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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Harrison Brooks gives us a look at the good, the bad and the ugly of the last month in sports.
58 MAXED OUT Max encourages you to vote in the upcoming federal election, but also reminds us that during a campaign politicians can promise us the world then simply not deliver.
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36 EPICURIOUS Local kids learned how to make dishes from Taiwan, Morocco and Japan during the Whistler Multicultural Society’s three-day summer camp.
40 MUSEUM MUSINGS The original village location of Whistler was built for visitors, but the subsequent Village North was developed with residents in mind.
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did the Ottawa press gallery at the election announcement ask one question about addressing climate change? No, they did not. With the ongoing impacts of COVID19, the economy remains a top issue for Canadians as we head into this election. But aren’t we getting this backwards? What is the point of worrying about the
So the question is, how do we reach those who are not taking climate change seriously, and let’s fervently include our political leaders in this? Canada needs a proper roadmap to tackle the issue facing us and the rest of the world, which includes things like revisiting the $18 billion we gave to the oil and gas sector in 2020. It is incomprehensible to me that Canada provides more public finance for fossil fuels on a per capita basis than any other G20 country except for China. It is true Canada’s climate plan is allocating $15 billion for clean initiatives over a 10-year period, and it is also true that 75 per cent of all clean technology investment in Canada comes from the natural oil and gas industry. But these are just fig leafs, I’d say. It is not enough and the changes needed to reduce emission levels are dangerously slow in coming. Historically, Canada has missed every climate goal it has set, and emissions
Historically, Canada has missed every climate goal it has set
economy or housing or childcare or Indigenous rights or anything else if we are literally on fire? “Code Red,” said a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “The worst is yet to come.” I may be preaching to the converted in this column, as I believe that the Sea to Sky corridor is more aware of issues around climate change than many other places across Canada.
have barely dropped since 2005. Canada is the only G7 member whose emissions have risen since the 2015 Paris Agreement was signed. Canada’s own government scientists found the oil sands to be the worst source of air pollution in North America. Then there is coal. Thankfully it looks like Canada is turning the corner on using it for power production, but it remains firmly in use for steel manufacturing. While Ontario and even Alberta have phased it
out for power, or are in the process of doing that, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan still produce a significant share of their electricity from dirty coal. International thermal coal contributes 30 per cent of global carbon emissions. Coal remains the largest contributor to climate change and is a major source of toxic pollution, and it’s a real concern this is not going to change—the International Energy Agency in April said global emissions this year could jump by the second-largest amount ever, in part because of a global surge in burning coal for power. Again, it looks like the will is there to change direction on coal, but we need to speed things up. So, with an election coming, do we have an opportunity to have a voice? I believe so. At the personal and community level we can only do so much (though kudos to the Comox Valley Regional District, which is considering a resolution not to build gas stations anymore. Could we do this? Is it too late to change direction on the Lil’wat Nation gas station planned for Function Junction?) to change the direction of this flaming fossil-fuel supertanker—we need upper levels of government to put policies in place, hold industry accountable and put the people and the environment first. Just writing that makes me shake my head… what a naïve hope that a politician would actually do this. This means political parties need policies—not promises or targets. I’m sick of targets being bandied about as if they mean anything. The track record on those speaks for itself (though at least we have a carbon pricing policy now—about time). Voting is important. Please actively learn about what each party’s plan is for addressing climate change, looking for action—not targets or promises. n
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Highway chaos shameful To the powers that be: can anyone tell me why they cannot pave the only road in, out of and through town (Highway 99) at night? Plus, why can’t the municipality and the Ministry of [Transportation] coordinate so we at least have the only detour route open (Alta Lake Rd)? The inconvenience of having the paving crew work graveyard shift cannot outweigh the whole town being blockaded, especially when many businesses are trying to recover from a pandemic downturn. Keith Auchinachie // Whistler
Time for a change Well, the Prime Minister has called an election this fall, and I hope we voters in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky will have the sense to make the right decision. While we are grateful to have reopened and relaxed most COVID-19 measures, let’s not forget that at the very beginning, [Liberal Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau failed his due diligence. He failed to close down the airports and borders (or at least enact proper screening for every single traveller). He didn’t mandate masking until the virus was full blown last summer—as his experts gave double
messages on its effectiveness. And until a few months ago, while the United States was smoothly rolling out vaccines, Trudeau struggled to attain and distribute vaccines— eventually accepting COVAX supplies allotted to poorer nations. And even as we finally are coming out of the pandemic, many Canadians are now challenged to find work or regain confidence to come out of their bubble. Meanwhile, Trudeau has run a public deficit well over $200 billion in his failed fight against COVID-19—and there’s no balanced budget in sight. So much for a self-balancing budget. Trudeau failed yesterday, he’s failing
tomorrow, and we Canadians are paying for his failures. Failures on COVID-19. Failures on our future health and security. We in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky are better than that. That’s why we need change and we need change now. And that change must begin by removing Patrick Weiler from office. Riding by riding, Liberals need to be replaced. Joshua Lee // Squamish
countries: rampant selfishness. As data and knowledge about this virus have developed over the last 18 months, it has become apparent that there are clearly identifiable cohorts of our society at risk of poor outcomes with the illness. We now know that the very frail elderly, those with certain co-morbidities, and the obese, should exercise caution and so may choose to get a vaccine to help protect themselves. In effect, at this point in time, anyone who wishes to get a COVID -19 vaccine has had the opportunity to do so, including children for whom the risk of severe illness is statistically zero.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In British Columbia, our public health agency has recently released data about who is vaccinated and who is not. The data demonstrates that the 20- to 49-year-old cohort is resisting vaccination. It seems likely that the next round of million-dollar marketing campaigns and coercion will be aimed at this
“[T]here are millions of truly vulnerable people around the globe who have no access to these vaccinations. - JANET NIETVELT
group, even though the risk of severe illness and death are minimal in this age cohort. Vaccines in the U.S., Canada and Europe are set to expire as the demand for them stalls, and now there is talk of third “booster” shots for the privileged of the world. At the same time, there are millions of truly vulnerable people around the globe who have no access to these vaccinations. How did a caring country like ours become so self-involved and myopic, so willing to
unnecessarily hoard medical interventions that could provide genuine and generous assistance to the less fortunate? Janet Nietvelt // Whistler
Are we at a crossroads? So bizarre that all anyone on the ground can talk about is how—for all intents and purposes—Whistler has essentially collapsed. While, yes, one can today get toilet paper and groceries, the service industry (which has always thought more of itself than anyone not from Whistler has) has devolved to even more inconsistent, shoddy, and unreliable service. Good luck getting dinner. No lunch service, not open, no reservations. And yes, CERB, COVID-19 and housing prices contribute to the issue. But honestly— none of this is a shock. Whistler has had more than sufficient time to respond. It’s embarrassing. Visitors should be forewarned—you can come and try to invest. But unlike savvy communities, you will be met with hostility, poor policy and a lack of context. We have invested significantly in this community for more than a decade. Feels like a crossroads. Good luck. Kathryn Young // Whistler n
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The good, the bad and the ugly of the last month in sports WITH NFL training camps getting underway, the MLB gearing up for the playoffs and the NHL and NBA in the middle of their offseason, there’s a lot happening in the world of sports right now that has fans excited. Unfortunately, despite all the excitement and optimism for sports fans, not all the news from the last month of sports has been positive. But
BY HARRISON BROOKS more on that later—first I want to start off on a positive note. The MLB hosted its first game ever in Dyersville, Iowa on Aug. 12. And if you are wondering where on Earth Dyersville is, or maybe even where the hell is Iowa (no judgment here), this is the city where the iconic movie Field of Dreams was set, and where the MLB built the Field of Dreams Stadium that will host an MLB game each season. And in the first ever game there, the MLB knocked it out of the park. The outfield backing on to a cornfield, the old-school wooden scoreboard and the fact that the MLB didn’t try to over commercialize it and kept the stadium to just 8,000 seats, made everything about this game perfect. And then seeing the teams enter the
diamond through the cornfield, just like in the movie, literally gave me chills. Kevin Costner (the star of the movie) was on hand to throw the ceremonial first pitch and give an emotional speech, which he ended by asking the crowd, “Is this heaven?” to which the 8,000 fans responded in unison with, “It’s Iowa,” which gave me even more chills. It was truly something special, and I can’t wait for it to happen again next year. But as I alluded to earlier, it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows in the world of sports over the last month. Fresh off being Canada’s newest darlings on their miracle run to the Stanley Cup Finals, the Montreal Canadiens and General Manager Marc Bergevin were back to their low-key shady ways when the NHL draft rolled around on July 23. Before we can move forward on why Bergevin is as shady as they come, we have to take a quick detour back to November 2020 when 17-year-old hockey player, Logan Mailloux, captured lewd photos of a girl during a sexual encounter and then uploaded them to his team group chat without her consent. He was later charged with defamation and ordered to pay a fine, resulting in most NHL teams reportedly putting the prospect on their “do not draft” lists. But whether it was just PR spin or an actual maturity awakening from the young hockey player, Mailloux released a statement
asking teams not to draft him as he didn’t feel he had “demonstrated strong enough maturity or character” to earn the privilege of being drafted and he wanted another year to prove that he could grow and mature. This is where we come back to the Canadiens and Bergevin. In a move that shouldn’t be shocking to anyone Bergevin ignored Mailloux’s wishes and drafted the player with the 31st pick in the draft anyways. And the team was prepared for this controversial pick with a pre-planned statement on why the pick was made that read, “the Montreal Canadiens organization not only selected a promising hockey player, but also a young man who recently admitted to making a serious mistake.” And that they are making a “commitment to accompany Logan on his journey by providing him with the tools to mature … ” News Flash: if you need to have a statement prepared in advance as to why you drafted a player, you probably shouldn’t draft that player. But more concerning than the lack of common sense and awareness is the fact that this is all part of a manipulation strategy called DARVO (Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender) designed to minimize people’s perception of the severity of the incident. The Canadiens denied the fact that this
incident was anything more than just a “serious mistake,” when in reality, it was a crime and this kid is now a sexual offender. He would be hard pressed to get any real job, but the NHL and the Canadiens are showing everybody that if you are good enough at hockey, the same rules don’t apply to you. And despite the victim of this act just wanting a sincere apology and justice for what was done to her, Mailloux is quoted as saying that she told him she wants to ruin his career. That’s the attack part. It makes people question the victim’s integrity, thus shifting focus off the real criminal. And when Mailloux uses the ever-soinnocent excuse that he was just trying to impress the older guys on the team, it once again downplays the severity and reverses the victim and offender to make people feel sorry for him as, “just a kid who made a mistake and deserves a second chance.” Well guess what? The girl that he defamed and spread her nude photos around without consent, she was just a kid too, why doesn’t anyone think of her? The saddest part about all of this is that it isn’t new. We’ve seen it time and again, across all major sports leagues and nothing has changed except the number of times NHL franchises will say “hockey is for everyone,” in between perpetuating, legitimizing and protecting hockey’s rape culture like the Canadiens did by drafting Logan Mailloux. ■
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Checking in on Whistler’s 2021 Summer Experience Plan TOURISM WHISTLER LAUNCHES NEW APP HIGHLIGHTING SELF-GUIDED TOURS
BY BRADEN DUPUIS AS ANOTHER BUSY summer rolls along, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) says it is seeing some successes with its 2021 Summer Experience Plan—but there will no doubt be adjustments prior to summer 2022. “The plan is aimed for progress, not perfection,” said Mayor Jack Crompton. “We will continue to improve upon what worked and what didn’t moving forward, [and] we will be evaluating and refining the program in the fall based on data gathered during the summer.” In the success column, the mayor listed dispersion of crowds to less popular parks, improved diversion and management of waste, and fruitful partnerships with local businesses serving food to parkgoers. “It’s not perfect yet, but I’m really pleased with how our team has remained flexible and have continued to learn and improve,” Crompton said. While there’s no daily headcounts or “scientific” measuring of exactly how many people are using local parks this year, RMOW staff expects numbers are similar to 2020.
SUMMER LOVIN’ Whistler officials are happy with how the Summer Experience Plan has gone so far—though they know there will need to be adjustments ahead of summer 2022. PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS
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“We get a report out every Monday on the observations from our village crews, our park hosts, from our bylaw team, and from my operations team, and they constantly noted that sense that it just looks tidier and more organized,” said Jessie Gresley-Jones, general manager of resort experience. “But we think there are just as many people.” The much-maligned pay parking added to four local parks this year has resulted in higher turnover (though the lots are still near full capacity on weekends), GresleyJones said. “We are noting that the turnover is about an average of two-and-a-half hours in each lot, and so I think that’s a good sign to see that people are using it effectively,” he said. “It is perhaps encouraging turnover, which is allowing more people to get to the parks if they need to drive, rather than those parking spots sort of filling up at the start of the day and then not having an opportunity for anyone else over the course of the day.” There is no charge or time limit for accessible parking at parks, an RMOW spokesperson added in a follow-up email. Ridership numbers on the free weekend shuttle have exceeded RMOW expectations (peaking at a maximum of 392 rides in one day, and averaging about 230 per day), and the bike valet service has also been well received (storing 420 bikes on its busiest day), Gresley-Jones added. One ask from locals is that the free
shuttles be expanded to weekdays, when many in the resort have their days off— but the municipality isn’t committing to expanding the shuttle service just yet. “The parking strategy will be reviewed in the fall. We’ll take all of the info that we’ve collected and it will inform the decisions made moving forward,” Crompton said. “We needed the time and the data with which to make decisions, and that’s our goal: consistent improvement, informed by data.” One impact of pay parking (combined with high volumes of visitors) is the spillover of parking into adjacent neighbourhoods, an issue highlighted by locals on Panorama Ridge in a recent letter to council. “We’re definitely looking at whether those spillover impacts were worse this year, whether they caused concerns in those neighbourhoods, and we’ll be looking at that feedback as we continue to advance any changes into next year,” Gresley-Jones said. When it was first introduced back in March, the total value of the 2021 Summer Experience Plan was just over $1.7 million. A further $464,315 was to be covered using the Festivals, Events & Animation budget, leaving $234,678 in new spending. The RMOW applied for grant funding of up to $250,000 through the Canada Healthy Communities Initiatives to offset the costs, but was unsuccessful. Improvements to local park infrastructure in 2021 include: upgraded public parking lots on Alta Lake Road; new Western Toad
infrastructure; installation of five new docks; six new SUP racks and five new bike racks; 11 new picnic tables; and expanded capacity for three-stream waste diversion. A full breakdown of the 2021 summer spend—which includes funds from the Resort Municipality Initiative, MRDT and municipal reserves—will be included in a report to council this fall. “I think we’ve had cost savings in some areas and we’ve invested more in others,” Gresley-Jones said, noting that the municipality spent more than anticipated on the free shuttle due to demand. “So the budget has adjusted, but I think we’re still on track with what we originally targeted.” Meanwhile, Tourism Whistler has also launched a new app—called Go Whistler Tours—aimed at better dispersing visitors throughout the valley. The app offers info on self-guided tours, and is “designed to help visitors discover different sides of Whistler that they might not normally be aware of,” said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher. Though the app currently only highlights a small handful of tours, “we’re going to continue to add to it,” Fisher said. “So this will become a really important app for the future as it continues to incorporate spring, summer, fall and winter opportunities and tours, and it’s really intended for the in-resort guest.” Find more information at whistler.ca/summer. n
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WITNESSES WANTED Investigators on the scene of an apparent homicide near the Listel Hotel in Whistler Village on Saturday, Aug. 14.
