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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS As visitors return en masse to the resort, acting editor Braden Dupuis
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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST As Canadians head to the polls on Sept. 20, everyone has a duty to do their homework to make an informed decision, writes Andrew Mitchell.
62 MAXED OUT Unvaccinated people have chosen to stand outside mainstream society. Now their status as outliers has been recognized and consequences attached, writes G.D. Maxwell this week.
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31 RANGE ROVER With no chance for a government that will actually do all that needs to be done,
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38 FORK IN THE ROAD The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issues a “code red” for humanity—and our food supply.
42 MUSEUM MUSINGS Up until the 1970s, getting an education in the Whistler Valley was far from easy, and getting to school required determination and a knack for ignoring the cold.
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BY BRADEN DUPUIS a wait for a table or a drink turns some of us into quivering masses of entitled rage, unable to control our emotional outbursts or act like rational adults. Ask any frontline worker in Whistler lately, and you’re likely to hear similar stories of embarrassing, unwarranted abuse from visitors. Not every guest acts this way, of course (and a massive, heartfelt thank-you to those of you who understand what we’re dealing with these days)—but even one such
three or even four people. Restaurants are shortening hours and menus; coffee shops are closing early; hotels are keeping rooms blocked off. As a town that prides itself on providing an exceptional guest experience, this is all quite hard to swallow. Whenever Pique publishes an article about staffing shortages, Facebook commenters wax eloquently about how businesses should simply pay more if they want to attract workers. And yes, offering better wages and addressing the high cost of resort living are absolutely part of the solution. But it’s not that simple. Several businesses in Whistler and elsewhere have gone above and beyond to attract staff with competitive wages, affordable housing and other perks. Other small business owners simply can’t afford to pay higher wages, and especially not after 17 months of near-bottomed-out tourism revenues while staring down mountains of COVID-19-related debt. According to Walt Judas, president and CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of BC, some hotel operators in the province are paying housekeepers upwards of $30 an hour, and are still unable to find people to fill the
Not every guest acts this way, of course (and a massive, heartfelt thank-you to those of you who understand what we’re dealing with these days)—but even one such instance is too many. instance is too many. After 17 months of COVID-19, Whistler and its workforce—like much of the rest of society—is reaching a breaking point. Visitors have returned en masse, and you’d be hard-pressed to find a business in town that isn’t struggling to keep up with the demand. People are working extra shifts and extended hours to try to fill in the gaps, in some cases doing jobs normally covered by
jobs. Because the people simply aren’t there. It’s not really a new problem, just a deeply exacerbated one. Labour shortages have been a thorn in the B.C. tourism industry’s side since I arrived in Whistler seven years ago, and likely long before that. Prior to the pandemic, the industry estimated it would need to fill 100,000 jobs over the next 10 years to adequately serve visitors to the province. COVID has likely cast all previous
tourism growth projections by the wayside, at least for the near term. With a fourth wave of infections bearing down on us, uncertainty is still the name of the game. But if anything is certain right now it’s that Whistler, its workers and its establishments are going to have to continue to suffer through the late pandemic summer and what is sure to be another busy winter. Because while local business leaders are advocating for easier access to working holiday visa holders and other temporary foreign workers, there are no quick or easy answers to soothe the pain. What does this all mean for Whistler’s long-term outlook? What happens to the guest experience when we can’t properly staff our businesses? Looking further out, what does that do to our reputation as a desirable place to visit? These are big questions beyond my paygrade, but you can bet it’s a discussion taking place at Tourism Whistler (TW). “I think from our perspective, what we’re really asking of our visitors is to please have patience,” TW’s president and CEO Barrett Fisher told Pique earlier this month. “Whistler typically would enjoy a much larger international labour pool that is not here today, and so we are really doing the best we can with the limited resources that we have.” Diana Chan, owner of Zog’s and Moguls and chair of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce board, had a similar plea. “The mental health of our workforce is top of mind for me,” she said. “People are working hard. They’re good people, and we’re all just doing our best with what we’ve got.” So please, enjoy your visit to Whistler. But while you’re here, try to be patient. Try to be kind. Don’t yell at your server because you had to wait to be seated. I promise you that isn’t going to make the beer colder, or the service any more efficient. If anything, it’s only going to force more workers to give up the ghost entirely. After 17 months of a global pandemic, we’re all over it. But we’re doing our best. ■
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Whistler workers deserve more respect The first time I read Kathryn Young’s letter (“Are we at a crossroads?” Pique, Aug. 20) was on the iPad in the server station at work. I was too busy to give it much thought. The second time I read it I was at a buddy’s house before we set off on a ride. You know what I love about climbing on a mountain bike? I love to think about anything but the climb. Having your letter fresh in my mind, I began pedalling and writing this. First of all, I have not heard a single person that lives and works in this town say that Whistler has collapsed. Maybe we roll in different circles. We are being ground into a fine powder but we haven’t come anywhere near collapse. The second thing I thought about was our dishwashers. These guys work really hard. One of them is working 70 to 80 hours a week between two jobs. This isn’t a unique situation. Many people I work with are doing more doubles than Wimbledon. Wonder if they’re worried about you not getting lunch. They aren’t. They’re worried about showing up and paying bills. I also wondered how the business owners felt about your letter. My bosses have been busting their asses to keep us working and putting food on our tables. The friend I was riding with hasn’t slept in a year due to stresses
over staffing, then closing, then re-staffing his business. What about the bike shop owners who can’t get you brake pads or inner tubes due to supply chains being completely broken? The owners took everything the pandemic threw at them. Plexiglas, reduced business, closures, no staff, last-minute decisions by government, and much more. You took the time to vent. Why didn’t you take an extra five minutes to offer solutions? Watch how easy it is. No lunch service? Baguette + cheese + wine + park = heavenly solution. Can’t get a reso? Solution: plan ahead and be flexible. Not getting the level of service
you want? Here’s a mirror, maybe you are the problem, not the person helping you. This town has been straight up grinding. Have a little respect and humility yourself. Thanks for hanging in there for 10 long years, now beat it. Chris McKinney // Whistler
Since pay parking commenced in the village, Eagle Drive has become a preferred parking lot for village guests, campers, and those wishing to store vehicles for up to three days (the maximum duration under local bylaws). Rather than pay to park in village lots, it has become apparent that one can park for free on Eagle during the summer and enjoy the short walk to the village. Other than the dangerous crossing (jaywalking) of Highway 99 which must be negotiated (yet another issue), Eagle is providing a nice alternate free parking location. Village business employees, hikers, mountain bikers and guests all use the street for their parking. Yes, campers can leave their vehicles on the even side of the road for up to three days before they have to be moved. Moving is simply an act of driving around the block to re-park three minutes later in the next available space for the ensuing three days. As in other neighbourhoods, parking needs to be further restricted year-round (not just in winter) on our streets. This is not a problem that needs to be solved with public transportation, such as lake or hiking destinations, but rather with an update to our parking regulations. Gavin Forsyth // Whistler
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valley without raising costs (much less than the $70-plus we all pay today); Electrification: after years of extensive outreach, Whistler is able to shut off its fracked fossil gas pipeline (natural gas is mostly methane). The village shares an electric heat pump system between commercial and residential buildings allowing for heating and cooling. The piping for this will be visible as the cost of burying this infrastructure will have to be addressed AFTER we have lowered our emissions; RMOW electrification: the fuel pump that was way over budget in 2021 will be retired (one of many stranded assets) because we only needed seven more years of liquid fuels before we managed to electrify all RMOW equipment; Free Transit: the RMOW and B.C. already admit this is a good idea, and are currently working on it. But transit ridership will continue to decrease as the bike highway and the flexibility of AVs (they will be fleets, not personal) will disrupt this outdated form of mobility; Regional Transit: as shared AVs become the norm, people will be happy to share a trip in order to save costs, and because the user interface makes it so simple to do so. Why would I waste my time focusing on crappy drivers when I could be chillin’? Carbon Tax: in an effort to actually lower emissions, the Trudeau government raised the carbon tax much faster than expected. We will be taxed not just for gas, but we will have international carbon tariffs so that the emissions from Chinese-made products will be attributed to us, the user of these products—accurate accounting will allow us to understand our true emissions. Staycation is the new vacation: get to the hotel in 10 minutes, no ferry lineups, no taking off shoes at security checks, just the three Rs: robes, relaxation and room service! We believe that these transitions will improve our quality of life. Some things will be different as we tackle the climate emergency; the status quo is still pretty sweet for most of us. But life will be better once these transitions are completed. Which of these suggestions will decrease quality of life? Let the brainstorming continue… Let’s live it up while we lower our GHG emissions. Amanda and Brendan Ladner // SMARTWhistler.org
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I was reading Clare Ogilvie’s recent comment (“We need policies, not promises,” Pique, Aug. 19), which urges voters to use the upcoming election to consider each party’s policies with respect to sustainability and the environment. She points out that our federal governments have basically failed in implementing policies to protect our environment from climate change. However, I don’t think we need to look
too far across the country to see the failure of government policies. Closer to home, a drive up to Kadenwood or Stonebridge will answer Ms. Ogilvie’s question about why so much support is needed for our fossil-fuel industry. How are we going to heat these massive homes ranging in size from 5,000 square feet to over 10,000 square feet? How much energy and material was used to build these “monster” homes, which are in many cases occupied for just a few weeks of the year? Ms. Ogilvie finds it incomprehensible that Canada provides more public finance for fossil fuels on a per-capita basis than any other G20 country except China. As long as municipalities like Whistler continue to approve such large homes, Canada will also continue to lead the world in energy consumed per capita. When I first bought a place in Whistler in 1996, the maximum allowable square footage of a home was limited to 5,000 square feet. Over the last 25 years, our municipal council, which continues to pledge sustainable climate goals, has in fact become a major contributor to perpetuating the problem of climate change and sustainability. Perhaps rather than looking to Ottawa for leadership, we can look across Alta Lake and wonder if we should still be approving monster homes like those that figure so prominently overlooking the lake and the town of Whistler. I wonder how many weeks of the year they are occupied? Anthony Werry // Vancouver
Saying thanks to helpful Whistlerites If you are going to break your wrist, I recommend you do it in Whistler! The strangers that came to my rescue were wonderful! On Saturday, Aug. 14 around 10:30 a.m., my friend and I left her townhouse in the Benchlands on our bicycles to meet another friend for a ride; mostly along the Valley Trail. We’d gone all of about 200 metres when we encountered a patch of fairly deep, small, loose gravel. That’s all it took for me to find myself falling slowly over to my left side. I naturally put my left hand out to soften the fall, so my left wrist took most of the impact. Looking down at it, it immediately had swollen to three times its normal size—uh oh! A young girl that saw me fall quickly checked my status and then retrieved her mother, who was a nurse. They brought ice packs and towels to make me more comfortable. At least three other cars stopped and came over to assist. The decision was made for my riding partner to drive me to the medical centre as we were only a short distance away. The staff at the healthcare centre were outstanding. At least six health professionals provided me with prompt, professional healthcare. We had a friendly and empathetic conversation, which helped take my mind off the pain. Turns out wrist fractures are quite common and there was a bed dedicated to them. They were able to set and cast the fracture. I even got a follow-up call that evening to see how I was doing and confirm the next steps. I wish I could remember the names of everyone who helped me so I could thank them. But hopefully they will read this, and know who they are. THANK YOU! So… if you are going to break your wrist, do it in Whistler! Jill Simpson // North Vancouver n
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The top 10 worst types of voters ONE OF CANADA’S most hallowed democratic traditions is that anybody can and should be able to vote. I’m not so sure about that anymore. Now the writ is dropped, campaigns are underway and voters are being courted by parties and candidates in a way that would be flattering if it wasn’t so cynical
BY ANDREW MITCHELL and manipulative, the facts subtly twisted in effort to score imaginary points. Just a week in, I already feel the need to install an eyewash station in my living room. While better politics and politicians may be too much to hope for, I still have hope that a majority of voters will take this seriously enough to get the right result. That said, there are a few types of voters we can do without: 1. The “Is There An Election Today?” Voter: Low-energy, low-information ballot checkers. May make up their mind a fraction of a second before ticking the box, possibly based on the opinions of other people they overheard talking about the election the day before. Do your research, people! 2. The Legacy Voter: “My greatgranddaddy always voted Conservative/
Liberal, and I do too!” Party loyalty is the opposite of democracy, where you’re supposed to honestly weigh the options and make the best decision for you and your family. 3. The Punisher: Votes against things and people rather than in favour of the things they believe in. More and more it feels like anger is the driving force in Canadian politics. If you ever wished death upon Trudeau or Harper or any politician then you might want to sit this one out—you have a dangerous addiction to politics that is raising your stress level and will put you in an early grave (after making you hugely unpopular with your friends and family). 4. The Superficial: Trudeau’s famous name and hairstyle. O’Toole’s tight T-shirt. If you make political decisions based on, or opposed to, a person’s appearance then you’re doing this wrong. You’re also guaranteeing that the politicians of the future will be judged on things like gender, ethnicity, height, looks, the sound of their voice, etc., rather than their ideas and intelligence. This is not American Idol. 5. The “All Or Nothing” Voter: Every election is THE most important election ever, the very fate of the country hangs in the balance! Can often be heard saying they’re moving to Sweden/Texas if the other candidate wins. Also like to compare democratically elected people to dictators, fascists, Nazis, communists, and other
political extremists. Easily influenced by conspiracy theories. 6. The “It Doesn’t Matter Who You Vote For Because They’re All The Same” Woke Non-Voter: If people really believe this then they’re not paying attention. They are probably also easily influenced by conspiracy theories. 7. The “You Have To Win My Vote” Self-Proclaimed Swing Voter Who Always Votes The Same Way In The End: This is relatively common. I have these in my family. The reality is that most people have already picked a team (The Legacy Voter) and that every election is decided by a handful of genuine swing voters, occasional voters who don’t always show up, and previous non-voters that were somehow moved to cast a ballot. A huge number of seats in Canada are “safe” and almost never switch parties, even though a lot of people will pretend to be openminded until they get to the voting booth. 8. The Single-Issue Voter: Typically issues like guns and abortion. There are literally a thousand different things going on in Canada, but if all that drags you to the polls on Sept. 20 is Bill C-21 then thanks, but no thanks for your vote—the world is literally on fire as we’re taking on record levels of public debt. All politics are personal, but that doesn’t mean they have to be shallow and narrow-minded as well.
