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30 A tale of two protests The Fairy Creek protests against old-growth logging evoke memories of Clayoquot Sound, but there are key differences. - By Norman Galimski

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Triathlon are set to return in the fall.

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Stop Theatre & Arts Festival celebrates its 10th year next month by

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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS For several weeks, Pique and the municipality have been involved in a

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week comment on the need for buses along the

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whole Sea to Sky corridor and ask for common sense when it comes to off-leash dogs.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Andrew Mitchell tells us there is much to appreciate in watching and cheering on our Olympic athletes.

66 MAXED OUT By eschewing vaccination, people make vaccines less effective for everyone and set up a feedback loop that could impose new rounds of restrictions.

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29 RANGE ROVER Ski icon Mike Wiegele may have passed from this world, but the stories and legends

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he spawned live on. He’ll be remembered by all for his frequently uttered and resonant motto, “Let’s go skiing.”

Reporters BRADEN DUPUIS - bdupuis@piquenewsmagazine.com BRANDON BARRETT - bbarrett@piquenewsmagazine.com MEGAN LALONDE - mlalonde@piquenewsmagazine.com ALYSSA NOEL arts@piquenewsmagazine.com HARRISON BROOKS - sports@piquenewsmagazine.com Classifieds and Reception mail@piquenewsmagazine.com Office and Accounts Manager HEIDI RODE - hrode@wplpmedia.com Contributors G.D. MAXWELL, GLENDA BARTOSH, FEET BANKS, LESLIE ANTHONY, ANDREW MITCHELL, ALISON TAYLOR, VINCE SHULEY, LISA RICHARDSON

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44 EPICURIOUS A former champion on the competitive circuit, “BBQ Bob” Haselbach is getting back into the barbecue game this summer with Wild Wood’s Ribfest.

48 MUSEUM MUSINGS Ever wonder how Whistler’s street entertainment began? Its genesis reaches back to the 1980s.

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Standing up for freedom of the press FOR THE LAST several weeks, Pique has been the subject of a lawsuit launched May 20 by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW).

The aim of the lawsuit, according to the municipality’s representations in court, was to protect its staff and their personal information from criminals who lurk on the dark web.

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

The RMOW’s lawyer argued that Pique’s coverage of the recent cyber attack on the RMOW might “whet their appetite.”

I’m sorry, but that claim makes no sense to me. The information Pique printed was already available to these types of criminals following the cyber attack on the RMOW made public April 28.

the violation of the law. Instead, the RMOW sought injunctions to prevent the Pique from publishing certain details about the cyber attack in the future.

Indeed in the weeks leading up to the launch of the lawsuit, Pique invested considerable time interviewing, speaking with and cooperating with municipal spokespeople to make sure the stories were factual, accurate, and informative for the community.

Pique staff repeatedly told the RMOW that Pique had no interest in putting anyone in the community at risk in this case.

Many questions remain about the launching of the lawsuit. Who made the decision to launch the lawsuit and why?

One has to assume that all of council and the mayor were fully behind this use of taxpayers’ money, but were they? And if the attack was a zero-day exploit found in SonicWall VPN, a service used by the RMOW, did the municipality fix the vulnerability using a patch released in

[T]o add salt in the wound, the RMOW informed Pique that we have to put in a Freedom of Information request to find out how much this all cost Whistler.

Pique’s coverage contained a generalized description of the attack by cyber criminals on the RMOW, a matter we consider to be of public interest and importance to the community.

And consider that the lawsuit was in fact an action being taken to try and control what the Pique would publish before it did so—the municipality did not claim that the newsmagazine had published anything in

February? Who exactly was responsible for allowing the hack to happen?

The head of the RMOW’s IT department Ted Battiston (general manager of corporate and community services) in his affidavit to the court points to the fact that you need a URL to locate information available on the dark web—and a URL pointing to a location on the Dark Web was put up on the RMOW website by the hackers. That was more of a

risk to people’s personal information than anything Pique did.

Pique can fully understand the desire of the RMOW to protect its staff, but what remains incomprehensible to me is the way senior staff endeavoured to do this— through a costly legal action over more than two months, which ultimately culminated in the RMOW walking away from the lawsuit—discontinuing it on July 15.

What a waste of taxpayers’ money— and to add salt in the wound, the RMOW informed Pique that we have to put in a Freedom of Information request to find out how much this all costs Whistler.

This action forced a long-standing community business to defend itself in BC Supreme Court at a time when the whole economy is suffering from the challenges of the pandemic.

From the time the cyber attack became public, Pique investigated the story reaching out to experts, learning about and reporting on the dark web—telling the residents of Whistler the scale of the risks they faced from ransomware criminals—something we felt was missing in the three press releases put out by the RMOW ahead of the lawsuit.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects free speech and freedom of the press. The ability of the press to report on and even criticize government action is a hallmark of a free and democratic society.

Yet the RMOW chose to use your tax dollars to try to dictate what your community newspaper could tell you about a matter of public interest that affects us all, just because it happened to involve the RMOW. In my opinion, that’s not the proper role for our municipal government.

Pique did not acquiesce to the demands of the RMOW—it stood its ground not just for itself, but for all newspapers reporting on government. ■

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bus service needed between Mount Currie and Whistler After reading the article about Whistler transit considering free transit around Whistler I’d like to highlight how poor the transit service is from Mount Currie and Pemberton to Whistler (Pique, July 22, “Whistler council considers how to make transit free year-round”).

If the RMOW is considering transit in a bid to reduce the carbon footprint of locals then a big achievement would also come from connecting the two towns better than they are currently.

This is something that is extremely evident by the long tailbacks caused by the traffic coming from Pemberton to Whistler caught up in the road works right now.

With the increase in people moving to Pemberton in the hunt for affordable housing (that it a completely different subject), Whistler’s locals waiting to escape the madness for a day trip or going to support Pemberton’s farms, businesses or breweries there needs be a drastic improvement in public transport.

A direct bus from Mount Currie to Function would offer the service this community needs.

R Smith // Pemberton

Common sense needed on dogs’ leashed issue There’s been a lot of opinions going around about dogs off leash. I think there should be some common sense applied to this situation.

Yes, some dogs are highly reactive or sensitive but there are some dogs that can be trusted. And I’m sure someone reading this wants to say it’s an animal and they’re all capable of violence, but as a dog owner myself I know that is not the case. Some dogs are fully suitable off leash.

The point is use a bit of sense.

If the RMOW expects dog owners to use dog parks [it will] need to seriously consider how few parks there are, how far they are from neighbourhoods and the condition of the dog areas. The one at Alpha Lake is an awful dust bowl. No one wants to go there.

The other thing to consider is that dogs need exercise: you cannot play fetch while the dog is tied to you on a two-metre rope.

Dogs have a fantastic time running alongside a bike. It is dangerous for everyone if they are connected to the bike by a leash.

This is Whistler, it’s doggy heaven. Let’s all calm down and use some sense.

Sue Powers // Whistler

Change in forest practices needed now Regarding the Pique’s April 15 article “The

Forest for the Trees:” The fight to change the way B.C. manages its forests has been going on for a long time, but you would not know it from the action on the ground.

Herb Hammond’s quote [in the Pique news story] that, “Forestry causes the largest losses of biodiversity across the province while contributing less than 2.5 per cent of B.C.’s GDP” is a dramatic statement, which on its own should be enough to force change.

I am writing to elaborate on the point Hammond makes in the Pique article, and that is what I would call the futility of forestry education and research in this province. He states: “The timber tenure system has proven to be an incredibly powerful tool in the hands of industry.

It shapes the regulations, legislation and policy through a very concerted lobby, and it has huge influence over education and research.

“A lot of the monies needed for higher education and research flow directly from the timber companies that benefit from the tenure system making education and research reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them. The industry’s sway over the institutions training and employing new foresters is one reason that many in the sector have largely remained silent on the practice’s ecological impact.”

B.C.’s highest centre of learning, UBC’s Faculty of Forestry, should be leading the way with respect to researching, developing and promoting the highest level of science-based forestry practices in B.C. However, there is little evidence of this being acted upon. When an esteemed academic came to UBC from Harvard via Yale in 1990, to

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR N become Dean of the Faculty of Forestry, many people saw this as a sign of a new, positive change in B.C.’s forestry practices.

This turned out to be a major disappointment.

Nothing changed. If the Faculty of Forestry is doing good things publicly it doesn’t show— [then] it seems irrelevant. If it is doing good things, but is being excluded from having a positive impact then the system needs to change, and industry’s negative impact removed.

UBC’s Faculty of Forestry, the bureaucrats in the Ministry of Forests and our politicians should be compelled to collaborate on an ongoing basis to insure that the best forestry practices are imbedded and followed religiously.

Our government agency, BC Timber Sales, seems to log at all costs. This mindset, and the aspect of ever-changing harvesting regulations on the ground need to go.

Industry could/should have input along the way, but should not be leading the way.

Historically that strategy has not worked and needs to change.

Why is it that in public discussion on the state of our forests and best practices in the UBC Faculty of Forestry is never mentioned?

It is supposedly teaching and producing the next leaders in the field. Why isn’t government listening to and preaching publicly on the merits of capitalizing on this asset?

If the Faculty of Forestry is truly irrelevant then the system needs a major shakeup. Our government needs to reprioritize whom it is listening to with regard to our forests and the industry.

This change needs to happen now.

Dennis Perry // Whistler/West Vancouver

Games bring joy and help host venues shine The 2030 Olympics, yes or no?

I quite agree with Max (Pique, July 22, “Want to send a message to the IOC? Don’t watch the Games”) and his description of the International Olympic Committee, but I have always looked on the Olympics, especially the winter version from the volunteer’s perspective.

I don’t know if I speak for all of them, but in Whistler we have had a crew of alpine course workers known as the Weasel Workers who have

worked on many international ski races both here and abroad.

We worked the first races back in the ‘70s with Bob Parson and some very key people to get the course ready, safety wise, for the World Cups. In the ‘80s we continued on the same program for several successful downhills, including Rob Boyd’s win in 1989 on his home course. Since then we set up several World Cup races in the ‘90s until FIS decided to change the date of the races to early December.

Later, some of the Weasel Workers worked at the Lake Louise and Beaver Creek World Cup races as well as the Winter Olympics in Italy and Salt Lake and of course our own Winter Olympics here in Whistler in 2010.

We also travelled to Panorama for the 2015 Para-Alpine World Championships and went to Korea twice, in 2017 and again in 2018 for the Para-Olympics. We were invited by their organizing committee to help with their alpine course.

We have always been there at the races, not working with the IOC, but rather working for the athletes. If you can get past the politics of the IOC and the Olympics its all about the racers.

Watching a Para race is the most inspiring and emotional experience in sport. A blind downhill race, for example. Try to imagine that with a guide in front and the racer moving with speed unable to see the track, truly courageous. We saw a number of local athletes racing in different events in 2010 while their parents were overcome with happiness.

Whistler in 2010 was an exciting place to be, full of camaraderie and happy volunteers, the Smurfs of the day. We welcomed not only the athletes, but also the bus drivers and police from different parts of Canada who were lost the first days but found their spots.

Following the Olympics and Paras, the world, including the non-skiers around the world, wanted to see and visit Whistler.

Do we need to do it again?

Well we have most of the venues already, so it would be less expensive to do it again and the organizing committee would have to build more housing to be used for resident housing after.

We can shine again, and man that was a party.

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I W A S Y O U N G and irresponsible, I made my way to Greece with a good friend and no particular goal in mind other than to enjoy some kind of a summer vacation after spending the past five of them working our asses off to

BY ANDREW MITCHELL pay for university. We left in September when all the resort towns were emptying out, and it’s not much of an exaggeration to say we pretty much had the entire country to ourselves.

One of our mandatory first stops was Olympia, a collection of ruins that hosted the original Olympic Games for almost 1,300 years starting in 776 BC. The only tourists there, we jogged through the very same stadium arch that athletes representing the major Greek city states walked through to compete in various contests. We raced each other around the track. We wrestled. We did burpies. We tried to have a chariot race until the groundskeeper asked for his wheelbarrow back. It was great day.

After thoroughly enjoying the ruins, we moved on to the archaeological museum that housed a collection of marble

sculptures of top athletes immortalized for their prowess with javelin and discus, or who could run the fastest, lift the most, or beat all comers in wrestling. In one corner of the museum sat a massive rock weighing 316 pounds, inscribed with the name of an athlete who could lift it over his head with one hand. That’s immortality.

The city states of Greece were often at war with each other in those ancient times, but contingents travelling to and from the Games were protected by a truce that is one of the Games’ oldest traditions.

As a rugby player, I liked that. My sport of choice sometimes felt like 80 minutes of war followed by however many minutes I could function at the pub afterward with players from the other team.

I always enjoyed playing sports, but for me, it was more about the handshakes than the competition itself, that moment you stop trying to beat each other and all the hard feelings are replaced with respect.

The Olympics, by now heading into their second week, has done its best to bottle that feeling as well as the more noble aspects of the Games history, but there’s no question that the Olympic movement isn’t what it was. Why? Corrupt International Olympic Committee (IOC) officials. Athletes loaded up with performance-enhancing drugs that got away with it while other athletes are banned

for smoking pot. A history of awarding the Games to fascists and totalitarians. Overthe-top displays of nationalism by athletes and fans, and poor sportsmanship between competitors. Host countries taking on crippling debt, partly due to the inclusion of fringe sports that require a massive investment in infrastructure. The buying of medals by high-income nations that have the most money to throw at athletes and coaches, or lobby to protect a few sports that only they play. A ridiculous selection of random competitions that people forget exist for four years at a time. The weird fashion show at the opening ceremonies. The cliché athlete profiles. I could go on.

