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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

32 Cat Power The Real Wild Kittens and the rise of Whistler’s women’s skate scene. - By Harrison Brooks

CONVENTIONAL CHATS

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TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION

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will talk housing, tourism funding, wildfire mitigation and regional transit

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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS Students went back to school this week, but despite B.C.’s efforts the

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week voice their support for vaccine passports,

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Glenda Bartosh urges you to vote, and argues that your vote should go to the local NDP candidate Avi Lewis.

62 MAXED OUT Navigating whom to vote for in the federal election in the Sea to Sky is like tilling rocky ground.

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31 RANGE ROVER People who choose not to get vaccinated are choosing not to participate in ending

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40 FORK IN THE ROAD If you’re looking for some good-for-you snacks, consider kohlrabi, bananas

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Back to school THE FIRST LEAVES of autumn are falling, and with the transition of the seasons comes a tradition all of us are familiar with— going back to school. Most of us were hopeful at this time last year that the sacrifices we were making then would mean life by now would be pretty well back to normal. But, in fact, case counts of COVID-19 are high, as are the number of people seriously

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ill with the virus in ICUs, and already a school-based exposure event has been shared after a staff meeting in Vancouver. We are in the fourth wave of the pandemic—the wave of the unvaccinated. Last school year elementary and high schools worked with masking, learning

the halls, at breaks and outside of school?) Playgrounds are considered a safe environment and music classes can resume, but with masks for singing this year. School meal programs, assemblies and extracurricular activities are back, but with no inter-school competitions or tournaments. All students and staff will be expected to give themselves a health check every day. The mask mandate is fully in place with all students (except K to Grade 3 kids) and staff in any school setting masked while in an education facility, at their desk and on buses. While there is no doubt the order handed down by B.C.’s Public Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry last month was unwelcome by many students who miss the experience of going unmasked among friends, the move is welcomed by most, according to a recent poll by Angus Reid. Many surveyed also support mandatory vaccines in the education setting, with 74

It seems ridiculous to me that you have to prove you are fully vaccinated to eat out but not to be in an indoor education setting. cohorts, quarter systems, and hybrid or remote learning, while post-secondary institutions mostly conducted all their classes online. This year, universities and other post secondary institutions, as well as grade schools, are back in class—no cohorts and class schedules back to pre-pandemic form for the most part. (Honestly, what was the point of the cohort any way, as kids saw each other in

per cent of respondents with a child aged 12 to 17, and 81 per cent with a child aged five to 11, saying vaccines should be mandatory for teachers and other school staff. British Columbia lead the way, with 69 per cent of parents wanting to see both mandatory vaccines and masks for any adult entering a school. In grade schools it is not mandatory for teachers to be vaccinated, though their own union said it would not oppose such

a move. At UBC, for example, students must prove they are fully vaccinated to return to in-class learning or submit to regular testing. It’s up to post secondary institutions as the employer to decide if its staff must be vaccinated. This swampy situation caused one UBC prof to joke on Twitter that perhaps he’d move his classes to a bar, since vaccinations are mandatory in that setting. It seems ridiculous to me that you have to prove you are fully vaccinated to eat out but not to be in an indoor education setting. At a post-secondary level you could have more than 200 students in a classroom for up to two hours—how does that make sense without mandatory vaccines for everyone involved? Henry also announced recently that COVID-19 notifications would not be issued to schools for single exposure incidents, though she said healthcare workers would still do an assessment, as is done for every communicable disease, and every individual who is at risk will be notified. Clusters and/or outbreaks will still be reported and six rapid response teams are in place to respond to COVID-19 exposures in schools. The province is also investing $77.5 million to upgrade or replace school HVAC systems through this school year, and Whistler’s systems have been upgraded to MERV-13 filters. We had all hoped for a school year where our kids could enjoy their learning, their friends—be able to gather to recreate and socialize, where it was about fun as well as education. Sadly, we are not there yet. Please, if you are not vaccinated yet, go and get your shots. It’s the only way we can have any sense of normalcy in our lives going forward. n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Getting a vaccine protects everyone [With] reference to the Letter to the Editor, “Don’t Scapegoat the Unvaccinated,” from the Sept. 2, issue [of Pique], I can appreciate where the writer is coming from with respect to his historical perspective. Unfortunately we have to deal with today’s reality and a historical perspective is important to be heard. But it seems to me the letter is yet another “me” focused rationalization of why “I” will not get a vaccination. Dr. Theresa Tam, [chief public health officer of Canada], put statistics in perspective the other day [reporting] firstly the unvaccinated are 12 times more likely to get COVID, and also, 36 times more likely to be hospitalized. At 72 with five grandsons under 12, I really hope that we are all protected from getting COVID19, and also, if we have to use what I consider our wonderful medical system in B.C., that the unvaccinated aren’t clogging up the system. I suspect by Christmas we will see very strong rules/incentives for all employees and businesses to accept the premise that supporting the unvaccinated (unless of course there are medical or other very extenuating circumstances) is not in their best interest. On a different note, I have never understood the stereotyping of Jewish professionals as

highlighted by the letter writer’s reference to the Jewish-American doctor. When people in my presence have used this stereotype over many years, I have asked why they need to use this adjective, as nobody seems to refer to some professionals as Catholic accountants, for example. I have never had an answer to the question and can only suggest that biased racism, either unknown or known, is at the foundation for this. Jim Yeates // Whistler

Using vaccine passport shows visitors we are safe place to visit The B.C. government’s plan to introduce vaccine

certificates on Sept. 13 is a good one. It will help to keep both customers and employees safe from COVID-19. It will help keep businesses open. It has already accelerated the number of people getting vaccines. Recently, protestors targeted hospitals screaming obscenities and “Lock Her Up” referring to [B.C.’s top health officer] Dr. Bonnie Henry. Their actions disrespected frontline healthcare workers and brought some to tears, including some that were in intensive care treating unvaccinated COVID-19 patients. One Kelowna surgeon said his operating room, for the third week in a row, is running at less than 60-per-cent capacity due to an overwhelming number of unvaccinated COVID19 patients.

They are a small, angry minority protesting vaccine passports claiming they discriminate and threaten their privacy. Well, it does discriminate against those who refuse to get vaccinated, those unvaccinated who become a burden on our public healthcare system when they do get COVID-19, and those unvaccinated who have closed down the possibility of beating COVID19 through herd immunity. The refusal to get vaccinated endangers those that cannot be inoculated—including everyone under the age of 12. As for privacy concerns, many of these same people post almost everything they do on Facebook and Instagram. Is a certificate that says, “I’m fully vaccinated” threatening their privacy? After all, we’re in the middle of a pandemic! The large majority of British Columbians that are fully vaccinated need to make their voices heard. Perhaps the best plan for Whistler going forward is for our municipal government, the Chamber of Commerce, Tourism Whistler, and all of our businesses, led by Whistler Blackcomb, to openly embrace the B.C. government’s vaccine-certificate program. Put up posters in your doorways supporting the B.C. vaccination-certificate program. Let the world know that we are a safe place to visit and live. All international travellers will be required to be fully vaccinated. They will feel more confident choosing Whistler if they know that locals and Canadian visitors are also required to be fully vaccinated. Everyone will

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR feel a lot safer in those long, valley-floor lift lines, having lunch on the mountain, and apres ski if they know that their neighbours and staff are also fully vaccinated. If we fully buy into this program very few individual businesses will be harassed by angry anti-mask, anti-vax, anti-vaccinecertificate individuals because they will know before arriving in Whistler where we clearly stand as a community. If we openly embrace this program perhaps we will have a safer, more prosperous, and happier winter. John Konig // Whistler

Are we turning on each other as Whistler grows? A recent article in Pique highlighting the complaints of Montebello residents against the racket being created by the Whistler Racket Club inspired a rash of social media comments that left me wondering: When did we become so cynical? Commenters called the Montebello owners idiots and admonished them for being spoiled, intolerant and worse. They unleashed all the frustrations Whistler residents seem to have these days against rich “outsiders” taking over “our” town. They congratulated themselves for being fun-loving, community-oriented locals defending their right to a “good time.” They suggested residents of Montebello who want a little quiet time on their patios should “move on” and make room for someone who wants to enjoy the ruckus of pickleball, axe throwing, and live music all squeezed into a temporary location. The thing is, they will move on—the Montebello residents, that is. And it’s a shame because these “outsiders” we are so willing to turn on are a mix of seniors, young families, local business owners, monthly renters and permanent residents—all of them contributing to the kind of community that seems to be on the way out of Whistler. This all reminded me of a young father from Vail I met on vacation once. He said he moved his family as far from the town of Vail as possible so they couldn’t hear the corporation “eating at night.”

It seems Whistler has jumped the road (Lorimer) now. Almost overnight, the neighbourhoods north of Marketplace have become part of the “fun zone” and up for grabs in the challenging balance of growth and community in the municipality. Is creating Village North-North and chasing out long-time locals the kind of growth we want? Does anyone remember the pandemic? My turn to be cynical. The Whistler machine is hungry, and she’s coming for your neighbourhood, your school, your family, and yes, even your tennis club.

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When Beedie breaks dirt, we can be sure a locals’ tennis/pickleball/axe throwing/live music joint will be pushed out to make room for something a little more to the taste of the beast. And just when a community of neighbours would be helpful to support community interests, they will be gone—and all because we’re a community that doesn’t turn the music down for each other anymore. One commenter on the article asked: “What’s next? Lawn bowling?” What a great idea. Let’s also consider a curling rink and seniors’ facilities. Ah, but that’s not on the menu! What’s next is more extravagant housing for absentee owners and more restaurants and bars because tennis doesn’t pay the rent in Whistler. Nothing new to see here, except for the fact that we’ve turned on each other. Christine Keuling // Whistler n

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BY GLENDA BARTOSH climate change and keep global temperature rise below 1.5 Celsius; halt the destruction of nature; and protect our health. The message is going to be published prior to the COP 26 climate summit in Glasgow this coming November, and before the next UN general assembly. That’s all well and good. However, we have a federal election here in Canada Sept. 20 so those powerful editorials won’t have much impact in that regard. But there’s a candidate in the Sea to Sky who will. I can’t believe how lucky Whistler’s federal riding (West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country) is to have Avi Lewis as a resident in that beautiful coastal outpost of Halfmoon Bay. But for him to toss his hat in the ring to be a federal MP for the NDP as well? That’s amazing!

The riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country has always suffered from the “weight” of West Vancouver. Without invoking the image of “Gracie’s Finger” too much (when the boundary of Grace McCarthy’s electoral district was redrawn to favour the re-election of the stalwart former Socred, RIP), there are many of us who wish we could redraw the boundary of the ridiculously-named WVSCSTSC riding to let tony, monied, conservative West Van float loose, drift away and land with a populace more in keeping with its values— like North Van. That would nicely free up the rest of the riding with its more balanced, sometimes even progressive demographic. If ever there was a time when Canadians need natural-born leaders like Avi in Ottawa to look climate change and other monumental issues in the eye, this is it. And when I say “natural-born” I mean it. I’ve never believed in hereditary entitlement or privilege. And, not to name names, but sometimes the apple can fall really far from the tree. But in Avi’s case, the strength of character, intellect, empathy, wisdom, progressive idealism and penchant for hard work that all need to align to create a real leader—even his informed worldview—have all naturally arisen from his family, whether you believe in the “nurture” or “nature” path, or both. Avi’s mom is Michele Landsberg.

Member of the Order of Canada; journalist and feminist; a brilliant, progressive thinker and another natural-born leader that pretty much all of us gals and quite a few guys who were in journalism school in the early 1980s—and many more—regarded as a hero.

Can you imagine a House of Commons filled with leaders like Avi Lewis? Avi’s dad is Stephen Lewis, another brilliant natural leader and genuine social democrat through and through. Son of the famous David Lewis (who coined the term “corporate welfare bums”), and one of the most articulate and eloquent speakers and thinkers on the planet. Former permanent representative of Canada to the UN. Totally deserving of the word “hero” if only for the way he passionately brought world attention to the suffering of people with HIV/AIDS in Africa, setting up the Stephen Lewis Foundation and the effective, joyful Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign, better known as Go-Go Grannies, to help children in Africa orphaned by AIDS. (Yes, the organization is still alive and well.)

Avi’s wife is Naomi Klein. Another brilliant thinker and natural leader— amazing activist, ecofeminist and author you just might recognize—No Logo; The Shock Doctrine; This Changes Everything. Need I say more? And then there’s Avi himself. Another hard-working, indefatigable, naturally progressive leader who has taken it on to run as the NDP candidate in this federal election. Former CBC and Al Jazeera host and MuchMusic political specialist. Co-author of the Leap Manifesto calling for effective and urgent action on climate change and social justice for all; filmmaker of documentaries calling for climate justice including the Emmy-nominated short Message from the Future along with that other amazing, indefatigable leader, one from south of the border, Congresswoman AOC—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Can you imagine the conversations around the dinner table whenever there’s a family gathering in that household? Can you imagine a House of Commons filled with leaders like Avi Lewis? Well, let’s get realistic for now, and just imagine one seat in the House of Commons with Avi Lewis sitting in it. David Suzuki can imagine that. He’s endorsed Avi this campaign. I can imagine it, and hope you can, too. Let’s get Avi there. n

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHEN

WHISTLER officials meet with their provincial counterparts at next week’s Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) Convention, they’ll have no shortage of topics to discuss. Priorities for Whistler include housing, wildfire mitigation and the continuation of Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) funding, along with the long-sought-after implementation of regional transit in the Sea to Sky corridor. At this year’s UBCM, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) will join all local governments in the Sea to Sky as well as the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District in a joint meeting with provincial ministers George Heyman (minister of environment and climate change strategy), Rob Fleming (minister of transportation and infrastructure) and Bowinn Ma (minister of state for infrastructure) to once again make the case for regional transit. “I’m hopeful. I feel we’ve made a really good, strong case for why regional transit is so important to the Sea to Sky—you don’t

TRANSIT TALK Local officials will once again make their case for regional transit when they meet with provincial ministers next week. FILE PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS

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have to look further than the highway on any morning or afternoon to see that,” said Mayor Jack Crompton. “Our hope is that they’ll join us in the effort to address what is a serious challenge for us from a transportation perspective and a climate perspective.” The RMOW will also meet with five other

goal is to see Minister Eby come to the table with additional resources so that we can help more people in our community.” Another point of discussion for Whistler officials is the continuation of the RMI program, which provides B.C.’s tourism communities with much-needed funds to invest in tourism offerings.

