed for me as I frantically tried to identify it. Aha! It was the Pacific wren.

There are actually a pair that we go and listen to and they have been heard without exception. A friend (and long-time birder) who had not yet checked one off on his Whistler life list came along last time.

We spent 40 minutes trying to spot a little brown bird.

There is a pleasure that comes from spending time in nature with purpose. The element of surprise is another renewable resource. We often get a great bird just at the end of the walk.

I also appreciate that birdwatching has developed my patience. If you told me a year ago that I would hunt for 40 minutes for something I had already seen I would have laughed. But to watch that little wren sing at the top of his lungs, seeing his beak open and close through my binoculars, I was filled with joy. Again.

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Drinking Water System report flags elevated manganese COUNCIL BRIEFS: BASKETBALL COURT LOCATION CHOSEN; NEW FUNDING APPLICATION FOR FRIENDSHIP TRAIL

BY ALYSSA NOEL VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON council received its 2020 Drinking Water System annual report during its regular meeting on Tuesday, June 15.

While the summary of water quality results for the most part showed levels of chemicals, mercury, and “elements by atomic spectroscopy” well within required limits, there was a concern about manganese levels.

On Feb. 26, 2020 at Well No. 2 manganese levels were recorded at 78.8 ug/L and, on the same day at Well No. 3, they were recorded at 20.1 ug/L. Both were flagged on the report as exceeding “1 criteria policy/ level.”

According to Health Canada’s Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality, the maximum acceptable concentration (MAC) for total manganese in drinking water is 120 ug/L. However, the aesthetic objective (which refers to the aesthetic appeal rather than health concerns) is 20 ug/L. During the meeting, Councillor Ryan Zant asked Tom Csima, manager of operations and projects for the Village, about those numbers.

WATER REPORT Village of Pemberton council received the 2020 Drinking Water System annual report at its meeting on Tuesday, June 15.

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“Do we have to change wells if manganese goes over the limit?” he asked.

“Is it a guideline or recommendation?”

In his response, Csima explained the government introduced new standards around manganese in 2019. Previously there had only been standards around the aesthetic objective.

“If we were to sustain levels of manganese higher than the maximum allowable concentration for a significant amount of time then, yes, they would require that we take action,” he said. “We’re aware that we do have higher manganese levels and we’re floating right around the aesthetic objective and we have seen from time to time it reaches the [MAC] …

Currently we’re looking at filtration and treatment for those levels so [Vancouver Coastal Health is] not expressing too much concern around our higher manganese levels, but to answer your question, yes the maximum allowable concentration is the limit at which there may be health concerns.”

The pH at both Wells No. 2 and No. 3— listed at 6.82 and 6.57, respectively—and a pH of 6.89 in the Industrial Park on Feb. 26, 2020 were the only other flags. All three were also labelled as exceeding 1 criteria policy/level.

The issue of low pH water in Pemberton first came to light in 2016. Since then, the Village has been adding sodium carbonate to the water to increase pH, to reach the target level of seven, and alkalinity, to the target of between 40 and 80 milligrams per

litre. Water with low pH levels is corrosive and can result in increased levels of lead in drinking water from interactions with pipes.

Health Canada’s operational guideline for pH sets the standard between seven and 10.5.

NEW BASKETBALL COURT LOCATION CHOSEN Council voted on June 15 to locate its new outdoor basketball court at Lot 8 on Frontier Street north of the Downtown Community Barn parking lot.

Both staff and the Pemberton Valley Utilities & Services Committee recommended the location over the alternative option of the Great Lawn at the Pemberton and District Community Centre.

Coun. Amica Antonelli raised concerns about solar lights that could be used on the space until 11 p.m.—coinciding with the Village’s noise bylaws.

“Certainly it’s within our ability if we feel that there’s impacts in the neighbourhood we don’t have to go to 11 p.m. either,” said Mayor Mike Richman, in response.

While the location isn’t as central as the community centre, the under-utilized space will be easy to develop, offers multiuse potential next to the barn, provides easy access for construction, isn’t hidden or obstructed from public view for safety purposes, and offers washroom facilities

nearby, according to a staff report.

Back in 2019, staff began discussing the installation of a new basketball court at Signal Hill Elementary. However, during delays to the project, the school’s parent advisory committee, with support from the school administration, initiated a new garden project.

As a result, an alternative location had to be found.

VILLAGE TO TRY FOR FRIENDSHIP TRAIL FUNDING Council also voted to support a funding application to the Canada Healthy Communities Initiative (CHCI) for the final stage of the Friendship Trail on June 15.

The section of the seven-kilometre trail, which aims to connect Pemberton, SLRD Area C, and the Lil’wat Nation, is a 0.75-km separated, multi-use path along Pemberton Farm Road East. It will connect the Friendship Trail between Highway 99 and Den Duyf Park.

Two previous grant applications for the project were declined, but staff said in a report they believed the project meets the requirements for the CHCI funding. If successful, that will provide $250,000.

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For climate’s sake, save the peat!

BURNING COAL, OIL AND GAS is causing the world to heat at an unnaturally rapid rate. Destroying forests, wetlands, grasslands and marine ecosystems, which act as “carbon sinks,” drives the fever higher.

Peatland conversion for agriculture is thought to have fuelled some global warming even before the current era of prolific and wasteful fossil fuel burning.

Researchers from France’s Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences and other institutions recently found that converting northern peatlands to croplands could have added 72 billion tonnes of carbon (250 billion tonnes when combined

BY DAVID SUZUKI with oxygen to form carbon dioxide) to the atmosphere between the years 850 and 2010—45 per cent of it before 1750. That surpassed by more than double the amount of carbon sequestered by high-latitude undisturbed peatlands.

The study illustrates the value of protecting and restoring natural areas.

As researcher Chunjing Qiu said in the Washington Post, peatlands make up just three per cent of global land surface but store about 30 per cent of soil carbon.

Recognizing their importance, the Global Peatlands Initiative was formed at the 2016 climate conference in Marrakech, Morocco.

Peat forms in much the same way as coal, but in bogs—a type of wetland with high acid content that keeps dead vegetation from fully decaying. As with other fossil

Peat is also used as a growing medium for gardening, although not a good one.

As a Guardian article says, “It contains little to no nutrients and growing in peatbased mixes ties the grower to constantly applying fertilisers to keep plants healthy.”

Because it’s lightweight and inexpensive to transport, it became popular.

It’s also used to make Scotch, its smoke infusing barley to give the whisky its distinctive peaty flavour. Although Scotch producers use a comparatively small amount of peat, they’ve joined efforts to conserve and restore peatlands and to use peat more efficiently.

As with so many ecosystems that keep the planet healthy and habitable for humans — forests, wetlands, grasslands, oceans—peatlands have long been under attack by humans who have failed to comprehend their importance. They’ve been seen as “resources” to be dug up for fuel or gardening, or as wastelands that can be drained and built over.

We have to start caring for these essential ecosystems. “Though peatlands indeed are carbon sinks in their pristine state, they should also be seen as carbon bombs, which explode whenever they are damaged. Keep them wet!” University of Greifswald, Germany, peat researcher Hans Joosten told the Washington Post.

Like peatlands, forests can also go from carbon sink to source. Trees release carbon when they burn or die and decompose.

Although many people tout the ability of forests in Canada to sequester carbon, researchers say they’ve been releasing more than they’ve been absorbingfor the past 20 years, thanks mainly to climate-related insect infestations and wildfires.

We don’t need to burn peat for fuel.

We don’t need it for our gardens.

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fuels, organic matter and the carbon it has absorbed are compressed over millions of years, condensing the solar energy obtained through photosynthesis. Because of their stored energy, dried peat bricks have long been burned for fuel, mostly for heating.

Draining peatlands for agriculture and other development causes the plant matter to decompose, its released carbon mixing with oxygen to form CO2, which goes into the atmosphere. On top of these emissions and sequestration loss from converting peatlands to croplands, peatland fires may have caused five per cent of humancaused carbon emissions to date. They can scorch large areas and are difficult to control because much of the burning is underground. Burning peat, for fuel or through peatland fires, emits carbon and other greenhouse gases directly into the air, along with particulate matter and other pollutants.

As the peat study’s researchers admit, there’s much to learn about the relationship between peat and climate, as there is with most natural systems and processes. But the more we learn, the more we come to the inescapable conclusion that everything is interconnected, that even seemingly minor changes to ecosystems can have wideranging consequences.

We don’t need to burn peat for fuel. We don’t need it for our gardens. We do need to recognize that peatlands are too valuable to be converted for agriculture or urban development. We must respect, protect and restore the interconnected natural ecosystems that keep us and other species healthy and alive.

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. ■

RANGE ROVER

Defer this IN THE TWO WEEKS since my last column took aim at the hubris, conceit and

BY LESLIE ANTHONY Luddite sensibilities of B.C.’s anachronistic “forestry” practices—specifically as these relate to the biologically and morally indefensible logging of its remaining 2.6 per cent of truly ancient old-growth—a lot has transpired: hundreds more land defenders were arrested by the hyperactive and impressively over-resourced RCMP at the Fairy Creek blockades; mainstream media finally tuned in; enviro-lame-duck Premier John Horgan tabled an obtuse and bizarre “policy intention paper,” then bowed further to public pressure in the guise of a First Nations request to defer logging in the contested watersheds for two years (basically until the goals of his intention paper drop in 2023), and our own Cheakamus Community Forest read the writing on the publicrelations wall and deferred its dubious planned logging of Whistler-area old growth for a year.

