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ANGLERS BEYOND FRUSTRATED WITH ANOTHER SEASON OF CHINOOK CLOSURES

REAL ESTATE REFRESH Whistler’s real estate stayed mostly steady for Q2 of 2021

RESTART REACTION How Whistler businesses are adapting to loosened restrictions

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

26 Fishery closures Anglers beyond frustrated with another season of chinook closures. - By Jennifer Thuncher

REAL ESTATE REFRESH

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eight months with a four-per-cent chance of survival.

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS The most recent heat wave was a brutal reminder that we are facing

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST As the effects of climate change become more apparent, they’re shining a spotlight on the inequalities that continue to exist in Canada.

58 MAXED OUT The recent heat wave made everyone want to get out into nature, but the huge RVs, complete with generators and air conditioning, are part of the problem.

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25 THE OUTSIDER Many crashes in extreme sports are not worth the risk, but the adrenaline rush

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32 FORK IN THE ROAD There are a hundred different meals waiting to be made in Whistlerite Maz Esnouf’s fridge, writes Glenda Bartosh.

38 MUSEUM MUSINGS Whistler’s parks were all planned as part of the development of the resort in the 1980s. One of the most popular parks contains the town’s water park, Meadow Park.

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threatening heat wave—one that appears to have contributed to 719 deaths, according to the province’s top coroner. And consider for a moment that not even the pandemic resulted in school boards moving rapidly to shut schools down completely. That’s exactly what happened in

country, was mostly razed by fast-moving flames. It’s believed that First Nations have inhabited the area for the past 10,000 years. Don’t for a moment think that it couldn’t happen in Whistler. It could. Indeed the ink on Lytton’s evacuation order wasn’t even dry before the flames jumped to the village of 250 people, devastating it and leaving two dead (as far as we know). Of course, there are many lessons in the weather and fire events we are experiencing, but surely we can see the writing on the wall from this? Climate change isn’t just knocking at the door, it has thrown the door wide open and is stomping through. While this may be headline news right now, no one should be surprised. Scientists have been telling us this is coming for decades—I’ve been reporting on this for just as long. The Washington Post reminded us this week of two such reports: NASA physicist James Hansen’s testimony to a U.S. Senate committee in 1988 that “global warming is

“We ain’t seen nothing yet. This is chump change compared to where we are heading.” - ANDREW WEAVER

several school districts a week ago Monday, including in our own Sea to Sky region. The heat wave obliterated records across the western half of North America and then within a blink of an eye, the devastating wildfire season grabbed the headlines. The world was staggered at the temperature record set in Lytton (49.6 degrees Celsius) and just a day later Canada mourned as the historic town, which is one of the longest continuously inhabited areas in the

now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect,” while in 1979, the National Research Council published a study led by the late meteorologist Jule Charney that predicted serious global warming would evolve. “It appears that the warming will eventually occur, and the associated regional climatic changes so important to the assessment of socioeconomic consequences may well be

significant,” he wrote. Over the past decades we have seen severe heat events happen all over the globe, including the heat dome variety we experienced here. (Heat domes are essentially sprawling zones of high pressure at high altitudes that bake the air underneath them.) Europe experienced a heat wave in 2003 and it is estimated that it contributed to 70,000 deaths. In 2016, parts of Kuwait reached 53.7 degrees C. And according to B.C.’s best-known climate scientist, former Green Party leader Andrew Weaver, “We ain’t seen nothing yet. This is chump change compared to where we are heading,” he told the Times Colonist. “We know that the trend is towards dramatic increased warmth. We know Canada is warming at twice the world rate. We know that we expect there to be an increased likelihood of extreme heat as we move forward, but we also expect that the records will be broken on the high end and much less frequently on the low end. “You might not see an event like this for a couple of years and then you might see the next event after this actually is worse than the one we see here.” It’s easy to feel a sense of panic and helplessness facing this, but each one of us must take steps to address climate change in our lives. Yes, it’s true that nations must take urgent action, but so must we. Think about how you use energy in your home and at work. Unplug things, use cold water to wash, consider renewable energy where appropriate, eat meat-free meals, don’t waste food, try and green your commute to work and elsewhere, consume less stuff, invest in renewables and not fossil fuels, get politically active and vote on these issues—don’t forget we are likely facing an election in October. n

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Historic heat wave should be a wake-up call for all of us For those of you who are not familiar with the World Health Organization’s report on climate change (the IPCC report), I can sum it up for you with just a few numbers. (1°) The Earth is now one degree (global surface temperature) warmer than it was in pre-industrial times. That our use of fossil fuels is responsible for this change is not in dispute among climate scientists. And already we see the effects of this single degree change with a growing number of superstorms, flooding, water shortages and drought, massive forest fires, heat waves, and so on. (1.5°) The report is practically begging policymakers to do everything in their power to curb fossil fuel emissions and keep climate change to within 1.5 degrees from preindustrial levels. That degree of change they believe might be manageable. (2°) Two degrees is a disaster for the planet, and the world’s climate problems would not simply double from the present, but would accelerate our problems exponentially. (4-5°) Right now we are on target to hit between four and five degrees above preindustrial levels by the year 2100. This is exactly why climate scientists are freaking

out. Try, if you can, to wrap your head around the difference between one degree—and our current climate-related problems—and the four to five degrees we’re headed toward within the next 80 years. In our own lifetime, and the lifetime of our children, massive, terrible changes are on the horizon. The heat wave we’ve just experienced should be a wakeup call for us all—especially our policymakers. This is not just a one-off. There will be more heat waves, and they will get worse. As Greta Thunberg, and many outspoken activists have aptly said: “Our house is on fire!” We really do need to get off our fossil fuel dependency and embrace renewables and green technology, ASAP. And for those who think we can continue down this path of extracting that black, tarry goo out of the ground and put it in the air without consequence, it’s time to stop ignoring what is happening all around you and listen to the scientists. Randy Block // North Vancouver

“[F]or those who think we can continue down this path of extracting that black, tarry goo out of the ground and put it in the air without consequence, it’s time to stop ignoring what is happening all around you and listen to the scientists.”

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Climate change is here, but it’s not the great equalizer we thought it might be THE WHOLE POINT of curbing climate change is to preserve our planet for future generations, as we’re often reminded. It has become clear that a changing climate is something existing generations like mine will have to deal with, but I still imagined those changes would only be a noticeable issue for future me. The fewdecades-down-the-line future me, who’ll

BY MEGAN LALONDE definitely be reminiscing about how we once filled our vehicles with fossil fuels while stepping into my self-driving car. The Earth is warming and glaciers are receding at alarming rates, but really it’s only a degree here or a centimetre there, right? Lakes still freeze in the winter and melt in the summer. The sun sets at night and rises in the morning. These are things we can depend on. But if last week’s record-breaking heat wave taught us anything, it’s that we can no longer depend on much when it comes to the climate—except change. Experiencing the unprecedentedness of it all felt eerie enough to stir up nervous chills even as temperatures pushed

40 degrees Celsius. But aside from the uncomfortable reminder that the effects of climate change have already arrived, dealing with this particular weather event was manageable. For me, at least. Even without an air-conditioned apartment, staying cool isn’t difficult when your options include heading into an office so cold you need a sweater or spending your days off diving into a glacier-fed lake. Not everyone has those options. As Glacier Media’s Stefan Labbé reported this week, the heat wave likely contributed to 579 more sudden deaths across British Columbia compared to the five-year average over the same period, according to data from the BC Coroners Service. Many of those individuals were found alone in poorly ventilated apartments. Then there are the people in and around Lytton, just across a mountain range from Whistler. They weathered the hottest temperatures Canada has ever experienced for three consecutive days, only to see nearly the entire village levelled by a wildfire on the fourth day. Lytton, surrounded by First Nations communities, might be located in close proximity to Whistler, but the circumstances of our two towns vary greatly. Lytton’s median household income before tax was $50,816 in 2015, compared to $79,752 in Whistler, for one.

When Whistler’s wildfire risk comes up in conversation, I’ll sometimes hear, “they’ll never let Whistler burn down, it’s too valuable.” If Lytton residents can go from spotting smoke to fleeing flame-engulfed homes within 15 minutes, something similar could absolutely happen here. But yes, the preventative work accomplished by the FireSmart program would hopefully make a difference in the outcome. And people are probably right when they say all available resources would be re-directed to save whatever they could of a global tourism destination that pulled in $1.37 million in tax revenue per day, pre-pandemic. Like the advantages of living walking distance from an icy blue lake or an airconditioned workplace, that assuredness of protection is one more privilege that comes from living where we do. Ed Struzik, a fellow at the Queen’s Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, recently compared the treatment of wildfires in places like Lytton to more renowned locations like national parks in an article for The Tyee. “Most rural communities, especially those inhabited by Indigenous people, do not have the tax base to manage the vegetation in and around town as more affluent communities such as Banff and

Jasper do with the federal funding that comes with being located in a national park,” he wrote. “This is one of the reasons why First Nations communities such as Lytton account for 40 per cent of the evacuations in Canada. Their welfare is treated with less importance than those of tourists who spend big money in national parks.” Or Whistler, I’d add. Struzik continued on to explain that those who lost everything in Lytton will likely be compensated by insurance agencies and governments, but pointed out that a fraction of the probable payout would have been better spent making the community more resilient to fires in the first place. This past year has forced a lot of us to confront our own privileges and the inequalities that continue to exist in our societies. As the effects of climate change become more noticeable across Canada, it’s becoming clearer that they will hit lowerincome, rural and Indigenous populations sooner and harder. Climate change will affect all of us. Scratch that—climate change is already affecting all of us. But it won’t affect us all equally, and I think that’s something worth keeping in mind as we consider how best to handle the next unprecedented weather event that comes our way. ■

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLER’S REAL estate market stayed mostly steady through the second quarter of 2021, while Pemberton’s hit historic levels in both the number of transactions and sales value. In Whistler, the red-hot end of 2020 and first quarter of 2021—which saw some of the busiest months of the last five years—seems to have cooled, as the total number of sales fell closer to the monthly average. Local realtors counted 68 sales in April and 73 in May—slightly above the eightyear monthly average of 60, but well below the 115 sales recorded in February and the 111 recorded in March. The average sale price for a singlefamily home in Whistler also continues to climb, from $3,264,947 in 2020 to $3,495,481 in 2021. “Single-family obviously were the hot item, if they were priced right, [but] we saw a flurry of multiple offers on many

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properties … All in all, our market is fairly strong and steady,” said Ann Chiasson of RE/MAX Sea to Sky. “Some of the prices have gotten pushed a little high based on the fact that we had a frenzy and things were very active, and I don’t think our market is going to drop significantly at all, because there’s such a

“People woke up and realized that it’s 25 minutes from Whistler, and you can buy more house for less money, so the price points there are actually creeping up in the single-family home range.” Since 2015, the average price of a singlefamily home in Pemberton has climbed from $641,579 to $1,248,141.

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housing shortage and we don’t have a lot of listings.” In Pemberton, realtors tallied $37 million in total sales volume on 40 transactions in April—well above the previous high of $21 million in September 2020, and the five-year monthly average of about $9 million. “Pemberton is in a whole different league now,” Chiasson said.