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provincial ministers during what is sure to be a busy week: Melanie Mark (tourism, arts, culture and sport); David Eby (attorney general and minister responsible for housing); Josie Osborne (municipal affairs); Katrine Conroy (forests, lands, natural resource operations and rural development); and Selina Robinson (finance). “We’ll be asking Minister Eby to commit more resources to employee housing in and around British Columbia, and in Whistler specifically,” Crompton said, adding that affordability is extremely challenging for all communities in the province. “And Whistler certainly sees that. Our

In its 2019 budget, the provincial government committed to providing $39 million over three years to the program. In recent years, the RMOW has received about $7.5 million in RMI funding annually, and the program has been “foundational” to the resort’s ability to deliver quality tourism experiences, Crompton said. “Having the ability to strategically invest in these programs is critical to support a resort community financial model. The pandemic made that a lot more challenging, and our goal is to ensure long-term, multi-year financing for those important programs,” he said.

“We’ll request that the next RMI funding cycle be multi-year so we can build momentum that assists with multiyear pandemic recovery. Tourism, to be sustainable, needs to serve the people that live in those communities … Our hope is that this funding takes some of the pressure off the residents of our community.” On the topic of wildfire mitigation, the RMOW will emphasize the important role provincial funding has in the delivery of local FireSmart programs, and the “large impact” they have on reducing Whistler’s wildfire risk, Crompton said. “I’m looking forward to speaking to all the ministers about B.C.’s tourism restart and recovery,” the mayor added. “It’s been a really long and difficult couple of years for this community and the people who live here. There’s a lot of work to do to rebuild, and the businesses and people who live here will require all the support every order of government can provide.” With that in mind, the provincial government is dealing with the same impacts of the pandemic. “Every ministry in the provincial government has been touched by COVID19, and their challenges on delivery have been made more difficult,” Crompton said. “Our hope and expectation is they’ll really rise to this and we can get past COVID and be better on the other side.” n

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More details emerge on B.C.’s vaccine card THE NEW VACCINATION CERTIFICATE ROLLS OUT SEPT. 13

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER’S SERVICE sectors got a more detailed picture of B.C.’s vaccine card program before it is officially rolled out on Sept. 13. A number of businesses and venues deemed non-essential will be required to verify patrons’ COVID-19 vaccination status before they are granted entry, including restaurants (indoor and outdoor dining); pubs; organized indoor events such as weddings and business conferences; concerts, clubs, cinemas and casinos; fitness centres, adult sports and indoor group exercise activities; and indoor ticketed sporting events. British Columbians can apply for their vaccine card at gov.bc.ca/vaccinecard, where they will enter their personal health number, date of birth and date of either their first or second vaccine dose. A digital version can be saved to a mobile device or printed off as a paper copy. Those without computer or internet access can call 1-833838-2323 to get a hard copy mailed to them. From Sept. 13 to 26, the wallet-sized paper cards issued after receiving vaccine doses can still be used if people wish to enter businesses or events without the digital card or printout copy of the QR code. Businesses will verify vaccination status by downloading the not-yet-available BC Card Vaccine Verifier app and scanning a

food restaurants, food courts, cafeterias and drive-thrus are exempt. After the news of the vaccine card was announced last month, Whistler business and restaurant leaders expressed concern over the enforcement burden falling on already stressed frontline workforce. “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,” Restaurant Association of Whistler president Eric Griffith told Pique in a late August interview. (He was unavailable to comment for this story.) That was echoed by a BC Restaurant and Food Services Association-led task force in a letter last week to provincial officials calling for a number of measures to be implemented to assist the sector in the rollout of the program, including a simple, streamlined verification process; promotional and educational support that includes signage and a business hotline support number; online training materials for staff that features video tutorials “on how to deal with challenging customers”; and swift, actionable fines and enforcement of both individuals and operators not in compliance. “Our staff and our task force are ready to move forward to create welcoming dining experiences that incorporate [public health order] best practices as long as this pandemic lasts so that we can return to profitability as soon as possible,” the letter read.

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Depending on the violation, individuals could be subject to a $230 or $575 fine for not complying with COVID health orders, while owners, operators and event organizers could be subject a $2,300 violation ticket. What the new program means for Whistler’s largest employer, Whistler Blackcomb, remains to be seen. In an emailed statement, the company said it is “working to understand the new vaccine passport requirements based on the details of the rollout by the province today, Tuesday, Sept. 7, in advance of next week’s implementation.” -With files from Tyler Orton, Business in Vancouver, and Lindsay William-Ross, Vancouver Is Awesome. n

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Whistler cannabis retail unlikely in 2021 COUNCIL BRIEFS: WSL HOUSING AGREEMENTS GETS FIRST READINGS; LOWER FEES FOR YOUTH WINTER PASSES AT LOST LAKE

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THOUGH WHISTLER’S mayor and council started 2021 with cannabis retail on its annual work plan, extenuating circumstances—including work on developing employee housing, the ongoing recovery from COVID-19, a late-April ransomware attack and a lengthy backlog of permit applications at municipal hall—mean the resort is unlikely to see any storefronts opening this year. “At the moment we are very much focused on housing and COVID-19. My hope is that we will have cannabis retail in front of council for consideration before the end of this term [in October 2022],” said Mayor Jack Crompton. “It’s a high priority for me.” Whistler’s mayor and council passed a zoning amendment bylaw in early 2018 prohibiting the retail sale of cannabis, allowing local officials to control where and when pot shops are introduced to the resort. If not for the aforementioned circumstances, would Whistler have allowed one to set up shop by now? “I think so,” Crompton said. “At the beginning we weren’t in a rush. We wanted to see cannabis retail in Canadian

municipalities and learn from what worked and what didn’t. Certainly my expectation was that it would be done much sooner than we’ve been able to accomplish it.” With many communities in Canada now having at least one cannabis shop, “there’s lots of lessons to learn,” he added.

WSL HOUSING AGREEMENTS GET FIRST READINGS Whistler’s mayor and council gave first three readings to amended housing agreement bylaws for two developments on Cloudburst Drive in Cheakamus at its Sept. 7 meeting. The changes to the agreements for the Whistler Sport Legacies (WSL) developments at 1315 and 1345 Cloudburst Dr. come after WSL received financing from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) for 100 per cent of the costs of the new development at 1315. Approved by council in January 2020, WSL’s original plan was to move its athletes’ centre accommodation use from the existing townhouse development at 1345 Cloudburst to the new building at 1315, committing the townhouses to rental employee housing with a priority for essential services workers.

“This [CMHC] financing is for a 100-percent rental employee housing project precluding the contemplated transfer of the athletes’ centre accommodation from 1345 Cloudburst. This has resulted in the need to modify and replace the existing housing agreements/covenants,” said planning director Mike Kirkegaard in a report to council. “The net effect is that the incremental employee housing commitment associated with the rezoning will be located in the new apartment building, with no change in the amount of employee housing that will be delivered.” WSL plans to build 58 units of employee housing on the lot at 1315 Cloudburst (22 studio and 36 two-bedroom units). Under the revised housing agreements, WSL can give priority to its employees, provided that a minimum of 20 units (or a combination of units with a total floor area of 1,200 square metres) are reserved for eligible employees from the community at large. Essential service workers will be given priority for those units, followed by those on the Whistler Housing Authority waitlist and other employees of qualified businesses. Maximum rents are set at $1,200 for studios and $2,100 for two-bedroom units (utilities included). While the townhouses at 1345 will

essentially revert to the existing athletes’ centre accommodation use, the new agreement “expressly recognizes and provides for” their use as employee housing when not in use by WSL staff (following the same priority as the units at 1315). “I don’t think WSL wants empty units so I think they’re going to find whatever ways they can to make sure these units are occupied full-time, and they’ve got the priority list of who goes first and who goes second, so I think that’s really helpful,” said Councillor John Grills. “And I’m really happy to see other members of our community in the ground building housing. Welcome aboard.”

LOWER FEES FOR YOUTH PASSES AT LOST LAKE Council also approved lower fees for youth and child season passes at the Lost Lake Nordic Trails for the next three seasons on Sept. 7. The new $60 pass rate gives youth and children unlimited access to the crosscountry trail network. Meanwhile, Extra Early Bird passes for the trails, which offer 25 per cent off, are available until Sunday, Sept. 12. Find more info at whistler.ca/nordic. n

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No Charge for Rescue campaign launched by BC Search and Rescue Association WITH ITS NEW CAMPAIGN, RUMOURS THAT RESCUE SERVICES COMES WITH A CHARGE IN B.C. QUASHED

BY HARRISON BROOKS WHEN SHE WAS 20 years old, Bryn Nicholson found herself in a precarious situation in Garibaldi Provincial Park. She was alone and lost, in the middle of the night with a bear snooping around looking for food. Too scared to move or poke her head out of her sleeping bag, she just waited quietly for the bear to leave while asking herself how she got into this situation. The answer to that question is that she was unprepared, which is the exact same word Brad Sills, president of Whistler Search and Rescue, used when asked about the most common reason for people to call search and rescue. “‘Unprepared’ can be they didn’t quite understand the terrain they were going into, they didn’t understand it was too late in the day to be starting something like that and they didn’t bring enough food or clothing, so unprepared is a vast topic,” said Sills. While Nicholson’s story turned out to have a happy ending with a friend coming to find her and walk her down the mountain,

The campaign is simply called No Charge for Rescue and consists of a series of videos breaking down different situations where SAR can be of assistance, all free of charge. The hope is that more people will call for assistance the second they realize they might be lost instead of hesitating and potentially making their situation even worse. BCSARA is pushing this message hard right now, because not calling for help, or even just hesitating to call, can dramatically diminish the chances someone will be found alive or uninjured, according to Yaschim. And when panic and disorientation set in, the chances of disastrous results increase even more. “If you have gotten yourself lost, you are going to continue to do so,” said Sills. “The human condition is such that disorientation quickly sets in. “So you are going to get more lost, and that’s going to have psychological effects upon you. Panic is going to set in.” That’s what happened to Nicholson, who after realizing she was lost, made poor decision after poor decision because she started to panic. “I was 20 years old, I was living in the

some incidents don’t end well. And often it’s because the lost person hesitates to call search and rescue (SAR) due to the belief they can find their way out on their own. “There’s always the ego,” said Dwight Yaschim, senior manager at B.C. Search and Rescue Association (BCSARA). “You know, ‘I can get out of this, I’ll figure it out, I must be close to the trail or the road’ and when someone is lost, the longer they delay, usually the longer they get away from the known trail and it becomes more and more difficult to find them.” One of the other main reasons people delay calling search and rescue, said Yaschim, is the constant circulating rumours that calling for help comes with a charge for the service, which is why the BC Search and Rescue Association (BCSARA) has put out a campaign to squash those rumours. “It’s usually the social media couch cowboys that start the rumours and it kind of picks up a bit of steam” said Yaschim. “You know how social media works and that’s why we try to jump on top of those as soon as possible. So we thought if we put this out and really explain our position clearly maybe that will help in the future.”

city. I don’t even think I knew what search and rescue was, let alone what their number would have been,” she said in explaining why she called a friend to help instead of calling SAR. “I’ve been in a state of panic a few times and it’s really hard to make clear decisions when you are like that. The decisions you make aren’t always logical. I find when you are panicking a little bit, your mind plays tricks on you. I didn’t put any thought into calling this guy; I just pulled out my phone, I was in tears, and it was just the first thing that popped into my brain.” To avoid similar situations to the one Nicholson found herself in, both Yaschim and Sills urge everyone to go to adventuresmart.ca and learn how to prepare for the worst when out in the wilderness, and to follow the three T’s: trip planning, training and taking the essentials. They also hope hikers download the free AdventureSmart app that can help with trip planning, will send a notification to an emergency contact when the trip takes longer than expected and can even assist SAR in finding the lost hiker by sending them access to the trip plan. n

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Sea to Sky RCMP outlines ambitious three-year strategic plan to local officials POLICE LOOKING TO ADD MENTAL-HEALTH LIAISON, IMPROVE INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES AND BACKCOUNTRY TRAINING

BY BRANDON BARRETT AN EFFECTIVE police force needs to reflect the needs of the people it serves, and in the rapidly changing communities of the Sea to Sky, that means the RCMP needs to be nimble enough to adapt in lockstep with them. “There’s no doubt that Whistler is growing and absolutely no doubt that Squamish is exploding,” Whistler and Pemberton commander Sgt. Sascha Banks told Whistler elected officials this week. “That rapidly affects the highways, the way we do business and it affects the day-to-day of what happens.” The Sea to Sky RCMP, which encompasses the detachments of Whistler, Pemberton, Squamish and Bowen Island, presented its three-year strategic plan on Tuesday, Sept. 7, an ambitious, farreaching vision that was informed in part by local stakeholders, crime analysis trends, and a public survey that garnered close to 1,000 responses. Bolstered by five key pillars—enhanced

POLICING PLAN Sea to Sky Officer-in-Charge Insp. Robert Dykstra presents the Sea to Sky RCMP’s three-year strategic plan to Whistler officials on Tuesday, Sept. 7. PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS

public safety; accountability and good governance; organizational excellence; community engagement and collaborative partnerships; and innovation and engaging

change—the plan itself reflects the shifting role of the RCMP in a society reckoning with police’s use of force and its mistreatment of marginalized groups.

“Policing is changing internationally,” said Sea to Sky Officer-in-Charge Insp. Robert Dykstra. “There is a lot of debate about what it is we actually are, and in the end, we have a role to play in the community but whatever we do has to be compassionate. That’s really critical to me in terms of our mission.” To that end, and with both police and local social services noting an uptick in need for mental-health support throughout the pandemic, Mounties are working on the development of a liaison position in the next three years that would designate a specific member to work alongside a certified mental health worker. Modelled in part on a similar program in Surrey called Car 67, it would see the member working with a clinical nurse to provide onsite emotional and mental health assessments, crisis intervention and referrals to appropriate services. “These conversations have actually already started in Whistler with myself and Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) as well as Whistler Community Services.

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criminal trends “before we can even see them ourselves.” Also in the works is an “inadmissible patron program/bar-watch” in Whistler that “mainly has to do with individuals who are in the gang life,” Banks explained. First launched by the Vancouver Police Department, there are also similar programs in Surrey, Westshore and Kelowna, and Banks said she has already discussed it with the municipality and local bar and club operator, the Gibbons Hospitality Group.

An initiative that is likely to come to fruition soon is a Sea to Sky Community Response Unit, which Banks described as a “parachute team” that would come to the corridor to deal with specific challenges. She noted their mandate would include working with youth and traffic enforcement.

TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT Always a pressing issue in the Sea to Sky, Mounties have plans to enhance traffic

“To police the old way of driving around the neighbourhood and think you’re going to decrease crime, well, that’s long gone.”