9. The “Why Bother?” Voter: This is a variation of the Woke Voter, and applies to all the people who live in “safe” ridings where the same party always wins. Even if that’s not going to change in this election, showing up to vote at least lets politicians know that people are paying attention, keeping them honest and engaged at the local level. Safeseat politicians are literally the worst of the worst because they know they will never be held accountable by the voters. 10. The “I Voted” Voter: Wears an “I Voted” sticker and posts a selfie from outside the polling station. They always want to know who you voted for, which is none of their business. Politics has become way too personal these days to the point where it’s splintering families and friendships. Instead of being the 10th most important thing in your life behind family, work, friends, community, sports, health, hopes, dreams and plans, politics have become a dominant force in our lives to nobody’s net benefit. Stop asking, stop telling, change the subject. Make politics boring again. Obviously I’m not seriously advocating that people stay home on Sept. 20, but I’m asking that people look a little deeper into the issues, look into the candidates, read the platforms, weigh the whole of those platforms against the very real problems facing Canada and the world, and make an informed decision. See you at the polls. ■
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Perfect storm creating lengthy permitting backlog at muni hall RMOW SAYS THERE ARE CURRENTLY 235 BUILDING PERMITS AND 52 DEVELOPMENT PERMITS IN PROCESS
BY BRANDON BARRETT A PERFECT STORM of factors, including staff shortages, April’s cyberattack, and an unprecedented number of home renovation applications, has created a hefty backlog of building and development permits at Whistler’s municipal hall. The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) confirmed there are currently 235 building permits and 52 development permits in process, spread out across just three full-time plan checkers and three building inspectors. “The majority of those are active files and it makes sense to me now when I walk back there and I see the plan checkers with stacks of paper all over their desk, all over the floor, on the desk beside them,” noted James Hallisey, general manager of infrastructure services. The gruelling workload has led to lengthy delays in processing and response times— Hallisey said it’s not unusual for planners to take up to 16 weeks to get to a file—adding frustration for builders and homeowners at a time when permit applications have skyrocketed in the pandemic. “I think it’s definitely something that weighs heavily on the building team. They aim to provide good service, and the fact that they are so overworked with a large workload means they aren’t getting to communication as quickly as they should be,” said municipal CAO Virginia
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT A home being built in Whistler Cay is pictured. PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS
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Cullen, noting that there has been some restructuring of roles in the department to help mitigate the delays. One homeowner, who asked to remain anonymous with permits still in process at muni hall, said the lack of clarity and communication from staff on their home renovation plans led to numerous delays since the applications were first filed last spring. “Some of this time was for us to engage with architects to provide additional information back to the building department that supported the scope of the renovation. These were new items not initially requested as part of the initial permit application,” they said in an email. “A good portion of this time was waiting for the (RMOW) to get back to us (i.e. not responding to emails or phone calls when we needed to confirm requirements). A good portion of the delay was because of ‘moving goal posts’—e.g. when only after MANY inspections the muni introduced new requirements that needed to be addressed before the renovation could continue.” Now hoping to complete the renovation by October, the delays had “a cascading effect” on the availability of tradespeople, said the homeowner, who estimated they have spent just under $10,000 in extra costs, including outside services to address the building department’s additional requirements, storing furniture and renting an Airbnb for an extended time while the work was ongoing. Compounding the issue was the April ransomware attack that handcuffed the municipality’s digital services and left staff without access to email for six weeks. “It was actually pretty beneficial to us through the whole cyberattack incident to be a paper-based system in the planning
department, but in the long term that’s not really the place we want to be,” Hallisey said. “We need to be a lot more digital. But we envision a two-year project to get to fully digital applications, and there’ll be temporary staff that we bring in for that two-year period to make that happen.” The RMOW said it is actively recruiting planners and expects to add another building inspector soon, a position that is in high demand across the province. But staffing is far from the only contributor exacerbating the situation; both the number and complexity of applications have risen during the pandemic. “There isn’t many simple builds getting done anymore. There’s not that many flat lots that get built on; there’s not many nice, rectangular houses,” Hallisey said. “These are complicated houses on steep slopes, often encroaching into the setbacks and things like that just because that’s what they have to do to make it work on that challenging lot.” Changes to the BC Building Code have also added extra layers of complexity for both builders and planners to sift through. “Construction has become vastly more complex and I love it because it is complex. It’s exciting and dynamic and hard to do and different every day, but it is as complex now as I have ever experienced due to changes in the code,” said Tim Regan of award-winning builders Vision Pacific. The construction sector is facing its own hurdles in the pandemic, namely the same labour crisis practically every industry is experiencing locally, as well as COVID’s disruption to the supply chain. “Never in my 30 years of being in this business … have I ever known this kind of supply-chain complexity,” Regan said. It’s not hard to imagine the knock-
on effects such a backlog is having on a sector that has long been a major economic driver locally, but there are other, indirect consequences for the community as well. Andrea Mueller, local painter, art instructor and mother of a two-year-old son, said the backlog could leave local families scrambling for daycare if the new Creekside Kids facility in Rainbow doesn’t open as originally planned this September. “Creekside Kids is basically something that, for a lot of the young moms who have been struggling over the past year or so, we’re really counting on,” she said, noting that her son has been on “pretty much every daycare waitlist in town” since he was born. “[My son] was supposed to go there; I was only able to get him in for two days a week, which is still a huge opportunity for me. That’s half the price of what I’m paying right now for a full day worth of daycare.” The delays have led a handful of local moms, Mueller included, to pen letters to the RMOW asking for the Creekside Kids permit to be expedited, given the level of demand for childcare here. “The key values in the department are fairness and integrity, and if we start expediting certain projects based on priorities that won’t necessarily be consistent across the community, we could end up with issues,” Cullen said. “We know that these wait times are causing hardships for businesses and residents. We are working diligently to resolve these delays and we know it’s frustrating and also appreciate everyone who’s been patient and understanding and most of all respectful to our staff during both COVID and the cyber incident.” n
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Questions remain for Whistler’s service sectors on vaccine card BUSINESS COMMUNITY WELCOMES NEW MEASURES, BUT SAYS ENFORCEMENT SHOULDN’T FALL SOLELY ON FRONTLINE STAFF
BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER’S BUSINESS community mostly welcomed this week’s news that, with COVID-19 cases rising, B.C. would begin requiring proof of vaccination to enter restaurants, gyms and sports and performance venues, but questions remain around the program’s finer points. “[Monday’s] announcement was more hardline and sweeping than the Chamber network had expected and comes with many unanswered questions,” said Whistler Chamber of Commerce CEO Melissa Pace in an emailed statement. “While proof of vaccine will be a tool to help drive up vaccinations, stem transmission and keep businesses open, the obvious concern is that businesses are expected to enforce the program and with that comes time, cost and (likely) difficult conversations with customers.” B.C. officials announced Monday, Aug. 23 that the province is introducing COVID19 vaccine certificates for non-essential services amid surging cases of the Delta variant. Launching Sept. 13, the B.C. vaccine card will be needed to enter nightclubs, restaurants, casinos, fitness centres, weddings, indoor conferences, liquor stores and choirs, among a host of other locations and events. British Columbians will need at least one dose of the vaccine by that time to be eligible for the vaccine card. By Oct. 24, users are expected to be fully vaccinated at least seven days after getting their second dose to access businesses and events. It does not apply to retailers, grocery stores, health services, places of worship or K-12 schools. Those visiting from outside the province will need to show proof of vaccination based on records from their residing jurisdiction as well as government ID. A link will be provided to British Columbians with their proof of vaccination ahead of the Sept. 13 launch that people can save onto their phones to display when entering businesses. Those without access to a phone will be able to receive their vaccine card through a government call centre. Those unable to show proof of vaccination online will be given “a secure alternative option,” according to a government release. “By the end of the long weekend, we’ll have all of those details out for you, but this is our way of getting through this next phase of the pandemic that we’ve been dealt and to make sure that we can go through the fall with safely reopening schools, safely reopening post-secondary education for students, for faculty, and to safely continue our businesses and events through the fall,”
said Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry in Monday’s presser. With several significant details still to come, Restaurant Association of Whistler (RAW) president Eric Griffith said the restaurant sector is looking for clarity on how enforcement of the new rules will work. “The big concerns are: how are we going to execute this? What are the tools going to look like from the government, and what type of support are they going to give us to do it?” he explained. For frontline staff stretched thin by a worsening labour shortage coupled with the return of visitors en masse since B.C. entered Phase 3 of its COVID recovery plan, the news—along with Tuesday’s announcement that masks are required again in indoor public spaces—comes with concerns about the potential for blowback from guests. “All the calls we’ve taken in the last couple days, everyone’s like, ‘How are we going to make this work without ruffling feathers, without creating conflict, without putting extra pressure on staff?’ It’s not their job description,” said Griffith. That was echoed this week by BC Chamber of Commerce president (and former Whistler Chamber of Commerce president) Fiona Famulak, who said in a statement that, “While this is an important step in helping businesses keep employees, customers, and patrons safe while rebuilding consumer confidence and restoring business, how the program works in practice must be carefully decided. “Burdening businesses and frontline employees with enforcement of public health related initiatives is not appropriate and must be handled in an informed way and with all stakeholders in mind.” Katie McFetridge, director of Whistler’s Altitude Fitness & Health Club, said she was frustrated with the timing of the reintroduction of mask mandates. “Those small businesses that survived the previous 18 months are again scrambling to comply with last-minute regulations despite the forthcoming issuance of the vaccination passport,” she said in an email. “My business will lose members if we are forced to implement masking again.” In a statement, communications manager Jennifer Smith confirmed Whistler Blackcomb would require all individuals over the age of 12 to wear a mask indoors and on gondolas at the resort, adding that the company is also working to determine how the vaccine requirements for specific events, services and businesses would apply to resort operations. - With files from Tyler Orton, Business in Vancouver n
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Liberal candidate Weiler lays out vision for postpandemic Canada, Sea to Sky INCUMBENT SAYS UPPING VACCINATION RATE KEY TO WHISTLER’S TOURISM RECOVERY
BY BRANDON BARRETT SOME POLITICAL analysts—including one Pique spoke with last week—have opined that, just two years since Canadians last went to the polls, there isn’t a dominant narrative to the federal election campaign. Incumbent Liberal candidate Patrick Weiler disagrees with that notion, arguing that the narrative going into the Sept. 20 election centres firmly on getting out of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s a very different world in 2021 than it was in 2019. The type of policies we’ve had to bring in over the course of the last two years were unique and they weren’t measures that people necessarily voted on, the electorate,” he said. “So this is giving people a voice in how we’re going to be able to move forward given we’re in a very, very different Canada today than we were in the last election.” As they pertain to Whistler, the issues top of mind for most are the same that have persisted here for years: tourism, labour, housing and affordability. And with the pandemic only adding further urgency
to those challenges, Weiler believes any progress to be made has to first start with getting more people vaccinated. “That is the best economic strategy that we can have because if we don’t, then we’ll see mutations of the virus and we’ll be in a situation where we do have to lock down [and] put restrictions on businesses again,” he said. “That’s the thing that will hurt the tourism industry the most, so that’s what I see as first and foremost the most important. Likewise, it makes it easier for us to also open up to international visitation as well if we have herd immunity.” Weiler noted how he continues to hear from businesses both in the Sea to Sky and beyond about the growing difficulty of hiring staff, particularly without the usual influx of temporary foreign workers and working holiday visa holders. “Part of the challenges with some of those programs is they require action on the part of the Canadian government as well as the government of the country of origin of those international workers, and a lot of the facilities in those countries have actually been shut down, so it’s really slowed down the process for existing applications,”