And talk about overkill. There are 34 gold medals available in the swimming events, 15 gold medals for shooting, 10 gold medals for track cycling—but only two gold medals for sports like sevens rugby and soccer where athletes have to play.

Sometimes it feels like the Olympics is three weeks of people diving in pools and the swimmer in the middle lane finishing first.

Remember when the IOC temporarily cancelled wrestling because of poor TV ratings? Not only is it one of the first Olympic sports and the cheapest to stage, it’s also one of the few events where athletes from small and low-income countries could compete on an even footing. Meanwhile the Olympics continue to host a dressage event where

people put on suits and see how stiffly they can sit on their expensive dancing horses.

The IOC is also desperate to remain relevant for the benefit of their sponsors, which is why the 2021 Games will include TV-friendly sports like surfing, skateboarding, karate and sport climbing. While I support their inclusion, I’m also afraid that these sports could be hurt by the “Olympic curse.”

The curse is real. One recent example is the winter sport of halfpipe. In the early days of snowboarding, a halfpipe was just a depression in the snow with two-metre-ish walls that you could boost out of and that anyone could ride. Then the sport became Olympic and “superpipes” had to be built with 5.5-metre walls of almost vertical ice that are incredibly daunting for recreational skiers and riders—not to mention incredibly expensive to maintain. The result was that average people stopped riding the pipe and ski hills could no longer justify the investment in their upkeep. Halfpipes started disappearing everywhere, including Whistler.

And yet, for all of its failures as an event, as a movement, as an inspiration, as a revenue generator for the hosts, as a uniting force for the world, as an avatar of the human spirit and true sportsmanship, I also know I’ll also be tuning in to the Games every single day until its over, looking for the reminders of why we play sports in the first place. ■

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Whistler companies among 83 recipients of B.C.’s tourism anchor grants PROVINCE HANDED OUT $36.5M TO MAJOR TOURIST ATTRACTIONS AND TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES TO HELP RECOVER FROM COVID-19

BY BRANDON BARRETT Several Whistler companies were the recent recipients of tourism anchor funding that B.C. handed out to help major attractions and transportation companies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Part of the province’s $50-million commitment to tourism recovery, $36.5 million was provided to 83 major attractions and tour companies across B.C., including four based in Whistler: The Adventure Group, Epic Rides, The Spo7ez Cultural Centre and Community Society and Whistler Connection. Whistler Rides, which is listed as being based in Vancouver, was also a grant recipient.

“Since the onset of COVID, the entire community of Whistler has been one of the hardest impacted and the return to normalcy will take some time,” wrote The Adventure Group’s sales and marketing director Jason Langlois in an email. “The assistance that we have received throughout the pandemic from the Federal Government and now the most recent grant awarded by the BC Major Anchor Attractions Program will go a long way in reinvesting in our business and ultimately the Whistler community.”

Major attractions in rural areas that

STAYING CONNECTED Whistler Connection was one of a handful of Whistler companies that recently received grant funding from the province to assist in COVID-19 recovery.

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see 15,000 visitors or more a year, and tour bus companies that serve 30,000 passengers a more a year, were eligible for up to $500,000 in funding, while major attractions in urban centres with 75,000 or more visitors were eligible for up to $1 million in grant money.

Dan Harmon, GM of Whistler Connection, said he was happy to see tour bus operators recognized in the round of funding, especially considering how hard hit the sector was in the

ramp up training in the lead-up to what is expected to be a busy winter.

The business community still has a long ways to go before it will have enough staff to weather the pent-up travel demand, not to mention next month’s opening of the U.S. border, and hopefully down the line, the resumption of travel from other international markets.

“We will still likely see some growth coming out of regional markets for end

“[W]e anticipate the benefits of the border openings will not be fully enjoyed until next winter. ” - BARRETT FISHER

pandemic, with Harmon noting business at the company “dropped overnight by more than 95 per cent.”

“It’s nice to be recognized as a key part of the regional tourism infrastructure and to have it made publicly clear that it’s not just the attractions that are important but it’s also how tourists move around,” he added.

Harmon said the company had to get creative to keep as many staff employed as possible, which included launching a car wash and detailing service and the Whistler Driving School. He noted the grant funding would allow the company to bring back more staff ahead of the fall, as well as

of summer and moving into the fall, like Washington State and potentially California.

But as far as seeing any significant growth out of the U.S., or for that matter any future international markets, which are still to be determined, we anticipate the benefits of the border openings will not be fully enjoyed until next winter,” explained Tourism Whistler (TW) president Barrett Fisher.

Fisher added that there has been strong interest from markets like the U.K., but it’s appearing unlikely that Whistler will be able to rely as heavily on visitation from Australia this winter, given the current border restrictions and slow vaccine rollout there.

Whistler is also hopeful to bring back the stream of temporary foreign workers (TFW), historically a significant piece of the local labour pool, in time for this winter, but that is complicated by the federal government’s reluctance to hire TFWs for certain entry-level positions given current unemployment rates, said Melissa Pace, CEO of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce.

“These are entry-level positions such as cashier, hospitality, tourism and retail, store shelf stockers, dishwashers, food preps, housekeeping staff, construction trade labourers,” she said. “We’re advocating to government to bring attention to this labour crisis and provide the support our community needs so that we can successfully recover and build back our economy again.”

Part of that advocacy means compiling labour data, which the chamber is currently working on in conjunction with the Whistler Institute and Whistler Personnel Solutions in the form of a survey that will go out next month to both job seekers and employers across the Sea to Sky. A recruitment video targeting both domestic and foreign workers is also being developed that resort stakeholders and businesses alike will be able to share on their channels. The video is expected to roll-out in the coming weeks.

“I think we’re all on the same page that we need to ensure that in the same way we’re attracting international visitors back, we need to be able to attract our international employees back, because the two go hand in glove,” Fisher said. ■

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Whistler council votes to continue purchasing asphalt from Cheakamus plant COUNCILLORS ALSO AGREED TO EXPAND THE RMOW’S AIR QUALITYMONITORING PROGRAM IN THE AREA OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS

BY MEGAN LALONDE WHISTLER COUNCIL has voted to continue procuring asphalt from Alpine Paving’s Cheakamus Crossing plant for the next two years, while agreeing to expand the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) air quality-monitoring efforts within the area.

The move comes one year after council decided in a split vote to change its longstanding asphalt procurement policy to allow sourcing from the Cheakamus Crossing plant, with the stipulation that council reconsider the issue in a year’s time.

From 2011 until last year, council prohibited RMOW staff from sourcing asphalt from any facilities located within three kilometres of Whistler neighbourhoods— meaning the municipality instead hauled its asphalt up Highway 99 from Alpine Paving’s plant in Squamish.

The policy was originally enacted to appease voters who opposed the presence of an asphalt plant so close to a residential neighbourhood.

That decision resulted in nearly 270 tonnes of CO2 being emitted over nine years—representing between two and five per cent of the municipality’s annual corporate emissions, depending on the year—and cost an estimated $456,000 more than if it were sourced locally over that time, according to the RMOW. Procuring 2,036 tonnes of asphalt from the Whistler plant in 2020 rather than its counterpart in Squamish saved the municipality more than $20,000 and prevented approximately 12 tonnes of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere last year, RMOW capital projects manager Tammy Shore told council at its July 20 meeting.

Sourcing asphalt locally also results in other indirect savings, Shore explained.

“There’s a schedule of repairing our roads in a timely manner. There [are] challenges for staff and vendors that work for us in getting asphalt because the Squamish plant does not always open, and it’s frequently broken down because it is an older plant,” Shore said. “[The RMOW] maintains 80 kilometres of road so it does become an issue.”

The other indirect cost shows up over the longer term, she explained, as procuring asphalt from a farther distance lessens the quality of the product. Asphalt hauled in from Squamish is cooler than asphalt produced in Whistler, Shore said, “and it generally doesn’t last as long, because asphalt is best placed when it’s hot.”

While the RMOW didn’t purchase asphalt from the Cheakamus Crossing plant for almost a decade, the site remained in operation to provide asphalt to clients like the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, private

landowners, and other local governments surrounding Whistler.

Despite working with Alpine Paving in 2020 to pave the access road to the gravel quarry in an effort to reduce dust and noise in the area, the municipality received five letters of opposition from the community members—four sent in 2021 and one sent a year ago—voicing general concerns about possible air pollution resulting from the plant.

“I am writing to voice my STRONG opinion that Whistler Resort Municipality NOT procure any asphalt from the Alpine Paving plant in Cheakamus Crossing,” wrote Laura Church earlier this month.

“I don’t care if it costs twice as much to procure from someone else. I don’t care whatsoever. For all I care we can move to engineered dirt roads if that’s what it takes. We have nothing if we don’t have our homes, our families, and our health—and this issue affects all those three things.”

The RMOW has been monitoring air quality in Cheakamus Crossing since 2010. Assessments show that air quality continued to meet provincial standards even on days the plant was operating, except during short periods when significant forest fires were burning nearby.

Whistler council accepted RMOW staff’s recommendation to alter the particulate matter concentration detection of the municipality’s existing air monitoring station on top of the High Performance Centre in Cheakamus from a PM10 rating to PM2.5. That means moving forward, the air will be monitored for the presence of finer particles rather than the coarser particles it currently measures, and will match the particulate matter detection rating of the Ministry of Environment’s air monitoring station on top of the Meadow Park Sports Centre, for data comparison purposes.

RMOW staff also recommended adding six more PM2.5 monitoring stations at different locations throughout Cheakamus Crossing, increasing the scope of the air quality-monitoring program “to quantify if there is an observable difference between the locations,” the report explained. The two-year program expansion would come at a total additional cost of $232,000.

Councillors approved the expansion, but questioned the need for six additional air-monitoring stations.

Councillor Jen Ford was the lone council member to oppose the decision to extend the asphalt procurement policy amendment.

“This [issue] is always challenging,” she said. “I appreciate the work that Ms. Shore puts into this, and that the whole team puts into this, and I appreciate the concessions that the organization has made to getting us to this point one year later, but the cost-benefit analysis for me, it just doesn’t pencil.” ■

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Sea to Sky firefighters return from two-week deployment TWO MEMBERS OF WHISTLER FIRE RESCUE SERVICE RETURN HOME AFTER ASSISTING WITH THE FIRE NEAR FLAT LAKE

BY HARRISON BROOKS A COMPLETELY evacuated property, a single dirt road with all the signs completely blacked out from the heat, trees combusting into flames in the distance, and the entire forest floor cleared down to the rocks and still smouldering days later—those are some of the things Acting Lieutenant Whistler Fire Rescue Service, Mike Brew recalled from his time helping secure the fire up near 100 Mile House.

“It’s definitely eerie. I don’t think you ever notice the forest bottom there, so once the fire goes through, it looked like a different planet or something with the rocks everywhere,” said Brew.

“But it’s just smoke and fire everywhere you are looking. It’s amazing and devastating all at the same time.”

Brew was one of two Whistler firefighters and three from Squamish who were called in to help with structure protection at the Flat Lake fire for two weeks.

According to Brew, structure protection consists of things like moving flammable objects away from homes, digging out and building fire breaks and setting up sprinkler systems to help

protect homes and other buildings.

“When I left, we hadn’t lost any structures,” said Brew. “We were in rural areas so we were in the old Gold Rush area that’s right there, so we were protecting an old barn that was built in I think 1880, and it had the archway in the middle

learning opportunities of working with other experienced firefighters to how appreciative the locals both in the Flat Lake area and here in Whistler were of the work they were doing, stood out to him in a positive way.

“It was amazing and awesome for us to

“[I]t’s just smoke and fire everywhere you are looking. It’s amazing and devastating all at the same time.”

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where the stage coach would drop people off on the old highway, so there were pieces of history that we were trying to protect as well as the owners home that was on the same property.”

Brew, who was deployed last year to the Anderson Lake fire, said this deployment was an amazing experience from top to bottom. Everything from the vital—and successful—work they were doing, to the

get to work alongside the Squamish guys and seeing a different way of doing things and learning from their experience and teaching each other how to do things and also working with Big White that has been doing this for a long time—spending half a day with those guys I learned more than I ever learned in a classroom,” he said.

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“And we had people reaching out saying, ‘Hey I’ve got a place on Green Lake, if you want to go there and take a swim or use the laundry facility.’ People would send food, and the community support is evident. And people from here were thankful that we were going out to do it. I think it’s worth noting that we appreciate the effort from everyone.”

Despite having just returned, there is a chance another call will be coming in soon for more support from the Whistler Fire Rescue Service. And if that call comes in, Brew will be ready to go back and help however he can.

“I am ready and willing to go and would love to go again, but I would also be happy to share the experience with other firefighters,” he said. “I know the more people we send the better the learning is, the more prepared we are for when it’s needed here. So, I’m absolutely ready to go again, but if it is somebody else’s turn it is a benefit to the community as well.”

Four members of Pemberton Fire Rescue also returned from deployment recently. They were called two weeks ago to help with the fire that decimated Lytton earlier this month. ■

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Tourist illegally climbs Peak 2 Peak Gondola tower for YouTube channel TORONTO CLIMBER CHASE TO WENT UP A BLACKCOMB MOUNTAIN GONDOLA TOWER EARLY IN THE MORNING OF JULY 19

BY HARRISON BROOKS APPROXIMATELY TWO weeks ago, a student from Toronto, who goes by the name Chase TO (as in Toronto) filmed himself illegally free climbing the highest tower of the Peak 2 Peak Gondola.

