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WE HEART ART Arts Whistler’s latest exhibit features the work of 24 artists
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34 Squamish for Sale Thomasina Pidgeon’s new photography exhibit documents 20 years of development in the outdoor sports ‘mecca.’ - By Amy Romer / The Tyee
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Liberal incumbent Patrick Weiler
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A new development
is projected to keep his seat in the Sea to Sky after narrowly beating
proposal aiming to bring 61 new affordable housing units to the Village of
Conservative John Weston in Monday’s federal election.
Pemberton was discussed at Pemberton’s Sept. 21 council meeting.
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LET’S BOOGIE
The sixth annual Brandywine
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Boogie took place on Saturday after missing last year due to the
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CORNUCOPIA COMEBACK
After
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WE HEART ART
Arts Whistler’s latest exhibit
being cut short last year, Whistler’s culinary festival is set to expand this
features the work of 24 Sea to Sky artists and highlights the diversity of
November, with 16 days of events planned.
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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST There are many reasons why Whistler is seeing floods of visitors, one of them being the growing population in the Lower Mainland, writes Andrew Mitchell.
62 MAXED OUT While the relevance of the Green Party is in question, the relevance of learning to work together is not as we face another minority federal government.
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40 FORK IN THE ROAD New scientific studies are revealing interesting facts about how the food we eat impacts our health, writes Glenda Bartosh.
44 MUSEUM MUSINGS Whistler’s library has had a long and storied history since it was first proposed in 1986.
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So, you’ve won the election... IT’S TIME FOR some stability in a time of upheaval and confusion. For the last few years it has felt like, even here in our small corner of the Earth, that we are facing society-altering paradigms. I think you would agree, Patrick Weiler, our newly re-elected Liberal MP for Whistler. (And if the mail-in ballots being counted as Pique goes to press elect Conservative John Weston, my “Opening Remarks” would be no different.)
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In early 2020 it was as if the earth moved under our feet as we came face to face with a global threat that killed people we knew, right here in front of us. Of course climate change was killing people too, as were toxic drugs and racism,
interests of the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country riding and we expect a lot from you in this time of change. On Sept. 17, the community recognized Dr. Karin Kausky as our Citizen of the Year at the Whistler Chamber Excellence Awards, and this should surely be seen as recognition of the amazing work she and our healthcare workers have done in the last 18 months and more. But looking at our healthcare system, it is clear that it needs more than just the lens of a pandemic on it. Here in Whistler it is almost impossible to get a family doctor—we need more physicians. That means the government needs to look at the structure of family practice, which runs as a fee-for-service model. Many doctors don’t want to run a small business to practice medicine, and this fact is making the choice of pursuing family medicine less attractive. Whistler residents are deeply concerned about climate change. Unlike many urban dwellers, for many of us, the very existence
After all, it is easy for a political party to promise the world and then renege after an election—we’ve seen that movie before.
but somehow we had managed (and are still managing) to compartmentalize these threats. But the COVID-19 pandemic could not be put in a box on a shelf to be dealt with later, or by someone else. Everyone has to be part of the solution, and leading us through this ongoing global threat is the work of good government. You have been elected to look after the
of this resort relies on our environment offering the type of experiences visitors and residents alike want to enjoy. Not only is our snowline and season length going to change in the coming years, we now spend every summer under the threat of wildfire. At this point it feels more like a “when” not an “if” on the wildfire front. Locally we can all bring reusable bags to
the grocery store, but the reality is the dial can only be moved significantly on the climate emergency at the government level. And we need our government to act globally. What can be done to address China’s plan for rapidbuild coal fire plants, for example? As a tourism destination we need to know you are keeping our borders open when appropriate, and we need the industry that supports us to be recognized and funded. Part of that equation is working with us on regulations that allow Whistler to access workers from across the nation and around the world. We don’t need roadblocks, we need solutions. Many are very nervous about the rising cost of living in the Sea to Sky corridor. Affordability, working on housing solutions and supporting local businesses are top of mind for us. And like a bothersome storm cloud, dealing with the COVID-19 virus, and all its variants stretching out in front of us across the years, colours every action we take. I hope you can forgive us if cynicism creeps into our outlook on the solutions on offer so far. After all, it is easy for a political party to promise the world and then renege after an election—we’ve seen that movie before. And feeling like we are experiencing a Groundhog Day moment is hardly surprising given your Liberal party called a $610-million election and nothing changed in the governance model except you have been forced to shuffle your cabinet. (Hmm, that $610 million sure could have helped introduce universal childcare.) So please, keep on being the “hardest working” MP this riding has ever seen, hold your leader to account and work with our other political parties to address the issues that keep Canadians up at night. No pressure, but we are watching and hoping for the best for Whistler and Canada. n
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Everyone getting in a Whistler Blackcomb gondola should be fully vaccinated We wish to address this letter to all responsible health, municipal, community and business leaders in Whistler and British Columbia in response to the recently distributed Winter Operating Plan for the 2021-22 season by Vail Resorts for Whistler Blackcomb. Overall, the plan looks very solid; however, there is one glaring problem. There must be a requirement that in addition to staff, all visitors and guests going up the mountain show proof of double vaccination as a pre-condition, much like the waiver requirement in place now. We all know how cozy the gondola cars are when running “at normal capacity,” as planned by Whistler Blackcomb for this season. We all welcome normal capacity service, but the notion that an unvaccinated person could ride in such a closed-in, crowded environment makes a mockery of all the efforts we have all made to stay safe in the face of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. Please, it is a simple matter of public safety. Furthermore, such a vaccine mandate would eliminate the need for constant vaccine verification throughout the various mountain facilities as currently contemplated. I call on all responsible leaders to do everything possible to keep us all safe, and
had not hit me, she would have gone straight into the swamp at the side of the path. Chris Brossard // Whistler
We kept on swimming
to ensure we do not have another ski season marred by this health crisis. Richard Kinar and Kenneth Murphy // Whistler
Should e-bikes be banned from Valley Trail? On Wednesday, Sept. 15 I was hit from behind while walking on the Valley Trail near the River of Golden Dreams by an e-bike ridden by a 77-year-old woman. Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) workers who were nearby called an
ambulance for me and I was taken to the clinic to be assessed. Fortunately, when the accident happened I was on the gravel on the side of the path and so I rolled on a relatively soft surface and did not sustain serious injuries. On the way to the clinic the ambulance attendant told me that the RMOW is “gathering data” to help it make a decision about whether or not to ban e-bikes from that path. I would urge the RMOW to ban e-bikes immediately from this path before someone is seriously injured or killed. I should also point out that if this woman
As the Whistler Seawolves begin a new season, the executive, parents, coaches, and kids of the Whistler Seawolves Swim Club would like to extend our profound thanks to the staff of the Meadow Park Sports Centre for their support during the past year. Jon Pollard, Petra Grier, Roger Weetman, and the staff at Meadow Park worked with our club to help us navigate the restrictions placed upon us due to COVID-19. With each change—and there were many, many changes throughout the year—the staff worked tirelessly with the club to help provide a safe environment that allowed us to offer a swim program and some level of normalcy and consistency to 55 local kids in a very strange year. Thank you for keeping us going through it all! We look forward to another excellent year. David Higgins // Whistler
Go to Fairy Creek, if you can I recently returned from another visit to the Fairy Creek blockade where I lived with the land defenders in the forest for five days. It’s a very emotional place rife with tensions, and the issue is complicated, but for the sake of action, I will state some cold, hard facts. In 2020, B.C. Premier John Horgan campaigned on the promise to implement
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR the 14 recommendations of the Old Growth Strategic Review, which he commissioned with taxpayers’ money. It recommended that within the first six months, the government “defer development in old forests with a high risk of irreversible biodiversity loss.” Premier John Horgan has failed to keep this promise. And the extent to which he is prepared to use force, paid for with your tax dollars to ensure that Teal Jones be allowed to continue harvesting old growth, is incomprehensible. Since April 1, your tax dollars have been used daily to employ upwards of 40 RCMP (brought in from across Canada, housed and fed), Special Forces (SWAT), helicopters and drones to support Teal Jones accessing these ancient forests. The degree of militarization and its cost is staggering. Wouldn’t it be better to spend these vast sums of money on compensation for not cutting the old growth and transition funding for communities affected by a moratorium? Nothing can prepare you for the reality of this situation. I know there are good people out there collecting much-needed supplies for the protesters and donating money, but I implore you to go to Fairy Creek if you can. Walk up the road. You are legally allowed to be there. Support a forest defender being extracted from
a trench or being removed from a precariously high tree-sit. See for yourself the “war zone.” See where your tax dollars are being spent! Say thank you to the active protestors who will not accept Horgan’s half-measures, who recognize that time has run out, climate change is real and some things are quite simply priceless. Say thank you to the organizers on the roadside who help keep the active protestors fed and warmly clothed. Winter is coming and they need our physical presence more than ever. Each time, the experience of being there fills me with a deep sadness and then rage at the shortsightedness of the Horgan government. John Horgan needs to know loud and clear that what he is doing is reprehensible. Let’s do what we can to harness our collective energy into a force that the provincial NDP government cannot deny. Please, if you can, make the time to go to Fairy Creek and/or write to Premier John Horgan. As well, even though forestry is a provincial jurisdiction, put the pressure on MP Patrick Weiler and the federal government, which campaigned on a platform of addressing climate change. What is happening in B.C.’s forests is a disgrace to all Canadians. Katrina Nightingale // Mt. Currie n
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Overgrowth IN AN EFFORT to understand overtourism and its impacts, vis-a-vis the weekly traffic jams to and from Whistler every weekend, a lot of blame gets thrown around. Some blame the Instagram effect as people post adventures on social media, leading to a Fear Of Missing Out mania
BY ANDREW MITCHELL that inspires all the FOMOs out there to go out and bag some adventurous selfies of their own. It’s not even about novelty, it’s about checking an invisible list to prove to yourself and others that you’re living your best life. It’s shallow, but social media is increasingly how we’re defined these days—it’s how people know us—and there’s a certain amount of pressure to project something more interesting about yourself than your breakfast burrito. And what’s more interesting than doing things and going places? Others point to the general dumbing down of adventures, with paved parking, public washrooms and easier trails to access areas that used to be a challenge to get to. Even the drive up the Sea to Sky
Highway used to be a much more serious undertaking. If you build it, it turns out that they really will come, as we’ve seen over and over with Joffre Lakes, Train Wreck, the Riverside Trails, the Into the Mystic/ Lord of the Squirrels trail system, the Sea to Sky Gondola, and so on. That’s not to say we need to stop building cool things, but maybe a few things need to stay difficult to preserve what they are. Look at the Train Wreck wreck. Word got out. We built a bridge and trail to keep people off the train tracks. Then we built a parking lot because people were leaving their cars everywhere. Then we added garbage cans because people can’t hold onto their empty coffee cup for 30 whole minutes. Washrooms can’t be far behind at this point. The area has been trampled and desecrated—there’s no other word for it— by people braiding trails, damaging trees, spray painting rocks and trees, and, most recently, crushing one of the rusted boxcars flat. The easier we make access, the more problems we create. Then there’s what passes for culture and the fact that people are constantly bombarded by media screaming at them to Get Outside And Play. Car commercials are particularly selling the idea of open roads to people who will end up stuck in four-hour traffic jams to get home. While
I do support the general “get outside” message, and in a sense have based my life around that idea, I also don’t have to get in my car and drive two hours to do it. I have the life I have because of the choices and sacrifices that I made, under no illusion that I could somehow have it all. The future of this world depends on people reining in the restlessness that has been instilled in them and driving, flying and cruise-shipping less than we do now. Almost nobody is making much of a case for finding less impactful things to do in your own neighbourhood, or for adding things to those neighbourhoods so people don’t feel the burning need to escape from them every day off. The “get outside” message has no doubt been fuelled by the housing situation and the hundreds of thousands of people being stacked into condos in all of our major cities. Of course you need to get outside when you live in a 700-square-foot box with a tiny patio you can fit all of three chairs on. While all of these factors have contributed to the weekly swarm to and from Whistler, there’s another factor that always seems to get missed in these conversations—a population that’s growing in leaps and bounds. The average population growth going
back the last three decades is between two and three per cent annually for the Greater Vancouver Area. If that continues through the 2021 census, then that’s around 900,000 more people looking for things to do on the weekend than there were 30 years ago. Our population is growing because the federal government—it really doesn’t matter who is in power—is doing everything it can to make it happen. There are reasons for this, most of them economic. It creates a wider tax base at the bottom to support aging populations, it lets governments brag about per-capita GDP shrinking at a time when the total debt is growing, and it keeps housing and real estate—our biggest industry—alive. But while the federal government has its reasons—all of which are debatable— the challenge of accommodating this growth has been left to cities that can’t keep up with housing or things for all those people to do. Very little of the new housing hitting the market is anywhere near affordable, which is the result of increased demand for land, materials and labour. Growth is expensive. While overtourism sucks, it’s only a symptom of a much larger growth problem that will take more than pay stations at our lakeside parks to solve. ■
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Weiler projected to win in Sea to Sky riding LIBERAL EKES OUT NARROW WIN OVER CONSERVATIVE WESTON; NDP’S LEWIS LANDS THIRD
BY MEGAN LALONDE IT APPEARS PATRICK Weiler is heading back to parliament. The Liberal incumbent is projected to keep his West Vancouver-SunshineCoast-Sea to Sky Country seat following a Sept. 20 federal election that saw Prime Minister Justin Trudeau re-elected to the House of Commons with another minority government. Despite a tough race and 6,130 mail-in ballots still waiting to be counted, both CBC and CTV News called it in Weiler’s favour late Monday night. Elections Canada told candidates those ballots would be tallied later in the week. Watching the results roll in on Election Day was “nerve-wracking,” Weiler admitted. As of Tuesday, with 257 of 258 polls counted, Weiler had 19,424 votes or 34 per cent overall, while Conservative and former MP John Weston sat at 17,247 votes or 30 per cent. The NDP’s Avi Lewis netted 14,833 votes (25 per cent) while the Green Party’s Mike Simpson and People’s Party’s Doug Bebb trailed at 3,850 votes (seven per cent) 2,178 votes and (four per cent), respectively. Interestingly, the PPC candidate’s tally is just one vote higher than Weiler’s lead over Weston, as it stood prior to the mail-in count. While the federal seat count remains
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virtually unchanged from the 2019 election, Weiler counts the Liberals’ small pickup of seats in B.C. as a win for the party. “I think it will give our province a stronger voice in government,” he said. Top of mind for Weiler as he returns to Ottawa is addressing the climate crisis, he said, adding that he is also looking forward to implementing the Liberals’ childcare plan. “We need some of those spaces to be built in Whistler,” he added. Weiler also named extending the COVID-19 wage subsidy for tourism businesses and other hard-hit industries
became “near impossible” to get many pieces of legislation passed—even when his NDP and Bloc Quebecois counterparts agreed—as parties began wondering when the writ would drop. “I think regardless of the fact that it is another minority government, we do reset the clock a little bit,” he said. “I think it’ll be easier to get things done.” While Conservative Weston said he was heartened by the “incredible effort” of his supporters throughout the campaign and hailed the Conservatives’ platform as being the best, most compassionate and
“I think regardless of the fact that it is another minority government, we do reset the clock a little bit.” - PATRICK WEILER
as a priority, and said the Liberals will be looking to swiftly roll out new investments through the National Housing Strategy— and work with organizations like the Whistler Housing Authority—to help improve housing affordability. With another minority, voters have handed the newly elected government “a mandate to work together,” Weiler said. “That’s something that we showed that we could accomplish in the last government, particularly at first,” he said. But as time went on, Weiler described the House of Commons as an environment where it
environmentally progressive one he’d ever seen, he maintains that the election was unnecessary. “It was $610 million spent for nothing, it was divisive, and it wasn’t the act of a healer or a unifier,” Weston said. “I believe leaders should heal and unify and rally. And regrettably, that’s not what we see.” That said, Weston praised Tory leader Erin O’Toole’s performance in his first election at the party’s helm as “a refreshing, new face on the scene,” and said he was proud to campaign on O’Toole’s “common sense, practical” platform.