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BY BRANDON BARRETT THE FAMILY OF the 26-year-old victim of a stabbing in Whistler Village this weekend is appealing to the public for any information that could aid in the investigation. “Henry’s life was taken senselessly in an act of violence while in Whistler Village simply trying to grab a taxi back to his hotel. Henry’s life did not deserve to be taken away so brutally,” read a statement provided by the family of Henry Stanley Garcia Molina to the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). Garcia Molina was reportedly stabbed multiple times in an attack investigators believe took place between 1:45 and 2 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 directly in front of the Bearfoot Bistro entrance in the Listel Hotel at 4121 Village Green, IHIT said in a release Tuesday. After canvassing the area, authorities have identified “several persons of interest and believe there are multiple individuals involved in the murder as well as several witnesses that have yet to speak with police,” IHIT said. Garcia Molina was taken to the Whistler Medical Clinic, and after police arrived at 2:09 a.m., they learned that he had died as a result of his injuries. IHIT previously called the stabbing an isolated incident and noted there is no known risk to the community. “For those individuals that have direct knowledge of this homicide, now is the time to come forward,” said Cpl. Timothy Pierotti, with IHIT, in the release. “We need those with information to come forward immediately and speak the truth. The
investigation is active and ongoing and IHIT investigators will be relentless in their pursuit of all available evidence.” A fundraiser launched by a friend of Garcia Molina’s had at press time raised more than $28,000 of its original $15,000 goal. “Henry’s loss has been the most painful thing that any parent has had to go through,” his family continued in the release. “Henry left a positive impact on everyone he has ever met, including all his family members,
“Henry’s life did not deserve to be taken away so brutally.”
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his friends from school and various sports teams he was a part of. Henry was very involved with the community and admired by many. He was a kind hearted young man who was always willing to help others.” The alleged homicide is a relative rarity for the resort community, although it does stoke memories of the 2015 stabbing death of 19-year-old Burnaby man Luka Gordic, who was killed in a swarming attack near Marketplace during the May long weekend. Anyone with information is asked to contact the IHIT Information Line at 1-877551-4448 or by email at ihitinfo@rcmp-grc. gc.ca. Anonymous tips can also be sent through Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477, texting the number 275637 and starting the message with “BCTIP,” or using the web form at solvecrime.ca. n
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Capacity challenges, burnout taking their toll at Whistler’s municipal hall RMOW BUDGET AMENDMENT SEEKS TO ADDRESS ‘URGENT’ STAFFING NEEDS
BY BRADEN DUPUIS CITING UNSUSTAINABLE workloads that were only worsened by the COVID19 pandemic—and the added strain of a ransomware attack that handcuffed municipal services in late April—the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is seeking to bolster its employee base by way of a budget amendment. Introduced and given first three readings at the Aug. 17 meeting, the bylaw will allocate $112,000 in fiscal ’21 and another $560,000 in 2022 from the general reserves to add 11 new positions to the RMOW’s payroll (though not all permanent full-time). The new additions include: a project manager for parks and trails construction; a building official; three computer systems analysts (one short-term, and another transitioning a part time role into a fulltime role); an accountant; a capital projects coordinator (making an existing term role permanent); two records clerks (both short term); a bylaw enforcement officer;
service-level expectations and what is possible to achieve with existing staff resources,” the report read. “Maintaining a high-quality Whistler product and level of customer service remains paramount and must be achieved regardless of outside challenges.” While senior staff did consider scaling operations back rather than simply getting bigger, “these staff additions have to do with managing existing workload that needs to get done, so it’s not a matter of just taking something off the plate,” said chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen the morning after the meeting. “These are urgent items that need to be completed, but it’s also planning for a couple of retirements … [so] there’s some succession planning in there as well.” Not being able to adequately service the community is “a huge concern for me,” she added. “[The additions] will be a welcome piece of support for staff,” she said, adding that another main concern is staff retainment. “If you are understaffed for your workload, you end up with people leaving
a risk and insurance coordinator; and a computer systems tech (making a term role permanent). According to a staff report to council, the additions were deemed necessary after a November 2020 leadership retreat with staff and council in which some clear themes emerged: capacity challenges, burnout, and too much work with not enough time to do it. A subsequent review of the challenges revealed “an organization that entered 2020 struggling to keep pace with its core services and expanding list of responsibilities with a workforce that has only marginally changed in size from 2014 levels,” the report from director of finance Carlee Price read. The pandemic and subsequent ransomware attack only added more urgency to the situation, the report said, leaving current RMOW workloads unsustainable and staff resiliency low. “Pandemic recovery will continue to put operational and political pressure on the RMOW. Conflict and stress with the community and local industry has risen as the dislocation widens between community
because they burnout, so I think this will help for sure in building in that resilience that has been depleted through the pandemic as well as through the cyber attack.” The RMOW reversed course on a planned 4.89-per-cent tax increase this year, utilizing municipal reserves to bring the increase down to 1.08-per-cent. The move is expected to lead to larger tax increases in future years, though the full implications are still unkown. Next year’s tax increases won’t be revealed until the budget open house in November. The amendment also shifts spending from general reserves for two other initiatives: renovations at municipal hall ($130,000); and replacement of underground fuel tanks and the vehicle fuelling system at the public works yard ($255,000). Further, the amendment will make space in the budget for a $446,000 grant from the Union of BC Municipalities focused on Indigenous outreach, peer support and providing temporary emergency shelter. n
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No ‘dominant narrative’ ahead of federal election WHISTLER ALL-CANDIDATES MEETING SET FOR SEPT. 8
BY BRADEN DUPUIS LIKE IT OR NOT, Canadians are headed to the polls again on Monday, Sept. 20. In Whistler and the Sea to Sky, there were five confirmed candidates as of Tuesday, Aug. 17: Incumbent Patrick Weiler (Liberals); former MP John Weston (Conservative); Avi Lewis (NDP); Mike Simpson (Green Party); and Doug Bebb (PPC). The deadline for candidates to submit their nomination papers is Aug. 30. But will the 36-day campaign—the shortest allowed under the federal Election Act—offer enough time to properly probe the big issues like COVID-19 recovery, climate change and wildfire, Indigenous affairs and the turmoil in Afghanistan (to name just a few)? “I think the question we’re all asking is what is the dominant narrative, what are the key issues that are going to drive this campaign?” said Max Cameron, a political science professor at the University of British Columbia. “And we don’t really know, because the first criticism of the prime minister’s decision to call an election focuses on precisely that: It’s not exactly clear what the campaign is about, or why it’s even necessary.” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s minority government has not lost a vote of confidence, nor has it lacked support from the opposition parties, Cameron said. “But Trudeau is well ahead in the polls, and clearly thinks that he can parlay his minority into a majority government,” he said. “That doesn’t seem like a compelling reason for an election. It seems like a partisan reason for an election, so he’s going to have to come up with an explanation for why it is that there has to be an election now, or what kind of mandate he needs that he doesn’t currently have.” With the country heading into the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the timing of the election call may make for an “awkward campaign,” added Stewart Prest, a lecturer in political science at Simon Fraser University. “I think Canadians, in part, are going to be voting on who they think will be the safest pair of hands to get the country through the next chapter of this saga, and so that means a combination of providing for health security, but also economic security for the country,” Prest said, adding that, while there is a risk in calling an election in the midst of a pandemic, voters will likely move beyond that and into the real issues before long. Amidst another disastrous wildfire season in B.C., one of the top issues for voters in the province is the environment and climate change—one that may play to the strength of the Liberals, Prest said. “The Liberals have some bonafides on climate-change related issues, with the
creation of a carbon tax for the country as a whole,” he said. “No other party can say they have done this much at the federal level, and so even amidst the wildfires and the heat dome that we’ve seen, that is something that may help the liberals, certainly vis-a-vis the Conservatives, who continue to have, I think, a credibility gap on that issue.” But the Liberals’ credibility on climate isn’t bulletproof, Cameron pointed out. “You see the statements coming out of the prime minister’s office suggesting that they’ve set targets, they’ve got policies in place to achieve them, and fair enough, but at the same time they’re building pipelines, right? So they’re preparing for decades of fossil fuel development,” he said. In Whistler and across B.C., the question of labour and tourism recovery will no doubt be among the top issues of the 2021 election. “It’s probably as bad as it’s ever been, or maybe even worse,” said Walt Judas, president and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of BC (TIABC), noting that pre-pandemic the industry estimated it would need 100,000 new workers within a 10-year span. “It’s worse than that now. I know of hotel general managers who are doing laundry … It’s a really, really desperate situation for so many businesses.” It’s not entirely a wage issue either, Judas added. “There are housekeepers that are making $25 to $30 an hour or more, and that’s not a high-skilled position,” he said. “It’s hard work to be sure, but they’re being paid good money, and yet there is still a need for housekeepers, and jobs that are similar to that.” On Aug. 16, Trudeau announced that a re-elected Liberal government will offer more support for businesses hit hardest by COVID19, including temporary wage and rent support of up to 75 per cent of expenses to help tourism operators through the winter, as well as an extension of the Canada Recovery Hiring Program (a subsidy to cover a portion of employee wages) to March 31, 2022. The pledge is welcomed by TIABC, and the industry will be watching for similar support from the other parties, Judas said. And on the question of labour, “would whomever forms the next government consider investing in and promoting and developing tourism jobs as part of its marketing efforts, or its mandate?” he said. “Would government consider changing the immigration system to ensure that tourism can benefit from workers for all job levels that meet the needs and help the industry with demand for growth in the future, and to help bolster local economies?” A Whistler all-candidates meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 8 on Zoom. Read more about each local candidate on their respective websites: reelectpatrickweiler. com; johnweston4mp.ca; avilewis.ca; mikesimpson.ca; and bebbppc.ca. n
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Whistler’s GHG emissions saw big drop in 2020 due to COVID-19 RMOW PREPPING NEW CONSOLIDATED CLIMATE PLAN
BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLER’S community greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell 21 per cent in 2020, due in large part to the COVID-19 pandemic—but the drop is unlikely to be sustained in the long run, and the resort remains well off track to meet its emission reduction goals. The Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) 2020 energy consumption and greenhouse gas inventory report— presented to council on Aug. 17 during a marathon six-hour meeting—is especially timely given the latest dire warnings issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said climate action coordinator Luisa Burhenne. “The report warns that in several scenarios, our planet will surpass two degrees above pre-industrial times unless we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions significantly,” Burhenne said in a presentation to council.
“So this report is really a very clear call to action that we have to act now and that we have to act big, and that we really have to use all the tools we have available to us.” But local lawmakers and municipal staff have their work cut out for them. The 2020 drop was in part a result of travel restrictions, limited visitation, people working from home and avoiding public transit and restaurants, Burhenne said. “All of that has an impact on our emissions, and when we look at our numbers from last year we have to be aware that these effects cannot easily be reproduced—and we probably don’t want that,” she said. Whistler’s community GHG emissions for 2020 were estimated to total 108,643 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e), with passenger vehicles continuing to make up the bulk of local emissions at 40 per cent, followed by natural gas at 39 per cent. The resort’s 2020 emissions were 18 per cent below the baseline year of 2007, missing
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the previous 2020 target by 22 per cent. In December of last year, Whistler’s mayor and council adopted a new emissions reduction target of 50 per cent below 2007 levels by 2030 as part of its new Big Moves Strategy. Community energy consumption totalled 2.9 million gigajoules (GJ) in 2020—a 13 per cent drop from 2019—consisting mostly of electricity (44 per cent), natural gas (29 per cent) and vehicle fuels (27 per cent). On the corporate side, emissions from municipal hall were estimated at 2,641 tCO2e last year. Direct corporate emissions were 2,160 tCO2e—a 34 per cent increase from 2019—while emissions from contractors decreased 36 per cent, to 481 tCO2e. Infrastructure services accounted for the bulk of corporate emissions at 54 per cent, followed by resort experience (27 per cent) and corporate and community
services (19 per cent). The annual GHG report attributes the increase to more natural gas being used at sewer utilities compared to 2019 due to changes in liquid flow rates affecting efficiencies (another byproduct of the pandemic). The decrease in contractor emissions may also be a result of COVID-19 related changes to operations, the report said. Corporate energy consumption increased three per cent in 2020 to 80,612 GJ, driven by a 45-per-cent increase in mobile fuel use and a 19 per cent increase in natural gas consumption. Electricity use fell by 12 per cent year over year, but still makes up the bulk of total energy used across municipal operations at 55 per cent, followed by natural gas (23 per cent) and mobile fuels (17 per cent). Read more at whistler.ca/climate.
