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28 Crowds swarm the public lands Land managers and gateway communities struggle to keep up. - By Jonathan Thompson / High Country News
14 FIRE SEASON
Whistlerites are on high alert
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RESTARTING PEMBY
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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS Pay parking has long been a thorny issue in Whistler, and this summer is
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no different, as a new pilot project sees user-pay parking at some popular lakeside parks.
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use a smartphone to see the menu, while another warns of the danger of off-leash dogs for cyclists on trails.
13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Is the International Olympic Committee having an identity crisis? What else could explain the organization officially adding breakdancing to the 2024 Games, ponders Megan Lalonde.
58 MAXED OUT U.S. visitors will soon be able to flood Whistler again, but since it’s almost impossible to ensure they have been fully vaccinated maybe it’s not something to celebrate.
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27 RANGE ROVER ZEP Mountain Bike Camps began as a one-man show in 2006 and has helped
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36 FORK IN THE ROAD Whether you buy them at a farmers’ market or pick them yourself, it’s definitely worth enjoying the Sea to Sky’s bountiful berry harvest as long as you can.
40 MUSEUM MUSINGS In 1977, some rebel freeskiers decided to build an unsanctioned jump into Lost Lake to practise their skills.
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The pay-parking conundrum WHAT IS IT about pay parking that gets Whistlerites so riled up? In the last several weeks we have seen a petition started by a local against the current pilot project that launched pay parking at local parks, and a very healthy debate going on about the issue on social media. (Remember 2011 when pay parking was introduced and ended up being one of the main factors leading to the ousting of Whistler’s entire mayor and council?)
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The plan for parking at local parks has been out in the public eye since March of this year and was almost immediately met with opposition—though with snow on the ground it was muted. But once the weather turned and parks were on the active agenda it sunk in that we have to pay $2 an hour between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. at four local green spaces, Rainbow, Lakeside, Alpha and Wayside.
along Westside Road to access Rainbow Park and the bike trails in the area too. Neighbourhood streets in some places, such as those close to Lakeside Park, practically became single-lane with cars parked on both sides of the road. And lest you think it’s a so-last-year problem, the July 20 council package contained a letter from several residents of Panorama Ridge concerned about what was happening on their street. “Over the last several years, summer street parking has continually increased, to the point where it is impossible to walk or ride a bike on Panorama without infringing on traffic,” said the residents in their letter. “A few weeks ago, a cyclist was injured when he collided with a parked vehicle and was taken away by ambulance. “The annual increase in street parking coincides with pay parking coming into effect, driving people away from the lots onto residential streets.” While pay parking at the four parks is new this summer, pay parking is in effect at all the Day lots (1 through 5) in the summer. Lots 4 and 5 are user pay in
“Change will absolutely not always be easy or convenient, and we may ask why some changes are happening ahead of others, but the goal must be progress rather than perfection, and many changes will bring opportunities to become a healthier, more resilient community.” - CLAIRE RUDDY
Initially the whole idea behind the pay parking at these spaces was to help manage the insane vehicle traffic we saw last summer, and indeed in the previous ones as well, as visitors and locals alike enjoy the outdoors. There is no doubt that last year was a crazy one as throngs of people escaped to Whistler to get outside following health guidelines under COVID-19. Vehicles were parked for kilometres
peak season only right now, but staff has advised council in their transportation plan that the lots should all be pay parking in the near future. The change would bring in an extra $100,000 a year. The money raised from parking goes to support transit efforts in the municipality such as all the free transit on weekends in the summer, including a new shuttle to get people to the four parks with pay parking.
As the grumbling about the userpay model at the parks continued, the municipality added in to its reasoning the on-going need to address our biggest climate change problem—the elephant in the room—driving our cars. Using municipal statistics we could cut up to 120 tonnes of GHG emissions a month if residents each eliminated one car trip a week. Absolutely there are going to be days when we are going to go to the park with an all-day picnic, towels and games for the whole family, water toys, blankets, sun tents and more—and on those days we are going to get dinged for the pay parking. But on other days can we can take the bikes, or get the free shuttle? After all, we all know that this change away from our dependence on fossil fuel powered cars has got to be made. Wrote Claire Ruddy of AWARE in a recent Letter to the Editor, “Change will absolutely not always be easy or convenient (timely example being user-pay parking fees in parks), and we may ask why some changes are happening ahead of others, but the goal must be progress rather than perfection, and many changes will bring opportunities to become a healthier, more resilient community.” Perhaps the pilot project on the pay parking at our most popular lakeside parks will get tweaked as council looks ahead to summer 2022, just a few months before the October municipal election. It’s going in the right direction, but more transit is needed if park users are going to stop driving. Free shuttles are needed every day as local families and residents go to these areas during the week when school is out in the summer. We can do this—after all, during the 2010 Olympic Games we were not allowed to drive at all on the highway or into the village, and while there was plenty of complaining heading into the plan, by the time the event was over we were all wishing the bus service could keep going as it was. n
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Add blue dasher to the list! The Whistler Naturalists would like to thank everyone who made our 15th annual BioBlitz a success—an event to highlight and research the rich biodiversity in our area. The 2021 BioBlitz included both a June schools event and the alpine surveys that happened last week. In June, scientists gave virtual presentations to classes at Spring Creek Community School, Myrtle Philip Community School and Whistler Secondary School, with recordings being shared among classes. Thanks to the students for some great questions! We also hosted a virtual event presented by eminent forest ecologist Rachel Holt. Her talk on “Old Growth Forests & Forestry in B.C.” is available for viewing at whistlernaturalists.ca/lecture-series. Last week’s science component focused on alpine biodiversity when we surveyed Brandywine Meadows and Whistler Mountain. We were fortunate to be joined by 30 of B.C.’s best scientists who applied their expertise to (among other groups) the insects, spiders, vascular plants, mosses, birds, mammals, amphibians, and fungi. Thanks also to all volunteers who helped with logistics. Results from this year’s surveys are being collated and will be added to the Whistler Biodiversity Project list available on our website (now nearing 5,000 species documented in the Whistler area). One early highlight was the first record in our area of rare dragonfly, blue
dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis). This is the second year in a row that BioBlitz scientists Mike and Sharon Toochin have found a new, rare dragonfly species in Whistler! Finally, we could not have run any of our BioBlitz events without generous and ongoing support from the Whistler Community Foundation with AWARE as our charitable sponsor and the Resort Municipality of Whistler. Also huge thanks to Whistler Blackcomb, Creekside Market, Legends Hotel, Avalanche Pizza, Whistler Cooks, Fresh St. Market, Whistler Museum and Whistler Library. See you next year! Bob Brett and Kristina Swerhun on behalf of the Whistler Naturalists
forest management, and advanced forest products process ... in the world.” With our biodiversity under huge pressure new forest management practises need to happen now, not over 50 years. The Vision states: “A major constraint on all land-use planning, and the proper execution of resource management plans, is the poor quality of forest inventory data in British Columbia. This extends to all aspects of the environment, including wildlife populations, and is partly a result of the spatial extent of the Province.” This task is easily within man’s grasp and the Faculty of Forestry and the B.C. government share the blame for not getting it done over the past 100 years. One of the most disconcerting statements in the Vision is: “There is a risk associated with cut levels determined exclusively on ecological principles (likely leading to reduced fibre availability and increased cost of delivered fibre), and no working group (none of the six) proposed this.” This is astonishing but not a surprise given that it echoes The Forest and Range Practices Act, which states that non-timber values (including ecosystem and biodiversity protection) must not unduly reduce the supply of timber. It is truly frightening that when push comes to shove, protecting our biodiversity has always taken a back seat to corporate profits and jobs. Dean John Innes, UBC Faculty of Forestry, in his June 12 Vancouver Sun article “Healthy Communities Need Healthy Forests” pointed out issues regarding the B.C. government’s June 1 Policy Intentions Paper “Modernizing
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Forest Policy in BC.” I felt the Vision and his description of the government’s policy intentions paper were similar, with the same deficiencies: no on-the-ground plans for protecting biodiversity and ecologically sustainable forests. From my experience, putting all the stakeholders together to develop a plan only increases divisiveness and at best results in a sub-optimal compromise. The way to expedite an optimal operating plan for B.C. forests is to have UBC’s Faculty of Forestry and the provincial government produce the plan. This would be mapped out in detail as to what is open to harvest, how it is to be harvested and what is never to be harvested. When this plan is complete it would be given
newspaper, but an incident the other day at a local restaurant has prompted me to do just that. My wife and I arrived at the restaurant and were seated. The server brought us water and, only seeing an “app” card on the table, I asked for a menu. While waiting, my wife struggled with the “app” on her phone. Upon returning to take our order I pointed out that he had not yet brought the requested menu. To this he pointed to my wife’s phone and indicated I should be sharing it with her. I raised my voice very slightly and again asked for a menu. Instead of bringing a menu he told me to “calm down!” In a slightly ... raised voice, I repeated my request for a menu. Whereupon he again told me to “calm down.” I asked for the manager and was promptly
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to industry and local communities to fit their harvesting plans into. First Nations would participate in both plans. As the timber supply and AAC would be reduced, jobs would be lost. Job protection does not need to be a reason for continuing to abandon biodiversity. The answer is job retraining on a large scale. There are many industries currently crying out for workers, creating opportunities and many high paying jobs. B.C. needs an immediate paradigm shift and that will only happen when we decide to prioritize an ecological and science-based plan which protects our biodiversity. All other interests need to be secondary to this. I read Dean Innes’ July 2 “Personal Message to the UBC Forestry Community” where he made some key points that our government and the people of B.C. need to hear. The fact that our government has not yet acknowledged the 50 Year Vision which was sent before Easter is untenable. With no communication how can we expect things to change? Lastly, his message conveyed a sense of the Faculty of Forestry’s lack of responsibility for the state of B.C.’s forests. This cannot be the case. UBC Forestry’s graduate students should be leading the science toward responsible forestry in B.C. and the Faculty should be giving them every bit of guidance and encouragement it can in this regard. This should be very public. B.C. needs Dean Innes’ and the UBC Faculty of Forestry’s leadership and action desperately. There is no time to lose! Yours sincerely, Dennis Perry // West Van, Whistler
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told that he was the manager. Finally, I said, “just get me a menu’’ in a loud voice. A very nice menu was then slapped down on our table. Soon a delightful, polite server arrived. She took our order and we had an excellent meal. I am purposely not mentioning the name of this restaurant because it is not my intent to have them tarred by one disrespectful employee. We’ve eaten there many times previously. I am a 27-year employee of Whistler Blackcomb’s food and beverage department. As such, throughout my years, I have always adhered to their policy of giving our guests absolutely the best experience I can so they will return again and again, and tell their friends. We are very privileged to live and work in a wonderful tourist town and owe this courtesy to every guest. It is my hope that every Whistler restaurant owner, manager and server will read this and act appropriately. Not everyone has a smartphone nor wants to use it, especially older guests such as myself. I think that every server that approaches a table should start out by asking if their guests would like a menu, even if there is an “app” card already there. Richard Sladen // Whistler
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Should breakdancing really be an Olympic sport? EVERY FOUR YEARS, for about two weeks, I hop on the bandwagon and become heavily invested in sports that pretty much never cross my mind when the Olympic cauldron isn’t lit. Sprint canoeing? Sign me up. Diving? I’d feel comfortable accepting a spot on the judging panel at this point. Water polo?