On the face of it, these events seem cumulatively positive. But of course, “seem” is the operative word when it comes

WORTH MORE STANDING Chief Bill Jones speaks to the RCMP liaison stating, “Teal Jones, the government, and western culture have forgotten how to share and they have denied the aboriginal laws to our land.”

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to the environment—doubly so when this also involves “deferral.” So, let’s a take a closer look.

I’ll start with the arrests. Is it just me or does the RCMP seem oriented and outfitted not to fight crime in crime’s true haunts (like, for example, boardrooms), but to quell legitimate citizen uprisings? And I’m not even talking about the bulletproof vests apparently necessary to dislodge hippies (as they’d have us believe defenders to be) from objects they’ve chained themselves to, but the array of weaponry, training, manpower and expensive hardware like helicopters that sees them long-line into tree-perches to haul up even more defenders. That the RCMP goes to absolutely any length to ensnare pacifist protestors but barely notes criminal activity enacted daily by resource-extraction companies is truly eyebrow-raising. Think about this any way you want, but it adds up to your tax dollars being used to harass and incarcerate citizen heroes standing up for the environment (and thus, you) while protecting the greedriddled, regulation-skirting criminal machinations of industry (https:// thenarwhal.ca).

Back in the day it was easy to make national news with an “exotic” West Coast logging controversy. These days, with Canada’s mainstream media largely controlled by conservative individuals or companies, protests must directly threaten economic orthodoxy to make headlines.

Apparently, they have. Perhaps it was also the viral video of a First Nations protestor abused and arrested, or Tzeporah Berman’s déjà vu frontline sojourn (https://www. theglobeandmail.com), but the sad plight of B.C.’s old-growth ghosts has rattled the national consciousness again and, in so

doing, garnered attention from American and European media (which, as we all know, is when chickenshit Canadian governments like B.C.’s NDP finally pretend to care).

Speaking of which, what to make of Horgan’s underwhelming policy intention indicating little more than his government’s malign intention to continue treating forests as crops and not ecosystems? As explained in a Narwhal.ca analysis, the hollow plan sets the stage for more old-growth conflicts by: 1) inexplicably overlooking old-growth logging deferrals; 2) not plotting a new funding path to a more sustainable “forestry industry” (there’s no such thing, BTW, only an “ecosystem removal and modification industry”); 3) doubling forest tenures for First Nations to 20 per cent of the provincial total, both insulting and wholly inadequate in leaving 80 per cent under industry control and facing First Nations with the insidious dichotomy of not cutting old growth and having no money, or cutting old growth and having money—though a pathetic fraction (e.g., in the Fairy Creek case it’s $20 million for Teal-Jones vs. a few hundred K for the Pacheedaht—which Horgan lauds as reconciliation); 4) maximizing value and supporting local manufacturers, which, though right-minded won’t shift industry control from large companies, and 5) not even remotely addressing B.C.’s failing report card on biodiversity (B.C. Biodiversity report). In summary, the term “managed forests” is a candy-coated euphemism for forests that are mismanaged to a greater or lesser degree (and don’t get me started on the profligate cable-and-hook garbage that industry leaves behind in the woods).

As a recent Tyee.ca article states, “Let’s call Premier John Horgan’s forest policies what

they are—a colonial defence of talk and log and a moral failure to protect the province’s remaining old growth forests.”

Now to those deferrals. Far from noble deference to concerned parties, resourceindustry deferrals are mostly de facto acts of cowardice designed to take the spotlight off those perpetrating whatever malfeasance is being questioned. The same kick-the-can-down-the-roadism as distant target dates for implementation of environmental policies like salmonfarm removal, species-at-risk legislation, orphan well clean-up or emissions reductions. In fact, given the urgency of issues which they’re generally meant to address, deferrals are little more than digestible nonsense wrapped around bitter irresponsibility. And no, Mark Twain didn’t say that. I did because it’s what I’ve seen again and again in a halfcentury living in Canada. The intention isn’t to actually address a known problem with a known solution as scientists might, rather to wait out the tide of public opinion so an activity can resume with a lipstick engagement process— “engagement” being the latest insidious way of manufacturing consent.

The real solution, again, is obvious: institute a much overdue, scientifically supported moratorium on old-growth logging and compensate those who will be put out. Until such times, the blockades should remain. It’s far too late for halfmeasures and time to fully transition B.C.’s wood-product industry to the second- and third-growth on which it has carelessly staked its future.

Leslie Anthony is a scientist and author who enjoys connecting the dots to reverse political and media spin.■

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FEATURE STORY

What does Indigenous Love look like?

By Yvonne Wallace

Ama sq’it (good day), I am Catherine Pascal’s

granddaughter and my position in this world is that I am a mixed-race ucwalmicw woman born and raised in the Lil’wat Nation. My mother is Indigenous, and my father is non-Indigenous. My parent’s life together has been my barometer of true allyship and solidarity in the ever-changing climate of inter-cultural relationships; it hasn’t been easy but the rewards are beautiful. I identify as a granddaughter, daughter, mother, and everything I do has been influenced by being a Nation member.

I am a proud Eagle that graduated from Xet’ōlacw Community School. I am not writing this article on behalf of the Nation, but solely as a writer, in my own voice, with an invested interest to gain momentum toward understanding reconciliatory ideas, thoughts and reflection on my personal experience.

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FEATURE STORY Join us for celebrations this weekend I should also note that as an artist, formally trained in theatre, I have been working through my life experience in a public way while being mindful of not being perceived as performative, but only with the hope that my struggles and triumphs have a direct and positive impact on others in my community. The disclaimer is if my share feels like an over share then know that I am reaching out to my target audience, the Indigenous audience. It is important to note that my understanding of cultural identity is not some old, long-ago ideology: I am living proof of the Ancestors this country’s oppressive systems could not eradicate.

We are approaching our summer solstice. In our Nation, harvesting calendars have changed over time. We have had to learn and relearn the rhythms, patterns and signs of harvest since I was a kid in the 1980s. My whole life I feel has always been in constant readjustment. My first “Aboriginal Day” celebration 25 years ago looks very different than it does now. In 1996, I called a friend who lived at home while I was a newbie Torontonian.

“Hi, I got back from the [Canadian National Exhibition], and we celebrated Aboriginal People’s Day!” I said. “I haven’t seen so many beautiful outspoken First Nations all in one place before.”

I probably said “Indians” because I was talking to an Indigenous person, but I digress. My friend responded, “What’s Aboriginal People’s Day?” I had quickly learned B.C. needed time to catch up with our Eastern counterparts.

In 1996, I felt a shift from being invisible to being public; I felt publicly proud to be Aboriginal, First Nations, and now Indigenous. Never mind that the word Indigenous took over 20 years to negotiate as the collective term for us to be identified as.

Today, we celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day on summer solstice.

This year the elephant in the country is the recent findings at the Kamloops Indian Residential School that has devastated myself, and my loved ones. Do we celebrate this year? Do we protest? Do

we pray? Do we get angry? Do we mourn?

The answer, I feel, is “yes.” You do what you need to do to register the impact. It is a personal choice. You deserve the right to individuality; you deserve to do what you need to do to gain personal peace in your Indigenous reality. It has not been easy, and finally, FINALLY, the rest of the world knows our Indigenous truth across Turtle Island (an Indigenous term for North America).

In our Lil’wat realm, we have been telling stories from one generation to another, since time out of mind. The difference in Indigenous knowledge pathways is that we do not question the storyteller; we believe them because we have a tribal, or community agreement that the storyteller is telling from a place of common interest.

When the stories of Indian Residential School (IRS) survivors were being told, even long before we heard the testimonies of the IRS survivors, we believed their stories.

Now that there is evidence, the rest of the peripheral communities are catching up.

Now what do we do? Do we move forward?

Do we look back? My personal emails and social media have been inundated with messages of support, grief and anger from my non-Indigenous friends, colleagues, and acquaintances.

They are all asking me “How can I support you?” While I ask myself, can I survive this scar reopening? I have been gutted and my wounds have been stirred.

I have always had guilt that I had the luxury of living every day of my childhood at my parents’ home or my grandmother’s home, while my four siblings were forced by court order to attend St. Mary’s Indian Residential School. Imagine feeling guilty about living at home. Silly right? The behaviours and injustices toward my siblings, cousins, and my extended family all felt redirected at me. In my perception of the world, I looked white, I looked like the oppressor, so it only made sense at the time that I would be treated as such. When I have had the space to tell my story to people from outside my community, they are usually concerned with how my own family could treat me like that, as though the blame was theirs and theirs alone. In my mind, it has always been this country that has been so rooted in oppression that is responsible for my disrupted family ties.

I deserve a family the same as everyone else in this country, but my reality is this: if I get close to family, I feel insecure—I feel more comfortable being “othered” than I do feeling welcomed. That is my truth, and I am willing to bet that I am not the only one.

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FEATURE STORY I am not going to whitewash this; I have been invited to write about anything that I wanted to and here it is.

I am attempting to articulate the impact of the recent findings, with my personal experience and make sense of this horrific past, all while looking for a way to celebrate my Indigenous ancestry on the scheduled day of June 21. It is not enough to say that we are resilient, because frankly I am tired of being resilient. When can we be seen as an equal to our non-Indigenous counterparts?

There it is, the question of equality. Perhaps that is the problem. I have been striving to achieve being equal.

I graduated from a First Nations school, then Humber College with honours, then Capilano University and now working on my master’s at UBC. I am struggling to define what decolonizing mind, body, and spirit looks like, because it’s non-linear. Maybe I am not looking for equality but belief in our stories.

y a s o t h g u o n e t o n is t I “ that we are resilient, because frankly I am . t n ie il s e r g in e b f o d e tir When can we be seen as an equal to our non-Indigenous counterparts? “ ce ~Yvonne Walla

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Thank you for following my train of thought while I work through this, believing that we have enough, we are enough, and we can live in peace. Maybe, it’s that the rest of society must be honest with their internal dialogue defining the Indigenous person, Indigenous communities, and Indigenous relationships.