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NEWS WHISTLER A NEW APPROACH Moving forward, RMOW staff intends to consolidate two big climate initiatives—the Community Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP), adopted in 2016, and the Big Moves Strategy, adopted in December 2020—into one comprehensive plan. “This will not be a new plan, we will be consolidating them and make sure that no action will be lost,” Burhenne said. “The desired outcome of consolidating those plans is to have consolidated climate action for more efficient project planning, progress monitoring and reporting, and more effective coordination between climate change mitigation and adaptation.” Back in 2016, the CECAP laid out 94 actions for climate mitigation and 40 actions for climate adaption. As of June 2021, just six CECAP initiatives were completed, while 84 were in progress or ongoing. As part of the move to a consolidated climate plan, staff will no longer update council on climate progress each quarter, opting instead for semi-annual reporting. The goal is to have all CECAP actions incorporated into the Big Moves + Climate Action Plan by next spring, and to have the new plan adopted by summer 2022. The Big Moves themselves focus on transportation, buildings and waste, which together account for more than 90 per cent of Whistler’s GHG emissions. Councillor Jen Ford noted that the Comox Valley Regional District on Vancouver Island is considering the “aggressive” policy of banning any future gas stations from being built, and wondered what changes Whistler council could make immediately to further its own progress on climate action. “Is there one or two bylaws that we could change today that could make a small difference, or a big difference?” Ford asked. It may sound pessimistic, but “the unfortunate answer is perhaps that there isn’t one big easy move, because if it existed we probably would have taken it,” said general manager of resort experience Jessie Gresley-Jones. “It is conscious decisions in all of the policy work we do, and all of the implementation in our fleet purchases, in our decisions around staff policies, around remote work, around an array of things—it is all these small decisions that cumulatively make a difference,” he said. “I wish there was one easy button solution. I think staff would probably unanimously say it unfortunately does not exist for us.” The response is more realistic than pessimistic, Ford said, noting that it’s worth thinking through even the little things. “It used to be you turn the lights off when you left the room to save energy, right? It’s bigger than the light switch,” Ford said. “It’s so much bigger than that, but I think that we are being called to action to work together, and we will … because we have to.”
HIGH PERFORMANCE, COST EFFECTIVE At the same time, reducing emissions has to come from outside of government as well. A recent cost analysis study of high-
performance buildings across British Columbia conducted by the Zero Emissions Building Exchange (ZEBx) highlighted the work of a Whistler developer in reaching net-zero energy standards. With his Orion building in Pemberton, Rod Nadeau and his team at Innovation Building Group have built one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the province at just $148/square foot. “He is one of the leaders … he and a few others have been able to take this by the horns and show everybody else that they can do it, and so that’s what we want to showcase,” said Roberto Pecora, director of programs and acting executive director with ZEBx. The building heats for between $30$40/year per apartment, and cools for about $10/year. While it is only required to comply with Step 1 of B.C.’s Energy Step Code, the building exceeds Step 4—the highest step for multi-unit residential buildings, which will be required for all new builds by 2032. The all-electric Orion build was constructed for about 30-per-cent less than the baseline established by ZEBx, Pecora said. “This is really important, because local governments always get the brakes put on them by developers in their industry saying, ‘this is going to cost too much,’” he said. “So what we’ve done in this cost study is say, you’re not on the ball there—you’re not necessarily right about that. “So the question, hopefully, when readers read that, is why the hell aren’t we doing this now? Like, why are we still building buildings that use gas?” Nadeau said the efficiency is a result of extensive modelling, value engineering, and a little bit of trial and error. “We modelled the buildings that we were looking at about 100 times, and we looked at absolutely every single detail, but we put a cost to every one, because I wanted to know, if we’re going to spend more money, where should we spend it?” Nadeau said. “And the results of that were surprising. We started spending money in different places, and we got better and better results, and as a result of looking very hard at how to make some things more energy efficient and cost less, we wound up with a lot of building techniques that are very cost effective and produce a very high-performing building.” ZEBx plans to launch a podcast with Nadeau in the coming weeks detailing his process in-depth (find it at zebx.org/ resources). It’s the same technique Nadeau plans to use for a proposed multi-unit building in Whistler’s White Gold neighbourhood, submitted under the RMOW’s private developer employee housing guidelines. Nearly four years after it was first submitted, the application is still languishing at municipal hall. “The revised development concepts have been subject to design review by staff and the Advisory Design Panel, taking into consideration comments from council and the public,” a spokesperson said. “Once the designs have been resolved, along with updated pro formas, they will return to council for consideration of bylaw readings.” n
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Vail Resorts names new CEO SOME WHISTLER BLACKCOMB ROLES MOVED TO COMPANY’S U.S. HEADQUARTERS IN BROOMFIELD
BY BRADEN DUPUIS VAIL RESORTS, parent company to Whistler Blackcomb (WB), announced several changes to its top executive branch on Aug. 10, while also relocating some local jobs to its headquarters in Broomfield, Colo. Current Vail Resorts chief marketing officer Kirsten Lynch will take on the role of chief executive officer (CEO), as current CEO Rob Katz will be appointed executive chairperson of the board. Katz will “remain fully active and engaged in Vail Resorts’ key strategic decisions and priorities,” according to a release. Current VP of marketing and lift revenue Ryan Bennett will be named new CMO. “Over her 10 years with the company, Kirsten has been responsible for the transformation and success of Vail Resorts’ data-driven marketing efforts and a primary driver of the company’s growth, stability and value creation,” Katz said in the release. “In addition to having an incredible business acumen, Kirsten is one of the most passionate, driven leaders I have ever worked with. Her tremendous enthusiasm for the long-term vitality of our sport and a very high commitment to leadership development
within our company will make her an outstanding leader of Vail Resorts. Kirsten will also be surrounded by an extremely strong and tenured executive team.” Meanwhile, a number of local positions in Whistler are being relocated to the U.S.— though WB would not provide details about how many local jobs are affected, or in which departments. “The recent changes move certain oversight roles to our corporate headquarters so that Whistler Blackcomb can continue to harness the best practices, insights and value of our full portfolio of world-class resorts,” said senior manager of communications and resort marketing Jennifer Smith, in an email. “We have been intentional to ensure that there are dedicated teams located in-resort to support the needs of Whistler Blackcomb. It’s also very important to note that, substantially, all of our resort leadership roles will always remain in Whistler.” The challenges presented by the COVID19 pandemic have demonstrated the value of the Vail Resorts network, Smith added. “The connected and collaborative best-inclass approach not only offers a competitive advantage for Whistler Blackcomb, we also believe it is critical to the community’s longterm success and stability,” she said. The pandemic and its related travel
restrictions have led to immense frustration for some Whistler Blackcomb passholders, who have voiced their disdain for Vail Resorts’ customer service (as it relates to pass refunds) en masse in Pique’s letters to the editor section in recent months. “While no one could have foreseen all situations, we worked earnestly to do our best for our guests,” Smith said. “Our dedicated team set up to administer Epic Coverage, and worked diligently to ensure that every submitted refund request was evaluated per the Terms and Conditions of Epic Coverage. We thank our guests for their patience and understanding. All passholders who met the qualifications for a refund, including for resort closure or a personal event, have now been contacted.” In March, Vail Resorts announced a 20-per-cent reduction in pass product prices for the 2021/22 season. The first deadline to secure the best value is Labour Day on Sept. 6. The Epic Pass—which comes with unlimited access to WB, Vail, Park City, and more—will be priced at $1,018, down from $1,273 last year. The Whistler Blackcomb Unlimited Pass will be $1,119, down from $1,399. Edge Cards, meanwhile, will start at
$175 for a two-day card, down from $219, $367 for a five-day Edge Card, down from $459, and $631 for a 10-day Edge Card, a decrease from $789. The Epic Day Pass will come in at $109.58 for a one-day pass or $93.20 a day for a seven-day pass. Find more info at epicpass.com. “As it relates to next season, all passes will come with Epic Coverage included at no additional cost—which is designed to provide refunds for personal situations such as job loss, injury and illness—as well as refunds for certain resort closures, including those due to COVID-19,” Smith said. “Epic Coverage is not a refund-forany-reason program, given the significant savings that our passes provide as compared to lift tickets, which are fully refundable.” Vail Resorts is also committed to a multi-year guest service transformation, Smith added. “Our goal is to ensure guests have the information they need, when they need it,” she said. “Over the last several months, we overhauled the technical systems behind our guest service operations and are in the process of dramatically scaling the number of representatives available to provide support.” n
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Burnaby driver defies police in mind-boggling Sea to Sky chase before flipping car POLICE SAY MAN SPED EXCESSIVELY FROM SQUAMISH TO LILLOOET AND BACK AGAIN BEFORE HITTING SPIKE STRIP
BY BRANDON BARRETT A BURNABY man defied police this weekend as he was spotted driving at excessive speeds in three different communities before hitting a police spike strip that flipped his car and ultimately led to his arrest. At about 8:40 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 15, police said a highway patrol officer observed a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed on Highway 99, near Alice Lake. Police attempted to stop the driver unsuccessfully and decided not to pursue him at that time out of concern for public safety, said Sgt. Jeff Shore with the Sea to Sky RCMP. At about 9:30 a.m., the same vehicle was seen speeding northbound in Mount Currie. Again, police attempted to stop the driver to no avail, and again, no pursuit was initiated. Then, sometime around 11 a.m., Sea to Sky police were notified by Lillooet RCMP that the same vehicle had “passed them at a high rate of speed and failed to stop for them as well,” Shore said. “So the
vehicle was seen in Squamish, was seen in Pemberton and was seen in Lillooet. “In each of those cases, the officers determined the vehicle wasn’t worth pursuing because it’s high-risk to the public and to everyone involved.” Inexplicably, the driver then made the odd decision to turn around, travelling
a busy summer weekend. “Based on the timeline of when he was in Lillooet and when he was back in Pemberton, he was driving excessively fast even without us pursuing him,” Shore noted. “It seemed as though a crash was inevitable at some point with the amount of people that are going through Whistler,
“It seemed as though a crash was inevitable...” - JEFF SHORE
southbound back to the Sea to Sky. By about 11:30 a.m., he had returned to the Mount Currie area, a sign of just how blisteringly fast he was driving on a route that would typically take in excess of 80 minutes at normal speed. A rough calculation based on driving the 92-kilometre stretch in approximately 30 minutes would put his rate of speed at more than 180 km/h, which is before taking road traffic into account on
especially on the weekends right now.” As he approached Mount Currie, Mounties attempted to set up a roadblock, which the suspect again defied. At this point, the decision was made to deploy spike strips, and the vehicle, a rented 2021 Toyota Corolla, struck them just east of Pemberton, blowing out at least two tires, Shore said. Undeterred, the man continued on, and
officers began pursuing him all the way to Cougar Mountain Road, just north of Whistler, where he lost control of the vehicle. The car flipped, landing on its roof. Police said the 46-year-old exited the vehicle under his own power and was apprehended, before being taken to the Whistler Health Care Centre for treatment. Shore noted he appeared to have only minor injuries. He was arrested and subsequently released with a future court date, police said. Shore added it was extremely fortunate that neither the suspect, public nor the officers involved were seriously injured. “I think this was a serious threat to public safety,” he said. “’Super relieved’ isn’t even enough of a word to express how I feel about the fact that no one was seriously injured.” Shore said alcohol or drugs were not a factor and there were no outstanding warrants linked to the suspect. Anyone with additional information on the incident is asked to contact Whistler RCMP at 604-932-3044, or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or solvecrime.ca to remain anonymous. n
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As Whistler re-opens, new businesses are opening their doors, too NEW LOCAL PLAYERS MAKING THE MOST OF POST-PANDEMIC OPPORTUNITIES WHILE DEALING WITH THEIR OWN SET OF CHALLENGES
BY MEGAN LALONDE CONSIDERING the amount of havoc the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked on Whistler’s business community—and, not to mention, the increasingly debilitating labour shortage—it might not seem like an obvious time to open a business in the resort. But as restrictions loosen and tourists return to the Village Stroll, that’s exactly what some new local establishments are doing. Australian-based affordable eyewear brand Bailey Nelson opened the doors to its first Whistler storefront on July 9, four years after marking its expansion into Canada with a location on Vancouver’s Robson Street. The timing turned out to be ideal, said Nick Perry, Bailey Nelson’s founder and managing director of North America—and not just because of skyrocketing demand for blue-light lenses after a year-and-a-half of zoom meetings. “I think if we’d been open two years ago, it would be a vastly different situation and would have been incredibly challenging.
As it applies to Whistler, we were fortunate that we sort of timed it where traffic is starting to come back, and people are out shopping and spending again,” he said. On the surface, the timing of Mountain Chic Hair Lounge’s opening wasn’t as lucky, explained co-owner Mini Rey. But when she and business partner Genevieve
Rey said. “We had been so excited because the [gondola] line-ups were so big last winter that they would have been right in front of the salon. But then we realized pretty quickly that we opened right next door to the liquor store and that that’s all the traffic you need—when the mountain’s closed, what else can you really do, right?”
“As it applies to Whistler, we were fortunate that we sort of timed it where traffic is starting to come back, and people are out shopping and spending again.” - NICK PERRY
Dubois opened their salon in Creekside Village at the height of Whistler’s COVID19 outbreak—just one day after Whistler Blackcomb was ordered to close by provincial health officials—they found an unexpected silver lining. “There was definitely some concern,”
And with their respective businesses tending to cater more towards locals than visitors, both Rey and Perry acknowledged that their establishments will likely be somewhat protected from the ebbs and flows of tourism moving forward. “There was some nervousness about,
obviously, Whistler being really reliant on international tourism to fuel the local economy, but for us, we are much more reliant on the locals,” Perry said. “If they’re flying in from the U.S., people are not going to necessarily get a prescription eye exam and a prescription pair of glasses, whilst they’re on their one week vacation,” Perry said. Mountain Chic, meanwhile, has “had such positive feedback from the community and we just feel so supported,” said Rey. “So many people are coming in from word of mouth, which is great.” While the restaurant industry might be slightly more dependent on tourism than a hair salon or an eye-care retailer, the timing has worked out nearly as fortuitously for Joe Fortes’ soon-to-be-open Whistler location, its general manager (GM) said. The legendary Vancouver seafood restaurant and chophouse announced in December 2019 that it planned to expand with a second location in the Sundial Place space that housed Trattoria di Umberto for more than 30 years. Initially slated to open in mid- to late-January 2020, the eatery is finally opening its doors on Tuesday, Aug. 31.