BY MEGAN LALONDE Sure, I’ll spend a few minutes watching two teams attempt to drown each other in the name of sport. I’ve always loved the Olympics. I love the suspense of the underdog and comeback stories. I love seeing people living out their dreams and pushing the boundaries of human ability, and seeing Canadians proving our superiority to other countries will never fail to bring me joy. But I particularly love the way the Olympics, for the most part, puts women’s sports on an equal pedestal to men’s. But I don’t love everything about the Olympics. There are many serious issues associated with the Games, from the environmental and socioeconomic costs,
to corruption, political controversies and power imbalances, to the way this massive business can highlight inequalities. This time around, there’s even the debate around whether or not the Games should be happening at all, considering the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic. But this column is about none of those. The issue is about the identity crisis that is obviously plaguing the International Olympic Committee (IOC). An identity crisis that prompted them to last December officially add breakdancing—or “breaking,” as it was initially called by the New Yorkers who pioneered it in the ‘70s—to the events roster for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. I thought it was a joke when I first saw the headlines months ago. But no, it wasn’t a story published by The Onion. Following a successful test run at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina, the addition is one of several new sports the IOC has added to the Games—like sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding—in an effort to draw in a younger crowd. Breaking should not be an Olympic sport. This is the hill I’m willing to die on. All right, that was a touch dramatic. In all honesty, I could easily be pushed off this hill and swayed by other opinions. After all, I used to be able to whip out a pretty rad coffee grinder back in the day. I’m neither
an Olympian nor a breakdancer, so my opinion shouldn’t count for much anyways. I’m not trying to minimize the very real strength and talent breakdancers need to have, or the amount of time, dedication and training they need to put in to be among the best in the world. But in my mind, it just seems like such a strange choice for the Olympics. It seems odd to add another sport that
It seems odd to add another sport that is equally a subjective art form... is equally a subjective art form, when there have been so many calls for longstanding Olympic sports like figure skating to update scoring regulations to be less subjective. And to me, it seems odd to add one form of dance while ignoring the many others. Does making breaking an Olympic sport open the door for ballet or cheerleading, for example, to have the same opportunity? That’s not to say I disagree with all of the IOC’s new additions. The skateboarding and surfing events were so
fun to watch—even if the Olympics needs those sports and their already massive fan bases more than those sports need any help from the Olympics. I don’t know enough about breaking to know if it could benefit from the exposure that a massive platform like the Olympics can offer. But it does meet the IOC’s goal of including more TV-friendly sports that don’t require expensive purpose-built venues, and it can also help the Summer Games achieve the 50/50 gender balance the IOC is striving to hit for the first time in Paris. (Women’s participation in the Tokyo Games is 49 per cent, up from 45 per cent in Rio five years ago.) I can also definitely get behind the argument that breaking will be one of the few Olympic sports that originated in communities of colour, instead of another event invented by a bunch of white dudes. These are all important goals that the IOC needs to consider, but is breaking the sport to help the Olympics achieve them? I can admit that there have been, and continues to be, stranger Olympic sports. If walking, rhythmic gymnastics and horse dancing (better known as dressage) are still Olympic sports, why couldn’t breaking be? Honestly, maybe I just swayed my own opinion. We all know I’ll probably watch it anyways. ■
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Whistlerites on high alert as hot, dry conditions persist WITH FIRE RISK ‘ABOVE EXTREME,’ PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS KEY
BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLER’S FIREFIGHTERS were kept on their toes on the last day of the long weekend, as a trio of calls had the Whistler Fire Rescue Service (WFRS) responding up and down the valley on Monday, Aug. 2. Thankfully, only one of the calls—at the Whistler Transfer Station—required a fire to be extinguished, and the blaze was kept from spreading to the surrounding forest. “That was the main concern—to just make sure it didn’t transfer over outside the property, because there is quite a bit of forest around there,” said WFRS Chief John McKearney, adding that the cause of the fire is under investigation. The call came in at about 9 p.m., and WFRS crews—assisted by Garibaldi Fire Rescue, which helped shuttle water back and forth to the site to ensure a steady supply—had the fire knocked down by midnight, McKearney said. “It was confined to the building that the garbage is put into … one of their machines on site had to bring the garbage out while the firefighters were keeping a mist on it, and then trying to put it out as best they could,” he said. Close to 30 paid-on-call firefighters
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attended the scene to assist the four-person career crew, and RCMP and BC Ambulance members were on site as well. No injuries were reported. Earlier in the day, WFRS crews attended a report of a small fire on the Lost Lake disc golf course, but found it extinguished by the time they arrived. “It was pretty minor; it was about a metre by a metre,” McKearney said. “By the time they got there a conscientious group of bystanders got it mostly damped down.” Also on Aug. 2, another report of smoke had WFRS crews attend a home near Alta Lake—where they found a well-constructed wood-fired hot tub. “Those are still allowed, though not recommended,” McKearney said. “He was good about it, he said no problem, [and] he shut it down.” The calls speak to a community on high alert as B.C. struggles with another difficult fire season, and McKearney encouraged Whistlerites to keep calling the WFRS at the first sign of smoke. “Everything is so dry … the best way to ensure our community is safe is to get on it as quick as possible, so we need our community people to keep bringing that forward,” he said. “We are in the thick of it right now. We’re above extreme [fire danger] right now, and we need all eyes on deck here.” Report fires in Whistler by calling 911. Outside of Whistler, call *5555 on a cell phone or 1-800-663-5555.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IS KEY While Whistler has had its Sea to Sky Multimodal Evacuation Plan in place since 2019, there is only so much the municipality can do in the event of an emergency, and the main message from local officials is for every individual to take some time to prepare in case the resort must be evacuated. “There is a degree of responsibility for every citizen to have some level of knowledge on this, and some level of preparedness going into the summer, or any emergency,” said Ryan Donohue, emergency program coordinator with the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW). “Just think about it. Think about yourself and your own personal preparedness. What would I do if there was nobody here to help me?” Despite best efforts, any evacuation scenario in Whistler is bound to be chaotic. “If you take for instance the town of Lytton, and the speed at which wildfire went through and kind of decimated that town, I don’t believe that there is an operational plan in place anywhere, especially an evacuation plan, that would have changed that situation,” Donohue said. “So really what we’re talking about here is creating a framework where decision making can be made in an effective and timely manner, but what it comes down to is how much time do we have?” If you do only one thing to prepare, in Mayor Jack Crompton’s opinion, it should be to sign up for the Whistler Alert at
whistler.ca/whistleralert. “I also strongly recommend everyone prepare a personal evacuation plan, and you can find resources for that and other things on whistler.ca/emergency,” Crompton said. “Individuals and families are critical to a successful response. Knowing where to find the right information is critical, and having that conversation around the dinner table is a big deal as well.” The RMOW and other local institutions like the WFRS and Whistler Blackcomb are actively preparing for a wildfire through training scenarios, and the RMOW is currently working through a detailed operation plan that “lays out the nuts and bolts of how we would go through the process of initiating either a mass evacuation or a phased evacuation of Whistler,” Donohue said. Find the Multimodal Evacuation Plan and other resources at whistler.ca/evacuate. If the COVID-19 pandemic presented some added anxiety during last year’s fire season, it has somewhat ironically helped the RMOW better prepare in the event of a wildfire emergency, said general manager of resort experience Jessie Gresley-Jones. “When you think back a year ago, we were all nervous, and the ability to use technology effectively was cumbersome, and trying to do that in the midst of another emergency would not have been conducive,” he said. “We’re in a very different spot today … we know how to connect [remotely], and we know how to respond, even if we’re not face-to-face.”
NEWS WHISTLER Crompton agreed, recalling a particularly bad fire season some four years ago when he served as chair of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District. “We had a whole bunch of fires, and the technology that we used was clunky and difficult. We’ve worked out the kinks,” he said. “It feels like in a lot of ways the last year and a half has moved us a big step forward towards a more effective use of the tools we have.” Indeed, the constant forced adaptation of the COVID-19 crisis has instilled a new resilience at municipal hall, Donohue added. “I think a lot of the things that came out of that adaption are lessons learned that we can take moving forward, knowing that we have to be adaptable and flexible,” he said. “Emergency situations are never the same twice, so the lessons learned and the adaptability that people have come to know over the last year and a half of COVID will only help to increase their resilience during any emergency.”
B.C. WILDFIRES EXCEEDING 10-YEAR AVERAGE As of Tuesday, Aug. 3, the BC Wildfire Service (BCWS) had responded to about 1,312 wildfires, resulting in just over 556,000 hectares burned, said BCWS director of fire centre operations Rob Schweitzer in an Aug. 3 conference call with media. The 2021 total is well above the 10-year average for this time of year of 760 fires, burning 114,000 hectares. There were 249 active wildfires burning across the province on Aug. 3, 34 of which were considered wildfires of note. Of those, 173 of these were due to natural causes, while 17 were human caused. “I’m really pleased to report it’s been a week of steady progress, and over the past seven days the average number of new fires per day has remained at around or below seven, and the total number of fires burning at any one time has remained below 250,” Schweitzer said, adding that wildfire smoke continues to hamper BCWS aviation operations. “The safety of our staff is always the No. 1 priority, and we need to follow Transport Canada regulations when we’re flying,” he said. “Even with those visibility challenges, we’ve flown over 4,000 hours with our air tanker fleet, and over 23,000 hours with our helicopters.” Some brief periods of rain over the weekend have helped curb fire behaviour, allowing crews to make progress, but “the amount of rain was not enough to make any long-term impact,” Schweitzer said. “Conditions for the rest of the week remain variable across the province. It’s only early August, and there’s still a significant amount of fire on the landscape. Everyone needs to remain diligent,” he said. “I don’t want anybody to be lulled into [thinking] the season’s over. It is only August 3, and there is a lot of summer left.” In the Coastal Fire Centre, just 15 fires were burning as of Aug. 3, though the 163 to date this year are also above the average of below 100, said information assistant
Gordon Robinson. “Despite the fact that it seems like it’s been a relatively light fire season on the coast, we have had lots of starts, and generally on the coast it’s usually human caused,” Robinson said. The forecast is calling for cooler temperatures and rain this weekend, “which is good news, but it’s temporary good news, because next week we’re expecting the temperatures to get back up into the 30s, and to be hot and dry again,” he added. “I would really encourage people not to get complacent just because it’s raining out. The forest seals are still very dry, potential for starting fires is still very high, even if it doesn’t feel like it on Saturday when we may get a decent bit of rain.” Find the latest at bcwildfire.ca
RMOW ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS TO BE FIRESMART Meanwhile, Whistler’s FireSmart program continues to see good uptake, with 136 serviced so far this year through the community chipper program, and 18 FireSmart work days organized by local neighbourhoods (with six more scheduled). The RMOW recommends completing a FireSmart assessment prior to booking the chipper service, which runs weekly until mid October. Both services can be booked by emailing firesmart@whistler.ca. Whistler’s FireSmart crew continues to treat forest landscape around the Valley Trail, on parkland, and on municipal land adjacent to private property, said FireSmart coordinator Scott Rogers. It’s important for homeowners to understand that the landscape is only half of the wildfire equation, and that FireSmarting buildings and yard materials plays a large role in keeping Whistler safe, Rogers said. While most people know that the roof is the “most important structural factor” in resisting wildfire, less commonly known is that the bottom part of wood siding—where it intersects with horizontal surfaces like the ground, decking or step-ups—has the same hazard-level rating, Rogers said. “This is the place where we see ember accumulation and new ignition (ember throw is responsible for the majority of structural wildfire loss). Combustible decking is the same. So is piling firewood against the house,” he said. “Each of these factors alone immediately put the property into the high hazard category, which quickly climbs into the extreme category with other hazard factors.” The more Whistlerites who take action on their own properties, the safer Whistler will be in the event of a wildfire, Rogers added. “We are all part of the same puzzle and the pieces closest to us are most significant. Neighbours should be talking about Whistler’s wildfire reality and FireSmart solutions and working together,” he said. “It’s not about looking out at the forest and thinking ‘we need to do something about that.’ We need to step off the front step, walk towards the forest, look back at our properties and ask, ‘how can I keep that from igniting?’” Find more information at whistler.ca/ firesmart. n
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Whistler could ban plastics by early 2023 PROVINCE EMPOWERS MUNICIPALITIES TO ACT; ZERO WASTE REPORT EXPECTED SHORTLY
BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH A PROVINCIAL amendment to the Local Government Act, municipalities in B.C. are now able to institute bans on plastic bags and other single-use plastic items without requiring provincial approval. In Whistler, municipal staff are doing their due diligence, and targeting early 2023 for a potential ban on plastic bags and other items. Empowering municipalities to act has long been a passion project of Councillor Arthur De Jong, who discussed the issue with provincial minister of environment and climate change strategy George Heyman more than once in the early days of his term. “I think the real message there is [that] the door is opening into the future now where we can do a lot more … also with greenhouse gas emissions, so that’s good news,” De Jong said. According to the Government of Canada, Canadians use up to 15 billion plastic bags every year, and up to 57 million plastic straws are used daily. Further, Canadians throw out about 3 million tonnes of plastic waste every year,
only nine per cent of which is recycled. A 2016 report from the World Economic Forum estimated the ocean will contain one tonne of plastic for every three tonnes of fish by 2025, and more plastics than fish (by weight) by 2050. In Canada, the federal government hopes to achieve zero plastic waste by 2030. “Societally, we have treated our
into many things, and the last thing that council is going to do is make anything more difficult than what it already has been for our local businesses,” De Jong said. “So we want to ensure that there is time, that they can prepare, plan, and be financially able and ready … It’s not just about plastics; it’s about arriving at zero waste as soon as we can.”