The overall average sales value in Pemberton as of June 30 was $886,000—a jump of about 25 per cent from the end of 2020, according to the Whistler Real Estate Company’s Pat Kelly. “Pemberton is off the chain, really,” Kelly said, noting that you can buy a lot and build a house for under $2 million in Pemberton. “You can’t do that in Whistler. So people

are looking further abroad for opportunities.” Developers are working with the Village of Pemberton to bring more product onto the market, which is not currently happening in Whistler except for on a much smaller scale, Kelly said, pointing to projects like the Empire Club development on Nita Lake or the enhanced rezoning process for the Northlands. But with Whistler doing somewhere between 650 to 1,000 transactions per year on average, “adding 30 or 50 or 100 units to the overall mix isn’t going to really change anything,” Kelly said. While Whistler’s activity levels fell about 35 per cent in Q2, the pace of business is still above the historical average, but indicative of the lack of active listings, Kelly said. And demand for Whistler properties isn’t likely to drop off either, he added. “I think we’re going back to [where we were] prior to COVID—2018, 2019, we had a very stable market,” he said. “I think you’re going to see a lower activity level, but it’s still at some fairly rare air price-wise. [And] Pemberton will continue to be very popular for people. It’s still the lowest-priced place to buy property in the corridor, that I’m aware of.” n

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the programs’ September expiry. Meanwhile at Whistler Blackcomb, the easing of restrictions “is still a work in progress,” said Marc Riddell, Vail Resorts’ director of communications, West Coast. Riddell said the resort is continuing to work with Vancouver Coastal Health to determine ongoing safety protocols. For now, guests and staff are no longer required to wear masks, but are expected to maintain social distancing in line-ups with Vail Resorts-owned restaurants still operating at a 50 per cent capacity—though they are no longer taking reservations as they were throughout the winter. So far, Whistler Blackcomb is not experiencing the same staffing challenges that other Whistler businesses are reporting this summer, said Riddell. “We’re able to run the operational footprint that we have here,” he said. Notably for Whistler, Phase 3 of the province’s restart plan also invites recreational travellers from across Canada to come explore British Columbia. While Tourism Whistler (TW) wasn’t able to release final visitation figures for the Canada Day weekend, TW’s senior manager of corporate and member communications Lauren Everest confirmed the booking pace for the Thursday, Friday and Saturday period of the weekend was sitting at close to 60 per cent, as of Monday, June 28—the highest booking pace Whistler has seen since the pandemic began. TW is currently forecasting Whistler’s occupancy to reach 54 per cent, in July and August. That’s comparable to resort’s 52 per cent occupancy last summer, but significantly lower than the 83 per cent occupancy Whistler recorded in 2019. With the Canada-U.S. border still closed and quarantine restrictions in place for nonvaccinated and non-Canadian travellers, TW’s marketing efforts are now targeted toward travellers in major cities like Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton, Everest said. “Our messaging is focused on ensuring that our Canadian guests feel invited and secure in coming back to Whistler, but we’re asking them to do so with a respect for the situation and a focus on responsible actions and behaviours,” she added. “A lot of our summer marketing efforts are focused on content development to communicate important before-you-go information. For example, we want our guests to expect—and respect—safety protocols. We want them to recognize the importance of planning ahead and making reservations wherever possible to ensure the best possible experience, not only for them but also for our businesses too, which are still working hard to ramp back up to pre-pandemic service levels.” n

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Whistler council approves new name for Squaw Valley Crescent COUNCIL BRIEFS: MUNICIPAL FACEMASK POLICY RESCINDED; BE PREPARED FOR WILDFIRES

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLER’S controversial Squaw Valley Crescent will soon have a new name. At its July 6 meeting, council approved renaming the road in Creekside to Chamonix Crescent. The new name was one of three proposed to residents of the street last year by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), along with Cortina Crescent (site of the 1956 Winter Olympics and co-host of the 2026 Games) and Grenoble Crescent (site of the ’68 Games where three-time Olympian Nancy Greene-Raine won gold in giant slalom and silver in slalom). Chamonix (site of the first Winter Olympics in 1924) received the most votes from residents of the street (16), followed by Cortina (10) and Grenoble (5). With council’s approval, the RMOW

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will contact Canada Post, BC Assessment, ECOMM, BC Ambulance Service, BC Hydro, Fortis BC, Shaw Communications and Telus on behalf of residents (who will then be responsible for notifying any other agencies themselves). The Lil’wat and Squamish First Nations were notified of the impending change in January, said general manager of infrastructure James Hallisey, and both nations will be engaged as the RMOW looks to revamp its Road Naming Procedure in the future. “The aim of this process is for more Indigenous language to be incorporated into the Whistler community, which is located on the shared, unceded territory of the Lil’wat People, known in their language as Lil’wat7úl, and the Squamish People, known in their language as Sk_wx_wú7mesh,” according to a report to council. While originally named in the ‘60s for the Squaw Valley Ski Resort (host of the

NAME GAME Whistler’s Squaw Valley Crescent will soon be renamed to Chamonix Crescent. FILE PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS

1960 Winter Games), Whistler’s mayor and council have had many requests to change the name over the years, with people pointing out the term squaw is an ethnic and sexual slur historically used to disparage First Nations women. Councillor Jen Ford noted she was initially concerned about the negative impact to the 79 property owners on the street, “but on further reflection and discussion with a

number of my colleagues I think that this is a great move for the community,” she said. “And I think it recognizes we’ve had so many letters over the last six years that I’ve been on council, indicating the strain and stress that that name causes. And so I’m really supportive of this and I think that this is a good move.” Mayor Jack Crompton agreed, and thanked the community members who

NEWS WHISTLER live on the street for undergoing the “challenging” switch. “But certainly I am grateful to the people, especially of the Lil’wat Nation and the Squamish Nation who have reached out to me personally and to members of council to share the need to have this changed,” Crompton said. “And I’m grateful for their leadership as we move forward and consider naming of other streets and that kind of thing in our community.”

FACEMASKS NO LONGER REQUIRED IN MUNICIPAL FACILITIES With COVID-19 cases continuing to drop and B.C.’s restart plan now in Phase 3, Whistler’s mayor and council rescinded a policy requiring facemasks in municipal facilities at the July 6 council meeting. The policy was first brought into effect in October 2020. Moving forward, the Resort Municipality of Whistler will align with Provincial Health Officer guidelines for mask use. While masks will no longer be required in buildings like municipal hall or the Meadow Park Sports Centre, other measures brought in to minimize the spread of COVID-19 (like facility bookings at Meadow Park) will remain in place for the time being. “Changes at [other] facilities, particularly at Meadow Park, are being considered. A phasing plan for returning

towards more normalized or traditional structures is being worked on by staff,” said general manager of corporate and community services Ted Battiston. “So barring any change in where we are with the pandemic, there would be slow, measured steps in the weeks and days ahead as we shift back to more normalized operations, but in the immediate days ahead, there are no changes that are planned at this time.”

encouraging residents and visitors to take steps to prepare for the risk of wildfires. The recent heat wave has created “tinder dry conditions” in the resort, and the fire danger rating is currently high, said Mayor Jack Crompton at the July 6 council meeting, adding that no fires are allowed anywhere in Whistler, even with a permit. Fires should be reported immediately by calling 911, *5555 on a cell phone or

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As for the return of in-person council meetings at the Maury Young Arts Centre, “planning and logistics are underway and we expect to announce a date soon,” a spokesperson said.

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1-800-663-5555. “I can’t emphasize enough that wildfires are a very real risk to our community, and we encourage everyone to sign up for the Whistler Alert as soon as possible to prepare for that potentiality,” Crompton said. “Your personal evacuation plan is a big part of the comprehensive effort and the comprehensive multimodal evacuation plan.” Read more and find resources to help you plan at whistler.ca/evacuation.

SEWER REPAIR CONTRACT AWARDED Whistler council awarded a contract worth $642,500 to Drake Excavating Ltd. on July 5 for a sewer corrosion repair project. The project includes upgrading five sewer manholes and replacing sections of sewer gravity and force mains between Spruce Grove Way and Nancy Greene Drive on the west side of Fitzsimmons Creek. “This area of the RMOW sanitary sewer system is an important junction where flows from Alpine Meadows and Whistler Village to the Spruce Grove area meet, and is then discharged to the sanitary trunk main,” said capital projects coordinator Samuel Thompson in a report to council. The project was initiated after the RMOW found “significant corrosion” during its ongoing sewer system assessment program, Thompson said, adding that it will replace sections of the sewer system to prevent failure of corroded manholes, as well as prevent further corrosion. Drake Excavation’s bid was the lowest of three, and the only one to come in below the engineer’s estimate of $688,375. RMOW staff has posted signage and created a webpage for the project at www. whistler.ca/services/construction-projects/ sewer-manhole-and-main-upgrades. A temporary detour will be available for pedestrians and cyclists, and the affected section of the Valley Trail will be repaved once work is completed this fall. n

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Nature conservancy seeing demand from private landowners PEMBERTON LANDOWNER LOOKING TO PRESERVE 16-HECTARE PROPERTY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

BY BRANDON BARRETT AS A RETIRED forester, Wim Tewinkel understands the immense ecological value of old-growth forest, an issue that has gained renewed attention through the ongoing blockades at Fairy Creek. “I’m quite aware of the old-growth situation and care about the reduction of low-elevation old growth throughout the province,” Tewinkel said. So, as he gets further into his golden years, and with no children, Tewinkel has committed to ensuring his 16-hectare property, about 25 kilometres north of Pemberton, remains protected for its ecological value for generations to come. “There’s a lot of variation. There’s now a beautiful forest with good-sized trees,” he said of the valley-bottom land. “They wouldn’t be old growth, but you wait another 50, 100 years, it’s old growth. “So it’s just a small area that is there and there are other areas where the trees are not as big, but every little part helps.” Tewinkel is among a healthy number of private landlowners looking to leave an environmental legacy after they’re gone. While she didn’t have specific stats on-hand, Hillary Page, the B.C. region director of

owner. The riverfront property, believed to be the largest intact parcel of private valley-bottom land in Pemberton, is a key grizzly-bear corridor and is protected from future development. Page said that such acquisitions often come with a knock-on effect in the area, as other landowners consider the future of their property. “The Fraser West Natural Area where the Gates Creek and Ryan River properties are, those are two of our newest projects in the area, and [Fraser West] is our newest designated natural area, so we’re just starting to work there over the last three years,” she said. “We have noticed more inquiries and we’re developing partnerships, so I think we will see an increase in securement activity there in the future.” The NCC takes into account several criteria when considering a land parcel, primarily its ecological and wildlife value, its size, and its proximity to other protected areas. The non-profit also has to weigh the financial implications, even if a piece of land is donated outright from the owner. “We raise funds for what’s called a property stewardship endowment, so in the case of Gates Creek, it was a donation, but we have to fundraise about 20 per cent of the value to invest … so there’s always funds available for long-term stewardship

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conservation for Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), said the past few years have seen heightened interest from private property owners like Tewinkel. “We do see people wanting to settle their affairs and leave a legacy that keeps the conservation value intact on their land in perpetuity,” she explained. “I don’t know if I can call it officially an uptick, but we do see it a lot.” Just last week, the NCC announced it had acquired 111 hectares of forest and wetlands near Gates Creek, the result of a partnership between BC Hydro, the province, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, First Nations and public stakeholders that aims to conserve and enhance watersheds that were impacted by BC Hydro dams. Last fall, the national non-profit acquired an 87-hectare parcel of land on Pemberton Meadows Road, along the Ryan River, that it purchased from a private

