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26 The legend of Frank Gott Retracing the complicated legacy and untimely end of the Indigenous hunter, guide and First World War veteran Frank Gott. - By Alyssa Noel
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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Harrison Brooks discusses some of the disturbing truths behind the arrest of an NFL player, recognized for his good works, in a domestic violence incident.
58 MAXED OUT Hosting the current Summer Games in Tokyo illustrates that the International Olympic Committee has little regard for either the athletes or the host nation.
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has not blown into our community … so far. Travellers are returning in droves, and we learned this week that international boarders are opening to fully vaccinated Americans Aug. 9 and those from further afield in September. Everything’s great, right? Wrong.
a snack) I overheard visitors complaining about their visit—not the beauty and all the activities they were doing, but about long waits for service at restaurants and about the attitude of some staff they had interacted with. I believe that all the staff that are working right now are doing their best—we simply do not have enough of them. The trickle-down effect is operations not working at full capacity, businesses closing early or opening late or closing altogether one or two days a week. Owners and managers are frequently on the frontlines 24/7 and, really, employees can call the shots at this point. In the restaurant sector, for example, British Columbia saw about 30 per cent of restaurants close their doors in the last 16 months. The industry employed about 190,000 people before the pandemic began but “straw polls” show about 40,000 people are left in it. This is hardly surprising given the on-again off-again nature of the F&B
“The person at your table, it might just be their first job, very likely it’s their first job. They’re probably a little scared, too.” - IAN TOSTENSON
It would be easy to just settle into a false sense of summer serenity, but we are far from being back on our feet. Whistler is continuing to face serious staff shortages in almost every sector in the resort, from accommodation providers to food and beverage to professional services to even our healthcare sector. Twice last weekend (once while getting a coffee and once while grabbing
industry during COVID-19. Many workers moved entirely into other job fields and the many international workers went home. The tourism industry is desperate for workers to come back. But it’s a hard sell right now as the federal government’s suite of financial support initiatives means workers can stay off work, or only work part-time. I mean who wouldn’t want to be on vacation?
In September the federal government allowed greater flexibility and more people access to the Employment Insurance (EI) program, some for the first time, and more than 3.79 million people have done just that. The price tag? Over $37 billion so far. Meanwhile, the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB) provides for up to 50 weeks of coverage for all workers who aren’t entitled to EI benefits and was extended until late September of this year. Said Ian Tostenson, president of the B.C. Restaurant and Foodservices Association to Global News recently: “A lot of people are still on employment insurance benefits. And, so, unfortunately, they’re working minimum hours and are collecting the federal benefit. “We understand that, but we’re also saying let’s come on back.” Unless Canada is weighed under by waves of COVID-19, which could happen thanks to the threat of variants, people should start to return to the workforce in the fall as their government support dries up. This will be too late for many tourist destinations and the business they support. So, as we travel ourselves, and for visitors reading this while enjoying Whistler, think on this comment by Tostenson who is asking the dining public for patience as restaurants get back into the swing of things while they deal with the labour shortage. “We might be a little slower at times, don’t get frustrated with us,” he said. “The person at your table, it might just be their first job, very likely it’s their first job. They’re probably a little scared, too.” I don’t think it’s a stretch to say we are all a little scared as we look forward to the months ahead. Perhaps we still need to keep B.C.’s Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry’s words in mind, “Be kind, be calm and be safe.” n
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sure there are signs at the main entrance to the area, but you’d need a magnifying glass to read them and who does anyway? Certainly not the dog owners. Maybe large signs down by the beach could alert owners that this is a dog-free beach and direct them to Canine Cove. It’s only a matter of time before some small child is run over by a dog chasing a stick or ball. It’s time for the municipality to enforce these rules before someone gets seriously hurt. Jamie Pitblado // Whistler
Grateful for outstanding care at Whistler Health Care Centre I would like to share my wonderful experience at your medical clinic [Whistler Health Care Centre] in the past few days. I was riding my bike and was stung by a hornet. [I] made my way back to Riverview RV where we were staying and told my wife. Within minutes my face and hands went red and my lips went numb. My wife said I should get on her electric bike and ride to the clinic. We had no car as we were in [a motorhome]. I rode back to the clinic and once inside the door it was not going well. Within five minutes I was in a bed and two doctors and a nurse were helping me. I was there for three hours and the medical attention was beyond anything I had experienced. They were all so kind, caring and professional. The doctor and nurse were so attentive and caring over the three hours. The doctor would not let me go until he had given me a thorough checkover, which even included him calling St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver for an opinion on an issue. I can’t say enough on the quality of care I received. All of Whistler should be very proud and lucky to have this quality of medical service available in their community. Oh and
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Time for by-law to step up enforcement as Whistler gets busier I am truly perplexed at where the by-law officers are to enforce two very simple rules— walking your bike through the village and no dogs on the beach at Lost Lake. Ever since COVID-19 struck and the village became a ghost town, bikers have had free
In the recent story in Pique [July 8], “Anglers beyond frustrated with another season of chinook closures,” Raincoast’s Misty MacDuffee is quoted saying she “agrees that just focusing on sports fishers isn’t the full solution in terms of the recovery of stocks of concern and that more needs to be done to help recovery.” I agree with her, but she goes on to make several confusing and ambiguous statements. She refers readers to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) Draft Evaluation Framework assessment of the Sport Fish Advisory Board Chinook proposals and quotes, “The data suggest Fraser stocks of concern are encountered in the proposed fishing area from April through August, though likely in small proportions relative to other stocks in the area. There is uncertainty around that and the low number of samples”. This ignores key conclusions for Howe Sound Areas 28-1 to 28-5. These areas were categorized by DFO as
reign of the village stroll with impunity. As we see the stroll get more crowded with the return of much needed tourists, I am amazed at how many bikers ride right by the big, yellow signs saying “walk your bikes.” Time and time again I have witnessed close calls between walkers and riders. When will this stop? At Lost Lake, the by-law officers make their occasional ride through the grassy area looking for open alcohol (it’s time to change that by-law BTW!), but nothing is done about all the dogs running up and down the beach.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR “very low” (risk).” It also stated there is a considerable amount of Coded Wire Tags (357) collected over the years between April and July, and it goes on and says the exploitation rate of Fraser River stocks is estimated at less than 0.2 per cent. In fact not all of Howe Sound was going to be open for retention of hatchery chinook. The proposal was data supported and developed with DFO staff to ensure the lowest encounter rate possible. The low number of CWT’s from stocks-of-concern is because you can’t get samples from something that isn’t there! The absence of stocks-of-concern in the Howe Sound-proposed areas justifies a modest fishery for hatchery Chinook. Ms. MacDuffee cites the document: “An integrated model of seasonal changes in stock composition and abundance with an application to Chinook salmon,” as a reason for concern about chinook distribution variability in Georgia Strait. Upper Fraser River Chinook stocks of concern are stream-type chinook that spend an extra year in freshwater, migrate to sea and quickly leave the Georgia Strait for the North Pacific Ocean to feed and rear before returning along well-known migration routes to the Fraser River. Chinook that rear and feed in Georgia Strait are ocean-type Chinook. These mix and mingle in these waters, but are not the Upper Fraser stocks of concern. Her comments that, “It sounds logical, ‘we only want to catch the marked fish—the hatchery fish—the other problem in Howe Sound is there is a low mark rate,” and “So you have got to release a lot of fish, potentially, for being able to keep a marked fish. There’s mortality that has to be ascribed to those released fish,” [must be understood I the context that] the DFO evaluation for Howe Sound chinook proposal still came in as very low risk. Ms. MacDuffee is assuming anglers wants more hatchery chinook. The Public Fishery Alliance believes in targeted and intelligent hatchery production. There is no call for making more chinook just fin-clip current production. We support adipose fin clipping as a means to provide modest angling opportunities, where appropriate during difficult times; as a proven means of reducing impacts on stocks of concern; for providing accurate data collection; for the identification of wild from hatchery fish during broodstock collection so hatchery fish can be removed; and to support selective First Nations and recreational in-river fishing opportunities that currently do not exist. She is quoted saying, “The solution is for the sports fishery to come up with a monitoring plan that is more in line with a commercial plan.” This is trying to drive a square peg in a round hole. There is a sophisticated system of data collection for all major public fisheries. I agree that monitoring of all fisheries is important and want to continue to work with DFO to improve this for the public fishery. Her comment shows a complete lack of knowledge about how public fisheries operate, and appear as an attempt to block proven management methods that permit modest fisheries while aiding conservation efforts.
I find this disturbing. She also lacks an understanding of the wide range of management measures that can be employed to sustain long-term access while minimizing impacts. Perhaps Ms. MacDuffee should attend a Sport Fishing Advisory Board meeting to discuss her concerns and to get an education about the public fishery. Dave Brown, Public Fishery Alliance // Whistler
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Tell people not to idle cars for more than one minute [Several months ago] I rolled into the Alpine Market feeling very eco-friendly on my electric bike only to find a large Whistler municipal Ford 150 truck idling on it’s own with no one in it. After a couple of minutes the driver arrives and I inform her that she should not leave a vehicle idling unattended as it contributes to pollution of our town. As I enter the market she loudly calls me out: “Don’t you know stop and starts use more gas than a leaving a vehicle idling.” Sorry young lady, of whom I pay your salary and the fuel you are using … I know that on modern fuel-injected vehicles one should turn of the engine if a stop of over 10 seconds is expected. This is why modern cars do it on their own at stop lights for example. One must wonder, if municipal employees don’t have a clue about the correct manner of operating a vehicle, then we can hardly expect every tourist and some uninformed locals to assist in protecting our environment. My answer—let’s get signage up that idling over one minute (not our current three minutes) will result in a fine of $250. And have it enforceable on private property such as the Alpine Meadows Market and café (McKeevers). Apologies if this was not timely (I submitted it back in March but it did not get published), however, I was inspired by Mike Williamson’s excellent letter last week [“Turn your engine off,” July 15] to resubmit this one. Lennox McNeely // Whistler
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Vail Resorts insurance failure Many of you Whistler skiers, like me, have now received a second form letter from Vail Resorts. For those of us that had seasons passes or five-day passes, it states you are not eligible for any refund, as you didn’t apply for a refund through Vail Resorts’ insurance since they closed due to COVID-19. We all didn’t apply, as the original letter from Vail Resorts told us not to do anything— sorry, it said, we are closed but we will contact you all with booked days for refunds. What a great trick Vail Resorts, you got our money and no refunds yet again! Rudy Pospisil // Whistler
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temperatures can potentially end more than 150 years of producing fine wines in North America, not only in California’s Napa Valley, but also production in other areas of California, Oregon, Washington State, and British Columbia. The more than 300 forest fires currently burning in British Columbia are most heavily concentrated in the Okanagan and surrounding regions in the southeastern part of the province, the geographic area of the annual $2.7 billion production of the province’s fine wines. While small in comparison to fine wine production in California, it is not insignificant. After months of below average precipitation causing drought in some areas, a week of historic record-breaking temperatures in late June here in British Columbia killed more than 500 people from hyperthermia (heat stroke). The daytime temperature here in Whistler
reached 42 C (107.6 F), while a temperature of 49.6 C (121.3 F) in the BC town of Lytton, helped to spread a wildfire, which completely wiped this historic town off the map—with very little left but rubble. Fine wine producing areas continue to experience temperatures in few other areas on the planet, such as California’s Death Valley, the Sahara, and the Gulf States of the Middle East. It is hard to imagine the destruction in the vineyards. I am amazed to learn that the threat is not just from cooked grapes turned into raisins on the vine, but from other serious and generally unanticipated threats: As this article in The New York Times confirms, we’ve learned that smoke, even from distant forest fires, can be absorbed by grape skins. Try adding a few drops of Woodland brand hickory smoke flavour into your glass of chardonnay or cabernet sauvignon … Yuck! I’m not used to the idea that vineyards in Napa are already spraying sunscreen (toxic chemicals) to keep the vines cooler! One is reminded of the hair-brained suggestion by former U.S. President Donald Trump to ingest bleach to combat COVID-19. Wine is generally thought of as a natural product. Not if we are drinking SPF 30 or higher ! Vineyard irrigation, unlike in fine wine producing Appellation Contrôléé areas of France, is not prohibited by law in North America, and already in California, where it is almost universal, wells and lakes have dried up and “treated” waste water is being trucked to vineyards in the Napa Valley where grapes are shrivelling due to water deprivation. It will take me a long time to get used to the idea that human sewage is part of what is in my glass. Treated or not, it is human sewage effluent. Insurance is being universally denied to wine producers, or is six times the cost for half the coverage if available, likely driving many wineries in California and elsewhere out of business in the future. It seems like so many things we used to produce now come from China. Are you ready for Great Wall Cabernet Sauvignon,
have experienced this summer in Whistler and elsewhere in the western part of our continent. In the future, Canada’s Northwest arctic territories may become the source of fine wines, if we can just get rid of those pesky musk ox, wolves, arctic foxes, and reindeer, not to mention mosquitos. In the meantime, I plan to continue to drink French wine no matter what the cost. Doug Garnett // Whistler
RVs with AC a lesser evil Although I thoroughly enjoyed “Maxed Out,” I do have a bone to pick about millennials camping in luxurious RVs and trailers and the idea that this is contradictory to not wanting the planet to ignite into a ball of flame (Pique, July 15). Firstly, I imagine that since avocado toast is the only luxury that we millennials can afford that any fume-smoking vehicle is only briefly in our possession as a rental. Secondly, driving an RV for a few hours is less polluting than a round-trip flight to Cancun. Even if the AC is buzzing constantly, these allegedly young-people took the lesser of two evils. Max also says that millennials believe in global warming and want the government to do something about it, implying it is because we don’t want to ourselves. However, all the science backs up that we could exclusively vacation in tents and even walk to the damn park instead of drive and it wouldn’t make any difference unless huge corporations are held responsible for their profit-seeking/Earth-sacrificing ways. If Max thought Whistler was bad last week, maybe he should have been in the Gulf of Mexico. Playing the “generational difference” game is a losing proposition for Max; despite his own lifestyle choices, it was an older generation that made this pact with the devil. I hope he can forgive young people for using AC while trying to enjoy what is left of forests, you know, before they all burn down. Jena Laycraft // Whistler n
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Richard Sherman arrest shows the need for more mental health services NEWS BROKE last Wednesday, July 14 that Richard Sherman, former Seattle Seahawk, was arrested on five misdemeanour charges, including domestic violence, near Seattle. Trust me when I say that this news was shocking to read as Sherman is known
BY HARRISON BROOKS as an intelligent, well-spoken leader both on the field and in the community. As someone who is usually quick to condemn any athlete, and take the side of the victim, as soon as their name is written next to the words “domestic violence,” this was the one case where I needed more information, because of Sherman’s good reputation. As more information continued to roll out during the rest of that day and those following, what it showed was the story of a man suffering deeply in the battle for his mental health. I don’t have the space to go through all that happened, but details of the incident can be found at cnn.com/2021/07/16/us/richardsherman-statement-spt. Throughout all the shocking details surrounding the incident, the element that got to me the most was the audio recording
of Sherman’s wife Ashley’s 911 call. As usual, the recording blew up on social media. And between all the racially charged comments, one thing stood out more than anything else, even more so than the details of the incident: the way the dispatcher went about handling the frantic call from Ashley Sherman. To put it bluntly, the dispatcher was disrespectful and apathetic towards Ashley, who was most likely having one of the worst nights of her life and could have used a calming presence to talk to. Multiple times throughout that call, with a tone akin to someone asking for the manager at a TGI Friday’s to complain that the cheese in their mozza sticks wasn’t stringy enough, the dispatcher told Ashley to “stop talking” to “listen to me” and “you need to stop interrupting me.” Upon hearing this recording for the first time, I, like many others, was disgusted, but not surprised, with the dispatcher’s handling of the situation. But what got lost in the apathetic approach to dealing with such a serious situation was what Ashley was saying. Unsurprisingly, she felt the need to explain to the dispatcher that when the cops arrive, Sherman would be aggressive, but that he was unarmed and to “please not shoot him.” So, I’m going to say this louder for the people in the back: nobody should have to beg the police not to shoot an unarmed man
in the middle of a mental health crisis. I fear we as a society are becoming numb to, not only police violence against black people, but also gun violence in general. Case in point, the eight-year-old kid who casually explained how she “was prepared” for the shooting at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. on Saturday because it was the second one she’s experienced… That’s messed up. Thankfully for Sherman and his family, nobody got hurt and the cops handled the situation non-violently. But far too often that’s not how it goes, whether it’s another unarmed person being killed or police showing up in tactical gear and escalating a peaceful protest into a full-blown riot. As the saying goes: “To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” And I’m of the opinion that there are far too many hammers in this world right now. We need a better way to respond to people in mental-health crises than injecting cops into the situation. However, this whole Sherman situation begs a few questions. The first being, how does a well-known, well-liked, intelligent, community leader end up in a place like this? While I don’t want to speculate too much as we all know mental health can affect anyone, no matter who they are, I can’t help but wonder how much of a role chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) played in this. As most know, CTE is rampant in football. And in serious cases, it can change
your entire personality and lead to symptoms like memory loss, confusion and fits of rage. To further put this in perspective, in 2017, the New York Times reported a study done that researched the brains of 111 deceased NFL players. Of those 111 NFL players, 110 had very clear symptoms of CTE. When you combine that information with a quote from Ashley in an NBC news article that read, “When Richard has a mental health episode like this, he does not remember anything about it the next day,” it starts looking quite a bit like CTE may have had something to do with it. But we can’t know for sure. The second question that this incident begs to be asked is: if this was any other 6’3, 195-pound black man, other than a wellknown athlete and community leader, would he still be alive today? I think I know the answer and I wish I didn’t. But let’s just say I’m happy to see Sherman is still alive and committed to getting the help he needs. I would love to lay out all the ways the NFL and the world in general could do better in protecting and caring for people, but I don’t have all day. However, a good place to start might be to just approach our daily lives with a little more empathy and understanding of what others are going through, and to hold back our judgement on things we don’t fully understand. One small step forward is better than standing still. ■
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RMOW’s 2020 SOFI report highlights effects of COVID-19 pandemic MUNICIPALITY COUNTS 128 EMPLOYEES WHO MADE OVER $75K LAST YEAR, AS SUPPLIER PAYMENTS AND AID FUNDING DROPS
BY MEGAN LALONDE THE
FIGURES included in the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) 2020 Statement of Financial Information (SOFI) report, received by council on July 20, reflect a fiscal year that was anything but ordinary. As the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic increased full-time staff’s workloads and decreased service levels to the public for three-quarters of the year, the RMOW’s payroll costs dipped slightly in 2020, totalling $32,925,330 compared to $33,110,798 in 2020. Its total supplier payments, meanwhile, reached $70.05 million last year, a significant dive from the more than $82.5 million the RMOW shelled out in 2019. The closure of RMOW-run facilities like the Whistler Public Library, municipal hall and Meadow Park Sports Centre during the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a large layoff of casual staff in March of 2020, recalled chief administrative officer (CAO) Virginia Cullen. “This essentially made the wage costs look like they’ve remained relatively flat,” she said. “However, if it had been a non-COVID year, we would have likely seen an overall payroll amount increase. We expect to see payroll costs continue to rise in future years—this would be to deal with the increased workload, and now increased backlog due to COVID, but also, compared to other municipalities in B.C., the
FIRE FARES Twenty-two members of the Whistler Fire Rescue Service earned over $75K according to this years’ SOFI Report. PHOTO BY JIM BUDGE
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RMOW’s staffing levels are well below the median and have been for several years.” The SOFI report details costs and expenditures for the RMOW as well as its subsidiary corporations like the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA).