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The Sea to Sky RCMP is striving to beef up its intelligence capabilities, with a number of initiatives on tap. “To police the old way of driving around the neighbourhood and think you’re going to decrease crime, well, that’s long gone. That’s the days of CHiPs and blue-andwhite police cars. We just can’t do policing in that way anymore,” Banks said. One “pressing need” identified by Banks is the addition of a specially trained crime analyst position that would contribute to a prolific offender database and identify

“We want to see how we can affect this program and if it works within the community, to try and get ahead of dealing with individuals in the community that are gang members that cause a risk to public safety,” added Banks. The initiative would also involve bringing Mounties in specialized gang units up from the Lower Mainland to assist with training and identifying known gang members.

enforcement through a variety of measures. Speeding and distracted driving in particular are two risk factors local police intend to crack down on even further over the next three years. “When we looked at our survey, the problem that people believed was in the Sea to Sky corridor—and I don’t disagree with them—was speed and distracted driving. You’d think it would be impaired driving, but it’s not,” Banks said. “It’s

something that we get consistent complaints about and it’s something that you’ll see the [BC Highway Patrol] impounding 10 cars for excessive speed in a day on the Sea to Sky [Highway].” Banks added that police intend to deepen their understanding of problem areas by reviewing collision data. The RCMP is also looking to procure two automatic licence plate readers to aid in enforcement.

BACKCOUNTRY POLICING One of the most consistent requests in the RCMP’s recent public survey was to improve enforcement on thefts from vehicles in the backcountry, an issue that has only increased with the pandemicfuelled recreation boom. “We need to come up with either a bait vehicle program or some location in the community that people can keep their effects while they’re away for three days hiking in the backcountry,” Banks said. “That’s something that other communities have put into place where they have lockers in a secure location to keep their items.” Given the proliferation of backcountry enthusiasts—Banks said police metrics showed a 900-per-cent increase in trail usage this summer in the Sea to Sky— police are also looking to beef up their training and create two search-and-rescue liaison positions. Pique will have more from the RCMP’s strategic plan in future weeks. n

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PPC candidate Bebb wants to prevent what he sees as Canada’s slide into ‘Marxist dictatorship’ MITIGATING CLIMATE ALARMISM, RESCINDING COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS, PROTECTING RIGHTS THE CRUX OF BEBB’S PLATFORM

BY BRANDON BARRETT IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR at all with the People’s Party of Canada (PPC), you’ve probably heard the major talking points: the human-caused effects of climate change are overblown, COVID-19 is akin to a seasonal flu, and Canada’s reliance on immigration has ballooned out of control, among others. It’s an ideology that earned PPC candidate and Whistler resident Doug Bebb 1.6 per cent of the ballots cast in the 2019 election—and in an election cycle in which COVID-19 recovery and climate change have been among the most pressing issues, Bebb is hopeful voters will seek out a perspective that differs from the mainstream narrative. First and foremost, in Bebb’s mind, is “rescinding all these COVID-19 lockdown [and] vaccine mandates and [getting] back to business,” he said. “The push for this vaccine now, when the case count is down, when the hospitalizations are down—I know they say things differently in the press, but if you look at the stats, we’re not

at the peak at all and we may get back there for various reasons, but right now there is no pandemic.” Bebb, who said he is not vaccinated, takes particular issue with B.C.’s recently announced vaccine card, which will require British Colombians to provide proof of vaccination status to enter certain nonessential public spaces, beginning Sept. 13. He sees the program, and related COVID-19 lockdowns, as an infringement on Canadians’ rights given the mRNA vaccines administered to millions “were never intended to prevent the disease.” (The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines have been shown to reduce the risk of infection by 91 per cent in fully vaccinated people and 81 per cent in those partially vaccinated, according to a June study by the U.S. Centre for Disease Control.) “It’s no surprise that people spread it, so carrying a piece of paper with you as a vaccine passport, or an electronic equivalent on your smartphone, really doesn’t have any benefit for public health,” Bebb added. While he acknowledges global temperatures have risen and that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, Bebb believes the human-

IN THE RUNNING Whistler People’s Party of Canada election candidate Doug Bebb. PHOTO SUBMITTED

caused impacts of climate change have been massively overblown by groups such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), winners of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize whose latest report declared it “unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.” “A lot of these things are simply scare-mongering stuff to drive people’s behaviour and to enrich the likes of Al Gore and others who are basically what we call crony capitalists,” Bebb said. “So I would encourage people to look at the other side.

This is not a fait accompli.” If elected, Bebb said he would also push for a slowdown of immigration into Canada, one approach he sees reducing the demand on housing. “We have I think 450,000 immigrants a year that are slated to come into this country on the Liberal slate. It’s equal to about the population of New Brunswick every two years,” he said. [Canada is aiming to bring in 401,000 immigrants in 2021, and 1.2 million in the next three years. In 2020, that number was roughly 184,000.] “In the meantime, a lot of these immigrants are homeless, on the street in major centres like Toronto. So we need immigration and we need immigration to match our demand for the economy to grow. But we don’t have the capacity right now to import another province every two years,” he added. “I’m speaking right now of the [immigrants I know] that came to this country because they saw a free country, and now they’re the ones seeing our slide into what is going to probably become a Marxist dictatorship if things continue the way they are. That will be the end of it. ” Canadians head to the polls on Sept. 20. n

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Rhino Party’s Gordon Jeffrey offers voters an alternative to the status quo WHISTLER LOCAL TAKES AIM AT POLITICAL CORRUPTION IN SECOND BID FOR OFFICE

BY BRADEN DUPUIS AFTER HIS FIRST foray into politics in 2019, the Rhino Party’s Gordon Jeffrey is back on the ballot for Canada’s Sept. 20 election. With his second campaign, the 34-yearold Whistlerite aims to once again offer voters an alternative to the status quo. “Last election I said, ‘You don’t need to vote for me, just don’t vote for the big guys, just because one wants you to be scared that the other will win,’” Jeffrey said. “This time I’m saying, ‘Please do vote for me if you want to put your political power into saying none of the above, or towards saying let’s tighten up the political system and get rid of some of this nonsense.’” Jeffrey’s campaign has four purposes, he said: influencing other candidates; spreading the messages of anti-corruption and parliamentary reform; diverting votes from the Liberal and Conservative parties; and giving voters a candidate they can “vote for in good conscience.” “I think we need strict legislation

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that leaves no shadow of a doubt that it is unacceptable for Members of Parliament to be accepting gifts and favours from any organization, company, special interest group or any individual representing any of the above,” Jeffrey said, adding that he would also like to see Parliament take a tougher stance on those who evade questions or fail to give direct answers in the House of Commons. “That should be punished. Filibustering is an infuriatingly obstructive behaviour, and we need to curb it somehow.” Closer to home, the big issues facing Whistler and the Sea to Sky are housing, labour, environmental protection and financial recovery from the pandemic, Jeffrey said, adding that he’s disappointed to see Indigenous relations taking a backseat so far in the campaign. That said, Jeffrey isn’t about making bold campaign promises he may not be able to keep. “What I will promise to do is represent the good people of Whistler and the rest of the riding rather than filter the special interests of campaign donors through a superficial lens of endless pandering and empty promises,”

IN THE RUNNING Gordon Jeffrey of the Rhino Party poses for a photo in Squamish during the 2019 campaign. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SQUAMISH CHIEF

he said. “The other folks are going to promise the people the moon, the sun and the stars, but the day after the election they’ll develop a convenient amnesia and forget all about oldgrowth forests, daycare, glaciers, affordable housing, and you.” While the Rhino Party traditionally offers more of a lighthearted take on campaigning, it’s clear Jeffrey doesn’t see much humour in the current state of Canadian politics. “People should take campaign promises

with a grain of salt. A lot of the promises being made during this campaign were made during the last election, and where have we gotten?” he said. “Examine their actions, examine the track record. If people have fallen through on promises before, maybe they don’t deserve another chance. Maybe it’s time for somebody else to have a chance.” In the months following the 2019 vote, Jeffrey was a regular attendee of Whistler’s municipal council meetings. While he’s focusing on the current campaign for now, he’s not ruling out a run at the local level in next year’s municipal election. “I feel like it’s kind of my civic duty to try to do some good for either my town or my country,” he said. “So I’ll likely continue to run.” Jeffrey joins incumbent Patrick Weiler (Liberals); former MP John Weston (Conservative); Avi Lewis (NDP); Mike Simpson (Green Party); and Doug Bebb (PPC) on the ballot, along with independents Terry Grimwood and Chris MacGregor, both of the Sunshine Coast. Find more info about candidates, polling stations and how to vote at elections.ca. n

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TEDxWhistler brings ‘intellectual Olympics’ back to the resort MORE THAN A DECADE SINCE ITS LAST WHISTLER EVENT, TEDX BRINGS 10 SPEAKERS FROM THE SEA TO SKY AND BEYOND

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE LAST TIME TEDx—the grassroots, localized offshoot of the globally recognized TED Conference—was in Whistler, it was in the middle of the 2010 Winter Olympics, when our little ski town must have felt like the absolute centre of the universe. More than a decade later, TEDx is set to return, and after a year and a half of a life-altering pandemic, it’s fair to say there aren’t quite as many eyes on the resort community—but that same spirit of excellence and innovation that drew the world here is still going strong. “We wanted to do the intellectual Olympics, if you will,” said TEDxWhistler executive producer Anoop Virk. “Whistler has always been [a place] that’s revered on the global stage as the best of the best.” Set for Sunday, Sept. 12 from noon to 5 p.m., the virtual event will be broadcast from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre and will feature a mix of pre-recorded talks, live hosted by local free-skiing legend and environmental activist Mike Douglas, and

live performances by the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations. The speaker lineup is split between local and Canadian figures. On the Sea to Sky side is Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton; Whistler doctor and healthcare advocate Karin Kausky; Lil’wat Nation Cultural Chief and artist Kúkwpi7 Gélpcal R.A. Joseph; Squamish Nation Hereditary Chief, wool weaver, and curator Chepximiya Siyam’ Janice George; and Whistler first responder and ER physician Dr. Renata Lewis. “These sorts of events come together and there’s such a myriad of amazing and interesting topics, and I think that’s an example of the coming together of the minds that’s really driving the intellectual capital locally that we have,” said Lewis. The other speakers are Mr. Morgan, president of OVO Sound, the taste-making Toronto record label representing artists such as Drake, Majid Jordan and Dvsn; award-winning actor, writer, director, producer and voiceover artist Omari Newton, who has appeared in TV series such as Blue Mountain State, Continuum and lent his voice to the Black Panther in

multiple Marvel animated projects; lawyer, writer, educator and life coach Claire Yeung, the author of The Eighty Year Rule; skeleton athlete and 2010 Olympic gold medalist Jon Montgomery, who went on to co-host the Junos, appear on Oprah, and, since 2013, host The Amazing Race Canada; and author, philanthropist, designer and former host of HGTV’s Love it Or List It Vancouver Jillian Harris. Virk consulted with numerous local figures and organizations to come up with the lineup, which she said was centred around the idea of representation. “We really wanted it to be a community initiative,” she said. All the speakers took on the theme of “Legacy,” and for local physician Kausky, that meant reflecting on the entirely unexpected legacy of one of the more challenging periods in Whistler’s history. “If you can remember back to a year and a half ago, it was a little bit daunting, a little bit scary, if I’m honest, to see everybody that was COVID-positive,” she said. In order to minimize patients’ potential exposure at the clinic, detailed personal histories were taken over the phone in

advance of their appointment, and through that it became clear the community’s health and well-being wasn’t only impacted by their medical symptoms. “It turned out that by taking these detailed histories over the phone, we figured out there were tons of people that couldn’t pay their rent, didn’t have groceries or were struggling with accommodation,” Kausky said. Soon enough, you had physicians collaborating with social workers and non-profits like the Whistler Community Services Society to connect people to a range of resources. It’s also helped push one of Kausky’s dreams to establish a community health centre in Whistler closer to reality. “This COVID response was run by primary care in Whistler but really the secret sauce was the completely inadvertent trial of social prescription,” she said. “In the midst of one of the greatest medical challenges we’ve faced as a society, it turns out one of the really powerful solutions is addressing social inequity in our community.” Tickets for the TEDx broadcast are $49.95, available at tedxwhistler.com. Ticket sales close on Thursday, Sept. 9. n

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Village of Pemberton embraces new stat holiday, Sept. 30 COUNCIL BRIEFS: PEMBERTON FIRE RESCUE APPLIES FOR FIRESMART FUNDING; B.C.’S VACCINE PASSPORT TOPIC OF DISCUSSION AMONGST COUNCILLORS

BY HARRISON BROOKS FOLLOWING FEDERAL legislation, effective Aug. 3, the Village of Pemberton is embracing Canada’s new statutory holiday— the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. “The establishment of the statutory holiday and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was action No. 80 in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action and it’s an important step in affirming our commitment to reconciliation,” said Village of Pemberton (VOP) project and research coordinator Laura Murphy at the Aug. 31 council meeting. However, VOP Mayor Mike Richman, while welcoming the federal government’s decision to create the day, wants to make sure it is a day of respect and not just, “an extra day on our boat at the lake.” “I’m hoping at a federal level that there will be great efforts put forward to making this day meaningful, as opposed to just symbolic,” said Richman. “And at the local level, I’d like us to explore how we can really celebrate this day. We talked about changing up our Canada Day celebrations a little bit, or how we do our funding. So I’d really like us moving forward to consider how the Village of Pemberton and the area celebrates, commemorates and

THOUGHTFUL VILLAGE Pemberton wants to make sure that a new stat holiday celebrates Indigenous peoples respectfully. PHOTO BY CLARE OGILVIE

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acknowledges this holiday.” The VOP will provide notice of the new public holiday via the Village’s Facebook page, in its eNEWS and on the Village website. Although not currently recognized as a B.C. provincial statutory holiday, the province has encouraged provincial public sector employers to honour Sept. 30 as a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, to meet obligations of the majority of collective agreements.

$150,000 the Village will receive will be able to fully support those two positions through to August 2023. The funding would allow for the development and promotion of local FireSmart activities as well as fuel and vegetation management on publicly owned lands.