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“The timing is actually quite perfect for us to open a new restaurant, with everything opening up. If we’d finished this, I imagine, in March of last year, and had been forced to shut down and had everyone hired and trained up it would be completely different,” said GM Michael Graham, during a break from a recent orientation session for new staff in the newly renovated dining room. “With looser restrictions, at this point, it seems like the perfect time to have people walk into a brand-new restaurant and see it as a restaurant should be, and have that comfort walking into a restaurant.” Despite those benefits, one common struggle shared by all three businesses Pique spoke with for this story is staffing. Rey pinpointed it as “the biggest challenge” Mountain Chic has faced so far. The salon hired one stylist to work alongside its two co-owners, but has struggled to find the one-to-two more stylists it needs in order to open all seven days of the week, she said. Though Joe Fortes Whistler has “quite a good crew of servers and bartenders” ready to welcome guests, Graham said, the restaurant is, like most of their peers, missing “the consistent stream” of foreign workers who’ve traditionally filled integral support roles like bussers and dishwashers. Local restaurants “are all running [with] shoestring employees,” Graham said, adding, “An advantage we’ve had is that we have an extremely positive, strong and supportive upper management team.” Amid an “incredibly challenging”
labour market, Perry said Bailey Nelson was lucky to find and hire long-time locals with deep connections in the Whistler community. The company was able to lock down both a store manager and assistant store manager who were born and raised in Whistler, and an optometrist who moved to Whistler from Edmonton in March of 2020. One opportunity the brand was looking into was the possibility of inviting some staff from its Australian locations to relocate to Whistler, but with Australia’s borders still closed, that option remains unavailable for the time being, he added. When it comes to casual and part-time labour, “With Australia not letting anyone leave the country at the moment, I know there’s many businesses in Whistler feeling the pinch right now, so we’re not alone in that respect,” Perry said. “Fortunately, the leadership team is incredibly capable and diligent and working really hard. We’re very lucky to have that. Otherwise, we’d be in a tight spot.” As for Rey, she said the experience of opening a business during a pandemic has highlighted the importance of supporting local, and encouraged other potential entrepreneurs to take the plunge. Starting a business “seems like a scary thing, especially in these times, but really once you’re in it, you realize that it’s doable … A lot of people have been kind of taken away from their job, or their job has been taken away from them. And so if there was ever something that they wanted to do, they should just do it,” she said. “That’s my take: Take the situation you’re in, and turn it into an opportunity.” n
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RARE GUESTS Whistler Biodiversity Project’s total count is up to 46 species of dragonflies and damselflies in Whistler—some of which are blue listed as species at risk in B.C., including this black petaltail dragonfly. PHOTO BY BOB BRETT
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The Pemberton Valley Dyking District (PVDD) will be holding its 74th Annual General Meeting, and you are invited to attend this event. You will gain a great overview of what the PVDD does,see what projects have been completed and what projects are in progress for 2021/2022. At the Thursday, August 26, 2021 AGM, the PVDD will be electing two Trustees to the Board for a 3-year term each. Trustee remuneration will also be decided by the electors and trustees at this meeting. Voter Eligibility: (ID must be presented) Only persons attending the election and meeting the following eligibility requirements are entitled to vote: • • • • •
A Canadian Citizen. Eighteen years of age, or older. An owner of land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries. A resident of the province of British Columbia for the prior six months. Legal representative of an owner of land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries. • Authorized agent of a corporation or board that owns land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries. The authorized agent must deliver a letter in writing on company letterhead before the election begins. That authorized agent must sign a Statutory Declaration Form prior to voting. Trustee Eligibility: • Every person who is qualified to be an elector is also qualified to be a Trustee. • The spouse of a qualified elector may also hold the office of Trustee. To reserve your spot at the AGM please go to Eventbrite.ca and search “PVDD Annual General Meeting.” Please sign up so we know how many people will be attending.
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I MAY NEVER become a beetle, moth, or spider expert due to the large number of species in each of these groups. Yet, there is one group of insects that still gives me hope for a future as an amateur entomologist: Odonata, which includes both damselflies and dragonflies. As they swiftly buzz past my ear, I always try to get a better look. Their large, beady eyes, prominent mouths, and beautiful colour patterns captivate my attention. My parents used to tell me when a dragonfly lands on you it is a blessing or good luck. I feel honoured by their presence. These ancient insects date back some 300 million years, making them older than dinosaurs, birds, and flowering plants. Although there are over a million known species of insects worldwide, only about 5,000 of them are dragonflies or damselflies—a far more manageable order than beetles with around 350,000 species, moths with 160,000, or spiders with 45,000. Here in B.C., we have 87 known species of dragonflies and damselflies. I joined the Whistler BioBlitz scientists for their alpine survey on July 26 and 27 at Brandywine Meadows and Whistler Mountain as a volunteer photographer/ videographer. As the mycologists I was walking down with quickly dipped into the forest to investigate some interesting slime mold, I heard that familiar buzz by my ear and looked around. Two dragonflies settled down just a few metres ahead and allowed me to take a close-up shot. After watching them fly off, I rejoined the group of scientists at the car park where one of them was holding the very same type of dragonfly I just saw with excitement—the black petaltail (Tanypteryx
hageni). In 2008, when naturalists Bob Brett and James Miskelly set out to find this particular dragonfly (whistlernaturalists. ca/single-post/walk-softly-and-carry-a-bignet), they were unsuccessful. Fortunately, during last year’s Alpine BioBlitz, Sharon and Mike Toochin finally found it! There are only two species of Tanypteryx in the world, one in Japan and the black petaltail in North America. The larvae of the black petaltail are unique as they are not fully aquatic the way other dragonflies are and are only found in spring-fed mountain bogs where they tunnel into the moss near slow-trickling springs. The larvae come out at night to stalk prey like spiders on the surface of the moss. After about two years as larvae, they eventually emerge as black and yellow adult dragonflies. Toochin also found another new species of dragonfly this year—the blue dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)—which brings the Whistler Biodiversity Project’s total count up to 46 species of Odonata. Both dragonflies are blue listed in the Province of British Columbia’s List of Species and Ecosystems at risk, making them of special concern in the province. Unfortunately, spring-fed bogs are becoming increasingly rare due to human activity and climate change. Another threat is increased siltation in their seeps resulting from clear-cutting forests. Dragonfly and damselfly habitat is disappearing across southern Canada and B.C. as marsh and pond habitats turn into cities, roads and farms. To help dragonflies and enjoy them as frequent flyers by your side, consider adding a pond to your yard or garden! Naturespeak is prepared by the Whistler Naturalists. To learn more about Whistler’s natural world, go to Whistlernaturalists.ca. n
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Squamish Nation to investigate St. Paul’s Indian Residential School for unmarked graves SK_ WX_ WÚ7MESH ÚXWUMIXW (SQUAMISH NATION) SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS ABOUT THE CHILDREN WHO ATTENDED THE INSTITUTION BUT NEVER MADE IT HOME
BY ELISIA SEEBER SK _ WX _ WÚ7MESH Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) has launched an investigation into the former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School site to find answers about the children who attended the institution but never made it home. On Aug. 10, standing outside the site of the former institution, which once stood on the 500 block of West Keith Road in North Vancouver, Khelsilem (Dustin Rivers), Sk_ wx _wú7mesh Úxwumixw spokesperson, said the Nation had embarked on an Indigenousled initiative, on behalf of its people and in partnership with its relatives, the xwm 0kw y’ m (Musqueam) and s ĺilẃ ta l (TsleilWaututh) Nations, to investigate the site for burial grounds and unmarked graves. “We will begin that work to investigate and gather all information to honour and find those children who might not have gone home that had attended St. Paul’s Indian Residential School,” he said, adding that the work would be done with the support of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese. Khelsilem said the investigation was just in the beginning stages and the process was still taking shape, but would involve an
BYRON JOSEPH, Elder, Sk_wx_wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), led an opening prayer at Squamish Nation’s announcement that they will begin an investigation into the former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School site on August 10, 2021. The announcement was held at St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School at 541 West Keith Road. PHOTO BY ELISIA SEEBER
inquiry into the site and a field investigation. The phases of the investigation will include an interview process with survivors to help narrow down or expand investigation search areas, gathering all records related to the school throughout its history, and remote sensing searches, which may include groundpenetrating radar studies. The announcement comes after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation shared the discovery of the remains of an estimated 215 children and others in unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School at the end of May. Since then, further Nations have announced their own such findings. As the St Paul’s site is now home to St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary, Khelsilem said it had unique considerations in comparison to other sites being investigated, which had to be considered during the investigation, including the extensive development that has occurred at the site. There were 18 residential schools in B.C. St. Paul’s, located next to the Sk_wx _wú7mesh community of Eslhá7an, was the only institution in the Metro Vancouver area. It was run by the Catholic Church for 60 years until its closure in 1959. Over 2,000 Indigenous children, representing six generations of Sk_wx_ wú7mesh, xwm 0kw y’ m, and s ĺilẃ ta l Nations, and other Indigenous communities, were institutionalized there from Grades 1 through 8. Sk_wx_wú7mesh Úxwumixw’s oral histories told by St. Paul’s survivors include stories about children who disappeared. “According to public records, 12 unidentified students died while attending
St. Paul’s between 1904 and 1913,” the Nation said in a release, adding that the goal with the investigation is to find the location of each of these children and “bring them home to rest.” Squamish Nation held a private gathering on Aug. 9 to tell members that the work was beginning at the site. “This work is really sacred and really important to our people and, first and foremost, this work is about protecting and helping our survivors,” Khelsilem said. “They’re first in our minds, as we begin this work.” James Borkowski, the archbishop’s delegate for operations for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver, who spoke on behalf of Archbishop Michael Miller, said the work to uncover the truth had already begun over the past two months, and “continues as an urgent priority.” Earlier this summer, the archbishop shared an apology and a firm commitment on behalf of the local Catholic Church, to provide immediate supports and co-operation in ensuring that all documents related to residential schools be made available and accessible. “We have much to learn and act on, as we hear from the Nations, and community members in this journey of truth and reconciliation related to the church’s historic and damaging role with residential schools,” said Borkowski. “Our hope as Catholics is that our Creator will give us the courage and strength to follow the truth wherever it takes us.” On June 28, the B.C. government allocated $12 million to support First Nations throughout the province with investigative work at former residential school sites, as
well as cultural and wellness supports. Each caretaker community can receive up to $475,000 for each site. The province has also appointed First Nations liaisons to support communities through the work. On Aug 10, the federal government also announced a further $321 million in additional support for Indigenous-led initiatives. Chief Jen Thomas, s ĺilẃ ta l, whose father is a survivor of St. Paul’s, said she was “grateful for the work that’s going to be done” saying it was the “start of our healing journey for our survivors.” Chief Wayne Sparrow (xwm 0kw y’ m) added on behalf of his community that “we’re going to work with each and every one of you to get to the truth.” He acknowledged all Nations involved, both the federal and provincial governments and the Catholic Archdiocese for stepping up to do the work. “The only way that we’re going to heal is doing it together,” Sparrow said. Elder Byron Joseph of Sk_wx _wú7mesh Úxwumixw, who led an opening prayer, called on the crowd gathered, wearing orange, to come together and help one another through this difficult time. “This is a time where our people come forward,” he said. “The ones that have been forgotten. Those are the ones we have to honour. Those are the ones these prayers are for. “Keep a strong mind and strong heart as we go through this together.” Elisia Seeber is the North Shore News’ Indigenous and civic affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative. n
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Climate report shows world pushed to the brink by fossil fuels THERE’S
LITTLE in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report that we didn’t already know. It’s shocking nonetheless—albeit with a glimmer of hope. The first of the four-part Sixth Assessment, “Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis,” confirms that human activity—mainly burning fossil fuels and destroying natural carbon sinks—is heating the planet at unprecedented and accelerating rates, that warming will continue at least until mid-century no matter what because of emissions already emitted, and that global
BY DAVID SUZUKI warming will exceed 1.5 or 2 C this century unless we rapidly reduce emissions. The report also details the disastrous consequences of not acting, from increasing extreme weather to impacts on water cycles and agriculture. “Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level,” it states. A leaked draft from the third working group goes further, stating that “emissions must peak in the next four years, coal and gas-fired power plants must close in the next decade and lifestyle and behavioural changes will be needed to avoid climate breakdown.” (The assessment includes three parts and a synthesis report, each subject to approval by 195 member governments.)
the climate: rapidly reduced pollution and related health care costs, better employment and economic opportunities, fewer impacts on land and water, and numerous co-benefits. But I ask again (I’ve been banging on about this for as long as the IPCC has been releasing reports), why the hell aren’t we doing more? Why, after more than 30 years of mounting evidence and certainty (almost 200 since the greenhouse effect was first observed), as well as easily observable evidence, are media outlets of record still publishing anti-science nonsense by industry shills and deniers? Why are governments failing to do what’s necessary? The IPCC report indicates we can’t and needn’t give up hope. But averting the worst impacts of the crisis means rapidly shifting away from fossil fuels, protecting natural carbon sinks and employing “negative emissions technologies” and nature-based solutions to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. Governments that talk about climate commitments while buying pipelines and subsidizing fracking—or worse, whine that transitioning from fossil fuels is “unrealistic” and “utopian”—aren’t helping. Nor are media outlets that either downplay the climate crisis (often through lack of coverage) or spread false information in service to the fossil fuel industry and its front groups. People are willing to reduce their carbon footprints, but incremental change is no longer enough. We need transformational, systemic change that can only come from the top. Governments, business and industry, financial institutions, media and more must look out for the interests of those they’re supposed to serve and start acting on the evidence.