Asked whether he was done with politics after his return to the ballot this year, Weston’s answer was brief: “Why don’t we wait until Friday, when we know what the final results are.” First-time candidate Avi Lewis said he is also eagerly awaiting the final results to see just how big a jump the NDP managed to make from the last federal election. Despite endorsements from notable names like Mike Douglas, David Suzuki, Jane Fonda and Emma Thompson, the documentary filmmaker and climate activist failed to turn the hype surrounding his candidacy into a seat in the House of Commons, during what he called “arguably our first ever genuine climate election.” While Lewis conceded he was “in it to win it,” the high-profile NDP candidate said he’s pleased after nearly doubling the New Democrats share of the vote from two years ago, when the NDP’s Judith Wilson fell to fourth-place with 9,027 votes, or 13.89 per cent, and after running “a fully-resourced campaign.” “We started from scratch,” he said, and the result is “utterly outstanding.” Continued Lewis, “You can’t walk into a riding like this, as a first-time candidate where the party came fourth last time and just expect to win on your first shot.” Citing a strong base of hundreds of volunteers and his commitment to two election cycles, Lewis said both his and the NDP’s work will continue in the region. “I feel really energized and thrilled about that prospect,” he said. - With files from Brent Richter/North Shore News. n
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BY MEGAN LALONDE DR. KARIN KAUSKY might be the only individual whose name can now be preceded by “Whistler’s 2021 Citizen of the Year,” but she’s still chalking her win up to teamwork. “I was shocked, and I’m very honoured— Whistler has a lot of amazing citizens,” she said. “But I do really think it reflects our COVID response, and that was really a community effort.” That, “and the fact, I think, that people now after COVID value health and wellbeing,” she told Pique. The Whistler Medical Clinic physician was one of 10 individuals and organizations that were honoured when Whistler’s business community gathered virtually on Thursday night, Sept. 16, to celebrate its best and brightest at the annual Whistler Excellence Awards. Hosted by the Whistler Chamber of Commerce, the awards ceremony was prerecorded and broadcast online for the second year in a row—though next year’s Excellence Awards will, ideally, see celebrations return to the Fairmont Chateau Whistler ballroom, noted Chamber CEO Melissa Pace. Still, the event managed to continually acknowledge its theme of “together”-ness amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With that in mind, it was the people and businesses that Whistler’s community relied on the most during the pandemic that earned much of the recognition throughout the evening—from healthcare workers like Kausky, to grocery store owners to those responsible for providing access to the outdoor activities that kept Whistlerites going throughout a challenging year. The title of Business Person of the Year went to Creekside Market owners Jerry and Sana Marsh, while Fairmont Chateau Whistler’s director of golf Padraic O’Rourke won Rising Star of the Year and Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) was honoured for Sustainability in Action Business. Heather Odendaal’s Bluebird Strategy/WNORTH won Innovative Business of the Year, while Dave Petko was named Champion of Arts & Culture. Whistler Blackcomb won for Resilient Business of the Year, with Upper Village eatery Portobello victorious in the Service ExcellenceLarge Business category. Whistler Medical Clinic rounded out the list of honourees for Service Excellence-Small Business. In addition to announcing winners, Thursday’s ceremony included a poignant tribute from Mayor Jack Crompton thanking Whistler’s first responders, frontline workers and service providers. “The recognition for them was top of
mind for all of us, and it was an honour to be able to take that time of recognition and share that with our community and I think that there was no other way to do it,” said Pace following the awards. When it comes to WCSS, the organization is “the heart of our community, not just during the pandemic—they’ve been doing this for years,” Pace added. “They really, really became a superstar through the pandemic and really held strong for everybody. “Their numbers went up, which is never a good thing, but they certainly were able to respond in such a dignified way.” Agreed Kausky, “We live in an amazing community that did a really amazing job of caring for everybody.” She cited the unprecedented—and continued—collaboration between organizations like Vancouver Coastal Health, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, WCSS, the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation, Public Health, B.C.’s ministry of health, the RCMP, the Sea to Sky Division of Family Practice, and acute care providers for elevating the overall health and wellbeing of Whistler’s community from the darkest days of the pandemic until now. That collaboration yielded everything from a COVID-19 testing trailer and a textingbased appointment booking system to crucial socioeconomic supports, like selfisolation housing to food deliveries, for the locals who needed them, she explained. “We intimately worked shoulder to shoulder with all these people to make this happen. To me that is just a massive success and I really hope we carry that forward,” Kausky said. Each year, an independent volunteer committee comprised of past-winners is responsible for selecting finalists and victors for the annual awards, Pace explained. From a slate of nominees submitted by Whistler Chamber members, the group carefully considers and discusses each candidate, narrowing down the list to three finalists and, eventually, the winners. With information provided through the nominations process and from nominees themselves, the committee judges each finalist against award-specific criteria and their overall community impact, before the winners are revealed during the annual Excellence Awards. Three awards have a different committee and selection process, with the Whistler Champion of Arts & Culture named by an Arts Whistler selection committee, the Sustainability in Action Business chosen by AWARE’s selection committee, and Citizen of the Year decided by the Community Foundation of Whistler’s selection committee. n
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Whistler students elect Green Party in mock vote GRADE 7 CLASS AT SPRING CREEK COMMUNITY SCHOOL RUN MOCK POLLING STATION AS PART OF STUDENT VOTE PROGRAM engaged citizens and so this is part of being engaged. So I do think that as they get older they’ll go on and some of them, hopefully all of them, will vote in the future as adults so that’s pretty inspiring.” In past years, Millen has even gone so far as to hold mock debates with students acting in place of the leaders, but with the quick turnaround of this year’s election, they didn’t have enough time for the extra stuff and had to stick to the basics of learning about the political parties and their platforms and running a student vote polling station in the school. But despite only having a brief introduction to the voting process, the Grade 7 students were all excited to feel like they are a part of the election process. “I think it’s really cool that students get a chance to vote, even though it doesn’t count for the actual votes. It still kind of just teaches them about the politics and it might inspire other people, other adults to vote or to think maybe I should vote too because every vote counts,” said student Cole Bonnell. Overall, Millen said she wants to instil a habit of voting in her students but also for them to be engaged and informed on who the political leaders are and what their platforms offer—as well as to be able to rationalize to themselves who they end up voting for.
BY HARRISON BROOKS IF GRADE 7 students at Spring Creek Community School in Whistler could elect the federal government, it would be a Green one. With around 100 votes cast, the Spring Creek student’s polls had the Green Party winning with 32 votes. The NDP came in a close second with 31, followed by the Liberals with 18, Conservative’s with 11. The Rhino Party garnered three votes while the PPC and each independent candidate got one, with one ballot being rejected. The class has spent the last couple weeks learning about the election process before holding their own student vote polling station on Election Day. French Immersion teacher Jane Millen first brought the CIVIX-made program to the school about six years ago to get students involved and learning about politics in a fun and interactive way. “I like politics and I like following it … I think it makes it special when you actually have the polling station. I tried to set it up to try and make it formal, and I think it makes it more real,” said Millen. “As a teacher what I’m passionate about is raising responsible, healthy, happy
VOTING DAY A Grade 7 student filling out his ballot at Spring Creek Community School’s student vote polling station on Monday, Sept. 20. PHOTO BY HARRISON BROOKS
And from talking to a group of students who had volunteered to run the polling station, it seems Millen’s goal is coming to fruition as the students have noticed how their classmates’ opinions and process has changed since they last did a student vote in Grade 5. “When we were in Grade 5 we did a student vote but a lot of people just thought the Green Party was all for the environment
and they all voted that but then a lot of people, who I’ve been talking to now, they dove a little bit deeper and now they are voting a little bit different than they did back then,” said Mason Foose, who then gave an example of what platform policies stood out to him throughout the process. “The NDP is going to raise taxes for billionaires and lower them for people with less money. I think that’s cool because then the billionaires can help and the other people that maybe don’t have as much money don’t have to get taxed as much so then maybe they can afford a car and house and that sort of stuff.” Said Olivia Persson, “I’m excited to vote because lots of people right now are just voting for one party because they are afraid of another party … I’m excited to vote because I want to vote for who I think is the best and not because I’m afraid of another party.” Across the country, with more than 700,000 elementary and high-school students participating in CIVIX Canada’s student vote, the Liberal Party won the most seats with 117 but came in third in the popular vote with 24 per cent. The NDP won 107 seats but had 29 per cent of the popular vote. Meanwhile, the Conservative Party took home 91 seats and 25 percent of the popular vote while Bloc Quebecois won 20 seats and the Green Party won three. n
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BY BRANDON BARRETT Whistler’s preeminent celebration of food and drink is coming back bigger and better this fall after being cut short in 2020. Cornucopia will mark its 25th anniversary this November, with events scheduled every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from Nov. 4 to 28, expanding from its usual 12 days to 16. Producer Watermark Communications cancelled all of its remaining scheduled events at the height of the pandemic last year after just two days. “We’re excited we’re going to go for the entirety of the month,” said Watermark president Sue Eckersley. “That’s sort of a silver lining for us: instead of cramming everything into 12 days, we have a little bit more flexibility in terms of spreading things out. I think that’s one of the biggest things people say: they want to do everything but it’s overlapping, so you can’t. Now you can.” With COVID-19 cases still on the rise in B.C. and health orders putting caps on attendance, the festival will of course look different than its pre-pandemic years, but organizers are also making full use of the circumstances with several new events and tweaked formats for festival favourites, along with the drink seminars and culinary stage demos that are a fixture of the event. Eckersley said Watermark will in most cases limit attendance below the provincial restrictions in order to ensure spacing, and all guests and staff will be required to be double-vaccinated. “Whereas we could potentially put 500 in a room, we will put 350. We’re not pushing it,” she noted. “We would rather people feel safe and secure and feel like their space is still respected … Basically we’re doing some of the favourites we’ve always done, just envisioned in a different way.” Watermark is leaving its signature wine tasting and mingling event, Crush, off the schedule this year, and is hosting two House Parties that will remain in their typical buffet style, but will see diners served by staff due to health measures. Taste of the World returns on Nov. 4, but will be held in a seated format this year, featuring eight different tapas from around the globe. Poured, or Poured 2.0, as organizers have named it, will follow a similar seated format, with wines delivered to patrons’ seats, along with tapas. Among the new events on tap is the Winery Speed Dating event on Nov. 6, which, again, will have diners seated as different B.C. wineries rotate through to pitch their perfect date wines. “We’ve built it with safety in mind. It follows the regulations but it also has that level of comfort,” Eckersley said. The dress-up Murder Mystery Dinner on Nov. 20 and American Thanksgiving
FOODIE FESTIVAL After cancelling all remaining events after just two days in 2020, organizers of this year’s Cornucopia are coming back with an expanded lineup of events this November. PHOTO BY TANNIS TOOHEY / COURTESY OF TOURISM WHISTLER
Dinner on Nov. 25 are two other new additions, along with what Eckersley called the “biggest ticketed item we’ve ever had,” Cornucopia’s five-course, winepaired 25th-anniversary dinner, which will welcome a different chef for each course, who will pay homage to the event’s quartercentury of wining and dining. Because of the expanded table service at many events, Eckersley said this year’s staffing needs are bigger than before (which will, in some cases, be reflected in higher ticket prices), and festival partner Centerplate is committing to hiring both local and Vancouver staff where needed. “We couldn’t do this without them in a good year but in a year like this one, you just become that much more grateful for their expertise and experience in doing these things,” she said of Centerplate. Always a significant boost to the restaurant sector during shoulder season, Cornucopia will bring with it the added traffic from its Lower Mainland and regional markets, but with staffing remaining a challenge across the resort, it remains to be seen whether the resort’s restaurant sector will have the capacity to take on more business. “The restaurants that have survived through the pandemic are actually doing really well right now and a lot of them don’t have the staffing to be open as much as they would want to,” Eckersley said. “So it’s not a lack of business … but I think one of the things that’s always been really important for Cornucopia is that November is usually a slow time of year, so it really could be a time of year when the restaurants are slowing and they have perhaps less ability to make it through the slow times right now than they normally would.” Cornucopia has also selected the BC Hospitality Foundation as its charity of choice this year. For tickets and the full event schedule, visit whistlercornucopia.com. n