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A letter to council from a Pemberton local about vaccine passports sparked a discussion at the council table at the Aug. 31 meeting. The letter from Graham Camm urged council “to speak out and 100 per cent denounce any and all forms of segregationist vaccine passports in any part of Pemberton. “If nothing is done about this, I will personally be filing human rights violations against any business and individual who violates my human rights to privacy and to be free from discrimination.” While Councillor Ted Craddock moved to receive and file the letter with no discussion, Coun. Leah Noble thought the letter was worth discussing among the councillors. “There’s a lot of people who have come to me in the community with concerns about it. And there’s a lot of people with valid reasons that have not yet been vaccinated,” said Noble. “And they’ve been in the lockdown, right alongside all of us, masking up, and it doesn’t really seem very nice to not allow them to participate in

Pemberton Fire Rescue received council support for its application for grant funding up to $150,000 from the Union of BC Municipalities under the Community Resiliency Investment (CRI) program for the 2022 Village of Pemberton FireSmart program. According to Pemberton fire chief Robert Grossman, the CRI “is a provincially funded program intended to reduce the risk and impact of wildfires to communities in B.C. through community funding, supports and priority fuel management activities.” In the spring of 2021, the Village was successful in securing funding to establish two temporary one-year term positions for a FireSmart program coordinator and a labourer with the role of developing a community-based FireSmart program designed to help residents prepare their home for a potential wildfire. If successful in this application, the

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anything fun, especially in view of the fact that people who are vaccinated are still catching it and passing it along.” However, Coun. Amica Antonelli said she believes it is not the role of the Village to “influence the public health office,” which was a sentiment that Craddock agreed with. “We could say whatever we want, every one of us is going to have a different decision on how we’re going to deal with this,” said Craddock. “But on this type of thing, I look to the people that are scientists and doctors and professionals in the provincial government to make the legislation accordingly, so I think that’s the best way to leave it.” While Mayor Richman acknowledged the concerns of the people, and admitted that this is “an uncomfortable conversation,” with the “potential of dividing society down new lines,” he agreed with Antonelli that not enough is currently known on how the vaccine passport roll out will work to speak out against it on behalf of the town. “We are here to represent the people and I don’t know how we can gauge our community sentiment on this,” said Richman. “There are some very upset people that are very vocal about it—I hear them, but I don’t know how I could confidently say, ‘I represent the Village of Pemberton and this is how the Village of Pemberton feels on this matter, and therefore…’” Richman urged any citizens with concerns on this topic to direct their comments straight to the provincial health authorities for the time being until more is known on the roll-out of vaccines cards. n

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Freedumb 2.0 FREEDUMB —noun/1. The belief that your personal freedom outweighs others’ personal safety. Ever get the feeling we’re living in an experiment designed to showcase the worst of humanity? One in which the addition of each new existential crisis reveals a hidden layer of lunatic idiocy? Me, too. With climate change deniers and their

BY LESLIE ANTHONY laughable claims of how scientists (tens of thousands, apparently) conspired to invent this issue (to what inexplicable end, none offers); with habitat-loss driving a biodiversity and extinction crisis it’s the fishing-/logging-/cattle-/oil-feeds-my-family crowd who claim their rapacious means as valid excuse to continue humanity’s suicide mission; and with issues of equality or global development all manner of antiimmigrant, white-supremacist, first-world entitlement rise to the fore. That these groups all represent identifiable conservative voting blocs is no secret. It’s likewise no secret that the current pandemic has precipitated similar conservative effrontery at every turn—anti-support, anti-lockdown, anti-science, anti-mask, anti-vax and now, anti-immunization record/certificate/ passport. Indeed, each of the crises listed above have been significantly (and sadly for the rest of us) exacerbated by the actions (or inactions) of conservatives. Though this provides food for thought

FREEDUMB FIGHTERS Insisting on vaguely formulated “rights” without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence. PHOTO BY HALFPOINT/GETTYIMAGES.CA

during an election, it’s not the only point of this column. Oddly, the usual fringe conservative factions have been joined during the pandemic by a noticeable scatter of science-ignorant, conspiracy-spouting, freedumb-fighting nutjobs of uncertain political affinity. At least on everything but the issue of support (sidenote: shame on all the ungrateful, hypocritical recipients of CERB/CEWS who happily gobble up society’s largesse but refuse to do their part). Which brings us to the unruly, Trumpian mobs that, with help from a complicit mainstream media, have made themselves the story of this election. Writing in the Toronto Star on how the conservative approach to vaccines will only prolong the pandemic, Supriya Dwivedi noted how Canadians were treated to “a sickening display” of “selfish and scientifically illiterate” anti-vax protestors physically blocking hospitals and accosting patients and healthcare workers. Of course, you can bet your retirement that many of those protesting on the premise of “our bodies, our choice” (which, BTW, no one is arguing) are the same folks who stalk women outside abortion clinics brandishing signs that parse: “how dare you choose what to do with your body if it goes against my personal religious morals.” (To many conservatives, wearing a mask might be a personal choice but women’s healthcare should be controlled by the government—as we saw with the Texas ban on abortions last week.) People clearly have a legal right to bodily autonomy, but nobody has a legal right to put other people’s health and well-being in jeopardy. While remaining unvaccinated is a personal choice, it’s a path of perpetual reckless endangerment to family, friends and fellow citizens: while none of your rights are infringed upon, you ignore the rights of others to reasonable comfort and safety. Not everything is a right. Travel outside the

country, for example, is a privilege defined by basic requirements: a passport and/or visa, as well as, in some cases, numerous vaccinations. As globalization progresses, these requirements have only become more stringent—particularly around disease. The fact that movement within your country might be subject to similar embargos during a massive public health crisis should come as no surprise. In proposing mandatory vaccinations for domestic air and rail travel, the Liberal government, with no need to appease the anti-vax vote like the Conservatives, sent a clear message on public safety that will invariably increase vaccination uptake. After Ontario declared its own vaccine passport, for instance, bookings on the provincial system doubled, nearly half of which were for a first dose—proof that mandates work. Not lotteries or bribes (Yeah ha! Alberta). Mandates. Period. Why? Because, ironically, there’s no better way to a freedumb fighter’s heart than the spectre of exclusion. The Alberta UCP’s $100 vaccine bribery scheme, on the other hand, is neither carrot nor stick— just another slap in the face to the already vaccinated. Eyeing a seething mass of protesters outside a Calgary hospital, one can’t help think how Premier Jason Kenney committed $103,350,000 to “incentivize” these unvaccinated clowns, but is also asking nurses inside that hospital to take a five-percent wage cut to pay for it. This is the face of conservative desperation and pandering to the lowest of low bases. Indeed, after new provincial restrictions were announced that included 10 p.m. bar closings, a rodeo in Alberta got an exception to keep its beer gardens open until 2 a.m.—the very rural faction whose refusal to mask or be vaccinated under the risible guise of preserving “freedom” largely led to the new impositions. Human rights lawyers have outlined

how vaccine requirements in schools and other institutions not only don’t infringe on anyone’s rights, but actually enable the vulnerable to participate more fully. Dr. Steven Fedder, an emergency room doctor in Richmond, was widely quoted when he expressed waning patience with people whose anti-vax stance has larger societal implications. “I think it’s the ultimate selfishness that individuals choose not to vaccinate themselves.” An example, albeit from the U.S.: on Sept. 2, the number of COVID-19 cases at Virginia universities lined up like this: Virginia Commonwealth University: 31 students; University of Virginia: 72; Virginia Tech: 35; and Liberty, a small, private Evangelical institution full of the unvaccinated, a whopping 430—a bona fide public health disaster. If you need a refresher on the longstanding role and success of vaccines, read “Simply put: Vaccination saves lives,” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S. Scanning the stats, there’s a good chance many of us are alive because of vaccinations received as a child or for travelling. Their positive impacts on mortality rates, longevity, general health and the global economy are far-reaching. Much of human progress in all these areas is owed to 20th-century disease prevention by vaccines. Let’s be clear: people who choose not to get vaccinated are choosing not to participate in ending the pandemic; they have abdicated social responsibility to become part of the problem. Insisting on vaguely formulated “rights” without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence. Leslie Anthony is a scientist and author who enjoys connecting the dots to reverse political and media spin. ■

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HARRISON BROOKS A run-down ladies skate event in Ucluelet, B.C., a mini-ramp in the backyard of their Whistler house and a desire to bring something positive to a world that hadn’t seen much good news in quite some time: That’s all it took for Juliette Pelchat to become the spark that ignited the booming girls skate scene in Whistler. “There was a lot of things going on in the world at that time,” says Juliette thinking back to summer 2020 when she and her sister Amalia brought the first Ladies Skate event to the Whistler Skate Park. “COVID-19 was a big thing, and everybody was pretty down about that and Black Lives Matter. So we were like, ‘OK, we have to bring something good to the skate park, or something good in this world in these tough times,’ so we decided to host our first event,” she says. That first event saw only a handful of girls show up, but the Pelchats stuck with it and the following week more than 30 girls came out, showing there was a demand for a place girls could feel comfortable skating in Whistler. As the events quickly became a success, parents started asking Juliette, 16, and Amalia, 13, (Jubes and Billie as they are affectionately known) if they would babysit their kids at the skate park, to which the girls responded, “We don’t do babysitting, but we do private lessons.” After launching the private lessons, they saw firsthand the appetite for girls’ skating here and decided to start a camp, which sold out with a dozen first-time skaters signed up. Soon enough, Juliette and Amalia were running weekly Ladies Skate events, private lessons and multi-day kids’ camps, and the Real Wild Kittens (RWK), how the group is known in town today, was born. However, the origins of the Real Wild Kittens stretches back even farther. In fact, at the group’s inception, skateboarding wasn’t even on the radar. Growing up the daughters of legendary backcountry snowboarder JF Pelchat, their dad’s friends started calling Juliette and Amalia the “Wild Kittens,” a play on the name of his infamous snowboard crew, the Wildcats. And as they continued to follow in their father’s footsteps, and their passion for snowboarding grew, the name stuck and soon there were four girls—Maggie Crompton, Irie Smith and the Pelchats— known as the Real Wild Kittens tearing up the slopes of Whistler Blackcomb and sharing their tricks and shenanigans on the group’s Instagram page. Fast-forward a few years and Juliette is now one of the best young snowboarders in the country, if not the world, so it comes as a bit of a surprise that it was skateboarding that really solidified the Read Wild Kittens name—and brand—and brought the newly formed company to where it is today. “I would have never thought that we would have built something like a brand out of RWK if we hadn’t started skateboarding,” says Juliette. “And I don’t even know if we would have started anything in snowboarding either. I think that we already had the social media platform and resources to start a girl’s initiative with RWK, [so] it was just convenient for us to use Real Wild Kittens and then it just mixed together.” Despite it not being her main sport, who else but the bubbly, upbeat, mature-beyond-her-years, world-class athlete that is Juliette Pelchat, could handle being the driving force behind the rise of women’s skateboarding in Whistler, all while being described by some as the “future of women’s snowboarding?” That’s a label not just anybody can wear, and one that comes with plenty of pressure and expectations. But for Juliette, it’s exactly what she signed up for. “I don’t really see it as a pressure, I just see it as goals that I want to attain for myself. I don’t really let other people’s expectations get into my head. I really just try and focus on what makes me happy,” she says. “Let’s say at one point I feel like I’m not doing it for myself, I think I’ll want to stop.

But I’m really just doing everything for myself. “I snowboard for me. I skateboard for me. I don’t try to see it as pressure, I try to see it as drive, or people pushing me to get where I want to be.” When she’s not travelling for snowboard training or at her family’s favourite getaway spot in Ucluelet, Juliette can be found on most summer days cruising around the Whistler Skate Park and giving tips to any young girls who happen to be there—even when she’s not officially running a camp. But she didn’t get to this point overnight. Just like with so many other young girls trying to start skateboarding at a young age (13 in Juliette’s case), it was incredibly tough for her to be accepted by the guys, or even just to skate at the same time as them without being too nervous because there weren’t other girls around. Luckily for Juliette and Amalia, they were raised by a mom who taught them to fight for their place in this maledominated world all while encouraging and inspiring them to follow their passions, whatever they might be. And it didn’t take long before that came full circle and Juliette and Amalia started inspiring their mom in return. “I just think, even more than just the skateboarding thing, I did it, I’m raising teenage girls that are just shining, and I can’t believe that I have the raddest kids out there,” says Kristy La Mantia, Juliette and Amalia’s mother. “And they inspire me. These girls know there are obstacles in their way, but they know they can overcome them, and they know that the power of the community is better than the power of one. “I can’t even tell you how proud I am. They took something and they just flew with it, and they thrive with it. This is just a total proud mom moment, for sure.” Juliette and Amalia’s fight unfortunately isn’t a new one. Ever since the inception of modern-day skateboarding dating back to 1970’s California, where Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams, otherwise known as the Z-Boys from Dogtown (Venice Beach, Calif.), put skateboarding on the map, the sport has been dominated by males. From magazines to skate films, shoes, boards, video games and everything in between, the sport revolved and was marketed almost exclusively to men. And it’s been that way forever, at every level, even to this day, according to Team Canada skateboarder Maddy Balt, whose one hope for the sport over the coming years is to see more opportunity for women. “We need to see more women in magazines,” she says. “I’ll go to a store and pick up a magazine and even just flip through it to even see if a woman is inside. I don’t want to have to do that. I just want to know that there are dope women skating in that magazine.” Balt, who started skateboarding at eight years old when she saw her friends’ older brothers doing it, was a natural from the get-go, and started to become good, fast. But it was that same skill, and the fact there were no other girls skating in her hometown of Brooklin, Ont., that almost led her to giving up on the sport altogether. Once Balt grew to become better than the boys, many of whom out-aged her by several years, it didn’t take long before they “kicked her to the curb.” “It all came down to this big game of Skate where I beat the boys,” Balt says about the classic game where you go trick-fortrick until you have a winner. “And they just had enough of this little girl. After that I just completely stopped skating; I didn’t even want to skate on my own anymore.” After years of waning interest, Balt got back into the sport when the one and only girl she had ever met through skating asked her to go down to Toronto with her for a girl’s skateboarding meet-up. Two days before the event, Balt got on her board for the first time in years to shake off the rust before driving down into the city. “I pulled up and there was like 20 girls at this skatepark, and I was so shocked,” she says. “It was honestly so insane. And after that I found my passion for skateboarding again and I’ve found these amazing women that I’ve been skating with, and it’s been all that I’ve done ever since.”

