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36 Work in a zero-emissions future A climate-fixing economy will mean new ways to make a living in B.C. and across Cascadia. - By Michelle Gamage / The Tyee-Investigate West

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Festival unveils the full lineup for its hybrid 2021 edition, the first time

the COP26 conference. How do Whistler’s goals stack up in comparison?

the event will see half its feature films directed by women.

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Fresh off a trip to South America, columnist Brandon Barrett delves into what’s really at the root of our post-vacation blues.

66 MAXED OUT Ah, shoulder season. A time when all we can think about is going downhill—even in these less-than-stellar times.

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Obviously the announcements made last month federally about the ongoing financial

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support being offered to some in tourism are helpful. The new $7.4 billion measures will extend the Canada Recovery Hiring Program until May 7—this covers up to 50 per cent of the extra salary costs of eligible businesses and was set to expire on Nov. 20.

program must show average monthly revenue losses of 40 per cent over the course of 12 months of the pandemic and a loss of 40 per cent in the current month.

Those applying for the “hardest-hit” program must demonstrate an average monthly revenue loss of 50 per cent and a loss of 50 per cent in the current month.

Businesses that face temporary, new, local lockdowns will also be eligible for “up to the maximum amount of the wage and rent subsidy programs” regardless of losses over the course of the pandemic, announced the Liberals. (What might happen is we become a super spreader community, as occurred last year.)

Let’s hope that we don’t experience that due to a flare up of COVID-19 when the mountains open and travellers come here to enjoy the outdoors!

We are told our new federal minister for tourism Randy Boissonnault, who lives in Edmonton, is an entrepreneur, community leader, and philanthropist who has a record of leadership in business, public service, and the not-for-profit sector. An Oxford Rhodes Scholar, he spent 15 years helping

Those applying for the “hardest-hit” program must demonstrate an average monthly revenue loss of 50 per cent and a loss of 50 per cent in the current month.

Then there’s the Tourism and Hospitality Recovery Program, which will provide support to hotels, restaurants, travel agencies and tour operators at a subsidy rate of up to 75 per cent. Another measure—the Hardest-Hit Business Recovery Program— will provide wage and rent subsidies of up to 50 per cent to businesses that can show “deep and enduring losses.” This could also be claimed by some in the tourism sector.

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small and medium-sized businesses through his consulting company. He served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage from 2015 to 2017, championing Canadian arts and culture, and was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s special adviser on LGBTQ2 issues.

Said Walt Judas, CEO of the Tourism Industry Association of BC, “ … the fact that he’s from the West and now has specific duties related to tourism and finance, bodes

well for our industry’s future, especially in view of new tourism and hospitality specific support measures recently introduced that are so desperately needed for businesses to survive and rebuild.”

And speaking of surviving and rebuilding—this week sees the return of our beloved Cornucopia festival, heading into its 25th year. Cancelled last year due to coronavirus, it too is adapting, so for 2021 the 125 events will be held Thursdays through Sundays in November.

In pre-pandemic times it has drawn up to 10,000 people to the resort. It is a great opportunity to support our friends in food and beverage; indeed the festival was designed to showcase and bolster the sector.

For several years the festival has received support from the municipality through its Festivals, Events and Animation program. Falling under the Attract, Retain and Augment (ARA) programming for thirdparty events, Cornucopia is to receive up to $80,000 in 2021. These funds come from the province via the Municipal and Regional District Tax and Resort Municipality Initiative funds.

While it may seem counterintuitive to spend money on a festival of this type during a pandemic, hosting it safely—it will operate under strict public-health mandates—will surely show travellers that Whistler should be a destination of choice.

Continuing to host these types of events also creates a type of continuity for Whistler, almost like muscle memory for visitors. COVID-19 and other changes to much-loved events such as the World Ski and Snowboard Festival have seriously eroded that visitor memory. Way back in 2011, the Canadian Sports Tourism Alliance measured the economic impact of Cornucopia and concluded the event produced $4 million in total economic impact in B.C.; $2.3 million in Whistler.

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Take care: four unexpected sources of mental health distress

By Dr. Cameron Anderson, Attending Psychiatrist and Medical Manager, Segal 7 general psychiatry inpatient unit, VG Sponsored Content

If you find yourself struggling, reflect on where these feelings are coming from to help your mental wellbeing.

As the perception of threat increases, bath or showering, going out with a so do our bodily responses, including friend, doing creative activities, and anxiety and worry. many more.

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Many individuals struggle with their mental health — and while the COVID-19 pandemic has increased mental distress, many long-standing and sometimes surprising causes remain the same.

This is why it’s remarkable to see people doing their best despite this life-altering event. It’s an achievement in and of itself and it’s OK if you’re not feeling as much like yourself as you’re used to.

Just remember — you’re important.

You matter. It’s OK to take care of yourself. Take a walk. Take a break.

Take a moment.

And if you find yourself struggling, reflect on where these feelings are coming from. There are several unexpected sources of mental distress that when addressed can help your mental wellbeing.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA AND NEWS INTAKE COVID-19 and its related news are understandably the leading stories in news outlets and social media channels. Its impact is felt by all to varying degrees, and there’s a strong desire to keep on top of the latest developments.

Instead, Anxiety Canada recommends you try and limit how often you intake news about the pandemic (or any major news story) so that you can keep yourself informed while still maintaining your mental health. Commit to only checking in a couple times per day, set times to check in, disable news alerts, or rely on family and friends to provide major updates.