EMPLOYEE EARNINGS The municipality counted 128 employees who made over $75,000 in 2020—aside from Mayor Jack Crompton, whose total remuneration last year totalled $101,992. That’s one up from the 127 employees named on the list in 2019, and higher still than the 113 in 2018 and 105 in 2017. Employee remuneration listed on the SOFI includes any taxable benefits, like employee contributions to the Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance, health benefits, vacation payout and overtime. The RMOW’s top earner in 2020 was general manager of infrastructure services James Hallisey, who netted $176,618, up slightly from $170,664 in 2019. That will likely change next year: Though the $153,048 CAO Cullen pulled in in 2020 is significantly less than former CAO Mike Furey’s total remuneration of $260,332, earned during his last full year in the role in 2019, the figure listed beside Cullen’s name only represents two-thirds of the year. She took over the reigns as CAO at the end of April 2020. Furey’s name remained on the 2020 list of top earners, as he stepped into the transitional role of chief strategic policy and partnerships officer. He made $173,984 in 2020, before wrapping up his duties last summer and officially leaving the RMOW’s payroll in the fall. Other high-earners included general manager of corporate and community services Ted Battiston ($165,856, up
slightly from $163,041 in 2019), nowretired general manager of resort experience Jan Jansen ($157,570, down from $184,209), director of human resources Denise Wood ($165,714, nearly consistent with $165,318 in 2019), director of planning Mike Kirkegaard ($159,896, up from $155,065 the year prior but still down from $162,810 he made in 2018) and fire chief John McKearney, who earned $158,184 compared to $157,781. Firefighters remained well represented on the list this year, with 22 members of the Whistler Fire Rescue Service (WFRS)— including Chief McKearney—earning more than $75,000. It’s one fewer than in 2019, when, of the 23 listed at the time, only five earned less than $100,000. Only two WFRS members included on the 2020 SOFI report saw their earnings listed below that threshold. Several RMOW employees saw their pay bumped up in 2020, most notably WHA general manager Marla Zucht. Her total remuneration in 2020 was $149,216, higher than the $129,909 she earned in the same role in 2019. A rise in an employee’s earnings can often be attributable to a step increase— the RMOW operates off of a five-step compensation band, where employees typically move up a step annually—or acting pay for those who’ve taken on additional managerial responsibilities outside of their typical position. In Zucht’s case, the raise was the result of a benchmarking exercise of her role compared to equivalent positions at other organizations, said Cullen. “What we noted—and this is a WHA board decision—was that she was [making] below what similar roles at similar organizations were making, and so that was a level-setting of her salary,” Cullen explained.
MRDT REVENUE, AID FUNDING DIPS One staggering statistic found in the supplier payments list highlights just how severely the COVID-19 pandemic hit Whistler: The RMOW paid Tourism Whistler $4,231,066 in 2020, almost half of the $7,094,536 the organization received from the municipality in 2019. The expenditure represents Tourism Whistler’s cut of the annual Municipal and Regional District Tax (MRDT) revenue— better known as the hotel tax. Other big supplier payouts listed on the 2020 SOFI report included $8.59 million to Durfeld Log Construction Ltd. for its work on the WHA project at 1330 Cloudburst/Granite Ridge project. The company also received the RMOW’s biggest single payment the year prior, at $7.87 million. Other significant costs in 2020 included $1.08 million to T.M. Builders Inc. for work on the Meadow Park Sports Centre’s cardio room, $6.24 million to BC Transit to help fund Whistler’s public transportation, and $1.5 million into a Lebeau Law Corporation Trust Account— that’s for the municipality’s purchase of land in Emerald that now offers the public recreational access to the Emerald Trails, including to One Duck Lake. The RMOW also doled out $963,136 in aid payment in 2020 compared to $1,497, 896 in 2019. That funding was split amongst local organizations like Whistler Animals Galore, Tourism Whistler, the Whistler Museum, the Whistler Chamber of Commerce, the Audain Art Museum Foundation, The Whistler Museum and Archives Society, the Whistler Arts Council and the Whistler Off-Road Cycling Association last year. The SOFI report is available for viewing in its entirety on Whistler.ca. n
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Council decries end to B.C. climate rebate program ALSO IN COUNCIL BRIEFS: SAFETY CONCERNS AT WHISTLER OLYMPIC PLAZA PLAYGROUND ADDRESSED; BUDGET FOR FUEL SYSTEM UPGRADE NEARLY DOUBLES
BY MEGAN LALONDE WHISTLER COUNCIL on Tuesday, July 20 agreed to send a letter to B.C.’s Premier John Horgan, Minister of Municipal Affairs Josie Osborne, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy George Heyman, and President, Union of B.C. Municipalities Brian Frenkel denouncing the province’s decision to abruptly terminate its Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program (CARIP). The program, which has existed since 2009, repays municipalities that have signed onto B.C.’s climate action charter the same amount they pay in provincial carbon taxes each year, with the caveat that the rebates are reinvested in local climate initiatives. Whistler receives about $50,000 a year through CARIP. In the past, the funds have been used to pay for projects like the installation of EV chargers in Whistler day lots. The province announced in May that the final grants will be paid to local governments in 2021. Cutting the program means lost reporting data, and loss of funding that is flexible, reliable, and non-competitive, RMOW climate action coordinator Luisa Burhenne told councillors during Tuesday’s meeting. “With the absence of CARIP, I’m afraid that most communities will not report on emissions anymore,” she said, adding, “There’s currently no other program in the province that provides consistent funding over multiple years for climate action. Most of the funding is grant-based. That’s usually very competitive … and it requires a lot of staff’s time and effort to apply for these grants when we don’t even know if we will receive them.” She urged councillors to advocate for the reinstatement of CARIP, or for a replacement program that’s similarly consistent, non-competitive and available to all municipalities. While Counc. Arthur De Jong said he believes a carbon tax is “an imperative,” paying it without having the opportunity to re-invest those funds into local climate action seems like “a broken transaction.” Local organizations can apply to receive a portion of the rebates to spend on initiatives that will help lower Whistler’s GHG emissions. Councillors agreed on Tuesday to amend the local policy governing the application process, streamlining procedures for those interested in applying for any remaining CARIP funding. Also included in the council meeting agenda was a letter from the mayor of Peachland similarly condemning the province’s decision to end the program.
BUDGET FOR FUEL SYSTEM UPGRADE PROJECT NEARLY DOUBLES The aging fuel systems at the RMOW’s public works yard are overdue for an upgrade, but the project could be costlier than expected. Council agreed this week to award a $473,907 contract for the fuel-system upgrade project to Protec Petroleum Services Ltd., in accordance with the company’s bid submitted last month. Council also agreed to increase the budget for the project to $615,000 from the previously allocated $360,000. The project will see all of the underground fuel tanks and vehicle fuelling systems at the municipal public works yard—which service municipal vehicles like fire trucks, police cars and school buses— replaced. The current tanks and fuelling system were installed in 1997. The project was initially scheduled to take place last year, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The main driver behind the rise in budget is the project’s recommended $90,000 contingency cost. Because the project involves excavation, de-watering could be required, while any soil or groundwater contamination found during the project would result in a costly remediation. RMOW staff said there are no current indicators that the aging systems are leaking and contaminating the area, while completing the project in August and September should help mitigate the need for any de-watering—ideally cutting the budget back down. In addition, “A lot of the increase has to do with the climate that we’re in, and what was going on the last couple of years,” said RMOW central services supervisor Paul Klein. “We’re in this position where many things are more expensive now than they used to be.” The new tanks will have twice the capacity of the currently system, Klein added, which will play a crucial role ensuring the RMOW’s fuel stockpile remains adequate on heavy snow days— typically a pair of heavy powder days means the RMOW will empty its fuel tanks in 48 hours, he explained—or if an emergency were to strike.
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SAFETY ISSUES ADDRESSED AT WHISTLER OLYMPIC PLAZA PLAYGROUND RMOW staff has taken additional safety precautions at a Whistler Village playground following a visitor’s complaint.
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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 15 Whistler council on Tuesday received a letter from New Westminster resident Ivana Ilic, who wrote to Whistler council to express her concern regarding features of the Whistler Olympic Plaza Playground that she said could “potentially cause serious to fatal injuries” that “can easily be preventable.” Ilic was visiting the playground with her family on July 6 when her almost seven– year-old son ran into the corner of the play structure, “cutting his head open.” Ilic said she brought her son into nearby Blenz, where staff provided them with towels and ice and directed them to the Whistler Health Care Centre’s emergency room. According to the letter, her son’s wound was glued closed and the family was sent home with instructions to monitor him for possible signs of a concussion. Ilic said the corner isn’t an issue for children who are taller or shorter than the structure, but with the corner situated just above her son’s eye level, he didn’t see it through the baseball cap he was wearing at the time of his injury. “All of this could be preventable if some hard rubber was installed all around those beams, and especially on that corner,” she wrote. “I’m writing to you to call you to action[sic] on this and prevent any further injuries or possible fatalities on the playground. The level of stress that we all went through today is unmeasurable.[sic]”
FUNDING CHANGE Installing new EV chargers is just one way the Resort Municipality of Whistler used the recently cancelled Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program funds. FILE PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS
General manager of resort Jessie GresleyJones told council that RMOW staff investigated the concerns immediately after receiving the correspondence. He said staff added reflective tape to the area of concern and ground down some of the playground’s sharp edges.
WHISTLER COUNCIL RECEIVES 2021 Q1 FINANCIAL REPORT During Tuesday’s meeting RMOW staff presented council with a financial report for the first quarter of 2021, concluding on March 31, that highlights the stark contrast between pre- and post-pandemic circumstances.
Revenues totalled just shy of $5.5 million in the first quarter, compared to $6.8 million in Q1 of 2020—largely before the full brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic hit Whistler, RMOW director of finance Carlee Price pointed out. “The year-over-year comparisons are still a little bit apples to oranges,” she said. “Total revenues were down 19.3 per cent from 2020 levels and achieved six per cent of fullyear budgeted amounts in the first quarter, compared to eight per cent last year.” Funds from B.C.’s Resort Municipality Initiative and the Municipal and Regional District Tax (MRDT) amounted to $236,867, significantly less than the more than $1.4 million earned through these revenue
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streams in 2020. MRDT revenue was also affected by the cyber incident that affected the RMOW in April: According to the report, system limitations meant only a single month of MRDT revenue was recorded in Q1 of 2021. “This number will normalize somewhat in the second quarter,” Price cautioned. Transit fares, leases and rent pulled in 44 per cent less in 2021 than in did in 2020—$737,684 compared to more than $1.3 million the year prior—as ridership declined along with economic activity in the community. With Meadow Park Sports Centre operating under capacity constraints in 2021, programs and admissions fell 28 per cent from the previous year, bringing in $434,142 compared to $599,883 in 2020. On the brighter side, revenue from permits and fees was up from $1.35 million in 2020 to $1.866 million in 2021. Operating expenditures, meanwhile, were down two per cent year-over-year during the first quarter, reaching 24 per cent of full-year budgeted amounts compared to 25 per cent in 2020. “Here the effects of the pandemic can be seen most clearly in the composition rather than the total level of spending,” explained Price. “Specifically, higher spending in segments like communications and economic development reflected the needs of pandemic environment. Likewise, events and animation spending was lower compared to 2020.” n
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Getting a handle on Whistler’s off-leash dogs
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SHOULD THE RMOW TAKE A PAGE FROM COQUITLAM’S AWARDWINNING ‘TRAIN YOUR HUMAN’ CAMPAIGN?