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in perpetuity,” Page noted. Other non-profits, such as the Nature Trust of BC and Ducks Unlimited Canada, help facilitate the acquisition of private land for protection, while a federal program called Ecological Gifts offers Canadians looking to donate environmentally sensitive land to a qualified recipient significant tax benefits. Since the program began in 1995, 1,610 ecological gifts valued at more than $977 million have been donated across the country, protecting more than 211,000 ha. of wildlife habitat. “That’s an avenue I definitely would explore,” said Tewinkel of the possibility of protecting his land through a nature conservancy. “From my point of view and because I’m a forester, I’m used to looking at it this way: just leave it. One hundred, 200 years, because we’re going to need the old-growth forest there.” n

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Finalists react to Excellence Awards nominations NEW AWARD THIS YEAR RECOGNIZES BUSINESS RESILIENCE THROUGH THE PANDEMIC

BY HARRISON BROOKS SHOCKED, HONOURED and a little embarrassed about being in the spotlight. That’s how Stella Harvey, founder of the Whistler Writers Festival, felt when she found out she is a finalist for Citizen of the Year at the Whistler Excellence Awards. “If you know who I am, I tend to be somebody who is in the background,” said Harvey. “So, it’s an honour to me to be recognized but it’s also, I have to say, a bit embarrassing.” Harvey, who is nominated alongside Dr. Karin Kausky and Yoann Barelli for the award, started the Whistler Writing Society 20 years ago, after moving to Whistler and trying but failing to find an already established group of people that shared her literary interests. “The first meeting had about 20 people in my living room,” said Harvey. “And then after that I started the Writers Festival, which this year will celebrate its 20th anniversary, but it’s no longer in my living room.” According to Harvey, she never started the society with awards or accolades in

mind, it was just about doing something she thought was important for a community. However, even being nominated has reinforced her pride in the work she’s done in Whistler’s arts community over the last two decades. Michael Barton, skateboard manager for the Indigenous Life Sport Academy (ILSA), who is nominated for the Rising Star of the Year award, alongside Padraic O’Rourke from the Fairmont Chateau Whistler and Gizem Kaya from Whistler Community Services Society, shares all the same feelings of shock, honour and pride that Harvey feels about being nominated—maybe minus the embarrassment, though. “Pretty damn amazing, I would say,” said Barton. “Totally came out of the blue, I didn’t expect that at all. It’s nice to be recognized in the community you worked with for so long and just to kind of have that little extra recognition.” Barton was a coach for the First Nations snowboard team for nine years before the program switched over to ILSA to incorporate more sports and more yearround activities for the kids involved. New to the Whistler Excellence Awards in 2021 is the Resilient Business of the

Year award that “recognizes organizations that have adapted their business model and shown resilience during the COVID19 pandemic.” The three nominees are Whistler Blackcomb, the Whistler Racket Club and the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. According to Sarah McCullough, director of community and government relations for Whistler Blackcomb, being nominated for both this and the Sustainability in Action award is a “tremendous honour,” but part of the credit goes to the community that also had a huge part in allowing the mountain to stay open for most of the season. “When you are talking about the Resilient Business of the Year award that was a true commitment from not just Whistler Blackcomb, but also from the community to get open and to stay open and follow all of our health and safety protocols,” said McCollough. “So, we are super appreciative of the contributions of the community to us being resilient and I think that’s really meaningful.” As for Jamie Grant, co-director of the Whistler Racket Club, the challenges of COVID-19 were amplified as he only took over the club two months before the pandemic started. “When I took over, the vision was to

bring the community back to the racket club,” he said. “So when [COVID-19] hit, the big challenge was we were trying to build something that promotes social gathering. It kind of flew in the face of our vision to make this place important and vital to the whole community. So that was the challenge, through [COVID-19] how do we stick to our vision of making this a unique spot to gather and meet people?” According to Grant, through creative thinking, and creative use of their space and perseverance, they were able to not only get through the pandemic but also thrive with the club growing from 40 members to 520 in the last year and a half. The award show will take place virtually on Thursday, Sept. 16 and will be hosted by the Whistler Chamber in partnership with Whistler Community Foundation, Arts Whistler and the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment. Details of how to tune in to the virtual award show will be announced in the coming weeks. For the full list of nominees, read the online story at piquenewsmagazine.com or visit whistlerchamber.com. n

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Corp (WDC) is looking for alternative funding for two new buildings underway in Cheakamus Crossing Phase 2 after missing out on grants from BC Housing— and the result might be more units available for ownership. “We’re dealing with Royal Bank right now on the construction financing … [and] because we didn’t get the grants, we can’t do rental, so we’re going to do affordable home ownership on both those buildings,” said WDC chair Eric Martin. “Which is really good, because nothing has really been offered to the affordable home ownership lists, basically since the Olympics and the bit in Rainbow.” The WDC expects the builds to cost about $37 million, including contingencies. Between the two buildings, there will potentially be 100 new units available for purchase, while the WDC board is also beginning design work on two smaller rental buildings to be constructed on the neighbouring parcel. Once fully developed, Phase 2 will add about 295 units of employee housing and 18 market for-sale lots. The sale of the market lots is expected to generate between $15 million and $17 million, which the WDC will use as seed money to start the two buildings currently underway, as well as to start paying down its outstanding debt with the Resort Municipality of Whistler. “There is no grant money, so we’ve got to inject the cash in to make this thing work, and we also have to do all the infrastructure,” Martin said. “So the only way to do that is to sell market lots; there’s absolutely no other way.” As it relates to the WDC debt, Martin and the three other past board members of the original iteration of WDC recently wrote a letter to mayor and council outlining its history, some of which they felt was overlooked in past presentations to council. In the letter, the WDC directors pointed out that the corporation (an independent subsidiary of the Resort Municipality of Whistler) previously transferred three parcels of land to the Whistler Housing Authority to be used for employee housing that otherwise would have been used to retire the outstanding debt. The RMOW also added the cost of paying out $5,000 rebates to District Energy System users to the WDC’s debt, as well as interest, bringing the total debt load to about $9.9 million. The WDC aims to start paying back the

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debt by selling the 18 market for-sale lots in Cheakamus Phase 2. “That’s upcoming fairly soon, and that’s going to generate enough seed money to help subsidize the affordable housing, the resident restricted housing, and also pay down the debt over time,” Martin said. Meanwhile, a separate letter to council from Paul Boulanger of Whistler Excavations is raising concerns over the tendering process for earthwork in Phase 2. Boulanger wrote the letter after a site visit with WDC board member and Councillor Duane Jackson, expressing disappointment in the “lack of tendering and transparency” around the ongoing site work. “It seems unfair and unfortunate that the largest earth-moving project since the Olympics” wasn’t put to tender, Boulanger said. “Being somebody that was left off the roster, it just feels like a slight to me, and to my staff, and I don’t even understand how it could have gone that way to begin with.” Local contractors Corona Excavations and Coastal Mountain Excavations were invited by the WDC board to submit pricing, budgets and hourly and unit rates before signing a contract for the work. While CME has moved on to other projects, Corona remains onsite working by the hour. “You can’t have too many subcontractors on a site … You need to coordinate these things,” Jackson said, noting that other subcontractors currently working on site include Skytech Yarding and Hard Rock Construction. “You just can’t have everyone, and we picked two [main contractors], and the more we found out then we ended up with a lot of unknowns.” The WDC has three project managers focusing on different areas—Neil Godfrey, Carson Hamm and Rob Laslett— and the board meets every two months, Jackson said. While other aspects of Phase 2, including civil and construction work, are being put to tender, the WDC opted for the hourly approach due to the unknown scope of the work, he added. “We decide, and it’s a team effort … Ultimately you want to go to a tender as fast as you can, but you can’t do it until you’ve got the drawing, and there’s been ongoing discussions with the engineering department, they review the drawings and [make revisions], and that all becomes part of the scope of work,” Jackson said. “And if you go to tender too early all you get is a pile of extras; that wasn’t in the drawings, that wasn’t in the specification.” n

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Lil’wat linguist selected for prestigious fellowship DR. WANOSTS’A7 LORNA WILLIAMS WILL OFFER GUIDANCE TO PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU FOUNDATION SCHOLARS

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Wanosts’ a7 Lorna Williams was recently taking part in a conference at Queens University entitled “Stabilizing Indigenous Languages.” In fact, Williams not only spoke at the event, she served as its inaugural “Conference Grandmother,” which seems a fitting role for a woman who has made it her life’s mission to pass on her acutely honed sense of identity and culture to new generations of Indigenous learners. Now the University of Victoria professor will have the chance to expand on that vital work after she was named as one of four Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellows for 2021. The fellowship means Williams will help scholars enrolled in the foundation’s three-year leadership program “expand their horizons and support them in developing a unique engagement with issues and ideas that are outside their doctoral training,” the foundation said in a statement announcing this year’s fellows. The scientific theme for this three-year cycle is Language, Culture and Identity. “I was happy to be able to participate because of the topic; it’s on language and culture, and then to be able to work with up-and-coming scholars, it’s a good time for me to be able to do that,” Williams told Pique. An Order of Canada recipient and the first director of UVIC’s Indigenous education program, Williams’ has played a crucial role in the revitalization and preservation of the Lil’wat culture and language, Ucwalmícwts, and helped establish Mount Currie’s bandrun school in 1973, then only the second school in Canada of its kind. “Wanosts’ a7’s vast knowledge and expertise will be invaluable to a program focused on language, culture and identity,” said Kúkwpi7 Skalúlmecw Chief Dean Nelson in a release. “Her work has been essential to revitalizing Indigenous language and culture.” Williams career has taken her all over

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the world, and the fellowship will include teaching in New Brunswick as well as South Africa, which counts at least 35 Indigenous languages, 10 of which are officially recognized. “I do quite a lot of work in many parts of the world, and I see the challenges that are faced by Indigenous languages because Indigenous languages have pretty much been treated the same way everywhere,” Williams noted. No matter where she is, Williams leans on the Lil’wat ways of teaching to help others identify similar lessons in their own language and culture. Williams still remembers a time not long ago when Mount Currie was viewed by outsiders as “kind of a backwards community because we held onto our culture,” she said, both due to its geography, meaning the community was relatively closed off from the urban sprawl of the Lower Mainland, and the painstaking lengths generation after generation of Lil’wat

went to in order to maintain their ways of life. “I had the privilege of being immersed in my culture, so I use it as an example to help people look at their own. For example, at UVIC, I developed a course called ‘Learning and Teaching in an Indigenous World,’ and I used the concepts of teaching and learning from Lil’wat,” she explained. “It was to encourage people in other languages to look inside their own language for those concepts. It’s really been an anchor for me, so I share it in that way.” More than just preserving a language, Williams helps students develop a deeper sense of identity and connection to their heritage, work that comes with added significance after the recent reminders of the ways in which this country has sought to brutally and systematically shear Indigenous people from their culture and communities through the residential school and reserve systems. “The work that we’ve been doing in