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he explained. “But as we’re able to, both in Canada and around the world, get to a higher level of vaccination, it’s going to allow access to those services to be much more facilitated and that’s going to really speed up the process.” Weiler also pointed to the Liberals’ promise to extend the wage subsidy through March 2022 as well as the $500-million Tourism Relief Fund as important levers for
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the tourism industry’s recovery. Housing, an issue that has long been closely tied to the tourism sector, is another key area Weiler said the federal government, if re-elected, would focus on. He highlighted Ottawa’s funding support for the Whistler Housing Authority, as well as the CanadaB.C. Housing Benefit, a 10-year, $517-million investment launched earlier this year that will provide financial assistance to marginalized and low-income groups for rent payments as other examples of the Liberals’ priorities. An environmental and natural resources lawyer, Weiler, 35, said there were two accomplishments in particular he was most proud of since taking office two years ago: Bill C-12, a climate accountability act he called “the most progressive piece of legislation we’ve got passed in our country’s history” along with passing the United Nations’ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples into Canadian law, “the most important measure that the federal government can and needed to take to ensure we can have reconciliation with our First Nations.” Whistler’s all-candidates meeting is set for Sept. 8 on Zoom. Pique will have more candidate profiles in the coming weeks. n
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After political hiatus, former MP John Weston is back in the running THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE TOUTS HIS PARTY’S PLANS FOR HOUSING, ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND CLIMATE ACTION AS A WAY FORWARD
BY MEGAN LALONDE AFTER MORE THAN five years away from the political arena, former MP John Weston is back on the federal ballot. But, according to Weston, he needed one assurance from the Conservative Party before signing his name on the dotted line: an environmental strategy. “I said to [Conservative leader] Erin O’Toole, if we didn’t have such a plan, I wouldn’t have considered running,” the candidate told Pique. The Conservatives’ plan “incorporates an essence of personal accountability—so there’s a personal carbon savings account where every Canadian will play a role in reducing our [greenhouse gas emissions] GHGs; there is a focus on large industrial emitters; [and] we’re going to end the practice of dumping raw sewage into rivers,” Weston explained. The plan was analyzed by Vancouverbased consulting firm Navius Research Inc., Weston said, which found that the strategy “can meet or beat our Paris Accord GHG reduction targets without destroying the economy,” he said. Climate change is one of several issues that remain top of mind for voters as
Canadians prepare to head to the polls on Sept. 20. To climate-minded voters skeptical about the Conservative Party’s track record, Weston pointed to his record throughout the two terms he served as Whistler’s MP, from 2008 to 2015, when he lost to Liberal Pamela Goldsmith-Jones. He did not run in the 2019 federal election. Weston highlighted his work to preserve the Department of Fisheries lab in West Vancouver and address the issue of abandoned vessels along the coast as achievements he was particularly proud of during his two-term tenure, in addition to the creation of a National Health and Fitness Day bill, and drug and addiction recovery legislation. Now working as an international lawyer, he studied international relations at Harvard before earning his law degree at Osgoode Hall. Since leaving Parliament, Weston has served as the volunteer president of the Canadian Health and Fitness Institute— which, he said, seeks to make Canada the fittest nation on Earth by 2030—and has worked to help extract Canadians who are wrongfully detained in foreign jails. Here at home, Weston acknowledged both the labour shortage and housing crisis as issues that continue to plague the riding. He identified the Liberal government’s decision to extend the Canada Recovery
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Benefit as a contributing factor to businesses’ inability to find staff. “Conservatives agree we had to certainly expand government funds during a pandemic, that’s for sure. But under the Conservative plan, these programs will be time-limited; they’ll be targeted,” he said. “We need to avoid a structural deficit.” Weston also touted the Conservatives’ lengthy housing platform, which includes a proposed two-year ban on international buyers who don’t plan to live in Canada, as well the relaxing of mortgage-qualifying tests and plans to construct 1 million
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dwellings in three years. In terms of tourism recovery, Weston said the Conservative Party plans to bring back a million jobs that were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic by instilling confidence in the national economy, persuading foreign and local investors that government is “not going to be heaping taxes on them,” and providing hiring incentives for business owners—including a subsidy that could cover up to 50 per cent of a new employee’s salary for a max of six months. Despite these promises that Weston said he would be “excited” to see in effect in the Sea to Sky, the conservative condemned the Prime Minister’s decision to call an election during a pandemic, when hundreds of wildfires are burning in B.C., and when “this government should have been focused on helping our friends who stood by us in Afghanistan.” Weston continued, “People that I’m meeting at the doorsteps don’t like to be manipulated or taken for granted. They don’t like the future that has been conjured up for us by someone who lacks direction. I’m back in because I believe that our country deserves good, accountable government.” Whistler’s virtual all-candidates meeting is set to take place on Wednesday, Sept. 8. Pique will have more candidate profiles in the coming weeks. n
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Council passes first readings of bylaw that would reduce speed limits in Whistler’s neighbourhoods IF ADOPTED, RESORT WOULD SEE LIMITS LOWERED FROM 50 KM/H TO 30
BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER HAS moved closer to seeing speed limits lowered in its neighbourhoods after council gave first three readings last week to a bylaw amendment. At the regular meeting of council on Tuesday, Aug. 17, elected officials voiced their support for a move that would reduce limits from 50 kilometres an hour to 30 in the resort’s neighbourhoods, something they first began considering in 2019. “I think it’s one of those things that future councils will look back or future residents will look back on and think, ‘Oh, it wasn’t always like this?’” said Councillor Ralph Forsyth. “But now, it just seems like such an obvious good thing to do.” The reduction would come with a number of benefits, including the obvious safety improvements. During the meeting, Andrew Tucker, transportation manager for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), presented a chart that showed the risk of death and injury to pedestrians stuck by vehicles travelling at different speeds. According to the World Health
Organization, pedestrians have an 80-percent chance of death when struck by a vehicle travelling 50 km/h, compared to just 10 per cent for vehicles going 30 km/h. It would also help move Whistler further towards its climate goals, with the idea being that drivers would be encouraged to get out of their cars and walk with the added safety in mind. “[T]hey don’t feel safe walking on the roadway that they live on, so this promotes that changing behaviour,” Tucker said. “And it also reduces our greenhouse gas emissions [because] vehicles that we’re not driving or vehicles that are going slower reduce our GHG impact as a community.” The RMOW tested a speed reduction pilot project in Function Junction in both 2019 and 2021 that included a lower limit of 40 km/h, along with additional road lines, flashing crosswalk indicators and several physical barriers. According to a staff report, vehicle monitoring both before and after the measures were implemented “clearly showed a reduction in the average vehicle speeds.” The change would apply to all municipal roads with direct property access. Not included would be certain private and rural
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or are still to come. “So it’s not like we will not utilize those tools, but we balanced those elements with operational needs [and] snow clearing,” noted Tucker, who added that speed cushions can sometimes hamper snowploughing. The push to reduce speed limits in Whistler’s neighbourhoods was motivated in part by a letter-writing campaign from residents of Nicklaus North, who pointed to cities such as Montreal, Seattle and Paris that have already instituted reduced limits, as well as Coun. Jen Ford, who attended the 2019 Vision Zero Summit in Surrey, where close to 100 experts, municipal government staff, civic leaders, researchers and public health professionals discussed road safety. “This is not just a small-town problem. This is happening in big cities, which leads us to greater compliance because people will be used to it when they’re in Vancouver, and they’re in West Van, and other places that have done this work,” Ford said. “Obviously [traffic-calming measures] don’t all work in ski towns, but when we can move these neighbourhoods to lower speeds, everyone will be happier and safer and our kids can walk and play, and I’m very excited about that.” n
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Whistler council endorses Zero Waste Action Plan TOTAL LANDFILLED WASTE STAYED STEADY LAST YEAR DESPITE COVID SLOWDOWN
BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH THE GOAL of reducing waste and greenhouse gas emissions, Whistler’s mayor and council endorsed a new Zero Waste Action Plan at the Aug. 17 council meeting. The plan was developed with the guidance of the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) Zero Waste Select Committee of Council and replaces the 2013 Zero Waste Plan. It sets out new waste-reduction targets for Whistler, including: an 80-per-cent reduction in landfill waste (by volume and weight) by 2030; reducing the per-capita landfill waste generation rate to below 350 kilograms per person per year by 2025; a 95-per-cent reduction from 2007 levels in waste sector GHG emissions by 2030; zero contamination of all waste streams by 2030; and 95 per cent of organic waste diverted from landfill by 2030. To hit those targets, the plan sets out strategies and actions organized into four material and product categories, said manager of transportation and waste management Andrew Tucker, in a
presentation to council on Aug. 17. The categories “reflect the strategies associated with each sector to develop new programs to expand on the needed infrastructure, to ensure that the waste is collected with minimum contamination,” he said. “So that’s not just municipal infrastructure, that’s other businesses, that’s buildings, organizations in town that are currently challenged with their waste collection rooms.” The two key performance indicators typically used to gauge success are annual per capita waste generated and the annual waste diversion rate, Tucker said. Whistler’s total landfilled waste stayed mostly steady from 2019 to 2020, despite the COVID-19 slowdown last year (11,841 tonnes and 11,607 tonnes, respectively). The per-capita disposal rate fell below the 350 kg/person target for the first time in 2019 (to 325 kg/person) before climbing again last year to 397 kg/person. “Given the nature of who we are, we use a population equivalent to calculate this value—so that’s taking into consideration all of our visitors and residents that reside in
WATCHING OUR WASTE LINE Whistler’s new Zero Waste Action Plan sets out new waste-reduction targets for Whistler, including an 80-per-cent reduction in landfill waste (by volume and weight) by 2030. FILE PHOTO
Whistler throughout the year,” Tucker said. When the resort’s new Solid Waste Bylaw was introduced in 2017, the local diversion rate climbed from 39 per cent to 43 per cent, where it has stayed mostly steady. A waste audit at the Whistler Transfer Station in 2019 found that Whistler is still sending recyclables to landfill, primarily from multi-family residential strata properties and those in the industrial, commercial and institutional sector. With council’s endorsement, the next step for the plan is to engage the community, which includes developing online education tools, holding education workshops and advocating for changes to policy such as extended producer responsibility (which puts the onus on
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Whistler council discusses highway construction woes COUNCIL DIRECTS STAFF TO REQUEST MEETING WITH PROVINCIAL HIGHWAY REPS
BY BRADEN DUPUIS A SUMMER OF construction on Highway 99 has tested the patience of Whistlerites, who haven’t been shy in voicing their displeasure on social media or to Whistler’s mayor and council. The latest round of roadwork south of the village on Aug. 16 and 17 led to hours-long delays for some, and prompted a discussion about the highway, which is the province’s jurisdiction, at the Whistler council table at the Aug. 17 meeting. “I’m outraged at the way the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) has handled the highway. I have spoken to no constituents who are happy about what is happening,” said Councillor Ralph Forsyth. “I understand it was a perfect storm recently with this being the only northern route through the province, and it just happened to be the days that they were doing the construction, but it does seem like every day is a perfect storm.” Forsyth’s “main frustration,” he added, is that MOTI didn’t add a designated lefthand turn lane at Emerald as it upgraded the highway north of town. “So that will be another project that has
HIGHWAY HOLD-UP Highway delays due to construction were a hot topic for Whistler council last week. PHOTO BY KENNETH CHEUNG/GETTYIMAGES.CA
to dig up the road later if we want to have that only common-sense arrangement for them to take care of.” Forsyth requested that staff send a letter to MOTI asking a representative to attend a meeting of council “so that we can express our frustrations with them.” But Coun. John Grills urged caution, noting that the province has “a very narrow window” in which to complete the work, and Whistler is lucky for the investments it has seen this summer.