2. LACK OF SLEEP We’ve all heard it before — sleep is important. It’s a tale backed by science, as it allows your brain to focus on important body responses, form new pathways for learning, remembering, and processing information, and rebuild your energy for the next day.

Lack of sleep is linked with a number of chronic diseases and conditions, including depression. This can become a cycle as lack of sleep creates stress during the day, which in turn contributes to further sleep troubles.

4. INJURIES AND CONCUSSIONS The connection between concussions and mental health is often overlooked.

An estimated 25 per cent of mild traumatic brain injury patients develop a mental health condition such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder within three months of injury.

Concussions can be destructive, affecting the ways your body functions: your thinking, your emotions, your sleep. You may feel confused, have trouble remembering things, or generally feel sluggish and tired.

Suddenly you can feel more emotional, sad, irritable, nervous or anxious.

And it can directly impact your sleep, leading you to either have too little, too much, or none at all.

Receiving a diagnosis and treatment plan can greatly help patients recover. Seek help if you suspect you are suffering from this condition.

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TAKE CARE 3. STRESS No one is perfect. We’re all facing When you are stressed, your body our own challenges in our unique responds as though you are in danger. and nuanced ways during this global It makes hormones speed up your pandemic. Do what you can, and heart, you breathe faster and you can if you find yourself in need of a little experience sporadic bursts of energy. more help, then try accessing some of Some stress is normal, however if the resources above. stress happens too often or lasts too This has been a challenging time, and long, it can cause health problems. it’s essential not to neglect your mental It’s important to have positive coping health. So please, take care. If you find responses to stress at the ready, as yourself in need of additional support, some strategies are not as helpful as visit vghfoundation.ca/take-care. others and some of our go-to supports Content Provided By — like social connection and routine BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, — have been disrupted during the The Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation, pandemic.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Halloween thank you Thank you to everyone who took part in the 38th annual Tapley’s Farm Halloween festivities. Under clear, crisp skies, our neighbourhood once again pulled out all stops from the artistically carved pumpkins to the themed houses and fabulous costumes to welcome more than 1,000 local children and parents to trick or treat.

Special thanks as ever to Bruce Stewart and Nesters Market for sponsoring the spectacular fireworks display and their generous candy donation. We also greatly appreciate all the candy donations from Fresh Street Market, Independent Grocers, Creekside Market and everyone that donated at our collection boxes around town.

Thanks to the Whistler Fire Rescue Service and its members for safely igniting the fireworks and handing out hot chocolate; the RCMP for its ongoing support; and to BC Transit, Whistler Marketplace, Fastpark and the RMOW for organizing the free Park and Spook shuttle and to Waldorf School for decorating the bus. Also, thanks to Pique Newsmagazine and Mountain FM for your promotional support.

A big shout out to the Whistler Secondary School Leadership Team for crewing the entrance and organizing the We Scare Hunger campaign for the Whistler Food Bank—and to Whistler Community Foundation for the Neighbourhood Grant to support the campaign and entrance.

Together, we raised more than $1,100 cash and 170 kilograms of food for the Whistler Food Bank.

It was great to see so many people, young and old, dressed up, and that we were able to gather again to celebrate Whistler’s longest-standing community traditions. Our Whistler spirit is alive and well in Tapley’s Farm neighbourhood!

Amanda Wilson and Shauna Hardy Mishaw on behalf of Tapley’s neighbourhood

Vail Resorts should follow Resorts of the Canadian Rockies’ lead Fantastic news! All 75 ski resorts in Quebec will require a vaccine certificate to access their mountains this winter. [And on Nov.1

we learned that] Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR), which includes Fernie, Kicking Horse, Kimberley, and Nakiska “has decided to require proof of COVID-19 immunization record to access all chair lifts and indoor facilities at our resorts this winter. This decision has been made with the goal of providing you, our guests, our staff, and our resort communities with the safest environment possible.”

[The organization goes on to say:] “If you are not comfortable providing a COVID-19 Immunization Record, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies will be providing a full refund on unused product. Refund requests must be

submitted on or before December 15, 2021.”

Is the prospect of refunds the reason Whistler Blackcomb will not do the right thing? Whistler Blackcomb will lose a lot more customers by not putting safety first.

Vaccinated international visitors and Canadian long-haul travellers will have safer options for their winter vacation at other great Canadian mountain resorts.

There has been deafening silence from Whistler’s community leaders but local MLA, Jordan Sturdy, has been lobbying in Victoria on behalf of making proof of vaccination a requirement. B.C.’s public health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry made her position clear to Sturdy: she does not feel it necessary to include this activity in an order, but Dr. Henry said Vail Resorts/Whistler Blackcomb is quite within its right to mandate vaccines to access the mountain.

Dr. Henry’s position that riding in a gondola doesn’t pose a risk for transmission is inconsistent and not based on science, but to be fair she must be overwhelmed with trying to keep our health-care system operational.

Whistler Blackcomb has no excuse. [It’s leaders] know the risk. Their focus should be to take all available measures to make the mountain as safe as possible for customers, staff, and the community.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This year’s event, Fair Play, focused on gender equality in sports. We featured four panellists that spoke about their experiences and the challenges faced by women in sports.