Mount Currie and the work that we’ve been doing through the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, for example, has been to work with who we call silent speakers,” she said. “Now there are people … who know the language, who spoke the language as young children, but they stopped speaking it because of their experience not just at residential schools … but through [public] schools. There was pretty harsh treatment in the grade schools as well. It just silenced them. They stopped speaking, even though they know the language. “People don’t realize the harshness and the negativity that came with the silencing of the language, so we’ve had to develop and find different ways of being able to do that kind of work. B.C. is pretty much a leader around the world in doing this kind of work.” To learn more, visit trudeaufoundation. ca/updates/news/pierre-elliott-trudeaufoundation-welcomes-2021-fellows. n

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Nothing can stop the Pemberton Secondary School Class of 2021 not COVID restrictions, flood evacuation orders or heatwaves. And we know it takes a village to make it all happen- so the 2021 Pemberton Secondary Grad Class would like to thank the following people and organizations for their support and help to make this year’s Prom an event to remember and a great end to this crazy year. • Piotr and Mary Blachut for hosting at the last minute • Ryan & Melissa Leitch and their team for catering • Marc Cousineau and the crew at Spark Event Rentals • Nelson Drake and Neal Harkins from Centerplate • DJ Julian Hine • Photographers Josh Dooley and Richard Nott • Kathie Watters and McKenna Reck from Cheesebox • Meredith Gardner, Happy Life Farm • Deb Richmond at Westland Insurance • Corrine Graves from The Red Barn, Riverlands (original venue) • GFL Environmental • Sabre Rentals • Event Rental Works • Brad from Coast Mountain Photography • Lesley Clark at Blue Shore Financial Parents: Randy Lincks, Karen Goodwin, Sheena Fraser, Mark and Tam Beaton, Karen Bauckham, Katie Williamson, Sue Murphy, Sammy Losee, Jacquie Fitzpatrick, Patti Nott, Shannon Story, Debbie Sproule, Jo-Anne McKinney, Denise Whitt, Dawn Hunter, Judith MacKenzie and Janet Ochterlony. Students: Lottie Kluftinger, Alexa Hunter, Savannah McKinney-Lincks, March Losee, Skyler & MacKenzie Williamson, Filippo Iorio Kovac, Chris Beaton, Kiana Clutesi, Anna Prohaska, Kieran Nott, Jesse Sproule, Leah Pegram, Reimi Shishido, Rebecca Beaton, Lauren Kish and Heidi Hess And finally, a HUGE thank you to the families of all the Grads and the communities of Pemberton, Lil’wat and N’quatqua who supported the Grads throughout this extraordinarily different year – it has been so much appreciated!!

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Falling with grace AS MUCH AS I hate to admit it, I’m a sucker for the crash reel. I prefer the videos that make me laugh without the victim getting themselves seriously injured (think @kookslams and our snowsport favourite @ jerryoftheday) rather than seeing people in

BY VINCE SHULEY actual pain and suffering. That’s because— like many of you—I have crashed enough times to know that when you feel it, it’s not that funny at all. Over the years I’ve crashed and fallen while biking, skiing, rock climbing, surfing, motorcycling and probably a handful of other sports. The majority of the crashes have been largely inconsequential, where I simply dust myself off and get back to the task at hand. But there have been more than a few where I haven’t been able to get

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up that quickly, when either my body or my equipment (or both) have experienced some trauma. Through luck, I’ve never broken a bone, but my stretched and scarred ligaments have had their share of abuse. Learning to snowboard was probably one of the more painful experiences of my youth. My brother and I were already proud intermediate skiers and laughed off the idea of getting lessons. After a full day of battering from the hard-groomed slopes, and no visible improvement, we got the lessons. Falling is a part of the learning process, a prominent and occasionally painful hurdle while working one’s way up the steep part of the learning curve. But to get seriously injured at that early stage of low-speed and low-confidence in the sport, you kind of have to be unlucky. At this stage, it’s more the fear of crashing and hurting yourself that holds back the commitment to the line, corner, trail feature, jump etc., which itself can cause a crash of greater consequence. Where crashes start to get really scary is when you get to the stage of high-speed and high-confidence—when seemingly small decisions can compound into devastating repercussions. Take, for example, when you’re having that killer run: you’re riding better than you have all year, corners feel

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line is between maximizing the endorphinfuelled fun and taking another week or two off the sport because I got too cocky. I’m not participating in competition, so why do I insist on pushing myself over that line? Sometimes it’s idle peer pressure (“Don’t feel like you have to do it, man”), sometimes it’s a misguided pursuit of self-validation (“I live here, so I have to be able to shred harder”), sometimes it’s a foolhardy quest for a personal milestone (“This season I’m going to ride Filthy Ape and Dwayne Johnson”). Sometimes, it’s just plain old running out of luck. With hindsight being 20/20, I can honestly say that many of my crashes were not worth the risk I was taking in the moment. But that doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking all those risks, there’s just too much I still want to accomplish before I gear down and accept that my sports are in cruise control towards eventual retirement. I’ll dial it back one day. But not today.

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ANGLERS BEYOND FRUSTRATED WITH ANOTHER SEASON OF CHINOOK CLOSURES BY JENNIFER THUNCHER [Editor’s Note: This feature was originally published in The Squamish Chief on May 29. A month later, on June 29, Ottawa announced the closure of nearly 60 per cent of commercial salmon fisheries for the 2021 season—following data that showed the 2020 pacific salmon return was the lowest since 1982—a move intended to curb the decades-long decline of pacific salmon stocks it said is due to “a complex combination of climate change, habitat degradation, and harvesting impacts.” The same day, Fisheries minister Bernadette Jordan also announced the Pacific Salmon Commercial Transition Program, a voluntary salmon licence retirement initiative that offers harvesters the option to retire their fishing licences for “fair market value and will facilitate the transition to a smaller commercial harvesting sector,” the government said. On July 6, the Public Fishery Alliance held a rally in protest of the closures in front of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s Downtown Vancouver office. The story follows as originally published.]

ocal sports fishers aren’t mincing words when asked how they feel about the extension of fishing closures for chinook this season in Howe Sound. The Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard announcement came mid-May that the closure in place last year on Howe Sound would continue, meaning recreational anglers can’t catch either a wild or hatchery chinook, nor catch and release one. “Minister [of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Bernadette Jordan] and the Liberal government have demonstrated that they are not interested in working cooperatively with the public fishery,” said local angler Dave Brown. “We are not a priority. Jordan has turned fisheries management into a political exercise to benefit the current government. She has shown no respect for the advisory process. She is not guided by data, has rejected the low-risk assessment of her own pacific region staff. “She seems determined to dismantle the West Coast public fishery on grounds that remain unexplained.” Brown, who is vice-chair of the Squamish-Lillooet Local

Sport Fish Advisory Committee, said he and Jason Assonitis, of Bon Chovy Fishing Charters, have had productive meetings with regional Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and regular correspondence with the fisheries minister’s advisor, but to no avail. “The process as far as the lead-up to the decision over the course of the reductions ... this year we felt was the best,” Brown said. “We really worked hard to really find out what DFO was looking for to come up with a very sound proposal that had a 99.5-per-cent chance of not encountering any stocks of concern. We went over it in detail and looked over each sample with DFO staff,” he added. “Why do we go to all this trouble?” Brown asked. The DFO did not respond to a request for comment.

MINISTER’S RESPONSE The office of fisheries minister Jordan sent the following statements: “Pacific wild salmon are disappearing, and our government is taking strong, consistent action to reverse that.” The minister said she approved a new mark-selective fishery opening in area 16—portions of Sechelt Inlet and Jervis Inlet—”based on low risk of impacts on wild chinook stocks of concern. Areas 12, 13, 15, and 20 to 25, which were opened last year based on their low risk to Fraser stocks, will open again this year.” “The public fishery is a significant economic driver, and we want to ensure that there are opportunities for them where stocks will allow. This decision was not made lightly, but with the best available science and after consultation, and careful consideration of all mark selective fishery requests. We will continue to take a precautionary approach to all fisheries management decisions, but we know that is not enough,” the statement read, adding that $647 million from Budget 2021 is earmarked for projects that will conserve and revive pacific wild salmon populations. “While we are proud to make this historic investment, the need to do so reflects how serious the decline of pacific salmon

is right now,” the statement continued. “We will continue to work with First Nations, the public fishery, conservationists and other partners to protect this iconic species, and the communities and livelihoods that depend on it.”

SHOW US THE DATA Both local anglers said they see plenty of hatchery chinook in local waters. They want documented reasons for the decision and said the gap in their trust over the government’s handling of the fishery is growing. The Sport Fishing Advisory Board, the advisory board to the DFO, has asked for something in writing that explains why Area 28/Howe Sound was closed. They have never received it. (The board wrote an open letter to the Fisheries Minister on May 21, which echoed and expanded on the concerns of Brown and Assonitis.) “Why can’t we get something in writing? They will give a 10,000-foot answer, but if you are going to close an area because of stocks of concern, at least be able to formally defend it. This can be said about almost all the proposals, there is no formal reason or defence why these areas were closed. This is a tell-tale sign,” Assonitis said. Three years ago, anglers were allowed to keep two chinook a day, had a 15-fish annual limit and a 30-fish limit for fishing outside waters. Now it is down to closures from April 1 to Sept. 1. “We are picking up breadcrumbs compared to what we had before, in terms of access to fishing,” he said. The decision is not supported by data or science, posited Brown and Assonitis—a mantra they have repeated numerous times over the last three years. Both collect fish data for the DFO as part of the Avid Angler program. “We would be the first ones to hang up our rods, but we can see that there should be sustainable opportunities, and that is why we are maintaining this over and over again,” said Assonitis, adding that fishers want to be part of the

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“WE ARE NOT A PRIORITY. JORDAN HAS TURNED FISHERIES MANAGEMENT INTO A POLITICAL EXERCISE TO BENEFIT THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT. SHE HAS SHOWN NO RESPECT FOR THE ADVISORY PROCESS. SHE IS NOT GUIDED BY DATA, HAS REJECTED THE LOWRISK ASSESSMENT OF HER OWN PACIFIC REGION STAFF.”- DAVE BROWN

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FEATURE STORY solution, but see no reason why there can’t be selected areas of the South Coast and the waters around southern Vancouver Island, Howe Sound and Vancouver where they could catch one hatchery chinook and have no impact on stocks of concern. Brown said this option would be sustainable and beneficial for small businesses that rely on the fishery, which are already hurting from the dual blow of the closures and the pandemic. “It would provide socio-economic opportunities,” Brown said. Instead of a strong recovery plan, they said, sport fishers are being held up as “some kind of trophy” to show that they have been taken off the water, to show something is being done. “So, the fish are going to come back, and that is simply not true. The reductions in sports fishing are not the solution,” he said. “It is optics.”

BIOLOGIST WEIGHS IN Misty MacDuffee, lead fisheries biologist at environmental advocacy group Raincoast Conservation Foundation, agreed that just focusing on sports fishers isn’t the solution for stocks of concern and that more needs to be done to help recovery. “I completely agree with that,” said MacDuffee. “It is just one part of a plan. We have to address where mortality is occurring. If there is going to be an acceptable level of mortality for at-risk populations, that has to be worked out and all the fisheries would have to comply with that level of mortality.” She added that the way coho has been managed could serve as an ideal example for managing chinook.