“I know it’s an inconvenience and I know there’s been challenges with the staff to get the proper communication from MOTI so they can notify our community appropriately, but I just want to be careful because they have thousands and thousands of kilometres of roadway in this province that is in far greater need than our corridor,” Grills said. “I don’t want to send them away.” Grills also noted it’s been a tough summer for provincial highways, with
closures due to wildfire, mass evacuations and other hazards. “We have been very lucky with air quality, with a number of things considering what’s going on elsewhere,” he said. “I just want to be careful in the wording of this letter, or in how we go back to MOTI … We don’t need to have them not want to deal with this community because we’re a pain in the ass.” Coun. Cathy Jewett supported the letter, noting she was stuck in the Aug. 16 traffic jam herself. “I think the consultation is something that really has to happen,” she said. “If we could just get something in the spring, there must be a budget, there must be tenders that they put out, there must be a way that we can find out what’s happening and have more consultation.” The takeaway from the discussion, concluded Mayor Jack Crompton, was to direct staff to chase a meeting with MOTI. “And we’ll be really nice to them,” he said with a laugh. With the annual Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) convention slated for Sept. 13 to 17, the topic may well be broached when Whistler’s municipal officials meet virtually with their provincial counterparts. n
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Whistler’s black bears remained largely unbothered by this summer’s hot temperatures AMID AN ONSLAUGHT OF CALLS, WHISTLER LOCALS HAVE BECOME TOO COMFORTABLE AROUND BEARS, CONSERVATION OFFICER SAYS
BY MEGAN LALONDE IF YOU WERE CONCERNED about how Whistler’s black bears fared during this summer’s heat waves, Francis Iredale has a message you’ll want to hear. “If there’s access to food and berries, they’ll keep eating, regardless of the temperature,” said the Kamloops-based wildlife biologist with B.C.’s Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. What that level of heat can affect, Iredale said, is the availability of food sources for bears. With an early-season heat wave, like the one B.C. saw in June, the berries they depend on through June and July could fruit earlier, or fail to grow in certain areas. “This season, we [didn’t have] the typical wet June weather … I suspect that in localized areas, the berry crop won’t be good at lower elevation. It may have some buffer at higher elevation, because it’s cooler, but it’s been unprecedented this year,” Iredale said. “Bears need around 20,000 to 30,000 calories each day,” he added. “They could eat thousands of berries in a 24-hour period.”
If the animals fail to meet those caloric requirements, Iredale continued, that could result in longer-term consequences like bears foregoing reproduction, or entering the denning period late. While Iredale said B.C.’s bears have, so far, endured the summer heat successfully, how climate change and shifting food resources will affect local black bear populations in the coming years remains to be seen. “There’s certainly going to be, likely, a reduction in berry opportunities at lower elevations, but … it may be offset by more opportunities for berry growth at higher elevation,” Iredale said. “Long-term, given the mobility of animals, hopefully they’ll be able to adjust to that shift over time.” That mobility has served wildlife well amidst the hundreds of wildfires burning across the province, Iredale added. While small wildlife with small home ranges might not be as fortunate, the biologist said researchers have not logged any mortalities in any of the radio-collared wildlife—like moose, deer and big-horn sheep—they’ve been tracking. Plus, fires have the silver lining of promoting berry growth in the long-term, the biologist said.
“Post-fire, there can be such a pulse in resources,” he explained.
BUSY YEAR FOR TOWN’S CONSERVATION OFFICERS While Sea to Sky conservation officer Tim Schumacher can’t speak to the impacts of heat on bears’ berry crops, he can attest to how hectic a season he and his colleagues have had. The Sea to Sky zone has been the busiest in the province in terms of wildlife calls, he said. Across the corridor, conservation officers have dealt with a variety of conflicts, from black bears accessing food in tents to bluff-charging trail users, to even pushing over and swatting a Squamish resident while she was gardening in her backyard earlier this month. At press time, one bear had been euthanized in Whistler so far this summer after repeatedly entering cars throughout town since last fall, eventually destroying the inside of a vehicle. Officers hoped public education campaigns would prompt the bear to change its behaviour, Schumacher said, but the efforts ultimately proved unsuccessful. “We weren’t getting that many reports about it, but I was hearing from people
saying, ‘Hey, we counted, you know, 20 vehicle doors open in our neighbourhood at 6 a.m.,’” he explained. “Whistler’s very tolerant with bears.” That ambivalence is a worrying trend, Schumacher said. “People have to recognize that it’s not OK to allow bears to feed in your yard. You should be scaring that bear away; we don’t want bears to be comfortable in your yard,” he said. Whistler locals have become too comfortable with bears, he continued, to the point where some people will ride bikes past bears on the Valley Trail less than 10 feet away. “We’re getting reports of bears bluff-charging people, and then they’re surprised, even when they’re riding by with their dog, and their kids,” Schumacher said. “I would never do that myself, and I put myself in a lot of precarious positions with bears.” Schumacher reminded Whistler locals and visitors to give bears plenty of space while out on the trails—about 100 metres, if possible—to back up and modify their path in order to do so, and to report any bear encounters to the Report All Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) line at 1-877-952-7277. n
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Vancouver Coastal Health launches COVID-19 canine scent detection program THREE DOGS WERE RECENTLY CERTIFIED TO SNIFF OUT THE VIRUS
BY MEGAN LALONDE VANCOUVER COASTAL Health’s (VCH) canine scent detection team is turning its sights—or rather, its noses— toward COVID-19. Since it was established in 2016, the health authority’s Canines for Care program has worked to sniff out the potentiallyharmful Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) bacteria in hospital settings. VCH announced on Thursday, Aug. 12 that the program has now added three new dogs to its roster that are specifically trained to detect the COVID-19 virus through smell. The program is now building on its foundation with C. difficile to see what role this canine scent detection team can play in “enhancing COVID-19 screening” measures to support the country’s safe reopening. The multidisciplinary team embarked on this journey seven months ago, after hearing about colleagues in other countries who had launched research projects into the topic, Dr. Marthe Charles, head of VCH’s Division of Medical Microbiology and Infection Prevention, told Pique. Unlike some of these other programs, Canines for Care “also had the responsibility to look after patients and staff—the beginning of the pandemic was very busy, for our team,” added Teresa Zurberg, a canine scent detection specialist and nationally recognized dog handler. “It took us a while, and we wanted to see what the other international colleagues of ours were doing and what their thoughts were. But once we started in January, we jumped in with all four paws, so to speak, and started training dogs and seeing what we could do and what we could figure out.” But even with the team’s prior experience, training dogs to detect a relatively new virus is no small feat. The Canines for Care team started from scratch, initially identifying three “green” dogs who appeared to be suitable candidates for the job. “Every dog can sniff, but not every dog can work,” Zurberg said. “We need dogs that are obsessed with going to work, so they’ll work no matter what environment they’re placed in.” The team selected dogs that are specifically bred and genetically disposed to hunt, “which makes our lives a lot easier,” she added. “Any detection work—whether you’re looking at bomb dogs, drug dogs or COVID dogs—is a game to the dog,” Zurberg continued. Researchers create a game of association where the dogs “learn that if they find and indicate to us the target odour that we’ve chosen for them, they get what they really want—that’s their food or their
toy. It’s just a big game and the dogs love to play it.” A third-party reviewer recently certified two Labrador retrievers, Micro and Yoki, and one English springer spaniel, Finn, for COVID-19 scent detection. Micro and Finn were found to have 100 per cent sensitivity and 93 per cent specificity in identifying COVID-19 in a laboratory setting. Yoki, the third dog to go through COVID19 scent detection training, passed the rigorous validation process with similar results, VCH said. As it becomes clearer that the virus isn’t going anywhere anytime soon (despite a high number of fully vaccinated residents, Canada’s top doctor announced Thursday that the country is now in the midst of a fourth wave of the pandemic) the dogs will soon begin using their skills to help catch and prevent any COVID-19 infections. Though the health authority identified screening in airports, on cruise ships and at public events as possible applications of COVID-19 canine scent detection, exactly where and how the dogs’ skills will be applied is yet to be determined. “We’re only limited by our imagination as to how to best deploy our dogs, and that’s what we’re working with in partnership with Health Canada to figure out,” said Zurberg. During the training process, researchers—including Charles—travelled throughout the health authority to voluntarily collect nearly 1,000 samples from potential COVID-19 patients in Whistler and beyond. “We had samples coming from people that were in hospital, but we also had [samples from] people that were hoping to go down the slopes,” Charles said. The team collected gargle, breath and sweat samples from a variety of people—ranging from those who were mildly symptomatic, like many of the people getting tested in Whistler, to COVID-19 patients in long-term care—in order to present the dogs with an array of odours. The only population Charles and her team did not collect samples from were patients in intensivecare units, she said. So, how willing were people to offer up samples for the canine team? “I was pretty transparent by telling them that we were trying to see if all of those studies that were coming out from different parts of Europe were true, and we wanted to do a proof of concept,” said Charles. “I feel like people in B.C., the moment you tell them that there are dogs involved, they really want to help.” The program is funded in part by Health Canada through its Safe Restart Agreement Contribution Program, as well as the Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation. n
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Pemberton, SLRD identify priorities ahead of UBCM convention OFFICIALS LOOKING TO MAKE PROGRESS ON REGIONAL TRANSIT, CHILDCARE FOLLOWING FLOOD MITIGATION FUNDING
BY MEGAN LALONDE OFFICIALS FROM the Village of Pemberton (VOP) and the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) are mapping out their priorities ahead of the annual Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention next month. Near the top of that list is regional transit. “It has definitely been an issue for the corridor for years, and especially since Greyhound service ended,” said SLRD board chair Jen Ford (who will also be acclaimed as UBCM first vice president during the 2021 convention, scheduled to take place virtually from Sept. 14 to 17). After years of stalled progress and rejected funding proposals, Sea to Sky municipalities are expecting an increased level of commitment from the provincial government this time around, Ford explained, after Premier John Horgan dropped the writ and called an election on the first day of last year’s UBCM convention. The game-changer? The NDP government’s Minister of Environment
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and Climate Change Strategy George Heyman and Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming now have regional transit—particularly for the Sea to Sky corridor—listed within their mandate letters, Ford said. “This is our first time in front of the new ministers,” she said. “Of course with COVID and all the other things that we’ve had to focus on for the last year, regional transit hasn’t been pushed forward very aggressively, not for lack of want, but just [because of] many, many other priorities. So this is sort of our first opportunity to work with the ministries and understand how we can collaborate.” The Sea to Sky municipalities “are going to head back in there and have, hopefully, a very constructive meeting,” agreed Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman. The two local governments each have a long list of other issues they’re hoping to address over the four-day convention, as well. For Pemberton, a big-ticket item on the docket again this year is childcare. “We’re still banging on that door,” Richman said. While the municipality still has an application currently under consideration for the Childcare BC New Spaces Fund, Pemberton remains hampered by the province’s criteria requiring building costs to remain under $40,000 per childcare space. With sky-high costs for land, building
and natural disaster mitigation, “there are a lot of construction costs, and higher costs than perhaps the average community,” Richman said. “As much as we’ve sharpened our pencils and tried really hard, there’s no way we could fit [the building application] in under that $40,000 number.” The VOP has joined forces with the District of Squamish in requesting a meeting with ministers to discuss funding options, considering the similar challenges the two municipalities face. Pemberton has also put forth a resolution on the UBCM floor asking that the ministries work together to come up with additional childcare funding options, Richman said. Amid increasing backcountry tourism, the VOP has also put forward a resolution asking for more funding and resources to support natural assets like recreation sites and parks. Further, Pemberton officials plan to advocate for maintained or increased ambulance service levels at this year’s UBCM Convention, following BC Emergency Health Services’ announcement earlier this year that it plans to shift Pemberton to a Scheduled On-Call service model, potentially increasing response times. The SLRD, meanwhile, will continue its push for the province to recognize broadband internet access as an essential service for remote areas, and has also requested a meeting to advocate for a provincial ban on the sale of invasive plant species throughout the corridor—“a
big threat to our agricultural land,” Ford noted—after previously putting forth a resolution on the issue in 2017. At the time, retailers were asked to stop selling the species on a voluntary basis. But “that hasn’t worked,” Ford said. “So we’re asking the province to be a little bit more firm.” The SLRD is also looking for provincial support to implement an extended producer responsibility policy for items like motorhomes, RVs and trailers, which are currently being illegally dumped— particularly in Area A—or otherwise ending up in landfills, Ford said. Ideally, it would function similarly to policies that already exist for products like mattresses, bottles and aluminum cans, she explained. On a positive note, the local governments are heading into this year’s convention with their emergency preparedness budgets newly bolstered. The provincial government announced this week that Pemberton, Lil’wat Nation, the SLRD and Whistler are among 38 B.C. communities awarded funding for flood planning, as part of the UBCM-administered Community Emergency Preparedness Fund. Lil’wat Nation and the Village of Pemberton are each receiving $120,000 for flood mitigation, while the SLRD will receive $99,500 for Ryan River modelling and floodplain mapping. Whistler has been approved for $147,400 in funding for Alta Creek flood mitigation. n
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shift on climate, justice and health PROTECTING THE AIR , water, soil, ecosystems and biodiversity that make human life possible shouldn’t be political. It’s become politicized, though. Worse, the debate is largely among people who hold the same fundamental worldview: that maintaining a system of constant economic growth and endless consumption is a priority. The parameters have been defined, and to suggest the system itself is outdated and destructive is blasphemy. Despite the relative rarity of politicians and parties that will truly challenge the status quo, the September 20 federal
BY DAVID SUZUKI election is crucial—maybe one of the most! Elections provide opportunities to be heard by politicians. We need to challenge them on party platforms, ask tough questions about issues that matter to us, let them know we’ll only vote for those who prioritize real climate action. We get it. Canada has been known as much for “resource” extraction and export as its now-threatened natural beauty— “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” as economist Harold Innis wrote in 1930 regarding our dependence on resource economics. Oil, gas, coal, timber and mining have contributed to a high standard of living for many in Canada. But times have changed. We’ve taken too much. Squandered it. Building highways, strip malls, suburbs and large, inefficient