Over the course of the event we raised more than $3,000, all going to the Howe Sound Women’s Centre and The Shoe Project, an Afghan women’s charity!

We would like to thank all of the amazing local businesses that generously made donations and discounted items for our silent auction: Lululemon, Whistler Sport Legacies, Whistler Pilates, Evo Whistler, Moguls coffee house, Jovan’s Natural Soap, Eddie Bauer, Billabong, Patagonia, The Great Glass Elevator, Can Ski, The Circle Kids, The Circle, Purebread, Splitz, Pasta Lupino, The Loft, Blenz Coffee, McCoo’s Whistler, Armchair books, and Rocks and Gems.

We’d also like to thank our community sponsors: Community Futures Howe Sound, Whistler Real Estate, Mountain FM, Summit Lodge, and the team at Arts Whistler.

A big thank you also to our four panellists Jacie Dehoop, Laura Stacey, Katie Lebel and Natasha Cyrille, who captivated the audience with their inspiring words and stories about the struggles women in sport face every day. Finally, we would like to give a huge thank you to Dee Raffo for making this all possible, and for giving us the chance to be involved in every way!

We hope to see you next year for another event!

Kira Tomcheck and Sophi Lawrence for the Whistler Secondary School Leadership Crew

Put safety first I am a very long-term customer (from the 1970s) and would like to encourage [Vail Resorts] to proactively manage the safety of guests and staff riding the company’s enclosed gondola systems this winter.

You have announced plans to use these systems at full capacity so please make sure everyone riding the gondola is fully vaccinated or recently tested.

Both Grouse and Sunshine resorts, which have long gondola rides like Whistler Blackcomb (WB), have taken this extra prudential step.

This could become the industry norm in British Columbia.

No one wants anything to shorten the ski season again this year—even worse if it is only WB shut down!

Mark Armour // Salt Spring Island-Whistler

Whistler Search & Rescue Society raises $64,000!

On Oct. 23, we held our 22nd annual Whistler Search & Rescue Wine’d Up Gourmet Dinner and Auction Fundraiser. Our virtual event raised $64,000 despite the ongoing challenges of hosting events during the pandemic.

This year, Whistler Search & Rescue (WSAR) added 15 new members to complement our existing team of dedicated volunteers. These volunteers conduct rescues across the Sea to Sky at a moment’s call throughout all seasons.

Every year, our Wine’d Up dinner raises vital funds to support WSAR’s training, equipment,

and rescue operations. Donations from this year’s fundraiser will go towards the training and gear to support our new members.

More than 125 guests joined us from their homes with many enjoying a three-course dinner prepared by Araxi, Il Caminetto, and The Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Our online auction featured incredible donations from more than 50 businesses and individuals whose generosity is appreciated year after year. The success of Wine’d Up could not happen without their support and we thank everyone who made this possible.

We especially want to recognize James Walt and Mark McLoughlin from Araxi and Il Caminetto, who prepared the gourmet dinners.

The desserts created by Dominic Fortin of The Fairmont Chateau Whistler were a visual delight and delicious finish to the meal. Special thanks go to Mitchell Shuster of International Cellars, Michael Kompass of Blackcomb Liquor Store, and Dana Lee Harris who selected the fine wines that accompanied the dinners.

Mo Douglas, Executive Director of Arts Whistler, flawlessly delivered our program.

Thank you Mo for your guidance and presenting Whistler Search & Rescue as an engaging and vital society that supports our community!

Finally, this event could not happen without the dedication of our small and extraordinary fundraising team of Sharon Tyrrell, Sue Stafford, Greg Newton, Rosemary Cook, and Steve LeClair.

Janice Hulse, chair Wine’d Up, WSAR

Vail Resorts is doing the right thing Bravo to Vail Resorts Corporation for having the courage to do the right thing and abide by the Provincial Health Office’s guidelines, thereby providing an inclusive environment for all guests. For too long we have listened to self-described experts that have consistently been wrong about everything in this pandemic since February 2020.

We’ve been told that social distancing will work, then masks will work, then masks don’t, then suddenly they do. We were told attending church is too dangerous, but if you want to join 10,000 others in a protest for social justice go right ahead, it’s totally safe.

Now we are told boosters may be required.

Tell me, where does it all end?

This separation of society into the vaccinated and unvaccinated is beginning to take on a religious tone, casting out those who refuse to bow down before the altar of vaccines, which have yet to deliver the promised salvation.

The flurry of letter writing is disappointing but not surprising. How many boosters will you take, how many disruptions to your life, to your business, to your ability to live will you tolerate before you begin to realize that perhaps all this reaction is just theatre? (I chose to get vaccinated and chose for my children to get vaccinated, so stop the anti-vaxx/Trumper/conspiracy theorist reaction you may be feeling right now.)

If your risk tolerance is so low that you cannot stand being in an enclosed area while everyone is wearing masks (which we are promised are effective!) perhaps inherently risky snow sports are not for you.

Andrew Smith // West Vancouver

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Let us ride gondolas within our bubble Vail Resorts has likely sold many Epic and other ski passes to those who are not vaccinated.

In absence of an order from the Public Health Office, Vail Resorts is unlikely to prohibit the unvaccinated from accessing Whistler Blackcomb as Vail Resorts would then have to refund pass purchases in Canada and the U.S. On Friday, Oct. 8, Theresa Tam, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, stressed the need for masks, social distancing and (not or) good ventilation. Sitting in a gondola, we are in close proximity to those next to us and across from us and the ventilation is poor.