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‘Blocked by history’: Discrepancy in strata building plans frustrating RMOW, homeowners UNAUTHORIZED WORK DONE OVER THE YEARS CAN STALL ALREADY COSTLY UPGRADES
BY BRANDON BARRETT SENIOR STAFF at the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) say what was likely unauthorized work done in strata units over the years has led to a discrepancy in building plans, making it difficult for homeowners to get renovations and upgrades done. According to the RMOW’s general manager of infrastructure services James Hallisey, differences between strata unit plans and what the planning department has on file are popping up “very frequently” as owners look to upgrade older units, complicating what is already a hefty permitting backlog at municipal hall. “I don’t understand exactly the mechanism of why those differences occur, but it is causing quite a lot of problems for when people come in and want to upgrade, renovate, do something better in their place,” Hallisey said in a recent interview, adding that “20 years ago something was done that wasn’t onside with the plans we have anymore.” The discrepancies can take a few different forms, from minor upgrades not
registered with the muni, to expansions beyond what the zoning allows. In most cases, the issue can be traced back to builds from the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, when “the drawings weren’t great and the process was maybe a little more vague,” explained Councillor Duane Jackson, a designer, planner and builder by trade. “It’s really complicated, and the stratas have it the worst,” he added. “You’ve got old owners that have owned their unit for 30 years, and then you’ve got a new buyer and the new buyer wants to put in a new kitchen, but because the old owner doesn’t want to spend any money on fees or might have something in their crawlspace they don’t want people to know about, they don’t want to support moving an update forward. So you end up with a new buyer being kind of stuck.” For homeowners, the inconsistencies can add to an already costly process. “If the drawings that they’ve been given aren’t accurate, then they may be looking at a higher cost for engineering to make sure the plans they’re proposing actually match what’s on the ground,” said Beau Craig, director of strata management and realestate services company, Whistler Resort Management. “So higher consulting costs,
potentially, more consulting professionals like engineers and architects and things of that nature, because they have to measure onsite as opposed to relying on drawings.” In a year in which a perfect storm
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of factors, including staff shortages, April’s cyber attack, and an unprecedented number of home renovation applications, has created a logjam of permits at the RMOW, getting building plans in order adds another hurdle for planners to overcome. ‘There’s a lot of internal staff discussion right now about how do we get through that. If it’s a life-safety issue, whether it’s no safe egress in a fire and things like that, we can’t go forward very far with that. That just can’t be permitted,” Hallisey said. “Then there are other rules [where] places have been expanded and they’re just bigger than what
the zoning allows, but it’s been like that for 20 years and obviously hasn’t impacted anybody too dramatically. We’re looking at how we navigate through that right now.” By no means a new issue locally, the RMOW has encouraged strata corporations to come forward and find a way to bring illegal construction into compliance. In 2014, the owners at the 45-unit Northern Lights complex on Tantalus Drive pushed for the property to be rezoned for an additional 4,000 square metres of gross floor area in order to legitimize so-called “void spaces” in basements and attics that were developed illegally over time on the sloping site. Any such effort, however, would require ample time and resources—not to mention buy-in from a majority of owners. “For a strata to remedy things like this, it’s not just one unit, it’s nearly all the units. The whole strata has to agree and then they have to hire an architect, they have to do an as-built survey,” Jackson said. “I just think it’s something that we need to be aware of and there are a number of frustrated people out there who can’t move forward because they’re somewhat blocked by history. It’d be nice to allow people to invest in their property.” n
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BY BRADEN DUPUIS It’s often said that modern-day libraries are more than just book repositories; that they now represent a “third place” for community members to visit and socialize, to expand their horizons or engage in other activities, after the home and the workplace. Since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the Whistler Public Library (WPL) hasn’t been able to live up to that mantle. “We received many, many kind compliments from people appreciating the normalcy they received from us by being able to come in and get materials and attend virtual programming,” said WPL director Elizabeth Tracy, in a presentation to Whistler’s Committee of the Whole on Sept. 7. “[But] within the throes of the pandemic … the library has really felt like a shell of itself.” The WPL team adapted well to the everevolving COVID-19 health measures last year, first shifting the library’s website to a 24/7 “virtual branch” and offering new online programs, then providing contactless
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pickups, and later offering 30-minute “express visits,” Tracy said. In 2020, visits to WPL’s eBooks and audiobooks page rose 182 per cent; its online courses page 228 per cent; its language learning page 21 per cent; and its magazine and newspapers page 97 per cent. “We did a really excellent job of serving part of our community, but we are exceptionally focused now on serving the rest of our community,” Tracy said, adding that, for many, the experience of the library—and the need for its services—was so much more. “It’s a place for some people to be warm or cool, it’s a place for social connection, their only free access to WiFi or a computer, their support for connecting with community supports, and their help with government documents and obtaining jobs. This is where we’re turning our focus now.” The WPL will return to seven-day operations the week of Oct. 11, she added. At the moment, 50 per cent of the library’s study and soft seating has been restored, and the remainder will come back into play once B.C. moves to Step 4 of its restart plan. The hope is that, before long, WPL can once again be the “third place” so many
COMMUNITY HUB The Whistler Public Library will return to seven-day a week operations next month. PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS.
Whistlerites are missing. “Libraries are one of the few places where people don’t have to buy anything to be there,” Tracy said. “Our programs and materials are curated by professional people who are committed to being open and inclusive, and when we say everyone belongs at the library, we mean it. That means all sizes, colours, abilities, ages, cultures, orientations, genders religions and beliefs.” Tracy, who also serves as chair of the Association of BC Public Library Directors, also asked for council’s help in advocating for libraries across the province. With provincial funding for B.C.’s libraries staying stagnant at about $14 million annually since 2009, the association is lobbying for a commitment of $22 million in 2022, and ongoing incremental increases after that.
“Our members along with our staff are on the frontlines of community issues like social justice, climate change, economic uncertainty, wildfire, residential school trauma, pandemic-related mental health issues and substance abuse,” Tracy said, adding that the requested funding increase will help libraries “improve our ability to meet the needs of individuals, families, and communities across the province when the need is greater than ever.” Library funding in B.C. comes from the provincial ministry of municipal affairs, now headed by Minister Josie Osborne, former mayor of Tofino. At the annual Union of BC Municipalities Convention, held virtually from Sept. 14 to 17, Whistler’s mayor and council advocated to Osborne for increased funding for B.C.’s libraries, according to Mayor Jack Crompton (see related story on page 24). n
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Sea to Sky leaders make their case for regional transit at annual UBCM convention JAM-PACKED VIRTUAL CONVENTION COVERS WIDE RANGE OF REGIONAL TOPICS
BY BRADEN DUPUIS LOCAL OFFICIALS in the Sea to Sky are encouraged about the prospects of finally instituting regional transit following a meeting with their provincial ministry counterparts at the annual Union of BC Municipalities Convention (UBCM) last week—but the project is still not a sure thing, and there’s no set timeline for when we’ll see buses on the highway. Regional stakeholders from Squamish to Pemberton, as well as from the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD), met 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) at the convention to once again make the case for regional transit, after which the ministers agreed to “begin work understanding service requirements” in the region, said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton. “Our hope is that we can move quickly
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on this, and that is what we will continue to advocate for,” he said, adding that local officials offered to share some of their own past research conducted for the project. “They agreed, and we will be contributing a lot of the research and preparation we’ve done in the past,” Crompton said. “We need to continue to press the province to make this happen. It’s important to them, it’s important to us, and I think we need to strike while the iron is hot.” Many of the regional officials at the meeting campaigned on implementing regional transit in the 2018 election—will it get done before their term is up in October 2022? “Certainly that’s my hope and intent,” Crompton said.
MINISTERIAL MEETINGS Regional transit aside, Whistler’s UBCM agenda was jam-packed with minister meetings, including sessions with ministers 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). The topic of the Resort Municipality Initiative (RMI) program—which provides much-needed funds to resort communities to spend on tourism offerings—was broached with Osborne, Robinson and Mark, Crompton said. The provincial government committed to providing $39 million over three years to the program in its 2019 budget, of which Whistler received about $7.5 million annually. “We asked that they include [RMI] in the baseline budget again,” Crompton said. “We’ll continue to stay in touch with them and make that case, and look forward to seeing that happen.” On housing, local officials asked Eby for “additional funding for workforce housing solutions,” and requested that the province consider removing the Property Transfer Tax that is currently applied to the transfer of lands between municipalities and their subsidiaries. In Whistler’s case, transferring lands from
the municipality to the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA), or from the WHA to the Whistler 2020 Development Corp, comes with added taxation, which “means more expensive housing for the residents of our community,” Crompton said. “Certainly it’s not high on their list of priorities right now, but [Eby] heard us out and we’ll continue to make that case.” Following up on a request from Whistler Public Library director Elizabeth Tracy at the Sept. 7 Committee of the Whole, Whistler officials advocated for increased funding for B.C.’s libraries in their meeting with Osborne, and urged her to use her “deep understanding of resort communities” as former mayor of Tofino at the provincial cabinet table. “We’re hoping and expecting that she is a real advocate for continuing to deliver the kind of important services and funding that the province does to keep B.C.’s tourism industry moving,” Crompton said. “Her understanding of the importance of workforce transportation, workforce housing, [and] the escalation in the value
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REGIONAL PRIORITIES This year’s UBCM took place entirely online from Sept. 14 to 17, with about 980 delegates from around the province tuning in for the proceedings, said Whistler Councillor and SLRD chair Jen Ford. Ford was acclaimed as UBCM’s first vice president at the convention, and at next year’s instalment—scheduled to take place in Whistler—will assume the role of UBCM president. For as different as all of UBCM’s member communities are, there are some common threads at each year’s convention, Ford said—the two biggest being how local governments are financed and the impacts of climate change. “None of us can deny that fires in the summer and flooding in the spring and all of the changes that we’re seeing in our communities, and what that costs our communities,” Ford said. “Our infrastructure is being battered by climate change, and we need to update that infrastructure and do what we can to help our communities be resilient.” On financing, the UBCM is asking for some “pretty strong changes” to the way communities are funded, Ford said. “It’s really how taxation is shared, because currently we only have access to property taxes, but that doesn’t necessarily fund all of the other things that we do … the pot is small, and there’s really only one taxpayer,” she said. “How that money is divided out to the
communities where it’s needed, and what we can do with that funding, really needs a complete overhaul.” Another common thread for communities across the province is the need for more childcare, which Ford said Minister of State for Child Care Katrina Chen is receptive to. The new spaces added to the Whistler Waldorf School recently, as well as the new centre set to open in Rainbow neighbourhood, are helpful, but “it hasn’t been solved yet,” Ford said. “We’re certainly still working on it … it’s never not been an issue for our community, but it’s certainly been highlighted in recent months.”