health—without shifting from the dominant worldview of constant growth and economy above all. We need to recognize the importance of an Indigenous perspective that regards people as part of and interdependent with nature, that sees everything that makes up this lifesustaining planet as “kin” rather than “resources” to be exploited. That said, we’re now facing a federal election, and as much as we need to take the opportunity to impress upon politicians and our fellow citizens the need for a paradigm shift, we also have to deal with immediate concerns and the reality of politics and election cycles. At the very least, we should question candidates and demand action on climate, Indigenous rights and title, toxics and plastic pollution, land and water protection, ending fossil-fuel expansion and subsidies and helping affected workers transition to better opportunities. We must also demand that ongoing pandemic recovery measures are “green” and “just.” We need to get off fossil fuels quickly and focus on the many solutions. We need to stop damaging and destroying the forests, wetlands, grasslands, oceans and other natural systems that mitigate climate disruption by capturing and storing carbon and that offer many other critical services, including pandemic prevention! We need to envision a new way of economic thinking based on human well-being rather than just money changing hands. Democracy is far from perfect, and its flaws are evident in the face of long-term crises that require ongoing commitments and action. Politicians rarely look far
Politicians rarely look far beyond the next election and aren’t always equipped to implement policies and measures when results may not be evident within three to five years. gas-guzzling private conveyances to move between them all has wasted a valuable resource while polluting the air with lungclogging, climate-altering emissions. For little more than profit, power and perceived convenience, we’ve burned through and continue to burn through these invaluable stores of solar energy captured through photosynthesis and concentrated over millions of years. The recent IPCC report findings are blunt: We have no time left to lose. A draft from the report’s third working group— leaked before the IPCC’s 195 member governments could water it down during approval—is even more urgent. It says avoiding climate breakdown means global emissions must peak in the next four years, coal- and gas-fired power plants must shut over the next decade and we must learn to alter the ways we live. We can’t truly resolve the many crises we face—climate, biodiversity,
beyond the next election and aren’t always equipped to implement policies and measures when results may not be evident within three to five years. But democracy’s the best system we have. It allows us to speak up and tell those who seek our votes they must earn them with serious commitments, policies and work. We and the politicians must remember that we elect them not to lead us but to serve. This election, let’s make it clear we want action. The environment shouldn’t be a political issue, so let’s make sure all parties and politicians recognize the current state as the crisis it is and have plans to act decisively and quickly. Let’s shift the paradigm. Above all, let’s vote! David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. ■
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All politics is local SINCE NO ONE can find Doug Ford or Jason Kenney, there must be a federal election on. These prominent provincial conservatives have gone into hiding so as not to detract—as handlers might cast it—from the Conservative Party of Canada’s (CPC) messaging on housing, mental health, small business, pensions, whatever. But no one is fooled. We all know the real reason is to keep low-functioning, grossly incompetent bozos from putting their foot in it for the CPC’s dear leader with every moronic comment or policy misstep.
BY LESLIE ANTHONY It’s clear, for instance, that both Alberta’s and Ontario’s current COVID-19 free-forall and disinterest in vaccine mandates is problematic not just for their own jurisdictions, but for the nation; were lil’ Jason or big Doug to comment about it on the regular, it would put Erin O’Toole on a hotter seat than the one already scorching his apparently well-muscled behind (as per his ludicrous Mike Holmes cover to the CPCissued Canada’s Recovery Plan). Not that any of this matters. In fact, anything any leader or candidate says in support of any of their business-as-usual payouts, er… promises… is all dust in the wind. The reality is there’s only one issue in this election: the environment. Peer into any other topic making the rounds with pundits and politicians and you’ll find it. Why? Because the environment is the economy and is life, its turbocharged deterioration cannot be papered over by increased growth and commerce; in fact, the opposite. Look at the recently rising inflation rate, something the CPC is hammering the Liberals on. Like most CPC talking points, it’s the reddest of herrings. Not only is most current inflation tied to supply chain issues driven by the pandemic or climate-change disasters, but it isn’t unique to Canada. Similar inflation is occurring across the entire G7 and was predicted back in April. Recall that inflation in G7 countries fell precipitously from 1.7 to 0.6 per cent during
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the pandemic’s first year (January 2020 to January 2021). With an emerging recovery, economists stated it would likely climb back past three per cent and remain high for much of 2022 before falling sharply. The Conservatives, as usual, are being grossly disingenuous in mewling about cost-of-living increases without citing the underlying global environmental issues. Indeed, most rising costs (like fuel prices—whether real or greed-driven) have a direct environmental piece, and these are far more important things to consider than the trivial price of peanut butter or coffee. How about condo insurance? The Crown corp that regulates B.C.’s private-sector insurance companies noted an average 40-per-cent year-over-year increase in condo insurance premiums from 2019 to 2020, and another 27 per cent by July 2021. This mostly resulted from losses and risks around earthquakes, wildfires and flooding. Canadian insurers paid out an average $1.9 billion annually over the past decade for severe weather costs; more than four times
the yearly average from 1983 to 2008. In 2017 and 2018, for instance, record global, Canadian, and sector-specific catastrophic losses resulted in insurers reducing their capacity, increasing rates and deductibles, or exiting the sector altogether. As the climate deteriorates, we’re rapidly entering an Uninsurable Age that will have serious knock-on effects for capital investment and private citizens alike. These are real and lasting cost-ofliving questions to which the only answer is to seriously address the environmental crises driving this trend. Which brings us to this most somnolent of elections. The Conservatives are not to be trusted on any front. Empirical evidence shows them to not be the wise fiscal managers they’d have people believe; only business benefits—inordinately at that—under their rule, and to the decided detriment of the environment. Remember that O’Toole and the current Con running in this riding, John Weston, were both members of the odious, science-denying Harper Government™® and can never be forgiven for—among other
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acts that ushered this country into a modern Dark Ages—inviting the oil industry to rewrite Canada’s environmental laws. O’Toole’s kinder, gentler rhetoric is still just that, his current attempts to convince Canadians that he’s pro-choice, gay-positive, addiction-compassionate, immigration-friendly, universalhealthcare-loving and climate-savvy while simultaneously trying to convince most of his party that he is none of the above is a cynical mug’s game that should have any Canadian aware of who and what constitutes the conservative base scratching their heads. As ably demonstrated by its proxies in the U.S. and Alberta, conservatism in Canada is a disease no one can survive. Despite a leader continually tripping over his own missteps, the Liberals remain lightyears ahead of the Conservatives in talking points, promises and, to their credit, even a few accomplishments on the environment (price on carbon mandates, increasing land protections, Indigenous-led conservation initiatives, signatory to emerging international agreements on biodiversity, climate and human development), yet have disappointingly offered neither vision nor formula for the needed systemic change to actually build back better. With the federal Greens in disarray, the NDP is the only party promising anything close to what needs to be done— including the complete severing of society’s malignant umbilicus to the fossil fuel industry through the ending of all subsidies and redirection of these considerable funds to renewables. Unfortunately, its eternally politicking leader continues to purposely blur the jurisdictional lines of federal and provincial responsibility in order to score outrage points and will never be PM. So where does this leave us? With no chance for a federal government that will actually do all that needs to be done, probably back at the old “all politics is local” corral, fighting for what’s right. Govern yourselves accordingly. Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in reversing political spin. ■
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BY DAN FALLOON the 28 years he’s owned his 1967 Plymouth GTX 440, Greg Reamsbottom has never once experienced
GTX from becoming a far more compact car when the auto yard’s gate was left open. He flagged down the operator and got a closer look at what he discovered was the 1967 Plymouth GTX, which at the time was the joy of driving it. already becoming a rarity. For much of that time, it has sat idle in It was Plymouth’s first-ever unified the Lower Mainland, missing necessities performance model, including all of like an engine and transmission. its performance elements as standard, As the GTX approaches road readiness according to musclecarclub.com, adding for the first time in more than a quarter- that the company positioned it as a century, Pique shares a tale of how a car “gentleman’s hot rod.” no one expected to go anywhere was taken Reamsbottom’s find lacked an engine on a wild ride, thanks to a brazen thief, and transmission and was in need of repair, before being recovered with the help of but he saw potential in it and struck a deal some trusty detective work on the part of to purchase it for $1,200. Reamsbottom and his family. He sold his existing vintage vehicle, a 1971 Plymouth Road Runner, to help fund initial paint and body work on the GTX. Disappointingly, as the restoration ramped up recently, Reamsbottom discovered that the body work was shoddily done. Apart from that bit of activity, though, Our story begins years before Reamsbottom the GTX sat in a barn in Langley, owned by achieved local legend status as one half Reamsbottom’s uncle, for almost 25 years. of Whistler’s perennial favourite band The “I just stashed this one away for future Hairfarmers, or even before he set up shop considerations,” he reasons. in the Sea to Sky at all. Not long after, Reamsbottom made his It begins in 1993 with a rescue under far less way up Highway 99 and settled into mountain mysterious circumstances, as Reamsbottom— life, latching onto other pursuits. With some then in his mid-20s—drove 18-wheelers for a distance between them, Reamsbottom living. Perched high in the cab, he could peer thought of his GTX less and less. into places the general public couldn’t. “I ended up moving to Whistler shortly “There was an area near the Patullo Bridge thereafter, ended up getting into Harley in Surrey that had blocks and blocks of auto Davidsons and customizing them a bit,” he wreckers. Some of them were open to the says. “It was life and I let the car slide.” public; some, not so much,” he recalls, noting one yard with an opaque metal fence had piqued his interest. “I could see over the fence and I noticed a very distinctive roofline for a ’66 or ’67 Dodge or Plymouth B-body. “These days, it would be a big car, but back then, it was a mid-sized car. I could Fast-forward past Y2K, the Olympic Games tell it was a two-door hardtop.” and too many Hairfarmers gigs to list. With the roofline continuing to poke out Reamsbottom’s relatives purchased a amongst the rest of the metal, Reamsbottom horse ranch near Kelowna, leaving just a eventually saw an opportunity to save the cousin living onsite before he, too, moved
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out and left the roughly four-hectare cleared up that paperwork snafu. property empty while it was up for sale. He then enlisted the power of social With the prospect of a large payday given media for assistance solving the caper, the property’s proximity to the Trans- posting the GTX’s information across several Canada Highway and a sprawling Langley, collector car sites from across the province, Reamsbottom’s family was more than and the Lower Mainland in particular. The happy to bide their time waiting for the post even made its way onto an Albertaright deal to cross the table. It also meant based message board as the vintage car there was no rush to move the GTX. community at large looked to lend a hand. “The house really didn’t get used “Next thing you know, I got a message anymore and no one was living there from a guy saying, ‘I saw it being towed down anymore,” Reamsbottom recalls. “There 216th Street in Langley,’” Reamsbottom says. was a great big blackberry bush around “A friend of his lives on that street and has the barn and it had grown up to epic a security video camera on his front gate, proportions. You weren’t really getting into which also shows the street. He calls his the barn, so I knew the car was safe.” friend and his friend checks the footage, and Still, as 2017 came to a close, Reamsbottom lo and behold, now we’ve got video footage had a plan to finally begin restoration work of the car going down the street. And now we the following spring. But, as fate would have know what the truck looks like that took it.” it, a neighbourly act gave the vehicle away Armed with the new information, and on Dec. 22, 2017, someone pried open the Reamsbottom posted an update online and barn’s metal doors and towed the GTX away soon heard that the vehicle was apparently from its long-time home. a common sight in the Lower Mainland. “Right before Christmas, the neighbour After passing along the photo to the police, who was keeping an eye on the place, who Reamsbottom tapped into the trucking was also a farmer, he thought it would be community and, despite the brazen crime, a helpful gesture to go with his industrial was feeling confident in the moment that mower and mow down the blackberry bush, he’d be reunited with his GTX. so now the barn is just sitting there with no “The night it was getting taken, I was natural defences and no one really watching surfing around on eBay, looking at different it that closely,” Reamsbottom says. cars and goofing around. I found a nice dieThe next morning, the same neighbour cast model of my car,” he says, adding that noticed the barn had been broken into and he ordered it for his desk to inspire him to the car gone, and in the midst of a busy initiate the repairs. “Now I think it was the season for The Hairfarmers, Reamsbottom car reaching out to me, saying ‘Help!’ received the bad news from his cousin. “The timing of it was a little bit too surreal to discount because I had never even considered buying a model of that car, but it popped out at me and I bought it.” After a few quiet weeks on the case, Reamsbottom’s aunt came to him with a hunch that the thief might be a young man Reamsbottom reported the theft to the local in the family’s orbit who was known to have authorities, who quickly let him know that sticky fingers. the car was still registered to its former “She got a hold of him, leaned on him owner, who had subsequently died. However, a bit, and said, ‘I know you’ve been in a notarized declaration submitted to ICBC trouble before and I’m sure you don’t
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FEATURE STORY want to be in trouble again. If you know anything about this car, you had better let me know,’” he says. A few days passed, and the young man replied to Reamsbottom’s aunt about the GTX’s location. Reamsbottom’s brother followed up on the tip, but the property owner said that while the car was brought to her home, she had refused to store it. She had, however, taken a picture of the truck, and sure enough, someone else at the house took a look, recognized it, and was willing to lead Reamsbottom’s brother to its location. “We found [the thief] and gave him the option of returning the car or suffering the wrath of my large Irish family, and he was more than happy to give it back,” he says. “It had not been touched. They had it hiding in a barn in the Langley area. It was obviously a chop shop, but they weren’t going to call the police on us for taking it back.” Reamsbottom’s brother declined to comment for this story, reasoning he could not add any further details. On Jan. 31, 2018, just over a month after it was first pinched, the GTX was back in Reamsbottom’s possession. If it had taken much longer, Reamsbottom theorizes that it would have been stripped down for parts. It may have given the criminals away, though it would have made restoring the ride much more challenging. “I don’t think they realized how few of those cars there are around and how easy it would have been to find the parts if they were for sale anywhere between here and Winnipeg,” he says. “They weren’t going to get far, but it’s nice that they hadn’t already taken the car apart and lost a bunch of different pieces.” If that family connection had fizzled, Reamsbottom notes there was another promising lead that could have yielded the vehicle. A fellow car community member, who also happened to be a repo man, was in touch with vendors who claimed to have parts for the exact model of Reamsbottom’s ride. “He was trying to hook up with them to take pictures of the car to send to me to see if it’s my stolen car,” he recalls. “But my family got to the car to see it before he did, which was probably better for the thieves.”