Skiers/riders are likely to ride a gondola two to four times per hour. Two friends skiing together could be exposed to anywhere from eight to 16 other people outside their bubble per hour or up to 100 people in a full day!

“Two friends skiing together could be exposed to anywhere from eight to 16 other people outside their bubble per hour or up to 100 people in a full day!

- ANDREA BAYLY

Skiers/riders should only be loading with their own bubble. If skiers/riders are forced into full gondolas, we risk a lot of unnecessary spread of the virus and another early closure.

At the very least, Vail Resorts should give us the option to allow us to ride the smaller gondolas, Creekside and Excalibur, with only those in our bubble.

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peer-reviewed, randomized control trials by actual scientists?

Look at how the vaccinated still get and spread COVID-19, with an absolute risk reduction (ARR) of 0.7 per cent for Pfizer, and 1.1 per cent for Moderna (peer reviewed study from the University of Waterloo, Outcome Reporting Bias in COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trials, Ronald B. Brown).

And the FDA has advice for information providers, which includes: “Provide absolute risks, not just relative risks. Patients are unduly influenced when risk information is presented using a relative risk approach; this can result in suboptimal decisions. Thus, an absolute risk format should be used.”

However, Pfizer and Moderna did not publish the ARR, only the RRR. If you were clear on the absolute risk reduction of these vaccines being

Whistler had a bad outbreak of COVID-19 last winter, and so there are many people among us that have natural immunity, which according to [some] recent studies is superior to acquired immunity, and is long-lasting, only waning slightly at six to eight months.

Also, if one has had COVID-19, there is [some] evidence to recommend against getting vaccinated, as it is redundant and there can be side effects such as myocarditis. [Editor’s note: Among patients in a large Israeli health care system who had received at least one dose of the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine, the estimated incidence of myocarditis was 2.13 cases per 100,000 persons; the highest incidence was among male patients between the ages of 16 and 29 years. Most cases of myocarditis were mild or moderate in severity.]

Antibody tests could also be a useful tool, certainly more reliable than the PCR tests; according to Kerry Mullis, the inventor of the PCR tests, they are being misinterpreted and were not designed for their present use. They are also criticized by the likes of former chief science officer of Pfizer Dr. Mike Yeadon for the amount of amplification used in the tests, leading to a rate of false positives in the neighbourhood of 10 times. These misinterpretations of the PCR test have led to false epidemics in the past, such as the false whooping cough epidemic in New Hampshire in 2007.

Now let’s talk about “following the science” and “trusting the experts.” Are we going to just regurgitate what the mainstream media keeps on repeating, or are we going to look at some

around one per cent, rather than the misleading (even by the standards of the FDA) advertised relative risk reduction of 94 to 95 per cent, would you have still got the vaccine or be so outspoken about forcing everyone to get it? Combined with waning immunity and the vaccine’s utter ineffectiveness against the Delta [variant] vaccinated and unvaccinated are even when it comes to contracting and spreading COVID-19.

Your best defense is to take care of your health.

Over 99 per cent of those that have contracted COVID-19 in B.C. have recovered [Editor’s note: According to the BC Centre for Disease Control, about 96 per cent have recovered, with 2,186 deaths, on Nov. 2]. The overwhelming majority that have sadly ended up in ICU or passed away have had underlying health problems or comorbidities.

For all those writing about the ski hill—you take a risk every time you go skiing. You might get hit by someone, you could hit a tree, get caught in an avalanche, fall and break a leg or worse.

We all know this and yet continue to take risks, in skiing and everyday life. If we try to avoid risk and choose to cower inside and not do anything with our lives, it is considered mental illness and a tragic waste of life, and we have seen too much of that and its effects over the past two years.

Stop living in fear and do not project your fear onto others!

There are chairlifts up Whistler, you are welcome to stay away from the gondolas and ride the chairs, or simply boycott the resort all together.

Now, let it snow on the vaccinated and the unvaccinated, powder to the people!

Greg Funk //Whistler [Editor’s Note: The World Health Organization stands by the PCR test. On ARR and RRR, the tests are complementary, not contradictory. Being fully vaccinated does give people some protection against the Delta variant, which is 2.9 times more infectious than the original virus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Canada and the World Health Organization all recommend vaccination against COVID-19.] n

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What’s really at the root of our post-vacation blues?

TYPE “POST-VACATION blues” into Google and you’ll get back a litany of links and listicles advising on the best ways to pull yourself out of a post-travel funk.

Some coping mechanisms recommended include: tidying up your room before you leave on your jet-setting holiday; writing in a travel journal;

BY BRANDON BARRETT documenting and sharing your memories; planning your next trip; and “having something to look forward to.”

The first thing that struck me about this kind of oversimplified advice is that, while it addresses the symptoms of what some researchers have come to call “posttravel depression,” it says nothing about its underlying cause.

So what is at the root of our collective holiday hangover? Well, there are the obvious factors: travel, by and large, involves elevated levels of adrenaline, and the sudden withdrawal of this and other hormones after a trip (or any major event, really) can have significant impacts on our mental and emotional health.