I come from a long line of matriarchs and patriarchs who have worked hard and loved unconditionally, all while their children were forcibly integrated into a system of cultural genocide. My grandmother was humble not because she was forced to be, but because that was our way. When we harvested, we harvested enough so that

we could show generosity to those who did not have enough. Our woman celebrated births, children, coming of age, parenthood, and worked together. Regardless of betrayals we’ve suffered, from systems or from each other, when someone in our community struggles, we all drop our differences and gather to help each other, without financial gain. This is what makes my Indigenous experience exceptional, and this is the private part of the Indigenous experience that the rest of society does not see.

These are general, sweeping statements, but if I invite you to a conversation and you are non-Indigenous, then I think you are non-judgemental, and you see me eye-to-eye.

If we continue with our new dialogue, I invite you to a meal; it could be breakfast, lunch or dinner. Feeding people is a basic need, but to us it’s more. We invested our time, finances and labour to make sure your basic needs were met. This is what I like to say is “Indigenous Love”: caring for you even though my life is a struggle, dropping everything to help you feel as though you belong. It is a generous act because you, as a nonIndigenous person, have been benefitting from a system of oppression towards me, yet I am going to let that go and do better than this country has done to me. It’s that whole rise-above thing, so maybe that does not make me equal, maybe it makes me exceptional. I have been taught to be exceptional, I have a responsibility to be exceptional and so does everyone else in my community. If someone is not behaving exceptionally then maybe it is because their intergenerational trauma is running the show.

My experience is that my community members are exceptional. We suffer many compounded losses every year. I guesstimate that we lose 15 or so people to tragedy per year, so that means since the age of four, I have known, loved and lost more 600 people over my lifetime and still show up ready to give “Indigenous Love,” like everyone else in my community. My experience of systemic bias and racism towards me shows me that many non-Indigenous people see me only through a Canadian lens, as something other than exceptional.

In closing, I invite you on June 21 to hear our language through different ears. Open your heart to our songs and dances because they are a living and tangible evidence that we are exceptional. There is no denying we have lived through many stages of cultural genocide, and yet we still have and share cultural knowledge, our language.

Indigenous Love.

Yvonne Wallace (Ucwalmicw) is a playwright whose plays include Smothered Sweetly, The Last Dance, I will Remember my Language and ustzan (to make things better), a play dealing with language reclamation and her first-language fluency progression. Utszan premiered in Whistler, in 2019, Wallace’s traditional territory and has toured to Dawson City and Whitehorse, Yukon. She is currently working on her Master’s in Education Leadership at UBC and can be found in N’quatqua working on her fifth play, Residential School Residue, a rough draft of which will be livestreamed by Arts Whistler on June 29. ■

Al Paul 1968-2021

On Thursday June 10th, 2021, in the twelfth round of a ten year match, just before the ding of the bell, Al Paul packed up his big heart, stubborn soul, radiant smile, crossed the ropes, and walked away from his battle with brain cancer.

Al Paul was the man with two first names, the silver fox, a proud Ottawa Valley boy and small-town kid. Named Allen Robert Paul, he was born and raised on a dairy farm in Almonte, Ontario, which would explain his strong bones and penchant for ful-fat cream on his cereal. He was a dedicated and loving son to Eleanor Rintoul (Clapp, Paul) and the late Frank Paul. He spent his childhood working the farm and finding mischief and mayhem with his best friends and siblings: Geoff Paul (Ann), Nancy Laforest (Mike) and Dave Paul (Rachel). His family nucleus was only the beginning of a Paul clan that counted aunts, uncles and cousins as equally cherished protectors and friends. Al’s youthful and adventurous taste for life made him the fun uncle who would show up at the door with a trampoline or Xbox and he was proud to call these many good hearts as his nieces, nephews, sometimes ski partners and friends: Alison, Andrew, and Sarah Paul, Alex and Justin Laforest, and Morgan Paul.

After some rambling adventures in France, Australia, and Whitehorse, Al eventually followed his big brother out to the small-town-hot-dog-party in the mountains of Whistler, B.C. He ate, slept, drank and skied. Like so many of us, he also reflected on his future and moved back home for a short time to give the family farm business a go, but flat land and warm milk no longer steadied his feet, and Al quickly found his way back to Whistler. Al spent the first few years working in the Whistler Blackcomb retail warehouse, skiing with joy like his father had taught him and spending his wallet at The Boot Pub. Al was tenacious, stubborn and brave, with an iron will and a compassionate heart – and 27 years ago, that strength and determination saved his life when he took his last sip of alcohol at a 54-40 concert in Vancouver. Al never looked back (even when he was dropping into your line at the top of Fissile or Oboe). He replaced late nights at the bar with first chair every morning. He invested in the slopeside, four-wheeled, ski-in-ski-out luxury of Lot 8 (a van), bought a mountain bike and became the unofficial ambassador of gnar, stoke and getting the goods.

At the turn of the century Al met his future wife, Heather Paul over the phone when they both worked at Whistler Blackcomb. She was the only person he would stop and wait for mid-run, or skip a powder day with the rebel gang to slide around with her. They have been married for 17 years and tethered to each

other for 20 – ever since their eyes locked, tied up in the rarest of breeds: one soul living in two bodies.

Al is the very proud father of his “Little Man,” 10-year-old Colt James Paul. Colt is not only missing his daddy, he also lost his ski partner, mountain bike guide, hero and best friend.

Al was the grooming supervisor on Blackcomb when he was first diagnosed with cancer, and defied prognosis and expectations of the smart doctors by continuing that career, eventually retiring after 25 years of service when his cancer returned. Leaving the grooming team was one of the hardest moments for a man who, if he won the lottery, would still drive snowcat – but he managed to poke his head into the grooming shed most mornings to remark on conditions, or tell the staff his tips of the day (“Dudes. It’s time to winch Peak to Creek”).

Al helped both friends and strangers with contagious happiness. After the effects of brain cancer ended his lofty leadership goals in the mountain ranks, he swapped his fancy golf membership fees for a groundskeeper paycheck and all the free golf he could find. Al spent five wonderful years at Nicklaus North Golf Club, where he met so many new tee time partners and always felt like family.

Al left the world the way he lived in it, on his own terms and with his wife and son by his side. “Armed with will, and determination and grace too.”

He is neck deep in powder now, or shooting the round of his life with any angel lucky enough to join him.

Al wanted everyone to know that life is beautiful, worth every adventure you say yes to, and a perfect day can be as large as a long walk up a mountain or as simple as a movie day on the couch with the people you love. Also (and he really can’t stress this enough): He was the best skier on the mountain.

Al Paul. Husband, father, son, brother, uncle, legend, Dude.

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Local riders set to hit the trails at Crankworx Innsbruck MANY LOCAL MOUNTAIN BIKERS HAVE MADE THE TRIP OVERSEAS TO COMPETE IN CRANKWORX INNSBRUCK

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE START of June came with some bad news for local mountain-bike fans as the Whistler leg of Crankworx was cancelled for the second year in a row.

According to managing director of Crankworx, Darren Kinnaird, missing out on another year of the event in Whistler is a huge letdown, but focus has already shifted to making the 2022 mountain biking festival bigger and better.

“I think in general the feedback that we’ve gotten from a lot of the athletes and media and industry has been just disappointment, but they are all so excited about coming back next year,” said Kinnaird. “[Crankworx 2022] is going to be the 10th Redbull Joyride, so that’s going to be something we are really looking forward to. Everyone is super excited and eagerly looking forward to coming back in 2022 and we can’t wait either.”

Despite no Whistler leg, Crankworx is still a go internationally with two stops this year starting this week in Innsbruck, Austria and ending the season in Rotorua,

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New Zealand in November.

The Innsbruck leg got underway Wednesday, June 16 with one of the biggest collections of pro athletes ever seen at a Crankworx event, with the 14 topranked riders all slated to race, according to Kinnaird.

Included in the field is a lot of local

•Tegan Cruz, 15, Pemberton; RockShox Trek Race Team

Crankworx since Kidsworx back in, I’d like to say 2017.

Here’s what they had to say: Pique: How long have you been competing in Crankworx and World Cups?

GEORGIA ASTLE: Crankworx was kind of the

Pique: What are your expectations for the course in Innsbruck?

GA: I’ve not ridden in Innsbruck before, and I’m really interested to see what all the courses are like! Especially the dual slalom track. I tend to do better on the more gravity-oriented ones with some grass turns to spice up the finish.

“Pretty sad to miss another Crankworx at home. But it’ll make the next one that much better.”

- GEORGIA ASTLE

talent who made the trip over to Europe to compete in both the World Cup circuit and Crankworx. While we couldn’t get in touch with every B.C. rider competing in Austria, Pique was able to catch up with a handful of Sea to Sky born-and-raised riders who will be competing in the event, including: •Georgia Astle, 23, Whistler; Devinci Global Racing •Lucas Cruz, 19, Pemberton; Norco Factory Team •Seth Sherlock, 18, Squamish; Intense Factory Racing •Jackson Goldstone, 17, Squamish; Miranda Factory Team

start of it for me. I was new to racing and was able to have one of the biggest bike festivals around in my own hometown.

Nothing beats that!

LUCAS CRUZ: Maybe since I was like 15, I think, for Crankworx Whistler. The first time I went to Crankworx Innsbruck was in 2017.