BY BRANDON BARRETT AS THE RESORT Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) once again explores ways to curb off-leash dogs, one of the more persistent and long-running issues in the community, it may do well to look south to the City of Coquitlam. In 2015, officials there launched the “Train Your Human” campaign, a multipronged approach that paired education with increased off-leash areas and enforcement, along with a push to get as many dogs licenced as possible. The campaign, which in 2017 earned a CivicInfo BC Excellence in Action Award, resulted in a 44-per-cent drop in tickets issued for offleash dogs, and a 39-per-cent rise in licenced dogs between June 2016 and May 2017. “Compliance is great here and our community is great here, but everybody has a part to play in ensuring our parks and open spaces are accessible to everybody,” said Aaron Hilgerdenaar, Coquitlam’s manager of bylaw enforcement and animal services. Despite Whistler’s Animal Responsibility Bylaw, which requires all dogs to be on leash (outside of designated off-leash areas), passing in 2019, countering the deeply entrenched off-leash dog culture here has proven a tall order for the RMOW. “I think that our community has long had a very dog-focused culture, and I think that has been a part of Whistler since I’ve been around,” said Councillor Jen Ford, who discussed the issue with other elected officials at Whistler’s July 6 council meeting. “Because we have such wide-open space and so many parks and trails where people can go, it’s just super common for people to see others with their dogs off leash. That continues the expectation or the feeling that off-leash is fine.” Bylaw officers have ample discretion when dealing with off-leash dogs, often resorting to a warning over a ticket, and even handing out free leashes to owners without one. As previously reported in Pique, the RMOW received a dozen complaints of offleash dogs in the first half of 2020, double the amount from the same period the year prior, but handed out zero fines in that time. So far this year, 10 dog bites have been reported to the RMOW. One incident, on June 25, involved two young girls who were walking with their family on Nicklaus North Boulevard when they were both injured in a dog attack, police confirmed. The dog’s owner was issued a bylaw ticket. “They are pets, they are wonderful, but they are animals and despite what owners say, they are sometimes unpredictable,” wrote Dr. Bruce Mohr of the Whistler Health Care Centre in an email, who treated injuries to one of the girl’s back and forearm.
One of the key ways Coquitlam has successfully reduced the number of loose dogs is through the introduction of two bylaw officers dedicated to a multitude of issues in the community’s more than 80 municipal parks. Hilgerdenaar acknowledged he had concerns about resourcing when the idea of committing two bylaw officers full-time to Coquitlam’s parks came up, but the ongoing presence has proven effective in shifting the culture. “It definitely supports the voluntary compliance and community engagement aspect of things,” he said. “The reality is we can’t have a bylaw officer in every park at every time. But in terms of positive impacts to the community, I would suggest the presence of bylaw officers in parks during peak times significantly supports ongoing compliance.” Hilgerdenaar also credited the push to licence dogs as one way for City staff to get a handle on the number of animals locally, which “can be reflected in community amenities to parks staff when planning and operationalizing off-leash dog areas,” he said. Whistler has four parks with designated off-leash areas: Alpha Lake, Bayly Park, Rainbow Park and Lost Lake Park. There are also three mixed-used off-leash areas: Spruce Grove, where dogs are permitted off-leash when the fields are not in use; the Meadow Park ball fields, again, when the fields are not being used; and in the winter, on several sections of the Valley Trail: from Rainbow Park to the Meadow Park Sports Centre; from the Fitzsimmons Trail to PassivHaus; and the Riverside Campground dyke at Mons Road along Green Lake, from Nicklaus North to Alpine Way. “I’ve heard a few comments from different dog owners that the dog parks in various spots are inadequate for the type of use that would encourage them to go to those parks, so they end up not using those parks and would rather be out on trails,” explained Ford. Along with helping to fund operations at the Coquitlam Animal Shelter, licences— which are mandatory for dog owners in Whistler—are “the easiest and most efficient way to have your dog returned to you in a quick and efficient manner,” Hilgerdenaar said. “Having your dog licence displayed on your dog is not only in the bylaw as requisite, but it allows us to easily find your address, your phone numbers, and oftentimes reunite you with your pet without your pet even coming to our animal shelter.” Whistler’s council has asked staff to come back with suggestions on solving what Ford called “a very large and complicated community issue,” and she believes it essential to hear a range of perspectives. “I think the most important thing about any … change in how this is managed is to engage with the community, and not only dog owners but non-dog owners,” she said. n
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Whistler council considers how to make transit free year-round TRANSIT WILL SOON BE FREE FOR KIDS IN B.C.
BY MEGAN LALONDE THE RESORT Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has a long history of offering farefree public transit options to locals and visitors, but could there be a future in which no one would ever have to pay to ride a bus in Whistler? That’s the question that was posed to Whistler council during its regular meeting on Tuesday, July 20. The answer? Maybe—if the RMOW can find a few extra million dollars, secure 17 more busses and fund approximately 23,000 more service hours for local transit. Mayor and councillors heard a presentation from RMOW transportation demand coordinator Emma DalSanto that laid out what fare-free transit would look like for Whistler’s budget. Currently, Whistler’s transit system costs the RMOW about $7.3 million. About $3 million of that is paid for by revenue collected from transit fares. Year-round fare-free transit would see the RMOW lose that revenue, while the
municipality’s share of operational costs would rise along with the demand for public transit. The estimated additional cost to the RMOW to make the Whistler Transit System entirely fare-free, all 365 days of the year, would be approximately $5.25 million. That’s equivalent to nearly a 30 per cent hike in property tax rates, RMOW director of finance Carlee Price pointed out during the meeting. The figures were determined by BC Transit, after the RMOW’s Transit Management Advisory Committee asked the organization to look into how the resort’s current fare-free transit initiatives could be expanded. BC Transit’s report outlined the costs of four scenarios on expanding fare-free transit in Whistler: winter weekends, weekends year-round, spring/summer/fall, or daily. (Whistler Transit is already free to ride during summer weekends.) It found that that introducing fare-free service in the winter would require more buses at peak times when the Gondola Transit Exchange is already tapped out at its maximum capacity. To that end, BC Transit recommended that any further expansion of
fare-free transit in Whistler be focused on the spring, summer and fall seasons. Councillors debated the benefits and disadvantages of a massive step like fare-free transit after hearing the report. Ultimately, councillors agreed that incremental changes are the way to go as Whistler works to reduce its overall emissions—especially those from singleoccupant vehicles. “When I look at our big moves—our climate goals—we don’t have a lot of sharp spheres left in our quiver to reach our targets,” said Councillor Arthur De Jong. “This is one of them. And obviously a 30 per cent increase in property taxes—we’re not there, but if we can do it incrementally, maybe over a decade, we’ll get to where we need to be.” Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton said looking at the idea only through the lens of property tax rises misses the fact that there are many different ways to fund transit. “My hope is that this is far from the end of the work that our team does on analyzing and understanding how we can pay for significant growth in our transit system, and continue that legacy
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of fare-free transit,” he said, adding that he feels optimistic about the prospect of an additional “$5-million-a-year-worth of people” choosing Whistler’s transit system over private vehicles. “That would change the way people get around our town,” he said. The analysis comes on the heels of the province’s decision to eliminate transit fares for all British Columbians aged 12 and under, as of Sept. 1. Whistler is set to receive a monthly contribution from the provincial government of just over $9,000 to offset the cost. No additional service hours will be added to Whistler’s transit system when B.C.’s new “kids-ride-for-free” program comes into effect, as the new provincial initiative will replace Whistler’s Family Travel Program. In place since 2013, that program made Whistler Transit complimentary for up to three children with the purchase of one adult fare. Transit has also been free for highschool students in Whistler since early 2020, when a pilot project funded by an increase in the price of monthly parking passes for Day Lots 1 to 3 first launched. n
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OBITUARY
Peter Alder May 25th, 1930 – July 13th, 2021
ALWAYS INVOLVED Peter Alder, pictured here celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Whistler Question, helped shape the development of the resort since its inception. He passed away last week aged 91 years young. PHOTO BY GLENDA BARTOSH
Peter Alder: A Whistler life THE WHISTLER PIONEER PASSED AWAY LAST WEEK AT 91
BY BOB BARNETT MANY PEOPLE have shaped the “modern” Whistler, a period that could be defined as roughly from the time a ski area was first contemplated up to today. But there are a precious few whose influence has spanned that entire 60-plus years. Last week we lost one of them when Peter Alder closed his umbrella. Peter was a constant in Whistler, like gravity. He first came to the valley in mid1950s, when he worked for B.C. Electric building the power lines between Bridge River and Squamish. In the early 1960s he and a group of investors acquired the Jordan Lodge property, 160 acres west of Highway 99 at Creekside. They hoped to work with Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., the new company developing Whistler Mountain. Instead, Franz Wilhelmsen threw Peter out of his office when he discovered Peter’s group owned land Garibaldi Lifts thought they’d bought. From there, as if to show Garibaldi Lifts what they’d missed out on, Peter began his career in ski area management: General manager (GM) of Red Mountain in Rossland from 1960 to ’68; GM of Silver Star from 1968 to 1975; GM of Big White for one year and then a year working for the provincial government as senior inspector for ski lifts. In 1978 he was appointed GM and Vice President of Garibaldi Lifts Ltd., returning to Whistler to work for Franz Wilhelmsen just as competition from Blackcomb—“the one on the left”—was about to begin.
Peter also served on the board of directors of Whistler Mountain Ski Corp., did a stint as general manager of the Whistler Resort Association (now Tourism Whistler), and for years was a consultant with Ecosign Mountain Resort Planners. But Peter’s resume only reveals a fraction of the man. He was a builder, and not just of physical structures, although he did lots of that. He was a key figure in the creation of the Canada West Ski Areas Association and of Selkirk College’s ski area management program. He built businesses himself—PACO Road in Squamish is where the Peter Alder Company established a concrete ready-mix plant and a building supply store—he helped others build their businesses and he helped many others build or rebuild their lives. What he built most was relationships, relationships that endured. Walking down a street in Rossland nearly 40 years after he left Red Mountain people still recognized Peter. He was known in corporate boardrooms, within government ministries, by local business people and by people in the ski business around the world. Part of this was Peter’s natural ease in interacting with others but it was polished during his family upbringing in Switzerland. Peter’s father and mother were both skiers and introduced Peter and his two sisters to the sport at a time when the social aspect was a big part of skiing. His father, a dentist, also invested in a few small ski operations. After the Second World War they hosted U.S. troops at these ski areas. In 1951, at the age of 20, Peter left
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Born in Basel, Switzerland. Peter came to Canada in 1951 for a visit and fell in love with Canada. He worked in Kemano building power lines and then came to Squamish to work on “those beautiful necklaces,” the power lines that run through Whistler. Peter and his first wife Gloria, started a family in Squamish and a building supply and concrete company (Peter Alder Co) on “Paco” Road. He was involved in a bid to build facilities at Creekside before Garibaldi Lifts. He got his big start in the ski industry when he applied for a job with the Red Mountain Ski Club in Rossland as their first professional manager. He got the position because of his work on building towers, his experience back in Switzerland with ski areas and because of his great Swiss accent. While at Red Mountain, Peter was instrumental in starting the Ski Resort Management program at Selkirk College. He moved to management positions at Silver Star, Big White and eventually came back to Whistler as the General Manager for “the ski area on the right,” Whistler Mountain. Peter met a smart, beautiful ski instructor and property developer named Trudy and they started a life together in 1981. After leaving management at Whistler Mountain, Peter worked for the Whistler Resort Association, Ecosign, and then with Al and Nancy Raine on Nancy Greene’s Cahilty Lodge at Sun Peaks. Peter was always involved in his community, whether as a Rotarian, on the Chamber of Commerce, and as mentor and good friend to many. Peter promoted Whistler and the BC ski industry at every opportunity. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Whistler Chamber of Commerce’s Excellence Awards in 2013. In 2019 the Canada West Ski Areas Association gave Peter the Jimmie Spencer Lifetime Achievement Award. He is survived by his wife Trudy, sister Ragi (René), children Richard (Ramona), Douglas (Kathryn) and Carol and grandchildren, Justine, Kootenay, Reanna, Cory, Robert, Sam, Brent, Lindsay, Garrett, and great-grandchildren, Walter, Margo, Aliegha, Darien and Ocean, and nieces Corinne, Yvonne (Derrick) and her children Phaedra, Ronan and Arleigh. A memorial service will be held Friday, July 23rd between 3 and 5 pm at Our Lady of the Mountains Chapel in Whistler. Space limited due to COVID protocols. Zoom link 859 2617 7995 code 913523. In lieu of flowers a donation to Whistler Food Bank or the Whistler Skiers Chapel (on CanadaHelps.org) would be appreciated. His lifelong curiosity, generosity of spirit and ready hugs will be greatly missed. To write a condolence to the family, please visit www. squamishfuneralchapel.com
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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 19 Switzerland for Canada and new opportunities. In the weeks prior to leaving his mother gave him a little cookbook and put him in charge of the household so he would learn how to look after himself. Peter became a good cook and to the end he always kept his mother’s cookbook nearby … although he did have a weakness for burgers from Hungry Herbie’s in Cache Creek. In 1955 Peter and his mother made a driving tour of the United States. When they reached Alabama, they were hosted by several of the troops who had stayed at his father’s ski areas years earlier. The value of maintaining relationships reinforced.
at how Ecosign’s planners could in minutes share maps, data and drawings of mountains and drainage basins—information that used to take months to compile and evaluate. However, it was people, rather than technology, that stoked his fire. Young people with passion, a head on their shoulders and a willingness to work stimulated Peter, excited him. It’s unlikely there is any record of who or how many sought guidance and support from Peter Alder over the years but their stories will surface over the next few weeks, testaments to his belief in people and the future. Testaments to Peter. Even in his last years—as he was “becoming middle aged”—he was still looking ahead, anticipating needs.
He was a satellite, constantly orbiting the community, dropping in on friends, businesses, watching people. He took everything in, sifted through it all and then sat down with others to discuss where Whistler was headed, why it should or shouldn’t go that way and what to do about it.