Then, there’s the all-important

“contrast effect,” which is essentially a cognitive bias in which the perceived differences between our regular life and our holiday experience become heightened. For me, this tends to manifest as tiny reminders of all the things I’d like to be doing more of in my idealized life—reading, eating healthy, visiting

exotic, that we’re long-overdue due for an escape from our hum-drum reality. Hell, after working 95 per cent of the year to save up for those few fleeting weeks of vacation, how can you argue we haven’t earned a little R&R? What the shiny tourism ads won’t tell you, of course, is that our whole economic

It’s a sad irony that the very thing we’re trying to escape from for a few weeks a year is also the thing that affords us the luxury to get away.

museums, getting outside, etc.—but convince myself I don’t have the time nor the energy for.

You could make a convincing argument that it’s this tension between what we have and what we want that is the true source of our post-holiday malaise, and it’s one that the travel industry relies on to sell vacation packages, telling us that we deserve some hard-won time to unwind somewhere

system depends on this kind of carrotdangling. We’ve all heard of working for the weekend. Well, what happens when an entire labour force is working for their next vacation? It’s a sad irony that the very thing we’re trying to escape from for a few weeks a year is also the thing that affords us the luxury to get away. Then, we come back after a period free from work emails and social media and black

screens—the things that either facilitate the work we do or serve as ways to cope with the pressures of the job—with just enough fuel in the tank to get us to our next vacation. And the hamster wheel just keeps on spinning.

An aspirational endeavour if ever there was one, tourism has always been good at selling illusions—of cultural superiority, of freedom, of self-actualization. In a time post-COVID-19 when employees are quitting at historic rates and the rise of remote work has proven we don’t necessarily need to be chained to our desks to be productive, the importance of striking a healthy work-life balance has never been more prevalent. We have also heard time and again about how travel in a post-pandemic world will look very different from before. The modern tourist is more likely to explore their own backyard, spend more time in a given destination, and forge deeper connections with a place and the people who inhabit it.

Whether this pans out amidst what is likely to be a period of unprecedented demand for global travel remains to be seen, and if there’s one lesson we can take away from our post-vacation blues, it’s that building the life we want to live shouldn’t require a flight to some faraway beach or rustic country lodge, but needs to start right here at home. ■

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The hidden impacts of Whistler’s remote-work movement WHILE DIFFICULT TO QUANTIFY REMOTE WORKERS’ IMPACT ON EMPLOYEE BEDS, THE ANECDOTES PAINT A CLEAR PICTURE

BY MEGAN LALONDE ALEX HAD ONLY been working his entry-level job at a luxury Whistler hotel for a year when, in August 2020, he found himself permanently laid off as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Pique agreed to withhold Alex’s full name, in order to allow him to speak freely about his previous employment and current living situations.)

In B.C. on a three-year post-graduate work permit, Alex left staff housing and started applying for new jobs, all while wrestling with whether to return to his home country in Europe or stay in Canada. The choice became clear when he was offered remote work as a data analyst for a Toronto-based company.

Though the corporation’s office is now reopening, Alex’s employer is allowing him to continue working remotely from Whistler permanently.

Aside from the stability offered by a job that’s largely immune to the effects of constantly shifting pandemic restrictions, increased financial security proved to be another benefit of Alex’s new gig. He now earns “more than double” what he made

WORK FROM HOME Eoin Daniel works for an Ireland-based software company from his home office in Whistler.

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in a management trainee role at the hotel, he said.

Fortunately, Alex managed to find new accommodation in Whistler almost as easily as he found his new job: a private room in a house owned by a Vancouver couple.

here, and just converted two of the rooms into offices,” Alex said.

Alex’s experience paints a picture of some of the many changes Whistler’s community has undergone over the last 19 months. It’s reasonable to assume most

“I was very, very fortunate that … when I approached [the company] saying, ‘Look, my visa’s been approved, I’m moving over to Canada,’ they extended the opportunity to continue to work for them from here.”

- EOIN DANIEL

“At the beginning, I was living there with four other people—it’s a huge house, so it’s five rooms in there, and [the homeowners] rented their rooms to just pay, basically, for their mortgage,” he explained.

But when three of his housemates left, the landlords took the opportunity to move in full-time. “They were also not required to work anymore in Vancouver, so they decided to come to Whistler and work from

long-term locals can, at this point, name at least a handful of fellow Whistlerites who’ve either transitioned from hospitality to online work (or trades), or who took advantage of the pandemic-sparked freedom to work from anywhere and relocated to the resort from other cities, provinces or countries.

Statistics Canada found nearly 40 per cent of Canadian employees worked from

home during the last full week of March 2020, compared to 13 per cent of employees who reported working any scheduled hours from home in 2018.

In a poll on Pique’s website that asked remote workers whether they moved to Whistler during the pandemic, 5.9 per cent of the 134 respondents who identified as locals said yes, with offices closed they decided to find a place to rent in the resort, while 5.2 per cent of respondents said they bought and moved into a local property.

Almost 12 per cent of respondents reported moving into their existing vacation home full-time. Only a single respondent reported moving to Whistler during the pandemic to work for a local business, while 69.4 per cent of respondents said they lived in Whistler prior to COVID-19 and 6.7 per cent reported leaving Whistler during the pandemic.

Eoin Daniel is one of those locals who managed to hold on to remote work as he found his way back to Whistler. He previously worked for venues like Maxx Fish nightclub and the GLC during a working holiday stint from 2015 to 2017, before returning home to Ireland with his Whistler-raised girlfriend in tow when that visa ended.