SETH SHERLOCK: Crankworx I’ve been competing probably since I was 13. I think I raced Crankworx in Whistler a year before I could race BC Cups and all that. And then I’ve been racing World Cups since 2019.

TEGAN CRUZ: I have been competing in

SS: The course looks pretty cool honestly, I think they made a new one last year and it looks super fun, I’m excited to check it out.

JACKSON GOLDSTONE: I’ve ridden Innsbruck’s DH course before, and it was amazing. It was an awesome race back in 2019, hoping it’s going to be just the same!

TC: From what I’ve seen through GoPro videos, it seems to be a really fun, fast track.

Pique: What are the feelings on not being able to compete at home this year?

GA: Pretty sad to miss another Crankworx at home. But it’ll make the next one that much better.

SS: Yeah it’s a bummer for sure. It’s always fun at Crankworx Whistler. Hopefully it will be back next year.

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JG: It’s always sad not being able to ride at home but I’m hoping it’s going to be back for 2022 and I’ll be able to race Crankworx at home just like old times.

TC: Definitely a little disappointed to not be competing on the home turf but just happy to be able to get back to racing after last year, where I wasn’t able to compete.

Pique: You must be excited to at least be able to race at all this year though?

GA: Extremely! So happy things are starting to go back to normal.

LC: Yeah, definitely just taking advantage of the opportunity to be over here in Europe again and get some more racing under my belt.

SS: It’s so great. Like last year we did do a tiny bit of racing in Europe, but it was all in like October, so it was super cold and muddy and pretty gross. It was cool but it’s way nicer this year, and we have a lot more races going on.

JG: I can’t wait to race this year, I’ve been putting in a lot of work in the off-season and I am ready to prove myself and see what I can do on the big stage!

Pique: What are your goals for your time over in Europe?

GA: I’d love to have the confidence to hit the Whip-Off jump and the speed and style course as well. I love big jumps, but it’s hard coming from a big gap of not riding anything similar.

LC: I’d like to definitely back up my win at the last Dual Slalom. And then the downhill, there will definitely be some heavy hitters there so top 10 would be amazing for sure.

SS: This year is my first year in elite actually, so I’m not in juniors anymore so that’s going to be a big step up and a big step down in results, really. So I’m hoping for some top 30’s at the World Cup, maybe some top 20’s and ideally top 15 or top 10 at Crankworx.

JG: The main goal for every event is to do the best possible but I’m going to try to ride at the best of my abilities and I’ll be happy with whatever result comes.

TC: A little different than normal years not knowing the competition I’m going into, but just more excited to work on my skills as well as hopefully landing on the podium.

Pique: What’s it like being over there with so many familiar faces from home, and what’s the dynamic like between all of you when you are at an international event like this?

GA: Always a relief and extra fun having the familiar faces around. Definitely some friendly competition, but everyone deserves a chance at the top step.

LC: It’s really good to see everybody here.

Just excited to be back racing with them, like old times. I think the vibe between all the Canadians is really strong and we’re all rooting for each other. So it’s definitely

competitive because that’s what we’re here to do but there’s nothing over the top and we’re all just really enjoying ourselves and what we love doing.

SS: Pretty cool to see all these familiar faces, it’s like being at home in a way. I think because we race the clock more than anything I think downhill is a lot more friendly with each other than some other more direct sports.

We’re certainly competitive with each other, but we leave it on the track. It’s a really cool atmosphere.

JG: It’s cool seeing all my friends from back home competing against me and it’s always a fun time seeing who does the best. In a competitive situation it’s always every man for himself but we’re all friends so there’s never any issues.

TC: It’s definitely nice having friends who I raced and competed with back home as well as my brother, of course, and it’s just cool to see that we are all doing what we love, travelling and competing. It’s awesome to see. But in the end, we’re all buddies and we just love racing and are happy for each other.

Pique: Outside of personal success, what’s the best-case scenario for Innsbruck?

GA: Full confidence and having a sick time on the bike. It’s so important for my riding that I’m having fun. It fully translates into my racing and style on the bike.

LC: Just really excited to get racing again and get some more experience, [and] just be logging miles on the downhill bike and getting ready for all the next World Cups.

JG: Have a good experience in Europe and race hard!

TC: Not even landing on the podium or having a good result just more getting back into the feel of racing, especially for me. Because it feels like it’s been a while and I’m excited to get back into that groove.

Pique: What’s it like riding out there compared to home?

LC: Terrain-wise, it’s different everywhere that we go. And the dirt, it’s a lot more slippery in the wet compared to Whistler, so it’s always a fun time once there’s a bit of moisture on the track. These are pretty legendary tracks that we’re going to, so it’s definitely cool to be riding and racing those again.

SS: Top maybe two thirds of the course is kind of bike parky, similar to Whistler, but there’s a couple tricky tech sections that make it pretty difficult still, and then there’s a big-jump section that’s super fast and super flowy and then it drops into this crazy bottom woods that’s like a mud bog right now. It’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever ridden, it’s insane. Like way more difficult than anything at home.

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JG: It’s great being able to ride all around the world and it’s hard to compare to home. It’s cool to see all the different cultures and trails around the world.n

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Momentum Ski Camps looking ahead to 2022 WITH THE PANDEMIC LINGERING, WHISTLER BLACKCOMB ANNOUNCED HORSTMAN GLACIER WILL NOT BE OPEN THIS SUMMER

BY HARRISON BROOKS LAST WEEK— for the second year in a row—Whistler Blackcomb announced the Horstman Glacier will not be in operation for summer ski camps this year.

This news came as a crushing blow to local business, Momentum Ski Camps, which was heading into its 30th anniversary of summer ski camps this year.

Combine that with Whistler’s great snow year and this is hard news to handle for camp director John Smart.

“The first year this happened was pretty devastating,” he said. “Two years in a row is that much more crushing. We were really hopeful that this pandemic wouldn’t last that long and then when that third wave hit it changed the stakes for everyone.

“It’s pretty devastating for us as a business, obviously, but also for the whole sport and the hundreds of kids that rely on coming out here every summer. This year, with the Olympics coming up, was the last chance for the national teams to train and we had the national mogul team, slopestyle [ski] team, slopestyle [snowboard] team and the snowboard cross team all relying on coming out and training with us this summer.”

According to Marc Riddell, west coast director of communications for Vail Resorts, with the pandemic dragging on longer than anyone anticipated, the mountain didn’t have enough time to properly prepare for glacier use this year.

“Given the state of the pandemic, and our recent business closure, we have made

“We keep hearing that rumour all the time,” said Smart. “The mountain doesn’t know where it comes from, we don’t know where it comes from. Mt. Hood’s not shutting down this year and we are, so people are drawing conclusions that there is more to it, but there isn’t.

“There is no question that [the glacier] is

“We’re not giving up, we will survive” - JOHN SMART

the difficult decision not to offer summer glacier skiing to the public and thirdparty businesses who usually operate on the Horstman Glacier,” Riddell said in an emailed statement.

“We look forward to welcoming the public and campers back to the glacier next summer.”

However, with other similar summer ski camp programs, like the one in Mt. Hood, Oregon, being in operation for the past two summers, a rumour has started circulating that the Horstman Glacier is no longer useable due to melting. But both Riddell and Smart believe that is entirely untrue.

receding, however, we’ve got so much better at managing. We work with incredible Cat drivers, and we push the snow around in a way that we can operate. There’s always so much snow in June and July that that’s never a problem.”

A large portion of Momentum’s business comes from these summer ski camps that tailor to elite skiers and snowboarders and employ some of the best coaches in the world. But despite the huge blow to business two years in a row, Momentum isn’t going anywhere and is focused on coming back stronger than ever next year.

But to do that, Momentum will need

some cooperation and help from Whistler Blackcomb, according to Smart.

“There’s not much we can do; we’ve got to just do what we can. We’re not giving up, we will survive, of course,” he said.

“And that’s where we need Whistler Blackcomb on board to help us prepare for next summer because we have so many good clients and they’ve stood behind us and rolled over their bookings for two years in a row now in anticipation of coming back next summer for a big summer.”

With sights now set on next year, this summer is all about building hype with a marketing campaign, dispelling rumours and getting people excited about returning to the camp in June of next year.

“What we’re doing this whole summer period, is we are talking to people out there who want to see stuff from us and we’re going back into the archives and we’re bringing back old photos and videos of the good times at camp and we’re going to do that for each week over the summer,” said Smart.

“So, we’ve got a whole social campaign that we’ve been working on and we’re going to continually build from there. We got a lot of stuff to showcase, and it really helps us reflect on what we do up there. So we’re looking forward to that and building into next year.” n

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Myrtle Philip Community School embraces pickleball SPORTS BRIEFS: ALPINE CANADA ANNOUNCES NATIONAL SKI TEAM; SUMMER BOBSLEIGH RETURNS FOR 2021

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE WHISTLER Pickleball Association (WPA) has been working with Myrtle Philip Community School over the past two weeks to teach the students pickleball.

Each of Myrtle Philip’s approximately 400 students have been learning the sport during in-school sessions that take place at the nearby tennis courts, when the weather is nice, or in the school’s gymnasium.

The Parent Advisory Council has also bought customized paddles and balls that the school will keep for future pickleball use.

In an email from the WPA, co-president Garth White said, “the students have been ‘pickling’ up this sport amazingly fast” and can’t wait to play with their grandparents over the summer break.

While the program wrapped up this week, there has already been interest from both Myrtle Philip Community and Spring Creek Community School about doing a similar program at the start of the next school year in September.