One of Peter’s rules about driving was that spouses should always sit side-by-side. He emphasized this during an afternoon jaunt to Pemberton a few years ago, insisting that my 5-foot-1-inch partner sit beside me in the front seat while he stuffed himself into the tiny backseat of our twodoor coupe. Driving around B.C.’s interior with Peter was a history lesson in itself. “Have you ever been up that road?” he’d ask, pointing at a forestry road up some mountain between Nakusp and Nelson. When you replied that you had not he would tell you about the abandoned mine site part way up the mountain and the aerial tramway that was used to ferry the ore from the mine to a long-since abandoned railway line. His curiosity may have been sparked by his background in engineering but his appreciation for the history was bred of his love of this land. And Whistler was the place he loved, and marvelled at, more than anywhere else on Earth. He was a satellite, constantly orbiting the community, dropping in on friends, businesses, watching people. He took everything in, sifted through it all and then sat down with others to discuss where Whistler was headed, why it should or shouldn’t go that way and what to do about it. He recognized the importance of our history and his place in it, contributing numerous records and papers to the Whistler Museum as well as publishing several personal history books. But he was energized by the future. At heart he was an optimist. And much of that optimism came from his belief in, and wonder at, what each new generation could accomplish. He would hold up his iPhone, amazed
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A few years ago, Peter and his beloved wife Trudy thought carefully about how Whistler had evolved and decided what the community needed was a place for reflection, celebrations and life events. They envisioned something like the original Whistler Skiers Chapel, where Peter and Trudy were married—a non-denominational yet spiritual place, open to all. Peter secured a space on Whistler Mountain with views over Creekside and south toward Powder Mountain. He commissioned an architect to design the building and had quietly started a targeted fundraising campaign. The hope was that a foundation could be in the ground in 2020 and a public fundraising campaign would follow. Those plans, like so many others, were sabotaged by COVID-19. Several times during the 16 months of lockdown, a time when both Peter and Trudy had stopped driving, he mentioned how many people had offered them assistance or dropped off packages at their door. “We live in a wonderful community,” he’d say. Most of us worry about errors of commission, things we do that turn out to be mistakes. But it is often our errors of omission—the things we didn’t do—that we most regret. Peter Alder didn’t leave much undone. I don’t think he left with any regrets. But Whistler has lost its constant. A memorial service will be held Friday, July 23 between 3 and 5 p.m. at Our Lady of the Mountains Chapel in Whistler. Space limited due to COVID protocols. Zoom link 859 2617 7995 code 913523. In lieu of flowers a donation to Whistler Food Bank or the Whistler Skiers Chapel (on CanadaHelps. org) would be appreciated. n
NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY
Pemberton farmers emerge ‘lucky’ from heat wave AS HOT, DRY WEATHER PERSISTS, LOCAL FARMERS REFLECT ON IMPACTS OF RECORD-BREAKING TEMPERATURES
BY MEGAN LALONDE IF YOU WERE HOPING to score a few radishes in a recent veggie box delivery from Pemberton’s Laughing Crow Organics, you’re out of luck. After temperatures pushed past the 40-degree Celsius mark during last month’s record-breaking heat wave, “we pulled the covers off the radishes that we were going to deliver to our customers that week, and there was nothing left of them,” said Laughing Crow’s co-founder and farmer Andrew Budgell. The farm lost a portion of its spring crops, like broccoli and cauliflower, while the heat even scorched carrot tops, explained Budgell said, adding that he and partner Kerry McCann were fortunate to escape mostly unscathed from the unprecedented heat event. “Essentially we got lucky in a lot of spots, and we got unlucky in a bunch of other spots,” he said. “Things evened-out and we’re all right, but it made us realize that in situations like that, luck is playing a massive role in our success. Which is, to some degree, quite frightening.” Across the valley at North Arm Farm, owner and West Vancouver-Sea to Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy is also counting himself lucky after he said his property came “within millimetres of the whole farm being flooded” during the peak of the heat wave. North Arm’s staff went to work building nearly 215 metres of temporary dikes, Sturdy said. While the water thankfully held off, the farm still lost “quite a few” recent plantings, he said. The heat alone “puts tremendous stress on both plants and people, and, and frankly, cost as well, because we have been constantly irrigating right from the beginning of the season,” said Sturdy. “I don’t know what our total numbers look like so far, but we’ve spent more money irrigating this year than I think we’ve ever spent.” And, Sturdy added, “Who’s coming out to the farm to buy anything when it’s 44 degrees?”
SUNFLOWER SEASON Laughing Crow Organics is preparing to open its annual sunflower maze to the public in August. The flowers are one plant that has thrived in this summer’s hot, dry conditions, says the Pemberton Meadows farm’s co-founder. PHOTO BY STOCKSTUDIOX/GETTY IMAGES
Coupled with the seed costs of replacing the lost plants, lost tractor-time, a few lost days of productive farm labour, a reduced yield on some crops and the cost of the temporary dikes, the scorching temperatures cost North Arm “certainly in the tens of thousands of dollars,” said Sturdy. “No question about it.” That said, the losses suffered in the Sea to Sky corridor appear minimal in comparison to those of prairie farmers who are seeing crops and pastures devastated by drought and grasshoppers, as well as B.C. shellfish farmers who reported huge numbers of Pacific oysters and clams lost during the hot weather. Farm Credit Canada announced July 20 that it’s offering a customer support program to western Canadian farmers who are facing production challenges due to the adverse growing conditions posed by the extremely hot, dry weather. Conditions in Pemberton are currently listed as abnormally dry, compared to the severe or moderate drought conditions that municipalities in the Interior and Fraser Valley are experiencing. It’s listed by the province as falling into Drought Level 2— during which adverse effects are unlikely—on the province’s five-level drought rating scale. Pemberton is in a lucky position, said Budgell, largely because of its geography. “We’re in this unique spot where we have this incredible amount of water,” he said. But with the majority of alpine snow now melted and hot, dry weather expected
to continue, how reliable are those water sources? “We’re probably going to run out of water a few weeks early this year,” said Bruce Miller, the third-generation Pemberton farmer behind Across the Creek Organics. The water that services Miller’s property, shared by Laughing Crow Organics and The Beer Farmers, is sourced from a steep creek running down the nearby mountainside, collected into a basin. When the alpine snow is melted, that basin collects rainfall and residual groundwater from the soil. Miller said alternative options like pumping water from ditches, wells or nearby rivers exist, but aren’t attractive considering the major investment in gravity water he’s already made. “We’ve got a couple miles of irrigation pipe buried all over the farm that [have] been set up for the last 40 years to make it work,” he said. “If we run out of water then we need to go back to diesel tractors and pumps.” Miller added, “If we had an inch of rain or something, that would replenish the whole water system that we have.” For Anna Helmer of Helmer’s Organic Farms, the hot temperatures have been a bigger issue for the farmer than her potato crops, she said. “It’s just been way too hot, so it’s hard to be productive,” Helmer said—a sentiment echoed by both Sturdy and Budgell. As temperatures continue to rise amid
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the climate emergency, “How are we going to function in 40[-degree weather], basically, is the question,” Helmer said. “I think the crops can be managed with irrigation and variety selections, but it’s just learning—it’s just farming.” Adapting to the heat has often meant earlier-than usual hours this summer, said Helmer, as well as the construction of one brand-new feature on her farm: an approximately nine-metre by nine-metre pond used for “very refreshing” hourly cooloffs. “It’s kept me going,” she said. When it comes to her crops, Helmer said they are about a week ahead of schedule, but was unsure whether to attribute that to the hot weather or a slightly earlier-than-usual planting date. She said she’s heard of some cases in the Fraser Valley where potatoes have even began sprouting in the ground, but prior to harvesting her own crops, “it’s just hard to say what the implications will be.” On the brighter side, Helmer said her soil also remained damp long into the heat wave. When considering climate change, “Organic farming has always been touted as an important part of the solution because it does retain moisture and sure enough, ours has to a certain extent,” she said. “So I think we’re doing what we can in that respect. Our soil is not just dust; it’s not just to hold the plants upright. It’s to provide moisture and a habitat for all the bacterial and biological functions.” Now that temperatures have ceased breaking records for the time being, local farmers are hoping the continued hot, dry conditions might even result in a few benefits: For example, “We’ll probably have a melon season in Pemberton like we’ve never seen before,” Budgell said. That, and a strong season for Laughing Crow Organics’ sunflower maze, currently slated to open in August. “The sunflowers look incredible,” Budgell said. “There’s almost no plant, animal, or anything out there that wants 44 degrees of heat, but you certainly get a feel around the farm for what can handle it.” He added, “On a farm, it’s hard to turn on the sun. But if you can turn on the water and the sun keeps shining, you’re in a pretty good spot.” n
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Lil’wat Nation appeals bottled water extraction licence on its territory LOCAL COMPANY WHISTLER WATER HAS EXTRACTED WATER FROM NEAR SPETCH CREEK SINCE ‘70S
BY BRANDON BARRETT THE LIL’WAT NATION has filed an appeal with B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office over a licence held by a local bottled water company to extract groundwater on its traditional territory. Since the 1970s, the Whistler Water company has drawn water for commercial use from the Spetch Creek area, first diverting surface water before switching to using wells in the ‘90s. Under its existing licence, the company can extract 187,000 cubic metres of water a year. The Nation said it has received no benefit in exchange and that the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNRORD) failed to adequately consult or assess the impacts on the Lil’wat’s land rights and title, and did not consider the principle of reconciliation included in the United Nations’ Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). “We’ve said all along that we’ve had these rights but [for them] to be acknowledged there needs to be something that changes,” said Kúkwpi7 Skalúlmecw Chief Dean Nelson. Since 2016, the Nation said it has
discussed its concerns around the removal of bulk water from its territory with FLNRORD. The Lil’wat Land Use Plan designates Spetch Creek as a Nt’ákmen Area, which prohibits commercial activities in order to protect the cultural and ecological features of the land. An archaeological site, called Nk’ék’lekw, sits within 180 metres of the two wells and features evidence of a traditional pit house, or Istken, as well as a culturally modified cedar tree. “The access to the resources—or lack of—for the Nation is most concerning,” said Nelson, noting how the Lil’wat have managed the land and water around Qwalímak, or the Upper Birkenhead, since time immemorial. It’s through Canada’s Bill C-15, Ottawa’s response to the UNDRIP that was approved last month, that the Nation is reasserting its rights. “We’ve made reference to other different cultural sites and we’re in the process of addressing them now as we gain some power and protection over those,” Nelson added. The extraction licence, which the Lil’wat said was first proposed in 2017 and issued on May 19 of this year, authorizes the diversion of groundwater from the aquifer at Spetch Creek, and while the Nation contends that the licence is new, both Whistler Water and
WATER APPEAL Lil’wat Chief Dean Nelson says the provincial government failed to adequately consider the Nation’s land rights over an area near Spetch Creek where a local bottled water company has extracted water for years. FILE PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS
FLNROD said that it represents a renewal of an existing legacy licence as required by B.C.’s Water Sustainability Act. “Whistler Water’s licence application is what we refer to as an Existing Use Groundwater application. This provides those users who were using groundwater prior to February 29, 2016 an opportunity to apply for a licence and have their first date of use recognized,” noted a ministry spokesperson in an email. The transition
period ends March 2, 2022. FLNRORD also indicated that licence consultation “will occur with First Nations” whenever the government reviews an application for an Existing Use Groundwater application. A follow-up email requesting more information on the consultation process was not returned by deadline. For the Lil’wat, the issue is not the amount of consultation that took place, but rather that the Nation’s rights and title, as well as the cultural importance of the site, have never been addressed over the years, according to Nelson. Whistler Water COO Bruce Gemmell, who noted he learned of the appeal and the site’s significance from Pique, wrote in a statement that the company “has immense respect for our First Nations, including, in particular, the Lil’wat Nation. The business has operated a bottling facility for 30 years using a BC Government issued water license for this existing well site. Whistler Water has not applied for a brand new license but instead applied, as a legacy license holder, to have its license updated under the Water Sustainability Act 2016, for exactly the same source. The updated license(sic) is integral to ensuring the continuance of the dozens of jobs with our operation. We are happy to talk to the Lil’wat Nation if they have any concerns.” n
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Regional Economic Development Strategy released for Pemberton area STRATEGY’S PLAN FOCUSES ON 36 REGIONAL PRIORITIES FOR BOOSTING THE ECONOMY
BY HARRISON BROOKS WITH A GOAL of stimulating and developing the local economy, the Pemberton Area Economic Development Collaborative has released its Regional Economic Development Strategy. The plan was the culmination of two years of work funded by $100,000 from the B.C. Rural Dividend Program, according to Graham Turner, former member and one of the key stakeholders in putting the Collaborative together. The plan lays out 36 priorities, split into three categories, ranging from “quick start priorities,” that are inexpensive and noncontroversial to “complex priorities,” those that require significant funding, multiple stakeholders and have the potential to be controversial. Turner believes the best part of the plan is that it’s “not just a report” that will be put on the shelf, but a “playbook” of actions to improve the area that has already been approved by all the communities and stakeholders involved. “It’s kind of a big deal to get this many communities together and especially the different First Nations communities and the Village [of Pemberton] and SLRD [SquamishLillooet Regional District Area] and tourism all coming together,” said Turner. “It’s difficult to have everyone come together with like-minded actions. I think the actions really speak loudly, those tangible actions that can kind of move into real actions in the future. “I think that’s what there really is to celebrate. That all this work has been done and that we kind of have those building blocks to do some work into the future especially on the heels of COVID.” That same theme of bringing people together is also the basis for the plan’s top priority, which is to “seek improved regional transportation” for the area. According to the report, in both Pemberton and the SLRD’s Area C, an overwhelming majority of people commute via car (75 per cent in the Village and 87 per cent in Area C), while public transit represents the lowest-used mode of commuting in both. So, the need is clear for a better regional transportation, according to Turner. “I think one thing that keeps bubbling to the top for us is regional transportation. So that’s certainly in there as more of a complex strategy or action, is how do we move that along,” he said. “Through [COVID-19], we have people hitchhiking to Whistler to go to a doctor’s appointment. There’s like two buses to get from Pemberton to Whistler, so if you don’t
work at a bank from nine to five, or you send an elder down there to a doctor’s appointment, they have to wait around until 4:30 p.m. to get a bus home.” According to the report, improving public transportation in the region will also “likely benefit other priorities such as access to affordable housing and developing Indigenous tourism across the region.” To improve the transportation, the Collaborative plans to create a new committee that “supports the newly formed regional and local transportation partnership” between Pemberton, Lil’wat and the SLRD’s Area C, and lobbies for “improved regional transportation” by reaching out to, and working with, political leaders like the minister of transportation and infrastructure. Another one of the Collaborative’s top complex priorities involves improving housing affordability and availability to help keep up and support the area’s growing population. According to the report, from 2001 to 2016 Pemberton’s yearly population growth rate was 3.78 per cent, which is more than twice as high as the B.C. average. Currently the total population of all the communities in the area (including Pemberton, Area C, the Lil’wat Nation, the N’Quatqua Band, the Samahquam First Nation, the Skatin First Nation and Xa’xtsa First Nation) is nearly 7,000 and is expected to rise to over 8,000 by 2030 and nearly 9,500 by 2040. According to the report, having so many people moving to the area “raises the cost of housing through increased demand,” but also presents opportunities that come with the need for more housing like more jobs in the construction industry and more municipal revenue from property taxes. Some small steps have already been taken towards addressing Pemberton’s housing needs with the approval of a new project between the Village and Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) to bring 61 new affordable housing units to Pemberton in the next few years. On top of creating more jobs in the construction industry, creating more affordable housing helps build a stronger community, according to Jessie Abraham, director of housing for SSCS. “The benefits of affordable housing, in general, [are that it] creates more inclusive and more resilient communities,” she said. “As we know from the pandemic, those with lower incomes are more vulnerable and when long-term residents lose their housing, or run out of affordable options, they really get pushed out of the community and that fabric that makes the community so unique is lost.” Find the full report at www. tourismpembertonbc.com/ regionaleconomicdevelopmentstrategy. n
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Fruit ripe for the picking in Pemberton NEW VOLUNTEERS, TREE OWNERS WELCOME AS PEMBERTON FRUIT TREE PROJECT CONTINUES FOR ANOTHER SUMMER
BY MEGAN LALONDE THE PEMBERTON Fruit Tree project has returned to spread even more sweetness throughout the valley this summer. Launched in 2016, the project was created in an effort to reduce human-bear conflict in and around Pemberton while simultaneously connecting people with excess fruit with those who need it. The gist: landowners who are unable to pick the fruit on their property can register their trees with the project’s coordinator. When the fruit is ripe, volunteers swoop in to clear the branches. That fruit is then divided into thirds and shared equally between the property owner, volunteers and local organizations—for example, the Food Bank, Pemberton Seniors Society, Pemberton Healthy Pregnancy Outreach Program and Signal Hill Elementary School’s Breakfast and Lunch Club Program, to name just a few. “And most of the time, everyone gets absolutely plenty,” explained Belinda Geisler, Stewardship Pemberton Society’s (SPS) Feasting for Change coordinator. The Fruit Tree Project is operated by the SPS under its Feasting for Change umbrella, which also covers the Pemberton Seed Library, the Grow-It-Forward Garden and the Pemberton Crabapple project.