He said the idea came to him about five years ago while here on a ski trip. He was riding the Peak 2 Peak Gondola from Whistler to Blackcomb Mountain and noticed there are ladders that go all the way to the top.

“So, I kept that thought in the back of my mind … Four or five years go by and I’m finally in Vancouver and I decided to take the bus up to Whistler and it’s my first night there, it’s about 1 a.m., and I start hiking up the Blackcomb Ascent Trail on my own,” said Chase.

“I’m not a hiker so it’s a pretty challenging ascent, but I make my way up and I get to the base of the tower at the top of Blackcomb Mountain at about four in the morning and I’m absolutely knackered, I’m exhausted. The sun is just creeping up over the mountains at this point in time, it’s an

incredible view like nothing I’ve ever seen before in my entire life and I start climbing up these ladders with no safety equipment, no harness, no ropes, nothing.”

Chase, who comes from a climbing background, has recently been getting into the sub-genre of climbing that he calls “urban exploring” that also includes things like climbing cranes at construction sites in cities.

“I did rock climbing for a number of years and I found it quite interesting being able to take these skills that you develop in rock climbing and bring those into an urban environment and you add a pinch of adrenaline of course when you do these types of climbs without any belays or harnesses or safety equipment,” he said.

“And the views that you get at the top of a rock-climbing wall in an indoor gym versus on top of a crane on top of your city are not comparable.”

In an emailed statement, Vail Resorts said: “Whistler Blackcomb strongly condemns the reckless actions of an individual who scaled a Peak 2 Peak Gondola tower in the early morning of July 19.

“The individual trespassed on Whistler Blackcomb’s tenure, bypassed a locked gate

and illegally climbed the tower for the purpose of filming himself. This action put him at extreme risk, as well as had the potential to damage Whistler Blackcomb property.”

However, despite the illegal nature of his climb, Chase claims he had no interest in damaging or disrupting the gondola’s operation in any way and was only interested in doing the climb and getting some footage for his YouTube channel.

“I had no intention of disrupting any of the park’s operations or the gondolas operations,” said Chase. “I didn’t want to waste anyone’s time or cause any disruptions, I just came to do my climb, take my videos and pictures and leave everything the way I found it.

“Of course, it is certainly frowned upon, and some people would be angry with me should they have found me climbing, but like I said, I did everything in my power to ensure that that didn’t happen and to not cause any problems.”

But with the recent vandalism of the Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish that included the main cable being deliberately severed in both September 2020 and August 2019, these sorts of stunts are not something Vail

Resorts or the local RCMP takes lightly. The culprit in the cable cutting at the Squamish Gondola has yet to be caught.

“We are thankful that this individual did not harm himself during this stunt, but, have referred the matter to the RCMP,” continued the Vail Resort’s statement.

“There is no risk to the public from this incident. Our lifts are inspected regularly, and a pre-operational inspection is always conducted prior to opening. We are vigilant in upholding our rigorous lift-safety standards and practises.”

Under Canada’s Criminal Code, a stunt like this could be considered mischief if the perpetrator destroys or damages property, renders property dangerous or ineffective, obstructs or interferes with the operation of property, or interferes with any person in the operation of property, and can be met with a punishment of up to ten years in prison.

If those criteria are not met, the perpetrator can be charged with trespassing and face up to six months in prison or up to a $2,000 fine.

Pique reached out to the RCMP for an update on the investigation but did not hear back by press deadline. ■

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Police investigating bear-spraying of woman POLICE BRIEFS: MAN SEEN WITH FOLDING KNIFE ARRESTED; FIGHT BROKEN UP ON VILLAGE STROLL

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER RCMP is investigating an incident from earlier this month when a women walking her dog in Cheakamus Crossing was allegedly bear-sprayed by another woman.

Just after noon on July 14, police arrived on the scene in the 1000 block of Legacy Way. In a release, authorities said the woman walked past the suspect, who was sitting at a picnic table, before the suspect chased after her and sprayed her and her dog. Police did not indicate a possible motive.

Investigators have since identified the suspect through CCTV footage and are still trying to locate her.

“This appears to be an isolated event and the suspect is not from the Whistler area,” police said in the release, before adding that the incident remains under investigation.

MAN SEEN WITH KNIFE ARRESTED IN VILLAGE A man who was observed in the village with a knife yelling at bystanders earlier

this month was arrested and eventually released on court documents, the RCMP said in a release.

At 10:45 a.m. on July 17, police said the male was observed holding a folding knife with a four-inch blade in the 4200 block of the Village Stroll. The man was reportedly “yelling at people passing by,” the release went on.

The suspect was arrested for possession of a weapon for dangerous purpose without incident and was held at the detachment before being release with a future court date. Police also confiscated the knife.

At about 7 p.m. on July 18, Whistler RCMP and the BC Conservation Officer Service were conducting patrols along the Soo River Forest Service Road after reports of a possible party in the area. Officers located approximately 75 vehicles parked at the seven-kilometre marker of the road and roughly 100 people on the road and in the nearby woods.

The event was shut down and DJ equipment was removed from the scene, police said in the release. The incident is still under investigation.

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POLICE BREAK UP FIGHT ALONG VILLAGE STROLL Whistler police responded to a fight involving 10 people on the Village Stroll earlier this month, eventually leading to several arrests.

Just after 2 a.m. on July 17, Mounties responded to a fight in the 4300 block of Main Street. Once on the scene, officers observes two males with bloody faces, and an ambulance was called to treat their injuries.

In a release, police said all parties involved were arrested for assault before later being released without charges.

BEAR-SPRAYED A woman was reportedly bearsprayed by another woman while walking her dog in Cheakamus Crossing on July 14, police say.

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Federal and provincial governments announce $450,000 to create fuels breaks in Whistler FUNDING PART OF $1M IN INVESTMENTS IN SEA TO SKY REGION

BY ANDREW HUGHES AS THE PROSPECT of a federal election call sometime this summer looms, politicians gathered Tuesday morning in Lions Bay to announce federal and provincial investments of $1 million for projects in Whistler and Lions Bay. The projects include the creation of fuel breaks in the Nesters Hill area of Whistler to help manage the impacts of wildfires and a two-storey addition to the emergency building in the Village of Lions Bay. A news release said the funding for these projects comes through Canada Infrastructure Program’s new COVID-19 Resilience Infrastructure Stream.

“As extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, municipalities need to take proactive measures to better respond and manage emergency situations in order to protect residents and properties,” said Patrick Weiler, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country.

“The funding announced today will do

FIGHTING FIRE Ron McLaughlin, Mayor of Lions Bay, Bowinn Ma, MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale and Patrick Weiler, MP for West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country announced funding for creating fuel breaks in Whistler to fight wildfire.

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just that, with upgrades to an emergency building in Lions Bay and forest fire mitigation in Whistler, which will help

protect more than 13,000 residents.”

The federal government is contributing $760,000 and the provincial

government is contributing $190,000, said Weiler at the press conference in front of the Lions Bay Fire Hall Tuesday morning, July 27.

The federal amount will be split and $400,000 will be for Lions Bay and $360,000 will be for the Resort Municipality of Whistler, he said.

Bowinn Ma, MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, said the provincial funding would also be split and $100,000 will be for Lions Bay and $90,000 for Whistler.

“The Lions Bay Emergency Building Upgrade Project will provide much needed additional training, equipment, and apparatus space for our emergency services, enabling them to increase their levels of service to our community and adjacent communities up and down the Sea to Sky corridor,” said Mayor of Lions Bay Ron McLaughlin, in a news release.

Said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton in the news release: “We are grateful for this investment from the federal government and the province of B.C. into the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s fuel thinning program for Nesters Hill.” ■

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NEWS WHISTLER

Resort Municipality of Whistler drops lawsuit against Pique STILL NO EVIDENCE PUBLIC’S INFO WAS OBTAINED IN RANSOMWARE ATTACK, RMOW CLAIMS

BY PIQUE STAFF

A QUICKLY COMPILED DEFENCE

THE RESORT Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has discontinued its lawsuit against Pique Newsmagazine in relation to its coverage of a ransomware attack that took most of the municipality’s services offline until recently.

After the cyber attack came to light on April 28, the RMOW sued Pique on May 20, and applied for an injunction against the newsmagazine later the same day, seeking to restrict what details Pique could publish about the ransomware attack. The RMOW argued that it was seeking to protect the privacy of its staff. Pique opposed the application, arguing that there was no basis for any such order.

“We welcome the RMOW’s notice of discontinuance for its legal action launched against Pique,” said publisher Sarah Strother.

With its notice of discontinuance, received by Pique on July 26, the RMOW is required to pay 100 per cent of Pique’s taxable costs for the lawsuit, in addition to its own legal costs.

Affidavits filed with the court show that RMOW Manager of Communications Gillian Robinson asked Pique on the morning of May 20 to alter a story by changing the description of information leaked to the dark web. When Pique declined, the RMOW launched the lawsuit and sought the injunction.

Pique’s position on the application was summarized in the Application Response it filed with the BC Supreme Court before the May 21 hearing. Pique noted its reporting on the late-April ransomware attack has been factual and balanced, and that no personal information was reported.

Pique argued its coverage of the ransomware attack was in the public interest, and that the municipality should not be able to dictate what is or is not published in a story that concerns the RMOW. “While [the RMOW] might not like what has been reported, the citizens of Whistler are entitled to know about the event, about the consequences of it, and about what is potentially at stake,” stated Pique’s response, in part.

“The fact of the matter is the

municipality is the story here. It’s a public interest story,” said Pique’s lawyer Scott Dawson in court on May 21.

“I cannot see how the municipality gets to dictate what the newspaper does or doesn’t do in its coverage of a story that concerns the municipality.”

RMOW lawyer Paul Hildebrand argued certain information published by Pique might “whet [the] appetite” of would-be criminals, who might then seek out the information on the dark web.

“We just don’t want information on the internet that might provide an incentive and encouragement to others to go try and find this information…” he said in court.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson declined the RMOW’s request for a temporary order restricting the newsmagazine’s coverage. Referring to the injunctive relief the RMOW requested, Wilkinson said: “I have serious concerns about the precedent that this sets.”

The RMOW issued just three press releases about what it called the “cybersecurity incident” before launching the lawsuit, and in its sworn affidavits, claimed not to know what information was

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being leaked on the dark web about its employees. Following the launch of the lawsuit, the RMOW has issued a further three public updates.

Pique editor Clare Ogilvie described the significance of the ransomware coverage in an affidavit filed with the court. “While the three releases outline the steps the municipality is taking to deal with the attack, and offer assurances to the community, the releases do not clearly explain the level of threat to the citizens of Whistler. As editor, I consider it to be in the public interest to cover the story.”

On April 28, the day the attack became public, a message from the hackers was posted on the RMOW website and then, as screenshots, to two popular Facebook groups. Both Facebook posts were still available to view as of July 26.

“The article deals with matters of public interest. For example, the press releases issued by the municipality did not contain all of the information necessary for the public in Whistler to determine, among other things, what risks might arise to their personal and private information from the attack. It was in the public interest for the

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LAWSUIT DROPPED The RMOW has filed a discontinuance of the lawsuit it launched against Pique Newsmagazine in May over its coverage of a ransomware attack that handcuffed municipal services.

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Pique to provide its readers with a broader understanding of the story,” stated Pique in the defence it filed with the court on June 10.

A SECOND FRONT After its application for a temporary injunction was denied, the RMOW decided to try another avenue to control what Pique printed.

On June 7, RMOW staff contacted Pique expressing an intention to issue a demand under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which would seek to have the newsmagazine reveal what information it had from the ransomware attack and destroy or return records in Pique’s possession.

Pique informed the RMOW that it did not have any private RMOW employee information in its possession, and RMOW staff indicated that they accepted that statement.

However, on June 11, the RMOW issued the demand. Pique objected, saying that such a demand required reasonable grounds to believe that the newsmagazine was in unauthorized possession of certain personal information belonging to the RMOW. In response to the RMOW’s demand, Pique lawyer Catherine George said: “… Pique has already informed the Resort Municipality of Whistler that Pique does not have in its possession any private RMOW employee information.

Ms. Gillian Robinson of the RMOW then specifically advised Pique that she accepts Pique’s advice.”

In a press release on July 8, the RMOW said it was satisfied that legal action is no longer required.

“Council’s decision to commence legal action was for the sole purpose of protecting the private personal information of employees who had their information accessed as the result of a cybercriminal act,” said Mayor Jack Crompton in the release.

“The RMOW has a legal obligation to protect all private, personal information in its care. When the Pique published details of this information and declined our request to not include this information

in their online version, we felt that legal action was necessary to protect employees from further harm and a further violation of their privacy.”

The RMOW also informed Pique on July 7 that it did not require any further response to the Freedom of Information demand.

At press time, the RMOW could not say how much the now-abandoned lawsuit cost taxpayers, noting that Pique would have to obtain such information under the Freedom of Information Act.

RECOVERY ONGOING Meanwhile, the RMOW said it is still in “recovery mode” from the attack, and expects full recovery to take at least until the fall.

The RMOW said it has not found evidence that the private, personal information of the public was obtained by criminals in the attack.

An RCMP investigation is ongoing and the RMOW continues to work with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of B.C. on the incident.