“Societally, we have treated our waterways and oceans like a sewer.” - ARTHUR DE JONG
waterways and oceans like a sewer,” De Jong said. “So seeing the response from both the federal and provincial government, it’s long overdue, but it’s happening, and I’m appreciative of that.” But banning plastic in Whistler is not an overnight decision, and one Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) staff will be approaching prudently. “The pandemic has thrown a wrench
To that end, Whistler’s mayor and council will soon hear a report from the RMOW’s Zero Waste Select Committee detailing a comprehensive zero-waste plan, De Jong said. While still early days, the Whistler Chamber of Commerce is looking forward to working through the process with the RMOW, said CEO Melissa Pace. “The Chamber continues to support efforts to protect Whistler’s environment
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BY BRANDON BARRETT B.C.’S FOREST PRACTICES Board is in Whistler this week to audit the Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF), the first such audit in the public forest’s 11-year history. Auditors will examine whether timber harvesting, roads and bridges, silviculture, fire protection and associated planning carried out between Aug. 1, 2019, and Aug. 6, 2021 met the requirements of the Forest and Range Practices Act and the Wildfire Act. “An audit is a snapshot in time,” explained Chris Mosher, director of audits for the Forest Practices Board. “Basically we’re checking they’ve done what they’ve said they’ve done to the standards required by the legislation.” The CCF hasn’t logged old growth for market since 2018, and much of the work that took place in that two-year window revolved around fuel thinning, noted John Grills, Whistler council’s appointee to the CCF board. “They’re basically going to be looking at activities from August 2019 to August 2021, which for us has been fairly quiet,” he said. “I think to a certain degree … it’s to see what areas have been treated and are they cleaned up, is the proper signage in place,
The CCF covers approximately 33,000 hectares, and is co-managed by the Lil’wat Nation, the Squamish Nation, and the Resort Municipality of Whistler. In June, amidst the flurry of attention on the blockades in Fairy Creek, the CCF board decided to defer old-growth logging until at least 2022 to give the partners time “to work together on finding consensus on old-growth management in the CCF through a process of ongoing dialogue between the partners,” according to a statement. The deferral means a project slated for this summer that would have harvested 11,440 cubic metres of old forest over a 17.4-hectare area of Callaghan Creek won’t go ahead. The CCF partners will use the rest of the year in part to explore alternative revenue sources at the forest, which could include greater emphasis on ecotourism, recreation and Indigenous cultural tourism opportunities. With a current annual allowable cut of 20,000 m3, foresters have struggled to find enough commercially harvestable trees given the long history of clear-cutting in Whistler Valley throughout the 20th century. So CCF manager Simon Murray has floated two ideas, both of which would require buy-in from the board and the
“Basically we’re checking they’ve done what they’ve said they’ve done to the standards required by the legislation.” - CHRIS MOSHER
are the roads and trails and bridges safe? All that stuff. For the most part, it’s to ensure public safety, but there are a number of things they look at.” The Forest Practices Board carries out about eight to 10 audits a year, Mosher said, and tries to disperse them by geography and licence type. Mosher noted the Sea to Sky district was chosen at random, before the board narrowed in on the CCF for its first audit. “It has nothing to do with past practices. It has nothing to do with any other things that are going on, because I know there is chat about old growth in a number of areas. It has nothing to do with that,” he stressed.
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Pemberton traffic stop leads to drug seizure POLICE BRIEFS: CYCLIST STRUCK BY VEHICLE; PEMBERTON TODDLER AVOIDS SERIOUS INJURY IN ACCIDENT
BY BRANDON BARRETT A TRAFFIC STOP led Pemberton police to a “large amount” of drugs last month, according to a release. At about 7:45 a.m. on July 21, Pemberton RCMP conducted a traffic stop in the area of Highway 99 and Portage Road, and a search subsequent to the arrest led to the seizure of 1.3 kilograms of cocaine, 154 grams of heroin, and 14 grams of fentanyl, police said. The male driver and female passenger were arrested for possession of a controlled substance and later released on court documents related to trafficking charges, the RCMP said.
CYCLIST SUFFERS MINOR INJURIES AFTER BEING STRUCK BY VEHICLE IN WHISTLER A cyclist suffered minor injuries last month after being struck by a vehicle in Whistler,
police said in a release. At approximately 2 p.m. July 20, Whistler RCMP responded to a report of an accident in the 3200 block of Archibald Way. Police said the cyclist had attempted to ride past the vehicle when it made a turn, causing the cyclist to collide with the driver-side door. Police continue to investigate and remind motorists “to drive with caution during these busy tourist months given the high volume of pedestrian and cyclist traffic within the RMOW,” the release went on.
PEMBERTON TODDLER ‘EXTREMELY LUCKY’ TO AVOID SERIOUS INJURY IN COLLISION Police said a two-year-old boy was “extremely lucky” to have only suffered minor injuries after being struck by a vehicle in a residential area of Pemberton last month. In a release, RCMP said they responded to the accident in the 2000 block of Tiyata Boulevard at about 6:30 p.m. on July 21, and eventually learned the boy had run onto the
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street where he was hit. The driver of the vehicle was issued a violation ticket for driving without due care. “Cpl. [Nate] Miller is urging the public to slow down while driving through residential neighbourhoods,” the release
said. “It only takes a spilt second for a child to run into the street.” Anyone who observes concerning motorist activity is asked to contact the Whistler RCMP’s non-emergency line at 604-932-3044. n
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Activist group formed to track logging in S2S LOCAL CHAPTER OF LAST STAND FOR FORESTS USES PHOTOGRAPHY, DRONE FOOTAGE TO MONITOR HARVESTING
BY BRANDON BARRETT A GROUP OF LOCALS formed through the ongoing blockades at Fairy Creek is monitoring logging activity on the ground in the Sea to Sky. Essentially a Sea to Sky chapter of the Last Stand for Forests, an activist group that has helped organize the protests in Fairy Creek since last summer, the group is using photography and drone footage to document logging activity in the corridor. “I feel like people have learned so much at Fairy Creek and are taking that home and want to be proactive at home,” said organizer Emily Kane, who has spent the past several weeks travelling between Fairy Creek and Whistler. Most recently, the group captured aerial footage of logging taking place near Meager Creek, northwest of Pemberton, and snapped a photo of a large Douglas fir tree that had recently been cut down in the area. (Although the tree appears to be old growth based on its diameter, the group had not at press time confirmed its age.) Old growth hasn’t been logged commercially in Whistler’s Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) since 2018, and at the height of the Fairy Creek protests, in June, the CCF board announced it was deferring old-growth logging until 2022 as the partners look to alternative revenue sources. Pique was unable to verify who held the forestry licence for the area near Meager Creek where the group captured the footage, but, whether permitted or not, Kane believes it important to keep eyes on the ground to ensure timber harvesting is following the proper guidelines and also highlight the ongoing logging of oldgrowth throughout B.C. “I think sometimes there’s the perception that this is happening elsewhere,” Kane
noted. “That was one of our main reasons for going up there: we want people to know this is happening right in our backyard and it’s happening right across B.C.” Each year around 200,000 hectares of forest in B.C. is logged, with about 27 per cent of that coming from old growth, according to the province. Data shows that only about three per cent of B.C.’s remaining old forest supports large trees, and ecologists and conservation groups have for years warned that old-growth trees in areas where trees grow the largest are being cut down at a rate that isn’t sustainable. Last year, a report by independent scientists, BC’s Old Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiversity, found that more than 85 per cent of B.C.’s productive forest sites contain less than 30 per cent of old growth expected naturally, and nearly half of these ecosystems have less than one per cent of the old growth expected there naturally. “This current status puts biodiversity, ecological integrity and resilience at high risk today,” the report read. The momentum spurred by Fairy Creek led to a protest held in Whistler’s Olympic Plaza on Saturday, July 23 organized in part by sisters and university students Hailey and Kayla Chutter. The event featured a march through the village, a lineup of speakers that included Whistler’s recent MLA candidate and Green Party chair Jeremy Valeriote, as well as an overnight tree sit-in at Olympic Plaza. “Adults tell us that we are the generation that will save the world,” said Hailey in a release quoting from her letter to Sea to Sky MLA Jordan Sturdy that was read aloud during the event. “I want to live in a province where adults question why they are asking 18-year-olds this, instead of their elected government officials.” (Hailey could not be reached for comment by press deadline.) n
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Access trail to One Duck Lake open by fall 2021 AFTER LOSING ACCESS DUE TO PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, THE RMOW IS FINALIZING PLANS FOR A NEW TRAIL
BY HARRISON BROOKS EARLY IN 2021, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) released a survey to assess how the community felt about the RMOW’s new direction when it comes to the trail system in and around town, and the increased funding to the Whistler Off Road Cycling Association (WORCA). Specifically, the Recreational Trail Strategy community engagement survey, which had 800 responses—the most engagement seen in any community survey—wanted feedback on “certain trails like the One Duck, Jane Lakes and those kind of loops,” according to Councillor Ralph Forsyth, who sits on the RMOW’s Recreation and Leisure Advisory Committee (RLAC). “[We found] that [the community is] generally supportive,” said Forsyth. “They love the work that WORCA does. They love that there are so many trails. It’s all pretty positive. “But then specifically, the One Duck Lake [trail] is going to be really good because now we have access because the municipality bought the adjacent property.” Forsyth acknowledged that there are
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concerns from residents in the Emerald neighbourhood over how busy the trail might become but, he said, “I think having legitimate access that’s not trespassing is a big win for the community.” In an emailed statement, the RMOW said the new access to One Duck Lake, which was previously lost due to the trail being cut off by new developments, “will be achieved through a property that has been purchased by the RMOW” and is “intended to serve local residents primarily.”
The statement continues: “Signage improvements to facilitate this access have been made over the course of 2021,” and trail access will be completed by this fall. While WORCA doesn’t have anything to do with the access trail to One Duck Lake, the rest of the survey’s results were “as expected,” particularly when it comes to the major increase in funding WORCA received this year, according to executive director Trevor Ferrao. “Most people thought that was of really
high importance for the trail strategy,” he said. “Sustainable funding is something that has been a big issue for us, so we’re glad to see that everyone recognizes that needs to be tackled long-term. “People want to see a mixture of trails and different difficulties throughout the trail network and things like that, so it confirmed a lot of what we already knew.” The survey also asked questions about three new trail builds proposed by WORCA, two of which—Mystic Function and D’Arcy Burke Memorial Trail—Ferrao believes will be approved by the RMOW. “Mystic Function is from Into The Mystic [trail] down to Function Junction. So the idea behind that is to make better use of the whole trail that takes you up into the alpine,” explained Ferrao. ““This will be like a lower elevation part ... That will basically allow that [trail] to be used for a lot longer period.” The D’Arcy Burke Memorial Trail is planned for the Jane Lakes area, he added, which doesn’t see a lot of use right now. If these new proposed trails are approved by the RMOW, the next step would be for WORCA to apply to the province for permission to start building. However, once in the province’s hands, it could take upwards of three years to get approval to start the build, according to Ferrao. n
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Discussions about increased river forecasting set for Pemberton’s 2022 budget WITH THE RECENT HIGH-WATER LEVELS THERE IS A NEED TO RE-EVALUATE EMERGENCY MEASURES
BY HARRISON BROOKS THE PEMBERTON Valley Emergency Management Committee (PVEMC), Lil’wat Nation and Squamish Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) plan to bring discussions on increased river forecasting measures to the Village of Pemberton Council (VOP) for consideration in the 2022 budget. Over the past two years, the PVEMC, which is made up of the VOP, the SLRD, Lil’wat Nation and the Pemberton Valley Dyking District (PVDD), have applied for a variety of emergency management measures including several river gauges that will increase river forecasting, “especially in events similar to the one we just had where there’s a lot of high water,” said Nikki Gilmore, chief administrative officer for the Village, at the regular council meeting July 27. There is currently a gauge on the Lillooet River that is providing data, explained Gilmore, but it is unable to
HIGH WATER With the recent high water issues in the river near Pemberton, council moves to look for ways to better track changes in water level farther up the river system. PHOTO BY DAVE STEERS/GETTY IMAGES
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provide data on what the impacts will be from other waterways in the system until it’s too late, which is why the proposed idea is to add more river gauges throughout the waterway. “What we’ve noticed is that we won’t see anything significant happening in upper Lillooet, where some localized
surrounding area to better plan for an emergency response including potential evacuations, sand bagging stations and other needed response actions. While most of council is on board with further discussions on these extra measures, councillor Ted Craddock did raise concerns about where the funding would come from.