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doing it e b o t d e k o t s r e t we are a h t d e “I’m sup k o t s ’m I nd with my sistersaam assions, p e e h t g in r sha wesome, a y ll a e r is e’ve h w ic h t a w h w n o d e k o st l great. I’m just super it e e f s u s e k a m started, and g back and we love it.” We’re givin - Juliette Pelchat affected [the women’s skateboarding boom] in a good way. One girl goes and has a good time, and she wants to bring all of her friends. it’s just a natural flow of young blood coming in,” says Balt. “I go to the Whistler Skate Park pretty much every day and there’s almost not a day that I go that I don’t see a new a girl there trying skating and it’s really incredible to see groups of young girls skating around with their friends. That’s something that I’ve never witnessed before until here. It almost makes me a little bit jealous.” The Kittens achieved its original goal of giving girls in the community a safe place to learn to skate, but with Juliette’s inherent drive, she wanted to take it farther. Soon the private lessons and summer camps turned into a legitimate business called Real Wild Kittens Holdings Inc., quite the feat for someone who is still three months away from her 17th birthday. “Just owning Real Wild Kittens and doing this, they have learned how to do a payroll and learned how to do a minibudget. They have schedules and they have Instagram and marketing, they are reaching out to sponsors,” says La Mantia. “[Juliette] has so much business and leadership qualities. [She] knows how to run a business at 16. [Her and Amalia] are learning so much, it’s crazy.” But even though RWK has become a legitimate business, it’s not unusual for La Mantia to get people asking her what the girls are doing with their hard-earned money, and whether it all goes toward charity, which can often rub Juliette the wrong way. “I don’t think they understand. I want parents to know that they are not paying for their kids to skateboard. They are paying for their kids to participate and be part of a girls’ community and learn a new sport, a new skill,” says Juliette, who puts a lot of the money they make back into the RWK in the form of insurance, hiring coaches as well as stickers, shirts and other prizes that they give away to the girls.

From there, Balt was convinced by her newfound community to join them in entering a skateboard competition. That one led to another, which led to another and soon she was not only winning competitions but being invited to international events—and eventually to join the national team. You might think being a Team Canada skateboarder would exempt her from the funny looks and hurtful comments made by men, but that’s not the case. To this day, Balt says she still feels the glare from men when she’s riding down the street or will be made uncomfortable by comments when she’s out practising. “I’ll be skating down the sidewalk and somebody sees me and they say, ‘Oh, do a kickflip’ because they assume that I can’t. And then when I do, I put them in their place a little bit,” she says. “Or I’ll be at the park trying a new trick that I have never landed, and a guy will come up to me and be like, ‘You’re on Team Canada and you can’t even do that? Why are you even bothering skating these contests?’ and it makes me feel super unwelcome, which is not cool.” Despite there still being a long way to go in the sport, Balt believes that things are finally starting to change, especially with all the young talented girls making waves, like Britain’s 13-year-old phenom Sky Brown, Brazil’s Rayssa Leal, 13, or Canada’s Fay DeFazio Ebert, 11, who are stealing the show at major events like the X Games and Olympics. At this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, five of the six medal winners on the girl’s side of the sport were under 17. And with more and more girl-centric skate groups like the Real Wild Kittens popping up around the globe, the recipe is in place for a huge surge of women skateboarders in the near future, many getting their start in small communities just like we are seeing in Whistler. “I think that the Real Wild Kittens have probably

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“And it goes beyond skateboarding: how to encourage each other, park etiquette, and if you fall, get back up and try again, because falling is part of the sport.” No matter who you are, trying to balance running a business, snowboard training, finishing high school with good grades and still having time for some sort of a social life is a tall task. And when it all starts to get to be too much, Juliette can take solace in the fact that she’s got her sister to fall back on for support. “I’m super stoked to be doing it with my sister and I’m stoked that we are sharing the same passions, which is really awesome,” she says. “I’m just super stoked on what we’ve started, and it makes us feel great. We’re giving back and we love it.” However, running a business with family isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. And as is often the case between siblings, there are times where they can get on each other’s nerves. For the highly competitive Juliette, a big example of that came last year when she realized Amalia had become a better skateboarder than her. “I was travelling for snowboarding and every time that I was [away], she was getting better than me. I’d always be looking on Instagram and she’s posting something and I’m like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ At the start it really made me kind of bummed on myself, and I didn’t want to skateboard that much so I kind of stopped trying last year,” says Juliette. “But this year it actually lit a fire under me to get better, and I’ve actually improved a lot more this year, even if I’m still not quite as good as her. We kind of feed off each other and we’ve learned how to ride with each other more this year with the competitiveness—but in a good way, in a positive way.” For Amalia, having that feather in her cap by overtaking her sister, who she says is “so good at everything,” is a huge boost to her confidence, especially when facing down the nerve-wracking position of having to take over the camps as soon as next year when Juliette will potentially be out of the country to snowboard for most of the summer. But just like her older sister, Amalia is up for any

FEATURE STORY challenge that comes her way. “I think [taking over the camps] is actually fine. I’m excited for it. My sister is obviously still going to be doing everything behind the scenes and she’ll be helping me. I just need to be here and take charge and it’s good for me to take charge, I need to do that, I feel like,” she says. “There’s a bit of nerves, obviously, because sometimes there’s problems and [Juliette] always knows how to solve them and I’ll just need to get into it. But I feel like after I do it for a bit, I’ll get into the groove and then it will be a bit easier, but still a bit [nerve-wracking].” Despite Juliette’s potentially scarce involvement in the actual coaching and running of the camps moving forward, the Real Wild Kittens aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, Juliette’s got big plans for the future of the Kittens, perhaps even as big as her goal of being the “best female snowboarder in the world.” “I have a huge vision for it. I can see the skateboard aspect of it growing to other parts of Canada. I also wanted to start making actual clothing to sell and stuff like that. I would like to create a website,” says Juliette while envisioning all the ways she sees the Kittens growing in the future, including getting involved in social issues like the environmental movement and the protests at Fairy Creek. “I see a lot of stuff happening in the future, I’d also like to make skate decks; that would be sick, Real Wild Kittens skate decks. I don’t know, just making more products that we could give away and share with the girls.” Even if things don’t shake out quite the way she envisions it, while she admits it would be disappointing, Juliette would still be happy knowing that she has inspired a whole new generation of shredders in Whistler. “It’s hard for me to describe the feeling that you get from all of it. It’s just obviously positive and really rewarding in a way, just to see that they are all feeding off each other and you had something to do with that and you were a part of that is really sick. It just makes me really stoked; stoked and happy is the main feeling,” says Juliette. “But I feel like I would still be kind of bummed if we didn’t evolve more, because I know that we can make a bigger difference in female sports, I know that. And I see it evolving in the future maybe even outside of skateboarding.” A prime example of that new generation of skaters are Indi and Ally Hickman, who started skating last year at eight and 10 years old, respectively, and are already dropping in on the nine-foot ramp at the skate park thanks to the confidence Juliette, Amalia and the Real Wild Kittens have instilled in them. “We look up to them because they teach us a lot and we love hanging out with them and being around them,” says Indi. “They always teach us some really cool tricks and we love to skate, and we’ve gotten much more confident doing all our tricks and they push us a lot and they get us to the level that we can do more tricks and it keeps going on.” Now with summer, and the Kittens skateboard camps, wrapping up, Juliette can start to shift focus to all the other things in her life like snowboarding and finishing school on the honour roll. And she can finally take a break from the Real Wild Kittens’ busy summer schedule while she dives headfirst into her even busier fall and winter schedule and tries to figure out what she wants to do after high school—aside from continuing to grow the Real Wild Kittens, of course. “I can see the brand evolving a lot. Once I find a vision in snowboarding, I really want to share my passion in [that] as well, I just got to find something to intertwine it,” Juliette says. “But yeah, just [being] girls-oriented and changing the male dominance in sport, I think that’s the main vision.” As I walk up to the skate park on a crisp September afternoon with my own skateboard in hand, inspired by the badass girls of the Real Wild Kittens to take up the sport, it’s easy to see how Juliette’s vision has already begun to take shape. Among the approximately 20 guys skating the park, there is a handful of girls right beside them, dropping in and tearing up the park with no signs of fear whatsoever. Even just three years ago, that’s not something you’d ever see. But now, it’s just part of the norm in Whistler. ■

CHANGING THE NARRATIVE The Real Wild Kittens are just one example of a fast-growing international women’s

movement that has similar girls skate groups cropping up all around the world like GirlSwirl in California, Nefarious Skate Crew in London, Skate Kitchen in Brooklyn and New Zealand-based Waa Hine Skate and Grind Girls. And nearly all of them have eerily similar origin stories as the Real Wild Kittens. Bailey Te Maipi, founder of Waa Hine Skate—named after the Maori words for “time” and “women”—started skateboarding at just six years old but quit a few years later after not having any other girls to skate with. But like others with similar stories, it was finally finding other girls that re-ignited Te Maipi’s passion. And after working and coaching at a company called On Board Skate during university—with Grind Girl’s founder Jasmine Tenheuval—Te Maipi branched off to start her own girls’ skate group. “I was at [university] and really found a passion for teaching girls to skateboard,” she says. “I just wanted to create an environment for girls where they were able to see other girls doing it and that it wasn’t an abnormal thing to see other girls at the skate park and just encouraging and empowering other women to give it a go.” For her and Tenheuval, who both describe themselves as introverted, running these groups has not only given a whole new generation of girls a place to skate but has also done wonders for growing their own confidence. “I was definitely a shy kid so I was never brave enough to go to the skate park, especially alone. But now I don’t mind so much because I’ve grown my confidence skating, and going with the other girls it’s less intimidating,” says Tenheuval. “And it’s really grown my confidence outside of skating, too. It’s grown me and my friends closer. It’s just really cool to see girls getting involved. Skating has even got me into doing a leadership program at the moment, too. I never would have done that if it wasn’t for skating.” Despite its founding members facing similar barriers to enter the sport as other groups around the globe, Brooklyn’s Skate Kitchen didn’t form with the same mission at top of mind—they simply loved skating together. “That’s the thing, we never actually had a goal. We just really wanted to stick together, we wanted to have fun among each other and feel comfortable because at the time it was really uncomfortable to skate alone especially if you were a girl around a lot of guys,” says Dede Lovelace, one of the co-founders of Skate Kitchen and the star of the HBO series Betty. “So we all knew what that felt like and the fact that we were able to come together, skate and just enjoy each other’s company so organically, we wanted to just really keep that going. There was never any intentions of like creating a skate group and making it this whole movement. It just kind of became that, which is really nice.” Skate Kitchen, got its start when two of the girls, Rachelle Vinberg and Nina Moran, were spotted on the subway with their skateboards by film director Crystal Moselle who was inspired to make a short film. So Moran reached out to Lovelace, who then called some of her friends, and they all got together to shoot That One Day. After that, the girls, most of whom had just graduated high school, decided to continue hanging out and skating together. They started an Instagram page and called themselves Skate Kitchen, a play on the often-used derogatory comment seen by Vinberg on YouTube skate videos that would tell women to go back to the kitchen. From there, the girls in Skate Kitchen kept in contact with Moselle and eventually got back together to do a feature film named after their group. “We did the feature film [Skate Kitchen] and then HBO showed interest in the movie and Crystal was like, ‘What do you guys think about doing a show?’ So it kind of just became this snowball effect,” says Lovelace about the how they all ended up starring in HBO’s Betty. “We just kept working with each other, we enjoyed working with each other, and we wanted to tell this story, especially because skateboarding has had such a major impact on all of us, so we just kept it going.” But despite the different reasons for starting their group, the confidence and sense of community that Skate Kitchen instilled was the same for Te Maipi, Tenheuval, the Pelchat sisters and nearly all the young girls who became a part of these groups. And with that confidence came a building momentum that has seen the sport blossom in their hometowns. “Oh my goodness, I see so many girls skating and we just keep seeing more and more girls every year and it just keeps growing and growing,” says Lovelace. “And now there’s queer skaters and non-binary and just a lot of different people that you didn’t really see in the beginning. So it’s changed tremendously and not just here in New York.” Moving forward, Skate Kitchen, Grind Girls, Waa Hine Skate and the Real Wild Kittens are all working towards the same goal: not only growing the women’s side of the sport but seeing themselves represented in the culture as well. “Hopefully we get more support from major brands and stuff like that. I know that much more women are becoming pro, which is awesome and so hopefully that sees more growth in the women’s skateboarding space not only on a board but off a board as well, like videography, photography and owning skate shops,” says Te Maipi. “I think everyone around the world is now seeing skating in a different way, and seeing those girls at the Olympics is going to change so many people’s minds about what girls can do on a skateboard and that they are not just at skate parks to find a boyfriend. So I just hope that that narrative changes.”

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Whistler skier starts GoFundMe to support Olympic dream STEFANIE FLECKENSTEIN HAS STARTED A GOFUNDME TO HELP SUBSIDIZE HER SKI SEASON AHEAD OF THE 2022 OLYMPIC GAMES IN BEIJING

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R A C E R and Whistler local Stefanie Fleckenstein’s Olympic dreams first started just over 11 years ago when Vancouver and Whistler hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. At 12 years old, and just starting to fall in love with the sport of ski racing, being able to see her idols compete in person on the world’s biggest stage sparked a passion for the sport that persists to this day for the now 24-year-old Fleckenstein. From then, as she continued to progress in the sport over the years, Fleckenstein eventually found herself one step away from her ultimate goal as part of the Canadian National team. But in September of 2017, with the 2018 Olympic Games right around the corner, disaster struck for Fleckenstein when a crash, while training in Chile, resulted in a broken tibia, ending her season and her chances of making the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. “I definitely knew something was wrong. I couldn’t quite figure out what was going on, but I could tell something was not where it was supposed to be,” said Fleckenstein of the accident.

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“There were only a couple of girls on this world cup speed team, and I was one of them. I was getting to train with the girls I had looked up to for so long and then to have it end in September when it had just started in June, that was probably the hardest part, knowing that that chance was gone.” Adding insult to injury, the timing of Fleckenstein’s crash lined up with the Canadian National team running out of the necessary funding to continue supporting her. So with no team, no funding, and weeks of healing ahead of her, Fleckenstein took the only other option she had, and accepted a scholarship offer to Colorado University to race for its NCAA Division I team. But even though she would rather have not been there, Fleckenstein believes going to university and racing in the NCAA, where she was awarded All-American status in both Slalom and Giant Slalom, all while upholding a 4.0 GPA this past year, has given her a new perspective on skiing and has re-motivated her towards her goals. “I really appreciate skiing now. I think when I was at school, I’d be sitting in class and kind of daydreaming about going skiing,” she said. “And now, even if I’m having a tough day of training, or if things aren’t going exactly how I want them to go, I always have that in the back of my mind, like ‘you’re getting to do something that you’ve been dreaming of for the past three years.’ So it’s definitely made me appreciate skiing and has increased my drive to work hard.”