If it is determined that people’s personal info was accessed, the RMOW will notify those individuals directly, it said.

Experts leading the RMOW’s investigation believe the criminals accessed the RMOW’s network through a zeroday vulnerability (an exploit previously unknown to the developer).

Pique reported the potential vulnerability on May 13, noting that it’s possible the criminals gained access through a zero-day exploit found in SonicWall VPN, a service used by the RMOW. The RMOW would not confirm if the exploit was found in SonicWall, or if it installed a patch released in February that fixed the vulnerability.

The RMOW said it did not receive a ransom request from the criminals, nor did it make any payment or engage in dialogue with the criminals.

A report on the incident will be presented at a future Technology Advisory Committee meeting. The RMOW confirmed July 27 that the report would be part of the public portion of the meeting. ■

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

New Meager Creek Development Corporation looks to turn geothermal energy into hydrogen RESEARCHERS HEADING SOUTH TO INVESTIGATE GEOTHERMAL POTENTIAL AT MOUNT CAYLEY

BY MEGAN LALONDE A

CALGARY-BASED group has purchased the geothermal lease to Mount Meager, northwest of Pemberton.

If all goes according to plan, the Meager Creek Development Corporation’s (MCDC) new owners will be among the first in the world to produce market-ready green hydrogen from geothermal energy, by 2025—“if not sooner,” said geologist Craig Dunn, MCDC managing director and president of WellDunn Exploration.

The sale of the site widely regarded as B.C.’s most promising geothermal “hot spot”— spearheaded by well construction engineering company Remedy Energy Services and WellDunn Exploration, along with a few external partners—was finalized in March.

Green hydrogen will, ideally, be sold and used in place of gas to fuel the heavy transportation industry—such as tractortrailers and ships requiring more power than lithium batteries can offer—as Canada works toward its goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

“That’s the part of the economy that’s really difficult to decarbonize,” explained Richard Hawker, president of Remedy Energy Services.

The lease takeover coincides with the end of the Garibaldi Geothermal Volcanic Belt Assessment Project. The combined effort between Geoscience BC, the Geological

VOLCANIC VALUES Fumaroles like the one pictured here atop Mount Meager are evidence of geothermal activity on the Pemberton-area volcano.

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Survey of Canada and seven colleges and universities, led by senior research scientist Dr. Stephen Grasby, took place at the Pemberton-area volcano over the last two years. Its main goal was to reduce exploration risk into the renewable energy source by collecting more knowledge about what’s happening beneath Meager’s surface.

Grasby and his colleagues are far from the first to study Meager. Although the area has been heavily researched since the mid1980s, a combination of factors has hindered the area from reaching its true potential as a “world-class” geothermic resource.

Geothermal energy uses steam sourced from hot water found deep in the Earth to power a turbine, which generates electricity.

That electricity can then be funnelled into a device called an electrolyser, which splits the clean water—or H2O—apart into hydrogen and oxygen.

Despite the discovery of hot water at Meager, the main challenge for the area has historically been accessing enough fluid to supply an economically viable power development, explained Grasby.

“The challenge for geothermal energy is that you have to drill these really expensive wells, and you really don’t know what you have until you drill the well and see the rock,” he added. “Our goal was to look at new ways that we can better predict where you could drill in that area, and maybe some different … ways to get the heat out of the ground.”

The solution to those challenges might just be found in new drilling techniques developed by Canada’s oil and gas industry.

“One of the ideas was to use the same technology that they use in shale gas, where you drill vertically down and then you have the drill go horizontally,” Grasby explained.

“In the past that wasn’t really possible— when they drilled the early wells, they were just vertical.”

In areas like Meager, “a horizontal well intersects a lot of the fractured rock, so you get a lot more water coming into that wellbore … which makes it a much more economic operation,” Grasby continued.

The new MCDC is made up of “some of the best drillers in the world, that are going apply that technology to geothermal,” he added. “It’s this convergence of Canadian technology being transferred to this renewable energy resource. I think it’s a very exciting time.”

In addition to that modern drilling technology—and the increased access to the site courtesy of roads and a power line that were previously installed—a higher demand for renewable resources sparked by the federal government’s price on carbon also makes this the right time to launch a geothermic energy development at Meager, Hawker added.

While the price of geothermal energy has historically tracked the price of oil, “because it was always seen as an alternative to oil and gas,” said Hawker, the market is now turning in favour of renewable options.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, “the demand for oil and gas and the price of oil went right in the toilet, and geothermal just kept increasing. And that’s the first time they decoupled,” he added. “Society finally reached that tipping point now where carbon is the story, not just [the question of] ‘is it cost effective?’”

Agreed Dunn, “The opportunity for hydrogen is fundamentally different than it was even two or three years ago.”

However, those decades of research

completed at Meager were “absolutely critical” to the group’s decision to purchase the lease, Hawker and Dunn agreed.

“I made the comment that this has been researched to death, but in reality it’s been researched to life,” said Dunn. “We wouldn’t be moving forward with this project if it wasn’t for folks continuing to look at [Meager] as an amazing opportunity.”

The project is currently working on its site development strategy and is undergoing consultations with the Lil’wat First Nation, on whose traditional unceded territory Meager rests. “Hopefully it’s going to be as much their project as it is ours,” said Hawker.

MCDC’s current timeframe would see drilling begin late next summer.

The group’s main challenge, “from a physical perspective, is just going to be ‘will the horizontal well concept work for us?’” said Hawker. “We think it will.”

ASSESSMENT PROJECT WRAPS UP AT MEAGER, MOVES SOUTH TO MOUNT CAYLEY A final report has been released following the completion of the Garibaldi Geothermal Volcanic Belt Assessment Project’s first phase. The data included in the report was collected through fieldwork completed at Mount Meager in 2019 and 2020.

Meager is “a very well-defined area, but we refined the knowledge of it much more,” Grasby explained. Through geophysical work, researchers predicted how much geothermal power could potentially be

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Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative encouraging Pemberton Meadows residents to install electric fencing ORGANIZATION WILL REIMBURSE 50% OF MATERIAL COSTS, UP TO $500

BY BRANDON BARRETT WITH THE SEA to Sky’s grizzly bear population on the rise and encounters bound to increase, a local organization is encouraging Pemberton Meadows residents to stay safe by installing electric fencing on their properties.

The Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative, with funding support from WildSafeBC, will cover half of the fencing’s material cost, up to $500. It is also hosting a workshop next month to train residents on fencing design, materials and maintenance.

“All attractants can be secured with the proper use and maintenance of electric fencing,” explained Devin Pawluk, Coast to Cascade’s community co-existence and education coordinator for Pemberton Meadows. “It’s cost-efficient and it’s also safe, easy to install and maintain and effective for black bears and grizzlies as well as other predatory wildlife, like cougars.”

The area is home to two threatened but recovering grizzly populations, the South Chilcotin Ranges unit, at 222 bears, and the Squamish-Lillooet unit, at 46.

“We see population growth within both of these units and we can expect encounters with grizzly bears to occur, and within the Meadows, there are a number of attractants,” Pawluk noted.

Based on the movements of bears that were collared as part of two separate ongoing research projects, it appears that local grizzlies, and particularly females, “may be hesitant” to cross the Meadows, according to the 2020 Bear Hazard Assessment for Pemberton Meadows.

“Habitat loss due to human occupation, agricultural activities, resource extraction, and increasingly expanding recreational activities, are significant threats to grizzly bear population persistence within

GRIZZLY PROOF Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative will cover a portion of the costs to install electric fencing for Pemberton Meadows residents.

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this area,” the report read. “Currently, the Meadows area is acting as a fracture between these two units.”

Of course, Pemberton Meadows farmers are no strangers to electric fences. The same hazard assessment carried out last year found that electric fencing was the primary method used by Meadows residents to deter bear access to attractants. However, at the time of the assessment, none of the fences were turned on.

“Despite Pemberton Meadows residents having a positive attitude to protecting wildlife … we do see somewhat of a reactive approach rather than proactive,” Pawluk said.

Led by WildSafeBC’s provincial coordinator Vanessa Isnardy, next month’s workshop, which is open to anyone from the Sea to Sky, will give attendees a hands-on look at a fully built electric fence. The ideal electric fence, Pawluk explained, would have five strands of wire, an energizer, an insulator, such as an existing fence or a newly built wooden fence, and a grounding rod.

“A well designed and maintained fence can last years,” he added.

The free workshop is set for Aug. 6, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Pemberton Library and Community Centre. Register by emailing bc@wildsafebc.com. ■

MEAGER CREEK DEVELOPMENT FROM PAGE 26 harnessed from the site, and better defined where the hot water underneath Meager could be found. The data even offered hints about a possible magma chamber below the volcano, Grasby added.

“That’s something that we’re still trying to resolve, but it’s going to be quite interesting,” he said.

Phase 2 of the project will see Grasby and his team head south to Mount Cayley, approximately 20 kilometres west of Whistler, for two seasons of fieldwork beginning this summer.

“It’s another volcano, and like Meager,

there’s a number of hot springs around there,” Grasby said. “There are hints that it could be a higher-temperature area, but no one has ever really done much exploration, so we’re going to look at whether we can use the sort of techniques that we’ve developed at Meager, apply them to Cayley and see, ‘Is there another potential geothermal resource in that area?’”

Geoscience BC will host an online open house next Wednesday, Aug. 4 at noon, to share findings and plans for the project’s second phase. Register to attend at bit. ly/371xMxX. ■

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NUCLEAR POWER hasn’t been in the news much since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown in Japan. Thanks to a push by industry and governments, you might soon hear more about how nuclear reactors are now safer and better.

Specifically, the conversation has shifted to “small modular nuclear reactors” or SMNRs, which generate less than 300 megawatts of electricity, compared to up to 1,600 MWe for large reactors.

Some of the 100 or so designs being considered include integral pressurized water reactors, molten salt reactors, high-

BY DAVID SUZUKI temperature gas reactors, liquid metal cooled reactors and solid state or heat pipe reactors.

To date, the industry is stuck at the prototype stage for all models and none is truly modular in the sense of being manufactured several at a time—an impediment considering the speed at which global heating is worsening.

The benefits touted by industry have convinced many countries, including Canada, to gamble huge sums on nuclear, despite the poor odds. The Small Modular Reactor Action Plan hypes it as the possible “future of Canada’s nuclear industry, with the potential to provide non-emitting energy for a wide range of applications, from grid-scale electricity generation to use in heavy industry and remote communities.”

Canada would reap economic benefits from an expanded nuclear industry. We have the largest deposits of high-grade uranium and a long history of nuclear power development and export. But uranium mining creates problems: impacts on Indigenous communities, workers exposed to radiation, radioactive contamination of lakes, habitat destruction and more.

The World Nuclear Association says small reactors’ modular construction means they can be built faster and for less money than conventional nuclear, and several modules can be combined to create larger facilities.

They’re seen as a cleaner replacement for diesel or gas power in remote oil and gas operations and isolated communities.

The association says they’re “designed for a high level of passive or inherent safety in the event of malfunction” and that “many are designed to be emplaced below ground level, giving a high resistance to terrorist threats.” They can also produce steam for industrial applications and district heating systems, and used to make value-added products such as hydrogen fuel and desalinated drinking water.

But, given the seriousness of the climate emergency and the various options for transforming our energy systems to combat it, is nuclear—regardless of size or shape—the way to go? We must rapidly reduce emissions now, and we have readily available technologies to do so.

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New nuclear doesn’t make practical or economic sense for now. Building reactors will remain expensive and time-consuming.

Studies estimate electricity from small nuclear can cost from four to 10 times that of wind and solar, whose costs continue to drop. SMNRs will require substantial government subsidies.

Even when nuclear has to compete against renewables prepackaged with storage, the latter wins out.

One recent study of 123 countries over 25 years published in Nature Energy found that renewables are much better at reducing greenhouse gas emissions than nuclear—whose benefits in this area are negligible—and that combining nuclear and renewables creates a systemic tension that makes it harder to develop renewables to their potential.

Like all nuclear reactors, SMNRs produce radioactive waste and contribute to increased nuclear weapons proliferation risk—and Canada still has no effective strategy for waste. Nuclear power also requires enormous amounts of water.

Corporate interests often favour large, easily monopolized utilities, arguing that only major fossil fuel, nuclear or hydro power facilities can provide large-scale “baseload” power. But many experts argue the “baseload myth” is baseless—that a flexible system using renewables combined with investments in energy efficiency and a smart grid that helps smooth out demand peaks is far more efficient and cost-effective, especially as energy storage technologies improve.

Even for remote populations, energy systems that empower communities, households, businesses and organizations to generate and store their own energy with solar panels or wind installations and batteries, for example, and technologies like heat-exchange systems for buildings, would be better than nuclear.

Renewables cost less than nuclear,

[P]ursuing nuclear at the expense of renewables is costly, dangerous and unnecessary. come with fewer health, environmental and weapons-proliferation risks and have been successfully deployed worldwide. Given rapid advances in energy, grid and storage technologies, along with the absolute urgency of the climate crisis, pursuing nuclear at the expense of renewables is costly, dangerous and unnecessary.

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

RANGE ROVER

Let’s go skiing: The legend of Mike Wiegele THE

HELICOPTER pulls away, wrapping you in an envelope of swirling crystals. As they dissipate and sound drifts off like a wind dying in the tree-tops, a weight is lifted from your life. Maybe you don’t feel it at first because the void is overtaken by what you see—mountains on

BY LESLIE ANTHONY every horizon; nothing and no one in sight.