It’s funded by the Whistler Community Foundation and the Pemberton Wildlife Association, as well as initiatives like an orange-selling fundraiser and sales of Feasting for Change’s crabapple jelly, made from fruit collected from Pemberton crabapple trees. In just five years, its impacts have been substantial: According to the SPS, the local Conservation Officer Service reported 66 per cent fewer bear calls in the area in 2020 than it did in 2019. Since its inception, the project has removed more than 4,580 kilograms of fruit from local trees and provided more than 2,720 kg to community organizations that needed it. Last year alone, volunteers harvested almost 1,500 kg of fruit from a total of 34 trees on 15 different properties, Geisler said, as well as a local blueberry farm. So what’s the trick to beating the bears to a perfectly ripe cherry tree? “It’s a bit of luck,” said Geisler with a laugh. “We try and get there the day before it’s overripe, because as it ripens [the fruit] starts giving out this delicious smell. So if we can get there the day it ripens as opposed to three days after it’s ripened, we have more luck. If the berries are doing well, if the fish are running, then we have more luck.” Geisler and her team of volunteers have visited nine cherry trees so far this
CHERRY PICKERS A volunteer from Stewardship Pemberton Society’s Fruit Tree Project displays her haul after a community fruit-picking session. Following cherry season, the project is in a slower phase as it waits for the Pemberton Valley’s apple, pear, and plum trees to ripen later this summer. PHOTO SUBMITTED
year—six new trees and three returning from previous years—from which they picked nearly 220 kg of cherries. That’s a significantly bigger haul than the 161 kg of cherries they harvested in 2020. “So if this is a trend for the whole summer it will be busier that last year, which was busier than the year before,” she said. Now with harvests slowed down before the apple, pear, plum trees and grapevines ripen later this summer, the project’s coordinator is always looking for more volunteers and fruit tree owners—as well as local organizations to distribute the fruit forward—to keep its wheels spinning.
Currently, the project counts 100 volunteers (or “volunteer hopefuls,” as Geisler likes to call the ones she knows only by their email address) on its email list. The number of volunteers needed for every harvest varies greatly by the type, size and number of trees, she explained. For example, “I had one tree with 10 pounds of cherries, and one tree with 120 pounds,” said Geisler. But beyond the measurable impacts, the real benefit of the Fruit Tree Project is found in the bonds it creates throughout the community, she added. “It’s magic to be in a tree with a group of people when you’re relying on them, to make sure the ladders are safe and to help each other down and out of the tree, and you’re sharing recipes, [and] just the different fruit that you’re going to go home and eat,” Geisler said. “It’s very different to when you would do a ‘you-pick,’ where you go out with your family and you pick your fruit and you pay for it and go away. Here, you all come together, you pick it together, you weigh it together and everyone’s working towards this common goal of feeding the whole town. That sense of community and of sharing, and of the abundance—it’s really special.” To register a fruit tree or to be added to the volunteer email list, send a message to Geisler at pembyfruittree@gmail.com. n
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Year of the hardtail experiment THERE WAS A TIME when the term “hardtail” didn’t exist, when mountain bikes were instead distinguished as “fully rigid” (rigid fork and frame, like a BMX) or “with suspension,” where the rigid frame was upgraded with a suspension fork.
BY VINCE SHULEY Thankfully, only the latter exists today for mountain bikes, the fully rigid seemingly relegated to the disciplines of cyclocross, gravel biking and cycle touring. Full suspension mountain bike frames have been continuously iterated for a couple of decades now and many riders are too young (or entered the sport too late) to know anything different. There was a time when the inclusion of rear suspension on bikes was argued as a “cheating move” by purists, which promptly lost steam once everyone could see how fast the World Cup Downhill riders could go. That, and trying one out for themselves and realizing how much more comfort and fun was to be had. The current and diminishing trend of loving to hate e-bikes isn’t much different. Yet despite being relegated to somewhat of an endangered species in advanced trail riding, hardtails have persisted. Just look at our own home-grown brand in Whistler/ Pemberton—Chromag. While the majority
GOING HARD Sheena, a crowd favourite from the 2017 Chromag Show & Shine. Hardtail riding is alive and well in Whistler. PHOTO BY VINCE SHULEY
of Chromag-labelled gear out there are its stylish accessories, true membership in the Chromag cult comes from riding one of its hardtails. I witnessed the epitome of this cult-like behaviour back in 2014 when I was a sports reporter for the Whistler Question. The event was called “Exiled to Steel Street,” a course over 70-kilometres long and 2,700-metres of elevation gain, otherwise described by participants as “just another Tony Horn race.” The catch? Only Chromag frame bikes were allowed to enter. Sixty-six masochists braved the course. Not everyone finished it, but the camaraderie around this brand was unlike anything I’d seen in the sport of mountain biking. Having learned to ride on a fully rigid mountain bike in the ‘90s (it took a while to
my carbon full suspension frame in a crash. Unable to warranty, repair or replace the broken front triangle, I quickly realized that the global bike shortage could leave me high and dry with no trail bike. I managed to get my hands on a Chromag Rootdown—one of the brand’s most popular frames—that would fit my 29-inch wheels. I transferred all the components over, including a 160mm travel fork. I wish I could say that the first ride was a dream, a nostalgic journey back to my roots with the sport, but that was only on the climbs. I stumbled down the Pamplemousse trail in Squamish getting bucked like a rodeo cowboy, the strain on my ankles, hips and lower back so excessive that I almost booked a physio appointment
I wish I could say that the first ride was a dream, a nostalgic journey back to my roots with the sport, but that was only on the climbs.
save up for suspension forks as a teenager at the time), I’ve always had a solid respect for hardtails. Much like the estranged off-road cousin, the BMX, a rigid frame has a definitive response to the trail, and to your mistakes. You feel everything. There’s no better way to learn mountain biking. You ride closer to your own ability, make wiser line choices and it encourages a stronger body position, rather than simply kicking back and riding the rear like we do on modern enduro bikes (author guilty as charged). My reluctant hardtail experiment began late in the 2020 summer when I disintegrated
on the spot. After a few rides I began to understand the importance of line choice again, rather than heedlessly motoring over roots and rocks. Jumps required an exact speed; come up too short and you’re going to painfully case it, too fast and you risk overshooting or not being able to slow down in time for the next obstacle or corner. Frustrated with my regression, I consulted a good friend who is a hardtail veteran, having spent many years riding a Chromag Gypsy before the frame finally succumbed to his abuse. Some words of wisdom he gave me were, “Hardtails can go really fast, they just
can’t slow down very fast.” While the front fork does a great job of keeping the front tire in contact with the trail, at a certain speed the rear tire begins to simply skip from the top of one obstacle to the next, hence a lack of rear braking power. A tip he gave me was to adjust my stance on the bike and shift my hips forward: “You can’t have so much weight back there with no give.” This made all the difference. Now that I was consciously shifting my weight forward on the bike and getting my chin closer to handlebars in a strong push-up position, the forces striking the rear wheel of my hardtail were not affecting my control or contributing nearly as much fatigue to my body. I’ve employed this same stance on my downhill bike in the bike park and have had some of the fastest runs in years with unprecedented cornering traction. I realize if I had a regular session with a mountainbike coach they probably would have told me the same thing, but the discipline that a hardtail demands of you as a rider, is an incredible learning tool. I’ve definitely found I like riding certain trails more than others sans rear suspension. Steep, slabby and technical trails are great. Fast, rough trails with unforgiving jumps or drops are not so great. In any case, the year of the hardtail experiment has (so far) turned out to be a success. It likely won’t stick as my primary trail bike for the long term, but revisiting my roots in mountain biking was well worth the stiff and sore muscles. Vince Shuley agrees that steel is real. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■
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Frank Gott was not happy to see the game warden. It wasn’t the first time the famed Lillooet hunter, guide, and First World War veteran had had a run in with Albert Edward Farey, himself a decorated veteran and avid outdoorsman. Gott, an Indigenous man said to have inherited his German surname from his stepfather, had been hunting and following traplines in the area around his home since he was a boy. But suddenly, authorities were harassing him for hunting without the proper tags. It all came to a head on Oct. 3, 1932. Gott had been discharged from the war in 1917 due to poor health from what he would later learn was tuberculosis. He was convinced that his declining state, at age 76, could be cured by deer meat—whether he had a tag for it or not. So when Farey approached his hunting camp—which one account in The Vancouver Sun says was located near Gott Mountain (known today as Gott Peak) near Blowdown Pass, and others say was near the Bridge River—Gott was likely not in the mood to negotiate. A Lillooet logger named James Thomas Dalton had accompanied Gott on the trip and later recalled the standoff to an attorney general. “Why were not the tags on the hide?” he remembers Farey asking Gott, after producing a deer’s hide. “Why did you hide the meat? You can’t fool me. I’ve been too long at this game.” Gott, who served as a sniper in the war, was standing about nine metres from Farey. That’s when he allegedly took a shot. The warden didn’t stand a chance.
Tough and tumble According to the sixth census of Canada, released in 1921, Francis Gott was born in 1856 in B.C., but his parents were both from Quebec. While it lists his chief occupation as farmer— and he reportedly spent some time as a prospector, too—he was far and away best known for his legendary hunting and guiding skills. An Oct. 19, 1932 article in The Windsor Star described how “in the homes of hunters all over the country there are photographs of grizzly bear and mountain sheep and other trophies of the hunt, with the figure of Frank Gott in the background holding up the head or antlers. “All his life he had spent in Lillooet, tracking up and down the hills and through the timbered valleys. He knew a vast region of mountain and timber as the average man knows his backyard.” Gordon E. Whitney, who grew up in Lillooet, remembers from childhood how Gott was regarded in the small community. Whitney, now in his mid-90s, published a book last year called Boyhood Memories of a Cariboo Town that included a chapter on Gott. “Everybody in Lillooet knew Frank was a good shot,” he says. “I remember as a child … I guess a dog had rabies or something—it was standing across the river and somebody called Frank. It was maybe 400 or 500 yards away and Frank shot the dog … From what I understand, he had a reputation as a really well-known guide and hunting guide.” Despite his small stature, Gott also had a reputation for being remarkably tough. While the age on his army enlistment papers is incorrect (more on that later), they describe him as just over 5’5” with a “fully expanded” chest size of 35 inches, weighing about 145 pounds. “[He was] wiry and strong and could carry an 80-pound pack all day and even carry a sack of flour on top for short distances,” according to Frank Gott of Lillooet, written by Renee Chipman. Widely beloved in his community, he was also known as a voracious reader and multilinguist. Though he did have his run-ins with the law, largely stemming from racist liquor laws at the time—and, later, for illegal possession of deer carcasses. The Chipman story—passed on to Pique by Vivan Gott, Frank’s great-grand-niece—says that, for some reason, Gott was considered white under the law and was able to purchase liquor, while other Indigenous people were not. As a result, he would often “oblige his thirsty friends.” This could be because when he returned home from the First World War, he was required to give up his Indigenous status in order to receive a pension, according to his great-great-grand-nephew, Willard Abraham.
In the Chipman story, Gott’s close friend Artie Phair—Lillooet’s first white male child who became a well-known merchant, coroner, and perhaps most enduringly, amateur photographer and historian, in the area—is quoted as describing him as so tough he could “sleep in a snowbank when out in the hills.” However, Phair also recalls his trouble with drinking. “He couldn’t stand up much and would go to sleep often on the road and be locked up. Once he was frozen to the ground and we had to chop him out.” But in Frank Gott – explorer, guide and soldier, Phair’s overall sentiment of his friend comes through: “Some day, Frank Gott will be regarded as one of the more famous native sons born in Lillooet.”
‘He has done his bit’ Gott officially signed up to serve in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on Feb. 17, 1916. According to his attestation paper, he was 44 years old at the time, single and working as a hunter and guide. That turned out to be two truths and a lie. But of course, if he had revealed his true age, which, if we’re going by census data would’ve put him at around 60 years old, he would’ve been deemed too old to fight. (The age limit was between 18 and 45. There are stories of men younger and older lying to meet requirements— though Gott seems to be on the extreme end.) Whether the army believed him—for a while, at least—or turned a blind eye remains a mystery. Either way, Gott joined the 102nd Battalion and arrived in England on June 28, 1916. There’s one story that turns up many times about Gott’s encounter while being inspected by the Duke of Connaught. The Duke reportedly looked at Gott’s white hair (though his hair colour in his attestation papers is described as black and grey) and asked, “What’s your age?” “My military age is 47,” he replied. The Duke whispered, “What is your real age?” Gott relented, while staring straight ahead: “Over, 60, sir.” In the spring, Gott and his battalion embarked for the European front, where they landed in the muddy trenches of Ypres. “The trenches were no better than ‘wet, broken earth,’ according to Major Matthews, later of City Archives, Vancouver. The men dug in as best they could but not Frank,” the Chipman article says. “He scorned to shelter in the face of danger and sat erect in the mud, his rifle between his knees, his black, telescopic eyes fanning ‘The Front.’ The unit was under merciless shellfire the first afternoon and 20 of his comrades were killed around him but still he sat immobile, patient as a hunter waiting for his quarrie, a splendid example of coolheadness to skittish troops.” But according to records from the army’s medical board, by fall of 1916, while in France, Gott began to feel weak and tired with “rheumatic pains in the shoulders and … [a] cough with expectoration.” At this stage, it seemed the army was onto his true age because his “disabling condition before enrolment” was listed as “old age, aggravated by service.” While he was given light duty for a time, he didn’t improve. The prognosis was grim: “At his age could not expect much improvement.” Finally, in his “Medical History of an Invalid” paper, it appears the truth had come out. His age at his last birthday was listed at 62. “This man is 63 years of age, a sturdy chap with a determined look,” wrote the president of the medical board on April 11, 1917. “Spent nine months in France as a sniper and from his … hair and general appearance he ‘has done his bit.’ The joints of his legs are stiff from exposure, has a chronic bronchitis.” There are later mentions in many stories and articles that Gott’s true ailment was tuberculosis, but in his military papers “T.B.” is only listed in one place. On Nov. 11, 1917, Gott was sent home.
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A changed man Gott’s friends noticed a change after he returned to Lillooet. He was no longer the carefree man they had once known and he would disappear into the woods for extended periods. “Many at first thought he was brooding over being returned before war was over, but he seems more to have been hiding his physical condition,” Chipman writes. Some time later, around the ‘30s, Gott asked to join Phair and some others on a prospecting and hunting trip, which is when they finally realized how much his health had declined. “He was short of breath, his legs no longer limber, nor his footing sure,” Chipman writes. “They were privately concerned for their old friend but Frank gave them no opportunity to be embarrassed on his account. He casually elected himself cook at the base camp and ‘lay around.’” “We all knew then he could not last much longer but he just could not give up,” Phair says in the article. It was soon after this trip that Gott decided to hunt a doe in hopes it might help cure him. Newspaper articles aside, many of the writing recounting this time is critical of how the province’s hunting laws didn’t properly take traditional Indigenous rights into account. According to Abraham, Gott’s great-great-grand-nephew, the story he had been told was Gott belonged to the Bonaparte First Nation near Cache Creek, but gave up his status for his veteran pension, which meant he also had to forfeit his hunting rights. “He didn’t have the status to hunt, but he still did,” Abraham says. He recalls hearing stories about Gott as a child, mostly from his grandmother. “I look up to that guy. He’s my hero,” he says. “Same with my grandfather.” According to the book The Same As Yesterday: The Lillooet Chronicle the Theft of Their Lands and Resources, in 1932, deer tagging became law, with 14,838 tags sold. (Although rules around hunting seasons were in place earlier.) But in October of 1932, when game warden Farey came to check his doe, Gott unsurprisingly did not have a tag.