WHISTLER MOUNTAIN SKI CLUB WELL REPRESENTED ON ALPINE CANADA NATIONAL TEAM Eight members of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club have made the cut for the 2021/22 Alpine Canada national team.

Asher Jordan, Broderick Thompson, Brodie Seger, Cameron Alexander, James Crawford and Kyle Alexander will all be competing for the Canadian Alpine Ski Team.

Meanwhile, Marielle Thompson and Mollie Jepsen will be competing for the Canadian Ski Cross Team and Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team, respectively.

The teams will be spending the spring and summer months training in preparation for next season.

The Para-Alpine and Ski Cross teams will be training out of the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific in Whistler, while the members of the Alpine team will split their training between their home provinces and the Canadian Sport Institute in Calgary.

The Canada Ski Teams will be formally introduced in the fall.

PEMBERTON CANOE ASSOCIATION RECEIVES CANADIAN TIRE’S JUMPSTART GRANT In

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One of the beneficiaries of this grant was the Pemberton Canoe Association (PCA), which received $10,000.

“We are thrilled that we got this grant,” said Carrie Charron, PCA treasurer and board member.

“The club was going out the door, this saved it. It’s hard to get funding during the pandemic, but we are excited to breathe some life into the club.”

The money will be going towards purchasing four new kayaks, a few canoes and extra paddles with whatever money is left, with the goal of allowing “more kids to participate in paddle sports.”

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TaG Cycling is putting on four rides throughout the summer varying in location, length and difficulty, starting with the shortest at three hours and reaching the longest at five hours.

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Earls manager wins provincial hospitality award for exceptional service THE BC RESTAURANT AND FOODSERVICES ASSOCIATION HONOURED CLIODHNA MINIHANE FOR ‘HER PATIENCE AND RESILIENCE’

BY MEGAN LALONDE WHISTLER MIGHT already have a reputation for exceptional hospitality, but the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association (BCRFA) just made it official.

Cliodhna Minihane, a night manager at Earls Kitchen & Bar in Whistler, was among four hospitality workers honoured by the association this week as part of the BCRFA’s “Standing Up for Service” campaign.

To shine a light on the people serving as the face of B.C.’s hospitality industry, the BCRFA put a callout to diners, asking for examples of times where workers went above and beyond while following COVID-19 best practices. During the 12-week campaign,

WINNING IN WHISTLER Earls Whistler night manager Cliodhna Minihane was one of four hospitality workers across the province honoured by the BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association this week. She was selected for her patience and resilience during the pandemic.

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British Columbians shared hundreds of stories to nominate more than 250 servers, cooks, dishwashers and owners, according to the association.

“With B.C. residents eager to nominate a deserving restaurant worker in their neighbourhood, it was difficult for us to select four truly outstanding individuals,” said Ian Tostenson, BCRFA president and CEO, in a release.

Minihane has been working at Earls since September 2019 and in the role of night manager since October of last year. She worked her way up to the position through hosting and serving, after initially relocating to Whistler from Ireland to work as a sailing coach on Alta Lake.

The BCRFA said Minihane was “recognized by her colleagues and Earls visitors for her patience and resilience, especially when dealing with challenging patrons. She leads others with kindness, class, and professionalism, always setting a great example for her team members.”

Minihane said she was “completely shocked” to find out she’d won, considering she wasn’t even aware she’d been nominated for an award.

“I’m new to this whole management role compared to some of the managers

that have taught me and that I look up to, so in many respects, I’m still very much finding my feet,” she said. “I think the COVID procedures and my routine over the past nine months definitely formed a leadership style that I’m lucky to have and I’m proud of having, and one that I want to move on and teach to other leaders. And that’s just patience.”

Minihane continued, “A manager should be seen as a leader and as a mentor, as someone that strives to inspire and create a warm atmosphere for not only the customers but for [staff] too. That’s always the No. 1 goal. It’s nice to know that the leadership style I choose to take is one that matches who I am personally—and that it must be working.”

With the light at the end of a long, dark and challenging tunnel becoming brighter by the day as B.C. nears the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic, Minihane said, “it almost feels unimaginable” to be reopening for business as (almost) usual.

Now, after a full year of being saddled with the responsibility of enforcing provincial health orders and reminding guests to follow them as well, “Work feels so fun,” she said.

“It makes me feel really accomplished to

know that our whole team got through [the challenges of the pandemic], and everyone’s come out of it with such a positive attitude.”

Minihane chalked up the restaurant’s success throughout the pandemic, as well as her nomination, to her “fantastic” team and mentors at Earls Whistler.

“Everyone in that restaurant is someone that I’m proud to call my friend as well as a colleague, so I think that made all the difference,” she said.

Minihane and the other three winners will each receive a Sumac Ridge Estate Winery gift and a $250 giftcard from Save-On-Foods. Also recognized by the BCRFA are Carina Stokes of the Small Axe Roadhouse in Enderby; Mieran Loria from Moxie’s on Yates in Victoria; and Clint Goldsmith at Vancouver’s Water St Café.

“It’s amazing to finally be in a time where we can celebrate, and we feel the stress our industry has been under begin to lift,” Tostenson said in the release.

“I am so proud of this program that acknowledges people that make our industry great—and so thankful that our sponsors shared our vision. I commend all restaurant workers for staying the course and providing great service in these trying times.” n

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Art of the Arctic ARTIST ITEE POOTOGOOK AND PHOTOGRAPHER LOUIE PALU FEATURED IN TWO NEW EXHIBITS AT THE AUDAIN ART MUSEUM, RUNNING THROUGH THE SUMMER

BY ALYSSA NOEL CURTIS COLLINS, director and chief curator of the Audain Art Museum, is standing in front of a drawing of a nondescript building

by Inuit artist Itee Pootogook.

The clean lines and simple colours might be appealing, but there’s a deeper meaning to the piece.

The building depicted is the West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative, a printmaking and stone carving studio founded in 1959 that also operates as a retail centre, gas and water delivery point and community hub in Kinngait (formerly Cape Dorset).

“All of the printmaking you’ve ever seen from the 1960s forward, most of it has come out of this very modest façade,” Collins says. “It really kind of captures the essence of the show. In the ‘60s, the artists would do drawings, give them to the printmaker and then that printmaker would interpret the drawing both in light and colour and the print would come up.

So there’s a massive bank of drawings that nobody’s ever seen because they only come out in the South in the form of prints.”

That’s part of the appeal of a new exhibit at the Audain Art Museum—one of two that opened on June 10 and run until Sept. 6— focused entirely on Pootogook’s drawings.

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coloured pencil and graphite drawings on paper, offering a quiet, contemplative look at Pootogook’s Artic. The retrospective was guest curated by Dr. Nancy Campbell, with both new exhibits organized and circulated by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

The pieces range from portraits to landscapes to scenes of life around his home; a tarp frozen in a compelling shape, the head of a walrus on a bed of rocks with a pair of boots behind it, a group of women

on the back of his head, a mittened hand blocking the sun from his eyes, though the face is obscured.

Collins’ favourite drawing in the exhibit is Electric Lamp, which depicts a light pink lamp against a mint wall, resting on a table, with just the corner of an electrical socket showing.

“It’s a very simple, ordinary lamp, but just the colour combination and this really strategic detail, just placing that little plug

“It really kind of captures the essence of the show. In the ‘60s, the artists would do drawings, give them to the printmaker and then that printmaker would interpret the drawing both in light and colour and the print would come up.”

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stretching polar bear skin. There are also a handful of abstracts.

“The show was organized in thematics and while Itee is not particularly known for his figurative work … we thought that this was a good way to introduce him,” Collins says, stopping in front of a drawing called Untitled (Man With Hoodie and Sunglasses).

As the name suggests, it shows a person in a grey hoodie with sunglasses perched

in the corner, causes a little tension and offsets what was totally a symmetrical thing,” he says.

The second, slightly smaller exhibit on display is Louie Palu: Distant Early Warning.

The award-winning photographer travelled to the Arctic on a fellowship from 2015 to 2018, which eventually turned into an assignment for National Geographic

magazine to capture militarization in the North American Arctic—particularly what’s left over from the Cold War. “The distant early warning system … that was set up after World War Two as part of the listing posts across the Arctic because the threat then was the USSR was going to come over to the Arctic and bomb us into submission,” Collins says.

While the medium is different from the Pootogook show, so is the overall impression of the Arctic. The images capture an outsider’s perspective and, while compelling in its own right, they feel somehow colder and lonelier.

“It’s predominantly somewhat of a documentary-style photographic exhibition, but there are moments in it— like those two figures—that … play against it,” Collins says, standing next to an image of two people, back to back, in green, furtrimmed parkas with red hoods.

The show is filled with snowy, bleak images that are at once beautiful and intriguing. Red-stained snow blocks mark an “X” for a helicopter landing, men in yellow dry suits swim through mostly frozen water during ice training, and a group of parachuters float above snowcaked mountains.

“It’s interesting how this photo documentation plays off of Itee’s renderings,” Collins says. “It makes a nice relationship, but it’s a very different perspective from someone who’s raised there, whose ancestors are from there, versus someone who is parachuting in—just the different approaches to the landscape.” n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL CHIEF IAN CAMPBELL, a hereditary chief of the Squamish Nation, has long been making traditional art.

But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, he finally found himself with the time and opportunity to delve into a different medium—painting.

“I’ve done pieces over the years, but I finally have a studio in my home,” he says. “This year, I thought, ‘Let’s use this space. Let’s put the tools in there I need and finally bring to fruition what I had been envisioning for so many years.’”

What he had been specifically envisioning was a series of paintings that focused on prominent mountains and landmarks in the area, but also illustrated the Squamish Nation mythology around them.