His subsequent routine of working in an office Monday to Friday as an executive for Irish recruitment software company Occupop was interrupted when the pandemic struck. His partner returned home to her family in Whistler amid the initial chaos, while Daniel followed in February of

NEWS WHISTLER this year, once his spousal visa was approved.

“I was very, very fortunate that … when I approached [the company] saying, ‘Look, my visa’s been approved, I’m moving over to Canada,’ they extended the opportunity to continue to work for them from here,” said Daniel. Now, he fulfills his responsibilities from the two-bedroom suite in Emerald he shares with his girlfriend and their housemate.

“All I need is my laptop and my headset,” he added. “Working in sales, I’m just making phone calls all day. I’m quite lucky in where I am, that I can go outside— I’m living by Green Lake, so I can go for a walk, get some air on my lunch or just look out at the mountains … Working from home hasn’t really been a labouring process.”

For Whistler local Amber Layton, the pandemic and resulting influx of remote workers like Daniel provided an opportunity to change up the type of tenants she typically welcomes into her Creekside rental property.

Layton and her partner furnished the two-bedroom apartment with bunk beds

with the damages that have been done.”

Without concrete data (market rental vacancy rates aren’t historically tracked in Whistler), it’s difficult to quantify how many beds previously filled by local employees have been lost since the beginning of the pandemic, or how many remote workers now call the resort home.

However, Whistler employers are still struggling to bear the brunt of a debilitating staff shortage, while the lack of affordable rental listings on sites like Craigslist, or local housing Facebook groups, point toward an accommodation crunch as dire as ever.

An Oct. 2020 labour survey from the Whistler Chamber of Commerce found about 35 per cent of Whistler’s workforce is typically made up of working holiday permit holders. The survey results also showed the number of Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Whistler’s workforce rose to 55 per cent in 2020— representing a 22-per-cent rise from 2017/18 levels.

When it comes to Whistler’s labour crunch, Daniel mused whether local

“I can’t take the risk [of renting to seasonal workers] anymore because we have been burned too much with the damages that have been done.”

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and have been renting it to four-person groups since moving out of the unit six years ago, “because we directly know how hard it is to rent in Whistler,” she said.

But as a result of that decision, Layton said they’ve been “burned many times,” by damage resulting from negligent tenants.

So, when her last round of seasonal workers moved out during the pandemic, Layton swapped out the bunk beds for desks and rented the unit to two newly arrived remote workers from Toronto.

While Layton admits, “it’s not good for the local workers,” the difference, she said, is “night and day.”

“They contact us the minute there’s an issue and we’re so grateful.”

Prior to the pandemic, Layton also rented out another room in her home, but when those tenants moved out during the pandemic, decided to leave it unoccupied.

With her immune-compromised partner working from home, she said the risk of a housemate bringing the virus into their home was too great.

“But there’s another room that’s gone because of the pandemic,” she said.

“From my perspective … housing is just getting more and more difficult [to find].

There wasn’t Airbnb 10 years ago; we weren’t all remote working. So I get that it’s getting even more squeezed and more pressured.

“I don’t have the solution,” she continued, but, “I can’t take the risk [of renting to seasonal workers] anymore because we have been burned too much

employers could try to fill part-time roles with remote workers looking for extra income or more social connections, while more co-working spaces could be a good way for newcomers to bust out of the workfrom-home rut and make new friends within the community.

But with the work-from-home trend sticking around for the time being, the question remains: when more typical numbers of foreign workers eventually return to Whistler, where will they live?

“The remote jobs will definitely take away some of the housing spaces, I believe,” said Alex.

“If you just take our house as an example—even if I was looking for my next place, I would need to look for a place with an extra room for an office. That definitely will reduce housing, if nothing new gets built. And as more and more people come to Whistler who can work remotely, who previously lived in Toronto or Vancouver and just came to Whistler on the weekends … they are now the people who will live here permanently, which also makes it difficult, of course, for all the local businesses to find [staff,] because they can’t find accommodation for them.”

Alex said he foresees a time in the nottoo-distant future where local businesses will need to either build their own staff-housing complexes, or establish shuttles between Squamish, Pemberton and Whistler.

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MP Weiler eyes labour solutions to start second term CAREER AND TRAINING EXPO SET FOR NOV. 9 AND 10 IN WHISTLER

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH A NEW FEDERAL cabinet now in place, Whistler’s MP Patrick Weiler is settling in for a second term, with regional transit, housing and action on climate on his personal work plan—but at the top of the list is addressing labour shortages in the riding.

It’s not a new issue in Whistler, but one that has been increasingly pronounced due to pandemic-related travel restrictions, as well as access to affordable housing and childcare, among other things, Weiler said.

Recent discussions with local business leaders have focused on getting more international workers—which typically make up about a third of the local labour force—back to the resort, he said.

“Some of the restrictions in international visitation for double-vaccinated travellers … that’s starting to open up, which is great,” Weiler said.

“Of course, it can’t come soon enough, as we’re now in the middle of the shoulder season.”

One of the initiatives Weiler is working on stretches back to at least 2015, when past

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Whistler Chamber CEO Val Litwin led an advocacy drive to secure accurate labour market data for Whistler.

At the time, Litwin argued Whistler, with its less than two-per-cent unemployment

rate, should not be lumped in with the Lower Mainland region, which typically has a rate of over six per cent (for the purposes of accessing the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program).