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“There was a limit on how much and where coho could fishery, but not if it is just for fishers to catch them. be caught in the inside of Vancouver Island,” she said. “We need to really define what the objectives are, and if “It is the need for a bigger recovery plan where ceilings those objectives are to recover wild populations then there of mortality are determined for areas, and once that ceiling needs to be the corresponding curtailment of fisheries is reached, that fishery closes. But I completely agree that and restoring of habitat; if that is the objective, then it does need to be part of a plan … The unreported, illegal hatcheries are part of the solution,” she said. “They are and unregulated fisheries in the Fraser are a part of the part of restoring habitat, they are part of restoring relevant problem and we need more selective fisheries through the fisheries and then they are part of supplementing a really Fraser. I agree [with the anglers] that those are important at-risk population.” components.” But, said MacDuffee, there is evidence of stocks of concern in Area 28 and she has seen the reports that show it. MONITORING She pointed to the publicly available report from February, “DFO Draft Chinook Evaluation Framework.” MacDuffee said there needs to be better monitoring of sport It says the Howe Sound, Area 28 decision was based fishing. on an “evaluation of coded-wire tag (CWT) data in the area “We need a better monitoring plan for how fishing is from 1979 to 2019 and DNA data collected from recreational undertaken,” she said. fisheries from 2014 to 2019. “That has always been the focus of the commercial “The data suggest Fraser stocks of concern are fishery: they are under the microscope on meeting the encountered in the proposed fishing area from April requirements of Fisheries, but increasingly it is turning through August, though likely in small proportions relative to the recreational sector because increasingly that to other stocks in the area.” recreational sector is acting like a commercial sector. It is a MacDuffee notes the bigger issue is uncertainty around lot of guides and there is a commercial component to this.” what fish are in the area. The solution, she said, is for the sport fishery to come “Uncertainty around that and the low number of samples up with a monitoring plan that is more in line with a and the rigour of the data collection to date,” she said. commercial plan. “There are scientific reasons for concern,” she added, “How do we undertake the rigour of monitoring that pointing to the study, “An integrated model of seasonal is going to satisfy public and scientific concern? It is not changes in stock composition and abundance with an something they have ever wanted to do,” said MacDuffee. application to Chinook salmon.” “They have always maintained that they were a recreational And MacDuffee disagrees that catching marked fishery … but increasingly they are not just individuals who hatchery fish is the solution. are going out; there are jobs that are dependent on this “It sounds logical, ‘we only want to catch the marked fishery and because of that, it needs to meet the scrutiny of fish’—the hatchery fish —the other problem in Howe a commercial fishery.” Sound is there is a low mark rate. “So you have got to release a lot of fish, potentially, for being able to keep a marked fish. There’s mortality that has WHAT’S NEXT? to be ascribed to those released fish.” The anglers said they will continue to fight the regulations for Howe Sound and Area 28. MARKED SELECTED FISHERY “There is such a significant level of politics in this that we have to continue to stand up, otherwise we will just be Anglers have long called for a 100-per-cent marked selected washed downstream and that is what I think they want fishery for hatchery fish in B.C., as is done in Washington us to do. But the more that this goes on, the more of a state. However, MacDuffee said that Washington depends developed plan is happening behind the scenes from the on hatchery fish for its fishery, thus the extensive marking public fishery. People are frustrated and they are seeing system. through the lies from this government,” Assonitis said. “That is a big issue for British Columbians who want wild The issue is bigger than just our area, said Assonitis and salmon on the landscape — valuing these fish for more than Brown, explaining that anglers are having access issues on just picking them off in the marine environment,” she said. the Skeena, and Fraser rivers, for example. “We are valuing them for their ability to feed wildlife, to “If the government is going to conduct itself this way in spawn throughout their historic watersheds, to be part of B.C., we can see that transferring across the country and we a landscape that British Columbians define as supporting can also see access for other activities being impacted this wild salmon. way. It is not accessible,” Brown said. “If we go down that hatchery road ... it comes at the cost Both men encourage supporters of the public fishery of recovering wild salmon.” to join the Public Fishery Alliance and call their MP and If marking is part of a vast and comprehensive plan of express concern about the fishery, and reach out to Minister recovery, then MacDuffee agrees with a marked selected Jordan’s office. n

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BY HARRISON BROOKS THREE MINUTES. Just 180 seconds. That’s all it took for Whistler luger Garrett Reid’s life to change forever. At 5 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2019, Reid was an Olympic hopeful about to complete his last practice session in Whistler before heading off to Austria to compete in a Junior World Cup event, all while chatting on his phone to some of the friends he’d be competing against. By 5:03 p.m., a seemingly routine crash turned out to be anything but, as Reid spent the next several months in a coma fighting for his life. Doctors gave him only a fourper-cent chance at survival. Fast-forward to today and Reid has made a miraculous recovery to the point of walking, talking and doing most daily tasks without any assistance. But despite how far he has come, the slow rehab process is a source of constant frustration for Reid. He remembers the high point of his career before the accident, but has hardly any memories of his recovery since, which can make it difficult for him to grasp the progress he’s made. “I’m angry,” said Reid. “I missed the Olympics. I made the team for the Olympics, then crashed. “[Rehab is] slow. I want to be better now. I just want to be back with my team.” However, for Reid’s mom Leesa, who has been keeping a daily journal of her son’s recovery and saw every second of the process

GETTING BACK Garrett Reid working with a physio therapist on his road to a full recovery. PHOTO BY LEESA REID

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that he can’t fully remember, just being where he is now is nothing short of a miracle. “I just wrote to him about our day and what happened … who we saw, who he talked to right before. Just letting him know all that stuff and keeping track of all the things that happened to him in the hospital, who came to visit, ups and downs, how I was feeling,” said Leesa. “We’ve gone back and read a lot of it, and we used a lot of the pictures to show him—when he’s not feeling like he’s doing very well—how far he’s come, how many people care about him and where he was and what he did. “[When he was in a coma], I got a video of his toe twitching. And just him being able to move any part of his body made nurses squeal, and I just thought it would be great for him to see the journey he was on.” While Reid’s recovery is going well,

and it would be mostly covered. But then we found out in November that none of it would be reimbursed. Which is kind of a big shock,” said Leesa about the approximately $300,000 in rehab costs they are facing over the next few years. “But you can’t put a price on somebody’s health. He’s a 16-year-old kid, he deserves to be put back to the way he was and not just get back to a normal life. So, whether or not we can afford it, we’re doing it. There is no way that we would not do everything we can.”

“I’m angry. I missed the Olympics. I made the team for the Olympics, then crashed.” - GARRETT REID

there is still a long way to go before he is 100 per cent again. And with that timeframe comes a substantial financial burden for the family, as there is no funding available to help cover the costs of rehab once you leave the hospital. “We started doing all of his paid rehab in May. So we were paying for that, but we knew we would be reimbursed for it

Luckily for the Reids, Luge Canada stepped up and started a GoFundMe to help cover some of the costs of Garrett’s rehab, which has already raised nearly $50,000 dollars in just a couple of weeks. “It’s a difficult position to be in to have to agree to ask people to help us because that’s not usually who we are, but we honestly didn’t have an extra $300,000 just sitting

around to help us with that,” said Leesa. “It’s been heartening to know that people are caring about him and supporting him and want to see him have the chance to get back to full health.” For Reid, being back to full health means getting back on his sled “as soon as possible,” hopefully in time to fulfil his preaccident goals of competing in the Olympics at the 2026 Winter Games in Milan, Italy. And for Leesa, despite being front and centre for the crash that almost took her son’s life, there is nothing she would rather see than him getting back to the sport he loves. “The day after the accident, during the same conversation when the doctor told us Garrett had a four-per-cent chance of surviving, I asked if the brain injury would prevent Garrett from being allowed to slide again. The doctor said if Garrett survives … and he is in good enough shape physically to slide, he would clear Garrett for sliding,” said Leesa. “When Garrett started to come out of the coma and had re-learned talking, our first discussions were about when he could get back to the gym and sliding. “I am excited to see what he can accomplish. If Garrett is able to slide, I will be right there to watch and will meet him at the finish line.” If you would like to help, you can go to gofundme.com and search for Garrett Reid. n

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Conference outlines future of ski resorts in changing climates CLIMATE EXPERTS LED THE WAY IN THE DISCUSSION OF WHAT SKI RESORTS CAN DO TO REDUCE THEIR EMISSIONS

BY HARRISON BROOKS PROTECT OUR WINTERS Canada (POW) is teaming up with ski resorts around the world to amplify the voices advocating for climate-change solutions. Last week, in a virtual conference led by POW Canada, climate-change experts, and ski-resort moguls, all gathered to discuss what ski resorts can do on the front lines of the fight against rising global temperatures. “[POW is] a passionate community of outdoor enthusiasts, professional athletes and industry brands uniting to advocate for policy solutions to climate change. We believe our love of nature demands our participation in the fight to protect it,” said Izzy Lynch, program director at POW Canada. “We want all communities and outdoor playgrounds to be healthy, safe and resilient to a changing climate. We want a future where we’ve transformed our economy and energy systems and cut our carbon emissions in line with sciencebased targets that the world agreed to in the Paris Climate Agreement.” According to Lynch, to reach its goal POW Canada supports a handful of policies that it believes are the most important in the fight against climate change. Those policies include “putting a federally set price on carbon” to reduce emissions, getting Canada’s banks and pension funds on board to lead the way toward “fossil fuel divestment” and “conserving, restoring and managing ecosystems” to find nature-based solutions. The conference couldn’t have come at a more perfect time, as most of the country was in the middle of a historic heat wave that served as an “unfortunate reminder that we don’t have to wait decades in the future for climate change to impact our lives and businesses,” according to POW Canada board member and executive director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Waterloo, Dr. Dan Scott. “A high-emission future does represent a major risk to the Canadian ski industry. That’s not the future we want to end up with. Regardless of which emissions path we end up on, all ski areas are going to have to adapt one way or the other for changes in their climate that they have to work with,” he said. “Most of the Canadian ski tourism [industry], can be made compatible with a net zero economy of 2050. And we need to tell that story so that governments, investors, communities and our public, know we can be part of that solution and be part of the future tourism economy.”