But you feel it after that first run. The one where you ski 1,000 vertical metres of snow so light it pours up and over your shoulders like water. It’s the best skiing you’ve done in a lifetime of great skiing. And after handwringing over expense, how good it might be, or whether you’d be able to handle it, your preconceptions have been happily dashed on the rocks of reality. With heliskiing, expectations are so often exceeded they’re almost irrelevant. You’re left with a glow that can last a lifetime. And when you’re taking a dream holiday you’ve looked forward to forever, do you really want it any other way?

This was how ski legend Mike Wiegele, impresario of a well-oiled heli-ski extravaganza staged in the wilds of B.C. for

INDUSTRY ICON Ski industry icon and heliskiing pioneer Mike Wiegele passed away earlier this month.

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some 50 years now, understood his simple mission: live that dream daily and help guests do the same. When he died on July 15 at the age of 82, both his family and the ski world bid farewell to a man who may not have invented heli-skiing, but whose personality, approach and pioneering efforts at safety, customer service, powderski tech and mass-marketing helped make it the alpine juggernaut it became.

Raised on a farm in post-war Austria, Wiegele’s passion for skiing blossomed early and never faltered; humble and poor, he famously cut down a tree at his father’s urging to make skis his parents couldn’t afford. After skiing and racing in his home country, he left for powderier Canada in 1959. Arriving with no English, he worked first as a carpenter before landing a job as a ski instructor at Quebec’s Mont Tremblant.

From there he moved west to Sugar Bowl, California, and eventually north to Banff where, in short order, he went from instructor to director of the Lake Louise Ski School. In 1967, he met and married Bonnie Derome, an athlete and businesswoman who’d be key to their future enterprise. But first there were people to teach, racers to coach, and dreams to contemplate.

Shortly after he’d begun exploring the mountains around Banff he met fellow Austrian, moviemaker, guide and heliski doyen Hans Gmoser. The two became friends and Wiegele joined Gmoser for ski tours, climbs, forays in front of his camera and heli-skiing. In 1970 Wiegele launched his own heli-ski dream out of Valemont, B.C. But it was the snowier town of Blue

River, smack dab between the Monashee and Cariboo Mountains where his vision of a full-scale, internationally renowned heliski resort—whimsically labelled Wiegele World by many—would come to fruition.

Waypoints in that journey read like a history of powder-skiing: Wiegele organized the first Powder 8 World Championships in 1978, a fun pairs competition that became an annual right-of-passage for many powderhounds; working with Atomic ski-designer Rupert Huber—who first slapped bindings on the remains of a snowboard he’d cut in half with a bandsaw—Wiegele pioneered the use of fat-skis (remember the Atomic Powder Plus?); he was also the first heli operator to welcome snowboarders. Other outcomes of his determined invention include industry safety standards, avalanche research projects, and the Canadian Ski Guides Association. Wiegele won so many awards over a lifetime of service to skiing, industry and community (including an honorary law degree from Thompsons Rivers University) he could never remember them all. At the core of it, however, remained his deepseated love of skiing.

I spent some good times at Wiegele World—from watching my childhood ski hero Wayne Wong win a Powder 8 World Championships to springtime attempts at vertical-foot records. But my funnest—and funniest—trip to Blue River was a Powder magazine assignment to report on two wholesome, wide-eyed teenagers from North Dakota who’d won a week-long trip to Wiegele’s. To this day “Lighter Than Air”

remains one of my most memorable features not so much because of the impression heliskiing in big, glaciated mountains made on those green Prairie kids (considerable and fittingly transcendent) but for the impression Wiegele’s personal passion and welcoming attitude made. At dinner the first night, the flatlanders who skied behind tractors at home but were now ensconced in a sprawling lodge overlooking a 12-chopper heli-pad seemed overwhelmed by the bounty on offer. They’d just experienced the magic of ordering their first beer (the drinking age of 19 in B.C. had made them de facto adults for the week) when Wiegele himself strolled over to welcome them. Tanned, adorned in natty trademark white cap and offering exotically-accented greetings through a 35-million-verticalfeet-in-25-years (at the time) smile, he was surely a ski god descended to Earth. Only devout Christianity kept the boys from immediately dropping to their knees and licking his feet. After he left, one leaned over the table and, voice cracking in reverence, whispered “That was him!”

Indeed it was. A ski icon may have passed from this world, but the stories and legends that Mike Wiegele spawned live on. As a racer, coach, powder pioneer, businessman, innovator, husband, and father, he’ll be remembered by all for his frequently uttered and resonant motto: Let’s go skiing.

Leslie Anthony is a Whistler-based author, editor, biologist and bon vivant who has never met a mountain he didn’t like. ■

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Fairy Creek protests evoke memories of Clayoquot Sound, but there are key differences

By Norman Galimski Times Colonist

Fairy Creek protester Forest was 17 when she was arrested at Clayoquot Sound in 1993.

During a trip to Long Beach, near the shores of the sound, she saw firsthand the effects of clear-cut logging in the area. (While her employer gave her its blessing to take time off to join the effort, Forest—like many others—uses an alias because participating in the Fairy Creek protests may compromise her livelihood.)

Forest decided then that she was going to be a part of the War in the Woods, as the mass protests against logging in the Clayoquot Sound area were dubbed.

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Michelle Muellner, carrying two-year-old daughter Cora, raises her hand and shouts to fellow protesters as RCMP officers lead her away on Aug. 11, 1993. PHOTO BY RAY SMITH / TIMES COLONIST

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Richard Bourne serves an injunction at Kennedy River Bridge on Aug. 11, 1993. PHOTO BY RAY SMITH / TIMES COLONIST

For three months, she participated in the protests, doing anything she could do to help the movement until the day she was arrested. She was one of 856 people arrested in the internationally covered sixmonth uprising before the campaign ended in October of 1993.

Like those who would follow them in recent months at Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew, Forest and the other Clayoquot protesters often found themselves cold and wet, soaked by near daily rainfall. They would get up early, between 4 and 5 a.m., and head down the road to Kennedy Bridge, where most loggers had to pass to access the pristine old-growth forests of Clayoquot Sound.

At Fairy Creek, as at Clayoquot, there’s a kitchen that feeds protesters three meals a day, workshops are available to newcomers on topics ranging from being arrested to forest education, and a dedicated core of mostly young people takes charge of the daily operations and organization of the camps.

There are other similarities between the two campaigns. For both 1993’s War in the Woods and 2021’s Fairy Creek protests against old-growth logging, an NDP government was in power in B.C. and Canada was recovering from a global recession.

But there are stark differences, too.

This time around, far more attention in the protest camps is being paid to the role of Indigenous people. And many protesters who were involved in both efforts say the relationship with police was friendlier at Clayoquot, that the daily arrests were more of a ritual where everyone played their part.

While there was intensity to the Clayoquot protests, at Fairy Creek there is something closer to a desperate urgency, said Tzeporah Berman, a lead organizer and prominent voice of the protesters during 1993’s War in the Woods.

“Every minute matters,” said Berman, who was arrested at both Clayoquot Sound and Fairy Creek.

In the era of the Clayoquot protests, there was much more old-growth forest left in B.C. compared to today, she said.

Studies now suggest there is as little as three per cent of old-growth forest left in the province.

Alison Acker of Victoria spent three weeks in jail for blocking loggers’ entry across Kennedy Bridge at Clayoquot Sound. Now 92

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and equipped with a walker, she has visited the Fairy Creek protests several times in hopes of being arrested again. The atmosphere, she says, was much more jovial at Clayoquot. “It was very much like a pageant or staged event.”

The RCMP would arrive and spraypaint orange lines on the ground to separate onlookers from the action as they approached the protesters for arrest. Most protesters walked out peacefully alongside officers as they were taken into custody.

Protesters who were there say there was little tension or animosity between the two groups in the daily ritual. For the arrestees, it was about making a statement— they wanted to show the world that their cause was worth being arrested for, that the forests of Clayoquot Sound should be saved.

However, there were some protesters who chose to “hard block” the RCMP, refusing to move and forcing the police to carry them off. At Clayoquot, this often took the form of acting like a “limp noodle,” said Forest.

“I don’t know anybody who had a bad time with the RCMP [at Clayoquot],” said Acker. “There was no fear.”

“They were sweet as pie with me,” Forest said of how the RCMP treated her when she was arrested at Clayoquot Sound.

The night before Forest’s arrest, there was a large windstorm and almost all the protesters fled their encampment for shelter in the nearby town of Ucluelet.

Forest stayed behind with a small number of others. During the night, a young logger came to the camp and offered the remaining protesters refuge from the storm—where they kept a low profile to avoid being spotted by the logger’s neighbours.

First thing the next morning, after the storm had passed, she went straight out to Kennedy Bridge. Few people were there because of the storm, so Forest felt the need to fill the gap and put herself forward to be arrested.

“Everybody has a moment where they grow up,” said Forest, who credited her arrest at Clayoquot with helping her develop into the person she is today.

Now, 28 years later, she has taken time off from working in the security sector for industries such as fishing, mining and forestry to participate in the protests.

At Fairy Creek, “hard blocks” are a gruelling fact of everyday life and much more intense. Arrests are daily and protester

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A protester raises his arm in defiance as he is extracted from a tripod by RCMP on a logging road near Port Renfrew. PHOTO BY NORMAN GALIMSKI / TIMES COLONIST

“It’s so important for us to protect this land because that’s the way we learn. We learn our tradition and our ceremonies on the land with our ancestors— which are these trees.” Sage resistance is gritty. “Out here, it’s a war zone. It’s literally a war zone and [that’s] not an exaggeration,” Forest said.

Protesters lock their arms in the ground in homemade devices called Sleeping Dragons, made of a PVC pipe set in concrete.

They sit chained atop metres-high tripods made of three or more logs or trees— sometimes assembled in a hurry when RCMP are unexpectedly spotted—putting their bodies on the line to slow the RCMP’s progress in clearing roads leading to oldgrowth trees. The contraptions protesters devise can take hours for the RCMP to dismantle safely, since failing to go slowly can cause serious injury.

The goal for the protesters is to hold out as long as possible—they see every extra minute gained as a small victory.

But long extractions can be an

overwhelming and stressful ordeal for even the most dedicated to the cause, involving loud and heavy tools such as jackhammers and handsaws and use of a full-on construction-site excavator digging centimetres from them. For some, it’s just too much, and they voluntarily unshackle themselves and walk away with police to avoid an hours-long arduous process.

Berman says there was a casual and friendly nature to the relationship between the protesters and the RCMP at the Clayoquot Sound protest that she hasn’t seen at Fairy Creek. Many officers at Clayoquot were on a first-name basis with Berman, and water-cooler-like conversations were common throughout the day in between periods of action.

By contrast, at Fairy Creek, RCMP is blocking media and supporters of the

protesters from accessing the area entirely in what Berman sees as a very heavyhanded approach. “I’ve experienced RCMP exclusion zones [at Fairy Creek] that, in my opinion, threaten the safety of and rights of citizens.”

Yvon Raoul, who was at both protests, said the way journalists have been treated is very different at Fairy Creek. “I feel like journalists have been hampered from doing their job [at Fairy Creek],” Raoul said. “At Clayoquot, it wasn’t like that. It was totally open.”

Journalists were free to go where they wanted at the Clayoquot Sound protests, he said, while at Fairy Creek, police have made it very difficult—requiring media to have an RCMP escort and keeping them well back from protester “extractions.”

In fact, RCMP restrictions on journalists within the injunction zone have prompted

a coalition of Canadian media outlets and groups to take the Mounties to court.

Sgt. Chris Manseau, media relations officer for the B.C. RCMP, said he feels the overall relationship the RCMP has built with the media at Fairy Creek has been strong, but safety is the priority when granting access to media.

“I put out a media invite every day.

Media are being invited in to film wherever it’s deemed safe,” he said.

Manseau said he couldn’t comment on protesters’ accounts of differences in the relationship between protesters and Mounties at Fairy Creek and Clayoquot Sound, because he was not there when the actions took place 28 years ago—in fact, he was still in high school.

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FEATURE STORY are just doing their job in enforcing the their land. Protesters say that they have injunction obtained by Surrey-based Teal- been invited and given permission to be on Jones Group, the forestry company that the territory by elder Bill Jones. owns Tree Farm Licence 46, against those Newly arrived protesters are greeted at blocking access to logging areas. “Laws are the entrance to the headquarters camp by being broken and I’m a police officer, and I a checkpoint manned by several protesters. have to uphold the laws in Canada because They are asked to read a several-page that’s my job.” pamphlet from the protest group Rainforest Another big difference at Fairy Creek Flying Squad before entering, explaining is the involvement of the Indigenous the group’s reason for taking action to community. protect old-growth trees. The pamphlet “Nobody ever mentioned the First explains how to create safe spaces for Nations [at Clayoquot],” said Acker.

Indigenous people and people of colour, As at Clayoquot Sound, the Fairy with instructions such as: “explicitly avoid Creek headquarters, and other camps, acts of any cultural appropriation” and hold evening meetings for everyone and “avoid tokenizing or fetishizing people of encourage newcomers to partake. This time colour or Indigenous people.” around, however, Indigenous voices are a The pamphlet urges newcomers to core focus of the protest movement. educate themselves on Indigenous issues by Decolonialization workshops and lectures reading the United Nations Declaration on are held and marches are led by Indigenous the Rights of Indigenous People and reports youth and elders such as Victor Peter, seen by from the Royal Commission on Aboriginal protesters as the Pacheedaht hereditary chief, People and the Missing and Murdered and Pacheedaht elder Bill Jones.