“Some localized weather system has actually stopped around the Ryan Creek or Miller Creek area … And all of a sudden, we see that there’s flooding issues happening in town.” - NIKKI GILMORE
weather system has actually stopped around the Ryan Creek or Miller Creek area, and it has a significant amount of rain that’s coming down. “And all of a sudden, we see that there’s flooding issues happening in town.” Gilmore said the improved forecasting system would allow the Village and the
His issue being that this would become a new cause of taxation on the residents of Pemberton for years to come. “[The PVDD] have a taxing authority, just like we do. When we need funds, we have to go to the community and pick those up. I think it’d be hard for the [PVDD] to have a proper budget when they’re going outside
of their own budget to find funds,” he said. “I’m having a real issue with this, to go to the community and say, ‘well you’re paying diking taxes over here, and you’re also paying diking taxes in the community because we’re helping fund some new gauges.’” However, Gilmore noted that the application for these funds would be specific to emergency management, not for improvements to the PVDD, but would still benefit all parties involved. “I see this as a project that came out of the Pemberton Valley Emergency Management Committee, and I don’t think the [PVDD] would have pursued this necessarily if it wasn’t from an emergency management perspective,” said Gilmore. “I think that’s the top lens, and that’s why the request is coming in. Obviously, you know, they’re saying they’ll contribute a little bit more and maybe some of the information and data will help them, but I think that this is not something that the [PVDD] is necessarily responsible for.” At this point in the proposal, the PVDD would be covering 40 per cent of the expenses for the new gauges, while 60 per cent would be split between Lil’wat, the SLRD and the Village. The motion was carried, and council will have further discussions about this proposal for the 2022 budget. n
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Closing arguments presented in Roger Molinaro case JUDGE TO SET A DATE FOR UPCOMING DECISION ON AUG. 12
BY BRANDON BARRETT WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS DETAILS OF ALLEGED SEXUAL ASSAULT THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING.
A DATE FOR a verdict in the Roger Molinaro child sexual assault trial, held at the Pemberton Provincial Court before a judge alone, is to be announced next month. Judge Patricia Janzen will affix a date for the decision on Aug. 12. Pemberton resident Molinaro, 51, was arrested in April 2020 in regards to historical allegations of child sexual assault. The incidents are alleged to have taken place between 2007 and 2018. He faces seven counts in total: sexual interference of a person under 14; invitation to sexual touching under 14; invitation to sexual touching under 16; two counts of sexual interference of a person under 16; and two counts of sexual assault. Closing arguments were presented on Wednesday, July 21, and both lawyers’ arguments hinged on the plausibility of several key witnesses. A publication ban is in place to protect the alleged complainants’ identities. “Essentially the issue here is credibility and how to best assess that,” said Crown prosecutor Jason Kroupa. At the crux of the case is the recollection of two complainants, who alleged multiple incidents over the span of several years of their childhood. Defence lawyer Michael Klein argued that the “lack of specificity” when it comes to the complainants’ recollection of the dates and times of the alleged incidents needs to be taken into account. “They’re relating events that occurred to them when they were children, so they’re looking at it through the lens of children, and I don’t dispute that,” Klein said. “Once again, at the end of the day, I submit that the court has to conduct an analysis to determine whether or not the evidence is cogent and reliable and whether it makes sense. I would simply submit that some of this evidence does not make sense.” Klein pointed to a specific incident in which Complainant 1, who was staying over at the Molinaros’ home, alleged that Molinaro entered the bedroom she was sleeping in and rubbed against her with his penis. “Mr. Molinaro would somehow leave his bed, which he shared with [his wife], hope she didn’t wake up and have to climb a set of stairs, past the bedrooms of all his children, enter the bedroom and effectively start rubbing up against [Complainant 1] and hope that she did not say anything. I say, rhetorically, what is the likelihood of this occurring?” Klein asked. “In my respectful submission, [Complainant 1’s] evidence on this point is implausible. Moreover, I submit that [Complainant 1’s] credibility is negatively impacted by her inability to recall any timing with respect to these events. She cannot say the time of
year or anything else that would somehow pinpoint when this might have occurred. She does not know whether or not this was the first instance. She said her hand was on Mr. Molinaro’s penis. She does not recall how that came to be.” Klein goes on to argue that differences between Complainant 1’s statement to police and her testimony in court detracts from her credibility. “In her evidence in court, she appeared to be far more precise,” Klein said. “I submit this is another example of trying to shore up evidence in an attempt to project a reliability.” Kroupa, in turn, argued that Complainant 1’s recollection of the incident is consistent with that of a child, which he said should serve to bolster her case. “She says she remembers waking up and being on her stomach, that her pants had been pulled down. She was on it, she says she didn’t remember them being pulled down, but her first memory was that they had already been pulled down,” Kroupa said. “That’s consistent with someone who is waking up from sleep. It also shows another element of honesty. She says what she knows and she says what she doesn’t know. If she’s trying to make this up, there’s more than a few opportunities to fill in the gaps. She doesn’t. She said she doesn’t remember if she was wearing underwear or not. Honest answer. She said she remembers Roger was on her right, which is important because she also then talks about her right hand. She’s on her stomach so it would be her right hand.” Complainant 2 also alleges multiple incidents over the span of years, including an instance when she was six years old in which she alleges Molinaro had her eat a gummy candy off his jeans while in the Molinaros’ kitchen, and while others were in the home. “Like many of these allegations, she could not remember the day of the week or whether or not it was a weekend, or what month it was,” said defence lawyer Klein. “She said this occurred when she said she was six. However, she conceded that she was simply very young, and then she said, ‘I know I was around six.’ There’s nothing on which to base that conclusion. Once again, I think it’s just an example of her trying to make her evidence as firm as possible to project credibility.” But Crown prosecutor Kroupa argued that the details Complainant 2 did remember aligns with a child’s recollection. “She’s … very detailed. The odour on the jeans. She has to first grab [the gummy], then she has to eat it off his jeans. He then places it on her,” Kroupa said. “She knows she’s on the counter, legs are dangling off; very clear memories. And she doesn’t fill in the gap. I think basically that he seems to bend down, but she doesn’t remember how the gummy got off her, essentially.
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Village of Pemberton transitions to a full reopening WITH STEP 3 OF THE B.C. RESTART PLAN UNDERWAY, THE VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON LOOKS TO SAFELY PUT COVID-19 IN THE PAST
BY HARRISON BROOKS WITH STEP 3 of the B.C. Restart Plan already a month into action, the Village of Pemberton (VOP) is now looking at ways to transition from the COVID-19-specific safety plans to a general Communicable Disease Prevention Plan. According to Emily White, human resources coordinator for the Village, this means Pemberton will be able to “flex between several measures” including physical distancing, mask use and occupancy limits, she told council at its regular meeting July 27. “We’ve also transitioned away from mandatory physical distancing to an approach where we’re asking staff to be mindful of those working in close proximity to one another,” she said. “It’s likely we’re going to continue to see measures such as self-monitoring for symptoms of sickness and illness ... in some of our high-volume and customer-focused locations.” The Village has also eased off on occupancy limits at most locations, with one exception being Municipal Hall, where occupancy is limited to eight members of
staff at a time due to a shortage of desk space and some people’s concerns about returning to work before getting their second dose of the vaccine. “We did also take into account the new requirements from WorkSafeBC with regards to a fully functioning ventilation system,” she said about the air conditioning challenges town hall faced during the heat wave. “All those challenges have been fixed and we do have air conditioning back, we do just want to take a little bit of extra precaution to ensure that the ventilation systems are fully in line with the WorkSafeBC requirements.” An additional concern, posed by Councillor Ted Craddock, was the timeline for allowing the public to sit in on meetings again. Nikki Gilmore, the VOP’s chief administrative officer, said that may still not be on the horizon for at least another month, when Step 4 of the B.C. Restart Plan is rolled out. A VOP survey was also done following the launch of the B.C. Restart Plan to assess how comfortable people were working from home. It found that just over 90 per cent of people polled believed that they could complete more than half of their role from home, while more than 80 per cent of
respondents thought they were at least just as productive, if not more productive, when working from home. One solution for Municipal Hall, discussed at the council meeting and one that could be applied to other businesses as well, was shifting to a hybrid approach of returning to workplaces while allowing for more flexibility for workers to continue to work from home occasionally. “I’m anxious to see where we go … The hybrid model seems to be the one that is quite popular at this point, although
some are going for full-remote work,” said Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman. “I think we are missing certain dynamics that are important to a strong team—the ability to connect with those managers, as well as coworkers, the social aspect of it. “But also seeing the results of the survey, and people obviously do appreciate the ability and the flexibility to work at home, I’m hoping that a hybrid model will accommodate all of that and bring back some of the important dynamics that we are missing in the office.” n
ROGER MOLINARO CASE FROM PAGE 23 She admits that. She doesn’t fill it in, she doesn’t make it up.” Molinaro has denied the alleged incidents, and “he was not able to ascribe any motive as to why these allegations would have been made,” Klein said. “But I submit, nor does he have to. “There may be no evidence of motive … but people do not need a motive to make accusations.” Kroupa, meanwhile, argued that “there is not just no proof of motive, there is a strong proven motive not to lie,” given the close relationship the complainants and
their families had with the Molinaros. “No more trips, no more large dinner parties, no more big get-togethers in a beautiful home. All the things that they enjoyed for years and were done openly, obviously, and the kids were part of it. I think it’s safe to say nobody wanted that life to end. Why would you?” Kroupa added. “Why make this up? Why blow up this life? It makes absolutely no sense, and it is said in many ways by many different people that that makes no sense.” None of the above allegations have been proven in court. n
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COVID-19 lockdown, people started working and viewing work differently. Many worked from home, and some employers offered flexible schedules to accommodate child care and other responsibilities. This pandemic also exposed inequities that continue to grow in a work regime that’s been around for generations. The 40-hour, five-day workweek became law in the U.S. in 1938, with the Fair Labor Standards Act requiring overtime pay (with some exceptions) for hours above that. Many other countries followed, although Canada didn’t establish a 40-hour week until the 1960s. The Ford Motor Company was ahead of the game,
BY DAVID SUZUKI reducing workers’ hours to 40 from 48 in 1926. Henry Ford knew reduced work hours lead to greater productivity, something a recent study from Iceland confirms. Getting to reasonable work hours was a long, difficult struggle, born in a time when employers could compel employees— sometimes children—to work as many as 14 hours a day, seven days a week. A slogan in the 1880s called for, “Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, eight hours for what we will.” Once the 40-hour workweek was achieved, pushes to shorten it even more began, but stalled. Since implementation of the standard workweek in many industrialized countries, everything has changed about work except the hours— although in some cases they’ve increased!
Studies continue to show that reduced hours benefit not just workers, but also employers and society as a whole. Large-scale trials conducted in Iceland between 2015 and 2019 found a four-day workweek increased employees’ well-being, improved health and work-life balance, and reduced stress and burnout. In many cases, productivity also improved. I could have told them that. The David Suzuki Foundation has had a fourday, 34-hour workweek almost since its inception, and it’s been incredibly successful. For the Iceland trials, 2,500 workers (about one per cent of the country’s workforce) from a diverse range of occupations moved from 40 hours a week to a 35- or 36-hour week with no pay reductions. The success led Iceland’s unions (which represent about 90 per cent of workers) to negotiate reduced work hours. Now 86 per cent of the employed population works shorter weeks or has the right to. Changes to work regimes and hours must be designed to reduce growing inequalities in the current system. After all, when people risk their lives for starvation wages while billionaires turn cartwheels in space, something’s wrong. At minimum, pay should stay the same or increase when work hours are reduced. In the absence of an organized labour push in North America and elsewhere, it’s important to shift public service workers to reduced workweeks because governments have “unparalleled control over working conditions within a huge chunk of the labour market,” Will Stronge, research director at the think tank Autonomy, told the Washington Post.