“Many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible.” - IPCC REPORT
Every assessment since the first in 1990 has warned that we face an uncertain future if we don’t address climate disruption. Research methodologies have improved, evidence has mounted and certainty has become absolute since then, but we knew where we were headed. This report confirms we’re already there. We can see it ourselves: unprecedented heat waves, wildfires, flooding, droughts, species extinction, water scarcity, conflict … The almost-4,000-page report’s evidence— compiled by 284 expert authors from 66 countries who reviewed 14,000 studies representing the most up-to-date climate science—is incontrovertible. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called it a “code red for humanity” that “must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet.” There’s no denying that we need to act fast or face accelerating climate chaos. The reasons go beyond attempting to stabilize
Because so many of them aren’t listening, it’s up to us to speak louder— with our ballots, money, bodies and voices. Vote for politicians who are serious about climate and pollution. Support businesses, media outlets and financial institutions that recognize the crisis for what it is. Follow the lead of the youth, Indigenous people and activists and join or support protests and climate strikes.Talk to your family, friends and neighbours, but remember the words of Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh: “Speak the truth but not to punish.” The IPCC assessment and the research it’s based on are a clear warning that our time is running out. We’ve identified the problem and solutions. What are we waiting for? 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. ■
OUTSIDER
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em ONE OF THE CULTURAL nuances of North American road culture is the affinity for owning and driving a pickup truck. Despite their fuel inefficiency, expensive parts and unmatched purchase and running costs, trucks are actually pretty cool. You can
BY VINCE SHULEY haul a lot of stuff around (including some really fun recreational toys), travel up dirt roads passable by only the most formidable SUVs and best of all, you can ubiquitously utter the phrase “my truck.” It’s taken me a long time to come around to the idea of owning a truck, mostly because of the aforementioned negative traits. But this year my partner and I finally caved and bought the Sea to Sky standardissue mid-sized truck; a Toyota Tacoma. It’s one of the smaller trucks you can get in terms of size, power, payload capacity and presence, just a few reasons why Tacomas are often scoffed at by the legit full-size truck owners of the Ford-150, Chevy Silverado 1500 and RAM 1500 variety. But I’m not hauling a 30-foot travel trailer to a busy campsite, nor do I need to transport
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building materials or other such industrial applications. I just need to be able to drive up forestry roads without scraping on the cross ditches and move a new-to-me snowmobile around in the winter (more to come on that in a later column). In the July 25, 2021 edition of The Globe and Mail, editors published an opinion article titled “Pickup trucks are a plague on Canadian streets.” Now a (rookie) truck owner, I read the article
“plague” on Canadian streets, I get that people like to drive trucks for reasons other than those particular applications. As you could imagine, the incendiary article got its share of both praise and criticism in the comment sections and social media feeds. Even Western premiers Jason Kenney and Scott Moe got involved in what the Financial Post headlined “Dude, where’s your truck? Western premiers’ defence of pickups sparks cross-country
Driving a big truck in an urban environment that rarely sees utilitarian work, snowy roads or off-road travel seems ludicrous to me.
with a fresh perspective on these vehicles, somewhat taking the bait and pushing back against the opinionated controversy from some suit in Toronto. That said, I soon realized that I actually I agree with a lot of the author’s opinions and have for years. Driving a big truck in an urban environment that rarely sees utilitarian work, snowy roads or off-road travel seems ludicrous to me. But especially now that I’m a card-carrying contributor to the
Twitter tempest.” Kenney went as far as changing his Twitter profile picture to show him at the wheel of his Dodge Ram 1500, proudly tweeting “I’m happy to say that ~40% of the vehicles on Alberta roads are pickups. Maybe Toronto columnists should try getting around this province during a prairie blizzard in a Smart Car.” Culture wars aside, I don’t really think 40-per-cent pickup truck ownership is anything to be proud of, especially when
many of those vehicles are driveway trophies. There’s also the ongoing debate over the role pickups play in fatal road accidents. Bigger SUVs and trucks kill more people on the roads by as much as 224 per cent, as reported in the July 27 issue of the National Post (“Canada needs pickup trucks, but they do indeed kill more people”). Unsurprisingly, since the first groundbreaking evidence of the dangers of larger vehicles on the roads, North Americans took up a SUV-pickup arms race to make sure they and their families were not on the receiving end of colliding with a larger vehicle. At least Canadians are less likely to apply that same logic to guns. As someone who supports policy to cut greenhouse emissions and slow down climate change, I’m aware of my own hypocrisy in owning a truck. But if Canadians are free to buy a truck regardless of how many actual truck things they decide to do with it, I don’t feel the need to restrict my own recreation opportunities in order to offset that behaviour. The electric trucks are coming, and hopefully in another 10 years the Ford F-150 Lightning will be the highest selling truck in Canada and supplant its gasoline predecessor. I’ll adopt that technology when Canada is ready. But for now, I’ll keep on truckin.’ Vince Shuley is feeling the cost of gasoline this summer. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @ whis_vince. ■
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[This story contains adult language and subject matter.]
By Brandon Barrett
“Civilization: a scheme to hide nakedness.” -Marty Rubin
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icheline Syvret has just arrived in Whistler to visit her son when she calls him to let him know she’s here. “I made it,” she says. “I’m at Lost Lake, on the dock.” Knowing full well where this is going, her son, photographer Jeremy Allen, asks her which dock she
happens to be on. “It looks like a giant cross,” she replies. “Oh, the nudie dock?” he asks. Taking in the wholesome lakeside scene—families picnicking on the shore, rambunctious dogs zooming around, solitary fishermen waiting for a bite— Micheline is surprised. But not as surprised as she is about to be. “It goes quiet for a couple seconds on the phone,” Jeremy remembers, “and then I just hear, ‘OH!’ She looks over and there’s an old man bathing naked.” “I guess it is the nudie dock,” she concedes. “Shit.” Micheline is not the first person to be confronted with the naked truth of Whistler’s time-honoured nudie dock, and she surely won’t be the last. First cobbled together in the late ’70s by a crew of resourceful freestylers who wanted some aerial jumps to huck themselves off of in the dog days of summer, it quickly became a nexus for Whistler’s ski bums, hippies and burners, a place where, in those days at least, pretty much anything was acceptable, as long as you weren’t a dick about it. (A figurative dick. Literal dicks were OK.) It wasn’t uncommon to find nationalteam skiers soaring off these DIY jumps as a crowd of supporters looked on in their birthday suits. In fact, sometimes the more daring skiers would be in the buff themselves. “Some of the freestylers would jump naked, too, but it wasn’t advisable. It really hurt,” says former ski coach Dave Lalik, one of the four Daves—along with Young, “Airman” Brown and Wallin—who were the driving force behind building the dock. Although the original dock has long since been torn down, you can still find gaggles of locals happily ditching their clothes at Lost Lake, a small reminder of the free-wheeling ethos that Whistler was founded on that persists in subtle ways today, even as a world-class resort has been built up around it. Whether it’s the ubiquitous Toad Hall poster, the infamous Boot Ballet or the legendary documentary Ski Bums depicting the community’s late-‘90s dirtbag culture, Whistler has a deep affinity for nudity, and in many ways, it’s the Lost Lake dock that has served as its spiritual core. “Whistler has a long history of nudity and really it comes back to that Lost Lake dock,” says Johnny Thrash, who many Whistlerites of a certain era have probably seen more of than they ever expected. But we’ll get to that.
which still controlled the land in and incarnation of the dock was harder to find around Lost Lake at the time. back then. “It was a loose agreement; nothing too “At the beginning, if you got more than formal,” he recalls. “If we helped out, put in six people on the dock it would start to sink culverts and worked on the road, we could and they would have to go sit on the jump,” use the space for our jumping.” Fournier says. Projecting out six metres onto the Today, the new dock is in far better lake, the ramp allowed ambitious skiers condition than those early days, after the to launch themselves up to 12 metres over RMOW tore down the original, along with the water. Understandably, injuries weren’t the ski jumps, at some point in the mid- to unusual. late ‘80s, by most accounts. And then as “It was scary as shit,” recalls Lalik. in now, the nude aspect of the dock was As was often the case in Whistler’s hippie “Really, really scary.” something of an open secret, although for era, the Lost Lake dock began with a kernel But even the prospect of injury couldn’t tourists and newcomers, there is still the of an idea and the stubbornness to make it deter world-class skiers from hitting chance of getting caught off-guard by a happen. When Lalik and his fellow Daves the ramp. By the ‘80s, Lost Lake hosted sunbather’s naughty bits. first set to building the dock, which was competitions and the first Summer Air That’s why Fournier has been pushing nothing more than a few logs from a nearby Camp was held in 1982, attracting freestyle for the municipality to formalize the dock as mill tied together with some plywood on skiers from as far away as Japan to train, a clothing-optional area, including recently top, they did so without any sort of approval and showcasing Whistler’s popular dock on erecting a handmade, wood-burned sign he from the powers that be. televisions near and far. put up himself to give visitors fair warning. “Build first and then apologize later,” It represented an interesting confluence The day after he put it up, it disappeared. Lalik says. “That was the theory back in the of elite athleticism and counterculture “Lost Lake is almost like the bastard day, and that usually worked with some of that still exists today, with dock regulars stepchild of the park scene,” he says. the level-minded bureaucrats.” seeking their own personal form of freedom, “We’ve got all this other infrastructure Frustrated with the lack of summer whether it meant soaring through the sky at created in all the other parks and you’ve aerial opportunities offered on Whistler impossible heights, or achieving a different got this crappy little trail access off the Mountain, freestyle skiers by 1977 decided kind of high altogether. main trail to get down to the dock, and to build their own jump in the valley, “Whistler originally was people once you get down there, it’s the only place but, according to the Whistler Museum, seeking alternative, unique lifestyles in a on Lost Lake where you can actually be on the newly formed Resort Municipality of recreational place and a lot of freedom. The the water without being in it, unlike all the Whistler (RMOW) and Squamish-Lillooet dock fit that bill,” says local Paul Fournier, other lakes in Whistler … So it leads people Regional District weren’t keen to hand out a a regular frequenter of the Lost Lake dock to go there, and then there’s surprise and development permit. Living up to its name, since the ‘80s. “It was just nice to go there discomfort around [the nudity].” Lost Lake and its out-of-the-way location and get the all-over tan and hang out.” For its part, the RMOW says neither seemed an appropriate place to build the Admittedly more “out of the way” then the bylaw or parks department has a jumps under the radar. Lost Lake is today, what with its short record of removing any signs, and one staff In the kind of handshake deal that would walk from the bustling village and free member recalls a municipal sign that was seem virtually impossible today, Lalik says shuttles ushering tourists there more than installed at one point that read something that once the dock was discovered, there two dozen times a day in the summer, it to the effect of: “Beware of Bares: Nude was also a deal struck with the province— was probably for the best that the original sunbathing area.” It is admittedly a tricky balance to strike for municipal hall. Whistler is no longer the quaint little ski town that attracted misfits and squatters seeking an alternative lifestyle, but a multi-billion-dollar Olympic venue and international hub that means there is much more at stake. If signage is put up notifying visitors of the dock’s clothing-optional status, then, presumably, they’re inviting the kind of loose behaviour that was the norm 30 years ago. But, at least according to Fournier, the Lost Lake regulars do a good job of policing themselves and encouraging the right etiquette. “For a few years it was getting really wild. There was a group there that partied hard and was kind of wild. But it’s mellowed,” he says. “It’s a place where you don’t crank up your music; it’s more of a live-music vibe. Or you don’t come out and play volleyball on the dock or bring your kids running TOP AND BOTTOM: GEORGE BENJAMIN COLLECTION / WHISTLER MUSEUM around yelling and screaming. There are other places to do that.” Fournier and other local long-timers I spoke with feel like the dock symbolizes something deeper than just a chill spot to catch a few rays and have a good time. Not to sound overly dramatic or anything, but you can see how that tug of war between the laisser-faire free-spiritedness of the dock’s past and its more reserved, family-friendly present can stand in as a microcosm for the existential crisis that Whistler and other tourist destinations like it have experienced for some time now. How do you preserve
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FEATURE STORY the authenticity that attracted so many people here in the first place while still catering to a wider umbrella of visitors? “For myself, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry because I’ve spent so much time fighting the establishment that I’ve become it. Whistler is somewhat like that. It’s more conformed. It’s not as freewheeling and open as it used to be,” says Fournier. “Young people didn’t need as much skin to get in the game. The game today has gotten more serious, that’s for sure.”
GEORGE BENJAMIN COLLECTION / WHISTLER MUSEUM PHOTO BY GREG GRIFFITH / WHISTLER MUSEUM
Full frontal It goes without saying that the Lost Lake dock was by no means Whistler’s first, or even most recognizable, display of the human form. On a sunny spring day in 1973, a few years before the dock was built, Chris Speedie set his camera lens on 14 brave young souls sporting nothing but their smiles and ski boots in front of the iconic Soo Valley squat known as Toad Hall. Today, the infamous Toad Hall poster hangs in dorm rooms and pubs from Whistler to Kitzbühel, a slice of the ski-bum lifestyle that so many have sought out, and others still yearn for. (For a deep dive into the making of the Toad Hall poster, check out Pique’s oral history, “Overexposed,” published Sept. 6, 2015.) Impossible to predict at the time, the poster has become the spiritual ancestor to so many of Whistler’s revealing moments to come. You can draw a straight line from that iconic photo to Gary McFarlane’s line of Barely Whistler postcards, depicting locals engaged in a variety of sporting and recreational activities entirely in the nude. Running from 1992 to 2000, the idea for the concept came during a backpacking trop to Kathmandu a few years before. Hanging out with a couple of Aussie women he had met, McFarlane and a buddy got their hands on one of the woman’s camera, and decided to surprise her with a shot of them in the buff wearing sunglasses. (Because I’m a hardworking and diligent reporter who wants to give you, dear reader, nothing but the facts, I should clarify: the boys wore their shades on their junk, not on their faces—think of an elephant in Ray-Bans, and you kind of get the idea.) “A few months later, my friend randomly bumped into the owner of the camera on the streets of Sydney or Melbourne, one of the two. She said, ‘Oh my god, my mom developed that roll of film!’” McFarlane recalls. Because she wanted more folks to experience the joy of this image, she handed over the roll of negatives. Another friend of McFarlane’s later asked to blow up the shot so she could shoehorn it into her own travel slideshow, “so that people who flipped through them only giving them a little bit of attention … would suddenly start to pay attention again.” Well, that is definitely one way to grab someone’s attention.
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“Wehadacouple hundred naked people in there.”