Pique reached out to Whistler Blackcomb, which isn’t part of POW Canada’s resort alliance initiative, for an update on its commitment to lowering emissions. Vail Resorts replied in an emailed statement, in which it said it was committed to fighting climate change through its “Commitment to Zero” program that is operating at all 37 Vail Resorts-owned ski resorts. “At Vail Resorts, we’re committed to achieving a zero net operating footprint across all 37 of our resorts by 2030,” said the statement. “And, across the company, we’ve made significant progress. We’ll be 93 per cent powered by renewable electricity by 2023 and recently reached our 50 per cent waste diversion milestone, nearly a year ahead of schedule.” According to Auden Shendler, senior vice president of sustainability at Aspen Snowmass Ski resort, one example of how they are moving forward in reducing emissions was the building of a completely electric-run, four-storey employee-housing project that engineers didn’t think was possible in cold climates. “When we did this project engineers would say, ‘Oh, you can’t use heat pumps in cold climates, that’s the technology.’ And we say, ‘Yeah? We did it already,’” he said. “So, we’re trying to do that next in Mammoth. We’re going to build a hotel that we think we can do all electric and geothermal.” However, all the experts agree that one example of an emission-reducing plan or technology doesn’t move the needle much. Instead, a collaborative effort is needed by all ski resorts to succeed in the goal of a net zero emissions future. “One company alone can’t solve the climate crisis; it’s through ongoing collaboration that, together, we’ll have the most impact on protecting and preserving the great outdoors,” said Vail Resorts’ statement on the Climate Collaborative Charter it signed with the three other largest-resort operators in North America. “At Vail Resorts, we’re proud of the substantial progress we’ve made toward achieving a zero net operating footprint across our resorts by 2030. Now, we look forward to partnering with these passionate leaders, and the entire industry, to leverage our progress and support many others on the same journey. “As a company rooted in the great outdoors, we have a special responsibility to protect the places we love. Through ongoing collaboration across our resorts and innovative solutions, we’ll achieve our bold goal.”n

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Back on the shelves with Maz Esnouf MORE TALES FROM THE FRIDGE OF THE CREATOR OF WHISTLER’S COOKBOOK CLUB MAZ ESNOUF is one of those Whistler characters who was likely a true-blue local long before she knew it. Originally from Australia, she arrived at the resort 15 years ago to ski big time and teach kids on Whistler Blackcomb to love the mountains and skiing as much as she does. Today, she’s part of the super crew that keeps Whistler’s popular library humming. Maz works at the service desk, plus she heads up the library’s popular virtual Cookbook Club, which she launched during

BY GLENDA BARTOSH the pandemic, and will start up again in the fall. (Meanwhile, check out their Crack the Case Community Scavenger Hunt starting July 12—for kids of all ages.) Last column we learned a bit about Maz and her family, including her excitement over recently being sworn in as a Canadian citizen—virtually, of course, just like the Cookbook Club. Today, we’re jumping into the family fridge, a classic stainless steel Whirlpool with the freezer on top. It’s located in the L-shaped kitchen up a short flight of stairs from the landing of their cozy townhome in Bayshores, a peaceful residential area south of Whistler Creekside. The windows frame the neighbouring greenery and also

MEALS IN WAITING Maz Esnouf has everything she needs in her fridge to whip up meals in minutes. PHOTO BY TIM ESNOUF

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allow Maz and her husband, Tim, to see son Thomas (who, BTW, is five years old, not six as I mentioned last time) when he plays outside in the common area. That includes the community garden where all sorts of good things grow, from potatoes to bulb onions, which Maz is trying for the first time this year. Maz is the perfect guide to take us through the family fridge. Tim has his moments—cooking when Maz is away and doing up a mean breakfast. (“He’s better at poaching an egg than I am!” she points out.) Otherwise, Maz does all the cooking, and it’s not with any reluctance. “You know what? I actually get a lot of love, a lot of joy out of cooking,” she says. “I realized that one of the ways I show love is by cooking and feeding people. So this past year and a half, when I haven’t been able to have people come over and feed them, has really driven me insane.” One good thing did come out of the pandemic, though—her discovery of SPUD Food Delivery, which aligns nicely with all her values about supporting sustainable, organic, local food. It’s a service she still likes to use, along with buying directly from Sea to Sky farmers whenever she can. As for a guiding food philosophy, it’s basically “flexitarian” as Maz puts it—”we go with whatever’s in the fridge.” They have lots of meat-free meals, like the yummy Honey, Soy, and Ginger Braised Tofu recipe she shared last time from East, by Meera Sodha, her favourite library cookbook. She also loves the Little Green Kitchen series, which she used to kick off Cookbook Club, and is all about getting kids to enjoy eating and making more plant-based meals. But the Esnoufs occasionally eat meat,

too, since Maz needs it once in a while to keep up her iron levels. With all this in mind, let’s start on the top shelf, where we find peanut butter and almond butter (the latter suitable for Thomas’ daycare); dill pickles, a half can of tomato paste; and a really big jar of Kalamata olives for Greek salads, homemade pizzas and a delicious egg-andtomato North African/Middle Eastern dish she likes to make called shakshuka. There’s also two giant bottles of ketchup; maple syrup; homemade date syrup (soak a cup of dates in a cup of boiling hot water; add a teaspoon of lemon juice; let it soak, then blitz it with a hand blender); and a giant jar of mayo—her favourite condiment ever. Maz uses it in the usual ways, but here’s a tip you won’t forget: She also uses it to make grilled cheese sandwiches: “You put the mayonnaise on the outside before you put it on the grill, instead of doing butter … A Kiwi friend of mine, Mieke, told me about it years ago and people laugh, but it makes the best grilled cheese sandwich ever.” Next we have a deli drawer with lots of cheeses, good for those grilled cheese sandwiches and more, along with pepperoni sticks for Thomas’ lunch and tofu. On the middle shelf is a President’s Choice cheese fondue kit (“it does the job”); spicy Korean gochujang paste you’ll need for the tofu recipe, above, and can find at Fresh Street Market; Greekstyle yogurt; some Silk Almond Coconut Blend (Maz’s favourite in coffee); leftover basmati rice; sliced bread; and a happy surprise: Two containers of her sourdough starter so she can make two loaves of

bread a week. When she got them she was told you have to name them, so one is called Pierre; the other is Justin. Get it? Trudeaus; two doughs. The bottom shelf sports some Blue Buck Ale, Tim’s fave, from Phillips Brewery in Victoria; that Molson Canadian and forgotten bottle of wine from last instalment to celebrate their citizenship ceremony; leftover banana bread and a tin of Mott’s Clamato Caesar; and some feta cheese, cukes, grapes, flaxseed and pesto. In the produce drawer there’s a lovely assortment of fresh fruits and veggies, from avocadoes to apples, which alone would make a great meal in no time. Now it’s onto the fridge door. And other than some eggs and more milk; a bottle of black currant Ribena—a favourite sugar fix from back in Australia; and cat food for Theo, the resident tabby whose full name is Thesaurus in keeping with a tradition Maz and her then-roommate started years ago of naming their pets for all things “dictionary” (think Oxford and Webster), it’s pretty much a dreamland of condiments for all kinds of good eating. What with everything from tomatillo salsa and Worcestershire sauce to a jar of lemon grass her mom bought to make a Singaporean-style laksa curry when she last visited from Melbourne, you’d pretty much feel like Maz does whenever she opens the door. “There’s always something that can be made out of my fridge!” Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who would feel quite at home cooking in Maz’s kitchen. n

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Francesca Ekwuyasi’s sensuous debut novel is brimming with family, food and forgiveness THE BUTTER HONEY PIG BREAD AUTHOR WILL BE READING AT VIRTUAL EVENT ON JULY 10

BY BRANDON BARRETT GROWING UP in Nigeria, Francesca Ekwuyasi was always drawn to writing. But it wasn’t until her teenage years when she finally saw a pathway for herself to actually become a writer. It was then that she first picked up Sefi Atta’s award-winning novel, Everything Good Will Come, about a young Nigerian woman coming of age in the same Lagos neighbourhood Ekwuyasi grew up in. “It was really powerful to see, ‘Oh, this is allowed,’” says Ekwuyasi, the author of the acclaimed debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread. “I felt similar reading Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. I was like, ‘Oh, a young girl living in Nigeria in a certain culture and a certain time,’ and that was really validating to see because I always wanted to write.” At its core a tale of family, food and forgiveness, Butter Honey Pig Bread should serve as a similar inspiration to emerging writers that have struggled to find characters like themselves on the page. The debut novel is about twin sisters Kehinde and Taiye, and their dreamy mother, Kambirinachi, who believes she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood. By

BREAD WINNER Francesca Ekwuyasi, a queer, Nigerian-born immigrant to Canada, hopes that under-represented writers can find a piece of themselves on the pages of her debut novel, Butter Honey Pig Bread. PHOTO BY DARIO LOZANO-THORNTON

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surviving, Kambirinachi is convinced she has cursed her family, a fear that seems to come to life after Kehinde suffers a trauma that fractures the family in irrevocable ways and estranges the twins from each other. Years later, the three women reconnect, and are forced to reckon with their pasts if they want to move on. Spanning three generations and three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread explores

Forgiveness is an underlying theme throughout, something that has always interested Ekwuyasi in her personal life. “I’m often thinking about forgiveness, because the truth is we’re flawed,” she says. “We’re just supposed to trust that people love us as we are, because often we’re trying to earn it, which is such a nightmare. So we’re flawed in relationships all the time, whatever that relationship looks like: family, platonic,

“Living in a diaspora, I’m so grateful to be in Canada and I feel in many ways like I’ve grown up here, because 23 to 31 [years old] are pretty formative years. However, I feel in many ways like I only live half a life, and then I go home to visit [Nigeria] and realize I only live half a life there.” - FRANCESCA EKWUYASI

the same kind of “diasporic angst” that immigrants like Ekwuyasi often feel. “Living in a diaspora, I’m so grateful to be in Canada and I feel in many ways like I’ve grown up here, because 23 to 31 [years old] are pretty formative years,” she explains. “However, I feel in many ways like I only live half a life, and then I go home to visit [Nigeria] and realize I only live half a life there. I don’t know how to articulate it properly but it’s a distinct feeling that a lot of immigrants and people who have to or choose to leave the places they were born can feel.”

romantic, professional … I think forgiveness is crucial for the survival of any relationship. I think we need to understand what forgiveness is. I need to understand what forgiveness really is, whether it’s wiping the slate clean or making sure we acknowledge this scar and the need to learn from it.” What’s clear from this dazzling debut is Ekwuyasi is first and foremost a writer for the senses, whether she is describing the streets of Halifax, her home for the past eight years, the burning passion of a queer romance, or a sumptuous meal shared by loved ones. In fact, food makes

frequent appearances throughout the book, often as a lead-in to the immensely difficult conversations the three women at the centre of the story are reluctant to have. “Giving someone a gift [like food] is a way to open a door or soften the beginning of something that could be hard,” Ekwuyasi says. “I love to eat. For me, it’s one of the more innately human, intuitive and mundane things we can do as an introduction to a conversation. ‘Let’s go grab a bite.’ ‘I made you a sandwich.’” With her debut novel earning glittering acclaim across North America, including being short-listed for Canada Reads, the Amazon First Novel Award, and the Governor General’s Literary Award, Ekwuyasi says the added attention has been both humbling and “overwhelming, in the best way possible.” “Along with being wildly, wildly grateful, I’m definitely intimidated,” she says. “I’m nervous now that people will find old things I wrote that suck, or when I want to experiment with different forms, there’s the fear of people now having an idea of what my writing is like and expecting the same. No hiding anymore. But the gratitude definitely outweighs the intimidation.” Ekwuyasi will be part of the Whistler Writing Society’s virtual reading event and Q&A, A Mighty Balance, on Saturday, July 10, from 6 to 7 p.m. Also featuring Angie Abdou (This One Wild Life), Hassan Al Kontar (Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life), Bruce Kirkby (Blue Sky Kingdom: A Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya), and Nisha Patel (Coconut), tickets are $10, available at whistlerwritersfest.ticketleap.com. n

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Whistler Children’s Festival returns after COVID-19 hiatus with in-person and virtual events THE 38TH EDITION OF WHISTLER’S LONG-RUNNING KIDS FEST KICKS OFF JULY 9