THE VIEW FROM PEMBERTON Childcare was also a UBCM priority for the Village of Pemberton, which in conjunction with the District of Squamish raised two key points with the province at the convention: making sure wages for Early Childhood Educators are keeping pace, and flexible criteria around provincial funding for new spaces. A resolution on the second point didn’t make it to the floor at the convention, but Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman came out of a ministerial meeting “cautiously optimistic” that flexibility would be granted for the two communities. “With the cost of doing business here
in the corridor these days, there’s no way we can meet their threshold [for the New Spaces Fund],” Richman said. “Our application has been sent to another level of consideration, and the minister was quite responsive, so I’m cautiously optimistic that our application is not dead, and we will continue to work with them to try to get that application approved so we can build some much, much needed childcare spaces.” A second Pemberton resolution— asking for funding support to manage post-COVID-19 tourism influxes—also missed the convention floor, but was a topic of discussion in meetings with the tourism ministry. Communities in the SLRD recognize the importance of tourism, and embrace it, “but the numbers we’re seeing and the level of backcountry travel that we’re seeing are incredibly high,” Richman said. “And we need support on the ground to make sure that the wilderness and ecosystems are preserved, and to make sure that the forest fire dangers are mitigated.” With provincial ministers fielding so many different priorities from all corners of the province, is there concern that local asks get lost in the crowd at UBCM? “[The ministers] are extremely attentive, [and] they have teams of staff that are there taking notes,” Crompton said. “I’m confident that they go away from those meetings understanding what our challenges and requests are.” n
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New affordable housing proposal one step closer to approval THE 61-UNIT APARTMENT COMPLEX ON VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON COUNCIL AGENDA SEPT. 21
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NEW BUILDING development proposal that will bring 61 new affordable housing units to the Village of Pemberton (VOP) came one step closer to being approved by mayor and council at the VOP council meeting on Sept. 21. If approved, the 39,349-squarefoot (3,656-square-metre), three-storey apartment complex, named The Aspect, will be located at 1422-1430 Portage Road. With housing always a hot topic in the Sea to Sky corridor, particularly affordable rental units, the councillors were all interested in moving this project along to the next step. However, as is often the case with these types of projects, parking was a major point of discussion between mayor and council. The bylaw for affordable housing states that a 61-unit rental property would need at least 72 parking spaces to meet the requirements. However, the current plans only have space in the underground parking garage for 61 stalls. To get around this potential issue, the applicants are
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requesting an 11-space variance on the parking stalls so the plans can continue moving forward, which was a concern for Councillor Amica Antonelli. “It’s good to see this proposal come forward and I think the building looks pretty good. That said, I have parking concerns,” she said.
covenant from a previous project. However, the location of those seven stalls has not been identified yet, which was the issue holding Antonelli back from fully supporting the project. A second concern among mayor and council revolved around the wording used for the proposed housing agreement that
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“We’ve heard recently from the neighbours that the whole neighbourhood has parking issues and providing 61 parking stalls for 61 units means that there’s no visitor parking and their visitors will be parking elsewhere. So I really feel like I have to represent the existing residents of Pemberton and make sure those needs are met.” One potential solution to the parking concerns, according to the VOP’s consulting planner Cameron Chalmers, who gave the presentation, was to consider the seven parking stalls that are required to be provided by a nearby building as part of a
stated the owner of the project “shall enter into a Housing Agreement, approved by bylaw, to restrict the proposed development to purpose built rental for a minimum of 10 years from initial occupancy.” After those 10 years are up, the owner could seek council approval for a strata title, which would allow them to sell individual units. The issue for council is they would prefer to keep the building as an affordable rental-only complex for a longer period of time, as the affordable housing crisis isn’t going away anytime soon, according to Mayor Mike Richman.
“For me, before I would approve the Housing Agreement, and therefore the next steps on the development, I would like to see, in the Housing Agreement, something more than 10 years,” he said. “Honestly, I’d like to see that it’d be rental dedicated for at least 20 to 25 years. I feel like we need the dedicated rental desperately now, and that need is only going to grow over time and we have the ability to secure it within this agreement, so I would like to see us come back with a stronger agreement that makes sure that it is a dedicated rental for many years to come.” Without being able to lock down exactly how long they want the agreement to keep the units as rental-only, Richman decided a good solution, for the time being, would be for the agreement to emphasize that it is a “minimum” of 10 years, while making it known to the applicants that council would prefer it to be a lot longer. After all of council’s concerns were raised and discussed, a motion was presented by Coun. Ted Craddock and seconded by Coun. Leah Noble for the project to move forward with the suggested amendments. Antonelli opposed the motion on the grounds that she has seen in the past how giving a tentative approval before fully solving issues has often created ongoing problems for projects. She believes the parking issues need to be addressed before moving forward. ■
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Rob spent his last 3 weeks at his home on the lake resting, surrounded by his loving family and close friends. During this time we are grateful for all the love and support from our amazing community. He will certainly not be forgotten. We will miss his bright smile, witty humour, sharp intellect, appreciation for the outdoors, and the compassion and love he had for his family, friends, community, his dog Leo, and granddaughter Georgia.
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Bolstered ambulance funding welcomed in Pemberton EIGHT FULL-TIME PARAMEDICS ‘A BIG IMPROVEMENT,’ BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN
BY BRADEN DUPUIS NEW PROVINCIAL funding bolstering ambulance service in Pemberton is seen as a “significant improvement” from the planned shift to a Scheduled On-Call model—but big challenges remain around staffing, morale and wages, according to the provincial paramedic union. The Sept. 14 announcement from the provincial Ministry of Health means Pemberton’s ambulance station will now be staffed with eight full-time, fully qualified paramedics on an eight-day rotation—two paramedics working two days and two nights, then having four days off—backed up by part-time, on-call paramedics, said union president Troy Clifford. “Absolutely it’s a big improvement. It’s conversion of on-call members to fulltime, but we’re still having challenges with staffing our ambulances, that secondary ambulance and backfilling, because we’re not getting enough paramedics into the profession,” Clifford said. “And that’s based on that on-call
$2-an-hour model that is still very much in play.” The changes come after a difficult summer for paramedics in the Sea to Sky, who in July raised the alarm about “dangerous” staffing levels and morale that was described as “completely in the toilet.” Clifford said the union is continuing to work closely with BC Emergency Health Services’ (BCEHS) new interim chief ambulance officer Leanne Heppell to bolster staffing and improve morale. “There’s still some real challenges … we didn’t get into this situation overnight, so there’s still some frustrations by paramedics and dispatchers. We’re still seeing outof-service [ambulances] and shortages to staffing,” he said, adding that mental health and wellness of paramedics is another focus for the union. “We’re close to having a joint submission to the Ministry of Health [with BCEHS] for recommendations around health and wellness and mental health and psychological support.” For now, Clifford expressed confidence in the new governance model, even if there are still improvements to be made.
“We can work with them on that, it’s just going to take some time,” he said. “So is the morale there? No, but I think generally speaking the optimism is that we’re going to get through this, and we need some time, but we need to really make sure that we do everything that we can now to bridge us to get these long-term solutions in place.” One outstanding issue is the wage structure for rural, on-call paramedics, who get paid just $2/hr when not responding to a call. “We’ve got to negotiate that away. It’s not sustainable,” Clifford said. “If you don’t pay and compensate people, you’re not going to have them, especially when they can go to industry and make money, or other professions.” The other big concern—one that is not unique to paramedics—is general affordability in the Sea to Sky. “We can add all the positions we want, but if they’re part time in high-expense living places like Whistler … even to get fulltime paramedics in there, the cost of living with our wages just is not proportional,” Clifford said. Mayor Mike Richman welcomed the
changes to Pemberton’s ambulance service, expected to come into effect Oct. 29. “It secures the cars here in Pemberton, it gives us much better levels of staffing security, so it is good news for Pemberton and I was glad to hear it,” Richman said, adding that time will tell what gaps or challenges still need to be addressed. “This definitely provides the staffing that we were hoping to have. What we want to make sure is that the structure provides the response times that we need around here,” he said. “So we want to still follow that up, but overall it seems very encouraging.” Pemberton is just one of two dozen communities in B.C. shifting to a full-time model with the Sept. 14 announcement, which also includes Lillooet. The announcement also included 85 new paramedic positions and 30 full-time dispatchers in some of the province’s larger call-volume communities. According to the provincial government, the average spending increase for BCEHS over the past four years has been just under eight per cent annually—from $424.25 million to $559.14 million. n
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Kevin brought his intelligence, focus and unending optimism to the table but sadly, the cancer won.
Kevin’s beautiful mother, sisters and brothers-in-law were all here, along with our sons Winter and Chance and myself to send off our brave Kev.
Our whole family wishes to thank the nurses and doctors who cared for Kevin and all of us with such respect, skill and compassion. We are so grateful to the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Sea to Sky Hospice in Squamish. Please support them if you can. The passing of Kevin has left a huge hole in many many lives.
During his too brief but action packed life Kev cast a net far and wide that was filled with a fabulous, diverse and magical assortment of humans. That net is gently catching and lifting up my children and I right now, so thank you all. Of course there will be a celebration of Kevin’s life and the details will be announced soon. They will include lots of his favourite things; loud music, outrageous dance moves, great food, booze, weed and, of course, endless stories!
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BY DAVID SUZUKI remain energized and positive in the face of ongoing, demoralizing species declines. Happily, a glass-half-full approach to framing species at risk recovery has emerged. It didn’t come from a communications team or a public engagement think tank as one might imagine; rather, it was developed by people working worldwide to halt extinction and advance recovery. The International Union for Conservation of Nature—which assesses global species’ status using a “red list” to differentiate between levels of imperilment—introduced the concept of a “green list” to assess levels of recovery feasibility and conservation success. “Warnings of imminent extinctions are not the only way to catalyze conservation efforts,” the IUCN states. “We also need an optimistic vision of species conservation that presents a road map on how to conserve a species and achieve its recovery. This is necessary to incentivize positive
little more robust than a museum display, that’s a radical shift in its narrative—one that may well lead to new commitments of money and effort.” The emergent framework can also play a vital role in changing status quo practices. The popular Canadian approach to government-led recovery initiatives is “priority threat management.” It’s detailed in the study “Prioritizing Recovery Funding to Maximize Conservation of Endangered Species,” which focuses on an area of southern Saskatchewan and uses a template for evaluating recovery options for at-risk species based on, among other factors, the perceived cost-effectiveness of recovery measures. As the report notes, “We show here, that we can make limited resources for endangered species go much further by prioritizing investment in management strategies that recover the greatest number of species for the least cost.” This approach may sound sensible, but the David Suzuki Foundation has expressed concerns about cost-effectiveness becoming the dominant filter under such frameworks, as it could rule out much-needed conservation approaches and result in abandonment of some species. For example, the Saskatchewan report notes that habitat restoration was one of the “least cost-effective individual strategies” in its study area. Habitat restoration can be a costly undertaking. Yet in many, if not most, cases of species imperilment in Canada, the primary drivers have been industrial and development activities that, while fragmenting and degrading habitat, generated significant economic gains. They thus bear a responsibility to shoulder the costs. Recovering species at risk is a difficult journey. The first step is stopping the primary threats—stilling the knife, so to speak. But
“Warnings of imminent extinctions are not the only way to catalyze conservation efforts.” - INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE
conservation actions and programmes. To achieve this, the Red List assessment process needs to be expanded to include classifiers of conservation success. IUCN is currently in the process of creating a new set of metrics to do just that.” This framing gives conservation practitioners a far broader—often more encouraging—picture than species’ status assessments alone. As the online magazine Yale Environment 360 describes, “While the Sumatran rhino’s low numbers may well keep it in the Critically Endangered category for decades to come, its Green Status assessment puts its longterm recovery potential near 50 percent, meaning that continued conservation efforts over the next century could take the species nearly halfway to full recovery ... For a species that has long been considered
from there the undertaking becomes more hopeful, grounded in the belief that humans have the imagination and commitment to repair what we’ve damaged. As the authors of the Journal of Conservation Biology article on which the green list is premised write, “We believe development and implementation of this system will lend to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species a positive vision for conservation, encouraging optimism.” “Optimism” isn’t a word you find in scientific journal articles about vulnerable species every day. Here’s to more. David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Boreal Project Manager Rachel Plotkin. ■
RANGE ROVER
Requiem for a fool THE MORNING AFTER an election returned a parliament whose composition is eerily reminiscent of (OK, almost identical to) the last, Canada’s conservative-controlled mainstream media are already busy telling us why we should be pissed off. No mention, of course—as per the entire campaign—of the filibustering and gamesmanship by
BY LESLIE ANTHONY Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MPs over critical legislation that actually made the election call a reasonable gamble. Label the election what you’d like—power grab, waste of time or money—but it was simply the use of an established lever of democracy in a bid to more effectively govern free of the mewling and obstructionism of conservatives. In the midst of a global pandemic and triple emergencies on climate, biodiversity and equality/human development, being able to adapt quickly to these existential demands and enact legislation to meliorate them has been significantly constrained by ideologically hampered conservatives. You only need have watched the campaign by the CPC’s latest middle-aged white-male, Erin O’Toole, to understand what has been unfolding in parliament. Time and time again conservatives attempted to ignite faux outrage over everything from cookedup scandals to carbon-pricing to vaccine
BACK TO THE HOUSE Canada’s House of Commons won’t change much with the 2021 election, but that doesn’t mean it was a waste. PHOTO BY STEVEN KRIEMADIS/GETTYIMAGES.CA
procurement; time and again they got it wrong, but not without encumbering the process to the detriment of Canadians, who continue to suffer catastrophic property and business losses, illness and fatalities. The world is literally and figuratively on fire, and where most parties aim to keep Canada from burning, the hapless, hamfisted CPC simply doesn’t get it. Neither do their voters, who howl over the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) again losing the “popular vote.” Newsflash: There’s no such thing in a multi-party, parliamentary democracy. But here’s a takeaway: if you look at all parties represented, 61 per cent of us voted progressive (LPC, NDP, Bloc Quebecois, Green Party of CanadaGPC), and 39 per cent conservative (CPC/ regressive People’s Party of Canada—PPC). While a 60 to 70 per cent non-conservative vote is well within the bounds of normality, Maxime Bernier’s PPC’s pulling almost 250 per cent of the vote share of the Green Party of Canada is a troubling development. Like the Reform Party and Canadian Alliance that preceded it, the PPC signals re-entrenchment of organized far-right elements in Canadian politics. Such recurrent lunatic fringes don’t feature in the LPC or NDP landscapes, yet have always defined the topography of Canadian conservatism. Though existing under different names, Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party (PCP) dates back to 1854. Things changed in the 1990s, however, when social-cons, neocons, and Blue Tories drifted, slowly at first, from the PCP to Reform, then in droves to its successor, the Alliance. Now under control of a Red Tory faction, the PCP embraced more popular socially liberal approaches to certain issues but still fell in support in the 1997 and 2000 elections, barely increasing representation
in the House of Commons where Reform and then Alliance dominated opposition benches. Although former PM Joe Clark was brought back from the dead to improve Tory standings, he retired in 2003. Peter MacKay, chosen in a leadership contest to replace Clark, immediately negotiated with Canadian Alliance leader Stephen Harper to merge the two parties—reneging on an agreement with another PCP leadership candidate, David Orchard, in which he’d promised never to merge with the Alliance in exchange for support on the ballot. Et tu Bruté? Later that year, the PCP and Alliance officially merged to create the odious Conservative Party of Canada, to which Stephen Harper was elected leader in 2004 and whose O’Toolian dregs lost Monday’s election. Under Harper, the CPC platform emphasized Blue Tory fiscal restraint, fullthrottle fossil-fuel extraction, increased military spending and, of course, tax cuts. We’ll forget about the darkness of the 2006-2015 decade in which Harper was in power, but after being defeated by Justin Trudeau’s rejuvenated LPC in 2015 and resigning, Andrew Scheer beat out Maxime Bernier to win leadership of the CPC. Delivering a smirking monologue of manufactured outrage over faux scandals in opposition, failed insurance-salesman Scheer and his American passport went down in flames in 2019 and disappeared from view, having only budged the needle on LPC seats from majority into minority territory and caused his defeated rival Bernier to launch the populist PPC, a loony-bin we’ve now had to tune out through two separate elections. Though he was a flip-flopping, obfuscating, prevaricating fool who tried to keep a lid on the racist Yellow Vesters, climate deniers, and rabid pro-lifers in his fissioning party, the CPC replaced Scheer
with a veritable Doppelganger—Erin O’Toole, whose Red Tory attempts to claim LPC terrain on climate suffered from the same Right Wing Nut Job reality-check. None of this helped conservatives’ fortunes as they’ve never broken the 40 per cent vote barrier. Unlike other forms of life, that conservative voters don’t learn from errors is axiomatic. Over 70 years, Alberta has elected at least 29 conservatives out of its 34 ridings every election. Even after godhead Stephen Harper (and sidekick Jason Kenney) changed the federal equalization formula to favour Ontario and Quebec, where Harper hoped to curry votes, knowing Albertans could be counted on to punch themselves in the face and elect 29 cons no matter what. They willingly did so then and willingly do so today, all while blaming Justin Trudeau for everything from Harper’s equalization boner to Kenney’s provincial COVID debacle of reckless endangerment causing death. Like most Canadians, I wasn’t in the mood for an election. But after listening to the CPC dribble misinformation on everything from carbon-pricing to the pandemic over the past 18 months, I came around to the idea. In my mind, a wellspent $600 million doesn’t compare to the $1.7 billion Jason Kenney gambled away on a pipeline, or the $2.3 billion Ontario premier Doug Ford received from the Feds for COVID-19 relief that went unused for ideological reasons. Basically $15/Canadian was spent to determine the country’s direction during a critical time in human history. Given that the majority of funds went to hiring people (jobs!) to run the election, that seems like a bargain. Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in reversing political spin. ■
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FOR SALE CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION BLOCKS LOOM BENEATH THE STAWAMUS CHIEF.