With the Beijing Olympics coming up in February 2022, Fleckenstein has taken the year off from school to focus on qualifying for the Games. And despite not being on a national team and currently racing independently while training with the International Ski Racing Academy (ISRA) in Italy, Fleckenstein has the skills to take that next step and represent Canada at the Olympics, according to one of her coaches, Jim Pollock. “I think Stef is probably one of the best all-around skiers coming up in Canada right now. She’s very coordinated, she’s got a great build for skiing, and she does the hard work, and I think that’s all you can ask for in an athlete,” he said. “I don’t think Canada can afford to overlook any talent coming up because we aren’t that deep in talent right now. Stef is definitely someone who is on the radar and will be vying for a World Cup start and an Olympic berth. I think she’s very much in the running to get that.” However, skiing independently without a national team to support you comes with some challenges, with the biggest of them being money, which is why Fleckenstein turned to GoFundMe to support her season. Normally, Fleckenstein prefers to build personal connections with sponsors and make them a part of her journey, but with the COVID-19 pandemic putting limitations on her ability to hold in-person fundraising events, she had to find another way to raise money. “Obviously I’m not at the goal that I’ve

set but I am unbelievably grateful for the people that have donated,” she said about having raised just shy of $5,000 already this year. “It feels really amazing that people even consider my dream something that is worth donating to. I’ve had an amazing experience with Nita Lake Lodge … they’ve been an amazing sponsor to me, but it’s been really cool to see the people around me that maybe aren’t even in my day-today life that have managed to donate and who want to be a part of it.” Even if she doesn’t reach her lofty goal of $70,000, slated to go towards ISRA team fees, travel fees, and race and equipment costs, Fleckenstein still plans to do whatever it takes to make the Olympics, not only this year but for the next couple of Games as well. And while not raising enough money will put obstacles in her way, she knows she’s got what it takes to don that red and white for Canada in Beijing in five months. “Right now, I feel very confident in where I’m at, and I think that I could be there for sure. I mean I don’t want to say that, I feel like that’s jinxing it. But yeah, I feel very confident in how this year is going,” said Fleckenstein. “Obviously, it’s going to be a lot harder [if I can’t raise enough money]. But I wouldn’t say that not reaching my goal is going to end my career. I’m going to make it happen no matter what, and my parents are the most supportive parents around, so they’re going to do anything they can to make sure that I’m able to keep going.” n

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BY HARRISON BROOKS THE WHISTLER Skateboard Club, along with key sponsors Gibbons Whistler and Whistler Old School Initiative, will be hosting the first-ever skateboard competition at the Whistler Skate Park, Mayhem in the Mountains, on Saturday, Sept. 11. The event will consist of four categories: men’s and women’s amateur and men’s and women’s professional. The two professional categories will have equal cash prizing with $1,500 for first place, $750 for second place and $375 for third place. Competitors in the amateur categories will be competing for various product prizes. There will also be a best-trick competition with a cash prize of $500. The contest will take place primarily in the new section of the park and will consist of a qualifying round of two 45-second runs for each rider with their best score being used towards qualifying for the finals. Time-permitting, the finals will consist of three 45-second runs for each finalist with the single best run taking home the top prize. “So we’ll have a set course that the competitors will use and then it’s whatever they decide to show us in that 45 seconds,” said Harry Gray, owner of the Whistler Skateboard Club. “So this is where the variance of individual style of the way you like to skate will make it interesting, because there are so many different options for the one park. Someone might want to go

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fast and big and do a lot more transition and other people might go a little bit slower, be a little more technical and use some of the street features, but they basically have 45 seconds to show us what they can do and we judge what they can show us.” The competition will have three judges including Gray, professional skater Alex Chalmers, and a third who is yet to be named. Registration for the event will take place between 9 and 10 a.m. the day of, with competitions kicking off between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. DJ Vinyl Ritchie will be on hand spinning tunes for the whole day and the sponsors will have booths set up with activities and giveaways for spectators to participate in. The event is free to attend for anyone six years of age or older.

WHISTLER BMX HOSTS FINAL RACE OF SEA TO SKY SERIES The Whistler BMX club is hosting the fourth and final race of the Sea to Sky BMX Series on Sunday Sept. 12. The four-race series starts Saturday with races at 11 a.m. in North Vancouver and 3 p.m. in Squamish. Sunday’s races start at 11 a.m. in Pemberton before wrapping up with the final race at 3 p.m. in Whistler. Thirty minutes before each race will be designated for sign in and practise time. The series is open to all BMX Canada

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SPORTS THE SCORE << FROM PAGE 37 members, and with no provincial or national BMX series happening this year due to COVID-19, Judy Hallett, president of the Whistler BMX club, is expecting to have more than 100 riders at each race. In order to win the Sea to Sky BMX series, riders must compete in a minimum of three of the four races, with their top three race scores being used to calculate the leaderboard. Prizes for the winners will be awarded after the final race in Whistler. Racers can register for the series by contacting the Whistler BMX Club on Facebook. The club also offers weekly races every Tuesday evening at the track in Cheakamus Crossing. Registration for the weekly races takes place from 5:30 to 6 p.m. with racing starting shortly after.

WHISTLER SLIDING CENTRE HOSTS BOBSLEIGH AND SKELETON RECRUITMENT DAY The Whistler Sliding Centre will be hosting its annual bobsleigh and skeleton recruitment day on Saturday, Sept. 11. This event costs $20 per participant and offers a chance to find out more about the sports of skeleton and bobsleigh, meet the coaches, and find out the options of how to get involved. Participants will also be put through some physical testing for speed, acceleration and strength to show their potential and to give them an overview of what the Sliding Centre’s “Learn to Slide” program would look like for them. The Learn to Slide program welcomes all skill levels from beginners to toplevel athletes and offers “comprehensive programming with a clear progression pathway for both bobsleigh and skeleton,” according to a press release from the Whistler Sliding Centre. The Learn to Slide programs are available for ages 14 and up for skeleton and 16 and up for bobsleigh, with on-ice programs offered from October to the end of March. The Whistler Sliding Centre also offers luge programming, but due to there being different requirements for that sport, it is not offered as part of the bobsleigh and skeleton recruitment day. Registration for the recruitment day can be done by phone at 604-964-0040 ext. 2206 or by sending an email to Silke Jeltsch at sjeltsch@whistlersportlegacies. com. Check-in starts at 12:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

GRANFONDO REGISTRATION OPENS In April, the RBC GranFondo Whistler bike race was cancelled for the second year in a row. But on August 25, it was announced that the race would be officially returning on Sept. 10, 2022. For four days only, beginning Sept. 11, there will be a discounted registration fee to celebrate the return of the race.

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BACK IN ACTION The Axemen Rugby Club, based in Squamish, is set to start their 2021 season in October after being shut down for nearly two years. PHOTO BY THE AXEMEN RUGBY CLUB

The GranFondo, which loosely translates to “Big Ride” in Italian, is a 122-kilometre bike race that takes riders along the Sea to Sky corridor, starting in Vancouver’s Stanley Park and ending in Whistler with five rest stops along the way. Those who had registered for the cancelled 2020 race will be able to re-register for the 2022 GranFondo for free. Riders can register for the race at www.rbcgranfondo.com/whistler/ after registration opens at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Sept.11.

AXEMEN RUGBY CLUB KICKS OFF SEASON After being shut down for 18 months due to COVID-19 and only being able to practise, the Axemen Rugby Club will finally be getting back to game action this weekend. On Saturday, Sept. 11, at Brennan Park in Squamish, the Axemen will be hosting a “festival of rugby” to celebrate the return of rugby to the Sea to Sky. The day kicks off at 10:30 a.m. with a game of touch rugby open to anyone in the community who wants to participate. The celebration concludes with some pre-season action in a “game of three halves” where the Axemen, the Rowers and Kats RFC play one half of a game against each opponent. After training all summer, Axemen head coach Keith Reeves is excited to get back to playing meaningful games when the season kicks off in mid-October. “We’ve trained really hard since early summer, have some exciting new recruits and I think we’ve got a great chance of another hugely successful season,” he said. “We’ve got three preseason games lined up before the season starts [in October]. I can promise exciting open rugby that our supporters here in the Sea to Sky will really enjoy.” In 2019, the Axemen were the BC Rugby Division 3 champions and were at the top of the Division 2 standings in 2020 before the season was shut down because of the pandemic. n

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Keep it easy to keep your cool FALL FOR THE FOOD PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE FOR SMOOTH BACK-TO-REALITY SAILING LABOUR DAY always draws an unequivocal line in the sand of life. On one side, summer and fun. On the other, fall and all the fallout it entails: Kids and adults alike scrambling with backpacks for school or work stuffed with the right lunches—and the right masks. A bit of melancholy as the evening sky darkens earlier and earlier, and the first sparks of red dot the trees.

BY GLENDA BARTOSH But what can you do? Keep things easy to keep your cool, I say, so here’s a round-up of carefree ways to eat simply throughout the day that won’t tax your health or your brain. And you don’t have to be in school or uni, or have kids, to enjoy them. If it makes you feel better, keep in mind things could be worse, way worse. Labour Day started back in 1885 in the U.S. and 1895 in Canada as a way to celebrate workers and promote justice and safety for them— including the eight-hour work day and five-day work week. Before that you would have needed a lot more than a bagged lunch to get you through working at least 10 hours a day every day of the week—even if you didn’t need to wear a mask.

SIMPLE SNACKING Grab some kohlrabi as a snack this fall. It’s packed full of protein and fibre, as well as a host of vitamins and minerals PHOTO BY GETTYIMAGES.CA

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SPACED-OUT FOOD THAT’S GOOD FOR YOU No, it’s not from Vulcan, or Niburu. Still, kohlrabi, the amazing but usually overlooked veggie, sure looks like a mini-satellite or Sputnik, or some weird life form from Star Trek with its big bulb, pearly-green skin and strange little radiating spokes (those are the bases of stems that supported the leaves before they were cut off). But kohlrabi comes from your favourite local farm or produce department, and delivers one of the tastiest, easiest servings of fibre and nutrition that will lighten the tedium of the usual (yawn) carrot sticks and apple wedges in the old lunch pack. The bulb of the kohlrabi is actually the engorged stem of the plant. It grows above ground, atop the tap root, which looks like a skinny parsnip. If you cut into the peel at the base of the bulb and pull upwards toward the top, it comes away easily. Kohlrabi is a cultivar of wild cabbage, so like its cousins kale, broccoli and the like, it’s super good for you. One cup raw only has 36 calories, but it contains two grams of protein and five grams of fibre plus it’s an excellent source of magnesium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, vitamin C and more. Bit of a head’s up, you might have a bit of challenge finding it this year, but it’s worth it. Whistler’s Nesters Market usually brings it in from Pemberton, but supply can be spotty. Likewise Whistler’s Creekside Market usually has kohlrabi, but do check. And if you shop up at Pemberton Valley Supermarket, Amanda will be bringing it in for sure with the other fall veggies like rutabaga.

As for those Star Trek planets, it’s possible to grow kohlrabi on Vulcan. But it might be tough on Niburu. With the cooler, redder star that it orbits, your kohlrabi would have to adapt by being red or black in colour to gather as much light as possible for photosynthesis.

DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY… PACK A BANANA It’s proven! Bananas really do make you happy and, man, do I eat a lot of them lately. Never mind their cheerful yellow and the fact they’re shaped like a smile, bananas really do help you relax, sleep better and crank down those anxiety levels. They even help you concentrate. Bananas have high levels of potassium and magnesium—both good muscle relaxants—as well as the amino acid L-tryptophan, which is converted to a molecule, which our bodies use to produce serotonin, sometimes called the “feel-good” chemical, and melatonin. Your body needs both of these to regulate sleep, cognition, mood, even behaviour. Some experts also cite bananas for their ability to enhance concentration, and to help students learn. They contain tryptophan, which may help preserve memory function, and vitamin B6, which helps memory function, too. Salmon, potatoes and tofu are good sources of B6 as well. For a quick and easy happy dessert or snack, mash up a banana until it’s really mushy, and add a dollop of plain, non-sweetened yogurt. Mix well and

Bob’s your uncle. Add nuts, unsweetened coconut, or a few chocolate chips as you like. Makes enough for two, so adjust proportions as needed.

THE PERFECT ANCIENT SNACK If ever there was a single easy food I could live on a desert island, it would be hummus, houmous, hommos—or however you like to spell it. A desert island, or actual desert, would be totally appropriate, since this tasty, healthy snack likely came out of ancient Egypt. (It’s recorded history goes back to the 13th century but it’s much older than that.) There are so many recipes online, and otherwise, for hummus I won’t try to give you one. My old pal Katie Rodgers uses the one in Joy of Cooking—simple, probably like the original recipe, with just tahini, lemon, garlic and salt. I’ve been monkeying around, boiling my chickpeas with a pinch of baking soda in the water that makes them so soft and creamy it’s sinful. They’re also easy to mash with the other ingredients with just a potato masher. Who had a food processor in ancient Egypt? Whether you make it or buy it readymade, your super-hummus is packed with plant-based protein and tons of goodfor-you minerals like iron, folate and manganese. Enjoy it anytime. Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who’s happily made supper from kohlrabi, hummus and banana pudding. n

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After more than a year of virtual work-arounds, Whistler’s choral groups are back singing together again AFTER MEETING ONLINE AND OUTDOORS, BARBED CHOIR, WHISTLER SINGERS AND WHISTLER CHILDREN’S CHORUS ARE MOVING BACK TO IN-PERSON REHEARSALS

BY BRANDON BARRETT IN ITS LAST SESSION before COVID19 hit in March 2020, Whistler’s Barbed Choir sang The Band’s classic late-‘60s hit, “The Weight.” Like so many things in those strange and uncertain days at the dawn of the pandemic, the night took on a palpable tension. “That was actually the night before everything shut down. We had a small group and it was a weird vibe,” says choir leader Jeanette Bruce. “We were like, ‘Are we going to be allowed to do this next time?’ Of course, the answer was no.” Fast-forward to July 2021, and after 16 months when we can all attest to feeling the weight of the world on our shoulders, Whistler’s rock ‘n’ roll choir decided to bring it full circle, singing the same song in its first in-person session at Florence Petersen Park. “The word is appreciation,” Bruce says of the opportunity to sing together again. “The people who come are so excited to see people in person; they’re so excited to make music together. The enthusiasm has been amazing. Myself and Laura Nedelak put quite a bit of effort into preparing the sessions, so it’s so satisfying to know that

SING-ALONG Whistler’s three main choral groups are back singing together, but with COVID-19 uncertainty in the air, they may have to get creative this winter. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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people are still into it, they still really enjoy the process and that we are still wanted. We haven’t lost our relevance.” As restrictions have begun to ease up, Whistler’s three main choirs—the adult chorus Whistler Singers, the Whistler Children’s Chorus for Grades 1 through 7, as well as the aforementioned Barbed Choir—are back singing together again, with certain protective measures in place, of course. For now, the choirs are meeting outdoors, with plans to move indoors—with masks on and proof of vaccination required

the same, except with Bruce and pianist Allyn Pringle together in the same room, as the kids followed along at home. The Whistler Singers, meanwhile, also shifted to online rehearsals and had to get creative for its popular, long-running Christmas Eve Carol Service last year, filming the songs from Hunter’s backyard and presenting it entirely online for the first time. “We couldn’t just not do it,” Hunter says of the 37th annual service. “In 30-odd years, it was the first Christmas Eve at home.” But of course no technological fix could