BY BRANDON BARRETT IF THERE’S ONE rule that stands above all others in Andrea Mueller’s Imagination Station, it’s this: make a mess. It’s a directive the painter and art educator tends to have to drill a bit more frequently as her students increase in age, but it’s an important lesson to take home no matter how old you are. “I’m so proud of the kids. The little guys, they were three and four, so when they heard they had to make a mess, they were like, ‘Heck yeah! I know how to do that.’ The five and six group was a little bit more hesitant at first and I had to do a bit more explaining as to why we were going to [make a mess] and it’s OK if you get some on your clothes,” she explains. “Then the seven and eights took even a little bit more encouragement to get messy and get out of their comfort zones.” It’s the kind of organized chaos Mueller likes to encourage as a way for her students to let go of their inner critic, a voice that tends to grow louder the older we get. It’s also the philosophy underpinning Mueller’s Imagination Station at this year’s Whistler Children’s Festival, which returns this summer after a one-year hiatus due to the pandemic. Prior to the festival, which officially kicks off July 9, Mueller hosted two workshops for different age groups where she encouraged students to make a final masterpiece using a variety of mediums and styles. “We’re painting with feathers and sticks and rocks and all this stuff,” she says. “You can do whatever you want. It’s perfectly OK to colour outside the lines.” That all culminates with Imagination Unplugged, a month-long exhibit running from July 15 to Aug. 19 at the Maury Young Arts Centre that will exclusively feature artworks by local kids aged 12 and under— including the young souls who braved Mueller’s Imagination Station. Local kids who didn’t participate in Mueller’s workshops were also welcome to submit their own work, before July 4. It will mark Arts Whistler’s first live exhibit opening, set for July 21 from 3 to 7 p.m., since the pandemic began. “We’re excited about this, our first official opening in, gosh, almost a year and a half,” says Arts Whistler’s executive director, Mo Douglas. “I’ve got no expectations; I just know it’s going to be highly engaging.” Imagination Unplugged is one of two marquee in-person events, along with a slate of virtual programming, on offer for the festival’s 38th edition. The other, called Family Arts Adventure, is akin to a cultural

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scavenger hunt that will bring participating teams to 10 different public art sites around town with the help of a treasure map. (The maps can be picked up at the Maury Young Arts Centre and at Nesters Market starting July 9.) The winning team earns a $1,000 gift card to Nesters Market, $500 for second, and $250 for third, along with a number of other local gift certificates, art supplies and more. “It takes families to 10 different pieces of awesome public art in Whistler, and then they have questions or riddles when they get to each point that helps them learn a bit more about what they’re looking at,” Douglas explains. The festival also features a variety of virtual events and workshops, including musical performances by Juno winner and iconic children’s entertainer Norman Foote, three-time Juno nominee Ginalina, DJ Ira, as well as storytime and sing-alongs, dance, and science-based workshops led by Professor Science, the Whistler Fire Rescue Service, and AWARE. Organizers have also tweaked the festival favourite Make-It Tent for an online audience, offering a series of virtual Makeit-at-Home workshops for kids to follow along at home. Including a self-guided craft kit parents can pick up in advance, the workshops are designed to spark a child’s creative imagination. “We were working on this before we had such a robust B.C. restart plan, so we had none of the information,” Douglas said of organizing the festival. “But what we did do is create some components of the festival that would work in almost any of those existing health conditions as we knew them, and could allow people to come together in a realtime environment and/or self-directed craft you could make at home.” For more information and the full event schedule, visit whistlerchildrensfestival.com. n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT A NEW LARGE-SCALE mural by local artist Dave Petko adorns the recently opened washroom facility at Whistler Olympic Plaza. The multi-coloured piece stands more than four metres tall and spans all three sections of the backside of the building. Entitled Quartz-Chromatic, it is based on the ways quartz, a mineral found around the Sea to Sky, reflects and disperses light, and features an acrylic gradient of warm to cool tones washing over different plants and animals from the area, such as the black bear, lynx, raven, Douglas fir, hemlock and lupine flowers. “I was thrilled, honoured and grateful to be the artist chosen to paint the mural at Whistler Olympic Plaza. The mural creation process, from conception to finished painting, went so smooth and natural,” Petko said in a release. “As an artist working alone during the pandemic on a public art piece, it was nice to have the community come out, observe me paint and comment on how lovely the piece was looking. Many were amazed at the progress I made in such a short period of time. Being an avid forager and nature

lover, I have spent countless hours in the forests of Whistler and have had encounters with all of the animals I have included in the mural.” The owner of Black Ohm Tattoos, Petko has been a part of Whistler’s art scene since 1995, when he moved here from Ontario and began working at Toad Hall Studios and the tattoo shop. An avid drawer and painter, Petko is a member of the art collective The GuildArts and has a solo exhibit slated to open in early 2022. Petko’s mural was selected by a jury of local art representatives as part of a municipal request for proposals in February. The piece was funded through the province’s Resort Municipality Initiative fund. Check out the mural as part of the RMOW’s virtual art tour at whistler.ca/ tour/160.

LOCAL WRITER WINS SUMMER COMEBACK WRITING CONTEST WITH POEM, ‘BLACK CAT’ The Whistler Writing Society has announced the winner of its inaugural Summer Comeback Writing Contest, local writer and poet Kate Heskett. Open to writers in the corridor from

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at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre as part of the reading event, Let’s Celebrate B.C. Authors, which runs from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. She will also take home a $100 cash prize, as well as two tickets to the event. “It was a VERY difficult decision and I enjoyed reading all the submissions to the Summer Comeback contest. There were many excellent entries—it seems there is a wide variety of ways to interpret the theme ‘A Mighty Balance,’” wrote judge and author Katherine Fawcett in a release. “I loved the way this poem balanced the concepts of domestication and the wild. The hunter and the prey. The high alert

and the lackadaisical. All precariously set along the narrow top of a red cedar fence. I think perhaps cats really are the epitome of balance.” Let’s Celebrate B.C. Authors, a hybrid in-person and virtual event, will feature readings from Fawcett (The Swan Suit), Joshua Whitehead (Jonny Appleseed), Mary MacDonald (The Crooked Thing) and Sara Leach (Duck Days). Moderated by Leslie Anthony. Tickets are $10. Then, on July 10, the society is back with another reading event, “A Mighty Balance: Weighing Action and Words,” a conversation with five authors of nonfiction, fiction and poetry, about finding balance and what happens when the scales tip too hard in either direction. Moderated by Rebecca Wood Barrett. Held on Zoom, the virtual reading and Q&A features writers Angie Abdou (This One Wild Life), Hassan Al Kontar (Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life), Francesca Ekwuyasi (Butter Honey Pig Bread), Bruce Kirkby (Blue Sky Kingdom: A Family Journey to the Heart of the HimalayaI), and Nisha Patel (Coconut). Tickets are $10. Purchase yours for both events at whistlerwritersfest.com/summercomeback-reading-series. n

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SPLASH DOWN Children and adults alike love to play at the water park in Meadow Park, which opened in 1988. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WHISTLER QUESTION COLLECTION, 1995

Building Meadow Park BY ALLYN PRINGLE In 1980, while Blackcomb Mountain was preparing to open and Whistler’s town centre was still in then early stages of construction, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was putting together a plan to build parks throughout Whistler. The Outdoor Recreation Plan it proposed suggested plans for lakeside parks, such as today’s Lost Lake Park, Wayside Park, and Alpha Lake Park, as well as calling for smaller parks within Whistler’s subdivisions. In Alpine Meadows, the plan proposed a park with a playground, softball field, open play area, nature area, bikeway terminus and parking with highway access. Over the 1980s, this suggestion of a park would become Meadow Park. Work on Meadow Park began in the early 1980s with the building up of 11 acres of marsh. By September 1983, though still a work-in-progress, Meadow Park was connected to the Whistler Village by an early section of the Valley Trail and tennis courts had been installed. Despite this progress, the park was still a long way from finished. In May 1984, a feature article in the Whistler Question described the area as “a sorry sight,” with skunk cabbage where other parks boasted daffodils and a brown patch in place of a playing field. By the River of Golden Dreams, however, a grassy picnic site featured panoramic views of mountains. Over the summer of 1984, the brown patch would be seeded and transformed into a field complete with baseball diamond and backstop, the Valley Trail would be paved and extended to the highway, and a playground would be installed near the tennis courts. According to Parks Planner Tom Barratt, the RMOW’s plan with these facilities was “to make the park as much a community park as it is a local, subdivision park.”

The next major addition to Meadow Park was made in 1988 with the installation of the water park. The water park was partially funded by a grant from BC Lotteries and was built by L.A. Systems, which had just finished installing a similar park in Horseshoe Bay. According to municipal parks director Bill Barratt, the water park would offer a safer alternative to lakes for small children during hot weather. The water park was completed by August 1988, featuring water cannons, sprinklers, a geyser, water slide, and “a fish that blows wherever the wind does.” A community event, referred to by some as the “Big Splash,” was put together by the Alta Lake Community Club to celebrate the water park’s opening. Dandelion Daycare sponsored a bicycle-decorating contest, the Rotary Club provided ice cream, the Lions Club brought hot dogs and drinks, and local businesses provided prizes. Children and parents “flocked” to the new facility. The water park continued to be well used by residents and visitors alike and Meadow Park was soon established as a neighbourhood park. In a 2016 post for the Whistler Insider (the blog hosted by whistler.com) author Feet Banks wrote that, “The water park was an integral part of childhood for Whistler kids who lived in the north end of town. With no public transit, this was the closest cool-down option and we made almost daily pilgrimages to splash down the slide, run the spray tunnel, refresh and play Frisbee on the massive grass fields.” The Valley Trail system has been extended and public transit introduced making it easier to access other parks and lakes but Meadow Park continues to be a popular park for those who live in Alpine Meadows and many others. Picnickers can still be found next to the River of Golden Dreams and, especially when the temperatures rise, children and adults alike can be seen splashing in the water park. n

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1 CONGRATS GRADS From left to right (top row) Jaden Tucker, Nelson Fish, Lochy Rode, Aiden Legge, Saxon Forster (bottom row) Caitlin Nash, Midori Holland, Natalie Corless, Ella Crawford and Annelise Aldrich all celebrated their graduation from Whistler Secondary School with a dinner hosted by Andrea and Steve Legge on Monday, June 28. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 2 PHONE FINDER Underwater lost and found specialist Chris Hedges (better known as @glacier_fresh_diving on Instagram) navigated deep sediment and limited visibility on the east side of Alpha Lake to successfully recover Jack Forsyth’s phone and sunglasses on Sunday, July 4. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 PADDLEBOARD PALS Chantel Clayden and Jill Stahr took their paddleboards to Alpha Lake for a sunset float on Sunday, July 4. PHOTO BY MEGAN LALONDE. 4 SECRET GARDEN Whistler might be known for its forests, but there are plenty of beautiful gardens hidden throughout the valley— Gloria Ellot’s is one of them! PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 NEW HIRE The newest member of Pique’s editorial team, Margot Florence Noel-Veres, entered the world on Friday, July 2—right on deadline! Congratulations to her mom and dad, arts editor Alyssa Noel and her husband Darren Veres, and of course her four-legged big brother Chilko. PHOTO AGGRESSIVELY OBTAINED BY PIQUE STAFF.