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first met Thomasina Pidgeon about this time last year. I was making a photo essay for The Tyee that looked at a new camping bylaw the Squamish District had proposed, which would put an end to the community of residents living inside their vehicles—residents like Thomasina Pidgeon. As I was about to drive home, Pigeon asked if I wanted to go on a walking tour of downtown Squamish so she could show me places that were soon to be developed. I accepted. Her knowledge of the various building lots and their history was striking. As I photographed them, she sheepishly told me she’d been awarded a grant from Squamish Arts Council to exhibit thousands of photographs she’s been taking over a 20-year period, documenting the growth and gentrification of Squamish. It’s no secret that Squamish has seen an abundance of development since the 2010 Olympics, placing it on the map as Canada’s recreation capital. Tourism Squamish dubs itself a “mecca” for rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking and windsports, and with its picturesque Howe Sound setting and 360-degree granite mountain views, it’s no real surprise that increasing numbers of younger Canadian residents are yearning to relocate there—and developers are cashing in. When we thought the pandemic might slow demand, the opposite happened. The shift towards remote work gave many city professionals the freedom and opportunity to relocate away from the office and instead prioritise where they like to spend leisure time. As a result, Squamish has experienced record-breaking real estate activity in the housing market in 2021, catching up to places like East Vancouver for apartment sales. New developments such as Oceanfront, which occupies the undeveloped land surrounding Nexen Beach, is building condos for 6,500 additional residents, and at the current market value, this can only attract a very targeted, affluent crowd. It’s easy to see why Pidgeon is troubled about the continuing growth and in Squamish, particularly now the District has finally implemented it’s new camping bylaw, which outlaws her lifestyle as a person living inside her vehicle—something Pidgeon’s done for 20 years. This is why I think her story—from her perspective—is important. And as a photographer and visual journalist, I can’t help but be excited by someone trying to spark debate for the purpose of social change through exhibiting photographs. That’s why one year on, I spoke to Thomasina Pidgeon about her project, ‘Changing Squamish’. TELL ME WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO MAKE CHANGING SQUAMISH? As a resident of Squamish for over 20 years, I witnessed the landscape and people gentrify at an increasing pace. While I originally set out to capture what was being lost through this process, I understood that these developments were critically related to our environmental crisis. I wanted to create a project that prompts us all to critically engage in conversations around these topics, so we can start to find a solution and create real change. CHANGING SQUAMISH SPEAKS TO THE IDEA THAT “SACRED VIEWS ARE COMMODIFIED,” WHICH I FIND INTERESTING AS A PHOTOGRAPHER. CAN YOU TELL ME MORE A B O U T T H I S ? The commodification of views is seen when paying top dollar for the best seat at a concert, or—as is the case with Squamish —paying the highest rent or mortgage to have the best condo view of the Stawamus Chief or Howe Sound. This might be great for investors, but it doesn’t mean it’s the best decision for the community. In downtown Squamish, there has been increasing public pressure to protect the views through smarter building design, such as having higher buildings at the back
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and the lower stories closer to the Chief. This way we get density and everyone gets to enjoy the view. Unfortunately, this opposition has been largely ignored and the zoning bylaws that restricted building heights to two to three stories for downtown buildings, were amended and increased to six stories and above. This way, the best view goes to whoever can afford it, while the rest of us are left in the shadows to look at the monster-sized condos we can’t afford. A R E Y O U A N T I D E N S I T Y ? No. Density is great if done with forethought and quality, however, Squamish lacks both. What we have is capitalism working its powers with the objective to make the most dollar in the shortest amount of time. Real estate is a component of a boom-or-bust economy and because of the intense marketing of Squamish, people have been desperate to move here. Yet within this process, the District has changed with little regard for what the actual community wants, and what once made Squamish attractive, is no longer. I do find that we’re often lured by council and developers who frequently use words such as “sustainability,” “mutually beneficial” and “contemporary” to gain support for their projects, when in reality they are shaping human behaviour towards high-impact lifestyles, creating environments that encourage driving rather than biking, and failing to include commercial lots for places like grocery stores. Meanwhile, we continue to see low-density, million-dollar home developments such as Crumpit Woods, North Crumpit and Legacy Ridge sprawl into our forests, along with the many single-family attached row homes. That’s not density— it’s urban sprawl for the affluent. WHAT WAS SQUAMISH LIKE WHEN YOU M O V E D H E R E I N 2 0 0 0 ? In 2000, Squamish was a quiet town where the loggers outnumbered the climbers and we could sleep under the stars without complaint. It was more free, slower, and relaxed. There were more characters walking around, less dogs, more space. Mind you, some businesses weren’t thriving like now, but the cost of living was more balanced. People didn’t have to work two to three jobs just to afford rent or pay their mortgage. AS A LONGTIME VEHICLE RESIDENT, HOW HAS YOUR CONNECTION TO SQUAMISH C H A N G E D O V E R T H E Y E A R S ? I definitely feel at a loss. Much of what attracted me to Squamish is gone. People honk if you don’t immediately put the pedal to the metal when the lights change. There are more big-box stores, fancy and expensive boutiques. The places I once went for solitude are busier and driving further doesn’t make a difference. Familiar areas have been torn down and the view of the Chief is being replaced by condos. We have more outside investors than ever before. An old friend who once lived here recently came back and mentioned to someone that he felt like he didn’t belong here anymore, to which this person responded, “Yeah, you probably don’t.” Both these remarks are heartbreaking to me. YOU’VE BEEN A LEADING VOICE IN THE ACTIVISM SURROUNDING VEHICLE LIVING POLICIES AND THE CAMPING BYLAW IN SQUAMISH. DO YOU THINK ACTIVISM HAS M A D E A D I F F E R E N C E ? Yes and no. We have managed to stave off the bylaws for a couple of years, but in the end, all the progressive solutions we put forward were ignored, and the meetings we had with the Squamish District felt like consultation for the sake of consultation. The no-camping bylaw was finally adopted this May. We are now, not only still stigmatized as being freeloading tax evaders, we are officially outlaws for sleeping in our vehicles. WHAT ARE YOU FIRST: A PHOTOGRAPHER OR A N A C T I V I S T ? Not sure! I remember feeling them both as a child.
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LAND TO BE DEVELOPED BY THE SOLTERRA GROUP IS FENCED OFF ALONGSIDE AN UPENDED SIGN.
Y O U R L I F E A N D W O R K T A K E S M A N Y F O R M S. Y O U’V E B R O K E N S E V E R A L R E C O R D S A S A PROFESSIONAL CLIMBER AND ARE NOW S T U D Y I N G P O L I T I C A L S C I E N C E. H O W D O T H E S E D I S C I P L I N E S F E E D I N T O ‘C H A N G I N G S Q U A M I S H’? Climbing and academics requires you pay attention, ask questions and be determined in the face of adversity. Climbing specifically requires the sacrificing of pleasures, thinking outside the box and being willing to change. If something doesn’t work, we don’t keep trying the same method—we change until we find a solution. Political science has given me a much deeper understanding of the forces around me and taught me to question and think critically about absolutely everything. What’s happening in Squamish, from the gentrification to the camping ban—it’s so textbook, it’s almost laughable. By looking at these issues from new perspectives, maybe we can find real solutions that address the root cause of the problems, rather than continue on as we have. DID YOU ALWAYS PLAN TO EXHIBIT T H E W O R K ? No, I didn’t always have a plan for this project, but have continued to feel motivated by the unwavering connection I witness between the economic expansion going on in Squamish and other parts of the world in relation to our social, political and ecological crises. Fortunately, the theme of the 2019 Squamish Arts Council Community Enhancement Grant was “This Place, Our Home.” This resonated perfectly with this project, so I applied and here we are. It’s been a great support and is what made these exhibitions possible. WHO ARE TWO ARTISTS OR PEOPLE THAT INFLUENCED YOUR PROJECT AND WHY? The work of Dorthea Lange and Leanne Betasmoke Simpson are so inspiring to me because they tell it like it is. There is no taming it down or hiding certain truths to soften the message. They ask us to look honestly at a situation and to think critically about what we see. But in all honesty, the people that most influenced this project are the folks that I met while out shooting. Everyone I talked to was generally disgusted or saddened by what is happening in and around Squamish. I met two long-time Squamish women who no longer bring their kids to Nexen Beach because it would upset them to see their playground destroyed. One of the saddest comments came from my Squamish Nation friend Charlene Williams, who said, “In 10 years there are only going to be Indians and millionaires, and we don’t even have enough land for our own people.”
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A NEW CONDO PROJECT STANDS M I DC O N S T R U C T I O N.
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YOU’VE ALREADY EXHIBITED CHANGING SQUAMISH AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE GREEN OLIVE CAFE. DO YOU HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN FROM VIEWERS SO FAR? There are a few folks who don’t understand or simply don’t agree, but mostly it has been overwhelmingly positive. One woman who recently saw the library exhibit withdrew from the real estate program that she had signed up for—she didn’t want to be part of the problem! People have commented on how powerful, yet sad it is to see this exposed. Personally, I see this as a success because this is the very point of the work—to get uncomfortable and look at things we don’t want to look at. It’s the only way to start finding solutions. I hope this will inspire more people to stand up for change. WHO ARE YOU MOST HOPING WILL ENGAGE WITH THE UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS? A DEVELOPMENT BY SOLTERRA GROUP STANDS BEHIND EXCAVATED EARTH.