[W]e must also bring our economic and work systems into the 21st century in other ways, with increased minimum wages, vacation time, parental leave, benefits and work-life flexibility. During much of the standard workweek’s history, the norm was for one person in a family (usually a woman) to look after the household while another (usually a man) worked outside the home, which was, for the most part, economically feasible. There was infrastructure to be built, wars to be fought and an oil boom driving a new way of life, especially in North America. Much work had to be done manually, but as automation and computerization increased, displacing or marginalizing numerous workers, work hours didn’t drop to reflect the changes. The labour movement deserves some blame, having fought much harder for increased wages and benefits than reduced hours. Declining membership in labour unions has also diminished the united strength of working people. The reality of work during COVID-19 got many people reconsidering hours again.
Reducing job hours is a good start, but we must also bring our economic and work systems into the 21st century in other ways, with increased minimum wages, vacation time, parental leave, benefits and work-life flexibility. Doing so will create jobs, reduce commuting and pollution, increase wellbeing, productivity and time with family and friends and—if done right—curtail the rampant consumerism fuelling destruction of the planet’s life-support systems. Most of us have lived with the 40-hour workweek our entire lives, making it difficult to even imagine a better way. But the system is outdated and destructive. It’s time for change. Let’s work on that! David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. ■
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A generation of lessons learned WHAT MAKES MOUNTAIN biking the accessible, growing and fun sport that we know today? If we were to rank the answers in terms of what’s the most attractive; we’d have to start with the bikes. Contemporary dual suspension mountain bikes are light, equipped with capable and durable parts
BY VINCE SHULEY and are easier to ride than ever before. Their shiny colours and aggressive angles also give you the impression that the more expensive the price tag, the better rider you will instantly be. The second most attractive contributor to the sport’s access, growth and fun is the trails. Now (mostly) built with sustainability in mind with machines as well as shovels, the trail systems in the Sea to Sky corridor cater to all walks of riders—not just the shredders— and encourage progression through the rider skill levels, rather than having to skip ahead to the gnar and hope for the best. In third place (again, based on attraction) is coaching. Never quite as alluring as a new bike or a new trail, mountain bike coaching can—and has— contributed to many thousands of riders having a lot more fun on their bikes than they were previously. And just like bike
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technology and trail building, it has come leaps and bounds in the last 15 to 20 years. Few have been as deep in the trenches with mountain bike coaching as Whistler lifer Paul Howard. Paralleling his mountain bike teaching career as a snowboard trainer, his mountain bike coaching company ZEP Mountain Bike Camps is celebrating 15 years of operation this summer. It all started with Howard, his bike and a website back when mountain bike coaching had a pretty broad definition. “In the mid-to-late ‘90s, finding an experienced coach who could offer a quality lesson was like finding gold dust,” said Howard, who researched the industry extensively before starting his own coaching
1,200 instructors per year all over the world. This work helped distinguish mountain bike instructors from mountain bike guides, whose focus is more on guiding the terrain rather than developing the client’s skillset. In turn, many mountain bike guides are pursuing PMBIA certification to remain wellrounded and up to date in their profession. With COVID-19 causing a tidal wave in demand for mountain bikes, has the coaching and instructor world experienced a similar surge? In short, yes, but the onset was delayed due to restrictions on travel and gatherings. “Last year, I’d never worked so hard to earn so little money,” recalls Howard, who had to adapt his business to serve
“You might have the best tasting ice cream in the world, but it’s really hard to sell it to people who haven’t tasted it.” - PAUL HOWARD
business. “Most of the operations in those days were pretty loose, and I would say borderline kamikaze. A lot of it was simply following an advanced local rider and hoping for the best. You might have done OK, but no one was really teaching anything. Fast forward to today and it’s run as professionally as a ski lesson or a golf lesson.” Howard was instrumental in forming the Professional Mountain Bike Association (PMBIA) and still works as the organization’s Technical Director, helping train more than
mostly Sea to Sky locals in 2020. “But as tourism opened up again this summer, at least within Canada, the coaching industry was set up for success. Mountain biking is an outdoor sport that promotes a healthy lifestyle, it’s easy for people to space out, the bikes are easier than ever to ride, the trails are safer to progress and learn on and there are skills programs for every level of rider. That’s all happened organically over the last 20 years and it’s now ripe to see the sport grow even more.”
Global pandemics aside, the biggest ongoing challenge of mountain bike coaching worldwide has been its access and its cultural acceptance. Howard points to his wife’s home country of Australia and his own home country of the United Kingdom, where a culture of “figuring out” mountain biking was the status quo for many years. But those countries are now seeing the benefits that coaching can bring to the overall enjoyment of the sport. “You might have the best tasting ice cream in the world, but it’s really hard to sell it to people who haven’t tasted it,” said Howard. “The more we can build the community and a global network of coaches, the more mountain bikers will see the value of good quality lessons. Ski teaching has been around for 100 years, that culture is very established. Even after 20 years, we’re still relatively young. But it’s getting there. Mountain biking is experiencing crazy growth in Australia and every time I go back I see more and more coaching operators. It feels like Canada 10 years ago.” With Whistler being ground zero for so many mountain bike icons—the Whistler Mountain Bike Park, Crankworx and worldclass trails, to name a few—it’s no surprise that coaching began its meteoric rise here. The proof? Look at the generation that was raised on coaching in Whistler like Brandon Semenuk and Finn Iles. Few of us can ride that well, but a good lesson will get us one step closer. Vince Shuley occasionally gets schooled. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■
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L A S T S P R IN G , as the first wave of measures to halt the spread of coronavirus kicked in, travel screeched nearly to a halt, and the hospitality and tourism industry slowed considerably. Locals in public-land gateway towns predicted doom—and also breathed a big sigh of relief. Their one-trick-pony economies would surely suffer, but at least all the newly laid-off residents would have the surrounding land to themselves for a change. For a few months, the prognostications—both positive and negative—held true. Visitation to national parks crashed, vanishing altogether in places like Arches and Canyonlands, which were shut down for the month of April. Sales and lodging tax revenues spiraled downward in gateway towns. Officials in many a rural county pleaded with or ordered non-residents to stay home, easing the burden on the public lands. It was enough to spawn a million #natureishealing memes. In the end, however, the respite was short-lived. By midsummer, even as temperatures climbed to unbearable heights, forests burned and the air filled with smoke, people began traveling again, mostly by car and generally closer to home. They inundated the public lands, from the big, heavily developed national parks like Zion and the humbler state parks, to dispersed campsites on Bureau of Land Management and national forest lands. It was more than just a return of the same old crowds. Millions of outdoor-recreation rookies
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OREGON‘S STATE PARKS were getting overrun by out-ofstaters, leaving no place for residents to recreate or camp. So, Number of avalanche-related fatalities in Colorado in August, state officials upped camping fees for non-residents. during the 2020-21 winter, matching the record high (since Even if it doesn‚‘t deter people form visiting, it might help 1950) set in 1993. make up for the state parks’ $22-million budget shortfall. Number of drownings on Colorado‚‘s lakes and streams in 2020, a record high.
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collected along a single stretch of trail late last year. He slaos cleaned up more than 1,000 drawings or etchings people had made on the rock. The volunteer search-and-rescue team in Washington County, Utah, responded to 170 incidents in 2020, exceeding the previous record by almost 40 calls. Visitation at Utah’s state parks in 2020 was up by 1.7 million people from 2019, with some parks, such as Goblin Valley, being two to three times the number from previous years. Judging by this spring, that new record is likely to fall in 2021.
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in 2020, a 1.2-million jump from 2019, which itself was a banner year. “It‘s a mind-boggling number,” said Brian Beckley, chairman of the Idaho Parks and Recreation board, in a news release.
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Last year was a banner year for Wyoming’s state parks, which received 1.5 million more visitors than in 2019. But thanks in part to waning revenues from taxes and royalties on fossil fuels, state lawmakers slashed the Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources budget by $1.1 million this year.
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Stockcar racers excited to be back after cancelled 2020 season TAKING A TURN BEHIND THE WHEEL AT THE PEMBERTON SPEEDWAY AFTER A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL RACE WEEKEND
BY HARRISON BROOKS THE BEER is flowing, the burgers are grilling, and “Detroit Rock City” by Kiss is blaring over the speakers. It’s hot, it’s dusty and the good times are rolling—just another race weekend at the Pemberton Speedway. Sitting inside the stripped out 2004 Honda civic, ready to take a couple laps after all of the day’s races have finished, it’s hard to believe this thing can make it around the track once, let alone 15 to 30 times during a race, but I’m ready to go either way. As I pull out on to the track, my thoughts race: “don’t kill yourself, don’t crash this dude’s car and most importantly don’t embarrass yourself in front of the nearly 300 people who are in attendance”—the biggest crowd Colin Scott, president of the Pemberton Stockcar Association, has ever
PEDAL TO THE METAL Stockcar racers look to earn top spot on the overall points leaderboard at the Pemberton Speedway. PHOTOS BY HARRISON BROOKS
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seen at the track. First lap: nice and easy. Feeling out the track, realizing just how rough and bumpy it can get after a day of intense racing. Second lap: I start to pick up the pace and do my best to stay in control of the car when it starts to drift around the corners. Third lap: Let’s see how fast I can get going. Bad idea as I spun out on the second corner and almost hit the wall. Fourth lap: should I slow down a bit after nearly crashing? Nope, but maybe I’ll take it a little easier on the corners. Fifth lap: how much longer am I supposed to keep driving? Nobody told me when to stop. Sixth lap: I see the flagman giving me signals. The flag is still green meaning I am cleared to keep going. Seventh lap: I see the white flag, indicating the last lap. Eighth lap: the checkered flag comes out as I cross the finish line and I pull back into the pit, ending my first stockcar driving experience. And to think all of this almost wasn’t possible after an incredibly difficult 2020 for the association. The combination of losing an entire season of racing, along with the unfortunate timing of having to get both
an environmental impact and land survey done in order to renew its lease, pretty much drained any savings the stockcar club had. “[The pandemic] just about destroyed us,” said Scott. “So, we really need a big season this year to keep the track going.” But after a great turnout on Day 1 of the first race weekend of the season on Saturday, July 24, Scott’s optimism is high for the rest of the season. “I think we had some good racing today. Our car count was a little low but we’re expecting that to go up considerably for the next race,” he said. “The spectators have been absolutely fabulous; we’ve never seen the stands so full. So lots of good food, lots of good people and lots of good times.” The day’s races consisted of about eight cars competing in the Hornet Class, and three in the Hobby Class. Hornet is the cheapest way of getting into stockcar racing and consists of any four-cylinder car that hasn’t been modified in any way. Meanwhile, Hobby Class is where you see the experienced racers. And while on the outside the cars may look beat up and about to fall apart, the engines in this class
can often cost upwards of $10,000 and put out over 400 horsepower with a total weight of around 1,100 kilograms (2,500 pounds). To put that in perspective, an offthe-lot 2007 Honda Civic sedan weighs approximately 1,360 kgs (3,000 lbs) with a total output of approximately 158 to 180 horsepower. The races kicked off with the Hornet Class, which featured a mix of experienced drivers and some rookie drivers like Katie Hall-Leah, and her Volkswagen Beetle, driving in her first-ever stockcar race. And even though her race day didn’t last long, with a crash on lap three of the first fivelap race, and despite her describing the experience as “nerve-wracking,” the smile on her face while getting out of her car said all you needed to know about how much fun it is getting behind the wheel. “[I was] sitting in the lead because I have the slowest time [in the pre-race time trials], so that means I lead the pack [to start the race], which is terrifying,” Hall-Leah explained. “And I know they’re all behind me, which is even scarier. So my heart’s racing and I just drive and hope for the best. “When there are people behind you …
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you can feel the pressure. I feel like you drive a little bit looser, you make more mistakes, you drive more aggressively and you have to respond to things that you didn’t expect.” On the other side of the spectrum, you have the Hobby Class racers, like Scott’s son Devon, who started racing cars 10 years ago at just 14 years old. Devon, who was one of just three Hobby drivers competing on Saturday, was excited to be back racing in front of a crowd again, even if the track wasn’t in perfect shape. “The crowd being back definitely makes a huge difference,” he said. “[Pushing] your car to the limit just to have it blow up in front of nobody is no fun. “But from the track sitting for so long, it’s definitely way looser than previous years. That’s why the cars [are] all over the place, but it’ll come together with the cars driving around and packing the track down. It’s all fun and games then.” According to Devon, when the track is loose and dry it adds another element to the mental side of the race that drivers have to stay on top of. “You can’t always choose the line that you want. Every line is different. So there is always the fastest line, but the fastest line might not be the fastest because there is a huge pothole in that line, so it definitely jogs the race a little bit,” he said. “[When you are in a race,] you’ve got to be looking at the flag tower, the lights, every corner you come around and then the dust is just insane. You can’t really choose where you are, or what you are doing because you can’t see. And you’re eating dirt the whole time.”