“They’re mountains we see our whole lives and admire their beauty, but few of us know the mythology handed down through millennia—the ancient mythology and history. I wanted to dig deeper into it,” Campbell says.

One example is Mount Garibaldi (a.k.a.

Nch’kay). In his painting, it’s “surrounded by rough seas and stormy weather,” he says.

“People would be wondering, ‘Why is there an ocean around Mount Garibaldi?’ That leads to a description of post-glaciation when sea levels rose at the time of the great flood. For Squamish Nation, it became a haven.”

Campbell had this idea in mind for many years, but after connecting with Arts Whistler to organize a solo show, he finally had a deadline to make the series happen.

“I started these seven pieces around February or March,” he says. “It was

probably around three months of solid painting, which has been keeping me busy during this COVID period of isolation.”

Written in Stone will open at The Gallery at The Maury Young Arts Centre on June 17 and run until June 27, featuring the series of seven pieces. It will also include a dozen mixed media pieces he’s created over the years—some borrowed from private collections for the show—ranging from cedar carving to whale bone carving, textiles, and drums.

“I’ve been studying Squamish Nation tradition my whole life,” he says. “I’ve been wanting to start a resurgence of pieces people wouldn’t normally see; bone combs, war clubs, blanket pins, things you wouldn’t normally see in a gift shop or gallery.”

But his first passion has always been painting—even from a young age.

“I always had that inclination to draw a lot when I was younger,” he says. “I always felt like I wanted to do more with my art.”

Recently, the Vancouver Museum commissioned him to do a painting called Temixw, which depicts over 300 Squamish stories, villages, and ecologic values in it.

“That inspired me to drill down into the map and do the series of paintings focused on Squamish mythology,” he adds.

He hopes the new series is just a starting point.

“Being out on the land as a mountaineer and hunter and having a spiritual connection to the land, it’s exciting for the long term as well,” he says. “It’s a legacy for me that hopefully can teach others and inspire others to look at the richness of Squamish Nation culture.”

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Sea to Sky writers invited to Summer Comeback Writing Contest ARTS NEWS: WHISTLER WRITING SOCIETY LAUNCHES BIPOC SCHOLARSHIP; THE POINT PREPARES FOR BUSY SUMMER AHEAD

BY ALYSSA NOEL THE WHISTLER WRITING SOCIETY has launched its Summer Comeback Writing Contest open to Sea to Sky writers from Lions Bay to Lillooet.

One writer from three divisions will be chosen to read their winning submission at an event set for Thursday, July 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. at a location that’s still to be announced.

Winners will receive a $100 cash prize and two tickets to the event—which is also being livestreamed.

Entries must be a maximum of 250 words and can be in literary genres ranging from poetry to creative non-fiction, spoken word, and storytelling. The spoken word and storytellers can submit a video of their story that’s two minutes or shorter.

The three categories are Indigenous, youth (18 and under), and open.

As for the theme of A Mighty Balance, organizers offered a few questions to spark ideas, including: are there some aspects of your life you’ve found too hard to balance?

What do we discover when balance is lost?

What does balance mean, and do people change if it changes?

Meanwhile, the event will also feature readings by guest authors Joshua Whitehead, Katherine Fawcett, Sara Leach, and Mary MacDonald. Pique columnist and Leslie Anthony will moderate.

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The Whistler Writing Society has announced the details of its BIPOC Scholarship for emerging and established writers.

It’s open to Sea to Sky writers who are Black, Indigenous, or a person of colour and will offer the successful applicant the choice of participation in the Whistler Writers in Residence program, or an all-access festival pass to the 2021 Whistler Writers Festival.

The writers in residence program runs from September to the end of October and brings a published Canadian author in to meet with a group of 10 to 12 corridor writers hoping to bring their work to the next level. Over two months, they get four one-on-one sessions and group lectures on writing and publishing.

This year, the program is expected to be

a hybrid of in-person and online gatherings.

The festival, meanwhile, is set to run from Oct. 14 to 17.

To apply for the scholarship, applicants should submit a paragraph outlining why they would like to participate in the program and include a short description of writing they’re working on to writers@ whistlerwriters.com. The deadline is Aug. 1.

This year, [the Writers in Residence program] is expected to be... in-person and online gatherings.

THE POINT UNVEILS SUMMER PROGRAMMING The Point Artist-Run Centre might have already shared details about its summer camps for kids, but the organization recently revealed more about its overall programming.

First up, the Sunday Artist Sessions will return to offer “a safe and inspiring space for artists to create and connect with artists of all disciplines.”

That runs from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Meanwhile, Sundays at The Point has morphed into the Sunday Concert Series starting on July 4. Musical acts from Whistler, the Sea to Sky and Vancouver will perform an outdoor concert (with tickets sold in advance to ensure safe attendance numbers). Tickets will be $15 for the show or $30 including a late lunch/ early dinner.

The 10th annual Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival will also return on Aug. 6 and 7 bringing live theatre back to the floating stage.

This year, the performance will feature six comedic one-act plays from three different theatre companies.

Stay tuned for additional acts.

Finally, The Point will also host a series of monthly group art exhibits from Sea to Sky talent curated by Whistler artist Lisa Geddes.

Artists include Marcelle Armatage, Jeff Heintzman, Andrea Mueller, Hugh Kearney, Julie Hamilton, Arne Gutmann, Bea Seale, and Geddes, among others. Opening receptions are set for July 2, July 30 and Aug. 27.

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IT WAS A BEERY BAD TIME Paul Burrows picks up his two cases of Olympia which had to last him until the next shipment of beer arrived in Whistler during the provincial brewery strike in 1978.

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Beer woes of Whistler

BY ALLYN PRINGLE THE SUMMER OF 1978 was a dry one for British Columbia, though not because of the weather. In early June 1978, workers at the three major breweries in the province were locked out during contract negotiations. For the next few months, beer became a limited commodity in B.C., including in Whistler.

That spring, Labatt, Molson and Carling O’Keefe, each of whom employed about 500 workers in B.C., decided to negotiate jointly with the Canadian Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers.

Talks began in May but by June little progress had been made and workers at all three breweries were locked out. With few craft breweries in the province and labour disputes with breweries also occurring in Alberta and Manitoba, liquor stores and customers turned to American breweries to try to meet demand. While the Liquor Administration Branch (LAB) imported products through official channels, individuals were not always so dutiful.

On June 14, the Whistler Question informed residents that, “with Alberta now dry, all mercy missions must be directed towards dangerous smuggling operations to the U.S.,” and Maclean’s reported that “Petty smuggling became an art form, and a customs inspector at the Washington border allowed that ‘Canadians are becoming pretty proficient liars when it comes to making declarations.’” (“No rest for the beery,” Dan’l Larocque, Maclean’s, July 24, 1978.)

Within Whistler, the state of beer in the area was discussed almost every week throughout the summer. On June 28, amid predictions that the “near-drought (beer-wise) seems to be sticking around,” the Question reported the supply of local establishments such as the Highland Lodge, the Boot and L’Après like they would sporting statistics, with the Highland Lodge

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“checking in” at 25 domestic cases of beer.

Though the Liquor Store implemented a two-case limit and tried to buy imported and American brands, the Whistler store was just one of many stores in the province competing for a limited supply. By the end of June, the Liquor Store had no beer at all and did not expect to get any in until July 5 at the earliest, well after the long weekend ended.

When the July 5 shipment did arrive, Whistler’s Liquor Store received only 135 cases of imported European beer out of an expected 500. The beer, which was priced between $11.50 and $13 per dozen (between $45 and $50, when adjusted for inflation), went on sale at 1 p.m. and was sold out by 6 p.m., even with a one-case-per-customer limit. According to store manager Dennis Lemarche, a couple of local restaurants tried to circumvent the limit by asking people in the parking lot to pick up a case, but this was quickly stopped.

Through August, rations of Olympia, Schlitz, Heineken and other brands continued to arrive in Whistler periodically, usually selling out within a day or two. In the lodges and hotels around the valley, supplies of American and imported beer were kept on hand, but as the weather in Whistler got hotter, prices were also reported to rise.

Negotiations between the breweries and the union progressed and by the fall employees were able to go back to work.

In the stores, however, a new problem developed; the LAB announced that it had a backlog of about 2 million cases of American beer that needed to be sold before they could begin stocking Canadian brands as usual.

Brands that, during the summer, had been in high demand were put on sale at prices comparable to Canadian beer in an effort to reduce stockpiles in warehouses and stores, but it was not until mid-October, 1978, that Whistler’s Liquor Store once again sold Canadian beer. The summer, however, had changed some people’s habits, and according to the LAB, one case in every four sold continued to be imported. n

ASTROLOGY McKinney Albert Emmett

Free Will Astrology

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries playwright Tennessee Williams was honest about the trickery he engaged in as he composed his entertaining masterpieces. “I don’t want realism,” he exclaimed. “I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people.” I fully support you, Aries, if you would like to make that your goal in the next three weeks.

In my astrological opinion, you and the people in your life have more than a mild need for magic. Your ability to thrive depends on you all getting big doses of magic.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): On my wall is a poster that says, “Avoid the Tragic Magic Triad: taking things too personally, taking things too seriously, and taking things too literally.” This advice doesn’t refer to important matters, like my health or my ongoing fight against our culture’s bigotry. I take those issues very personally, seriously, and literally. Rather the motto refers to trivial and transitory issues, like the new dent made in my car by a hit-and-run driver in the Whole Foods parking lot, or the bad review of my book on Amazon.com, or the $18 that a certain Etsy seller cheated me out of, or the joke about the size of my nose that some supposed friend made on Twitter. According to my reading of astrological omens, Taurus, you would benefit right now from meditating on things like these that you take too seriously, personally, and literally. Here’s Don Miguel Ruiz: “There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I remember wishing I could be boiled like water and made pure again,” writes poet Jeffrey McDaniel. Judging from the current astrological omens, Gemini, I think you could be made reasonably pure again without having to endure an ordeal like being boiled like water. Do you have ideas about how to proceed? Here are mine: 1. Spend 15 minutes alone. With your eyes closed, sitting in a comfortable chair, forgive everyone who has hurt you.