I am hoping to engage everyone—residents of the Lower Mainland, politicians, developers, business owners, visitors and tourists. We all play a crucial part in shaping our world, including influencing government decisions. This is particularly important right now with the [Sept. 20] election. According to Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist from Harvard University, it only takes 3.5 per cent of the population to make real change. We need to stop being passive citizens. In Changing Squamish, you urge that “we must re-evaluate our needs and consider this finite and fragile planet on which we live.” Can you tell us a little bit about what re-evaluating our needs might look like? There is this mentality that is nurtured by capitalist and colonial systems that we must continually grow and progress. To me, progress means building our society around values of inclusivity, diversity and social and environmental justice. It means reorganizing economic activity away from extraction
and toward cooperation and caring. Many vehicle residents use less resources than home dwellers and because they live outside, they have a closer relationship and connection to the land. Even so, they are assumed to be an environmental risk and penalized for not contributing enough, which comes back to this colonial idea that there is only one way of being. How boring our society would be if we all lived the same way! WHAT’S THE SOLUTION TO ALL THIS? I think we need to question the idea that more of the same— growth and development—is going to solve all our problems. Instead of this sterile monoculture of gentrification, we can design neighbourhoods to be diverse and influence positive lifestyle choices where quality of life is the focus, rather than material wealth. We can protect views, green spaces and create more food security through community gardens and green roofing. Instead of big-box corporate commerce, we can create local economies to shorten supply chains and support local goods and business. We need responsible, future-thinking interventions that take into account existing residents, natural landscapes, critical view corridors, public space and access. We need to move beyond current standards that merely flirt with the idea of “eco-efficiency”—being less bad doesn’t make it good. And most importantly, we need to include Indigenous voices as part of the solution, whose knowledge and wisdom is essential to our survival. Changing Squamish is on view at the Green Olive Cafe, the Squamish Adventure Centre from Sept. 9, and at The Ledge Community Coffee House from Sep. 11. Amy Romer is an award-winning visual journalist based in North Vancouver. Her work focuses primarily on human rights and the environment. She is a National Geographic Explorer. This photo essay originally appeared in The Tyee on Sept. 10 and is reprinted here with the author’s permission. Find it at thetyee.ca/Culture/2021/09/10/Squamish-For-Sale. ■
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Brandywine Boogie returns to Cheakamus THE SIXTH ANNUAL BRANDYWINE BOOGIE TOOK PLACE ON SATURDAY AFTER MISSING LAST YEAR DUE TO THE PANDEMIC
BY HARRISON BROOKS “THREE, TWO, one, boogie.” Those were the words spoken by Rotary Millennium member Hannah Edleston as she kicked off the sixth annual Brandywine Boogie in Cheakamus on Saturday, Sept. 18. After not being able to run last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the race like Edleston and race director Thomas Christensen could not be happier to be running it again, even if they were a little bit concerned about what the conditions would be like after more than 50 millimetres of rain fell the day before. “It’s just so ... well, it’s fantastic. I’m just trying to find a better word than that. It’s just nice to get back to some kind of normal and be able to really gather outside and take advantage of the amazing resources available here in Whistler,” said Christensen. “We were a little bit nervous about the wetness because the first two [kilometres] on Trash are pretty technical. But we are ecstatic considering what we had the last 36 hours to wake up to pretty much blue sky this morning. We had about five or 10 minutes of a bit of rain to start with, but people are ecstatic, they love the race. I don’t think it could have gone any better, to be honest.”
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Racers hit the trail at the start of the sixth annual Brandywine Boogie on Saturday, Sept. 18. PHOTO BY HARRISON BROOKS
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Approximately 100 people came out for the nine-kilometre race from Bayly Park in Cheakamus down the Valley Trail, ending in the Cal-Cheak Campground. Outside of the beautiful scenery the race offers, one of the big draws of the run for many people is how 100 per cent of the proceeds go to charity, with racers even being able to choose where part of their entry fee goes. Fifty per cent of the money raised goes to the Rotary club, but racers can choose
[kilometres], so a shorter one gets the cadence going a little better, plus this is quite a flat course, actually it’s more descending than climbing but I like the flatness of it.” For Murdoch, who has now won the last three Brandywine Boogies, finishing first again didn’t come as much of a surprise to him, seeing as how that was his goal from the start. But the same can’t be said for the winner of the women’s side Louise O’Brien, who was a last-minute
“It’s great. It’s such a variation in terrain, it keeps things really interesting ... it’s got a little bit of everything, it’s gorgeous.” - VINCENT MCCURLEY
between three organizations for the other 50 per cent, including the Whistler OffRoad Cycling Association (WORCA), the Rotary Youth Exchange and Zero Ceiling, a non-profit that supports at-risk youth with employment and a place to live. The other draw for some racers like overall winner Michael Murdoch is the short, predominantly downhill nature of the course. “I like the short distance of it,” he said. “Usually trail runs are up to 22-plus
entry and had no expectations of winning, but just wanted to do her part to support the race and local charities. “My husband, joking this morning, said ‘are you going to win?’ And I laughed at him,” said O’Brien. “But it was just a fun day. It’s awesome, they pulled this together with very little help and it’s a small team and they do an amazing job every year and it’s just so great they were able to put it on when so many events got cancelled.” For winning the men’s and women’s
side of the race, Murdoch and O’Brien each received a Helly Hansen winter jacket, while the second and third place runners received a gift bag filled with items such as T-shirts and water bottles. There were also spot prizes given away at random after the race, including things like clothing, gym memberships, hotel stays and golf passes, among others, all donated by local businesses and organizations. Christensen describes the Brandywine Boogie as a “good introduction to trail running” for anyone who hasn’t done much off-road running before, which makes this race a perfect fit for youth runners like 10-year-old Tycho McCurley who raced for the first time with his dad Vincent and his older brother Aaron. Vincent and Aaron, 14, have run the race twice before already, but now that they all have been able to run it together, and enjoyed their time doing so, it might just become a yearly father-son outing for the McCurleys. “It’s great. It’s such a variation in terrain, it keeps things really interesting and there’s some beautiful sections. There’s this one section where it’s kind of downhill and opens up and there’s all these amazing rock structures on one side and beautiful trees. It’s hilly, different terrains, it goes by the river, [winding] bits, uphill, downhill, it’s got a little bit of everything, it’s gorgeous,” said Vincent before addressing his youngest son who was all smiles after completing the race. “What do you think, Tycho? Yeah, I think we’ll make it a family tradition.” n
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Sea to Sky rugby player earns tryout with Toronto Wolfpack
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BY HARRISON BROOKS AS OF JUST two weeks ago, Blake Mahovic, president of the Axemen Rugby Club in Squamish, thought his high-level playing days were over and that he’d be lacing up for the Axemen for the rest of his playing days—something he was perfectly content with. But then an unexpected phone call flipped that on its head. Mahovic got a call from the Toronto Wolfpack asking him to come try out for the team ahead of the North American Rugby League’s inaugural season in 2022. Mahovic, who grew up in the heartland of the Rugby League variation of the sport in Northern England, had switched to playing Rugby Union rules while running the Axemen until his friend and president of the Whistler Wolves Rugby Club, Blake Stewart, convinced him to come play with them this year. “Blake kind of twisted my arm about playing, and I actually had an amazing year playing there and then all the footage got sent over to [the Toronto Wolfpack] and they just called me up and asked if I’d be interested in coming over and playing a game,” said Mahovic. “I explained that I was teaching full time, but I would love the opportunity. And then a week later, here I am at the airport ready to jump on a flight.” At 29 years old, Mahovic has been playing rugby for more than 20 years and has played his fair share of highlevel rugby including with the B.C. All-Stars, the National University side in the U.K., a couple World Cup warmup game appearances, and even some professional games with the Wigan Warriors in England. This game with the Wolfpack, which took place on Saturday, Sept. 18, and resulted in a 42-6 routing of the DC Cavalry, marked Mahovic’s first big opportunity since before the pandemic began in early 2020. However, despite not playing at a high calibre for a while, Mahovic wasn’t nervous, just excited about the opportunity he was presented and didn’t want to set too many expectations for himself. “I’m going to try and go in and play the best game that I can and just take that opportunity to play at that level again and whatever comes of it, comes of it. If that’s a Canada jersey, then fantastic, and if it’s a [Wolfpack] contract, then that’s awesome too. But I’m just here for the experience right now and seeing where that leads,” he said.
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“I’ll take it one decision at a time. I’m quite good at just focusing in on that one thing and right now I’m working on Grade 10 math and playing a rugby game on the weekend and then after that whatever is presented is when I’ll make those decisions, but I’m trying not to overthink everything.” The main reason Mahovic isn’t putting too much pressure on himself about the results of his tryout is, in his eyes, whichever way it turns out, he already knows he’s going to be happy. Whether that’s getting to play for a professional team in a brand new league and to be a part of what he hopes will be the start of the sport he loves becoming more popular in Canada, or continuing to fill his days playing with his Axemen team in Squamish and teaching at Collingwood School in West Vancouver, Mahovic is just excited about where life has taken him so far. “I’m teaching full time, so [making the team] would definitely be a bridge-when-Icome-to-it situation and just see if I can play an altered season and just play through my summer break or something. I love rugby, but it’s more of a hobby, and it pays as such. So it’s not something I would quit my career for, potentially, but something that’s nice to do as well as,” he said. “I’m so lucky to have everything else I got going on in my life. I have a great job, I’ve got a great rugby team in Squamish, I live in a beautiful part of the world and have amazing people in my life. So this is just an added bonus and I think, [if it doesn’t work out], that I will be perfectly happy playing out the rest of my career in Squamish and just being around the rest of the people that are important to me.” n
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You are what you eat—more than ever GOOD SCIENCE, ONCE AGAIN, PUTS THE ‘LEAD’ IN LEADERSHIP FALL BRINGS CHANGE in more ways than one. As I write this, the leader of our fair nation is being determined at the ballot box. By the time you read it, the results will be in. (Another Liberal minority government, in case you missed the news.) And as the biggest crisis ever threatening we humans totters on the brink—namely our climate emergency, which world leaders will
BY GLENDA BARTOSH face at the Oct. 31 UN COP 26 (Conference of the Parties) meeting in Glasgow—it shines a spotlight on the critical role of science: how it can shape our world for the better, how it operates equally well on the grand scale of global politics, and the micro-scale of what we shove into our mouths to fuel our bodies. Unfortunately for us all, another fall election, the upcoming September one in Germany—before the COP climate conference—will see the departure of Angela Merkel from the chancellor’s chair, a position she’s held unpretentiously and with aplomb since 2005, putting both Germany and good leadership in the driver’s seat in more ways than one. Leaders and leading scientific journals around the world have been bemoaning
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Ms. Merkel’s imminent retirement, and lauding her achievements. How she brought good, solid science to the table alongside her political decisions (many people don’t realize she was a quantum chemist, studying the quantum mechanics of gas-particle collisions, long before she led Germany to be the powerhouse of Europe). How she kept a steady hand on the tiller through crisis after crisis, like phasing out nuclear power and facing COVID-19 (many don’t realize she grew up in East Germany, when decision-making under duress was an everyday thing taken in stride). How her legacy will endure. Science, especially women in science, or the fringe of it, has been on my mind, too, with a recent report in Science Daily that concludes we may well be more about what we eat than how much we eat of it. The report, from the American Society of Nutrition, which, I’m happy to report actually has more women as board directors than it does men, concludes that overeating is not the main cause of obesity. It’s more what we eat, than how much. This all echoes the time-worn axiom, “You are what you eat” which harkens back to the early 1800s but was popularized by Adelle Davis, the most famous nutritionist of her day. Through the ’50s and ’60s, Ms. Davis was a mover and shaker, a kind of food guru, especially in hippie and hipster circles, highly regarded for some of her good conclusions— like diets high in salt, refined sugars, pesticides, growth hormones, preservatives and other additives are definitely unhealthy. Or that we should eat way more whole grains
and unprocessed foods, even a macrobiotic diet. But later, Ms. Davis was also rightly disparaged for some of her flakey nutritional claims not grounded in science—like taking large doses of magnesium to prevent epilepsy. Her legacy withered. But back to the American Society of Nutrition report on this new “carbohydrateinsulin” model, which is based in science and concludes that obesity is more of a metabolic disorder, and that the process of getting fat actually triggers overeating. “The energy balance model, which says weight gain is caused by consuming more energy than we expend, ‘restates a principle of physics without considering the biological mechanisms driving weight gain,’” the report says. It’s more that excessively consuming foods with a high glycemic load—“in particular, processed, rapidly digestible carbohydrates” like white bread, or fructose/glucose syrup, jack up blood sugar, trigger the pancreas to make insulin, and make us fat. So we need to better focus on what we eat to better manage weight. In other words, the century-old energy balance model that tells us we put on weight because we simply eat too many calories, so just exercise more, is, at its simplest, tosh. No surprise, eh?, since we could pretty much tell just by looking around or at our own habits as we exercise ourselves, well, not to death, but often to the limits, and still have to buy a bigger pant-size or three. Now, before you do something silly, like tweet how Bar-tosh (wink, wink) said some dietary model was tosh, note that science is
complicated. Not to confuse things further, but this latest report also advocates for more investigation and more examination of both obesity theories. Remember, too, that good science, like most good things, is a work in progress—it’s constantly being tweaked, challenged, enriched by new research, new understanding. But it’s also guided by the eternally sound principle known as the scientific method you might have learned in Grade 5 science: 1. Make an observation; 2. Create a hypothesis then test it; 3. Form a conclusion, then refine your hypothesis. I love it when new science gives old science the boot! But I also get that this kind of constantly changing science can flummox or frustrate people, maybe drive them to cling to old, overly simplistic ideas. Or super-angry social media. Or just say the hell with it, and grab some pop or crappy candy filled with glucose-fructose to get that faulty sugar-high. So maybe try a handful of nuts, instead, and think of Angela Merkel growing up in East Germany— her resiliency and wisdom in making fast but good decisions that flow from solid science and stand the test of time. And if you have energy to spare, maybe channel it to all the new leaders in Ottawa and beyond as they head to the fall COP climate meeting. They’ll need it! Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who supports the World Federation of Science Journalists and Evidence for Democracy. n
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Arts Whistler’s new exhibit is so much more than just bears and landscapes WE HEART LOCAL ART FEATURES THE DIVERSE WORK OF 24 SEA TO SKY ARTISTS
BY BRANDON BARRETT GREG FUNK’S Catzilla, one of two felinethemed paintings he has featured in Arts Whistler’s latest exhibit, depicts a giant cat clutching two measly humans while crushing a family sedan under its paw. “That’s kind of what cats would do if they could, I think,” says the 44-year-old Whistler artist. “You know how they can be moody and unpredictable at times. That’s all that is. It’s kind of fun, I thought.” For the uninitiated, a three-storey-tall cat on a deadly rampage might seem a departure from the serene landscapes and lifelike wildlife paintings you are likely to find in galleries across the Sea to Sky. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll discover an art scene as wildly diverse as the cosmopolitan population that is drawn here. That is clear from the multitude of works on offer in We Heart Local Art, a six-week exhibition at the Maury Young Arts Centre that features pieces from 24 Sea to Sky artists, working in a variety of styles and mediums. “There is so much deep talent in Whistler,” says Arts Whistler executive director Mo Douglas. “The art scene is getting stronger all the time even in spite of the pandemic, and with that, what we’re
CROCODILE MILE Pemberton artist Aurora Moore, whose painting is pictured, is one of 24 Sea to Sky artists showing in We Heart Local Art. PHOTO COURTESY OF AURORA MOORE / FACEBOOK
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seeing is artists making choices to be more diverse, to take more risks, to work more in abstracts or multimedia. We’re starting to see them explore other themes, whether it’s social issues, anthropological … [or] art that’s fun and whimsical.” There’s the aforementioned Funk, whose work tends to draw on everything from B-movie culture to the surrealism of Salvador Dali and the highly graphic, psychedelic work of Juxtapoz founder Robert Williams.