“‘Just come.’ Everybody can sing. Some of us, me included, had a Grade 4 music teacher who told me I could never sing and I’d never do anything in music, and here I am.” - ALISON HUNTER

for those eligible—in due time. Like so many choirs around the world, it’s been more than a year of virtual workarounds. Both Bruce and Whistler Singers director Alison Hunter relied on guidance from the BC Choral Federation early in COVID-19, and researched everything from air ventilation systems to various digital software that would allow them to continue meeting in some form—and they did. Barbed Choir met on Zoom for a period, with Nedelak providing the score on guitar, while participants sang from their respective spaces. The children’s choir did

ever replace the feeling of actually singing together in the same space, not to mention the strong sense of community that has long been an essential part of Whistler’s choral groups. “Community is a very important part of it so it’s not just that we sing, but everybody gets to know each other,” Hunter says of the Whistler Singers. “Nobody has to audition and there have been a lot of people over the last few years who go, ‘Oh, I’d love to sing, but I can’t sing.’ And I say, ‘Just come.’ Everybody can sing. Some of us, me included, had a Grade 4 music teacher who

told me I could never sing and I’d never do anything in music, and here I am.” With COVID-19 numbers climbing, the fall and winter plans for the community’s choirs are very much up in the air. The Whistler Singers are already making moves to pre-record the Remembrance Day and Christmas Eve services, for instance, but otherwise, plans are to continue meeting in person, with masks and physically distanced, as health restrictions allow. “We have a lot of plans. Plan A, B, C; it just goes on,” Hunter says. “I joked to Jeanette yesterday that we’re on Plan J now for Christmas Eve.” Barbed Choir’s next outdoor session— singing Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon”—is slated for Sept. 19 at Florence Petersen Park at 7 p.m. Stay up to date with the choir’s latest news through its Facebook group. The Whistler Children’s Chorus, which recently completed a four-day, outdoor choir “boot camp,” will begin its fall season on Tuesday, Sept. 21 in Florence Petersen Park, and will meet every Tuesday this fall from 4 to 5 p.m. Registration is required by emailing Bruce at jbruce@whistlerlibrary.ca. All applicable health guidelines will be followed once the meetings move indoors at the library. The Whistler Singers also meet Tuesdays, from 7 until 9 p.m., with the next session slated for Myrtle Philip Community School. Hunter says masks and proof of vaccination will be required. For more information, visit whistlerchorus.org. Those interested in joining can also email Hunter at whistlerharp@gmail.com. n

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GOING GREEN Award-winning Vancouver author Shaena Lambert’s new book is a fictionalized biography of feminist, activist and Germany’s original Green Party leader Petra Kelly. PHOTO SUBMITTED

Portrait of an activist BOOK REVIEW: PETRA BY SHAENA LAMBERT

BY KATHERINE FAWCETT PETRA, the latest book by award-winning Vancouver author Shaena Lambert, is a compelling fictionalized biography of feminist, activist and Germany’s original Green Party leader Petra Kelly. Set in Germany in the ‘80s and early ‘90s, it’s a meticulously researched and creatively presented study of a charismatic peace activist’s passion and influence. It follows her rise to near cult status, her subsequent fall from grace into obscurity, and her death by gunshot. The background of the Greens, beginning with anti-nuclear weapons and pro-human rights movements during the Cold War is fascinating. But it’s the personal lens through which Lambert examines Kelly and other key characters of the era that makes this book sizzle. Central to the novel is Petra’s love affair with Emil Gerhardt, a (married) NATO general who shocked the world by converting to the Greens’ political camp. Emil’s character is based on real-life Gert Bastian, who left the military to protest the stationing of mid-range nuclear weapons in Europe. Emil’s reflection on his Nazi past is both fascinating and disturbing. “I was brainwashed,” he says of his participation in the Hitler Youth and his role as a soldier following orders in the Second World War. How this stands with Petra illustrates the deep complexity of human nature. One of the most intriguing characters in the book is Manfred Schwartz, the primary narrator, Petra’s political ally, friend and former lover. Something of a third wheel in the high-profile lives of Petra and Emil, Manfred admires and protects Petra, but eventually comes to recognize her egocentrism, hypocrisy and search for what he calls a “father figure.”

Throughout the book, Lambert employs a shifting point of view, from Manfred’s to an omniscient perspective. Although sometimes jarring, this technique was oddly effective. The combination of idealism, espionage, jealousy, forgiveness, power, love, betrayal and murder gives “Petra” a Shakespearean texture. Indeed, the plot and characters, from Emil’s shunned wife Helena, to the East German political activist Clara Pohl, to the women who once raved over Petra and came to shun her, have a tragic quality to them that is both universal and personal, not unlike The Bard’s great works. Not being terribly well-informed on the politics of the time, I had to remind myself that the characters in the book were based on real people, and the events in its pages were real stories being reported by the news sources around the world when I was in high school. Petra is a book for history buffs, political junkies and anyone fascinated by the psychology and motivations of those involved in deep and impactful activism. It’s also a love story, a lesson on grassroots activism and a fearless look at the complicated private life of a controversial public figure. Katherine Fawcett is an award-winning, Squamish-based author and playwright. Her books include The Little Washer of Sorrows and The Swan Suit. She will be moderating Insights from Insiders: Trade Publishing in Canada Today with seven publishers and editors on Oct. 15 at the Whistler Writers Festival. Shaena Lambert will be reading as part of the festival’s Literary Cabaret Watch Party, also on Oct. 15. The 20th-anniversary edition of the Whistler Writers Festival run from Oct. 14 to 17. For tickets and the full schedule, visit whistlerwritersfest.com. n

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LOGO LAND The “W” logo welcoming visitors to the Whistler Village. WHISTLER QUESTION COLLECTION, 1981.

W is for Whistler BY ALLYN PRINGLE FOR SOME VISITORS to the museum, the most recognizable images of Whistler’s past are not photographs or objects, but logos and company branding. Just seeing Garibaldi Lifts Ltd.’s green and blue “G” can instantly remind a former lift operator of their company-issued jacket and the months they spent loading the Red Chair sometime between 1965 and 1980. Some logos and branding initiatives have lasted for decades while others were only in use for a few years and then forgotten, though traces of them can still be found around the Whistler valley long after they were first introduced. The Whistler Village Land Company (WVLC) introduced its “W” logo in their newsletter in December 1978. It was designed by Robert McIlhargey, an architectural illustrator who, with his wife Lori Brown, created much of the concept rendering work for Expo 86. McIlhargey was hired by the WVLC along with David Clifford as design consultants, helping plan elements of the Whistler Village like the logo and even directional signs. According to McIlhargey, the “W” logo and uniform branding and signage throughout the resort were meant to “reinforce the image of Whistler.” The “W” logo consisted of a circle of Ws, often with the words Whistler Village written underneath. It was designed to be easily adapted to different settings through the use of different text and background colours (the logo was first introduced in green). Shortly after its introduction, the Ws were visible on signs at the entrance to the Whistler Village site and into the 1980s the Ws could be found on wooden signs, pamphlets, advertisements, and even turtlenecks. In 1979, Don Willoughby and Geoff Power of Willpower Enterprises were given permission to use the “W” logo to produce 1,000 T-shirts as souvenirs of the

World Cup race that was meant to have run on Whistler Mountain. Not all marketing and branding initiatives in Whistler have been as seemingly well received as WVLC’s “W” logo. The reception to the Big Old Softie initiative wasn’t exactly what the Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation (WMSC) had hoped for. According to Whistler’s then-vicepresident of marking Mike Hurst, Whistler Mountain began to be perceived as “the big ol’ tough ol’ mountain from way back” after Blackcomb Mountain opened for skiing in 1980, while Blackcomb built a reputation as a beginner-friendly mountain. Hurst described Blackcomb’s reputation as “this big, friendly family mountain, nice and soft, everything’s good.” Whistler Mountain did not yet have the same on-mountain amenities or family focused programs that Blackcomb did, but after 15 years without local competition Whistler Mountain was working to change its image. Hurst and his team began trying to show that Whistler Mountain was “every bit as friendly and family oriented” as Blackcomb with lots of easy, beginner terrain. Working with Ron Woodall (the person behind the A&W Root Bear and the creative director of Expo 86), the Big Old Softie initiative was created. Featuring a rounded, smiling mountain, the Big Old Softie was not a universal hit. On rainy days, some changed the name to the “Big Old Soggy” and, according to Hurst, he and the Whistler Mountain team “got raked over the coals pretty good by pretty much everybody on the campaign.” Despite this, the Big Old Softie has proven memorable, and Hurst thought that it did bring attention to Whistler Mountain’s softer side and developing programs. While you are unlikely to come across an image of the Big Old Softie walking through Whistler today, there are still circles of Ws and even some Garibaldi Lifts Gs that can be spotted around town. n

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DIVING IN It was a great week for aquatic feline photography in and around Whistler. On the left, Frankie considers a plunge into Hippie Lake on a brilliantly sunny day this weekend, while on the right, rescue cat Marie-Jeanne takes in the scenery THAT’S MY FORTE Joe Fortes, the beloved Vancouver steak and seafood restaurant, opened its new Whistler Village location last week. PHOTO BY GEORGIA BUTLER. 4 HOLE IN MY HEART Matt Wiebe has been trying to reunite an errant tire that flew off the back of a blue pickup in Creekside for days now, to no avail. The good news is he found this sweet cowboy hat that also subsequently flew out of a vehicle. PHOTO BY JUSTIN KEOUGH. 4 SMARTY PARTY Twenty members of the Smoketree strata in Whistler Cay took part in a FireSmart clean-up on Sunday, Sept. 5. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 6 TOP OF THE WORLD Barnaby Rose descends the Top of the World trail with a view of Black Tusk in the background. PHOTO BY BARNABY ROSE. 6 FLOWER POWER Felicia Tan, left, and Mali Mitchell pose in front of Senka Florist. Strike your own pose and, 1 2

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We need to become more unreasonable but in an intelligent way,” says Aries politician Jerry Brown. Yes! I agree! And that’s especially true for you right now, Aries. To Brown’s advice, I will add this message from Aries fashion designer Vivienne Westwood: “Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight— things that have nothing to do with reason.” Here’s one further suggestion to help you take maximum advantage of cosmic rhythms, courtesy of Aries historian Arnold J. Toynbee: “The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I have become whole and complete, like a thundering cloudburst in summer,” wrote Taurus poet Miklós Radnóti. I love that metaphor for fullness: not an immaculate icon of shiny, sterile perfection, but rather a primal, vigorous force of nature in all of its rumbling glory. I hope you like this symbol as much as I do, and I hope you use it to fuel your creative spirit in the coming weeks. PS: Keep in mind that many Indigenous people welcome rainstorms as a source of fertility and growth. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Pandiculation” is a word that refers to when you stretch and yawn at the same time. According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you will benefit from doing a lot of pandiculations in the coming days. I also recommend gazing lazily out the window and looking at the sky a lot. Keep your shoes off as much as possible, get a massage or three, and let yourself sleep more than you customarily do. Did you know that sighing deeply is good for your lungs’ health? Here’s your homework: Dream up all the things you can do to relax and renew yourself. It’s prime time to indulge in generous acts of self-healing. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The ancient Roman author Pliny’s ten-volume Natural History, written in the first century BCE, was a monumental encyclopedia of the natural world, unprecedented in its own time and for centuries afterward. It offered compilations of facts about astronomy, geography, zoology, botany, mineralogy, and many other subjects. There was one big problem with it, however. It contained a great deal of erroneous information. For example, Pliny described in detail many non-existent animals, including dragons, flying horses, and giant serpents that swallowed bulls and snatched birds out of the sky. My reason for telling you this is to inspire you to be extra discerning in the coming weeks. Be especially skeptical of authorities, experts, and other know-it-alls who are very confident despite being inaccurate or erroneous. It’s time for you to increase your trust in your own authority. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem,” writes Leo poet Mark Doty. That’s great for a poet. But what about for everyone else? My variation on Doty’s comment is this: There are fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a holy revelation or a lyrical breakthrough or a marvellous feeling that changes our lives forever. I expect events like those to come your way at least twice in the immediate future. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Between 37 and 41 BCE, Virgoborn Caligula served as third Emperor of Rome. To do so, he had to disprove the prophecy of a renowned astrologer, Thrasyllus of Mendes. Years earlier, Thrasyllus had predicted that Caligula, despite being well-connected, “had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”—a distance of three kilometres. Once in power, Caligula arranged to have a series of pontoon boats arrayed across the bay, enabling him to ride his favourite horse Incitatus from one shore to the other across the Bay of Baiae. I foresee the possibility of a comparable turn of events for you, Virgo. Is there a curse you want to undo? A false prophecy you’d like to cancel? Someone’s low expectation you would love to debunk? The coming weeks will be a favourable time. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): College student Amelia Hamrick

studied the right panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s 15th-century painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. It depicts a hellish scene. Cities are on fire. Weird beasts devour sinful humans. There are demons and torture chambers. Hamrick did what no one in the history of art had ever done: she transcribed the musical score that the artist had written on a man’s naked hindquarters. Her work inspired a composer to create a recording entitled “500-Year-Old Butt Song from Hell.” In the coming weeks, I invite you to perform feats comparable to Hamrick: 1. Explore the past for useful, overlooked clues. 2. Find or create redemptive transformations out of stressful situations. 3. Have fun telling stories about your past misadventures. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Born on one of the Galapagos Islands, Diego is a giant tortoise that has lived for over 100 years. He’s a member of the Hood Island species, which had dwindled to a population of 15 by 1977. That’s when he and his tortoise colleague, whose name is E5, became part of a breeding program with 12 female tortoises. E5 was reserved in his behaviour, but Diego was a showboat that vocalized loudly as he enjoyed public mating rituals. Together the two males saved their species—producing over 2,000 offspring in subsequent years. According to my astrological analysis, you could be as metaphorically fertile as Diego and E5 in the coming months—even if you prefer to adopt an approach more akin to E5’s. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me,” wrote psychologist Carl Jung. “Or, conversely, I myself am a question that is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise, I am dependent upon the world’s answer.” These are superb meditations for you Sagittarians during the coming weeks. Between now and Oct. 1, I invite you to keep a journal where you write about two subjects: 1. What is the main question that life asks you? 2. What is the main question that your life asks the world? CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): North Korea’s Capricorn leader Kim Jong-un has an amazing résumé. Official reports say he learned to drive at age three and was an accomplished sailor at nine. As an adult, he developed the power to control the weather. He’s a skilled musician and artist, as well as a scientist who developed a miracle drug to cure AIDs, Ebola, cancer, heart disease, and the common cold. Most impressively, Kim is an archaeologist who discovered a lair where magical unicorns live. Is it possible you have unexpressed powers like these, Capricorn? If so, the coming weeks will be a favourable time to identify them and start tapping into their potential. It’s time to develop your dormant talents. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author Toni Morrison testified, “I think of beauty as an absolute necessity. I don’t think it’s a privilege or an indulgence. It’s almost like knowledge, which is to say, it’s what we were born for.” I urge you to adopt her perspective during the next four weeks, Aquarius. In my astrological opinion, a devoted quest for beauty will heal exactly what most needs to be healed in you. It will teach you everything you most need to know. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet and translator Anne Carson periodically joins with her husband Robert Currie to teach a workshop called “EgoCircus.” It’s an ironic title, because the subject they teach is the art of collaboration. To develop skills as a collaborator, of course, people must lay aside at least some of their egos’ needs and demands. In accordance with current astrological potentials, I encourage you to stage your own version of EgoCircus in the coming weeks. The time is ripe for you to hone your creative togetherness and synergistic intimacy. Here’s this week’s homework: Tell me the most important lesson you’ve learned since 2021 began. Newsletter@FreeWillAstrology.com.