“He was an old man, dying of T.B. contracted in the trenches of the First World War,” he wrote. “His mind was going with worry as he knew he was all in … He was not the character the articles make him out to be, but a man loved by everyone, whites and Indians. The shooting could have been an accident, as we never left a gun in the camp that was loaded. In his right mind he would never have shot the game warden.” What happened next seems to be a little clearer: Gott fled.
‘I’ll never surrender’
Stories from various blogs like to speculate that Gott ran off into the valleys around Gott Peak and that’s how the mountain and nearby Gott Creek was named. As romantic as that might seem, it doesn’t appear to be true. Neither Natural Resources Canada nor the BC Geographical Names Office could say how exactly those locations were named, but they do know the dates. Gott Peak appeared on a map as early as 1914 and was identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer, a dictionary of place names, but was officially adopted in September 1951. Gott Creek was likewise in the 1930 BC Gazetteer and adopted in 1951. For Vivian Gott, Frank’s great-grand-niece, Gott Creek in particular is an important family landmark. (Gott’s descendants still live around the area, from Pemberton to D’arcy and beyond.) But what she knows about her great uncle is limited to stories from books and newspaper clippings. “We used to do a lot of travelling from Kamloops to D’arcy,” she says. “We’d come for a month in the summertime and we’d stop at Gott Creek. That’s all I really know about it.” What appears to have happened after the shooting on Oct. 3 was Gott ran from the hunting camp, sparking a manhunt. He managed to elude authorities for two days. According to an Oct. 6, 1932 article from The Vancouver Daily Province, Gott spent the night in a barn with permission from the farmer who owned it, after declining offers of food. He spent the next day in the woods, but “the posse” found his tracks. Early the following morning, someone spotted Gott near the Bridge River. The article says District Game Supervisor R.M. Robertson and Game Warden Paul Quesnel spent the night “under a blanket above the mouth of the Bridge River,” presumably meaning they were located After allegedly shooting and killing Farey, Dalton, the Lillooet logger who was on the hunting where that river meets the Fraser River, north of Lillooet. trip, said Gott “did not offer any resistance” when he took away his gun. That account says that Gott emerged with “something in one hand” (later alleged to be But there was also a second person on the trip, a 14-year-old from Lillooet named a knife) and shouted, “I’ll never surrender. I’m a soldier.” Ramond Miller, according to a Vancouver Sunday Province article. After Dalton took the Robertson replied, “So am I.” rifle, Miller recalled asking Gott if he could take his horse. Even though the article does not seem to portray Gott favourably, it still described how “He said yes,” Miller said. “I saw Gott fire at Farey. I heard no swearing. Frank Gott said I “amazingly agile for an old man” he was when he ran towards the riverbank at attempted could have the horse. He said ‘I am done for.’ Frank seemed quite normal. I saw Frank bring to jump down. the rifle up about half way, and fire. Mr. Farey fell at the first shot.” Both Robertson and Quesnel shot their rifles “into the bottom of a cloud of dust.” Gott Several accounts say when Farey’s body was brought back to Lillooet (stories differ on kept running and they shot again. whether the hunting camp where the violence took place was at Gott Mountain or near That bullet allegedly struck Gott in the leg and thigh. The article says he “made a weak Moha), there was a note on his body. slash at his throat” with the knife as they approached. The Sunday Province story says it read, “He has been watching me once too often. I am He was taken to Lillooet for first aid then on to a hospital in Lytton. going to expire myself. It’s all off with me, anyway. Good-bye to all my friends only. I am sorry, But it was too late. but I done it. Fixed the game warden. He had no business to bother me like that. So long, boys.” According to a Government of B.C. website honouring Farey—one of only two conservation officers ever killed in the line of duty—three years earlier, Farey had fined Gott $25 (around $290 today) for illegal possession of another deer carcass. “As a result of this conviction, Gott would bear a grudge against Farey for the next three When news of Gott’s death broke in Lillooet, residents were upset. years, growing enmity that would culminate in the Warden’s ruthless murder,” the writeTwo weeks later, they gathered at a mass meeting where they decided to petition the up says. attorney general to hold an inquiry into his shooting, according to an article in The Daily In a letter to the editor of The Province, Gott’s old friend Phair disputed some accounts Province from Oct. 20, 1932. outlined in a column called “Back When” published in August 1960 that appears to have “The people of Lillooet are not, in any sense, condoning the crime for which Gott was recounted the story. being hunted when he met his death,” it says. “But they were Gott’s neighbours, and
‘So long, boys’
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FEATURE STORY acquainted with his character, his record and his circumstance and would like to be satisfied that the officers who took his life were justified in following the course they did.” It’s unclear if the article was meant as an opinion piece, but its author agreed with them. “Even if Gott was a murderer—and that has never been proven—he was entitled to a fair trial before being condemned to death. In shooting him as they did, the officers denied him that fair trial and constituted themselves prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.” Two days later, Attorney-General Robert Henry Pooley declared that two inquests into the matter—one into the death of Farey and the other into the death of Gott—had been held and no further investigation would turn up new information, according to an article in the Oct. 23 edition of The Vancouver Sunday Province. “The only possible extension of these enquires would be in the form of manslaughter charges against provincial police who captured Gott,” Pooley said. “Such charges would be absolutely unjustified, in my opinion, and I have so advised the commissioner of police. The officers who captured Gott behaved with the greatest discretion, gave Gott every opportunity to surrender, and took the utmost risk themselves in enforcing the law.” In his coroner’s report Dr. C. H. Ployart, who performed the autopsy, said Gott was suffering from tuberculosis in advanced stages and concluded “the causes of death were this disease, exposure and lack of nourishment, which weakened him, and shock due to having his leg fractured by a gunshot wound.” Had he been in better health there would have been “a very good chance of recovery from this wound.”
A lost legacy Frank Gott’s story doesn’t end in 1932. During a Jan. 26, 2004 SquamishLillooet Regional District board meeting, Lillooet Conservation officer Bob Butcher asked for a letter of support to name a mountain or other landmark after Farey, who, again, is only one of two conservation officers killed in the line of duty since 1905. According to the Lillooet News, the board was split. Ultimately, then-Area C director and SLRD chair Susie Gimse said in the meeting that they should follow suit with past directors and remain
neutral on the controversial issue. They also urged Butcher to consult with First Nations about the naming. In a separate article, Chief Garry John, chair of the St’át’imc Council of Chiefs, said he was disappointed they weren’t contacted about the efforts to honour Farey. “This seems to be an indication of the way the government proceeds with things. They take all these actions and make all these decisions and then as an after-thought they think about talking to us,” he said. For his part, at the meeting, Butcher said, “There is no reason to try to conceive some issue that is not there. The fact that he was killed by a First Nation person is irrelevant. He was killed in the line of duty.” The government website post about Farey likewise laments that he was never celebrated. “While the local newspapers were keen to chronicle Gott’s guiding expertise, outdoor skills and wartime achievements, scant attention was paid to the life of the murdered game warden,” it says. “Game Warden ‘Bert’ Farey was buried in the Lillooet cemetery. His funeral never even made the newspapers of the day.” To this day, there has never been a mountain named after him.
‘No ordinary man’ Gott Peak might not have been the location where Gott killed Farey or even the spot where he attempted to flee authorities. But it is a stunning hike bordering on the Stein Valley that has a magical quality about it. High above the treeline, the rocky peaks boast a stunning array of natural hues. The ridge walk to the true peak feels somewhat daring with a sheer drop-off on one side, but is fairly safe with sure footing. Unlike other summits, it offers a sprawling plateau; the perfect place to rest in the sun and take in the view from what feels like the top of the world. A biography on bivouac.com from 2011 by Mike Cleven gets several details wrong about Gott’s life and death, but its conclusion poignantly captures the feeling of visiting the area. “Whoever’s up there next, say a prayer for him and burn your sweetgrass or whatever you do to honour someone, because the mountain you’ve climbed wasn’t named after an ordinary man, [he was] perhaps a man even more extraordinary than the many other remarkable men whose names stud the map of the Bridge River-Lillooet Country and the High Cayoosh.”■
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Wild Kittens working hard to grow the women’s skate scene JULIETTE AND AMELIA PELCHAT ARE HOSTING WEEKLY LADIES SKATE EVENTS FOR WOMEN OF ALL AGES WHO WANT A SAFE PLACE TO LEARN TO SKATE
BY HARRISON BROOKS IN WHISTLER and the surrounding area, the name Pelchat is almost synonymous with snowboarding. It started with JF Pelchat, who was a part of the Wildcats, a legendary backcountry snowboard group in the ‘90s. Now, it’s his daughters Juliette and Amelia that are primed to take the mantle as the future of women’s snowboarding. But that’s not all the Pelchat sisters are known for in Whistler. They are also the driving force behind Whistler’s growing girls skateboard scene with their group The Real Wild Kittens, which hosts Ladies Skate events every Friday morning throughout the summer. The idea first came to them while on a family vacation in Ucluelet, B.C. last year. Juliette, 16, and Amalia, 13, heard about a ladies skate event at the park in town and decided to check it out and invite their friends to join. “Me and Amalia were in Ucluelet and there was a girls skate event, but it was kind of run down, so we decided to just go there and bring it back with the help of a few other pro snowboarders out there, like Marie-France Roy and Robin Van Gyn,” said Juliette Pelchat. “And there was an awesome community
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that just showed up and then we were like, ‘Oh, this would be cool to bring this to Whistler.’ So, then we decided to host one in Whistler, and it ended up taking off last year.” The first event they hosted only had about 10 girls show up, but by the second time, the word was out and more than 30 girls attended. “There was a lot of things going on in the world at this time. COVID was a big thing, and everybody was pretty down about that and Black Lives Matter, and we
began to take off and it transitioned from the success of the Ladies Skates into running camps and doing private lessons for any girls who wanted to learn to skateboard. And now in Year 2, the business is starting to gain momentum with weekly skateboard camps, private coaching, sponsors and giveaways. But no matter how big the business side of things might get, the free, drop-in Friday morning Ladies Skate events, for women of all ages, will always be foundational to the
“The first one was not as big, but the second one was huge ... Everybody was so positive and so many girls there.” - JULIETTE PELCHAT
were like, ‘OK, we got to bring something good to the skate park, or something good to this world, in these tough times.’ So we decided to host our first event at the end of June last year,” said Pelchat. “The first one was not as big, but the second one was huge. It was insane. Everybody was so positive and so many girls there. “We also wanted to start it because when we were growing up, we didn’t have that safe environment to learn how to skateboard and we wanted to provide the girls with that opportunity.” From that moment The Real Wild Kittens
Kittens—because it was never about money. It was always about building a community of female skateboarders and “being able to give back to the skate community,” according to Pelchat. While the Ladies Skate events have grown to the point where they see more than 20 girls show up consistently each week, Pelchat still hopes to get more older women to take part, whether it is a mom of one of the girls in the camp or just any adult who always wanted to try skateboarding but never knew where to start. “We’re trying to get more adults out, but they don’t always want to ride with really
young girls. But last year we had quite a variation of ages and levels,” said Pelchat. “There’s actually a few parents that have started to skateboard because they are excited to see their kids learning and they want to be a part of it.” One example of that is Pelchat’s own mom, Kristy La Mantia, who has been helping out with the camps behind the scenes, but decided to get on a board herself once she saw how much her daughters loved skateboarding and how big a part of their life it had become. “I [started skateboarding] to support the initiative and to show the girls and other women that you can do it at any age. It makes my kids happy to see that I’m doing stuff that they’re doing and I’m not just a mom that sits there with a coffee. They’re just stoked to see me do stuff,” said La Mantia, who hopes to encourage more adult women to join her at the park. “It’s so hard, but it’s so fun and it’s actually super rewarding when you do stuff that is challenging. So challenge yourself and get out and go and have some fun. It’s a bunch of us that don’t know what we are doing, but we are going to do it together.” According to La Mantia, an adults-only camp is in the works for this summer but no date has been set yet. For now, The Kittens will be hosting their next four-day camp this Saturday to Wednesday, followed by another from Aug. 7 to 10, while Ladies Skate events continue every Friday morning throughout the summer. All information and details can be found @realwildkittens on Instagram. n
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BY HARRISON BROOKS WITH HIGH SCHOOL now behind them, Whistler’s dynamic luge team of Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless are putting all their energy and focus into qualifying for the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing. However, due to there not being a women’s doubles category at the upcoming Games, the two lugers will be taking a temporary hiatus from their doubles team to focus on improving their individual sliding skills. “Unfortunately doubles won’t really be a possibility for us for these next Olympics but we do have a possible chance to qualify for singles, so we are really going to push for our singles sliding for the next little while until the Games,” said Corless. “Over the summer it’s definitely going to be a long, hard push. I don’t have to focus on school anymore so I can put all of my effort into training really hard, getting really strong, getting really fast starts and then just hoping to travel with the senior team throughout the races leading up to the Games. And if I have good enough results, and I kind of stand my ground with the team, then I’m hoping I would be on the right track.” According to both athletes, switching back and forth between competing in singles and doubles took a while to get used to at the start of their careers. And while they have the process figured out now, with no chance of competing in doubles in the Olympics, the extra distraction of training both disciplines just doesn’t make sense for the two, according to Nash. “Well, I think it’s challenging, for sure, and that’s something people don’t understand where you have to go from working in a team element to working as an individual, and that’s something that I think we struggled with a little bit at the beginning of our doubles career,” she said. “But it’s a balance, right? It’s just another thing we had to learn, to kind of prioritize doubles when we were riding as a doubles team, and then also being able to do that as a singles rider, and make sure that you give yourself time to slide singles and to kind of remove yourself from that doubles team aspect and remember that we are still competitors.” After an essentially lost season last year being stuck in Whistler due to the pandemic and only being able to train and compete in a few local races, Corless and Nash made the move to Calgary for the summer to train with the national team at the city’s worldclass facilities where they can focus on the specific details of their craft, like getting
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DYNAMIC DUO Caitlin Nash (left) and Natalie Corless moved to Calgary to train for the 2022 Olympics. PHOTO BY DAVE HOLLAND
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BY HARRISON BROOKS AFTER A ROUGH
pandemic, the Pemberton Stockcar Association is back for the summer racing season. The first race weekend of the 2021 season at the Pemberton Speedway starts this Saturday, July 24 from 5 to 9 p.m. and finishes Sunday, July 25 with races happening from noon to 5 p.m. This weekend’s races will feature drivers in both the Hornet and Hobby class. “Hornet is a very cheap way of getting into racing. It’s a four-cylinder car. Any fourcylinder car can enter, you can’t modify it, it has to be how the car came stock, so you can’t put big motors in them and stuff like that,” said Colin Scott, president of the Pemberton Stockcar Association. “Hobby is a more advanced class. There are certain restrictions for them to keep them competitive with each other. These cars run anywhere from 350 to 450 horsepower in a car that weighs 1,300 kilograms (2,866 pounds), so they move pretty quick out there.” Races consist of a minimum of four cars per heat with the cars reaching speeds of over 100 kilometres/hour, despite the short track. Tickets for the race are $12 for adults and kids over 10 years of age, or $20 for the whole weekend. Kids under 10 are free. The next race weekend is scheduled for Aug. 21 and 22, with the season wrapping up on Sept. 11 and 12.