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writes, “i name my body girl of my dreams / i name my body proximity / i name my body full of hope despite everything.” I love her idea that we might give playful names and titles and descriptors to our bodies. In alignment with current astrological omens, I propose that you do just that. It’s time to take your relationship with your beautiful organism to a higher level. How about if you call it “Exciting Love River” or “Perfectly Imperfect Thrill” or “Amazing Maze”? Have fun dreaming up further possibilities! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The English language, my native tongue, doesn’t ascribe genders to its nouns. But many languages do. In Spanish, the word for “bridge” is puente, which is masculine. In German, “bridge” is Brücke, which is feminine. A blogger named Tickettome says this is why Spanish speakers may describe a bridge as strong or sturdy, while German speakers refer to it as elegant or beautiful. I encourage you to meditate on bridges that possess the entire range of qualities, including the Spanish and German notions. In the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to build new metaphorical bridges, fix bridges that are in disrepair, and extinguish fires on any bridges that are burning. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Académie Française is an organization devoted to preserving the purity and integrity of the French language. One of its ongoing missions is to resist the casual incorporation of English words, which the younger generation of French people is inclined to do. Among anglicisms that don’t have the Académie’s approval: podcast, clickbait, chicklit, deadline, hashtag, marketing, timelapse, and showrunner. The ban doesn’t stop anyone from using the words, of course, but simply avoids giving them official recognition. I appreciate the noble intentions of the Académie, but regard its crusade as a losing battle that has minimal impact. In the coming weeks, I advise you to refrain from behaviour that resembles the Académie’s. Resist the temptation of quixotic idealism. Be realistic and pragmatic. You Geminis often thrive in environments that welcome idiosyncrasies, improvisation, informality, and experimentation—especially now. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote a poem about how one morning he went half-mad and conversed with the sun. At first he called the supreme radiance a “lazy clown,” complaining that it just floated through the sky for hours while he, Mayakovsky, toiled diligently at his day job painting posters. Then he dared the sun to come down and have tea with him, which, to his shock, the sun did. The poet was agitated and worried—what if the close approach of the bright deity would prove dangerous? But the visitor turned out to be friendly. They had a pleasant dialogue, and in the end the sun promised to provide extra inspiration for Mayakovsky’s future poetry. I invite you to try something equally lyrical and daring, dear Cancerian. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A blogger named Bunny-Gal writes, “I almost completely forgot who I was there for a while. But then I dug a hole and smelled the fresh dirt and now I remember everything and am OK.” I recommend you follow her lead, Leo—even if you haven’t totally lost touch with your essence. Communing with Mother Earth in the most direct and graphic way to remind you of everything you need to remember: of the wisdom you’ve lost track of and the secrets you’ve hidden too well and the urgent intuitions that are simmering just below the surface of your awareness. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I can’t understand the self-help gurus who advise us to relentlessly live in the present moment—to shed all awareness of past and future so as to focus on the eternal NOW. I mean, I appreciate the value of doing such an exercise on occasion for a few moments. I’ve tried it, and it’s often rejuvenating. But it can also be downright foolish to have no thoughts of yesterday and tomorrow. We need

to evaluate how circumstances will evolve, based on our previous experience and future projections. It can be a deadening, depleting act to try to strip ourselves of the rich history we are always embedded in. In any case, Virgo, I advise you to be thoroughly aware of your past and future in the coming days. To do so will enhance your intelligence and soulfulness in just the right ways to make good decisions. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Psychotherapist and author Clarissa Pinkola Estés poetically refers to the source of our creativity as “the river under the river.” It’s the deep primal energy that “nourishes everything we make”—our “writing, painting, thinking, healing, doing, cooking, talking, smiling.” This river beneath the river doesn’t belong to any of us—is potentially available to all—but if harnessed correctly it works in very personal ways, fuelling our unique talents. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because you’re close to gaining abundant new access to the power of the river beneath the river. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In formulating personal goals, Scorpio author Brené Brown urges us to emphasize growth rather than perfection. Trying to improve is a healthier objective than seeking flawless mastery. Bonus perk: This practical approach makes us far less susceptible to shame. We’re not as likely to feel like a failure or give up prematurely on our projects. I heartily endorse this strategy for you right now, Scorpio. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a letter to Jean Paul Sartre, author Simone de Beauvoir described how she was dealing with a batch of challenging memories: “I’m reliving it street by street, hour by hour, with the mission of neutralizing it, and transforming it into an inoffensive past that I can keep in my heart without either disowning it or suffering from it.” I LOVE this approach! It’s replete with emotional intelligence. I recommend it to you now, since it’s high time to wrangle and finagle with parts of your life story that need to be alchemically transformed and redeemed by your love and wisdom. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In one of his poems, Capricorn-born Kenneth Rexroth complains about having “a crooked guide on the twisted path of love.” But in my view, a crooked guide is the best kind. It’s unwise to engage the services of a love accomplice who’s always looking for the simplest, straightest route, or who imagines that intimate togetherness can be nourished with easy, obvious solutions. To cultivate the most interesting intimacy, we need influences that appreciate nuance and complexity—that thrive on navigating the tricky riddles and unpredictable answers. The next eight weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to heed this advice. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian singer Etta James (1938–2012) won six Grammy Awards and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Grammy Hall of Fame, and Blues Hall of Fame. She testified, “Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don’t know what I’m sorry about.” Wow! I’m surprised to hear this. Most singers draw on their personal life experience to infuse their singing with authentic emotion. In any case, I urge you to do the opposite of Etta James in the coming weeks. It’s important for the future of your healing that you identify exactly what you’re sorry about. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn,” writes Piscean self-help author John C. Maxwell. His statement is useful, but it harbours a problematic implication. It suggests that you can experience either winning or learning, but not both—that the only time you learn is when you lose. I disagree with this presumption. In fact, I think you’re now in a phase when it’s possible and even likely for you to both win and learn. Homework. Send word of your most important lesson of the year so far. Newsletter@freewillastrology.com

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The subtext of ‘modern’ camping is hypocrisy SOMETIMES I FEEL like a farmer. No, it’s not that my gardens are so large I need a tractor and silo, it’s rather that farmers as a group are obsessed with weather. Understandably so. It’s a rare year when there is just enough rain, just enough sunlight and just enough warmth to make everything grow and be successfully harvested. Most years it’s a yo-yo between doing rain dances because it won’t rain, and worrying about too much rain rotting crops in the field. Recent summers have turned us all into farmers in British Columbia. When it rains it pours. When it doesn’t it burns. One

BY G.D. MAXWELL threatens floods and landslides; the other ignites the supernatural landscape, fouls the air and causes widespread havoc and destruction. A week ago, the temperature at Smilin’ Dog cracked 40°C—in the shade—for the first time in the two decades I’ve frittered away summers up here. That hot is no small feat considering the Dog sits on a high Cariboo plateau at 1,128 metres above sea level (3,700 feet) and is several hundred kilometres north of Whistler. Ironically, just a week earlier, it was so cold in the morning I needed to turn heat on to warm the place up and had spent most of May and June wondering whether the soil would ever warm up enough to grow what I’d planted. The hottest days ever diabolically coincided with plans to join family for a couple of days at a provincial park an hour up a dirt road from us. I have an intense dislike for camping at provincial parks unless I’ve paddled for several hours since leaving the parking lot. Camping at provincial parks—any “campground” for that matter—has marginal appeal. They tend to be crowded, noisy, full of behemoth RVs running generators so “campers” can enjoy air conditioning, iced drinks and TV, and have evening air quality on par with Mexico City as people light up smoky fires to either mesmerize themselves with dancing flames or keep mosquitoes away, likely both. I tried to convince all involved it made far more sense to simply cancel the reservation and stay put where we could enjoy a relatively cool house, very inviting lake and only one neighbour who, at these temperatures, tended to hibernate. No luck. It was on the shores of Lake Mahood, sitting in the shade with my feet in the water and being slowly roasted by a katabatic wind rushing down a nearby hot slope that the musings of Blaise Pascal came to mind. Pascal, a 17th century French philosopher, mathematician and Catholic theologian, argued belief in God was a no-lose proposition. He argued if you

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believed in God and it turned out the big guy-in-the-sky was just a myth, well, all you lost was a lifetime of pointless piety and butt-numbing Sunday mornings. But if you didn’t believe, didn’t follow the teachings of the Church and it turned out you were wrong, all hell would literally break loose when you took your final bow. I grew up in the desert. I thought I knew heat. I’ve hiked in Death Valley and across broken lava badlands in summer’s heat. I’ve climbed slot red rock canyons in Utah. I’ve spent fitful nights lying in my own sweat during torpid July nights in Toronto. I’ve never been as hot as I was on the shores of Mahood Lake. So I told a friend, a somewhat conflicted Irish Catholic woman, I wanted to join her

The people in Lytton experienced Hell last week, with temperatures more customary in Dubai and with the hellfire to go along with them. The whole western part of Canada set records. Ditto the northwest U.S. while the other western states continued unbroken years of record drought. But hey, climate change is a hoax, ain’t it? Trump said so. So have too many others. And even those who believe it isn’t a hoax seem to have some discordant emotions about the whole thing. How else do you explain the changing roadscape? Leaving the very airy tent in which I’d spent the previous few nights at Mahood Lake, and it being the day before Canada Day, I was confronted by a conga line of

Isn’t this the generation that grew up with heightened environmental consciousness? The one who wagged their fingers at the generation of swine—Boomers—for screwing the world up?

at mass Sunday, said I’d even bring my own snacks since I would be ineligible to take communion. Knowing I am a card-carrying non-believer, she said no way, hinting the place would be struck by lightning if I so much as darkened the threshold. But she was curious why I’d want to go. “Because I experienced Hell-lite earlier in the week and feel like hedging my bets,” I explained.

people arriving for the long weekend. Without exception, every single one of them was driving a large pickup truck—threequarter tonne or better—and pulling an even larger trailer, boat or both. It only made sense. With a handful of exceptions, the sites at Mahood Lake Provincial Park were all set up for RVs and trailers. In 30-some sites, I’d counted fewer than half a dozen people with tents. The rest

were fifth-wheels, trailers and motorhomes, many far larger than some of the places I’ve lived in and far more luxuriously appointed. In the permitted hours, the place was a cacophony of generators and whirring air conditioners. Ah camping. Ah the great outdoors. And so it goes. Most Canadians, polls reveal, believe climate change is real and want “government” to do something about it. How to square that with the explosion of RV sales, especially when the statistics reveal that explosion is being led by Millennials, not retired folks as it has been in the past? Isn’t this the generation that grew up with heightened environmental consciousness? The one who wagged their fingers at the generation of swine— Boomers—for screwing the world up? How would they feel if government finally decided it was grossly unsustainable to allow people to buy big pickups and drag cottages to urbanized provincial parks? Or buy quads to plop their expansive backsides on so they didn’t have to walk to the outhouses once there? Or buy their children those cute little off-road motorcycles so they too could be indoctrinated into burning gas for fun and entertainment? No? Too radical? Much better for governments to do something like spend billions more to gear up seasonal fire fighting? It all kind of reminds me of Richard Nixon sitting in the White House during humid Washington summer nights with his fireplace burning for ambiance and the air conditioning running full blast to counteract the fire. Don’t like global warming? Just buy an air conditioner... or an air-conditioned RV. ■

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