Indigenous Women and Girls inquiry.

It’s important to note that the title of At the evening circles, Grandma Losah, hereditary chief is disputed. Frank Queesto an elderly Tla’amin woman, and Indigenous Jones is recognized by the Pacheedaht youth teach the mostly white protesters elected council as hereditary chief. The about Indigenous issues within their Pacheedaht band council has also not territories. Protesters are asked not to talk welcomed the protesters and their actions. while she speaks. Her meetings commonly The Pacheedaht have released multiple end with Indigenous songs, often focusing statements since April asking protesters to on the important role of women in their leave and to respect their authority over movement and in their cultures.

“I do appreciate all the settler support.

It’s something I’ve never seen before,” says Sage, a 23-year-old Nuu-chah-Nulth woman who is part of the protest.

Sage—who asked that her real name not be used because she has already been arrested and been served an order preventing her from returning to the injunction zone— says for her, the protest is about more than just saving old-growth trees. Her great uncle went to the same residential school as elder Bill Jones. So, when she heard the call from Jones and his niece, Kati George-Jim, she came to give them her support.

If the trees are gone, so, too, is the hope of being able to reclaim their culture, their teachings, their language and the ability to reconnect, Sage said.

“It’s so important for us to protect this land because that’s the way we learn. We learn our tradition and our ceremonies on the land with our ancestors—which are these trees,” she said.

Sage’s role is to maintain the sacred fire, create “safe spaces” for Indigenous people and help in the “decolonization” effort through workshops.

The protest camps offer a place for Indigenous youth to learn how to reconnect with their culture, she said. They learn their songs, their language and artforms such as wood carving.

“For all of us, we’re doing this dance

of protecting the land so we can continue learning from it, because that’s how our people learn,” Sage said.

Ultimately, the Clayoquot Sound protesters’ actions led in 2000 to the entire sound being designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

This time around, the province has agreed to a two-year deferral on old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed and Central Walbran—affecting about 2,034 hectares of old-growth forest—at the request of the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht and Huu-ay-aht First Nations, who say they want the time to prepare stewardship plans for the areas in their territories. Teal-Jones Group has said it will abide by the nations’ request and put a stop to harvesting and road-building in the deferral areas.

It’s a small win for the protesters, but in their eyes, there is still a long way to go. They want to see all old growth in the province protected, not just trees in the deferral areas.

“Fairy Creek is the tinder that could relight international controversy in what’s happening in British Columbia’s old-growth,” said Berman. “And that’s what happened last time. Clayoquot was the spark.”

This story originally appeared in the Times Colonist on July 4. Norman Galimski is a 2021 graduate of the Langara College journalism program. ■

A protester locked to the ground to slow the RCMP’s progress in clearing the area smokes a cigarette as RCMP officers stand behind her. Fairy Creek protesters are taking more extreme actions to block police progress than at Clayoquot Sound. PHOTO BY NORMAN GALIMSKI / TIMES COLONIST

Pacheedaht elder Bill Jones, right, and Victor Peter, who protesters see as the Pacheedaht hereditary chief, lead a protest march up to Waterfall Camp through a police checkpoint on Braden Road near Port Renfrew. One big difference from the Clayoquot action, protesters say, is the involvement of First Nations. PHOTO BY NORMAN GALIMSKI / TIMES COLONIST

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Life at the blockades Story and photos by Steve An drews

Despite Premier John Horgan’s promises last election to “Protect Old Growth”, centuries-old trees keep falling across the province at an alarming rate.

At Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew, over 475 people have been arrested by the RCMP for blocking access to these ancient forests over the past year. Led by Pacheedat elder Bill Jones and Victor Peter, who many protesters view as the Nation’s hereditary chief, the peaceful resistance has made international headlines as the standoff continues without any signs of slowing down.

I have just returned from nearly a month out there participating in civil disobedience. The community in the forest is defending some of the most carbon-rich ecosystems on the planet in the era of climate chaos.

Very few people out there want to be doing this; but we feel it is our duty to protect these forests before they are gone forever; employing only a handful of workers to

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extract that which cannot be replaced. Our society can no longer see the forest for only the trees.

It is not easy being out there. Walking through the fresh clear-cuts I feel a sense of loss and shame for our culture. I lacked sleep from endless nights building, only to be woken up by RCMP surveillance helicopters or kept awake by their floodlights and periodic sirens throughout the night.

Despite all that, there is an undeniable amount of joy and positivity within the community out there.

People from all walks of life, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, have come together to take a stand for our planet and our future. Although faced with controversy from both the common naysayer and the

elected Pacheedat band council, we continue the fight for not only ourselves but all of humanity, both present and future.

With that unity comes a type of synchronistic energy where people work together not for a paycheque or notoriety, but rather for a common goal of making a stand to change an outdated and misguided status quo. And in doing so, it somehow works. The police continue to be unsuccessful at extracting those who have come to stand in the way.

And so the resistance continues; day by day in hopes that it will someday soon end. But until that day comes, the peaceful land defenders will not stand down. We will continue to spread the message of hope, and a different (and yet also ancient) understanding of nature. ■

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Whistler X Triathlon, Half Marathon to return in 2021 AFTER BOTH EVENTS WERE CANCELLED LAST SUMMER, RACE ORGANIZERS ARE EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO BRING THE EVENTS BACK IN THE FALL OF 2021

BY HARRISON BROOKS DURING THE PANDEMIC, with basically every organized event cancelled for an entire year, running and biking through the Sea to Sky’s trail system became a muchneeded escape to normalcy for many people in the region.

And after a year with no events or competitions, and with more runners and bikers on the trails than ever before, excitement levels are high for the return of the Whistler X Triathlon in September and the Whistler Half Marathon in October.

“Super excited to get back to putting on events for sure,” said Dave Clark, race director for the Whistler Half Marathon.

“We thrive on putting on these events to engage with people and hopefully inspire them to live healthy lives and take part in events like this so it’s great to be back in the saddle for sure.

“We took a bit of a hiatus and I think there is a lot of participants that are excited about getting back, but I think there is still a fair bit of caution out there too amongst the public with regards to large gatherings and things. So, we are trying to put on an event that is going to cater to everybody’s comfort levels.”

This year, to adhere to the differing comfort levels of those who will be racing,

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the Whistler Half Marathon decided to forego its usual set up that had the half marathon, 30-kilometre race and fiveand 10-kilometre races all on the same day and instead split the races into three consecutive days with 250 people racing each day on Oct. 9, 10 and 11.

Usually the half marathon, which has been running since 2011, would start and finish at the Olympic Plaza, but this year it will be run in Lost Lake Park “just to accommodate a smaller gathering,”

It’s never been an easy course for a halfmarathon distance, and this one will have about 450 metres of elevation over the total distance. And before it was more in the range of 250.”

The Whistler X Triathlon, established in 2019, will also be taking place in Lost Lake Park and will be a fully off-road format for both the running and biking legs. According to race director Dale Tiessen, the off-road format of the race used to be unusual for a triathlon but

“The course previously was a mix of roadways and trails … but what we are doing is we are taking it from kind of 50 per cent trail to all trail, so it is a significant change.”

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according to Clark.

“The course previously was a mix of roadways and trails … but what we are doing is we are taking it from kind of 50 per cent trail to all trail, so it is a significant change,” he said.

“It’s going to be a new course for people, which we are super excited about because we always had this feel of built environment mixed with natural environment, as far as the area you are running through, and now it’s going to be all focused on the natural environment, which is pretty cool for sure.

over the past few years there has been an “uptake of more adventure racing-style formats,” especially in B.C. “Triathlon B.C. is actually supporting a series of races now for off-road triathlon,” said Tiessen. “There is an event in Victoria and then on [Sept. 12] here and then the following weekend there is one in Cumberland—all off-road format. And really that growth and that type of event is based on the popularity—people are looking for something different.”

Also new this year, the Whistler X

Triathlon will be an official qualifier event for the 2022 International Triathlon Union Cross World Championships, in Australia. It will be the only qualifier in Western Canada this year, according to Tiessen.

“If you are first place in your age category in our race in Whistler that will earn you a spot to be able to compete for team Canada as an amateur age group athlete in Townsville, Australia, which is the world championships for multi-sport including cross triathlon next year,” he said.

“There are a whole host of people that would undertake the triathlon as a challenge to themselves and are less worried about exactly how fast they are going, but for the people who are training hard and are competitive in the sport of triathlon then this represents a big opportunity, so I think it will be a draw for competitors from outside of the Sea to Sky area and even potentially other provinces.”

With a capacity set for 300 people, and 220 already signed up as roll-overs from last year’s cancelled event, Tiessen expects the event will sell out fast. The same can be said for the Whistler Half Marathon, according to Clark.

Registration for the triathlon opened on July 15 and closes on Sept. 7 and can be found online at whistlertriathlon.com.

Meanwhile, registration for the Half Marathon opens on July 26 for the general public with advanced registration open now for runners who chose to defer for a year after the 2020 race was cancelled. More information on the race can be found at whistlerhalfmarathon.com. ■

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When the pandemic hit, Whistler hockey player Tyler Welsh lost his final season of eligibility at Yale University. And after coming off a very strong season, both individually and as a team, the loss of his senior year was a devastating blow at first.

“It was a pretty great three years there,” said Tyler. “My third year I kind of got a lot more responsibility and was playing pretty well, but it was a little unfortunate that we had just won in double overtime in the first round of a playoff series when the playoffs got cancelled from COVID. “It was really disappointing, we had a really good group of guys coming back, like our whole top line, myself and the two other guys were all returning so we were definitely looking forward to that, so it was really disappointing seeing other college hockey teams playing while we were just sitting there not able to do anything about it.”

But with the awful news came a couple of silver linings. For one, Tyler was able to focus on school and finish the final year of his economics degree. Second, with the NCAA announcing that all players get an additional year of eligibility, it opened up the opportunity to do something he never thought would have been possible at this level—to play with his brother Nolan at Long Island University.

“I definitely wish we would have got a senior year at Yale but at the same time it definitely is a cool opportunity, and one that I never would have expected to happen, so it is a little bit of a cool thing that happened out of a negative for sure,” said Tyler.

“Once they announced that they were giving everyone an extra year I kind of thought that it might have been a possibility and I guess everything worked out exactly how I envisioned it when I first kind of got the idea that it would be possible to play with [Nolan].”

Luckily for Nolan, he was able to get his legs under him in the NCAA as LIU, at least, had a shortened season, playing a total of 15 games, both regular season and pre-season.

But as far as rookie seasons go, this was one of the more unusual ones, with Nolan having to balance the first year at a new level with a world-wide pandemic while playing for a brand new program.

“It was a pretty crazy experience, I didn’t really know what to expect going in and there were a lot of times where plans changed and games got cancelled,”

said Nolan. “Looking back, I’m just really fortunate to really have the season that we had, because there were teams that weren’t able to play at all, so I’d say it was a success.”

Nolan, who led his team with seven points in 12 games is pumped about adding an experienced player like his brother and is hoping the addition helps in his goal to improve on his own strong rookie season.

“I’m pretty happy with the offensive points I was able to put up last season.

Next season is going to be kind of the same challenge; I’m looking to be in the same offensive role with my team. hopefully our team will be able to have a little more success offensively and hopefully that will translate to me having more success as well,” he said.

“I really never thought that [playing with my brother] would be a possibility, so when it came, and it was able to work out I was pretty excited. Not a lot of people get to play with their brother at this high of a level so it’s going to be a really cool opportunity.”

But it’s not just Nolan and Tyler who are excited about the prospect of playing together. Their dad Greg, who wasn’t able to see either of his boys play live at all last year is also pumped about the possibility of being able to get out and watch them play at the same time.

“It’s a parent’s dream to have your kids play together on one team and when Tyler lost his year due to the pandemic and he put his name into the transfer portal, LIU called and he just felt it was going to be a really good fit. But yeah, for me, it’s just going to be really exciting,” said Greg.

“I’ve got some extended time off coming up so I’ll get to as many [games] as I can. We haven’t even seen [Nolan’s] campus, let alone watched a game, so it’s going to be quite interesting.”

With the addition of some veteran experience in the form of his brother and the other transfer players, Nolan is expecting The Sharks to remain competitive and improve on their 3-10-0 season from last year.

“I think the team is really fortunate to get a player like [Tyler]. We were kind of missing players like that last year with having such a young team, so his experience is going to be big for us as well as the success he’s had putting up points,” said Nolan.

“For us and the team, we still feel like we have a lot to prove, as a program. We didn’t really get the full season we were hoping to get, but next year is an even bigger opportunity and an even bigger step forward that we can take, and we still have a lot to prove to everyone in the league that we can be a top program.” ■

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BBQ Bob gets back in the barbecue game with Ribfest WILD WOOD OPENS ON EVENINGS EVERY WEEKEND THROUGH SEPT. 12

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHEN WILD WOOD was on the brink of closing last summer, long-time chef Bob Haselbach swooped in to purchase one of Whistler locals’ favourite haunts. But keeping the Function Junction diner’s doors open in the midst of a pandemic and ongoing staff shortage hasn’t left a lot of time for one of Haselbach’s passions: the competitive barbecue circuit.

Thankfully, Wild Wood is open for evening service every Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the rest of the summer as part of Ribfest, and “BBQ Bob,” as he is affectionately known, will not only get to indulge in his love once more but bring in some extra revenue after a tough year.