STEWART WALKER CONTINUES IMPRESSIVE SEASON After picking up back-to-back wins in the juvenile boys division at the MJT Spring Series at the Golden Eagle Golf Club in Pitt Meadows and the MJT Ford Series at Hazlemere Golf and Tennis Club in Surrey, Whistler’s Stewart walker continued his impressive start to the season with a seventh-place finish at the B.C. Juniors tournament at Morningstar on Vancouver Island. Walker accomplished the goal he set out of cracking the top 10, even beating some of the top junior golfers in the province to do so. Next, Walker went to the MJT British Columbia Series tournament at Ledgeview Golf and Country Club in Abbotsford on July 12 to 13. And after a round to forget that saw the Whistlerite sitting in 12th place heading into Day 2, he came back strong, putting up one of the best rounds of the tournament to springboard him into a
WINNING WALKER Stewart Walker looks to continue dominant 2021 season. PHOTO BY RHONA WALKER
seventh-place finish. With the two tournament wins already under his belt earlier this season, Walker has qualified for the MJT National Championship in October.
SUMMER SERIES TENNIS TOURNAMENT UNDERWAY The Whistler Racket Club kicked off its summer series tennis tournament over the weekend. The categories include both men’s and women’s singles and doubles. Players have to be a 3.0 NTRP level tennis player to be eligible to play in the singles tournament and a 5.0 combined for the doubles side, which means players are experienced and able to have consistent rallies and control the direction of the ball. The series consists of three tournaments, two of which are qualifiers for the third and final tournament where the top 16 men, women and teams (based on points from the qualifiers) will be invited to participate. The first qualifier tournament happened July 10 and 11 at the Whistler Racket Club and consisted of 62 total participants across all categories. The next qualifier tournament will be held on Aug. 7 and 8 at the racket club, with the final tournament being held on Sept. 11 and 12. Entry fees are $50 for club members and $75 for guests on the singles side and $75 for members and $100 for guests on the doubles side. The entry fee also includes an après patio barbecue and a drink. You are not required to play in both qualifiers in order to make the finals, however, playing in both does help with the chances of qualifying. n
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Deli from hell: Featuring pre-cooked seafood, scorched greens and field-boiled jam RECKONING WITH BILLIONS OF WEST COAST SEA CREATURES BOILED ALIVE, AND MORE “THIS WEEK IN HELL,” wrote the smarty-pants at The Baffler in a recent dispatch, “an all-you-can-eat bouillabaisse sourced from the coastal regions of British Columbia, where it’s so hot mussels and clams are roasting in their shells. Mmm!” They were, of course, referencing the shocker reports from B.C. about shoreline
BY GLENDA BARTOSH temperatures hitting 50-plus degrees Celsius the same time low tides hit. Billions of sea animals—mussels, clams, sea stars and more—cooked to death. And that ain’t all. Farmers in Pemberton report young greens and berries scorched in the heat dome, and strawberries in fields cooked, and smelling, like strawberry jam. In the Fraser Valley and Okanagan, up to 70 per cent of some fruit crops were lost. But when New Yorkers take notice, you know you’re worth noticing. And The Baffler, “The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge,” very selectively applies its rapier wit and lefty, outsider view to stories like this. Things didn’t stop there. Bill McKibben, such a venerable leader on the climate file I needn’t say more, also picked up the heat dome story—the cooked seafood, the extraordinary deaths, the extraordinary fires—for his New Yorker Climate Crisis dispatch. Bill is frightened. I’m frightened. So are many others. UBC marine biologist and professor Chris Harley, who first brought
DOME-ICILE Quest University life sciences professor Marjorie Wonham explored possible impacts from the heat dome to the beautiful Squamish estuary framed by the Stawamus St’a7mes Chief, a huge granitic dome. PHOTO BY COLIN BATES
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the whole bouillabaisse thing to light after walking Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach amid the stench from thousands of dead sea creatures, used the word “stunned.” Around the same time, hubby and I gasped at the same unmistakable stink in False Creek. We couldn’t figure it out, but thankfully scientists can. “The heat dome coincided with the lowest midday tides of the summer, meaning that an especially wide swath of the intertidal [zone] all along the coast was exposed to the baking sun for an especially long time,” explained life sciences professor at Squamish’s Quest University, Marjorie Wonham.
“Intertidal organisms (algae and animals) are champions at tolerating fluctuating temperature, salinity, and moisture—but these conditions were way outside their range, and it was just too much for them.” As for Chris’s initial estimates of more than a billion sea creatures cooked in the Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound— particularly in the calmer, inland waters where low-tide effects were pronounced, and in the Vancouver-Seattle corridor, where temperatures were hotter—that’s only going to increase as more dead creatures and more areas impacted are documented. (See below,
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CUTS TO THE BONE I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Two facts from a research scientist at the World Conference for Science Journalists in London in 2009 jarred me to the bone. The scientist worked at the British Antarctic Survey—Britain’s national polar research institute in Cambridge that does “polar science for planet Earth” like drilling ice core samples to analyze the carbon content of air bubbles trapped inside. It was amazing to hold a 120,000-year-old ice core sample. But when I asked her what would she tell world leaders if she could have their ear, her answer was even more amazing: 1. We need to get 1/3 of the carbon out of the atmosphere, now. That was July, 2009. 2. The gyres in the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans are so huge and slow-moving, and it takes so long to register the impacts from changes to those systems, that the effects of climate change we were feeling that day, 13 years ago, were the result of carbon pumped into the atmosphere in the 1970s! Picture how much more carbon we’ve pumped into the atmosphere since then, and what it will do. For one, we had about 250 million cars on Earth in 1970; 500 million in 1986; more than 1 billion in 2010. Now add on about 300,000 more cars each year since 2010. So what can we do? As Marjorie points out, the climate crisis is driven by one thing: human behaviour. Yes, go meat-free. Consume with a conscience. Drive an electric car if you must drive. Better, bike. Use public transit. But come on, folks, we’ve got to go big or we won’t have a home to go to. So get politically active. Vote, vote, and vote again. Protest. Better, help power political parties and candidates who’ll make the big moves we—and our planet—are dying for. n
for citizen scientists’ input.) Now Chris is adding in things like barnacles, which take a while to determine if they’re dead. But a survey of a onekilometre stretch of beach near 1,001 Steps in White Rock already indicates tens of millions of barnacles died there. “A lot of early estimates were the mussels, which were the first thing to be obviously dead because they open up right away and, just like when you get them on your plate in a restaurant, they open because they’re cooked,” says Chris. As for Howe Sound, Chris surveyed some shoreline at Porteau Cove, south of Squamish, 10 days after the heat dome, and estimates 75 per cent of mussels there died. Things will get worse before they get better. “Although we don’t have more sampling sites in Howe Sound yet, the fact that we got very similar patterns on the Sunshine Coast, in West Vancouver and Galiano Island suggests this is a very broad-scale thing and there are almost certainly similar numbers of dead in other places,” he says. As for impacts throughout the ecosystem, we know that juvenile salmon use shoreline waters as a migratory corridor, and lots of larger species come to what Marjorie calls “the intertidal buffet” to feed. “Fish (not salmon though) and crabs and octopus come up when the tide is in, and birds and bears come down when the tide is out,” she says. But it’s not yet clear what impact this die-off will have on those major predators, or how far through the food web it will reverberate. One thing she and other scientists do know, though, is we can expect more heat waves, forest fires, floods, storms and more extreme weather events of all kinds. Stand by, Baffler. Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who applauds good scientists. n
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Pemberton’s small-but-mighty visual art scene on display for ArtHop SUMMER-LONG EXHIBIT FEATURES CLOSE TO 30 ARTISTS DISPLAYED IN SHOPS AROUND TOWN
BY BRANDON BARRETT BELOVED PAINTER and TV personality Bob Ross used to say there is no such thing as mistakes in art, only happy accidents. That’s a motto 30-year-old artist Ben Poechman took to heart last summer when he was painting a mural of an old-growth tree at the skate park for the inaugural edition of the Pemberton ArtHop. “In the making of it, it started to rain, and it actually brought some new aesthetic to the piece that I couldn’t have planned on. It made the paint drip,” he says. “I thought it was going to ruin the piece, but it actually added to it. It was as if the tree was crying and there came the name, Cedar She Weeps.” It’s the kind of welcome mishap that is more likely to come from working in the elements than the confines of a studio, and one that perfectly represents the accessibility of the Pemberton Arts Council’s community ArtHop, running at various locations across town until Sept. 12. Now in its second year, the Pemberton
HAPPY ACCIDENT Ben Poechman’s Cedar She Weeps mural at the local skate park was one of the works on display at last year’s Pemberton ArtHop. PHOTO SUBMITTED
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ArtHop, like so many things these days, grew out of a desire to make the most of a bad situation; in this case, the pandemic, explains arts council board member Rachel Hesketh. “We really had to get creative as a council and we had to think about how we could still uplift our community. How
“I think it’s incredible to highlight this side of Pemberton,” relays Hesketh. “We do have this really thriving—small—but really passionate and really talented group of people here who are making beautiful, beautiful things. They often celebrate our landscape and our culture of loving the land
“How could we share art and beauty and joy with our friends, family and neighbours and do it in a safe way?” - RACHEL HESKETH
could we share art and beauty and joy with our friends, family and neighbours and do it in a safe way?” she says. “ArtHop was our reaction to that.” Featuring close to 30 local artists— ranging from gallery-represented fine artists to emerging amateurs—whose work is displayed in local shops across the community, ArtHop is a way to both support local businesses and boost the profile of Pemberton’s small-but-mighty visual art scene, which is probably more diverse than you might expect for a town where farm life and outdoor recreation still reign supreme.
in their work, which is beautiful to see.” The work ranges from traditional paintings to dyed indigo pieces, handpainted skate decks, and macramé made from driftwood plucked from the shores of Lillooet Lake. What’s more is much of the art is for sale, with a wide range of price points that can suit the needs of any collector. One evolution of the event this summer is the work is hung both in shop windows as well as inside local businesses, after the pandemic kept storefronts closed for much of ArtHop last year. Poechman appreciates the inclusivity of
the show, which allows the community to engage with local art in a more organic way, free from the stuffiness of the gallery world. “I think just bringing fine art to everyday settings, like windows on the main stroll or your favourite restaurant, it brings about a certain relatability and access to this otherwise unseen artwork,” he says. “When it’s in a gallery, it’s a little more upscale, so it’s nice to bring it to everyone.” Also on tap this summer is Pemberton Arts Council’s Postcard Show, which asked artists to mail in a postcard of their own design with the theme of “Stronger Together.” Running until Aug. 31, the exhibit is on display at the Pemberton & District Community Centre, and features artists from across the region, and even as far away as the U.S. As they are wont to do, artists interpreted the theme in a multitude of unique ways. “Some were so sweet and meaningful; some were hilarious and weird. It was great to see,” Hesketh notes. “There was a young lady who sent us in a postcard that had a picture of a two-headed cat. That was her visual interpretation of Stronger Together. Honestly, I’m someone who really uses humour to feel better during challenging times, and I thought that was perfect.” For more information on the Pemberton ArtHop, visit pembertonartscouncil.com/ ArtHOP. ■
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BY BRANDON BARRETT YOU COULD BE forgiven for thinking Brother Twang’s latest record, The World Went Crazy Yesterday, is in reference to the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, it was recorded last fall and there’s no denying 2020 felt like a year in which the planet lost its collective marbles. But for the longtime Whistler rock band, it was a different (admittedly more fun) kind of crazy that was the jumping-off point for their fourth studio album. “It would be too obvious pointing out that it’s about what we’ve just been through, so we’ve been trying to keep it uplifting. Obviously the world did go crazy, but for us, it’s about the ‘80s we grew up in,” explains guitarist and vocalist George Skoupas. Drawing from their ‘80s upbringings, the four-man outfit leaned on some of their favourite cultural ephemera from that era to craft the album’s 10 rollicking tracks. “As kids, the ‘80s were the best: best video games, best cartoons, everything. I was a big book reader and I was right into horror, like Stephen King and all that. Everything that was new,” Sloupas says. “Then being on the musician side, for me, the music coming from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s was just unparalleled. It was a fantastic time growing up in those years.” The nostalgia doesn’t end there for Brother Twang. Released last month, The World Went Crazy Yesterday was initially offered exclusively on CD, and rather than distribute it via traditional channels, the band made it available through a minimum $15 donation on GoFundMe, effectively cutting out the middleman and allowing them to take a larger cut of their record sales. The format also informed their songwriting in an era dominated by the curated playlist. “There are still some that do [listen to albums front to back] in my age group and we wrote this album like that: from start to end, [we wanted it] to be an allkiller, no-filler kind of album. We’re
really happy with the way it came out, because we had the time,” says Skoupas. The time the pandemic afforded also changed how the band approached their songs. Between their families, day jobs, and a plethora of side gigs (it seems, to be a true musician in the Sea to Sky, you have to play in a minimum of 17 bands simultaneously), the guys typically had to get creative with scheduling in order to get everyone in the same room at one time. But with live gigs all but dried up, they suddenly had the chance to let the songwriting and recording develop organically. “We wanted to take advantage, because we always used to ask … if we had more time, what would we do with it? Obviously exercise more, spend more time with our families, but as musicians, we had time to actually be together,” Skoupas says. “This album was made in that period where everyone was available, the studio was cheaper than ever, the songs were flowing and continue to flow because we’re still just getting out of it.” Skoupas says this album saw more emphasis on their choruses—“That’s what the non-musician remembers first”—and incorporated piano on the track, “Robo” after the band brought in Christie McRostie, who also filmed the making of the record for an upcoming documentary. Armed with a new synthesizer and home studio, vocalist and guitarist Jay Romany has been more heavily involved in the songwriting as the band continues to venture in a new direction. “He started writing songs and sending them to me … and actually the piano has driven what we’ve recorded since then,” Skoupas says. “We’ve been back in the studio and recorded two new songs that are entirely unlike anything we’ve done, and are just so stunningly awesome to us, that we had to get right back into the studio.” You can still pick up a physical copy of the album through Brother Twang’s GoFundMe: gofundme.com/f/brothertwangs-official-album-release, and the record will be available digitally on all major streaming platforms soon. ■
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BY BRANDON BARRETT THE WHISTLER Film Festival Society announced this week that it has promoted long-time staffer, documentary producer and entertainment industry veteran Angela Heck to the executive director role. “We’re very excited to have Angela Heck move into this new role and look forward to harnessing her experience and steadfast dedication to the organization,” says society chair Ann Chiasson in a release. “Her experience, passion for storytelling, creative and market instincts, and business and industry acumen will serve our organization and programs well into the future.” Heck has been involved with the festival in various capacities since its inception, and most recently, oversaw the pivot to a fully online model as managing director of the 2020 event. She also brings more than 20 years experience in the film and entertainment industry to the position, including as director of digital and strategic initiatives at the National Screen Institute and a development director and producer at Tactica Interactive. She has worked in communications and fundraising roles for CBC, The National Film Board of Canada, Quest University and the Winnipeg Art Gallery, and is a former board member and executive director of Jazz Winnipeg and the University of Manitoba. As a documentary producer, Heck has worked on a number of adventure films, including her first, the Ivan Hughes-helmed In the Shadow of the Chief, which detailed the first ascent of the Stawamus Chief and won the People’s Choice Award at the 2003 Whistler Film Festival. Heck, who replaces festival founder and 2021 Whistler Champion of the Arts nominee Shauna Hardy Mishaw, will continue to report to the board of directors and will be tasked with overseeing and managing programming, fundraising and
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HIGHWAY PROTEST In Sept. 1981 residents of the Garibaldi Townsite held a roadside protest on Highway 99 and handed out “The Great Barrier Grief” circular to draw attention to their plight. PHOTO FROM THE 1981 WHISTLER QUESTION COLLECTION.