Whether you have never seen stockcar racing before or are interested in getting involved and racing yourself, Scott encourages everyone to get in touch or stop by at the next race weekend, scheduled for Aug. 21 and 22. “Just come out to the track,” said Scott. “There are guys there that will help you get involved and point you in the right direction. There are actually quite a few Hornet cars for sale in the corridor and lots in the Lower Mainland area,” he said before explaining what new fans can expect from the races. “A lot of the racing you’ll see on TV is on pavement. We’re a dirt track, so everyone has their preferences, but I find it much more exciting. The cars are drifting, they’re sliding around out there so it’s really exciting. Obviously, we’re not a demolition derby but spectators love to see crashes, and they happen.” Moving forward with the season, the goal is simple for the Pemberton Stockcar Association: to continue the success of the first weekend across its August races and into the final race days on Sept. 11 and 12, and 25 and 26. “[The goal is] to fill the seats, to see lots of spectators there,” said Scott. “People have waited a long time to get out and do things in groups and be outside, and now that the government has made that available for us, we’re hoping that people take advantage of it and come out and enjoy a good time.” More information, including race times, prices and ticket sales, can be found at pembertonstockcars.com. n
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Whistlerites making the leap to NCAA hockey CODY FLANN AND NOAH BRUSSE ARE REUNITING IN THE NCAA AFTER A FEW YEARS AS COMPETITORS IN KIJHL
BY HARRISON BROOKS LAST YEAR, when the season was essentially cancelled, Whistler hockey player Cody Flann thought that might be it for his hockey life as injuries and concussions had taken the fun out of the game. But while sitting at home during the lockdown, not doing much of anything, Flann began to miss the game and had the realization that “I’m a hockey player. I need to play.” Luckily for Flann, one of his oldest hockey friends, Noah Brusse—also from Whistler—had committed to play hockey for the Missouri State University Ice Bears this upcoming season, and there was a space available for him to join as well. “When I heard I might have a few buddies going to play there next year I was like ‘yeah, might as well,’” said Flann. “They had programs in school that I was interested in, a film program. So, I thought that it would be a good time, spend it with my friends, learn some stuff and play hockey.” The two Whistlerites first met at five years old and have played together every year growing up, until recently when they became opponents in the Kootenay
International Junior Hockey League (KIJHL), after going to two different Junior B teams. While that transition from teammates to competitors was strange for the two, especially after more than 10 years and three provincial championships playing together, it was even stranger for Brusse’s mom Devon, who Flann describes as his “hockey mom” and believes he wouldn’t even still be playing if it wasn’t for her efforts while growing up. “I know for Cody, his mom passed away when he was very young, so I became his hockey mom,” said Devon Brusse. “I was driving Noah, so I would just pick up Cody. I think since the age of eight I had Cody in my car, sleeping in our house and hotels. They’re more like brothers than friends in my mind.” But now that the two are back on the same team and heading to Missouri, along with another longtime childhood teammate, Noah Multhaner, Devon could not be more excited for what’s to come, even if she’s going to have to get used to not being able to see every game live anymore. “It’s like full circle. They started playing hockey together at five [years old] and they are going to be finishing their careers probably by the time they are 25. I mean,
NOAH AND CODY Noah Brusse (left) and Cody Flann were both selected from their respective teams for the KIJHL all-star team in 2019. PHOTO BY DEVON BRUSSE
what an opportunity,” she said. “Noah was very excited to go down there and all of a sudden, the opportunity came up for Cody and it’s just awesome. I’m so proud of both of them. It’s going to be great for them to play with each other
again. They just know each other so well on and off the ice, so I think Missouri is going to benefit from that.” While Brusse, a 6-4 defenseman, and Flann, a 5-8 forward, will be bringing drastically different elements to each game when they finally suit up for their new team this fall, the goal for each is simple and identical: to help the team win. “[My goal is] to just get down there and figure out the pace and figure out how to make my game work and see if I can play the way that I know that I can,” said Brusse. “I mean, I’d love to go down there and be the best team in the league and win every game but unfortunately I don’t know if that will be possible my first year down there.” Brusse and Flann are packing up the car and heading down south this weekend. And while the move will be a big change for the two boys who have spent most of their lives surrounded by the mountains of B.C., they can’t wait to see what Missouri has to offer. “I’m expecting no mountains, for one,” Flann said jokingly when asked what he expects. “I know maybe it’s not as beautiful as B.C. is, but sometimes you got to leave to know how special the place you live truly is. “But I’m sure I’ll find something that makes me fall in love with it somehow, I’m always pretty optimistic about those things.” n
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The best summer treats come in berry small packages BLUEBERRIES, RASPBERRIES AND MORE ALL BEAT THE AUGUST HEAT SUMMERTIME, and the livin’ is easy. Well, still not quite normal, but pretty easy compared to this time last year. Even though we’re not totally out of the pandemic woods yet, it feels like we all need a break from anything heavy-duty, so here’s my best summer eating tip as you kick back
BY GLENDA BARTOSH and relax in the balm of long, lazy days without a lot to worry—as long as we all vax up with that friendly little jab.
BERRY GOOD IDEAS If you’re looking for an easy-peasy treat these days—as in, who wants to cook, let alone eat, a big heavy dessert or a gut-busting snack?—look no further than your favourite neighbourhood berry grower. Despite heat domes and smoke-outs and record drought in berry country, those heroic local berries and their growers have come through! Farmers are smart—they don’t farm commercially unless they have a solid irrigation system, and Pemberton Valley farmers have had the blessing of a bit more precipitation than elsewhere in southern B.C. the past while, along with good
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underground water supplies for pumping plus the Lillooet River and tributaries, which actually delivered too much of a good thing with June’s wicked heat dome and the subsequent rapid snow melt. But drought records are collecting like dead flies elsewhere in berry country: The driest July on record for Chilliwack and Abbotsford, heart of berry farming. Nearly 50 days and counting with zero rainfall in Richmond/Delta farm country—slated to beat the record, set in 1951: Fifty-seven straight days of no rain on Canada’s Wet Coast. But with all those new, adaptive berry hybrids; strawberry plants that start earlier or produce later; big juicy blueberries from the 600-plus growers near the mighty Fraser; the 14 varieties of commercial raspberries suited for all kinds of conditions (there’s even one named “Squamish”!)—my advice is to buy, buy, buy all the fresh berries you can right now. You won’t regret it. In Pemberton, fresh summer berries are peaking. Pick your own at North Arm Farm (their u-pick blueberries are full-on gorgeous right now). Organic blueberries at Hare’s Farm, or stock up at Plenty Wild Farms farm stand or the Squamish Farmers’ Market (every Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Cleveland Avenue until Oct. 30). Lots more berries are for the pickin’ at the Pemberton Farmers’ Market, every Friday 3 to 6:30 p.m. until Oct. 29, under the “big roof” at the Downtown Community Barn in beautiful downtown Pemberton—where else? (Gorgeous strawberries there last market.) And, of course, check out Whistler Farmers’ Market every Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. until
Oct. 10, now at the new location at the Whistler Racket Club. For a full list of farmers’ markets throughout B.C., visit the BC Farmer’s Market Association. And please remember—your mask will protect all those hard-working vendors and farmers plus your neighbours enjoying the market.
THE COOLEST TIP FOR ENJOYING THOSE BERRIES Don’t worry about gobbling up your berries or cooking them into sauce or dessert before they moulder. Here’s the smartest tip ever— freeze them! Pick through your box of berries and discard any unwanteds. Whatever you do, don’t wash them before you freeze them. Just spread your berries on a cookie sheet or whatever big flat pan or tray you have and pop them into your freezer. They freeze nicely overnight when no one is up poking around to send them rolling. Once they’re frozen solid, bag them up or fill one of those many plastic take-out containers with lids we’re all drowning in right now, and you’ll have the quickest, easiest taste of summer anytime. Just remember to wash them before you eat them. I grabbed a couple of big frozen strawberries the other day and bit into a little piece of heaven for a cool snack. With zero added sugar. Try adding a couple of frozen berries to your usual summer desserts—the traditional dollop of ice cream, the nice little bowl of early summer-apple sauce, or rhubarb sauce. (For any easy fruit sauce,
use the old prairie formula of 1-2-3: One cup sugar, although I usually use much less, depending on the fruit maybe as little as a quarter cup; two cups water; three cups rhubarb or whatever fruit you’re using.) The frozen berries add an unexpected zip of texture and temperature. Leave the little green leaves on the tops of your strawberries when you freeze them. (They’re called the calyx, BTW. The stem is actually called a peduncle, and the name “strawberry” was probably originally “strewn berry,” no doubt for all those little runners scattered along the ground). You’ll spark your visual presentation up a notch with that dash of green, plus they make a perfect handle for munching. Another great tip, especially for frozen blueberries, but any berries will do, including wild berries ripening this time of year— luscious blackberries; thimbleberries and salmonberries (if you’re lucky you might still find some in the shade); and huckleberries. Grab some maple syrup. Throw in a handful of frozen berries. Heat it up in the microwave or on the stovetop and pour it over, well, anything. Pancakes or French toast are the obvious choice, but I love it over yogurt. Good for your taste buds and your health anytime. As for those “Squamish” raspberries, they’re easy to harvest by hand for the fresh market, resistant to aphids and the plants are pretty resistant to root rot. Sounds like a stalwart Sea to Sky winner to me. Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist whose grandad was famous for his strawberries, raspberries and red currants. n
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Art on the Lake returns with expanded lineup of on-the-water festivities SECOND ANNUAL EVENT BRINGS LIVE PAINTING, MUSIC AND ART TO ALTA LAKE
BY BRANDON BARRETT THE RESPONSE to last year’s Art on the Lake…Literally generally fell into two camps. “We got a lot of incredible, positive responses, I think more than anything we’ve ever done,” said Mo Douglas, executive director of event producer Arts Whistler. “And there were only two types of people, literally: those who had gone and had a great time and those who were upset they missed it.” A concept that Douglas wanted to bring to life for years, the pandemic and its associated health restrictions finally gave Arts Whistler the kick it needed to turn Art on the Lake into a reality. Slated this year for Aug. 5, the family-friendly, free event transforms the south end of Alta Lake into a floating art gallery and stage, featuring works from more than 35 local artists, live painting, and a lineup of local musicians. Bringing their own watercraft (or a discount
WATER WORKS Live painting, music and art return to Alta Lake this month for the second annual Art on the Lake…Literally. PHOTO BY JEREMY ALLEN
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rental from Backroads Whistler in Lakeside Park, or Whistler Eco-Tours in Wayside Park), attendees can roam free on the lake and create their own self-guided art tour. “It was so fun to bring that idea to life last year and, of course, as soon as we did it, we were like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re doing this again for the foreseeable future,’” Douglas said.