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It was a couple years later, when McFarlane was back in Whistler showing off his travel photos from a trip through Norway—which, you’ll be shocked to learn, also included a few dong shots—that an inebriated spectator suggested turning the nudie Judies into a full-fledged line of postcards, and just like that, Barely Whistler was born. On sale at mom-and-pop shops across town, including Foto Source, where McFarlane worked at the time, the postcards—showing tastefully nude Whistlerites climbing, biking, windsurfing, rollerblading, and more—were a hit with both locals and tourists alike. “It appealed to people who came to Whistler and were living there and wanted to, in a sense, brag about the place, to show everyone how crazy it was,” McFarlane says. Then there was the legendary Barely Whistler closing party that packed nude and semi-nude attendees to the rafters. “We had a couple hundred naked people in there, including a few people who probably never expected to do something like that in their lives” McFarlane says. “There was one table of ladies who were up here from Seattle, and they were just there to look. One of my more outgoing friends went over and she started talking to them, and next thing you know these ladies had all ripped off their shirts and bras and were partying topless. I bet they haven’t stopped talking about that to this day.” Of course there’s no discussing nudity in Whistler without the Boot Pub, one of several resort bars that was home to exotic dancing over the years, and significantly, also host to the incredibly popular amateur nights that saw local guys and gals strip down to their skivvies for a little extra cash and shots of tequila. “That was probably the highest grossing revenue of any night that we did,” says Paul McNaught, who managed the Boot Pub for several years before it closed in 2006. “We had line-ups outside to the car park at two o’clock in the afternoon even though our doors didn’t open until five.” First opened in 1970 as part of the Ski Boot Lodge Motel, the Boot Pub quickly became the cultural and social epicentre of the town, and even in its later years, the venue reflected that fact. Far from being the kind of erotic entertainment you might expect from a strip show, McNaught says amateur night encouraged all-comers to get up and dance, no matter your gender or experience level. “We had a very local contingency of people, from guys to girls. It really didn’t matter who you were,” he says. “They didn’t have to get fully naked. It was more like getting up there to impress … and if they tried to get erotic, sometimes they would make a spectacle of themselves. It was funny.” Exotic dancing had a shelf life here, however. In 1999, the RMOW passed a bylaw banning stripping in all venues except for the Boot Pub, much to the chagrin of nightclub owners who hoped to cash in on Whistler’s burgeoning reputation as a ski destination. Capones, a bar that operated out of the current Moe Joe’s location, shuttered after a three-month fight with
FEATURE STORY the municipality over its bid to offer exotic dancing on a nightly basis. “We couldn’t fight them any longer. Muni put me out of business,” owner Dan Richardson was quoted in Pique at the time. Even the Lost Lake dock wasn’t immune from Whistler’s evolution into a more sanitized resort. Around that time, after complaints mounted, sunbathers were threatened with prosecution if they continued to sunbathe naked. It was also in 1999 that Johnny Thrash, who I think could rightly claim the title of Whistler’s streaker-for-hire, was arrested and forced into court-appointed therapy after touring around the village in a gyrosphere as naked as the day he was born, a jaw-dropping scene captured in John Zaritsky’s National Film Board of Canada documentary, Ski Bums. (It still blows my mind that the NFB, known by so many Canadian schoolchildren as the makers of many yawn-inducing educational films, put this movie out.) The experience has had a lasting effect on Thrash, born John Hunt, who also produced the film. “You can get in a lot of fucking trouble for it, which I found out. It was very, very serious and it was a very stressful time for me,” he says. Believing the powers that be wanted to make an example of him, Thrash says he was placed in an alternative measures program, likely the first time an indecent exposure charge was funnelled into such a program. As such, he says he was required to write an apology letter and undergo four sessions of court-appointed therapy, at $350 an hour. It wasn’t until friend and ski filmmaker Gary Stump got wind of the charge and enlisted the help of a high-powered attorney who offered to take on the case pro bono that the charges were ultimately dropped. “The exact words that were used is that, ‘We must make an example of this guy.’ So there’s a dark side to this, too. I went through serious hell and anguish,” Thrash says. “In hindsight, would I do it again? I’d probably do it again but get the guys not to drive in front of the cop shop on the first pass.” Thrash was not the first Whistlerite to experience backlash over exposing himself. World champion freeskier Rob Boyd was a regular in the pages of the irreverent alt weekly, The Whistler Answer, and in 1992, he was approached to help promote the annual Summer Love party, and was snapped in a cover shot on a sailboat while a bare-breasted woman, Nadine Stone, lay on the bow. Inside the same issue, there was also a spread with Boyd straddling a motorcycle naked (his stuff was airbrushed out, which he says “sorta made me look androgynous”) while Stone took a naked dive into the lake. Relatively innocuous photos by today’s standards, Boyd—a local hero and town ambassador—took the brunt of the heat after a group calling themselves Mothers for Morality threatened to picket the Answer’s re-launch party. (The paper was briefly revived after its initial run from 1977 to ’82.) As a result, Boyd lost an endorsement deal with the Whistler Resort Association, the predecessor to Tourism Whistler. Although
he concedes he lost “a good chunk of change” because of it, he didn’t lose much sleep over the controversy. “I just said, ‘Ah, whatever. Get over yourselves. I’m going racing,’” he says. “I focused on my training and racing and … just kept doing what I loved doing. I didn’t let it get me down at all.” The same couldn’t be said for Boyd’s mom, however. “My mom obviously took my side and was quite offended by it,” he recalls. “She used to go hang out with Peter and Trudy Alder and with their Swiss background, Trudy would walk around the house topless. It was just the European thing to do, and I raced in Europe all the time.” Proving the old adage that there’s no such thing as bad press, the backlash actually ended up putting more eyes on the cover and Whistler Answer after a Vancouver reporter penned a column in The Province “totally making fun of these ladies,” says Answer publisher Charlie Doyle. “They never turned up and that was the last we heard from them,” he adds. “You couldn’t ask for better publicity.”
End of an era, or a new kind of freedom? By this point, lamenting the loss of Whistler’s bygone eras is as much a tradition here as going au naturel. Every generation of Whistler lays on the nostalgia thick, which is understandable in a community where development comes at such a breakneck speed that it can feel impossible to catch your breath. Of course no community is immune to progress, nor should it be, and there’s no denying that Whistler has changed since those heady hippie days, for both good and bad, depending on your perspective. But does that freewheeling spirit, that sense of freedom that is so perfectly encapsulated in the act of shedding our clothes, our masks, our walls, in the return to our natural state, still exist? Or is it that the definition of freedom has changed? Let’s leave that to the one and only Johnny Thrash. “All my buddies’ kids are super rad but they’re way more conservative than us. They grew up with us partying our asses off, and I think when they got to our age, they were like, ‘Fuck, I don’t want to be like my parents,” he says. “It saddens me that things are like this these days, but there’s always hope. I bet ya there’s some kid who is out here from Ontario and he’ll be the next Johnny Thrash, and he’ll be playing in a band, wearing a skirt, and running around getting people laughing and out of their comfort zones.” ■
A QUICK ASIDE ABOUT MY DAD, THE NUDIST I don’t know if you’ve ever had a serious father-son discussion with your dad while his twig and berries hang loose, but in my case, that was a semi-regular occasion growing up. Needless to say, it made for some embarrassing moments in high school when I would bring friends over to house, only to hear my dad scrambling desperately to lock the front door and put some clothes on before we came in. “That’s what I do to this day. If I’m in my apartment, I’ll have the clothes right beside me, ready to go,” he says. My father, in case you haven’t figured it out, has never been a big fan of clothes. To him, they’re basically a maximum-security prison for his body that he longs to break free from. As he tells me one sunny morning enjoying a fully-clothed cappuccino in front of Cranked, “I’d walk around nude if I wouldn’t get arrested.” He even went through a phase where he almost exclusively wore a kurta, the flowy, collarless shirt that is common among Indian men because it was the closest thing to being nude he could find. But it wasn’t until he retired about a decade ago that my dad discovered the nudist lifestyle, after a friend invited him to a Can-Am volleyball tournament in Pennsylvania. There was a lot of jiggling involved. “It was strange at first,” he says in the understatement of this young century. “When you’d get a point, the guys would hug. You’re all wet and sweaty. There were six players so I was in the back-middle, and you got guys in front of you with everything wagging and ‘a-dragging. But you get over it.” A year later, on a visit to a nudist resort in Florida (I mean, where else?), he started to really get into the lifestyle. “I just got over the staring, and I didn’t quite know that you’re supposed to stare at the eyes,” he says, hilariously. “But after a while, it just became natural. You don’t even realize you don’t have clothes on.” He stresses that it has nothing to do with sex. Far from it. For some, he surmises that it represents a certain liberation, taking ownership of what God gave you and being proud of it. And, you know what? My 15-year-old self might cringe at this, but I think it’s pretty badass to be so comfortable in your own skin. It’s funny though: he doesn’t think of himself as a nudist, in spite of his utter disdain for wearing clothes. There are times, for example, when he actually prefers wearing clothes, like when he’s playing pool or something called cornhole that I don’t care to look into further. Apparently, there’s a certain hierarchy in the nudist subculture, and being that my dad has only been to “maybe five nudist parks in my whole life,” he doesn’t consider himself a hardcore naturist. “Sometimes I would just rather have a pair of shorts on,” he says. “But I do like not wearing clothes. That’s as simple as I can put it.” I think that might make you a nudist, Dad.
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Whistler to host overdose awareness event THE AUG. 28 SKATEBOARD EVENT PUT ON BY LUKAS HOUSE SOCIETY WILL ALSO INCLUDE A NALOXONE TRAINING COURSE
BY HARRISON BROOKS IN 2017, after losing her brother Lukas to an overdose at just 19 years old, Sofia Goguen started the Lukas House Society to honour her brother’s memory, raise awareness among youth of the dangers of opioids and to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and addictions. However, according to Goguen, the organization got off to a slow start due to the “overwhelming grief” she was feeling from the loss of her brother, which led to her own mental health struggles eventually resulting in a hospital stay. But despite the ups and downs that persist to this day, it only took a couple weeks after Lukas’ passing for Goguen to find what would become one of the most important components of her healing journey—skateboarding. “My brother was a skateboarder and when he died, I think maybe a week or two after I had this crazy insane desire to get on a skateboard and ride,” said Goguen. “So I bought my first board and when I was starting, every time I was feeling like my heart was ripped out of my chest and I felt like crying I would just go on my board and that was like my way to cope instead of turning to drugs or abusing other substances. “And skateboarding became my favourite sport and my way to cope with my grief in a way that I felt connected to my brother still, even though he’s no longer
ENDING THE STIGMA Lukas House Society board member Blake Rowland pulls off a trick on his skateboard. PHOTO BY LUKAS HOUSE SOCIETY
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physically with us.” From that connection with her brother and her new-found love of skateboarding, Goguen and the other board members at Lukas House Society decided to host an overdose awareness skateboard event at the Whistler Skate Park on Aug. 28, to raise awareness of B.C’s growing opioid crisis. The event takes place from 2 to 6 p.m. and is expected to have upwards of 500 people attend, which would make it one of the biggest overdose awareness events ever held in Whistler. It will consist of skateboarding, raffle prizes, naloxone training by Whistler Community Services Society, a speech by Goguen about her own mental health struggles and a memorial canvas where people can write messages to all the people who have been lost to overdoses. “We want to get the [naloxone kits] out
stuff is laced with such high concentrations of lethal mixtures of carfentanil, fentanyl, all this stuff that naloxone is almost not enough for anymore, but it’s better to have it than to not.” According to a statement from the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, the drug poisoning crisis across B.C. and every province in the country “has worsened since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“My brother was a skateboarder and when he died ... I had this crazy insane desire to get on a skateboard and ride.” - SOFIA GOGUEN
into people’s hands that need it most. And Whistler is a party town and there is a lot of recreational drug use happening,” explained Goguen. “So we just want people to be safe, as we are coming out of a global pandemic where borders have been closed and supply chains have been cut and it’s just the most toxic drug supply that we’ve ever faced. And now
“Thousands are grief stricken from losing someone they love to overdose and the collective sorrow swells for all those who are missing someone,” continued the statement.” And it’s experiencing that first-hand that is driving Goguen to spread her message and story to the younger generation, to educate them about how to help someone who is having an overdose.
“One person’s death affects the whole family, the whole friend circle,” she said, adding that five people a day in B.C. are lost to addictions. “Now all those people have to deal with a loss that is unbelievably painful. So each person’s death is affecting a huge circle of people that are all going to have mental health struggles dealing with this trauma and that number is multiplied by five every single day. “So, it’s really important that [teenagers] know how to respond to an overdose, and they know the steps necessary to get someone help.” Goguen, who has done public speaking at schools in the past and plans to get back into sharing her story with kids in Sea to Sky schools soon, hopes that if the kids take away anything from her message it’s to spread love and look after those you care about. “I would want [the takeaway to be], to love each other so much and look after your friends and be there to help them in case of emergency and to support them through any difficulties they are facing in their life,” she said. “Because I personally wouldn’t have made it through these last seven months if I didn’t have my friends to support me through it. We are all one-of-a-kind, unique individuals in this universe and a loss of anyone is irreplaceable.” n
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Kees and Claire Hut open for bookings THE KC HUT IN THE SPEARHEAD TRAVERSE HAS RE-OPENED FOR BOOKINGS AFTER BEING CLOSED FOR MORE THAN A YEAR
BY HARRISON BROOKS FOR THE FIRST time in nearly 17 months, the Kees and Claire (KC) Hut in the spearhead range is open for business. But it wasn’t an easy path to re-opening for the first of three huts that will one day be spread across the Spearhead Traverse, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down operations just a few months after it opened for the first time in the winter of 2019. “We opened up for the winter and it started out as being the most extreme avalanche hazard we’ve seen in a generation, at least, which made it pretty scary for anybody in the backcountry,” said Jayson Faulkner, director of the Spearhead Huts Society. “So there was very little backcountry travel happening at all and then when we finally did open we were only open for a matter of a few months … and then COVID hit in March and that was that. “We haven’t had a full year of operation since we were technically opened and that’s really put a lot of strain on the organization because we are all volunteers here.” Adding to that strain is the fact that, as a non-profit, the KC Hut didn’t qualify for any federal or provincial funding. Because of this, Faulkner said its insurance went up 700 per cent at a time where they had “zero revenue.” “Luckily we are pretty frugal and we had some savings that we had to cut in to, but we really had to start cutting costs left, right and centre to try and keep the lights on,” said Faulkner. “And the worst part is we were 90-plus per cent booked before COVID hit so we were in really good shape. The model works and it will be a popular destination, but it was just a really tough, brutal situation to have to try and operate without any support at all.” But now that the hut is finally re-opened and taking bookings, the Spearhead Hut Society can, hopefully, put the pandemic struggles in the past and get back to being able to give people a warm, comfortable place to sleep and cook while they are exploring what Faulkner describes as the “spectacular” hiking and alpine meadows in the summer and “arguably some of the best ski-touring terrain” in North America, in the winter. Members of the Whistler chapter of the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC), like Colin Knudsen are also extremely excited for the hut to be opened again, calling it “one of a kind” and comparing the new feature of the Spearhead Traverse to the world famous Haute Route in the Swiss Alps. “I have been to the hut this year in March, May and July and each time has been fantastic,” said Knudsen. “The Kees and Claire Hut and the additional two huts
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HELGA RUITERMAN
Friday morning August 13th at 1:40 AM Helga Ruiterman my wife, partner and ally for 44 years had to give up her battle with advancing dementia. She struggled valiantly to the end but the assault on her mind was relentless and in the end her body, left to fight on its own, succumbed to a pneumonia. An End of Life Celebration will be held at The Whistler Church at a later date. Please check https://whistlerchurch.ca or the Whistler Church Facebook page for exact dates and times Helga moved to Whistler in 1995 with her Husband as owner operators of Renoir's Winter Garden B&B. In later years she became active in the Whistler art scene as a painter having several exhibitions and having her works sold in some of Whistler's art galleries. She also curated the art in the entrance foyer of Maurice Young Millennium place. Helga is survived by her husband Paul, her sisters Ellen and Terry, her son Tim her daughter Denise and her several grandchildren. In lieu of flowers donations in Helga's name will be gratefully accepted by: The Whistler Church or The Medic Alert Foundation of Canada or The Save the Children Fund.