Do the best you can. Perfection isn’t necessary. 2. Spend another 15 minutes alone, same deal. Forgive yourself of everything you’ve done that you think of as errors.

Perfection isn’t required. 3. Spend another 15 minutes alone. Imagine what it would be like to unconditionally love yourself exactly as you are. 4. Spend another 15 minutes alone. Remember 10 amazing moments that you enjoyed between ages five and 13.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): On June 23, 1940, Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely to a family that already had 19 other children. During her childhood, she suffered from pneumonia, scarlet fever, polio, and infant paralysis.

The latter two diseases damaged her left leg, and she wore a brace until she was 12 years old. Nevertheless, by the time she was in high school, she had become a very good athlete. Eventually she competed in the Olympics, where she won four medals and earned the title “the fastest woman in history.” I propose that we name her your official role model for the rest of 2021. May she inspire you to overcome and transcend your own personal adversity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo-born P. L. Travers wrote the children’s books about Mary Poppins, a nanny with magical powers. She was thoroughly familiar with folklore, ancient myths, and the occult. The character of Mary Poppins, Travers said, was a version of the Mother Goddess. But in her writing process, she drew inspiration mainly from what she thought of as the vast dark nothingness. She wrote, “I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.” To generate her tales, she listened to silence and emptiness. I recommend you emulate her approach as you create the next chapter of your life story.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo poet Melissa Broder writes, “Romantic obsession is my first language. I live in a world of fantasies, infatuations and love poems.” I wouldn’t normally authorize you to share her perspective, but I will now. The astrological omens suggest you have something important to learn from being more

enamoured and adoring than usual. If you say YES to the deluge of yearning, you’ll gain access to a type of power that will prove very useful to you in the coming months.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran author Oscar Wilde disproved the misconception that Libras are wishywashy, overly eager to compromise, and inclined to overthink everything. His writing had wit and flair, and his life was vivid and daring. He wrote, “There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” I suspect that one of those pivotal moments will soon be coming up for you.

Be Wilde-like!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Philosopher Simone Weil wrote, “Only the light that falls continually from the sky gives a tree the energy to push powerful roots into the earth. The tree is actually rooted in the sky.” As you bolster your foundations in the coming months, as you deepen your roots, I hope you keep Weil’s brilliant observation in mind. Like a tree, the nourishment that will help you grow the stamina and strength and structure you need will come as you turn to the brightest, warmest, highest sources of inspiration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): To be in groovy alignment with cosmic rhythms, you won’t merely walk, and you certainly won’t trudge. Rather you will saunter and ramble and promenade. You will strut and rove and prowl. Likewise, you won’t just talk, and you certainly won’t mutter or grumble. Instead you will banter, rhapsodize, improvise, beguile, and lyricize. Catch my drift? You won’t simply laugh, but will chortle, cackle, and guffaw. In other words, Sagittarius, you are authorized to imbue everything you do with style, panache, and imagination.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Congratulations on being such a duty-bound, no-nonsense adult. May you continue to ply your dogged persistence and beastof-burden attitude as long as it gets important tasks done, helps you feel useful, and doesn’t make you sick.

But if you do get tempted to depart from the sacrificial path anytime soon, please know that you will not offend any gods or demons. Nor will you incur a karmic debt.

In fact, I believe you have cosmic clearance to dabble with lightheartedness for a while. You should feel free to experiment with fun and games that appeal to your sense of wonder.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy,” wrote poet Charles Baudelaire. What?! That makes no sense. I’m aware of millions of beautiful things that aren’t tinctured with melancholy. California’s Mount Shasta in the late spring twilight, for example. New York City’s Guggenheim Museum, a gorgeous gleaming building designed by genius architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Marmore waterfalls in central Italy. The gardens of painter Claude Monet in Normandy, France. David Byrne’s gloriously hopeful website, ReasonsToBeCheerful.world. I mention this, Aquarius, because I expect life to bring you a flood of non-melancholic beauty in the coming days.

Take advantage of this grace to replenish your trust in life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author César Aira praises the value of escaping one’s memories. He writes, “Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, transforming everything to the present.” I’d love to see you enjoy alchemy like that in the coming weeks, dear Pisces. It’s a favourable time to lose at least some of the inhibitions and limitations you think you have to accept because of what happened in the past. As Aira says, forgetting “makes our lives into a visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.”

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June 6, 2021 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Al McKinney.

Al was the beloved husband of Jill McKinney (Macpherson) for 55 years, brother to Bill, Ted, and Frank, loving father to

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and Chris, brother-in-law to Sue, father-in-law to Laurie , Liz, and Jeff and very proud grandfather to Matthew, Savannah, Samantha, Shea, Emmett, Liam and Harrison.

Born and raised in Montreal, QC, Al was an excellent athlete. He loved hockey and played until he was 80 years old with the Westlake Olejox, and as a young man, played Junior hockey for the Montreal Junior Royals. In 1959, Al played for the Lakeshore Alouette Flyers and helped them win the Canadian Junior Football Championships. Al was an avid handball player throughout his life and played at the Montreal Athletic Club as a young man. Al loved to ski and was an integral organizing member of the Martian Ski Club at Mount St. Sauveur- and also where Al met Jill.This chance meeting led to 55 years of marriage, 4 children and a lifetime of friends, memories, and adventures at Brome Lake, Glen Mountain and beyond.

Al has a special connection to the development of the hockey mask first worn by Montreal Canadiens legend Jacques Plante in 1959. Al’s face was used as the mold for the first prototype of that goalie mask. This story was first published by Dave Stubbs of the Montreal Gazette in March, 2006 and more recently bythe NHL.com in 2019. The prototype of that mold now resides with the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, ON. In addition to owning and running his Life Insurance business, Al was actively involved in volunteer and charity work with the NDG Chapter of the Kinsmen and even served as President for a time. For 25 years, Al was a key fundraiser and organizer with the annual Loyola High School Sports Tournament and in 2004 was named Chairperson and recognized at the opening ceremonies for his many contributions over the years.

After his wife Jill’s passing in 2017, Al moved from Montreal to Pemberton, BC, where he enjoyed mountain life with his family. In only a few short years, Al made so many new friends and integrated into that community incredibly well. Al was actively involved in the Pemberton Valley Men’s Shed Society - a program that works on community projects in and around the town of Pemberton.

Al will always be remembered as a fun loving, social person throughout his entire life. He truly loved being with his family and also loved meeting with friends or just saying ‘hello’ to a complete stranger while walking. Al loved being part of the greater community and his 4 years in Pemberton exemplified this, in addition to his contributions to Montreal life for 86 years prior. Al was kind, generous and well liked wherever he went. He will be sadly missed.

Thank you to the staff at Lions Gate Hospital, Squamish General Hospital and to the Pemberton Community Care team at the very end. We are very grateful for the care you provided to our father. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Ovarian Cancer Canada.

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Do we really want to host the Olympics in 2030?

THERE IS AN UNCOMFORTABLE buzz happening around town. Uncomfortable for two reasons: where it’s buzzing and what it’s buzzing about. The same uncomfortable buzz is happening, to a lesser degree, elsewhere in the province, though more diffuse and coming from predictable sources.

The buzz is enthusiasm about having Whistler—presumably Vancouver as the pointy end of the stick—once again host the Olympics™ in 2030, not that the actual year is important. A number of places are being buzzed about as potential 2030 hosts, including Barcelona, Salt Lake City and

BY G.D. MAXWELL even Québec City.

You may ask yourself who in Tiny Town could possibly want to bring the circus back to town. Without naming names, I’ll simply suggest you look around the table next time you tune in to a council meeting and listen carefully for a buzzing sound.

Other than the fact there are some white elephants in town that could be dusted off and used again for Olympic™ sports, I’m not certain exactly what Whistler has to gain from being a host mountain village once again.

In the fevered run up to the 2010 bid, one of the chestnuts trolled regularly was the notion Whistler wasn’t very well known in Europe and other spots of the world where there may be people who, if tutored about the myriad siren songs sung by colourful locals, would flock like lemmings to our happy mountain home.

While I won’t be surprised if that canard is trotted out again, our pre-COVID-19 concerns about overtourism would suggest the only people unaware of Whistler’s delights are probably tending reindeer in Lapland or performing similarly obscure tasks in similarly remote locations.

It was said, and it came to pass, Whistler would benefit from negotiated Olympic™ legacies. We have so benefited. The Athletes’ Village was a smashing success and a lasting legacy, especially compared to the condo horror show in Vancouver. The land bank for additional employee housing will enable the town to produce housing for workerbees well into the future.

And the upgrades to the Sea to Sky Highway continue to be both appreciated and puzzled over.

But what could the town expect as inducements to put up with the Olympics™ 2.0?

I wouldn’t hold my breath for more money being ploughed into the remaining ugly, single-lane stretches of the highway, although if a future council is a lesser shade of green than the pre-Games council we

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might see improvements to the stretch of highway that runs from the Function Junction bottleneck north, thus laying the groundwork for a working transit system that would support a satellite parking and shuttle service. But then again, we might get stuck with another hydrogen bus fiasco.