“Ribfest is just a way for me to play and do what I like to do as well,” said Haselbach.

“It’s extra overtime on me, but because it’s a hobby and something I love to do, it doesn’t feel like extra work.”

The namesake of BBQ Bob’s when it ran out of the space where Red Door Bistro is now, Haselbach is no slouch

SMOKE SHOW “BBQ Bob” Haselbach mans the smokers out front of Wild Wood in Function Junction.

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on the smoker. First falling in love with barbecue in the early 2000s when, while working at Dusty’s Bar & Grill, he got a chance to go to “barbecue school,” a twoday workshop out of Bellevue, Wash., where he won his first competition. From

people he met along the way.

“I haven’t competed that much in the last five years and they’re the people I still talk to on Facebook and texting,” he said.

“There’s a kinship there. We go through all the same trials and errors, and doing bad

“There’s a kinship there. We go through all the same trials and errors, and doing bad to get good. Just all the combinations of different meats and spices and smoke, there are so many variables to play with.”

- BOB HASELBACH

there, he took part in a few events on the competitive circuit, and a hobby grew into a bonafide passion. Along the way, he and his team took home all kinds of hardware, including 11 grand championships, a few reserve championships, and even a Chef’s Choice award at the World Championship Invitational Barbecue in Lynchburg, Tenn. one year.

But for Haselbach, it isn’t the grill glory that kept him coming back to the barbecue circuit for more than a decade, but the

to get good. Just all the combinations of different meats and spices and smoke, there are so many variables to play with.”

The BBQ Bob style tends to skew more towards sweet heat, Haselbach said, using a dry rub to smoke his meat before typically finishing them off with maple syrup and brown sugar, a hint of Canadiana that usually makes him stand out from his American counterparts. “[In New York State], people really liked salty food. When I was in Kansas City,

people really like it sweet and sugary. In Tennessee, they liked it spicy. Then the Carolinas, North and South, they fight over flavour profiles like no other states,” he said. “I go for sweet heat … It’s layers and layers of different things so that when you do get my bark or crust on the outside of the pork or brisket, you can’t even figure it out. There’s a lot going on, and it’s all good.”

For Ribfest, BBQ Bob is serving his signature baby back ribs, in a half ($18) or full rack ($30), and his barbecue chicken ($20), both with a side. Then you can buy his 18-hour slow-cooked pulled pork ($18), beef brisket ($24) or smoked chicken thighs ($18) by the pound, or in a sandwich ($16 to $18), with a side. There’s also a smoked vegetable sandwich ($16) on the menu.

Sides includes coleslaw, potato salad, baked beans and smoked gouda cornbread.

Ribfest runs from 4 to 9 p.m. every Friday and Saturday, and from 4 to 8 p.m. every Sunday, through Sept. 12 at Wild Wood, giving another evening option for Whistler’s south end.

“With all the staff shortages and stuff in town, a lot of restaurants aren’t open as late and there are less places for people to eat,” said Haselbach. “There’s a big community down here and in Cheakamus, so they don’t have to go down to Creekside or the village to get a meal now at night.” ■

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Flag Stop Festival levels up in its 10th year GRASSROOTS ARTS FESTIVAL WILL FEATURE THEATRE GROUPS FROM WHISTLER, SQUAMISH AND VANCOUVER FOR THE FIRST TIME

BY BRANDON BARRETT I MAKE THE MISTAKE of asking Jay Hamburger, 50-year theatre veteran, director, producer and driving force behind Vancouver stage company Theatre in the Raw, what motivated him to take part in Whistler’s “tiny little arts festival,” Flag Stop.

“Now, wait a minute! Who’s calling it tiny?” Hamburger exclaims. “First of all, it’s right up our alley. Ole’ Stephen Vogler [festival director] has got it on a floating stage. Well, that’s pretty awesome to say.

We’ve toured, we’ve performed outdoors, we’ve performed in ballparks, and now we’re performing on a floating stage!”

Entering its 10th year, the Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival will for the first time involve three different theatre groups: Whistler’s own Flag Stop Theatre Program, Squamish’s Between Shifts Theatre and the aforementioned Theatre in the Raw. Six of the plays are directed

by Kathy Daniels and Amy Reid, with the seventh directed by Hamburger.

“It is still a community arts festival, but this does, I think, legitimize and keep the level as high as it can be,” says Vogler, who also serves as the artistic director of the festival’s home venue, the Point Artist-Run Centre.

Featuring seven short comedic plays

MILESTONE YEAR The Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival will make its 10th year next month.

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penned by Katherine Fawcett, Joseph T. Leander, John McGie, Janice Carroll, Steve Karp and myself, the cast of 20 actors are a mix of dedicated locals and established talents such as Jacques Lalonde, a seasoned Vancouver actor who has appeared in everything from Sesame Street to Da Vinci’s Inquest, and will star in Fawcett’s adaptation of one of her short stories, “The Devil and Ms. Nora.” Then there’s Hamburger, who, on paper at least, might seem a surprising inclusion to Whistler’s

awakening and daring theatre and this is all part of it. Plus, I really liked what I saw last year. I actually considered it an honour that [Vogler] asked us.”

(I’d be remiss if I didn’t share an anecdote Hamburger told me after watching last year’s show. Complimenting the cast in his effusive way for weathering the chilly, windy conditions on the floating dock, he goes on to tell me how, in the ‘60s, he dealt with some challenging conditions of his own as a member of the West Virginia

“We do unusual, awakening and daring theatre and this is all part of it. Plus, I really liked what I saw last year. I actually considered it an honour that [Vogler] asked us.”

- JAY HAMBURGER

“little festival that could,” as Vogler calls it. A Carnegie Melon alum who co-wrote a song for the 1960s Broadway hit, Godspell, Hamburger’s long theatrical CV belies his deep sense of humility. In fact, when it comes down to it, Hamburger’s grassroots approach to theatre more closely aligns with Flag Stop than any glitzy Broadway production ever could.

“With the theatre, if I can give the actors a smudge of experience of the old way live theatre used to be, which is varied audiences, live stage performances—anything can go wrong—then I will,” he says. “We do unusual,

Repertory Company. Touring coal-mining towns at the height of the Vietnam War, the company would perform provocative poems by revolutionary German theatre pioneer—and noted Communist—Bertolt Brecht. Turns out one of the townspeople got word of Brecht’s leftist leanings and went to the local papers, effectively running the troupe out of town. So yeah, if Hamburger et al. can endure the ire of an entire southern mining town, I’m sure we can deal with a little rain.)

Flag Stop first began when Vogler wanted to make use of the Point’s idyllic

setting by staging a live play on the floating dock. Initially held over one night, the festival has since doubled in length, attracting a coterie of performers from across B.C., and in 2019, went on the road for the first time, touring the Sunshine Coast. And while it may lack the spotlight placed on Whistler’s better-known festivals, for those in the know, it’s a can’t-miss date on the calendar that harkens back to the resort’s simpler days.

“It’s true that it’s caught on in circles of people who are interested in it and have been to it. But what I do like is that it’s spreading to the arts world outside of Whistler,” Vogler says. “It’s never going to be a huge Whistler event because people like mountain bikes and gigantic rock concerts or whatever, but if people in Vancouver and Seattle and Victoria and Toronto hear about it then I think that’s a great way for it to grow.”

Set for Aug. 6 and Aug. 7, Flag Stop will also feature aerial silks from Treeline Aerial and live music from Vancouver singersongwriter Xhalida September on the Friday night, and Blyss the lovelorn clown and Victoria’s husband-and-wife duo, The Zonnis, on Saturday. The festivities will take place outdoors under the festival tent and attendance will be capped at 80 each night. Each night will feature the same lineup of plays.

Tickets are $30 for the show only, or $50 with dinner, courtesy of Aphrodite’s Organic Café, available at thepointartists. com. The festival will also be livestreamed, and tickets for that are $10. ■

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MAKING A MARK Classically-trained painter Angela Muellers’ latest exhibit focuses on two of the Sea to Sky’s favourite things: mountains and dogs.

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BY BRANDON BARRETT WHEN SHE WAS LIVING in Ontario some years ago completing her schooling, artist Angela Muellers had the same reaction every time the distinct landscape of the Sea to Sky came into view on her flight here.

“When I was living in Toronto and I was on that plane coming home and I would see the mountains, I would cry every time,” says the 63-year-old Brackendale painter.

“I’ve always lived near mountains and they’re just such a blessing. We’re so lucky to live in the Sea to Sky. They give you joy, they give you hope, they give you a break from the world, especially this last year and a half. It’s kind of like a place of worship.”

Mountains form the centrepiece of much of Mueller’s work, as well as a new exhibit at The Artisan Gallery in Squamish, including several pieces depicting the Whistler backcountry—although dogs, another beloved element of the Sea to Sky lifestyle, also feature in the show.

A classically trained portrait and landscape artist, Muellers grew up surrounded by mountains in her native Alberta, and they’ve always held a certain sway over her.

Primarily painting in a realist style based on photos, Muellers mostly stayed out of the backcountry over the past three years after she broke her leg in a nasty fall on Blackcomb Mountain. That is until this winter.

“I had a little fear after breaking my leg on the hill; I was in so much pain I could not move, so it kind of put a lot of fear in my head about going into the backcountry,” she says. “But I had a great experience, went out with friends, and we didn’t try anything crazy. Just kept it mellow and went up to Flute Bowl. Just had a great time and you can always get such good photos back there.

The clouds are just amazing.”

Muellers first got hooked on painting in childhood, learning from her grandfather.

But, with the traditional French Academy system out of favour at the time, she struggled to find a school that suited her needs. She

learned abstract painting in her 20s at a school in Victoria, but soon realized the realist style was more up her alley. Eventually she connected with New York Academy of Art-trained instructor Michael Britton, who taught her a system of watercolour painting of large, life-sized figures. Muellers also wanted to hone her oil painting skills, but it wasn’t until a life-threatening car accident in 2001 that she took the leap to enrol in a fouryear program in Toronto.

“I think anytime you have gone through a real dark night of the soul, which it really was, you’re definitely going to come out transformed on the other end,” she says. “It made me really want to achieve something with my art because it was really the thing I loved so much. It was like, ‘Well, you’ve got to do it now.’”

How Muellers found her way to dog portraits was something of an accident.

After a friends’ beloved dog was hit by a car and killed, she wracked her brain to figure out something she could do for them.

“I thought, ‘I’ll give them a painting of their dog,’” she recalls. “A close friend of mine in Squamish is an incredible photographer, Roberta Holden, and she had taken a photo of the dog, so I did it and gave the painting to them and they were crying and so happy.”

Muellers enjoyed the process of painting pooches so much, that she began offering commissions of man’s best friend, which she found a welcome change of pace from painting the rugged landscapes of the corridor.

“They’re actually a lot of fun because every dog breed has such a different character, different look, different fur—everything,” Muellers says. “I did this portrait of this little French bulldog and he looks like Winston Churchill. He’s just hilarious. He’s got this black face and the rest of him is quite a gold colour. His face is just hilarious.”

Muellers latest exhibit features 15 pieces, both original and prints, and runs until Oct. 6. Her work on copper is also regularly featured at the Britannia Mine Museum’s gift shop, and will be on display for the Copper and Fire event on Sept. 18.

To learn more, visit angelamuellers.com. ■

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as the vice-president of marketing at Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation, Mike Hurst began a new position as the acting general manager of the Whistler Resort Association (WRA), known today as Tourism Whistler.

While Vancouver had drawn international attention during Expo 86, summers in the Whistler resort were still quite slow, with some businesses even shutting down for the season. According to Hurst, “People would come up to the Village, and they’d come in, and they’d go to a restaurant, and then they’d walk around wondering what to do, and there’d be very little to do.”

In an effort to change this, Hurst contacted Maureen Douglas and Laurel Darnell of Street Access and asked them to organize street entertainment in the village for the summer of 1987. Though Douglas spent Expo 86 recovering from a broken leg, she was inspired by the “sleeper hit” street performers at the festival and wanted to ensure that talent wasn’t forgotten.

She and Darnell formed Street Access Entertainment Society as a non-profit street entertainment booking and development society in Sept. 1986. They were soon contracted to organize three days a week of entertainment in Whistler.

Each weekend the village would host performances by jugglers, musicians, comedians, and character actors who roamed the Village Stroll. At the end of the summer, fifteen acts were brought together for the Whistler Street Festival Grand Finale over the Labour Day weekend to compete for a contract to perform at Expo 88 in Brisbane, Australia.

Street Access continued to organize summer street entertainment for the WRA, increasing to four days/week in 1988 and then seven days/week in 1989.

The WRA then decided to bring festival and entertainment planning in house and asked Douglas to write a job description and apply. She began working at the WRA and ran the street entertainment program through the 1990s.

According to Douglas, each year’s lineup was made of about 50 per cent returning acts from the Lower Mainland and 50 per cent new or touring acts. One regular act was Carolyn Sadowska, who appeared as Queen Elizabeth II and would instruct visitors on points of etiquette, provide tiaras and props, and pose for photos. Other acts included Fifi Lafluff (“the world’s worst hairdresser”), cappella groups such as Party Fever, bands like the Mulberry Street Jazz Band, clowns, and comedic jugglers such as the Checkerboard Guy and Mike Battie (whose grand finale involved juggling pins and broccoli, which he proceeded to eat, accompanied by the William Tell Overture).

Over the years Douglas also started to hire local musical acts, such as Stephen and Peter Vogler, singing group Colours on Key, and harpist Alison Hunter.