But, of course, setting up art, along with the sound systems and related gear, in such a setting comes with its own set of challenges. The team at Arts Whistler can’t be afraid to get their feet wet, literally, during installation, and they will have help this year from the Whistler Sailing Club, a few Good Samaritans with barges, as well as their own fishing skiff,
“It was so fun to bring that idea to life last year and, of course, as soon as we did it, we were like, ‘Oh yeah, we’re doing this again for the foreseeable future.’” - MO DOUGLAS
New this year is an almost doubling of the art inventory, with roughly 85 works on offer from locals including Andrea Mueller, Dave Petko, David McColm, Levi Nelson, Lisa Geddes, Vanessa Stark, and the late, great Chili Thom, by way of his brother, Jeremy. Painting live on the day will be Gabriela Lech, Annette Effe, Cary Lopez, Robyn Shaw and Kate Zessel.
which they purchased thanks to a grant from the BC Arts Council. “Last year was a learning curve, from somebody standing on a paddleboard to people up to their knees in the water installing the art. It’s kind of hilarious,” Douglas says. Live musical acts include JennaMae Togado, Stephen Vogler & the West Coast
Front, Soul Club, Out East, Sean Rose and Susan Holden. The day will also feature live performances from Lil’wat dancers Native Thunder and aerial silks from Treeline Aerial. “It’s all fresh faces to the event except we invited Susan Holden and Sean Rose back, because they’re both accredited outback guides from back in the day in Ontario, and they’re the two best performers you can put in a canoe because they really know what they’re doing,” says Douglas. Arts Whistler is asking attendees to follow B.C.’s boating safety guidelines, which includes wearing a lifejacket and not drinking while boating. Learn more at boatingbc.ca. A free shuttle is also available, which leaves from the village to Lakeside Park every 15 minutes from 1 p.m. onwards. The last ride from the village to Lakeside is at 7 p.m., while the last ride back to the village leaves at 8:30 p.m. Pick-up in the village is on Blackcomb Way by Olympic Plaza, across from Day Lot 4. The shuttle can carry deflated, packed down inflatable water vessels, including stand-up paddleboards, canoes, and other inflatable recreational boats. Air pumps are available onsite. The festivities run from 2 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit artswhistler. com/art-on-the-lake-literally. n
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BY BRANDON BARRETT IN THE FIRST 24 hours of the pandemic last year, Whistler painter Meg O’Hara watched as four of her corporate contracts disappeared into thin air. “I was definitely freaking out a little bit. I poured myself a nice glass of wine, and then I decided to re-evaluate,” says the 29-year-old. Then, slowly, something unexpected started to happen. As borders closed, and ski resorts along with it, dedicated ski bums longed for a taste of their favourite mountains, and without the ability to actually, you know, ski them, they decided on the next best thing. “All of these individual skiers wanted artwork for their homes or their ski chalet … or they were stuck in the States and couldn’t come to Whistler to ski, so they wanted paintings of Whistler for the house in Florida,” she says. “It was basically six weeks of nothing and then this huge exponential growth from there of skiers or mountain enthusiasts who wanted these pieces for their home. It was pretty wild.” A native of Toronto, O’Hara grew up in a family of lawyers and judges who, “despite being very serious in a lot of ways,” engendered a love of the art early on. In fact, it was O’Hara’s grandma, who stoked her creative flames the most. “My granny was an artist,” O’Hara says. “She was the one I was named after and she was a single mom with five kids who loved to paint. That was her therapy. Then when I showed up, she taught me how to paint.” An avid skier, O’Hara draws from her time in the mountains as inspiration for her heavily stylized ski landscapes—and, contrary to the common perception of the
young, starving artist, she’s managed to carve out quite a successful niche for herself in a part of the world teeming with talented landscape painters. “There is a huge stereotype of the starving artist, and based on my experience, it’s incredibly inaccurate,” she says. “I don’t fall into that category of the starving artist at all. I also have an aptitude for business and an interest in business.” Along with her finely honed art skills, O’Hara believes what separates her is her emphasis on building relationships with her clients. She won’t hesitate to turn down a commission if it doesn’t align with her style and values, and she takes the time and effort to give her clients a piece that they will value for years to come. “I see the value and the trust that these families have in me to create a piece for them, so I value that relationship,” she explains. “Definitely everyone I’ve sold a painting to I’m still in touch with, and many are friends or we have a relationship. “The referrals and word of mouth from client to client, and the importance I place on building relationships with the people I create work for, is what distinguishes me.” That effort has evidently paid off. Since she was asked to do a piece for Sunshine Village in Banff in 2018, her private and corporate commissions have taken off, painting works for a number of heli-ski lodges, architectural firm HOK International and the Vancouver Golf Club. Just this year, she was named as one of BC Business’s 30 Under 30, and in spite of the initial quiet period at the start of the pandemic, the past year has seen her double her revenue. “That was a pretty interesting outcome that I wouldn’t have seen coming in the last week of March last year,” she says. Lear more at megoharacreative.com. n
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would give a development permit, nor any official permission for a ski jump. Undeterred, the group scoped out a location for the jump in an inconspicuous, out-of-the-way site—on the shores of Lost Lake. The ski jump also had no funding. The timber was scrounged from a number of sources, and the plastic grass ski-out from the Olive Chair was taken from the dump and given a new life as the ski jump’s surface. Construction progressed quickly once the materials were gathered, taking only a couple of weeks. When finished, the ramp projected out six metres over the lake and willing skiers could launch themselves into the air up to 12 metres above the water. According to Dave Lalik, one of the original workers on the ramp, “Injuries were commonplace but [an] acceptable risk in the sport and environment of the day.” Spectators were common, often watching from the water. In 1981, the ski jump began hosting competitions and the first Summer Air Camp at Lost Lake was held in 1982, drawing freestyle skiers to Whistler to train with the national team coach Peter Judge. Far from remaining an inconspicuous site, the Lost Lake Ski Jump could be seen in television broadcasts as film crews arrived to record events. Neither Whistler Mountain nor Lost Lake offer opportunities for summer skiing today. Summer ski camps ended on Whistler Mountain in the late 1990s due to the receding glacier and low summer snow levels and, and as Lost Lake became less and less lost and more developed, the ski jump was taken down and the site was incorporated as part of Lost Lake Park. n
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Filmmaker Federico Fellini had an unexpected definition of happiness. He said it was “being able to speak the truth without hurting anyone.” I suspect you will have abundant access to that kind of happiness in the coming weeks, Aries. I’ll go even further: You will have extra power to speak the truth in ways that heal and uplift people. My advice to you, therefore, is to celebrate and indulge your ability. Be bold in expressing the fullness of what’s interesting to you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you,” wrote the novelist Colette. What?! Was she making a perverse joke? That’s wicked advice, and I hope you adopt it only on rare occasions. In fact, the exact opposite is the healthy way to live—especially for you in the coming weeks. Look at what pains you, yes. Don’t lose sight of what your problems and wounds are. But please, for the sake of your dreams, for the benefit of your spiritual and psychological health, look longer at what pleases you, energizes you, and inspires you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you deepen your affection for butterflies and hummingbirds, I will love it. If you decide you want the dragonfly or bumblebee or lark to be your spirit creature, I will approve. You almost always benefit from cultivating relationships with swift, nimble, and lively influences—and that’s especially true these days. So give yourself full permission to experiment with the superpower of playful curiosity. You’re most likely to thrive when you’re zipping around in quest of zesty ripples and sprightly rhythms. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Life is showing you truths about what you are not, what you don’t need, and what you shouldn’t strive for. That’s auspicious, although it may initially feel unsettling. I urge you to welcome these revelations with gratitude. They will help you tune in to the nuances of what it means to be radically authentic. They will boost your confidence in the rightness of the path you’ve chosen for yourself. I’m hoping they may even show you which of your fears are irrelevant. Be hungry for these extraordinary teachings. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The next two months will be a propitious time for you and your intimate allies to grow closer by harnessing the power of your imaginations. I urge you to be inventive in dreaming up ways to educate and entertain each other. Seek frisky adventures together that will delight you. Here’s a poem by Vyacheslav Ivanov that I hope will stimulate you: “We are two flames in a midnight forest. We are two meteors that fly at night, a two-pointed arrow of one fate. We are two steeds whose bridle is held by one hand. We are two eyes of a single gaze, two quivering wings of one dream, two-voiced lips of single mysteries. We are two arms of a single cross.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo spiritual author Don Miguel Ruiz urges us not to take anything personally. He says that if someone treats us disrespectfully, it’s almost certainly because they are suffering from psychological wounds that make them act in vulgar, insensitive ways. Their attacks have little to do with what’s true about us. I agree with him, and will add this important caveat. Even if you refrain from taking such abuses personally, it doesn’t mean you should tolerate them. It doesn’t mean you should keep that person in your life or allow them to bully you in the future. I suspect these are important themes for you to contemplate right now. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “People who feel deeply, live deeply, and love deeply are destined to suffer deeply,” writes poet Juansen Dizon. To that romanticized, juvenile nonsense, I say: NO! WRONG! People who feel and live and love deeply are more emotionally intelligent than folks who live on the surface—and are therefore less fragile. The deep ones are likely to be psychologically adept; they have skills at liberating themselves from the smothering crush of their problems. The deep ones also have access to rich spiritual resources that ensure their
suffering is a source of transformative teaching—and rarely a cause of defeat. Have you guessed that I’m describing you as you will be in the coming weeks? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Professor of psychology Ethan Kross tells us there can be healthy, creative forms of envy. “Just as hunger tells us we need to eat,” he writes, “the feeling of envy could show us what is missing from our lives that really matters to us.” The trick is to not interpret envy as a negative emotion, but to see it as useful information that shows us what we want. In my astrological opinion, that’s a valuable practice for you to deploy in the coming days. So pay close attention to the twinges of envy that pop into your awareness. Harness that volatile stuff to motivate yourself as you make plans to get the very experience or reward you envy. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Poet Walt Whitman bragged that he was “large.” He said, “I contain multitudes.” One critic compared him to “a whole continent with its waters, with its trees, with its animals.” Responding to Whitman, Sagittarian poet Gertrud Kolmar uttered an equally grandiose boast. “I too am a continent,” she wrote. “I contain mountains neverreached, scrubland unpenetrated, pond bay, river-delta, salt-licking coast-tongue.” That’s how I’m imagining you these days, dear Sagittarius: as unexplored territory: as frontier land teeming with undiscovered mysteries. I love how expansive you are as you open your mind and heart to new self-definitions. I love how you’re willing to risk being unknowable for a while as you wander out in the direction of the future. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet Ezra Pound wrote a letter to novelist James Joyce that included the following passage: “You are fucking with my head, and so far I’ve been enjoying it. Where is the crime?” I bring this up, Capricorn, because I believe the coming weeks will be prime time for you to engage with interesting souls who fuck with your head in enjoyable ways. You need a friendly jolt or two: a series of galvanizing prods; dialogs that catalyze you to try new ways of thinking and seeing; lively exchanges that inspire you to experiment. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Blogger Mandukhai Munkhbaatar offers advice on the arts of intimate communion. “Do not fall in love only with a body or with a face,” she tells us. “Do not fall in love with the idea of being in love.” She also wants you to know that it’s best for your long-term health and happiness if you don’t seek cosy involvement with a person who is afraid of your madness, or with someone who, after you fight, disappears and refuses to talk. I approve of all these suggestions. Any others you would add? It’s a favourable phase to get clearer about the qualities of people you want and don’t want as your allies. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I gave my readers homework, asking them to answer the question, “What is your favourite rule to break?” In response, Laura Grolla sent these thoughts: “My favourite rule to break is an unwritten one: that we must all stress and strive for excellence. I have come up with a stress-busting mantra, ‘It is OK to be OK.’ In my OKness, I have discovered the subtle frontier of contentment, which is vast and largely unexplored. OKness allows me not to compete for attention, but rather to pay attention to others. I love OKness for the humour and deep, renewing sleep it has generated. Best of all, OKness allows me to be happily aging rather than anxiously hot.” I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because I think the coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to investigate and embody the relaxing mysteries of OKness. Here’s this week’s homework: Homework. Tell me what subtle or not-so-subtle victories you plan to accomplish by January 1, 2022. Newsletter@ freewillastrology.com
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Hut Operations Manager The Spearhead Huts Society (SHS) is seeking a part-time/contract Hut Operations Manager to manage the operations and maintenance of up to three alpine backcountry huts in the Spearhead Range of Garibaldi Provincial Park near Whistler, British Columbia. The first of these huts was completed and open for operations starting 2019. The SHS is seeking a candidate to join our team in Aug 2021 to take over management of operations. Responsibilities The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the overall operations and maintenance of the huts in a cost effective manner, including the following: • Coordinate operations such as replenishment of propane supplies and waste disposal • Working with the SHS’s Operations Committee to refine policy and procedures to govern hut bookings, operations, maintenance, etc. • Managing accounts and finances with support from the Board. • Ensuring that all operations and maintenance are compliant with the terms of the Huts’ BC Provincial • Park Use Permit (PUP) and Annual Operating Plan The Operations Manager will work with volunteers from member clubs and organizations, the Operations Committee, and will report monthly to the SHS Board of Directors
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Corona Excavations Ltd is looking for experienced pipelayers and labourers to work for the upcoming construction season. We are a civil based construction company with a professional and enjoyable working environment working in the sea to sky corridor from Pemberton to Squamish.