Near the beginning of the pandemic, Employment and Social Development Canada, the branch of government responsible for the TFWP, limited applications to the program, and instituted a blanket six-per-cent unemployment rate across the country.

“Which we know in Whistler isn’t true,” said Brooke Finlay, partner and managing director at Whistler Immigration, who raised the issue in a recent meeting with Weiler.

In fact, accommodation and food sector businesses across the country are facing severe labour shortages, Finlay said.

“So what’s actually happening and the reality of the labour market isn’t reflected in the current TFWP directive, and that’s creating a lot of hardship for employers, specifically when it comes to back-of-house and kitchen, as well as housekeeping and room attendants— that’s a huge one,” she said.

Weiler said the government was “getting very close” to localizing the data prior to the pandemic, adding that active discussions are happening right now with Statistics Canada, “so that’s something I hope to be able to update on very, very soon.”

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 16 Helping the cause is the fact that the ministers in charge of the TFWP and Stats Canada (Carla Qualtrough and FrançoisPhilippe Champagne, respectively) did not change portfolios in the Oct. 26 cabinet shuffle, and won’t need to be brought up to speed on the current struggles, Weiler said.

“So I would say it will be pretty soon, because it’s really a matter of getting the data in place,” he said.

“It’s not a big policy change that needs to take place, [and] it’s not a particularly controversial one.”

Another issue raised by Finlay relates to “wildly inaccurate” estimated processing times on the International Experience Canada (IEC) website, which in some cases shows wait times of up 70 weeks or more when in reality applications are being processed in six to eight weeks.

Weiler noted that capacity has been added to IEC to enable faster application processing, and there is a Working Holiday Visa approval rate of more than 90 per cent, provided applicable quotas haven’t been met.

But “there are still challenges with the people travelling to and from certain countries,” he said, using New Zealand and Australia as two examples.

“It’s still very difficult to travel in and out of those two countries, which is going to continue to be a complication.”

The government is also working on a

“trusted employer stream” and a municipal nominee program for the TFWP to speed up the process for employers, Weiler said, adding that he’s excited to work with Sean Fraser, Canada’s new Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship (IRCC), on the new initiatives.

“He has the experience in Atlantic

“So as we’re getting through the pandemic, there aren’t going to be the same type of obstacles,” he said. “We’re going to deal with the backlog as well as modernize the system going forward …

I’m quite confident that we’re going to be able to get the type of international workforce in Whistler that I know is so, so

“I’m quite confident that we’re going to be able to get the type of international workforce in Whistler that I know is so, so critical for businesses.”

- PATRICK WEILER

Canada with a similar pilot program that was made for that region that’s been very, very successful, and he’s an incredibly talented and articulate person,” Weiler said.

“So I think he’s going to be very effective in being able to deliver on some of these new programs.”

There is also work underway at IRCC to modernize the global case management system to help speed up processes for employers, Weiler added.

critical for businesses.”

While the immigration initiatives now in the works likely won’t bear fruit before the upcoming winter, WorkBC and Whistler Personnel Solutions are hosting a “Career and Training Expo” at the Whistler Conference Centre on Wednesday, Nov. 9 and Thursday, Nov. 10 to connect businesses and workers.

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‘plan your best life’-type of an event for residents who are looking to build a life and career in Whistler,” said Whistler Personnel Solutions’ Jacki Bissillion, in an email.

“In addition to career coaches and businesses, we will also have reps from lots of colleges and training programs as well as experts from housing authority and immigration firms there to answer questions and help people figure out which career path is the best one for their longterm needs.”

Local workers, job seekers, high school students, seniors and others in the community will also have a chance to learn about how to build a lasting career with Whistler’s top employers; talk to reps from local schools, organizations and colleges who offer courses and training; find out about available funding for training and continued education; and meet with career coaches, discuss career pathways and get help with resumes and cover letters.

Attendees can also win door prizes at the event, and sign up for interviews and courses on the spot.

Local employers who are interested in participating in the event’s Career and Job Gallery—which will give them a chance to highlight their company and any open positions, as well as connect with potential employees—can find more info at whistlerjobs.com/careerexpo.

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BY MEGAN LALONDE GLOBAL LEADERS met in Glasgow this week for the 26th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP26.

“This is the make-or-break COP,” explained Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) executive director Claire Ruddy.

Among many promises made during the conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to cut Canada’s oil and gas emissions by 40 to 45 per cent compared to 2005 levels by 2030. He also promised net-zero emissions within Canada’s electricity grid by 2035, and on Tuesday, signed the Global Methane Pledge alongside more than 100 other countries. The agreement strives to lower methane emissions by at least 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030.

Canada also joined more than 100 countries—representing more than 85 per cent of the world’s forests—in agreeing to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030, in an effort to restore the world’s carbon sinks.

Trudeau’s announcements follow the province of B.C.’s recent release of its CleanBC roadmap to meet 2030 targets.

One day after the global deforestation agreement was signed, B.C. also announced its own commitment to place a moratorium on logging for 2.6 million hectares of old-growth forest that currently remains unprotected.

Precisely how these COP26 pledges will affect Whistler remains to be determined. But while the conference serves as a reminder about the importance of coordinated global climate action—particularly when major emitters like China, Russia and India still aren’t making the commitments necessary to hit widely-agreed-upon targets like net-zero emissions by 2050—the discussions sparked by the conference have also renewed Whistler’s fervour to set an example for the millions of visitors it’s (hopefully) gearing up to welcome post-pandemic.