And while we may cherry-pick other odds and ends—the ever-fabled Resort Principality of Whistler?—the town largely has the land and tools needed to see us to buildout, assuming such a limit manages to remain in place against the juggernaut of development pressure.

So why speculate about a do-over?

Turnabout suggests questioning why not play it again, Sam? Fair enough.

The principle reason to not host the Olympics™ again is, ironically, principle.

Like FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, and others, it seems international sport bodies—owners—can’t avoid the taint of corruption. There is simply too much money sloshing around sports, enough to tempt even the incorruptible.

Sporting bodies that may have started out with lofty ideals about fair play and sportsmanship have been blinded by power, money and money’s handmaiden, greed.

Those faults are, naturally, accompanied by a higher moral duty applied to those who actually participate in the sports. The IOC, being an inherently political body, has, for example, warned athletes who attend the Tokyo Games this summer that politics have no place in sports and any athlete with the temerity to show any sign of political protest, by action or passive display, will

There is simply too much money sloshing around sports, enough to tempt even the incorruptible.

The owners of the Olympics™, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), may not be so brash as to pass around bags of cash like days gone by, but there are sufficient reasons to believe they are still inherently antiquated, over-reaching and if not outright corrupt, at least willing to be influenced by the profit to be made off their product as opposed to the aspirations espoused in their own codified fundamental principles.

Sport, the outsized patina of esteem it holds and the billions of eyes slavishly glued to TV screens for seemingly any sporting event, is the IOC’s saving grace.

face the organization’s wrath and possibly be stripped of any medals and/or face a lifetime ban.

Naturally, awarding the Games to autocratic regimes like China and Russia has nothing to do with politics.

If athletes were held to the high moral standards of the IOC, performanceenhancing drugs, far from being banned, would be mandatory.

It took a pandemic to make the modern IOC pull the plug on last summer’s Tokyo Games. Previously, it took world wars to cancel the extravaganzas. But the show must go on this summer. Both the IOC and

the Japanese government say so.

The Japanese people, on the other hand, are overwhelmingly against the Games happening. Medical experts are against holding the Games. Tokyo is still under a state of medical emergency. Hospitals are stressed.

What’s the IOC’s position? It would like 300 Japanese nurses to volunteer their services for the Games... instead of working in hospitals trying to cope with sick people.

Oh, the humanity.

But Japan can’t cancel the Games.

Under the agreement to be host, only the IOC has the power to cancel. Does the IOC care about the potential impact on the people of Japan from bringing athletes and others to Tokyo? In a word, no. The Olympic™ charter mandates the IOC to ensure, “the health of the athletes.” Other than such trifles as war, the only reason the IOC would cancel is if it had grounds to believe—in its sole discretion—the safety of participants would be seriously threatened or jeopardised by holding them. Suck on that, people of Japan.

That the IOC cancelled the Games last summer was extraordinary. Despite the clear and present danger posed by Germany, the 1936 Games went forward. Despite the terrorist murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Games, they too continued— clearly the safety of Jewish participants was immaterial. It defies imagination to believe decisions like these were done for the benefit of the athletes.

The Olympics’™ days are numbered.

The history of the movement is too racist, too sexist, too Euro-centric and too corrupted by money to survive in the harsh light of current global uprisings over such inequities.

So why is it we’d even think of asking them back? ■

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WHISTLER CREEKSIDE 2-2010 Nita Lane The largest unit in the complex, unit 2 offers 3 bedrooms plus a sleeping nook, 2 bathrooms, ensuite laundry, a full renovation of the main floor in 2019. $889,000

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WHISTLER CREEKSIDE 1351 Alta Lake Road The Cedarstone Lodge, a 5.7ac estate 2km from Creekside. 4br, 5.5ba, 3-car garage, outdoor spa, wrap around decks, massive fireplaces and landscaping that blends into the surrounding forests. 5,200 sq.ft of spacious living - a sanctuary for generations! $7,749,000

604-932-8899 Rob Boyd

604-935-9172

RAINBOW, WHISTLER 8604 Jon Montgomery Stroll Perched above Green Lake within the Baxter Creek community. Encompassing the finest views of everything Whistler is famous for; the mountain landscape, dazzling Green Lake & Valley floor. $4,388,000

Maggi Thornhill *PREC

604-905-8199

NEW TO MARKET

EMERALD ESTATES 9324 Autumn Place Spectacular 4,369 sq.ft timber frame house with moutain and lake view. House was built in 2010 with 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. Bright open living space with abundant sunlight. Rental suite on lower level. Easy to show. $3,990,000

Ruby Jiang

EMERALD ESTATES 9316 Autumn Place Custom built 3 bed, 5 bath chalet with additional office/flex space and large media room.

Georgeous 2 bed/2 bath revenue suite with own entrance.

Priceless, unobstructed mountain views complete the picture! $4,100,000

778-834-2002 Pierre Eady

PEMBERTON 2041 or 2045 Tiyata Blvd MOVE IN August 15! Brand New 4 bedroom and den, 4.5 bathroom, 2,261 sq.ft. family home.

Double height garage plus 6’ tall crawl space for all the toys. $1,200,000

604-698-6748 Ken Achenbach

Whistler Village Shop

Whistler Creekside Shop

Squamish Station Shop

36-4314 Main Street · Whistler BC V8E 1A8 · Phone +1 604-932-1875

325-2063 Lake Placid Road · Whistler BC V8E 0B6 · Phone +1 604-932-1875

150-1200 Hunter Place · Squamish BC V8B 0G8 · Phone +1 778-733-0611

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604-966-7640

3D Tour - rem.ax/8102camino

#211 - 4557 Blackcomb Way

$988,000

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

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Michael d’Artois 604.905.9337

#35 - 1450 Vine Road

This 2 bedroom 2 bathroom townhome in the popular Peaks complex in Pemberton comes with an oversized single garage, and the ability to park 2 vehicles in front of the unit, allowing space for all the toys to be safely stored inside.

The back deck overlooks a quiet grassy common space with a very private feel to it.

Richard Grenfell

3D Tour - rem.ax/304wrc

#304A/B - 2129 Lake Placid Rd.

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604.902.4260

8102 Camino Drive

$885,000

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604.932.8629

#501 - 4369 Main Street

Sally Warner*

$624,000

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604.905.0737

#12 - 4645 Blackcomb Way

$3,200,000

#209 - 4865 Painted Cliff Road

$2,640,000

Spacious, Luxurious, Rare, 19’ Ceiling, 3br, 3ba, Benchlands with ski-home trail to your door. Own slope side in the Number One Ski Resort in North America and all its’ amenities at your fingertips. Wood burning fireplace for cozy nights, greenbelt for privacy and quietude. Mesmerizing for its ‘flow’, perfect for entertaining.

Darryl Bowie

3D Tour - rem.ax/209snowbird

9102 Portage Road

3.5

604.905.6326

3D Tour - rem.ax/12snowgoose

Renovated, fully furnished Penthouse one-bedroom suite with kitchen and balcony.

This bright and sunny apartment faces south with forested views of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. The Alpenglow Lodge is a concrete building with air conditioning and features an outdoor pool, hot tub, sauna, and workout room.

Bruce Watt

$2,495,000

Beautifully renovated 3 bedroom home in Alpine Meadows with a separate studio carriage house. The 2016/2017 renovations in this 3 bedroom/3 bath home included a new kitchen, new bathrooms, new flooring, in-floor heat in the entry and bathrooms, new electrical, plumbing and roof - to mention just a few items.

3D Tour - rem.ax/501alpenglow

RARE OPPORTUNITY to own a unique lock-off with TWO SEPARATE RENTAL UNITS which generate great cash flow! This unit underwent renovation, including new bathrooms, kitchens, flooring, lighting and heating! This unit is turn-key. Relax in the hot-tub, sauna or beside the swimming pool and then come home and get cozy around the wood burning fireplace.

Ursula Morel*

$739,000

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604.220.5751

3D Tour - rem.ax/270hilton

$1,675,000

#270/272 - 4050 Whistler Way

$500,000

Incredible estate property on the shore of Gates Lake just 25 minutes north of Pemberton.

Get away from it all and enjoy 200 ft. of waterfront with a nicely renovated, lakefront onebedroom cottage facing the dock. The main 1970’s-built log home in excellent condition is positioned to take advantage of the surrounding views and fruit trees.

This dazzling 2 bedroom, 8 sleeper at The Snowbird on the Blackcomb Benchlands is truly one of a kind. This 1275 ft2 Townhome has had a complete renovation that opened the entire floor plan and takes full advantage of the light that 2 decks and 2 patios brings to this end unit.

#270/272 Hilton Whistler Resort is a 1 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 742 sf suite that sleeps 6 (King bed, 2 Double Beds) right next to the Whistler Village & Blackcomb Gondolas. It has a compact galley-style kitchen, two TV’s, large windows, A/C, a connecting interior door. 3D tour at https://rem.ax/270hilton.

Dave Beattie*

Dave Sharpe

Denise Brown*

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604.905.8855

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604.902.2779

3D Tour - rem.ax/222aspens

#2 - 1445 Vine Road

$749,000

#222 - 4800 Spearhead Drive

604.902.2033

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3D Tour - rem.ax/301powderhorn

$1,025,000

#301 - 4821 Spearhead Drive $2,675,000

Looking for that perfect 2 bedroom 2 bath property with low strata fees, low heating costs and air conditioning(geothermal), a back deck offering privacy, sunshine and views, just a short stroll to stores, restaurants, hiking and biking or One Mile Lake to enjoy!

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

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

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

Doug Treleaven

Laura Barkman

Madison Perry

604.905.8626

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