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MAXED OUT

The voting puzzle “I WAS REALLY HOPING this wouldn’t happen again.” As a conversation starter right now in Canada, that statement seemed overly ambiguous. “Hope what wouldn’t happen again,” I wondered as the potential list of things currently going on I wished wouldn’t have happened again ran through my mind. Another wave of COVID-19? Possibly. I certainly wish I wasn’t hearing medical people across the country warning me about hospitals and ICU wards running so near capacity the threat of triage lottery— you live; no room for you—loomed likely. Royal Inland Hospital in beautiful downtown Kamloops has cancelled all elective surgeries now for the past three weeks. Running about 100 per week,

BY G.D. MAXWELL that’s 300 people who were expecting to get fixed who are cooling their heels at home while the regional hospital is stuffed with unvaccinated COVID-19 patients whose stubbornness, for the most part, has provided a karmic reminder of cause and effect. And while that isn’t top of mind for folks living in Tiny Town, it is for many of my Cariboo neighbours, as well as being the same sick movie playing out across the country. So not only are the freedumb lovers driving the fourth wave and spreading the virus, their selfishness is keeping others from healing and getting on with their lives. Meanwhile, having lost what was left of their closed minds, more militant members of the anti-vax brigade divine the depths of stupidity by protesting at hospitals, blocking entrances needed by patients, ambulances, doctors, nurses and, yes, other anti-vaxxers who now have COVID-19 and need to get in. Frankly, at this point, I believe any voluntarily unvaccinated person who shows up at a hospital with the virus should be given a supply of Ivermectin and turned away to suffer, albeit dewormed, at home. Another year of anxiety-ridden and/ or largely online schooling? Could be. We won’t know for a number of years what the effects are of impersonal education at the university level. While the various 101 amphitheatre courses were largely taught via pre-recorded, mind-numbing lectures, it’s impossible to know how effective online courses will have been for the graduates who endured them for a couple of the most important years of their schooling. Likewise, there’s no way to know what scarring effects this is going to have on children who haven’t known what open classrooms really are and can’t understand why their parents are so freaked out about packing them off to school. Oh, for the days when the scariest part of back to school was worrying about whether some kid was packing a peanut butter sandwich. Ah, I’ve got it: the election! Right? Right. Yeah, I was really hoping we wouldn’t have

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to go through this again. By this, I mean an election coupled with a real longing for a candidate I could be excited about supporting. And by candidate, I mean party leader in this case, notwithstanding all politics are local. While all politics are local, I’m enough of a realist to know none of the candidates in this riding stand much of a chance of nabbing a top job in the coming government. No knock on you guys, that’s just the way things are in the riding with a name too long and an electorate not important enough. The unfortunate outcome of this is that, once again, we’re left with voting strategically as opposed to voting for the candidate we might consider “better” than the others, not to get too excited and say voting for someone we’d really like to have governing us. The only sense in which the winner of this riding

the official opposition ... at least until the Liberals left standing serve his head on a platter or give him the warrior’s option of falling on his sword. Like the rest of the world’s leaders, he couldn’t have foreseen the debacle in Afghanistan. Whether he and the military leaders could have sprung into action sooner or more effectively to get Canadians and Afghan enablers out of the country before the door slammed shut is open to debate but isn’t relevant—he wears that clusterf%@k like a rotting fish necklace. He might not have anticipated the fourth wave would be so bad. Might not have imagined the vitriol he’s being met with at every campaign stop by the Freedumb Fighters. Might have thought the economy would get better. Might have

Oh how a couple of weeks can alter the political landscape. As of today, [Justin Trudeau] has a waning shot at forming a minority government and a real shot at leading the official opposition ... matters is how the calculus of his election helps determine the form and shape of the next federal government. This completely unnecessary election was announced because Trudeau the Second believed he had a shot at a majority government. Oh how a couple of weeks can alter the political landscape. As of today, he has a waning shot at forming a minority government and a real shot at leading

imagined everyone would forget his many broken promises, scandals, imperial rule, contempt for Parliament, ad nauseum. So now he’s left with only two arrows in his quiver: attack his opponents and promise everything to everyone. The latter is moot since the other two leaders who matter are also promising everything to everyone. The former is thin gruel, though perhaps worth the effort.

If, as polls show, green issues are a hot button with many voters who still believe there’s a chance to avoid an environmental Armageddon, attacking the Conservative leader may have traction. While the Conservative platform on the environment has moved considerably, it has two glaring flaws. For starters, it’s far less robust than the Liberal position and, as this summer’s infernos have shown us, time is running out for half measures. For seconds, it’s hard to believe the Cons would follow through on it. Their newfound green tinge veneers both a reluctance to seriously embrace environmental issues in the past and the rock solid base to whom they’re beholden is still firmly rooted in fossil fuel production. Mr. O’Toole has already shocked the more conservative wing of his party by moving left on many red-meat issues and his on-again, off-again position on gun control likely foreshadows his commitment to the party’s environmental plank. Meanwhile, the NDP is bleeding away Liberal supporters who are fed up with Trudeau’s... well, let’s just leave it at that—fed up with Trudeau. They may stare in horror at the un-costed promises the NDP leader has thrown out, suggesting the “wealthy” will pay for them, but they’re having an existential crisis at the thought of supporting JT for one more cycle. For voters in Sea to Sky, there is only rocky ground to till. Liberal or Conservative is a clear-cut choice. It’s up for grabs whether a vote for the NDP is a vote for a Conservative minority government or not. The rest of the choices are just noise. May history not judge us too harshly. ■

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BLUEBERRY 3231 Peak Dr 13,321 sq.ft. estate lot on exclusive Peak Dr nestled next to crown land. 4 bdrm quality log post and beam home with stunning Blackcomb Mtn views. $5,695,000

Suzanne Wilson

VILLAGE 720-4320 Sundial Crescent Pan Pacific Mountainside is a superbly located full service hotel within the heart of Whistler Village. Enjoy being within close walking distance to many of the best attractions, shops & restaurants that Whistler has to offer. $499,000

604-966-8454 Maggi Thornhill *PREC

BENCHLANDS 201G4-4653 Blackcomb Way Quartershare 1 bed suite at Horstman House. Turn-key convenience w full kitchen, king bed, pull-out sofa, W/D & balcony. Lodge features outdoor pool, hot tub, gym, storage & lounge. Nightly rentals managed by Whistler Premier. $169,900

604-905-8199 Rachel Allen & Ron Mitchell *PREC 604-966-4200

SOLD

WEDGEWOODS 9084 Corduroy Run Court Desirable vacant building lot. 1 acre + allows for 5920 sq ft home and up to 2150 sq ft auxiliary building. Located at the end of a cul-de-sac on a quiet welldeveloped street. Inquire today as supply is low and lots are selling quickly! $1,250,000

Kerry Batt *PREC

RAINBOW 8975 Highway 99 14.09 acres. Panoramic mountain and lake views! Opportunity to develop a unique & private family estate just 10 minutes north of Whistler village. $7,500,000

604-902-5422 Bob Daniels

EMERALD ESTATE 9324 Autumn Place Spectacular 4369 sqft timber framed house with moutain and lake view. House was built 2010 with 5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms. Bright open living space with abundant of sunlight. Rental suite on lower level. Easy to show. $3,990,000

604-932-7997 Ruby Jiang *PREC

778-834-2002

SOLD

BRACKENDALE 1516 Depot Road RS-2 ZONED DUPLEX LOT! 5 bed & 2 bath 12,240 sq.ft. lot with large basement. Parking for 6 cars & an RV. Private backyard & lovely sundecks. Close to Alice Lake, the best biking & hiking trails. 40 mins to Whistler/45 min to Vancouver. $1,350,000

Angie Vazquez *PREC

CREEKSIDE 302 (Week D)-2020 London Lane EVOLUTION - Quartershare spacious 2 bed, 2 bath. Personal use per rotational calendar week basis, or place into managed rental pool. Many building amenities, nearby Creekside Village shops, restaurants, ski lift access to enjoy! $275,000 + GST

778-318-5900 Kathy White

PEMBERTON 2045 Tiyata Blvd Huge views, huge storage, huge happiness. Brand New 4 BR & den, 4.5 bath, 2261 sq. ft. family home. Double height double garage plus 6’ tall crawl space for all the toys. Move in this October! $1,325,000

604-616-6933 Ken Achenbach

Whistler Village Shop

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604-966-7640

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#126 - 6117 Eagle Drive

3D Tour - rem.ax/208horstman

$1,998,000

Enjoy forever views of both mountains and the Whistler golf course from this 3 story end unit’s expansive windows. Watch skiers and the Peak-to-Peak Gondola as you begin or end your day by the wood-burning fire. Have the best of both worlds - a quiet established and friendly community in the desired Whistler Cay Heights neighbourhood.

Bob Cameron*

604.935.2214

#208 - 4653 Blackcomb Way

$899,000

This Phase 1 property allows you to live in your suite full time. You are close to the Chateau Golf Course, Lost Lake Park. The free bus stops in front of the building for easy access to the village and lifts. Alternatively, enjoy the short walk along the tree lined trail to reach the village.

Bruce Watt

3D Tour - rem.ax/2585lakeviewrd

604.905.0737

3D Tour - rem.ax/305fourseasons

305/306 - 4591 Blackcomb Way

This custom built log home is one of a kind. Set in a quiet bay on Gun lake, this 7037 ft2 home was created with family living in mind. A spacious kitchen and dining area allows room for everyone. Six bedrooms, all with ensuite baths, provides sleeping for up to 15.

Looking for that perfect 2 bedroom 2 bath property with low strata fees, low heating costs and air conditioning(geothermal), a back deck offering privacy, sunshine and views, just a short stroll to stores, restaurants, hiking and biking or One Mile Lake to enjoy!

604.902.2779

Doug Treleaven

$1,550,000

604.905.8626

A little piece of heaven in the east end of the Pemberton Valley, just 5 minutes from the Village of Pemberton and 2 hours from Vancouver. This private yet easily accessible acreage includes a grove of cedar, wild cherry, apple and hazelnut trees and a surprising variety of wild berries. It is equipped with gardens, sun-filled greenhouses and an orchard of apple, cherry and plum trees.

Dave Beattie*

$1,850,000

#616 - 4315 Northlands Blvd.

604.905.8855

#413 - 4369 Main Street

$395,000

Best Price in Alpenglow! This 4th floor studio with views of Sproat Mountain is a perfect little getaway and revenue generator. Located in the middle of Whistler Village, steps from Olympic Plaza, food and shopping, and a short walk from the ski hill. Complex includes a pool, hot tub and exercise room, and secure underground parking.

Matt Chiasson

3D Tour - rem.ax/616cascade

9297 Steller’s Way

$899,000

3D Tour - rem.ax/413alpenglow

2585 Lakeview Road - Gun Lake $5,450,000

Dave Sharpe

2162 Highway 99

604.935.9171

3D Tour - rem.ax/9timber

$185,000

#9 - 8073 Timber Lane

$879,000

Welcome to Wedgewoods, a master planned community of 108 beautiful properties. Phase Six includes the final 19 estate lots which allow for luxury homes plus a carriage house. Stunning mountain views and sunshine make Phase 6 a very special offering. 3.7 ACRES

Studio with in-suite kitchenette and views of Whistler Mountain. Central location in the heart of Whistler Village so you can ski, shop, dine, hike, bike and anything you desire all from your front door. Park the car in the secure underground parking and forget about it. Outdoor pool, 2 outdoor hot tubs and a fitness centre make this a must have.

This Timber Lodge end unit provides lots of natural light due to its additional windows compared to interior units, and is situated at the end of Timber lane with no other units or buildings overlooking it, giving it a very private feel. The complex was just repaved, the owners received new exterior stairs to the deck, and installed a washer/dryer combo in the unit.

Ann Chiasson

Meg McLean

Richard Grenfell

604.932.7651

3D Tour - rem.ax/20snowberry

#20 - 4637 Blackcomb Way

$2,199,000

The stunning renovation of this spacious 3 bedroom townhome on the Blackcomb Benchlands includes a new kitchen, new flooring, new ceilings, lighting, 2 beautiful bathrooms, feature living room wall with built in TV and electric fireplace; all new baseboards, doors and trim – the list goes on!

Sally Warner*

604.905.6326

604.907.2223

3D Tour - rem.ax/1489balsam

1489 Balsam Way

3D Tour - rem.ax/336springs

$1,750,000

This custom constructed home on a beautiful street in The Glen neighborhood in Pemberton has many custom features that were well planned out during construction. This home has a beautifully landscaped yard with mature trees, shrubs & established flower beds plus raspberry bushes and it is fully irrigated and easy to maintain.

Sherry Baker

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604.932.1315

604.902.4260

#336 - 4899 Painted Cliff Road

$299,000

Spectacular refurbished, lodge style fully equipped studio suite (sleeps 4), with private deck tucked away on Blackcomb Mountain at Coast Blackcomb Suites. This is the ultimate ski in, ski out lodging! In the summer enjoy the proximity to top notch hiking and mountain bike trails, or our world renowned ski slopes in the Winter.

Ursula Morel*

604.932.8629

PEMBERTON OFFICE 1411 Portage Road, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L1 604.894.6616 or Toll Free 1.888.689.0070