POST RECOVERY In possession of his property once again, Reamsbottom then had the GTX towed to a friend’s place in Abbotsford and contacted the police to inform them it had been recovered. “A very, very young RCMP officer showed up at my friend’s place,” Reamsbottom says, noting that he presented the vehicle along with its matching identification number. “He asked about how I got it back and I just said, ‘Word of mouth,’” Reamsbottom chuckles. “He didn’t pry any further, so I didn’t have to explain any further. Everybody
damage than was originally thought, so it’s taking longer than we planned,” he says. “But I’d rather have it done right than done quickly.” The extended timeframe also afforded Reamsbottom the time to put together a monster of an engine while also overhauling the transmission, suspension, interior, dashboard, and the front and rear ends himself. “This car was taken down to the bare shell. Every last nut and bolt was taken off of it,” he says. “Everything that does not involve paint and body, it’s been my job to restore. “I’ve been enjoying it a lot. It’s been a great way to stay busy during the pandemic.”
COMMUNITY BUILDING Reamsbottom and another Sea to Sky musical mainstay, Paul Fournier, have both worked to grow the local vintage vehicle scene in the past year, primarily through the Sea to Sky Classic Vehicles Facebook group that they admin. Fournier started organizing small gettogethers last summer, and has held a couple recently this year as well. Though not intimately familiar with Reamsbottom’s tale, Fournier explains that the classic car community has what is essentially a
t o g I w o h t u o b a d e “He ask ‘Word of mouth.’” was happy. All’s well that ends well.” Reamsbottom also passed along the name and contact info of the thief, but did not hear anything back. After reviewing the file, Cpl. Holly Largy of Langley RCMP confirms that the vehicle was recovered. However, she notes that police were not given much to work with regarding the suspect. “Unfortunately, the thief was not identified and no charges were laid,” Largy writes in an email. You may have the pleasure of seeing the GTX in person sooner rather than later. Reamsbottom sent the car to a private restorer in Mission in February 2020 and at press time, the paint and body work was nearing completion. “There was more hidden rust and
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going to find out where they are.” With many users being part of both their local classic car groups as well as part of brand-specific groups online, the overlap makes it likely to track down a pilfered car sooner or later, Fournier reasons. “I’m a Corvette guy and a Chevy guy. I’m in all these different groups on Facebook. Vehicles get stolen all the time, but … each vehicle is generally well-known by people in their circles,” Fournier says. “Most circles extend to other, bigger circles. If something gets stolen, it’s super hard to hide it. “It’s not even reporting it stolen; it’s just that people like to keep track of these things.” Having one another’s back is a central tenet to the classic car community,
Reamsbottom explains, and not just when a car goes missing. It extends across the challenges of ownership, from maintenance to sourcing parts. “The car community, it’s the common thread that these people, men and women, will go out of their way to do anything they can to help you find a part you need, or show you how to fix something,” Reamsbottom says, adding that he’s made in-person friendships in the United States through the community. Locally, Fournier is glad to see the Whistler community grow and diversify. “A place like Whistler is quite eclectic. There’s many different vehicles. It’s not like some small towns where there’s a
bunch of Chevy guys and they like their ‘70s Chevys,” Fournier says. “In Whistler, it’s everything from Japanese to German to American muscle. It’s all over the map.” Fournier has also spotted some appealing cars that aren’t part of the community that he’s later discovered belong to locals, and, given that not everyone is on Facebook, he’s left notes on windshields to try to bring them into the fold. Insurance concerns have kept Fournier from planning a formal car show at this point, but he says the idea is still percolating for some point in the future. Should it happen someday, if there’s a category for Best Backstory, Reamsbottom’s GTX would be a worthy contender. ■
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Sea to Sky mountain bikers having season for the ages TEGAN CRUZ AND JACKSON GOLDSTONE HAVE ENJOYED MULTIPLE FIRST-PLACE FINISHES AND PODIUM APPEARANCES THIS DOWNHILL SEASON
BY HARRISON BROOKS SEA TO SKY mountain bikers Tegan Cruz and Jackson Goldstone have been leaving their competition in the dust this season and making a case for the best in the world in their respective age categories. Goldstone, 17, who is in his first year of eligibility for the Junior World Cup circuit, has six first-place finishes and multiple podium appearances this season across Crankworx, World Cup and Enduro World Series events. Despite all the success, he’s trying not to put too much stock into the results so he can stay focused on the task at hand of finishing the year atop the Junior World Cup rankings. “I don’t really ever try to label myself [as the best] just to keep me focused on racing and not how other people label me but it definitely feels good when other people say that—[I’ve] definitely got a little bit more to prove, though,” said Goldstone about finishing the season strong, starting with
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the World Championships in Val di Sole, Italy this week. “The biggest challenge is probably the other riders right now. Everyone else is doing really good this year. I’ve had a couple really close battles with this one kid
However, the praise isn’t unwarranted, as Cruz has picked up four first-place finishes already this year and hasn’t missed the podium a single time in the U17 category. “At the start of the year I was pretty
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named Jordan from the U.K. and another close battle with this Spanish kid named Pao, so everyone else is going really fast and I’ve been getting a bit lucky to stay on top.” Cruz, on the other hand, while shocked that people are talking about him as one of the best in the world, is embracing it a little bit more than Goldstone. “I still kind of think about all that stuff as unbelievable,” he said. “I’m not really thinking about that very much while I’m riding or anything, and it still comes as a bit of a shock, but it’s a really cool thing to hear and is a big confidence booster coming in to my first year of junior next year.”
nervous just not knowing how I would compare to everyone else and with not racing in 2020,” said Cruz. “But it’s going really well, and every race is just fuel to the fire for the next one.” Cruz, who became the UCI U17 Downhill National Champion in Kicking Horse a couple weeks ago, is already setting his sights on next year when he makes the jump to the Junior World Cup circuit. “I’m really trying to focus on my riding and just pushing and really trying to find my limit on all these tracks just to prepare me for the upcoming season and to just keep pushing to be the best,” said Cruz.
“I keep comparing my time to the category above me and it’s showing that I will be able to compete at that level, but really just looking forward to next year in junior and proving what I got at the World Cup.” Of course, when he gets there, Pemberton’s Cruz and Squamish’s Goldstone will be going head-to-head—a challenge the long-time friends are looking forward to. “It’s definitely cool seeing Jackson taking that No. 1 spot at the World Cup, especially just to see Canadians doing so well,” said Cruz. “But he’s always been one of my fiercest competitors, so my goal is to be on that top step at the World Cup next year and to be a big competitor with Jackson and everyone else there.” However, Goldstone isn’t ready to give up that top spot just yet, even if it is to his friend and Trek teammate. “He’s definitely got a lot going for him. He’s on a really good team, he’s got a really good bike, and the people around him are pretty good … He’s got all the resources, so we’ll see what he can do in the offseason,” he said. “I’ll play king of the hill for as long as I can and try to stay with it, but I’m super keen to have him in the Junior category next year so we can battle it out as some friendly Canadians.” n
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Tip of the week: PARALYMPIC DREAMS Canada’s Paralympic triathlon team finishes their last week of training in Whistler before flying out to Tokyo. PHOTO BY TRIATHLON CANADA
since then—I’ve come a long way in the sport and I’m hoping to claim that podium again in Tokyo.” Murray is also looking to build off her 2016 Paralympic Games experience when she gets to Tokyo, but for her, that means better understanding how she can support each of her athletes individually. “Just knowing each other better and knowing how to support for sure is a learning curve,” she said. “[In Rio], Stefan was 19, so for him it was a lot of pressure to be expecting to win a gold, and as a coach it was a lot of pressure … Now we have a bigger support team, and honestly, it’s a lot less stressful having this big team around us.” As for Frenette, having both a coach and teammate who have experienced the Games before goes a long way to calming her nerves and raising her confidence ahead of her first Paralympic race on Aug. 28. “That’s very helpful for sure. I think [Daniel] is an athlete that leads by example, so watching him train and just do his thing, I learn a lot from that. And he’s also super open to when I have questions or just helping like that, so definitely super helpful for me,” said Frenette. “I’m super excited just to see the village and be in that environment. Definitely nervous, but nervous and excited.” Despite the varying degrees of experience on the triathlon team, the goal, according to Murray, is simple: just win. “These guys are fit and ready to go and prepared, so medals are on the table for all of them and we are just excited to go after it,” she said. “We can’t control the competition, but like I said, these guys are ready, and they are capable of being on the podium so that’s what we are after.” n
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Code. Red. For. Our. Food. Supply. THE IPCC CLEARLY S-P-E-L-L-S OUT WHAT’S IN STORE IF WE DON’T REIN IN CLIMATE CHANGE “CODE RED for humanity” was the brilliant headline-grabber from the UN’s secretary-general when the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on the disastrous state of our climate came out. It doesn’t get any more brutal—or honest—than that. “Today’s IPCC Working Group 1 report is a code red for humanity,” stated UN
BY GLENDA BARTOSH Secretary-General António Guterres when the report was released Aug. 9. “The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.” On goes the surprisingly succinct but effective statement, outlining things like the current state of our climate: “The internationally agreed threshold of 1.5°C is perilously close … We are already at 1.2°C and rising.” And what we need to get us there: “The viability of our societies depends on leaders from government, business and civil society uniting behind policies, actions and investments that will limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.” You can read Mr. Guterres’ full statement on the UN’s media site, (www. un.org/press/en/2021/sgsm20847.doc.htm)
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and the IPCC’s full report at www.ipcc.ch/ report/ar6/wg1. I hesitated to write about the IPCC’s report this week. It’s been pretty front and centre in the news cycle for a while, and these days it’s all “gimme, gimme news,” whether it’s doomscrolling or other forms of hypervigilant news intake. But then I went, “nope.” The devastation and fear in Haiti and Afghanistan; our ever-increasing COVID numbers—anybody even remember the anxious “code red” howl from the depths of the UN? So let me grab your kite string and reel you back to the most painfully critical existential issue—not just of our time but for so many generations to come, I can’t even count. Seven generations? Meh, more like 700.