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Whistler Medical Marijuana Corp Plant Work Technician Now Hiring! This role is responsible for plant care duties, involves a lot of sanitation work & is physically demanding. Main Duties: -planting of all lots in grow rooms -all pruning and de-leafing of plants -sanitation of equipment & rooms -plant care & health Desired Qualifications: -excellent team work skills -ability to work in various temps including humid, while standing for majority of shift -positive attitude & great communication skills apply To https://careers.auroramj.com/
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Child and Youth Therapist Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or Equivalent Xet’olacw Community School, Mount Currie, B.C. .8FTE to 1.0 Full Time (4 days per week or 5 days per week) – Part Time Negotiable School Principal Commensurate with Experience August 30, 2021 Post until position is filled
Summary: Xet’olacw Community School is a Lil’wat Nation school situated 35 minutes north of Whistler, BC in the Mount Currie Community. The School is a modern, dynamic institution with a strong First Nations curriculum as well as academics from N to 12. Xet’olacw Community School is looking to hire a full time child and youth therapist for their school. The child and youth therapist will work with students aged 4-19 within a school based setting. In addition to being trauma informed, flexible and having experience working with Indigenous students, preferred therapeutic modalities include narrative therapy, expressive arts, and CBT. The successful candidate will demonstrate clear boundaries, strong ethics and a firm understanding of informed consent. The successful candidate will be able to both understand and honour the impact of the history of colonialism on Indigenous communities in their work with the students, their families, the staff and the community.
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Key Deliverables: • Provide therapy to children and youth aged 4-18 and carry a caseload of individual clients, co-facilitate group therapy and maintain appropriate records. • Be prepared and comfortable presenting psychoeducation to students in their classrooms (including but not limited to boundaries, abuse prevention, healthy relationships, and mental health information as needed and requested by teaching staff and administration). • Participate in school based teams, inter-agency teams and develop mental health resources when needed • Liaise and attend meetings with other health care professionals and service providers when requested by clients (to best support a circle of care and mental health) and with appropriate informed consent. Key Responsibilities: • Arrive each school day by 8:30 a.m. Be available after hours and on holidays under extenuating circumstances for at risk students and their families. • Create a schedule that outlines your therapeutic caseload and that honours the scheduling needs of the school (and individual classrooms). • Co-facilitate or facilitate teaching classes, group therapy and super courses. • Provide therapy and classroom psychoeducation that is culturally competent, has a clear beginning, middle and end and that is tailored to the needs of the individual or group. • Be available for debriefing and support for staff regarding mental health in the classroom and to support the mental health of the students on your caseload. • Participate in peer supervision and personal supervision as needed or requested. • Be open to participating in culturally oriented activities (including but not limited to; stein Valley hiking, Outdoor-based super courses, learning Ucwalmicwts words and phrases). • Record Keeping: Keep a file for each student including but not limited to the signed permission, Welcome to Counselling Agreement, Informed Consent documents, a record of dates, times, and themes of sessions. Send cover letter and resume including references. Upon receiving your information an applicant’s Declaration and Agreement will be sent to be signed. Contact Information: Verna Stager, Education Director • Xet’olacw Community School P.O. Box 604, Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 Phone: 604 894-6131 / Fax: 604 894-5717 • glenda.gabriel@lilwat.ca
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We are good here—until we aren’t HERE’S AN ADMISSION I hate to make: Increasingly, I hate media. Not talking about my well-known hate of social media. No. I mean bona fide, real journalists, “serious” media. The kind I generally trust to get the facts and report the facts and, most importantly, draw the necessary conclusions. High on my list of media I’m growing to hate is our own CBC. The taxpayer-funded, 500-pound gorilla more often than not resembles tabloid journalism, grasping for the Outrage-of-the-Day story and glossing over—or in many cases simply not asking—
BY G.D. MAXWELL the hard questions, in favour of needling into something designed to bring a tear to the subject’s and viewer’s eye. Most recently, their reporting on the Liberal government’s decision to open the borders to U.S. visitors who had been fully vaccinated failed to address, or even ask, the most pertinent question: How will people prove they’ve been fully vaccinated? Over repeated cycles of this story—I was trapped in a road trip—I kept wondering when they were going to address this glaring hole in the happy story. Never happened and still today I have no real idea what’s going to be required of people presenting themselves at the border and whether it’ll be meaningless. I fear it’ll be a lot like the grilling people got from BC Ferry ticket sellers when trips across the water were supposed to be limited to “necessary” travel. That screening largely consisted of the employee asking, “Is this trip necessary?” frequently posed as, “This trip is necessary, isn’t it?” The news story of the past week getting lots of play and presenting the absolutely wrong conclusion came out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Provincetown sits at the tip of Cape Cod. It is a tourist town. A coastal mecca with white sand beaches facing the Atlantic ocean, Provincetown has a couple of thousand year-round residents. In the case of Provincetown, year-round may well be a misnomer. I once met a hot dog vendor of the cart variety who, supercharged by a party-hearty, hungry swarm of tourists frequently topping 50,000 daily, sold enough hot dogs during the summer months to live job-free in Florida during the town’s nasty winters. While there are parallels to, say, Tiny Town, Provincetown doesn’t have a housing crisis, unless you consider vacant homes a crisis. This is because the town is a onetrick pony—summer tourism. Strolling down Commercial Street in the days leading up to Labour Day, the town was crammed with end-of-summer tourists. Shops did a booming business, restaurants were full, the
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nightlife booming and boisterous. There is a good reason the locals call the onslaught of tourists during the summer the Circus, as in, “The Circus is in town.” But eerily, the Tuesday after Labour Day, the town suddenly looks like a set for a post zombie apocalypse film. No tourists, closed shops, boarded windows and in the few places open, workers are busy getting ready to close for the winter. The news coming out of Provincetown in the past week was, not surprisingly, about COVID-19. The town’s locals boasted a vaccination rate in excess of 90 per cent— about 75 per cent double vaccinated—and considered the virus had been kicked to the curb. Until it wasn’t. Until vaccinated locals began to log new cases a few days after the July 4th invasion and then watched in horror as those cases increased rapidly. As reported in the New York Times, out of 965 cases traced to the town, 238 were among residents ... vaccinated residents.
those who refuse to get vaccinated. What good is it if you can still get sick? Duh. Health officials quickly began to try and put the genie back in the bottle, or in this case, correct the false narrative of the news stories. They pointed out this was actually proof vaccines work, at least to the extent people who had taken them weren’t terribly affected by the virus. But the real story, the story that has meaning for a place like Whistler, is this: As long as we continue to have a significant minority of people who refuse to get vaccinated, we run the risk of killing the golden goose. Last winter, Whistler was sacrificed on the alter of tourism and the bullheaded refusal of Saint Bonnie and Dithers Horgan to close the place to Lower Mainlanders, Albertans, Ontarians and whomever all those tourists were who spoke with funny accents. Notwithstanding the extreme measures taken by businesses in town,
There is a good reason the locals call the onslaught of tourists during the summer the Circus, as in, “The Circus is in town.” Breakthrough cases. The silver lining was most of the vaccinated locals didn’t get seriously ill, none died, only seven were admitted to hospital. So the moral of the story is vaccines work. Right? Wrong. The news that spread faster than the Delta variant was that even vaccinated people could get COVID-19. Oh dear. That quickly became ammunition for
Whistler became Canada’s Italy, the country’s hotspot for COVID-19 infections. Overcrowded living arrangements were touted as the main contributing factor but the principle factor was tourists bringing the hot new variant du jour—Brazil—to town. And so, we were closed down, conveniently after B.C.’s spring break.
What happened after that was a massive effort to get Whistler vaccinated. An effort that was hugely successful. Now? Well, now we are Provincetown. Look around the village. Hardly anyone wearing masks. Including servers at most of the restaurants I passed by last time I ventured into the village. Why bother? We’re all vaccinated... mostly. We kicked it to the curb. So every day, especially on weekends, Whistler is mobbed by tourists scratching their pandemic itch to go somewhere, anywhere, and pretend things are back to normal. Upwards of a third of them aren’t vaccinated. Fewer than the throngs in Provincetown but more than enough to spread the love around. So don’t be surprised when vaccinated locals start popping up at the clinic and discovering they’ve been infected. That’s the story that wasn’t told. With the border opening in less than a week to “vaccinated” U.S. visitors, it would take a particular kind of optimist to think we’re going to dodge this bullet. Vaccines work. Full stop. André Picard, writing in Monday’s Globe and Mail, cited figures from Ontario that, “ ... tell this story eloquently. Between June 12 and July 21, the unvaccinated made up 95.7 per cent of new COVID-19 cases, 97.4 per cent of hospitalizations, 99.5 per cent of intensive care admissions, and 95.8 per cent of deaths.” It’s time to stop pretending everyone has a “right” to refuse vaccination. If, indeed, they have that right, we have a paramount right to not be infected by them, which means keeping them cloistered in their pretend world of conspiracy theories. If not, I can imagine yet another foreshortened ski season, among other ongoing horrors. ■
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Looking for that perfect 2 bedroom 2 bath property with low strata fees, low heating costs and air conditioning(geothermal), a back deck offering privacy, sunshine and views, just a short stroll to stores, restaurants, hiking and biking or One Mile Lake to enjoy!
Lakeside recreation just an hour north of Whistler, 30 minutes from Pemberton. This half acre lot has driveway and retaining walls completed, septic tank and water installed, as well as a temporary structure on concrete posts. Perfect for a camping or fishing retreat, and recreation on Lillooet Lake. Just a short walk to the community boat launch. Financing is not available.
Nestled in Nordic, this cozy 1 bed 1 bath top floor corner unit is a short walk to the valley trail linking you to Lakeside Beach, Creekside Amenities/Ski Hill and Whistler Village. Each building has access to bike storage and this home has its own in suite laundry. A covered deck with peaceful forest views from living room and kitchen completes the package.
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This 2 bedroom 2 bathroom townhome in the popular Peaks complex in Pemberton comes with an oversized single garage, and the ability to park 2 vehicles in front of the unit, allowing space for all the toys to be safely stored inside. The back deck overlooks a quiet grassy common space with a very private feel to it.
This end 3 bedroom townhome puts you right next to the ski home trail off Blackcomb Mountain. Located high on Whistler’s Blackcomb Benchlands area, this Arrowhead Point townhome is a quiet yet convenient location for your family getaway. All on one level, the floor plan takes advantage of all of the square footage.
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Large 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom floorplan with walk-in closet in the heart of the Village, overlooking the Olympic Plaza with peek-a-boo views of Blackcomb Mountain. Only a 7 minute walk to the base of Whistler and Blackcomb Gondolas, and our towns finest restaurants and shops just outside your front door.
Welcome to Wedgewoods, a master planned community of 108 beautiful properties. Phase Six includes the final 19 estate lots which allow for luxury homes plus a carriage house. Stunning mountain views and sunshine make Phase 6 a very special offering. Only 12 minutes north of Whistler with hiking, and biking trails at right at your door and snowmobiling close by.
This state of the art Cypress Place home on the 5th Fairway at Nicklaus North is a must see with its contemporary finishes from Basalt Stone on the custom floating stairs, Basalt Stone exterior finishes, & oak flooring & cabinetry throughout the 3500 sq. ft. of open living space.
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