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Whistler Wolves set to wrap up inaugural season on Aug. 21 SPORTS BRIEFS: CRANKWORX B.C. CHANGES DATES; CANSKATE REGISTRATION OPEN FOR FALL PROGRAMS
BY HARRISON BROOKS
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THE WHISTLER WOLVES Rugby League Club will be wrapping up its first ever season this Saturday at Whistler Secondary School at 3 p.m. The game will be played against the Coastal Cougars, based in North Vancouver. The Cougars and the Wolves both sit middle of the pack with a 2-2 record and need a victory to keep the playoff hopes alive. The Wolves need a win plus some help from the outcome of another match to have a chance at the finals. However, regardless of the outcome of the game, president of the team, Blake Stewart, considers this a “very successful first season” and is hoping to have a crowd come out and support the guys in their last home game of the year. Normally, the top four teams make the playoffs, but because of the COVID-19shortened season, only the top two teams will face off for the league final. If you are interested in supporting the team, or potentially getting involved next season, you can message Stewart on the
CRANKWORX CHANGING SCHEDULE After initially being scheduled for Sept. 6 to 19, Crankworx B.C. has been moved to Sept. 22 through Oct. 2. The change was made to make it easier for international athletes to attend the B.C. stop on the 2021 Crankworx World Tour. “In order to make it as smooth an experience as possible, we’ve opted to push our dates by a couple weeks in September,” said Crankworx managing director Darren Kinnaird in a press release. “As a bonus, this will give us the opportunity to share a taste of fall in B.C. with our athletes and the world, which is often some of the best riding of the year.” In addition to the date change, Crankworx also announced the timing of the three stops as well as the full list of events. Crankworx B.C., which is spread across three mountain resorts including Sun Peaks resort (Sept. 22 to 24), Kicking Horse Mountain Resort (Sept. 26 to 28) and
Silverstar Mountain Resort (Sept. 30 to Oct. 2), will consist of nine contests across six different disciplines, with five events being broadcast live on Red Bull TV. The disciplines include Downhill, Dual Slalom, Air Downhill, Speed and Style, Pump Track and wrap up with the second Crankworx Slopestyle World Championship (SWC) event of the season. Riders for these events will include contenders for the King and Queen of Crankworx titles, as well as riders who are qualified to compete in the SWC. A full schedule and complete list of qualified and invited riders will be released in the coming weeks. The third and final stop on the 2021 Crankworx World Tour is set for Nov. 1 to 9 in Rotorua, New Zealand.
CANSKATE REGISTRATION OPENS Registration is now open for CanSkate lessons this fall at the Meadow Park Sports Centre. Registration has been open since Aug. 7, and although CanSkate coordinator Anita Fawcett said it is going well, there are still
more spots available. CanSkate is the base level of skating lessons, which can help kids improve from just walking on the ice to becoming competent enough skaters that they move on to other winter ice sports like hockey and figure skating. Whistler’s CanSkate program runs for 10 weeks from Sept. 28 to Dec. 9 with sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Each 45-minute session consists of the kids being split into groups and moving through different stations where they learn a different skill every 10 minutes. Throughout the 10-week program, kids will be taught different skills according to their skating level from basic gliding and balance to crossovers and backwards skating. While registration is expected to fill up, Fawcett is still looking for approximately eight more volunteers to be program assistants and help the paid coaches on the ice with skill demonstrations and getting the kids through each circuit. For more info on registration, the skating club or how to become a volunteer, visit whistlerskatingclub.ca or send an email to info@whistlerskatingclub.ca. n
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Connecting kids to a world of cultures through food WHISTLER’S MULTICULTURAL DAY CAMPS USE FOOD, LANGUAGE, MUSIC, ART AND CRAFTS TO INTRODUCE KIDS TO NEW CULTURES
BY BRANDON BARRETT REKHAI ROSS CLAYTON is an aspiring chef. Although, to be honest, maybe “aspiring” is unfair. They say you are what you do, and he did just make one of Japan’s favourite street foods— along with five other local cooks—right before my eyes, plus he’s wearing one of those big, floppy hats, so let’s just go ahead and say, he’s definitely a chef. Did I mention he’s only 10 years old? Ross Clayton was one of a handful of young chefs who took part last week in the Whistler Multicultural Society’s (WMS) inaugural Multicultural Day Camps, which use a blend of food, language, games, crafts, music and dance to teach campers about the traditions and cultures of other countries. “We don’t have many programs focused on youth and kids, and since food is a really wonderful way to get kids into a culture, we were thinking we could maybe try a summer camp, where it’s not only just the cooking, but also a culture share,” explained Chia-Ling Wu, lead camp facilitator and multicultural outreach worker with the WMS.
CULINARY CULTURE Local kids learned how to make dishes from Taiwan, Morocco and Japan during the Whistler Multicultural Society’s new three-day summer camp. Two young chefs are pictured making Morroccan meatballs. PHOTO SUBMITTED
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Over the camp’s three days, the kids learned about the cultures of Morrocco, Taiwan and Japan, with local immigrants leading the instruction. On the day I was there at the Spruce Grove Field House, they were learning how to make okonomiyaki, the beloved Japanese savoury pancake typically made from flour, eggs, cabbage and can feature a wide variety of toppings, like pork belly,
Yoshihara, who wanted to offer a taste of Japan to the chefs of tomorrow. “Okonomiyaki is just very popular in Japan, and it’s easy to cook. [It] doesn’t take a lot of hard work for children,” she said. “And if you go Japan, everybody knows okonomiyaki. It’s very common, popular food.” Along with gaining the skills essential to any kitchen—organization, discipline,
The camp seemed to have its intended effect, at least on Clayton, who said he wants to become a chef when he’s older “because you learn about the food and then you learn about the culture and then you can share the culture with other people.”
shrimp, squid, green onion, ginger, mayo and pretty much anything else you want to throw on there. Originating in Osaka, the popular hangover dish enjoys a litany of regional variations, and today, the kids are making a simplified version with cabbage, slices of bold cheddar, and hearty strips of bacon, all pan-fried in a mountainous pile, the delectable aromas wafting onto the baseball diamonds nearby. Leading the way is Nara native Emi
creativity—Yoshihara hopes introducing the kids to a dish they may not be familiar with will open them up to a whole world of possibilities. “I think it’s more open to children to know about many cultures and the different foods of the world. They think, ‘I have a lot of choice in the future.’ You don’t need to stay in Canada, you don’t need to only eat Canadian food,” she said. In the afternoon, the kids learned the
basics of shitō-ryū karate from Yoshihara, a brown belt who trains out of the Pemberton Karate Club. Along with the obvious physical benefits, Yoshihara wants the students to walk away with some of the same positive effects the martial art has had on her over the years. “I want to teach more [about the] culture of karate,” she said. “Karate is not only physical; it’s mental, too. I feel myself more confident. I have a very positive way to think. All my methods [are] changing, so that’s what I want to open children to.” The camp seemed to have its intended effect, at least on Clayton, who said he wants to become a chef when he’s older “because you learn about the food and then you learn about the culture and then you can share the culture with other people.” Grown out of the WMS’ bimonthly Multicultural Kitchen program, which, since 2015, has seen local chefs, professional and amateur alike, instructing attendees on how to make a dish from their homeland, the Multicultural Camps are intended to expand the diversity of kids’ camps available in a sports-focused town. “We do have some culture shares, but it’s more like painting, art or the library has a book club,” Wu said. “We just wanted to do … a different kind of camp more focused on the indoors and not so much outdoors. I think that’s also one of the other reasons we had this idea.” For more information, visit sites.google. com/wmsociety.ca/connectingcultures. n
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BY BRANDON BARRETT NOT LONG AFTER Stella Harvey and her husband arrived in Whistler about 20 years ago, she went down to the library to see if there were any active writing groups she could join. Turns out, there wasn’t, but head librarian Joan Richoz encouraged her to start one anyway. “Like the idiot I am, I started running rather than walking, and I put an ad in the paper,” says Harvey, the founder of the Whistler Writers Society. She was astonished when 23 people showed up at that first meeting, many of whom are still involved in the Whistler Writers Festival that Harvey founded to this day. The ever-humble Harvey probably would never admit this, but it was that small but significant act that set in motion an active community of writers in the Sea to Sky, which has produced an outsized number of published authors. There’s Harvey herself, author of three novels, including, most recently, 2019’s Finding Callidora; short-story writer Katherine Fawcett (Swan Suit); children’s author Sara Leach
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(Duck Days); memoirist Jan Redford (End of the Rope); poet and short-story writer Mary MacDonald (The Crooked Thing); memoirist, novelist (and former CIA officer) Graham E. Fuller (Three Truths and a Lie); crime novelist Amber Cowie (Loss Lake); filmmaker and children’s author Rebecca Wood Barrett (My Best Friend is Extinct); science and ski writer Leslie Anthony (White Planet); culinary writer Jane Reid (Freshly Picked); non-fiction writer Stephen Vogler (Only in Whistler); and memoirist Susan Oakey-Baker (Finding Jim). Phew. That is quite the list, especially for a part of the world more known for pumping out Olympians than awardwinning writers–and that’s before counting all the other local scribes who have published work in magazines and literary quarterlies. So what’s the secret? How has a corridor that counts less than 40,000 full-time residents produced such a long list of published authors (and I’m sure there’s even some I missed)? Is it something in the water? The wide support net of writers inherent to a collection of communities already known for being incredibly tightknit? Or is it simply a result of the Herculean efforts of the tireless Harvey? Let’s just say, all of the above. “Creative people are drawn to wild places, so it’s not that surprising. I think there’s a lot of magic here in the mountains, in the rivers, by the ocean and I think that people who tell stories, they feel that,” muses Cowie, who lives in Squamish and adds that the landscape is imbued in much of her work. Harvey believes it is simply an extension of the qualities of the Sea to Sky that have long
existed here. “You’re probably a risk-taker if you’re here and people in the community have had other lives and other careers, etc. and then you come here and you find your spot, you find your way,” she says. But of course every fire needs a spark, and any writer who has ever met Harvey (and likely engaged in “one of those long, lovely Stella chats” as Cowie calls it) is sure to quickly recognize she has done more to advance the literary arts here than anyone before or since. “Here’s my short answer: Stella Harvey,” says MacDonald, who joined Harvey’s writing group back in 2006 that has, save for a few changeovers in those early days, maintained the same seven members to this day. (In a testament to Harvey’s status among local writers, a group in Squamish is named The Stellas, a moniker that was intended as homage but mostly embarrasses her. “Don’t you dare mention that,” she tells me. Whoops!) “I knew she was the voice of writing in Whistler. I knew she had started the festival, which was tiny back then. I just thought if there was a writing group that she was a part of, that would be the one to start in.” Writing being such a grinding, solitary endeavour, there is immense value in the not only the emotional support a writing group can offer, but the accountability, says MacDonald. “We somehow learned … how to bring our stuff to the table, to critique each other’s work in a really respectful way. But not to
just do, ‘Oh, that’s really nice. That’s really nice what you wrote. So pretty,’ which isn’t helpful in terms of getting published or bettering your writing. But also, how do you critique and not cut to the bone?” she says. A self-admitted people person, Harvey has also managed—through the constellation of writing groups she helped create, a writer-in-residence program, a partnership with SFU that sees her mentor local writers, and the festival itself—to offer a platform for burgeoning authors to take their work to the next level and even get that manuscript off the slush pile. “The other thing Stella does … is she brings the festival every year and for the last few, she’s brought in publishers [to meet with writers in person]. It’s a ridiculously expensive session but it sells out faster than any other session in that festival,” notes MacDonald, who met with three publishers at the festival one year, all three of whom asked to read her manuscript, leading to her book deal. One thing that has been really important to me from Day 1 is that local people are featured. “Many authors that I choose to feature at the festival, they are not necessarily the big names,” Harvey says. “The goal is to have people who are less known on the same stage with people who are very well known. I get audience members coming up to me and say, ‘You know, I came to see so and so, but I discovered so and so.’ And that’s what I want.” Learn more at whistlerwritersfest.com. n
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Expanding the village: Part 2 BY ALLYN PRINGLE IN THE LATE 1980S, the 58-acre (23-hectare) Village North site was owned by the province and zoning was controlled by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW). Whereas the original village development had been mainly visitor driven, Village North was envisioned as supporting the community and bringing residents and visitors together. Community workshops were held through 1988 to determine what residents wanted to see in Village North before any rezoning was planned. According to thendirector of planning Mike Vance, one idea was to locate facilities such as the post office, medical centre, municipal hall, library, and museum in this area. At a speaker event in 2019, landscape architect Eldon Beck described his vision for this plan: “This was intended to gradually involve the community in shopping, recreation, coming down to the town hall, coming to the library. So it’s a sequence of community-interest activities merging then with the tourism population coming the other way, so the Northlands is where these communities all come together.” The next step was to divide the entire site into parcels and zone each parcel in accordance with a master plan. Together, the RMOW, Beck, and Whistler Land Company Developments (WLC) developed a master plan even more detailed than that created for the first village site, including not just the purpose of each parcel but also the individual elements of each building. According to Vance, this level of detail led to “the largest single deposit in the land registry office’s history,” taking most of a day to sign all of the documents involved. Council voted to approve the zoning bylaws for Village North on August 14, 1989 and by the end of 1990 WLC began selling development parcels. According to thenmayor Drew Meredith, it took some time for Village North to get going and it remained “a weed patch” until developers such as Nat Bosa decided they wanted to be involved. Once it got going, however, work progressed quickly; Vance recalled a year when up to 11 cranes were up on the Village