COUNT THE MANY THREATS TO OUR FOOD SUPPLY The first time I saw Lake Mead live, I was sweet 16 (almost). It was the summer of Expo ‘67 in Montreal and our family was on a camping trip to San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, where my Auntie Claire worked as a server for caterers doing up posh parties for the likes of Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. Those were more innocent times. Created by building the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, Lake Mead is the largest U.S. water reservoir, serving some 40 million people, including Las Vegas and San Diego. It also provides water to irrigate millions of acres of farmland in California, Arizona, Mexico and beyond. In 1967, it was a startling blue against all that red desert soil, and full to the brim. Last week, for the first time in its history, U.S. federal officials declared a water shortage for dwindling Lake Mead.
California produce accounts for about 70 per cent of all the fruits and veggies we eat in B.C. According to a provincial government report on food reliance, B.C. farmers produce only about 48 per cent of the food we eat. The 2006 report estimated that to produce enough food for the estimated population in 2025—only four years from now—we would need to increase by 49 per cent the amount of farmland with access to irrigation. That’s land typically nearest to urban centres. Tell that to your elected representative next time she or he faces a rezoning application to remove a chunk of land from the agricultural land reserve. Most people don’t realize it but the Fraser Valley has 1.4 times the amount of irrigated agricultural land that the Okanagan has. A 2017 report by the Partnership for Water Sustainability in B.C. agreed with that 50-percent increase, saying we need some 285,000 hectares of irrigated farmland in B.C. The Fraser River was at the heart of the partnership’s concerns. The authors estimated that, as just one example, the water supply window for Richmond and Delta from the Fraser could be reduced from 15 to 24 hours per day at normal river flow down to only three hours a day due to sea-level rise (you can’t irrigate crops with salt water!) and drought, like we’ve seen this summer. According to the IPPC report’s chapter on food security, there are “many routes” by which climate change can impact food security and human health. The biggest elephant in the fields, of course, is the negative impact our climate disaster is having on actual food-crop yields. Then there are the less direct impacts on things like pests and diseases; pollination
services (our dear bees); and changing CO2 in the atmosphere negatively affecting biomass and the nutritional quality of food. Probably the biggest secondary impact we’re already seeing big-time from only 1.2 C change is the availability of fresh (not partially salty), reliable water. Not too little, like Lake Mead and this summer’s drought in Western Canada, including B.C. Not too much, like the flooding Pemberton farmers faced in June with too much snowmelt too fast. Then factor in the more opaque impacts: Food safety risks during transport and storage that can be exacerbated by a changing climate. Direct impacts of changing weather on human health when agricultural workers are exposed to extreme temperatures, which stress human physiology, so people might need more food to cope while they’re simultaneously being hampered to produce it. All these factors can alter both physical health as well as cultural health, through changing the amount, safety and quality of food available. As for what to do about all this, you know the drill: Eat less meat. Eat locally. Drive less. Ditch the gas-guzzler. And don’t forget there’s a federal election September 20. I suggest you take Mr. Guterres’ point about climate leadership to heart and read each party’s platform on climate change very, very carefully. Then get active, and vote accordingly. Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who first learned about the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) from Aussies on the road in Asia in 1988—the year the panel was created to assess climate change. n
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BY BRANDON BARRETT LIKE A LOT of kids before and since, Will Ross had posters on his wall as a teenager of his musical icons. In his case, it was Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain, two revered, gone-too-soon rockstars known arguably as much for their musical genius as their prodigious consumption of pretty much any intoxicating substance they could get their hands on. “Growing up as a youngster, we idolized the rock ‘n’ rollers, we idolized the ones who were partying all the time,” says the Squamish folk rocker, beatboxer and 2014 winner of the Whistler Music Search. “They were the influential rockstars I looked up to and I wanted to be just like them. Then as you get a little bit older, you realize, wait a minute, maybe I don’t want to be like them at all.” It was a revelation hard earned by Ross, a regular on the Sea to Sky music circuit who decided to go sober eight months ago. Interestingly, it wasn’t the pubs and clubs, with their free bar tabs and hard-drinking party atmosphere, that inspired him to ditch the booze, but the loss of his consistent gigs at the height of the pandemic. “Funny enough, it was the lack of playing and not knowing what to do with myself that had me drinking more at home and made me want to do it,” he says. But there’s no denying the temptation of the music scene. Substance use is not
ANOTHER ROUND The music scene has always come with its fair share of temptation, but especially in hard-partying Whistler, the pressure on artists to imbibe is even greater. PHOTO BY JENA ARDELL / GETTY IMAGES
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only baked into the culture, but there’s the prevailing notion that it is necessary to reach one’s creative heights. “I thought my mojo was gone, but you find a new kind of mojo,” Trey Anastasio, guitarist for renowned jam band Phish (and one of Ross’ musical heroes), told GQ in a 2019 article about musicians that have turned to sobriety. “I was someone who held a similar belief, but I think it had to do with insecurities. It had to do with the inner child not feeling good enough,” says hip-hop artist and songwriter Meaghan “Lozen” Mullaly. “Initially when I was playing sober, I forgot lyrics and it was because I wasn’t
“Part of the job of a musician is to get the alcohol flowing a bit and make everybody feel happy. If the artist wants to be sober, you gotta find a way of doing that that works for you. So yes, you might be playing fun-loving tunes and everyone’s getting happy and spending money, but you’re not—and that’s OK.” That never seemed to be much of an issue for long-time Whistler DJ Ace Mackay-Smith (a.k.a. Foxy Moron), who got in the habit of performing sober as a go-go dancer at Tommy Africa’s. (She will still have a drink or two before DJing—if the venue is covering it. “It’s hard when you know it’s free,” Mackay-Smith says. “Maybe that’s my cheap side.”)
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used to doing it like that,” she says. “These things that I buried, I didn’t realize I was doing all that when I was on drugs and alcohol. I didn’t realize that’s what I was doing and I had all these deep-seated wounds and stuff. I was just having fun and partying and playing music, but when I took that out and it was just me on the stage, all that stuff came out.” Adding to the pressure inherent to the music scene is Whistler itself, a town that has never shied away from imbibing. “Whistler has what we call a culture of acceptance around drugs and alcohol,” explains clinical counsellor Greg McDonnell.
“We really did dance hard; it was like a full-on workout. We danced 40-minute sets four times a night. We sweat out of our calves, even!” she says. “If we drank on that job, I would always feel sick. It’s like doing a tequila shot and then going for a workout.” Mackay-Smith quickly realized at gigs that, surrounded by mostly intoxicated people, she had the freedom to let loose and really be herself. “I realized I could still be goofy and silly and do all the things people would normally do when they’re drunk, and nobody remembers anyway because they’re drunk!” she exclaims.
Inspired by the raves she attended in California, Mackay-Smith also organized the all-night Heaven parties for several years at the World Ski and Snowboard Festival, which were alcohol-free, partly because it meant the event could run until the wee hours, and partly because she wanted the immersive music and art installations to be the focus. “That’s what I loved about those parties back then. The first raves I went to were in Los Angeles and they created such an experience that you didn’t even think about where the bar was,” she says. Describing herself as “sober-ish,” Mullaly mostly left the Whistler club scene behind after she found the grind of performing night-in and night-out starting to wear on her. “For me, it just came to the point where I was falling apart … My body was suffering,” she says. “When my parents came to visit me, I was in a ball, I was having ulcers and a whole slew of health problems. But I look at it as a blessing because I wasn’t honouring my body. I was like a lemming just doing what everyone does.” The good news is that the music scene at large seems to be more open about discussing the pitfalls of the industry, and there are plenty of examples of artists going clean and still enjoying successful careers. “For a lot of artists there comes a time or a passing in life where you just have to put that by the wayside because it will either take control of you or kill you,” Ross says. “I’m not advocating if you’re playing music that you should stop drinking or doing what you’re doing. But if it gets to a point where you wake up feeling like shit, or get yourself into trouble, and you don’t want to do it anymore, there are ways out.” n
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BY BRANDON BARRETT ON TUESDAY, AUG. 17, Mayor Jack Crompton announced the two winners of this year’s Poet’s Pause competition, which played off of two different themes. Kirsten Pendreigh’s poem, Tiny Tourist, which was selected for the theme “Listening,” was inspired by a young child she overheard asking her dad if there were any sharks in the lake. “I thought it was just such a funny concept to imagine there might be things unexpected in the lake, so I tweaked it a bit,” Pendreigh told elected officials at last week’s virtual council meeting. Replacing the shark with a whale named Blueberry, Pendreigh writes in her poem that, “There will always be people who don’t believe in lake whales. When Blueberry sprays water up into the sky, they’ll tell you it’s just rain. The slap of her tail? They’ll just say it’s the flap of a sail, and on cold winter mornings when Blueberry’s breath rests on the surface, they’ll call it fog. But if you take your hands and cover your ears, you’ll hear Blueberry’s heart beat.” The other winner was Vanessa Dy Teves for her poem about a lost lover, To These Eyes That Sting, selected for the theme “Togetherness.” Read aloud by Whistler’s mayor in Dy Teves’ stead, it read in part: “Hands that remember keep still while I write my farewell, not to the lover that he was, but to the heart that loved him.” The winning poems in this ninth edition of the municipality’s poetry contest were selected from 40 entries and will be displayed at the Poet’s Pause sculpture sites in Alta Lake Park over the coming year. Each winner also received a prize of $200. To read this year’s winning poems in full and view past winners, visit whistler.ca/ poetry competition.