By most accounts, the street entertainment program was a big success.

Through the 1990s the September festival was renamed Whistler’s Really Big Street Fest and weekly showcases were added to the schedule. Acts were carefully placed throughout the village, as some could attract audiences of 300 to 400 people.

While this was all right in Village Square, in other areas those numbers created gridlock.

Whistler became part of the street entertainment circuit, joining other festivals across Canada in cities such as Halifax and Edmonton. While some of the other areas offered performers a chance to make a lot of money through busking, the WRA didn’t want the audience to have to pay and instead offered a “working holiday,” with a decent fee, accommodation, wine and cheese gettogethers on Fridays, and time to enjoy summer in Whistler. Douglas remembered that one of the producers of a busking festival once told her, “You know, our one beef with Whistler is that you guys are just too nice.

They come here and then we don’t treat them quite as well and they’re miffed.”

Encouraging summer visitors was a large focus of the WRA and Hurst in the midto-late 1980s and street entertainment was just one strategy to increase numbers. For many visitors and residents, however, the performers were one of the most memorable parts of their village experience. ■

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START YOUR ENGINES The Pemberton Stockcar Association returned to the track to kick off its 2021 season on Saturday, July 24.

LAKE LIFE Chantel Clayden paddles in the sun on a Sea to Sky lake on Tuesday, July 27—the same day Environment Canada issued a special weather statement warning of an incoming high pressure system that’s expected to bring high temperatures back to the corridor this week. PHOTO BY JESSLYN GATES . 5 STANDING TALL Whistler locals gathered on Saturday, July 24 in Whistler Olympic Plaza—and in some cases, the trees surrounding it—to protest in based in Vancouver. Anyone interested in donating to their care can do so at rabbitats.org. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3

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Free Will Astrology WEEK OF JULY 29 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): What does it mean to feel real? Some people have a hard time doing that. They have such false ideas about who they are that they rarely feel real. Others are so distracted by trivial longings that they never have the luxury of settling into the exquisite at-home-ness of feeling real. For those fortunate enough to regularly experience this treasured blessing, feeling real isn’t a vague concept. It’s a vivid sensation of being conscious in one’s body. When we feel real, we respond spontaneously, enjoy playing, and exult in the privilege of being alive. After studying your astrological potentials, Aries, I suspect that you now have an enhanced capacity to feel real.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she was a child, author Valerie Andrews visited her secret sanctuary at sunset every day for seven years. She lay on the ground among birch trees and aromatic privet plants, feeling “the steady rhythmic heartbeat of the earth” as she basked in the fading light. I’d love for you to enjoy the revitalizing power of such a shrine. The decisions you have to make will become clear as you commune with what Andrews calls “a rootlike umbilicus to the dark core of the land.” Do you know of such a place? If not, I suggest you find or create one.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suspect that your immediate future will be a patchwork of evocative fragments. You may be both annoyed and entertained by a series of flashing attractions, or an array of pretty baubles, or a hubbub of tasks that all seem at least mildly worth doing. Chances are good that they will ultimately knit together into a crazy-quilt unity; they will weave into a pattern that makes unexpected sense. In the spirit of the spicy variety, I offer three quotes that may not seem useful to you yet, but will soon. 1. “Isn’t it possible that to desire a thing, to truly desire it, is a form of having it?”—Galway Kinnell. 2. “It is not half so important to know, as to feel.”—Rachel Carson. 3. “Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what’s out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.”—Pema Chödrön.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A Tumblr blogger named Cece writes, “The fact that you can soak bread in sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla, then butter a pan and fry said bread to make a meal is really liberating.” I agree.

And I share this with you in the hope of encouraging you to indulge in other commonplace actions that will make you feel spacious and uninhibited. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you’ll thrive on doing day-to-day details that excite your lust for life. Enjoying the little things to the utmost will be an excellent strategy for success.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Renée Ashley articulates a perspective I recommend you adopt. She writes, “I’m drawn to what flutters nebulously at the edges, at the corner of my eye—just outside my certain sight. I want to share in what I am routinely denied, or only suspect exists. I long for a glimpse of what is beginning to occur.” With her thoughts as inspiration, I advise you to be hungry for what you don’t know and haven’t perceived. Expand your curiosity so that it becomes wildly insatiable in its quest to uncover budding questions and raw truths at the peripheries of your awareness.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person,” declared Virgo actor Greta Garbo (1905–1990). “It is not right that you should tell them,” she concluded. “You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.” I presume Greta was being melodramatic. My attitude is the opposite of hers. If you find allies who listen well and who respect your vulnerability, you should relish telling them the secrets of your heart. To do so enriches you, deepens you, and adds soulful new meanings to your primary mysteries. The coming weeks will be a favourable time to seek this wise pleasure in abundance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Now is a fantastic time to seek out effervescent socializing and convivial

gatherings and festive celebrations. If you surround yourself with lively people, you’ll absorb the exact influences you need. May I suggest you host a fun event? If you do, you could send out invitations that include the following allures: “At my get-together, the featured flavours will be strawberry chocolate and impossibly delicious. There’ll be magic vibrations and mysterious mood-enhancers. Liberating conversations will be strongly encouraged. Unpredictable revelations will be honoured. If possible, please unload your fears and anxieties in a random parking lot before arriving.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Andrew Sean Greer writes, “As the Japanese will tell you, one can train a rose to grow through anything, to grow through a nautilus even, but it must be done with tenderness.” I think that’s a vivid metaphor for one of your chief tasks in the coming weeks, Scorpio: how to carefully nurture delicate, beautiful things as you coax them to ripen in ways that will bring out their sturdiness and resilience. I believe you now have an extra capacity for wielding love to help things bloom.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Suggested experiments to try soon: 1. Remember a past moment when you were touched with the sudden realization that you and a person you’d recently met were destined to fall in love. 2. Remember a past moment when you kissed someone for the first time. 3. Remember a past moment when someone told you they loved you for the first time or when you told someone you loved them for the first time.

4. Allow the feelings from the first three experiments to permeate your life for five days. See through the eyes of the person you were during those previous breakthroughs. Treat the whole world as expansively and expectantly as you did during those times.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn poet Kenneth Rexroth was shirtless as he strolled along a rural road.

To his delightful amazement, a fritillary butterfly landed on his shoulder, fluttered away, landed again, fluttered away—performed this dance numerous times. Nothing like this had ever happened to him. Later he wrote, “I feel my flesh / Has suddenly become sweet / With a metamorphosis / Kept secret even from myself.” In the coming days, I’m expecting at least one comparable experience for you. Here’s your homework: What sweet metamorphoses may be underway within you—perhaps not yet having reached your conscious awareness?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Each time we don’t say what we want to say, we’re dying.” Aquarian artist and singer Yoko Ono said that. I will add a further nuance: Each time we’re not aware of the feeling or experience or situation we want, we’re dying. And these will be key themes now that you’ve entered the “I KNOW WHAT I WANT AND I KNOW HOW TO ASK FOR IT” phase of your cycle. The most healing and vivifying thing you can do during the next six weeks is to be precise about your desires.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1829, Piscean author Victor Hugo began work on his novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He had other projects, though, and

by September 1830, he had made scant progress on Hunchback. Growing impatient, his publisher demanded that he finish the manuscript by February 1831. In response, Hugo virtually barricaded himself in his room to compel himself to meet the deadline. He even locked his clothes in a closet to prevent himself from going out.

For the next five months, he wore only a gray shawl as he toiled nonstop. His stratagem worked! I recommend you consider trying a somewhat less rigorous trick to enforce your self-discipline in the coming weeks. There’s no need to barricade yourself in your fortress. But I hope you will have fun taking stringent measures.

Here’s this week’s homework: Send descriptions of your wildly hopeful dreams for the future. newsletter@freewillastrology.com

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Reaction to the concept was initially slow, mainly because it was a new idea. But the business gathered momentum as more people caught on to the concept of glamping for their special event.

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“The average camping tent is made out of nylon, with a frame and poles,” Richard explains. “They are great because they are lightweight, but it’s like sleeping in a carrier (shopping) bag. They can get really hot and uncomfortable.”

Their bell tents feature a single, central pole, and the covering is a tightly weaved, water-proofed, cotton canvas.

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A COVID-19 vaccine protects everyone “A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”

- C. H. Spurgeon

OFTEN ATTRIBUTED, in one form or another, to Mark Twain, modern (mis) communication technology has made that chestnut more true than ever. And antisocial media has turned it into both an art form and a lucrative moneymaker.

What was once dismissed as quackery— and found a very limited audience of gullible believers—now becomes an overnight sensation and a political

BY G.D. MAXWELL movement by week’s end. Nowhere has this been more apparent than the ongoing saga of vaccine conspiracy myths and anti-vaxxer rhetoric leading to hesitancy on the part of a significant percentage of the population to get COVID-19 vaccine jabbed into their arms.

Despite overwhelming evidence the various vaccines are safe, that the risks posed by COVID-19 are more serious than the risks of vaccine side effects, that over 95 per cent of current cases strike the unvaccinated, that over 99 per cent of virusrelated deaths happen to the unvaccinated, there remains doubt this, or any other country not controlled by autocratic governments, will successfully achieve herd immunity through vaccination.

C’mon, people. Are you just being stubborn to be stubborn? That behaviour should have been overcome before you measured you age in double digits.

So what’s your excuse?

“I’m pretty certain, I had COVID already so why bother? I’m already immune.”

Fact is, whatever “immunity” you may or may not have had is far weaker and shorter lived than what you’ll get from any of the approved vaccines. This has been true for most all vaccine-treatable diseases. File this excuse under lazy myths.

“No one knows what the side effects are.”

I believe we can safely hitch another popular excuse to this one. That’s, “The vaccines aren’t fully authorized.”

As of right now, over two billion people have received some form of COVID-19 vaccine worldwide. Over one billion have had two doses. Adverse side effects from vaccines almost always show themselves within two weeks and certainly within two months. There are no recorded, historic instances of vaccines having serious side effects that weren’t picked up in the first two months after application. That’s why approval, either full or emergencyauthorized, was delayed until at least two months after clinical trials.

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The number of serious reactions to vaccines has been statistically miniscule.

In the interim period between clinical trials and authorization, hundreds of thousands of people died from COVID19. This excuse is a classic example of a low probability/high impact trap where people are overly focused on events— serious side effects—that are highly unlikely while ignoring high probability outcomes, contracting COVID-19 because of concern over the safety of vaccines. It’s a common human frailty to fear undesired outcomes regardless of how unlikely they are to occur.

Given the large number of people vaccinated and the small number of people who have experienced serious side effects, the probability of getting into a serious

enough people have been killed by, say, dangerous intersections, to warrant action.

Yeah, you may not be killed by the virus.

But you may well spread it to someone who is. And even if that doesn’t happen, all the people who contract the virus from you and everyone else who hasn’t stepped up for a vaccine continues to put unnecessary pressure on our already inadequate healthcare sector. It continues to hamper the ability of people to get elective medical procedures or even make an appointment to see a doctor. It is taking a serious toll on medical professionals, both through death and burnout. It threatens the future viability of the system because of early attrition by nurses, doctors and support staff who decide there must be a better way to make a living.

It’s a common human frailty to fear undesired outcomes regardless of how unlikely they are to occur. accident the next time you get into your car or on your bike is considerably higher.

All but the most agoraphobic take that risk without even thinking about it.

“The risk of death from COVID-19 is tiny.

Most people who get it just get sick.”

It’s hard to be objective about this excuse. Fact is, it just pisses me off. It is shortsighted, self-centred and just plain anti-social. It is popular with those folks who believe body count is the only metric of merit. Those are the same ones who don’t want to take any safety measures until

With most jurisdictions opening up, people are crowding into bars, movies, restaurants, airplanes, concerts and other events we like to think of as normal. Within those crowds, unvaccinated people pose the largest threat. We can’t tell who they are and they don’t seem to care if they’re spreading the virus around.

There remain people who can’t get vaccinated for legitimate medical reasons.

They are particularly vulnerable and their health is at the mercy, or lack thereof, of those who refuse to get vaccinated for

“personal” reasons.

Finally, the virus isn’t going away. The more people who are not vaccinated, the more human Petri dishes it has in which to mutate, replicate, and become the hot new variant with more power to infect and more power to kill. By eschewing vaccination you make vaccines less effective for everyone and set up a feedback loop that will continue to lead political leaders to impose new rounds of restrictions, making any return to any semblance of normal a pipe dream.

“I have religious reasons for not getting vaccinated.”

Halleluiah, brothers and sisters. I have no reply to refute your faith. But let’s not be hypocritical, shall we? If you’re relying on your faith to keep you healthy, if you’re relying on the tenets of your faith to steer you away from vaccines, then at least have the decency to rely on your faith to cure you when you get ill. In other words, don’t even think of bothering such impure, secular beings as doctors. Don’t show your face at Emergency. Just pray for salvation and die at home, asking forgiveness from those you may have infected.

Like so many things, mulish attitudes change when the threat becomes a personal reality. U.S. conservative radio talking head Phil Valentine preached the gospel of foregoing vaccination. He too browbeat his listeners with the vapid argument of the chances of dying from COVID-19 were less than one percent. When he contracted COVID-19 in June, he announced he’d be back on air in a day or two.

As of Sunday he remains in critical condition and repentant, now a believer and pushing vaccination. Kind of reminds me of the gay bashers who finally see the light when their own kid comes out of the closet.

But, of course, many of his antivaccination listeners now hate him. Duh. ■

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