and entomological drawings by frontier explorers and researchers of old. “It’s such a draw for me, that educational side of it and the beauty,” she says, highlighting the work of naturalists and explorers like Henry Bates, Howard Carter and Maria Merian, who combined the keen observation of a researcher with the eye for beauty of an artist. “I love showing that to my kids. Going out and getting excited over, like, a piece of lichen
“[W]e’re seeing artists making choices to be more diverse, to take more risks, to work more in abstracts or multimedia.” - MO DOUGLAS
“There is some lowbrow influence there, pop art influence, surrealism, stuff like that,” says Funk. “I know Robert Williams referred to his art as ‘living-room destroyers.’ I like that term but I get that everybody might not want to have one of my pieces hanging on their wall. Some people love it. Maybe it’s a love-hate thing.” Contrast that with Aurora Moore, the Pemberton artist working mostly in pen and watercolour whose work sits at the nexus of science and art and is directly inspired by the richly detailed botanical
or a mushroom,” she adds. “It’s just neat. But also, those old explorers and old artists—I work mostly from photographs—and I just think it’s so impressive that they would have been working just from being out in the field and looking at these animals and really bringing so much detail to that. Being able to have that much observation is so impressive.” Even the exhibiting artists who tend to stick to the kind of subject matter the Sea to Sky is known for frequently do so in their own distinct style. Long-time Whistler artist Marcelle Armatage, for instance, focuses
on abstract landscapes, subverting natural colour schemes and forms in a way that lends the viewer a deeper emotional picture of the terrain. “There’s almost an abstract quality but still that really strong sense of texture in what you’re seeing in the landscape, as if your brain completely reinterpreted the colours,” Douglas says. The exhibit also features a fair deal of technological aspects, with numerous artists combining traditional mediums with contemporary ones, like Squamish’s Stacey Bodnaruk, who uses an approach she calls “artography” that layers and fuses multiple photos, including ground and aerial photography, into one perspectivedefying image. According to Douglas, it’s at least a partial response to the pandemic. “Necessity is the motherhood of invention and I think the downtime potentially had in the beginning spurred a lot of creativity. It’s like, ‘What am I going to do with this energy?’” she says. We Heart Local Art came together because Arts Whistler had a hole to fill in the calendar after moving the popular Anonymous Art Show to the spring, and after a tough year on the sector as a whole, it’s another way for artists to get their work out and make some money while they’re at it. The exhibit is on now through Oct. 31 and the works are for sale now and for four weeks after it closes, viewable online through a 3D virtual gallery. Learn more at artswhistler.com/event/weheartlocalart. n
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A tale of shapeshifters, runaway organs, and angry sasquatches BOOK REVIEW: RETURN OF THE TRICKSTER BY EDEN ROBINSON
BY DEE RAFFO I AM BEREFT. When you turn the final pages of a story that’s spanned several books, you have built up a relationship with the characters, and it can be heartbreaking to say goodbye. This is what happened to me and other Eden Robinson fans who have been following the character of Jared Martin since the first book in the Trickster trilogy, Son of a Trickster. We’ve been with this annoyingly awkward, yet loveable teen as he’s uncovered who he really is, one of the 535 decedents of Wee’git, a shapeshifter that can travel to other dimensions. This could make the book sound wonderfully whimsical, but it’s grounded by a gritty, coming-of-age story about a boy who doesn’t seem to fit in anywhere; with his family, his friends, or with the other supernatural beings that start to inhabit his life (and eat his toes). “The insanity of magic Jared had unleashed left him with no way to deny he was a Trickster himself, that he was part of the crazy, that his amateur dabbling has created a shitstorm that had eventually landed him in Emerg. Again. All his relationships changed now, except the rotten one he had with his bio dad. Normally, Jared would tell him to fuck right off, but his organs were running amok in the hospital bathroom and he had no pride left.” In this final installment, we join him at a point of no return. He’s set off a chain of events that he can only hope won’t end with himself and everyone he loves dying. These cataclysmic elements are juxtaposed against the more ordinary things that make up Jared’s life: his love of cooking, the complex dynamics of being friends with
an ex, his battle with alcoholism, and his dream to “work as an ultrasound technician in a mid-sized hospital”. It’s this humorous weaving of the mundane with the mystical that makes Robinson’s writing so distinctive, and also the reason why Jared is such a memorable hero. At his core, he’s just a nice guy who wants a normal life, but his lineage of a hated, shape-shifting father and psycho, witch mother makes this difficult; not to mention the octopus ghost, otters in human skins, and the ogress who likes to suck the marrow from his bones. In an interview with the Vancouver Sun, Robinson admitted to drastically changing the tone of the third book; switching it from a happy-ever-after ending to one more challenging and darker. I’m glad she did. The pace of the storytelling left me breathless as it bounded towards its chaotic showdown ending. If you’re after some escapism, love a flawed hero facing an impossible situation, and want to know how a Sasquatch recovers from a fit of rage, this is the book for you. As I said, I am bereft that this story has ended, but I am also looking forward to a good night’s sleep. You can often find Dee Raffo exploring all Whistler has to offer with her three-kid tribe in tow. Originally from the U.K., Dee enjoys balancing high-thrill adventures with downtime, basking in the beauty of the wonderful place she calls home. Eden Robinson will be in conversation with author and director of the UBC School of Creative Writing, Alix Ohlin on Sunday, Oct. 17 at 11 a.m. Take part in the in-person brunch, at the Fairmont Chateau, or the virtual Whistler watch party. Robinson will be joined by authors George Elliott Clarke, Omar El Akkad, Robert Jones Jr., and M.G. Vassanji. Tickets are available at whistlerwritersfest.com. n
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MOVING UP The Whistler Public Library has had a long and storied route to its current location. Here carpenters finish the outside of the portables after its 1994 move. WHISTLER QUESTION COLLECTION
The library’s temporary home BY ALLYN PRINGLE THE WHISTLER PUBLIC Library (WPL) opened its doors in the basement of municipal hall in the summer of 1986, less than a year after the Whistler Public Library Association (WPLA) was formed, thanks to the dedicated work of members of the WPLA, community groups, and volunteers. It quickly became a well-used facility within the community and began providing books, storytimes, school presentations, summer reading programs, and in time even a public access computer under the direction of librarian Joan Richoz. It was widely understood even before the WPL opened in the basement that this would not be a permanent location. The WPLA had been granted a five-year lease of the space in 1986 and Richoz was told that the library should expect to be in the basement for three to five years. A building fund was started by the WPLA in 1989 but by 1991, as the end of their lease approached, the building committee reported that it would probably be another five years before a new building was ready. The library began operating on a month-to-month lease and then received a two-year lease. The library quickly outgrew its basement location, even after the Whistler Museum and Archives moved out of its part of the space in 1989. In 1990, WPL already had 1,157 registered borrowers, while Squamish had only 704 and Pemberton had 261, and Whistler was continuing to grow. Despite this increase in usership and dedicated fundraising efforts, the library struggled to secure enough funding for operations, sometimes having to dip into its building fund. The question of where to put the library was met with various proposals, including office space in the newly constructed Marketplace and the high school planned for 1996. The municipality had set aside various sites for community use and in 1992 a lot on Main Street, referred to as Lot 21, was zoned for a library. In October 1992 there was talk of building a municipal
cultural centre to house the library, museum and Whistler Arts Council as tenants on Lot 1, but in November the municipality committed funding to build an ice rink at Meadow Park instead. This was also when the idea of moving the library, along with the museum and arts council, into portables on Lot 21 came up. In July 1994, having added as much shelving as possible to the basement space, the library was presented with three options, all of which were temporary measures involving portables. Staying in the basement was no longer an option, as it was needed for the growing Planning and Parks & Recreation departments, then housed in its own portables next to municipal hall. The library chose to move into the old Canada Post trailers that were to be moved to Lot 21. This move would double the space, shelving, and number of seats and allow the library to continue growing its collections and programs. In December 1994, after the portables had been moved and refurbished by the municipal Building Department and community members, the library shut down for a week and staff and volunteers moved furniture, books, magazines and more to the new location. The circulation desk, left over from the previous occupants, bore the colours of Canada Post and the new recycled space offered room for a children’s area and reading tables. Now ground level, Richoz told the Whistler Question, “We’ve got windows and a view. It’s just fantastic,” and the first library patron Liz Stamper described it as “absolutely beautiful.” Unlike at the previous location, the grand opening of the new location occurred a month after WPL welcomed its first borrowers on Main Street. The opening in January 1995 attracted about 150 people, despite a lack of signage and large snowbanks that hid the building, and featured a ribbon cutting and a silent auction to raise money to offset the cost of moving. Despite the increase in space, this new location was also meant to be a temporary measure. In 1995, staff expected the library to remain in the portables for three to five years. n
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries author Steve Maraboli says, “The best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” If that strategy appeals to you, the next eight weeks will be an excellent time to put it to maximum use. You’re entering a phase when you can have an especially beneficial effect on people you care for. You’ll be at peak power to help them unleash dormant potentials and access untapped resources.