North site. Looking back in 1997, WLC president Jim Switzer said that the development of a master plan and the completed zoning provided stability and certainty for developers who knew exactly what was expected of them, and for the RMOW which could plan for the future based on a clear picture of how development would proceed. In 1993, Mayor Ted Nebbeling cut the ribbon of the bridge over Village Gate Boulevard, officially connecting the Village Stroll through Village North. By 1997, the last of the development parcels was sold and the entire site was expected to be completed by the end of 1999. Not everything in Village North went entirely smoothly. Beck’s vision was to have a series of buildings descending with the grade of the Village Stroll, but provincial regulations and the fire department required flat and level platforms, leading to a design with more steps, ramps and raised walkways than Beck wanted and narrowing the pedestrian stroll. Some developers also didn’t want to stick to the master plan. In 2019, Jim Moodie, then a development consultant for WLC, remembered that the developer of Marketplace tried to convince them that he could “give [them] more money for [their] land” if the developer was allowed to build a one-level strip mall with parking out front and no residential units on top. Not surprisingly, the developer was told to stick to the plan. In 1997, Switzer said that the primary job of the WLC was to recover the province’s investment in Whistler. According to the calculations of then-Whistler councillor Garry Watson, the province invested about $20 million in Whistler when they formed the WLC in 1983 and made around $50 million on the development of Village North. Or, as Meredith summed it up, “They got all their money back and then some” and Whistler got the extended village we see today. For Part 1 of this series, “Selling ideas of the village,” Aug 16, 2021, go to piquenewsmagazine.com/ museum-musings/museum-musingsselling-ideas-of-the-village-4212668.) n
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Laughing Crow Organic’s stunning sunflower maze, now open to the public in Pemberton. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 ALL-AROUND ATHLETES Four teams of four competed in the Whistler Racket Club Olympiad on Saturday, Aug. 14, testing their skills in tennis, table tennis, pickleball, axe throwing, darts, bocce ball and a basketball free-throw competition. The home team (a.k.a. Racket Club team) the Racketeers took home first place, and the grand prize: a coupon for an axe-throwing night for up to 10 people. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4
BIKER GANG This group of bikers gathered for the annual Tour De Whissy on Sun, Aug 7, making the trek from their Creekside cabin to Longhorn then Alta Lake, raising $550 for the Indian ON THE RUN We Run Whistler raised $300 for B.C.’s wildfires at an event held in conjunction with Arc’Teryx and FATMAP on Aug. 3. PHOTO SUBMITTED.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): A blogger who calls herself TheSaddestChorusGirlInTheWorld writes, “Having sex with someone is a big deal and involves a ton of vulnerability. And I think it’s troubling and gross and unhealthy and, yes, dangerous that we pretend otherwise and encourage people to ‘be mature’ by compartmentalizing or completely eliminating their deeper emotions from their sexuality. And even worse, any other view is dismissed as prudish and invalid and unenlightened and restrictive.” You may agree with everything TheSaddestChorusGirl says here. But if you haven’t arrived at her conclusions, now is a good time to meditate on them. Why? Because your assignment in the coming weeks is to deepen and refine your relationship with your sexuality. Be extra reverent about your sensual longings. Ensure that your erotic activities serve your highest ideals and noblest goals. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The popular American TV sitcom 30 Rock produced 138 episodes in seven seasons. At the height of its success, it crammed an average of 9.57 jokes into every minute. Its comic richness derived in large part from multi-talented Taurus star Tina Fey, who created the show and played one of its main characters. She was also a writer and executive producer. I propose we make her your role model in the coming weeks. According to my projections, you’re entering a charismatic, ebullient, and creative phase of your astrological cycle. It’s time to be generous to the parts of your life that need big happy doses of release and liberation. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I got an email from a Gemini reader named Jaylah. She wrote, “Hi, not sure if you remember me, but in our past lives, you and I used to write sacred cuneiform texts on clay tablets while sitting across from each other in a cave in Mesopotamia 4,910 years ago. Your name was Nabu. Mine was Tashmetu. I was always a little jealous because you earned more money than I, but it didn’t get in the way of our friendship. Anyway, if you ever want to catch up about the old days, give me a holler.” I loved receiving this inquiry from a soul I may have known in a previous incarnation. And what she did by reaching out to me happens to be the perfect type of activity for you Geminis right now. Secrets of your history may be more available than usual. The past may have new stories to tell. A resource from yesteryear could prove valuable in the future. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian-born Franz Kafka was an interesting writer and a master of language. But even for him, it could be a challenge to convey what he really meant. He said, “I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.” Now here’s the good news, as far as you’re concerned, Cancerian: I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have more power than usual to do exactly what Kafka aspired to do. You will be able to summon extra ease and grace in expressing your truths. I invite you to be a connoisseur of deep conversations. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If we wait until we are ready, we will be waiting for the rest of our lives,” declared novelist Lemony Snicket. This is good advice for you to heed right now. I really hope you avoid the temptation to wait around for the perfect moment before you begin. In my vision of your best approach, you will dive into the future without trying to have all your plans finalized and all your assets gathered. I expect you will acquire the rest of what you need once the process is underway. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Katherine Mansfield once told her friend Virginia Woolf, “You put me in touch with my own soul.” I’m sorry Mansfield didn’t previously have that precious connection, but I’m elated that Woolf helped her make it. In the coming weeks, I expect you will
encounter an abundance of influences like Woolf: people and animals and places and experiences that can bring you into more intimate contact with your soul. I hope you take full advantage. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At the age of 70, Libran novelist Magda Szabó mused, “I know now, what I didn’t then, that affection can’t always be expressed in calm, orderly, articulate ways; and that one cannot prescribe the form it should take for anyone else.” In that spirit, Libra, and in accordance with astrological omens, I authorize you to express affection in lively, unruly, demonstrative ways. Give yourself permission to be playfully imaginative, exuberantly revelatory, and vivaciously animated as you show the people and animals you cherish the nature of your feelings for them. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you Scorpios lie to yourselves more than the other signs lie to themselves? Are you especially prone to undermine yourselves through self-deception? I don’t think so. However, you might be among the signs most likely to mislead or beguile other people. (But here’s a caveat: on some occasions, your trickery is in a good cause, because it serves the needs of the many, not just yourself.) In any case, dear Scorpio, I will ask you to minimize all such behaviour during the next five weeks. I think your success will depend on you being exceptionally honest and genuine—both to yourself and to others. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I like being broken,” says Sagittarius actor Jamie Campbell Bower. “It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.” I guess that when he feels down, he gives himself special permission to enjoy extra treats and privileges. According to my assessment of the astrological omens, you now have the right to give yourself similar permission—even though I don’t expect you’ll be broken or feeling down. Think of it as a reward for the brave work you’ve been doing lately. Enjoy this chocolatey grace period! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907–1972) was a Jewish theologian born under the sign of Capricorn. He wrote, “Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.” That’s a different definition of sin from what we’re used to! To be a moral person, Heschel believed, you must be in “radical amazement” about the glories of creation. I hope you will cultivate such an attitude in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It would be a mistake for you to numbly take things for granted. I dare you to cultivate as much awe, reverence, and adoration as you can muster. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A blogger who calls herself Hopeful Melancholy wrote a message to her lover. She said, “My favourite sexual position is the one where you work on your paintings and I work on my book, but we’re in the same room and occasionally smile at each other.” You might want to consider trying experiments comparable to that one in the coming weeks, Aquarius. The time will be fertile for you and your dear allies to work side-by-side; to cheer each other on and lift each other up; to explore new ways of cultivating companionship and caring for each other. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dick Dudley was a 17th-century swindler. Among his many victims was the Pope. Dudley offered an item for sale that he claimed was a divine relic: a piece of the beard of St. Peter, founder of the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope paid Dudley a small fortune for the treasure, and kissed it copiously. Only later did the full story emerge: The so-called beard was in fact a sex worker’s pubic wig. I hope you don’t get involved in switcheroos like that anytime soon, Pisces. Make sure that the goods or services you’re receiving— and offering, for that matter—are exactly what they’re supposed to be. Homework: Describe what you’re ever so thankful for. Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com
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Whistler Home Hardware is looking for some new people to join their amazing team. Both full-time ($18-20 /hr) and part-time ($16-$18 /hr) positions available. Please apply in-store with your resume. * Immediate start * Year end bonus program * Excellent staff purchase program * No seasonal layoffs * Flexible shifts * Experience a bonus but not necessary. * On job training * Must be customer service orientated * Need to be comfortable dealing with the public * Willing to work as part of a team Please apply in person with your resume and references to: #1-1005 Alpha Lake Rd. in Function Junction Location: Function Junction
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Welcome to Election 2021 WELL, IT TURNS OUT “they” were right. Since last fall, pundits in print and electronic media have been harping about an imminent snap election call, proving once again even broken clocks are right twice a day. Or something like that. And so, following (during) COVID-19, following (during) the Summer of Fire, synced with the fourth wave, we have Election 2021: Liar, Liar Pants on Fire Redux to distract us. The single most important thing you can remember as we slide into this vortex of fantasy is this: You can’t believe anything
BY G.D. MAXWELL said by the leader of any political party for the next 33 days. It is an established, litigated fact they are free to sell us a handful of magic beans while on the campaign trail without so much as blushing. It’s another fact they will. The second most important thing is this: All politics are local. Despite the level of hatred and disbelief you might have for any of the leaders, you only get to vote for one of the bozos in your riding. Well yes, now that you mention it, the bozo you send to Ottawa will either have no power, likely being a back bencher if they’re a member of the party who forms government or a back-back bencher if they belong to a party not forming government or a miracle if they’re a member of the rapidly vanishing Green Party. But elections are important. Voting is important. Belief in who you vote for is optional. So suspend your disbelief and enjoy the sideshow. If nothing else, it’s a welcome diversion from pandemic news. We’ll be going to the polls—or mailing in our votes—because JT wants the only thing he doesn’t have. No, not credibility. No, not honesty. No, not a facile understanding of conflict of interest. We’re not striving for the impossible dream here, folks. A majority, silly. It’s the only thing he doesn’t have, not that it’s stopped him from taking over government and governing as though Parliament died during the pandemic’s first wave. Once he has a majority he can bide his time, ultimately step down gracefully during his term, or as gracefully as possible for someone lacking grace, and enjoy his retirement skiing in Whistler while his successor tries to put the pieces of the country back together again. After all, you have to dive very, very deeply into the bowels of history to find a PM who survived three terms in office and roared back for another. And we all know how booooring history is. JT’s trump card, likely strong enough to either retain a minority or slide into a majority so thin you can see through it, isn’t refuting that he’s a bozo, just that he’s the least bad bozo on the bus. Time and again,
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this has been the single most important factor in Canadian federal elections. We are so rarely given an outstanding choice we inevitably vote for the party we believe will do the least bad job. I know what you’re thinking. How in the world can JT be the least bad bozo? Well, consider the others. To save time, we’ll start with the easiest bozos to toss off the bus. Yves-François Blanchet, leader of the Bloc-heads, is a non-entity outside Quebec. Chances are as close to 100 per cent as possible you will not have an opportunity to vote Bloc unless you live in that province.
heard from in the early days of campaigning. Or maybe she has. Keeping track of what she has to say has about the same urgency as remembering how much postage stamps cost. Next. Jagmeet Singh, alias Jimmy Dhaliwal, leader of the New Democrats, is on a Quixotic crusade against his new favourite enemy: the Ultrarich. The ultrarich are the enemy of the people and Jagmeet Jimmy is out to get them, hoist them by the heels of their Guccis and shake some of the wealth out of them to pay for... Free Everything! Pharmacare? Done. Dental care? Done.
We are so rarely given an outstanding choice we inevitably vote for the party we believe will do the least bad job.
The Bloc is a spoiler in a spoiler province and, as such, we can safely toss him off the bus, unless we have separatist relatives living in La Belle Province, in which case we could appeal to their better natures. Next. I’m not entirely certain “Anomie” Paul—not a misspelling, just a more accurate one—even got on the bus. When last seen she was spending a lot of energy making a fringe party disappear altogether. Holding caucus in a telephone booth—you remember those?—Anomie hasn’t been
Mental health? Who said you have to be crazy to believe him? Free tuition? Done. Da rich folks will pay for it all through a wealth tax. Don’t get me wrong, I’d have to win a couple of lotteries to be in danger of paying a wealth tax but the history enjoyed by other countries who have instituted wealth taxes has been, well, less than wealthy. None have succeeded for very long. Either they found it impossible to accurately determine someone’s wealth or the wealthy
disappeared like a fart on the wind to a country generally know as a tax shelter. But as far as bozos go, we don’t have to worry much about JJ. Diamond Jack Layton was the last and only NDP leader who rose as far as leader of the opposition and JJ ain’t him. I predict a solid bronze medal and the continuing swing votes to prop up JT’s minority government. Just like this election didn’t happen. Oh, to be wistful. Finally, glossy cover-boy O’Toole and his Cons have just released the first, and likely last, issue of their Save Canada magazine. O’Toole appears on the cover, all black t-shirt and blue jeans, looking like an aging rocker announcing his Back to the Future Walker-Powered Tour. Inside the 160-page platform, there are proposals that have real conservatives heading for the nearest intensive care ward. Gone is any claim to fiscal conservatism. The plan— absent details on exactly how it would be funded but you can bet your bottom $10 million it won’t be through a wealth tax— is encyclopaedic if fatuous. Interestingly though, it is chockablock with photos of more visible minorities than the Cons have ever had, in aggregate, in their caucuses since the beginning of time. If you didn’t know better you’d think they finally bought a big tent... until you delve into the details. But like I said, all politics are local. And in Sea to Sky country we have a choice between the devil we know, the devil we voted out of office once before and a new devil. Really, it could only have been better if JT had waited a month and we could vote on Halloween. ■
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