The village that ceased to exist: Part 2 BY KEELY COLLINS After a May 1980 Order in Council (OIC) called for the evacuation of their village, the residents of the Garibaldi Townsite faced a stressful and uncertain future. The evacuation was ordered by the province after it was determined that the Barrier, a lava rock face that dams the Garibaldi Lake system—it is over 300-metres (980 ft) thick and about 2.4-kilometres (1.5 mi) long where it impounds the lake—was a risk to the townsite. At first, many of the residents refused to accept the fate of their community, and fought the OIC with everything they had. With every day that passed, their situation seemed to become more complicated and controversial. After the OIC was issued, the evacuation process progressed quickly. Property assessments for the area were to be completed by the coming September. Following that, residents would have until Dec. 31 to accept their purchase offer. The residents were given the option to buy back their buildings at auction (so long as they could meet the highest bid), but at the time there were no plans for a relocation site, so the residents had nowhere to move their houses. The situation seemed bleak in the summer of 1980, but by the fall there was a little more hope. The deadline to accept offers was extended to June 1981, which gave residents a little more time to get their affairs in order. An interdepartmental committee between the Ministry of the Environment (which was handling the evacuation) and the Ministry of Housing (which was handling the relocation) was established, and residents that chose to buy back their homes were given permission to leave them on the land until a relocation site was completed. Despite these concessions, the evacuation order remained in place, and residents remained unwilling to give up on their town. The matter was brought to Ombudsman Karl Freidman in October of 1980. While reviewing the case, he found several causes for concern. Among them was a lack of open communication between the government and the residents, the terms
of sale being stacked in the government’s favour, and the lack of official commitment to a relocation plan. A few months later, likely in response to Freidman’s report, the provincial government sent letters to the residents that included the complete OIC and plans for a relocation site seven kilometres north of the Townsite. Just as the plight of the residents was starting to improve, disaster struck the Townsite on Dec. 26, 1980. After days of heavy rain, B.C. Hydro was forced to open the gates of the Daisy Lake Dam to prevent it from overflowing. The resulting flood wreaked havoc on the village. One home was swept away into the Cheakamus River, many were undermined, and the Garibaldi Townsite infrastructure was severely damaged. The destruction shook many of the resident’s resolve to continue fighting for their community, and some decided to leave entirely. In Sept. 1981, the remaining residents launched a final attempt to save their town, or at the very least to spread awareness about the mismanagement and perceived unfairness of their situation. Fifteen signs were placed along Highway 99, and drivers were asked to pull over to be handed copies of “The Great Barrier Grief,” a circular that detailed their situation, the OIC, and their theories and questions about the matter. In the end, their resistance was not enough to save their village, but it did result in a guaranteed relocation site and provincial commitment to better and more-transparent communication. In 1982, the residents were offered lots in a new development called Black Tusk. Residents were welcomed to the new community in September 1984, though some fought to stay in Garibaldi until as late as 1986. In the end, only twenty-six Townsite families chose to relocate to Black Tusk, and the remaining lots were sold to the general public. Today, all that is left of the Garibaldi Townsite is a small collection of ageing cabins tucked away off Highway 99 across from Daisy Lake. Keely Collins is one of two summer students working at the Whistler Museum this year through the Young Canada Works Program. She will be returning to the University of Victoria in the fall. n
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reminds us that as children, we all had the “magical capacity to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconsciously to the soughing of the trees.” Oh, how I would love you to be able to recover even a fraction of those talents in the coming days. My reading of the current astrological potentials tells me that your chances of doing so are much better than usual. Your ability to connect with the eternal child and wise animal within you is at a peak. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus singer Barbara Streisand has a shopping mall built below her large home. Its purpose isn’t to sell consumer goods to strangers but rather to stash her precious belongings and show them off when friends come over. Among the storefronts are an antique store, doll shop, costume shop, and candy store. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to start building a shopping mall beneath your home, too, Taurus. If that’s too expensive or complicated, here are alternatives: 1. Revitalize your appreciation for your treasured possessions. 2. Acquire a new treasured possession or two that will inspire you to love your life even more than you already do. 3. Reacquaint yourself with the spiritual powers that your treasured possessions arouse in you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Dalai Lama says there are core similarities between science and Buddhism. Both keep searching for ever-more complete versions of the truth. Both employ firsthand observation and experimentation to do that noble work. If they find new information that contradicts previously held versions of the truth, both are willing to discard them. Now that you Geminis are entering the Deep Questioning Phase of your astrological cycle, I’d love you to make generous use of the Buddhist/Scientific approach. More complete versions of the truth will be available in abundance in the coming weeks—if you’re alert for them. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1656) achieved the impossible: She became a supremely skilled and renowned painter in an era when women had virtually no opportunities to become artists. Many aspects of her work distinguished her from other painters. For example, she depicted women as having strong, agile hands and arms. In Artemisia’s world, the power of women’s wrists, forearms, and fingers signifies their ability to put their mark upon the world, to accomplish strenuous practical tasks with grace and flair. If I were going to paint images of you in the coming weeks, I would also portray you as having strong, agile hands and arms. I suspect you’ll have potent agency to get things done—to adeptly manipulate the material world to serve your ideals. (Thoughts about Artemisia’s hands come from art historian Mary D. Garrard.) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Once upon a time”: That’s your phrase of power these days. What do I mean by that? I’m suggesting that you will strengthen your problemsolving abilities by engaging in playful pretending for the sheer fun of it. I’m predicting that you will boost your confidence by dreaming up amusing magical stories in which you endure heroic tests and achieve epic feats. And I’m proposing that you will fine-tune your ability to accomplish practical feats if you regard your robust imagination as crucial to your success. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo singer-songwriter Fiona Apple says she’s not religious. On the other hand, she regularly kneels on the ground and announces to whatever great power might be listening, “Thank you for my problems, and I send my love everywhere.” She’s sincere. She regards her sadness and her challenges as being equally important to her happiness and success. The difficulties teach her what she didn’t even realize she needed to know, and make her appreciate the good
times more intensely. I suggest you borrow from her approach right now. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus wrote, “Great feelings bring with them their own universe”—which he said may either be degraded or splendid, selfish or generous. I love that he allowed for the possibility that great feelings could be positive and noble. So many renowned thinkers focus on negative and ignoble states of mind. In accordance with current astrological potentials, Libra, your task is to cultivate feelings that are splendid and generous. These sentiments should exalt you, uplift you, and empower you to spread transformative benevolence to those whose lives you touch. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “How can you hold on to something that won’t hold still?” asked Scorpio poet Benjamin Fondane. In general, you Scorpios have more talent than every other sign of the zodiac at doing just that: corralling wiggly, slippery things and making them work for you. And I expect this skill will be especially in play for you during the coming weeks. Your grasp on the elusive assets won’t ever be perfect, but it will be sufficiently effective to accomplish small wonders. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian Calvin Trillin is a witty writer with a good imagination and a flair for inventive language. But back in school, he confesses, “Math was always my bad subject. I couldn’t convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.” You Sagittarians are authorized by the cosmic powersthat-be to borrow your style and attitude from Trillin in the coming weeks. So you shouldn’t be fixated on mathematical precision and fastidious logic; your task is not to be conceptually impeccable and scrupulously sensible. Rather, you have a licence to be extra lyrical and lush and rhapsodic and humourous and irrepressible. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 2011, an eBay seller produced a 19th-century photo that he said proved Capricorn actor Nicholas Cage is a time-travelling vampire. Although the character in the image did indeed resemble the Oscar-winning star, he rejected the theory, and emphatically declared that he is not a time-travelling vampire. Maybe that all sounds absurd, but I must tell you that you may soon have to deal with people’s equally inaccurate and off-kilter theories about you. My advice: Don’t take it personally. Simply correct others’ misimpressions and rely solely on yourself for definitive ideas about who you are. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve assembled excerpts of love poems for your inspiration. Why? Because you’re entering the Intensified Intimacy Phase of your astrological cycle. Consider using the following riffs as inspiration when you interact with loved ones. 1. “I profess the religion of love; it’s the belief, the faith I keep.” 2. “Holding your hand, I can hear your bones singing into mine and feel the moon as it rolls through you.” 3. “Raw light spills from your eyes, utterly naked, awakening an intoxicating shimmer of adventure.” 4. “I ask you please to speak to me forever.” (Poem fragments are from Ibn ‘Arabi, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Herman Hesse, Sara Eliza Johnson, Alejandra Pizarnik.) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): An Australian witch named Michelle Clinton praises the joys of a “moon garden.” It features flowers and plants that reveal their full beauty after dark. Among the flowers that bloom at night are evening primrose, angel’s trumpet, and Dutchman’s pipe cactus. As for the flowers whose aromas are most potent after the sun sets: nightblooming jasmine, garden heliotrope, and honeysuckle. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have resemblances to a moon garden in the near future, Pisces. Be alert for opportunities to glow and grow in the dark. (More: tinyurl.com/LunarGarden) Homework. Send me an o racle you’d like to receive for the first week of September. Newsletter@freewillastrology.com
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Community Health Nurse and Casual Home Care Nurse At Lil’wat Health & Healing, we help make a difference in the health of the children and families that live within Lil’wat Nation. We are part of a growing community steeped in traditional customs and language. You can join our progressive work culture and help us ensure our team members are supported, valued and recognized for their meaningful roles in the community. The Sea-to-Sky region is a desirable place to live. The impressive mountains, fertile valleys and numerous lakes and rivers provide diverse recreational and cultural opportunities. Our location allows you to enjoy the variety of urban life and the gentle peace of a rural setting. We welcome you to explore more of what the Lil’wat Nation can offer you. We currently have an opportunity for a Community Health Nurse (CHN) and a Casual Home Care Nurse (HCN). The CHN position will focus on immunizations, health promotion and disease and injury prevention with the Lil’wat Community. As part of multidisciplinary teams, the CHN will mainly work with youth and adults and occasionally infants, and the HCN position will mainly work with people who have chronic diseases, disabilities or are Elders. Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@lilwat.ca by July 29th, 2021.
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Want to send a message to the IOC? Don’t watch the Games BLOW UP YOUR TV. Too drastic? Don’t blow it up. Just select a different station. Avoid any of the NBC feeds, especially if you abhor the jingoistic U.S. coverage. Avoid CBC, especially if you abhor the jingoistic Canadian coverage. Choose wisely, Grasshopper. The one-year-delayed summer Olympics™ in sweltering, COVID-riddled Tokyo begin on Friday. The quadrennial Extravaganza of Excess will be different this year. No spectators except for the anointed high rollers—politicos, Olympic™ Family, International Olympic Committee
BY G.D. MAXWELL (IOC) royalty, assorted bagmen—will fill the stands. Piped-in crowd noise from past Games will provide white noise for TV audiences who would otherwise be moved to boredom by the mindless piffle voiced by commentators. Podium finishers will hang their own medals, sanitized of course, around their own necks. Audiences who believe Greco-Roman wrestling should only take place between sweaty GrecoRomans will be teased by the additions of surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing—modern-day figure skating with largely subjective judging, save the clock in climbing. And the powerbrokers of the IOC will sit smugly, if nervously, and watch the billions roll in—dollars, not spectators. With over 70 per cent of the Firm’s budget coming from broadcast rights, following the money will lead you to the television as the grease that keeps this rickety wagon rolling. And that leads us to personal choice. As viewers, or non-viewers, the power to deliver the coup de grace to the Olympics™ is in our hands. Which is why it’ll never happen. Sport is spectacle and there are too many people in the world that’ll watch anything—snooker, darts, golf, I’m looking at you—to fill the empty hours and provide vicarious thrills while they wolf down Doritos and light beer. That the IOC is a corrupt organization is no longer considered news. That it lives in a sepia-tinged, Eurocentric, royaltybound past is obvious. That its total control over the fate of the Games, and the host countries, is contractual. That it is all about the money is—because of the undeserved patina of “sport”—harder for too many people to accept. “I hate the IOC but I love the athletics,” people say. “It’s all about the athletes.” Were that it was so. The Olympics™ is about money. Athletes are the lipstick on the pig. The IOC cares not at all for the athletes. Slave owners cared more about slaves if for no other reason
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they had to pay money for replacements. Athletes work the fields voluntarily, for the glory, for the potential money, for sponsorships, for jobs as Olympic hangerson when the glory days are a memory and the adult reality of making a living sets in. If the IOC cared about the athletes, would they hold the Games in a city wracked by COVID-19 and embroiled in yet another state of emergency? Would they hold highendurance outdoor sports in a country with heat and humidity so high this time of year if they cared about the athletes? In 1964, the last time Tokyo hosted the Summer Games, they were moved to October because the heat of July was considered too dangerous. But to do so this year would pinch the upcoming 2022 Winter Games. Yeah, but at least the IOC was concerned enough
into the absurdity of a wealthy, moneymaking machine demanding volunteer professionals, the Japanese medical system, like virtually every other around the globe, is already stretched to the limit dealing with COVID-19, atop the day-today medical needs of an aging country. But when you’re the IOC, you care no more for the host country than you do for the athletes. If they cared, they’d at least acknowledge the fact that fewer than a quarter of Japanese people believe the Games should go on. And this notwithstanding the billions of dollars the Japanese government has already ponied up for them. Earlier this week, Toyota announced it would abstain from running any Olympic™-themed ads on Japanese television during the
If the IOC cared about the athletes, would they hold the Games in a city wracked by COVID-19 and embroiled in yet another state of emergency? about marathoners to move the long run to Sapporo, 800 kilometres north of Tokyo and noticeably cooler. Already COVID-19 is snaking through the Olympic™ Village. But, hey, no problem. As host country Japan is on the hook for providing medical services. The Games’ organizers have requested 200 doctors to, wait for it, volunteer. They’ve also asked for 500 nurses. Without going
Games and the company’s CEO will not be attending the opening ceremony. While this is a high-profile gesture, considering Toyota is a worldwide Olympic™ sponsor, it has to be recognized as one driven by enlightened self-interest. Still sitting on the fence—as of writing this—is the Canadian government’s undecision as to whether to send a federal delegation to the Games from the Great
White North. Weighing the right thing to do, not attend, with the nascent murmurs coming out of vote-rich Quebec to put in a bid for future Olympics™ is likely to make that fence a comfortable perch until the last moment. Despite my indifference to elite athletes, I understand their motivation to be a part of the Olympics™. I also understand the unfortunate nationalism surrounding the contests and moment-by-moment medal count. Heck, even self-effacing Canada wants to Own the Podium. But the athletes themselves are beginning to rumble about mutiny. Many believe they should be invited to the gravy train; that is, compensated directly by the IOC. Many chafe at the warnings they’ve been given to avoid any overt political statements, although the raised-fist salute of Tommie Smith and John Carlos is about all most people remember from the 1968 Mexico City Games. But in an era rife with social empowering movements and quick to indict individuals and organizations much more inclusive and socially conscious than the pure white, male IOC, how is it the IOC skips the intense scrutiny and collective cancellation it so richly deserves? Two answers: the esteem of sport and the mesmerizing quality of television. As Han Xiao, a former U.S. Olympian and member of the pro-Olympic™ movement is quoted as saying about the Games in the New York Times, “You need a group of people who want to change it, and outside of some extraordinary public pressure, it’s very difficult. Because everybody turns on the TV those 16 days.” And therein lies both the problem and the solution. Every hour you don’t watch is a blow for reform. Your choice. ■
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