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ruminate about things you wish could be part of your life but aren’t. You will be wise to develop a more conscious relationship with wistful fantasies about impossible dreams. Here’s one reason why this is true: You might realize that some seemingly impossible dreams aren’t so impossible. To get in the mood for this fun exercise, meditate on a sample reverie: “I wish I could spend a whole day discovering new music to love. I wish I owned a horse and a boat and a vintage brown and orange striped bohemian cardigan sweater from the 1970s. I wish I knew the names of all the flowers. I wish I felt more at ease about revealing my hidden beauty. I wish I could figure out how to eliminate unnecessary stress from my life.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet, essayist, and translator Anne Carson calls her husband Robert Currie the “Randomizer.” His role in her life as a creative artist is to make quirky recommendations that help her avoid being too predictable. He sends her off in directions she wouldn’t have imagined by herself. Here’s an example: At one point in her career, Carson confessed she was bored with her writing. The Randomizer suggested, “Let’s put dancers into it.” In response, she repurposed the sonnets she had been working on into a live theatrical performance featuring many dancers. I think you would benefit from having a Randomizer in your life during the coming weeks. Know anyone who could serve? If not, look for one. Or be your own Randomizer. CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you so desired, you could travel to Munich, Germany and eat beer-flavoured ice cream. Or you could go to Rehoboth, Del. and get bacon-flavoured ice cream. If you were in Taiwan, you could enjoy pineapple shrimp ice cream, and if you were in London, you could sample haggis-flavoured ice cream, made from sheep innards. But my advice right now is to stick with old reliables like chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream—which are still delicious even if they’re not exotic. What’s my reasoning? In general, the astrological aspects suggest that during the coming weeks, you’re most likely to thrive on trustworthy standbys and experiences you know and trust. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Celebrated novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote, “Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” People who aren’t as articulate as Austen experience that problem even more often than she did. But the good news, Leo, is that in the coming weeks, you’ll be extra skilful at expressing your feelings and thoughts—even those that in the past have been difficult to put into words. I invite you to take maximum advantage of this grace period. Communicate with hearty poise and gleeful abandon. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When you know what’s important, it’s a lot easier to ignore what’s not,” writes author and life coach Marie Forleo. Let’s make her thought the basis of your work and play in the coming weeks. Get vibrantly clear on what is of supreme value to you, which influences bring out the best in you, and which people make it easy for you to be yourself. Then compose a second list of trivial situations that are of minor interest, influences that make you feel numb, and people who don’t fully appreciate you. Next, Virgo, formulate long-term plans to phase out the things in the second list as you increasingly emphasize your involvement in the pleasures named in the first list.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy birthday sometime soon, Libra! As gifts, I have collected six useful minioracles for you to meditate on during the rest of 2021. They’re all authored by Libran aphorist Yahia Lababidi. 1. Hope is more patient than despair and so outlasts it. 2. Miracles are proud creatures; they will not reveal themselves to those who do not believe. 3. A good listener is one who helps us overhear ourselves. 4. One definition of success might be refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger. 5. With enigmatic clarity, life gives us a different answer each time we ask her the same question. 6. Temptation: seeds we are forbidden to water, that are showered with rain. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Pioneering psychologist Carl Jung wrote, “I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.” But it’s important to add that some dark sides tend to be destructive and demoralizing, while other dark sides are fertile and interesting. Most of us have a share of each. My reading of the planetary omens suggests that you Scorpios now have extra power to upgrade your relationship with the fertile and interesting aspects of your dark side. I hope you will take advantage! You have a ripe opportunity to deepen and expand your wholeness. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke was a complicated person with many mysterious emotions and convoluted thoughts. And yet, he once wrote that life occasionally brought him “boundless simplicity and joy.” I find it amazing he could ever welcome such a state. Kudos to him! How about you, dear Sagittarius? Are you capable of recognizing when boundless simplicity and joy are hovering in your vicinity, ready for you to seize them? If so, be extra alert in the next two weeks. I expect there’ll be a visitation or two. Maybe even three or four. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Baltasar Gracián was not a 21st-century New Age self-help teacher. He was a 17th-century Jesuit philosopher born under the sign of serious, diligent Capricorn. I hope you will be extra receptive to his advice in the coming weeks. He wrote, “Know your key qualities, your outstanding gifts. Cultivate them. Redouble their use.” Among the key qualities he gave as examples were disciplined discernment and resilient courage. I bring his thoughts to your attention because the coming weeks will be a rousing time to heed his counsel. It’s time for you to identify and celebrate and give abundant expression to your key qualities. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After studying the genes that create feathers in birds, scientists found that humans have all the necessary genes to grow feathers. (I read about it in National Geographic magazine.) So why don’t we grow feathers, then? Well, it’s complicated. Basically, the feather-making genes are not fully activated. Who knows? Maybe someday, there’ll be technology that enables us to switch on those genes and sprout plumage. I bet my Aquarian friend Jessie, whose body has 30 tattoos and 17 piercings, would take advantage. In the coming weeks, it might be fun for you to imagine having bird-like qualities. You’re entering a high-flying phase—a time for ascension, expansion, soaring, and seeing the big picture from lofty vantage points. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are there sensual and erotic acts you’ve never tried and are curious about? Are there experimental approaches on the frontier of your desires that would be intriguing to consider? Might there be lusty experiences you’ve barely imagined or don’t know about—but that could be fun to play with? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be a favourable time to explore such possibilities. Be safe and prudent, of course. Don’t be irresponsible or careless. But also be willing to expand your notions of your sexuality. Homework. It’s time for Brag Therapy. Send me your proud and shiny boasts. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com.
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ABORIGINAL SUPPORTED CHILD DEVELOPMENT EDUCATOR The N’Quatqua First Nation is seeking a qualified Aboriginal Supported Child Development Educator to fill a full-time position at N’Quatqua Child and Family Development Centre. The successful candidate will join our NCFDC team, the function of the Aboriginal Supported Child Development Educator is to provide the extra staffing support to a child care center in order for children with extra support needs to fully participate in the child care settings chosen by their families. The Educator works as a team member with child care setting staff and with all the children and families providing general support to the whole program to ensure effective inclusion of the children. The successful candidate will have demonstrated ability in: • Ability to develop and maintain a warm, caring, responsive relationship with the child. • Ability to establish and maintain supportive, collaborative relationships with families and staff. • Ability to maintain confidentiality, positive, professional, non-judgemental attitude.
JUNIOR OR SENIOR ACCOUNTANT GSK Chartered Professional Accountants LLP is a Squamish firm seeking a Junior or Senior Accountant to join our office. Candidates with a CPA designation or who are enrolled in the CPA certification program are preferred, but it is not required. We offer a great work environment, exposure to a wide variety of clients and excellent training for the right candidate. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES • Preparing year-end accounting records for businesses; • Preparing corporate and personal tax returns; and • Assisting with light administrative duties. QUALIFICATIONS • Basic understanding of accounting or bookkeeping; • Strong computer skills including experience with accounting software such as Sage Simply Accounting, Quickbooks, Caseware and/or other tax software; • Have strong written and communication skills; • Be self-motivated; and • Produce high quality and detail-oriented work. We offer a competitive salary that will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. Please send your cover letter and resume to ross@gskllp.ca
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Xet’olacw Community School is looking to hire a full time child and youth therapist for their school. The child and youth therapist will work with students aged 4-19 within a school based setting. In addition to being trauma informed, flexible and having experience working with Indigenous students, preferred therapeutic modalities include narrative therapy, expressive arts, and CBT. The successful candidate will demonstrate clear boundaries, strong ethics and a firm understanding of informed consent. The successful candidate will be able to both understand and honour the impact of the history of colonialism on Indigenous communities in their work with the students, their families, the staff and the community. Key Qualifications and Attributes: • A Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology or equivalent • Excellent communication skills; confidence to role model these skills and engage in them • Be registered with the BCACC, CCPA (certified member) and/or the BCTF • Ability to liaise (or learn to liaise) between Indigenous and non-indigenous culture, work within a team, on various teams and independently • Flexibility and collaborative team player • Engages in consistent and healthy self-care practices • Open to Learning Key Deliverables: • Provide therapy to children and youth aged 4-18 and carry a caseload of individual clients, co-facilitate group therapy and maintain appropriate records. • Be prepared and comfortable presenting psychoeducation to students in their classrooms (including but not limited to boundaries, abuse prevention, healthy relationships, and mental health information as needed and requested by teaching staff and administration). • Participate in school based teams, inter-agency teams and develop mental health resources when needed • Liaise and attend meetings with other health care professionals and service providers when requested by clients (to best support a circle of care and mental health) and with appropriate informed consent. Key Responsibilities: • Arrive each school day by 8:30 a.m. Be available after hours and on holidays under extenuating circumstances for at risk students and their families. • Create a schedule that outlines your therapeutic caseload and that honours the scheduling needs of the school (and individual classrooms). • Co-facilitate or facilitate teaching classes, group therapy and super courses. • Provide therapy and classroom psychoeducation that is culturally competent, has a clear beginning, middle and end and that is tailored to the needs of the individual or group. • Be available for debriefing and support for staff regarding mental health in the classroom and to support the mental health of the students on your caseload. • Participate in peer supervision and personal supervision as needed or requested. • Be open to participating in culturally oriented activities (including but not limited to; stein Valley hiking, Outdoor-based super courses, learning Ucwalmicwts words and phrases). • Record Keeping: Keep a file for each student including but not limited to the signed permission, Welcome to Counselling Agreement, Informed Consent documents, a record of dates, times, and themes of sessions. Send cover letter and resume including references. Upon receiving your information an applicant’s Declaration and Agreement will be sent to be signed. Contact Information: Verna Stager, Education Director • Xet’olacw Community School P.O. Box 604, Mount Currie, B.C. V0N 2K0 Phone: 604 894-6131 / Fax: 604 894-5717 • glenda.gabriel@lilwat.ca
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It’s called working together for the good of the people AS JEAN-BAPTISTE Alphonse Karr might have said—had he not been dead for the last 130 years—plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. After 30-some days of campaigning that reminded us all of the relativity of time, having seemed infinite, we find ourselves more or less where we were when this melodrama began—Liberal minority government with most of the parties sitting in the same seats. With one exception. Can I get an amen for the late, great Green Party? Time hasn’t been kind to the
BY G.D. MAXWELL Greens. Their issue, their raison d’etre, their rallying cry has been taken up by, well, everyone else. They are now left with nothing unique to offer. No leader, no issue that differentiates them from the rest of the pack, no chance of nudging government more aggressively in the direction they’d like to go. Nothing. It would be an act of mercy for Elizabeth May to once again take up the mantle of leadership—sorely lacking since her departure—and lead her two or three MPs across the aisle to join either the Liberals or the New Democrats, while announcing the dissolution of the Green Party. When even the Conservative Party comes out in favour of a carbon tax what exactly is it they have to rally the party faithful behind? The other issues promoted by federal Green Party leader Annamie Paul were arrows borrowed from the NDP quiver or policies touted by the Liberals, albeit with a dose of steroids. The Party failed to run candidates in all ridings. The trajectory of their popular support has been downward from 2008’s 6.8 per cent to this week’s 2.3 per cent, well behind even the People’s Party of Canada! They’ve become an asterisk. Exactly what is the purpose of soldiering on? Join a real party. If there is to be any real value to this election it is going to be found in the sausagemaking of political compromise. Call me a dreamer if you will, but I would like to live long enough to see the people we collectively elect to govern us actually do the job of governing... together... constructively. Assuming the Conservative Party members can keep their knives sheathed and out of the back of Erin O’Toole—by no means a given—perhaps someone can calmly explain to them the vast majority of Canadian voters aren’t interested in what they’re selling. Around 60 per cent of the votes cast across the country were cast for small ‘l’ liberal parties: Liberals, NDP, Bloc, Green. And yes, I know there are a lot of conservative, rural voters
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in Quebec who would let fly with a torrent of swear words I don’t understand for my terming the Bloc liberal. Small ‘c’ conservative voters accounted for just over 39 per cent of all voters, split between the Cons and PPC. Even assuming the rabid right and the more centrist conservatives can ever unite under a single banner again, the best they can hope for in the foreseeable future is a minority government underpinned by... exactly whom? The Liberals? NDP? Bloc? Kind of an impossible scenario, ain’t it? The clear choice for the Conservatives is to work with, not against, the governing party and be seen to be helping craft constructive solutions to the problems faced by the country. Wow, I can’t believe I just wrote that. Sorry, momentarily in
draw from the vaccine mandates launched the past few months is this: Incentives don’t work as well as disincentives. All the pleading, all the cajoling, all the gift cards, lottery tickets and other bribes to entice people to get vaccinated resulted in tepid uptake. But foreclose the unvaccinated from, well, just about everything that defines social life and the results are much more dramatic. Even in Alberta, the demand for jabs jumped after Premier Kenny’s brain transplant began working and threatened mandates kicked in. So why wouldn’t disincentives work in the climate file? For example, the feds and a number of provinces have rebate incentives to encourage people to buy electric vehicles. While they work to a degree, pickup trucks are still the No. 1-selling vehicle across the
I would like to live long enough to see the people we collectively elect to govern us actually do the job of governing... together... constructively.
la-la land, sitting around the campfire singing Kumbaya. All right, how about a less pie-in-thesky dream for the future? How about the Liberals and NDP actively working together to bring about some of their dreams they haven’t had the courage or ability to realize? How about getting serious about steps to lessen Canada’s admittedly small contribution to climate change? One of the interesting lessons we can
country. And with manufacturers in an arms race to have the biggest, most badass truck on the road, there are some with horsepower formerly only seen in supercars. B.C. and other provinces have a surtax on luxury cars that run as high as 20 per cent on cars costing $150,000 and more. That would be an extra $30,000 on a car that expensive. Whatever? But they don’t have a surtax on vehicles that burn fuel faster than an open fire. Why not? If you
want to encourage people to choose vehicles with a smaller carbon footprint, why not slap a prohibitive tax on fuel consumption? Oh yeah, the feds do that. You can laugh; that was a joke. As is the federal excise tax on fuel-inefficient vehicles. It kicks in at around 15l/100km. It’s a paltry $1,000. The highest I could find was $4,000 for a couple of Lamborghinis that burn 20l/100km. Given they start at half a million dollars and go much higher, I’m guessing that’s not much of a disincentive. Oh, and pickup trucks are excluded. If disincentives work—and they do— and they were tied to fuel-inefficiency, we might see a whole lot fewer massive trucks pulling massive rolling cottages behind them or carrying big sleds, or quads, or filling the rearview mirrors of people driving those fuel-efficient vehicles. It fits right in with the pay-to-play mentality so popular among junior levels of government who have fewer resources to tap. The new, unimproved minority government might work closely with the same-old NDP to finally institute a national pharmacare program too. Expensive? Yup. But study after study has shown it would save money in the long run, treating people with drugs they need to keep them out of emergency rooms and hospitals, which are much, much more expensive. Promised $10-a-day daycare keeps people in the workforce, something the country, a perennial laggard in productivity, could benefit from far beyond the upfront cost. None of it is rocket science. It’s just working together to tackle some tough issues rather than slagging the opposition and scoring points in the Commons. Kumbaya...? ■
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