WHISTLER WRITERS FESTIVAL RELEASES ITS 20TH-ANNIVERSARY READING LIST If you’ve been hunting for your next summer read, look no further than the Whistler Writers Festival’s (WWF) 2021 reading list, inspired by the authors attending this fall’s 20th-anniversary event. Running the gamut from high-minded literature to domestic thrillers, poetry to memoir, short stories to children’s tales, this year’s list includes new books from Linden MacIntyre (The Winter Wives), Sadeqa Johnson (Yellow Wife), Omar El Akkad (What Strange Paradise), Eden Robinson (The Return of the Trickster), and Thomas King (Sufferance), as well as the Man Booker Prize long-listed A Town Called Solace by New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson and First by Governor General’s Award-winning poet Arleen Paré. “We’ve invited a cross-section of writers from different genres and backgrounds. We have literary authors, poets, memoirists, children’s’ writers—we were very purposeful about making sure there was a little bit of everything. And we’ve invited some authors we’ve enjoyed hosting before, and a whole slate of first time guest authors, so it’s going to be quite the celebration for our 20th anniversary,” said artistic director and festival founder Stella Harvey in a release. “There really is something for everyone and we encourage people to read in advance of the festival to get the most out of the panels, discussions, and workshops.” The entire reading list and WWF online bookstore is available at whistlerwritersfest. com/festival/bookstore. Slated for Oct. 14 to 17, the festival will be held in a hybrid online/in-person format. The full event program is available Aug. 31, along with tickets for workshops, panels and discussions. n
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Uphill both ways: getting to school in Whistler BY KEELY COLLINS IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE a time in Whistler when the only school in the area (a single-room schoolhouse heated by a wood stove) struggled to remain open because it could not keep 10 students enrolled. But for many years, the community could not reach this threshold. Up until the 1970s, getting an education in the valley was far from easy, and getting to school required determination and a knack for ignoring the cold. Whistler’s first school opened in the early 1930s. Prior to that, students could bring their correspondence schoolwork to the Alta Lake Hotel to be supervised, and also to see their peers. Once the Alta Lake School opened, attendance fluctuated from year to year (and occasionally inflated), and it opened and closed accordingly. When the school was closed, children either returned to correspondence courses, or lived elsewhere in the province. For the children of Alta Lake, school provided most of their social interactions. Families were scattered throughout the area, and before proper roads and cars came to the valley, travelling on foot was often the only option. In order to get to school, children sometimes had to walk for miles, mostly unattended, along operational railroad tracks. For some, the journey was shorter in the winter when it was possible to walk across the lakes. At times the snow made it impossible to reach the school at all. Bob Jardine, who was responsible for getting himself and his younger brother Tom Neiland to school, recalled that “Tom was four years younger than I was, so I was 14 and he was 10… it used to terrify me to take him through the railway cuts, especially when the snowplow was galloping around there.” After Whistler Mountain opened in 1966,
the year-round population began to grow and the days of struggling to pull together 10 students were soon replaced with a constantly growing student population. The Alta Lake School closed permanently in 1970, and in 1976 Myrtle Philip Elementary School opened with 57 students. Until the 1960s, students had to take correspondence courses once they reached Grade 8 because the teacher was unqualified to teach past Grade 7. But by 1966, the road to Whistler had been paved, and it was possible to bus high-school students to Squamish. At first, about 10 students were bussed down the highway. The bus ride took more than an hour, though for many the commute was significantly longer than that. The bus picked up students from the gas station in Creekside, but they had to make their own way there. In an interview with the museum, Renata Bareham, who was part of the first group to attend high school in Squamish, described it as “quite the trek.” It took her an hour to walk to the gas station and the drive to Squamish, especially during the first week, was harrowing. She recalled that “the road was very windy and for the first week of school I just about threw up everyday because we were in this little minivan… and we had to sit side-bench so I was not facing the road.” She added that “eventually I got over it and now I never get carsick.” She attended high school in Squamish until she graduated in 1969. That was the last year they bussed students to Squamish. As of 1970, highschool students were sent to Pemberton, and this continued until Whistler Secondary School opened in 1996. Keely Collins is one of two summer students working at the Whistler Museum this year through the Young Canada Works Program. She will be returning to the University of Victoria in the fall. n
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries mythologist Joseph Campbell advised us to love our fate. He said we should tell ourselves, “Whatever my fate is, this is what I need.” Even if an event seems inconvenient or disruptive, we treat it as an opportunity, as an interesting challenge. “If you bring love to that moment, not discouragement,” Campbell said, “you will find the strength.” Campbell concludes that any detour or disarray you can learn from “is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege!” Few signs of the zodiac are inclined to enthusiastically adopt such an approach, but you Aries folks are most likely to do so. Now is an especially favourable time to use it. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The brilliant Taurus dancer and choreographer Martha Graham spoke of “a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action,” adding that “there is only one of you in all time.” She added, “It is not your business to determine how good it is, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” But even if you do this very well, Graham said, you will nevertheless always feel “a divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest” that will fuel you. This is the perfect message for you Tauruses to embrace in the coming weeks. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There’s growing scientific evidence that we make ourselves stupid by complaining too much—or even by listening to other people complain a lot. Excessive negative thoughts drain energy from our hippocampus, a part of our brain that’s essential to problem solving. This doesn’t mean, of course, that we should avoid dealing with difficult issues. But it does suggest we should be discerning about how many disturbing and depressing ideas we entertain. According to my reading of the omens, all this will be especially useful advice for you in the coming weeks. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your brain contains 100 billion nerve cells. Each cell has the potential to be linked with tens of thousands of others. And they are always busy. Typically, your grey matter makes a million new connections every second. But I suspect your number of connections will increase even beyond that in the coming weeks. Your most complex organ will be working with greater intensity than usual. Will that be a bad thing or a good thing? It depends on whether you formulate an intention to channel your intelligence into wise analysis about important matters—and not waste it in careless fussing about trivial details. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “You should have a sticky soul,” counsels author Elizabeth Berg. “The act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair colour.” I especially endorse that attitude for you during the next four weeks, Leo. Your task is to make yourself extra magnetic for all the perceptions, experiences, ideas, connections, and resources you need most. By Sept. 23, I suspect you will have gained an infusion of extra ballast and gravitas. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I sing like the nightingale whose melody is crowded in the too narrow passage of her throat,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. That was an insulting curse for her to fling at herself. I disapprove of such behaviour—especially for you in the coming weeks. If you hope to be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, don’t you dare say nasty things about yourself, even in the privacy of your own thoughts. In fact, please focus on the exact opposite: flinging praise and appreciation and compliments at yourself. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The blogger at www-wlw. tumblr.com says the following are the top tender actions. 1. Fastening clothes or jewelry for your companion. 2. Letting them rest their head on your shoulder. 3. Idly playing with their hands. 4. Brushing a leaf out of their hair. 5. Locking pinkies. 6. Rubbing their back when you embrace. 7. Both of you wearing an item that belongs to
the other. Dear Libra, I hope you will employ these tender actions with greater frequency than usual in the coming weeks. Why? In my astrological opinion, it’s a ripe time to boost your Affection Quotient with the allies you care for the most. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Naturalist Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal, “I feel slightly complimented when nature condescends to make use of me without my knowledge—as when I help scatter her seeds in my walk—or carry burs and cockles on my clothes from field to field. I feel as though I had done something for the commonweal.” I mention this, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to carry out good deeds and helpful transformations on nature’s behalf. Your ability to collaborate benevolently with plants and animals and elemental forces will be at a peak. So will your knack for creating interesting connections between yourself and all wild things. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may have never heard of Sagittarian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931–1998). At age 16, she experienced a splash of acclaim with a show in Paris. Famous artists Pablo Picasso, Henry Matisse, and George Braques came. They drew inspiration from Mahieddine’s innovative use of colour, elements from her Algerian heritage, and her dream-like images. Picasso even invited her to work with him, exulting in the fresh perspectives she ignited. But her art never received the full credit it warranted. In accordance with astrological omens, this horoscope is a small way of providing her with the recognition and appreciation she deserves. It also authorizes you to go out and get the recognition and appreciation you deserve but have not yet fully received. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Who knows what is unfolding on the other side of each hour?” asked Capricorn poet Juan Ramón Jiménez (translated by Capricorn poet Robert Bly). “How many times the sunrise was there, behind a mountain. How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off was already a golden body full of thunder!” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to imagine what is unfolding just beyond your perception and understanding. But here’s the twist: You must steer your mind away from inclinations to indulge in fear. You must imagine that the events in the works are beautiful, interesting, or redemptive. If you’re not willing to do that, skip the exercise altogether. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup,” wrote author Wendell Berry. I mostly agree with that sentiment, although I will also put in a good word for certain kinds of arguments. There are moments when it’s crucial for your psychological and spiritual health that you initiate a conversation about delicate issues that might lead to a dispute. However, I don’t think this is one of those times, Aquarius. In my astrological opinion, picking dew-wet red berries is far more sensible than any argument. For further inspiration, read this testimony from actor Natasha Lyonne: “I definitely would rather take a nap than get angry.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For painter Vincent van Gogh, love wasn’t primarily a sentimental feeling. Nor was it an unfocused generalized wish for health and happiness in those he cared for. Rather, he wrote, “You must love with a high, serious, intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence.” His love was alert, acute, active, and energized. It was animated with a determination to be resourceful and ingenious in nurturing the beloved. For van Gogh, love was always in action, forever moving toward ever-fresh engagement. In service to intimacy, he said, “you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more.” I hope you’ll make these meditations a top priority during the next seven weeks. Homework. This is what I do to earn a living. Let me know what you do. Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com
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PRESCHOOL CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR INFANT TODDLER EDUCATOR The N’Quatqua First Nation is seeking 2 qualified Early Childhood Educators. One is a full-time permanent position, the other is a full time maternity leave position at N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre. The successful candidates will join our NCFDC team. The Early Childhood Educators work as team members with other child care setting staff and with all the children and families providing general support to the whole program to ensure effective inclusion of the children. The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in: • Ability to develop and maintain a warm, caring, responsive relationship with the child. • Ability to establish and maintain supportive, collaborative relationships with families and staff. • Ability to maintain confidentiality, positive, professional, nonjudgmental attitude. • Physically ability to carry out the duties of the position. • Planning and implementing developmentally appropriate curriculum that supports community, inclusion and is culturally significant for young Aboriginal children • Understanding and working knowledge of Child Care Licensing regulations
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The great vaccination tradeoff MANY YEARS AGO , I chose to stay in university, drifting from one major to another—psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political science, law. I’d like to say the decision was driven by intense curiosity, but it was largely driven by Richard Nixon’s inability to divine the magic formula for, “Peace with honour,” in Vietnam. School was easy; war was hard. I didn’t put much trust in my ‘administrative’ deferral. Besides, there were a lot more women at uni than in the military.
BY G.D. MAXWELL I was free to choose that course because tuition was not very high, cheap student loans were abundant and those years between the late 1960s and mid1970s were a wonderful time to be a professional student. That freedom to choose came with a price. The liability side of my personal balance sheet, having given up a few years of gainful employment in exchange for student penury, was much bigger than the asset side, which was largely non-existent other than an old motorcycle and a bunch of well-played albums. It took a little over a decade to pay off student loans when I finally decided to face the adult world of gainful employment. I wasn’t able to join more affluent—employed—friends in their leisure pursuits, having a budget geared more toward hiking and climbing. Tradeoffs. Always tradeoffs. Tradeoffs still mark the freedom to choose which path to follow. And as of Monday in British Columbia, those tradeoffs were illuminated by the harsh light of the fourth wave. You are still free to choose your own course in the vaccine wars. Get jabbed or not—your choice. But the tradeoffs for choosing the road less travelled just got a lot pricier. Or more accurately, cheaper, because there are going to be a whole lot of places your money won’t buy you access because of the freedom you hold so dear. In two-and-a-half weeks, Sept. 13, a lot of activities will no longer be available to the unvaccinated. Want to grab a bite out? Be vaccinated. Catch a flick? Vaccinated. Workout at the gym? Ditto. Watch a BC Lions game? Well, despite the manifold opportunities to do so socially distanced, you’ll still need to be vaccinated. By Oct. 24, you’ll need to prove you’ve had both doses to get into any of those things and a lot more “discretionary” events. Including your own child’s wedding! But hey, you still have the freedom to choose. No one’s taking that away from you. What you will no longer have is the freedom to threaten the vast majority of other B.C. residents because of your choice. But take solace in the knowledge your exercise of freedom will have given the
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rest of us much greater freedom to get on with our lives and enjoy those things now forbidden to you, more secure in knowing you won’t be among us. Unlike steps recently taken by the federal government, the protocols announced Monday by Premier John Horgan, Minister Adrian Dix and Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry do not constitute a vaccine
who, for valid medical reasons, cannot be vaccinated, everyone else who chooses that path does so for personal reasons, be they religious, philosophical, or just batshit crazy. Now your status as outliers has been recognized and consequences attached. You are excluded from much of the remaining social order. Factor that into your reasoning and decide whether this exercise in personal
No one has to get vaccinated. You’re still free to choose. But as with so many choices in life, your choice will limit what you can continue to do. mandate. No one has to get vaccinated. You’re still free to choose. But as with so many choices in life, your choice will limit what you can continue to do. Fair is fair. Unvaccinated people have chosen, regardless of their reasons, to stand outside mainstream society. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that. It’s familiar ground for me, having been outspoken all my life and having never missed the chance to opt for a career-limiting move even though I knew there would be unpleasant consequences. Excepting for the moment people
freedom continues to be worth it. Monday’s announcement from B.C. was joined a few hours later by the announcement by the US Food and Drug Administration that Pfizer’s vaccine has been granted full approval, effectively putting the boots to the oft-cited objection that these ‘rushed’ vaccines have temporary approval and are, therefore, experimental. And while the provincial announcement does not constitute a vaccine mandate, just look around: they’re everywhere. Every day more and more private companies are making vaccination a requirement
for continued employment. Choose your version of freedom and it comes with the freedom to find a new job. More and more companies are making vaccination a requirement to patronize their business. Sooner or later, you’ll only be able to celebrate your freedom within a narrow version of what passes for society. Consider it a natural consequence of choosing your own path. The move in B.C. has been roundly applauded by the nearly 75 per cent of eligible residents who are fully vaccinated. We may be sheep in your eyes but we now have the tools to keep the wolves away from the flock. Temporary? Perhaps. But while the restrictions are in place we’ll choose to live more like it’s 2019 again and enjoy a giddy sense of freedom knowing you won’t be sitting at the next table while we’re once again enjoying food and friendship at a favourite restaurant. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the inevitable reactions to Monday’s new regime. Legal actions, filings before the Human Rights tribunal, dwindling protests in the streets, renewed calls for Dr. Henry’s lynching... the dying gasps of the disenfranchised. Time to wake up and realize Kris Kristofferson was right when he wrote, “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Your fears and arguments have proven both wrong and ineffective. Your freedom is a Pyrrhic victory. See ya at the bar when you’ve come around. I’ll buy the first round. ■
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