“Whistler becoming sustainable or hitting [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)] targets, in itself, is almost meaningless,” said Whistler Councillor Arthur De Jong. “It’s like taking a teaspoon to the Titanic.”

Where Whistler can make a difference, he explained, is in setting a “benchmark” for global tourism.

“If we can demonstrate to other resort

communities and global tourism that achieving net zero is possible, and ideally even earlier than the IPCC targets in 2030 and 2050, then we’re punching well above our weight, we are raising the bar, demonstrating that it is possible,” he said.

“Global tourism represents about 10 per cent of the global economy, so I believe that that is huge, that we have to set an example and inspire others.”

Agreed Ruddy: “We have the opportunity to be an amplifier for climate solutions. When people come here, if we have climate solutions embedded deeply throughout the community and people can see them and how they work, and feel how they make the community different, then I think that’s something that people take away with them and they’ll figure out how to do it in their own community.”

The question remains, though: how can Whistler position itself as an exemplary climate beacon after missing its 2020 target of achieving a 33-percent reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 2007 levels? In 2019, Whistler’s GHG emissions increased by four per cent compared to 2018 and were just one per cent below 2007.

Though De Jong named Whistler’s dependence on natural gas in commercial and residential buildings as its “Achilles heel”—“we need to be more forceful in weaning off the use of natural gas here,” he said—the councillor pointed towards transit as a major opportunity for improvement. Municipal action could range from promoting the use of electric vehicles (EVs) to electrifying municipal fleets, to passing bylaws requiring Whistler’s taxi operators to be fully electric, and, eventually, offering free transit, he said.

“I think [with] transportation we can change a lot in a decade—when you look at the adoption of EVs for instance,” he said.

Though “every sector, and every element of our society needs to join in and commit” to the fight against climate change, “transit and homes are our main emitters, and so if we don’t find the 10-year and 30-year pathways in those two areas, we fail,” De Jong added.

To that end, Whistlerites looking to take individual action are invited to participate in the municipality’s ‘Small Steps for Big Moves’ campaign. The initiative created by the Resort Municipality of Whistler in partnership with AWARE outlines 12 months of climate actions individuals can undertake to help support the six “big moves” outlined in Whistler’s climate plan.

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Whistler’s annual budget open house set for Nov. 18 COUNCIL BRIEFS: MUNICIPAL BUILDING DEPARTMENT STILL DEALING WITH BACKLOG; WHISTLER VILLAGE SIGN BYLAW ENFORCEMENT TO START NEXT MONTH increases?

“I think we’ll see proposed budgets, which will have a proposed tax increase, and that will be out there for the consideration of the public,” he added.

Budget documents will be posted to whistler.ca/budget ahead of the information session.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHISTLERITES will get their first look at the proposed 2022 municipal budget at a community information session at the Maury Young Arts Centre on Thursday, Nov. 18.

The info session will be livestreamed to the municipal website and Facebook for those who can’t attend in person.

“Staff and council are currently working to finalize the 2022 budget. We are looking forward to engaging with the community and hearing the feedback on our priorities for 2022,” said Mayor Jack Crompton at the Nov. 2 council meeting.

While any potential tax increases won’t be revealed until Nov. 18, it’s possible Whistlerites will see larger increases than in recent years after council reversed course on a proposed 4.89-per-cent tax increase in 2021, opting instead for an increase of 1.08 per cent.

The lower increases in 2021 came about due to the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on local residents, but required a draw on reserves.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) general reserves funded by taxes

SIGN OF THE TIMES Whistler’s mayor and council were separated by Plexiglas for the first time at the Nov. 2 council meeting, allowing them to ditch the masks during proceedings at the Maury Young Arts Centre.

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have been flat for six years, explained director of finance Carlee Price in introducing the lower increases at the Dec. 15, 2020 council meeting, while the value of community assets—all of which will eventually need to be replaced—has continued to grow.

“So we’re losing some of our ability to properly appropriately care for these assets,” Price said.

“That can feel less urgent for the individual than facing a $50 tax increase in any given year, but we can’t lose sight of it.

Our fiscal responsibilities as a community

always relate to existing economic realities; in this year those realities are overwhelmingly influenced by COVID.” The pandemic is still presenting plenty of uncertainty for Whistler’s decision makers, Price said in a financial update to council in early October. “[The deliberation process has] been thorough, and we’re looking forward to hearing what the public has to say about what’s presented,” Crompton said after the Nov. 2 meeting.

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MUNICIPAL BUILDING DEPARTMENT STILL DEALING WITH BACKLOG Staff in Whistler’s municipal building department continue to contend with a backlog of applications caused by a multitude of factors, including the lateApril ransomware attack, the COVID-19 pandemic and an “unprecedented” increase in home renovations.

“We thank everyone for their continued patience and understanding, and for treating our staff with respect as they work to reduce this backlog,” Mayor Jack Crompton said at the Nov. 2 council meeting.

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 24 applications are currently taking eight to 12 business days, the mayor said.

“For initial review of building permit applications the department is working on residual applications from late May and early June, multi-family and commercial applications from early June and standalone plumbing applications from early August,” he said.

Site alteration permits are being reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Only complete building permit applications with all required documentation will be added to the processing queue, so applicants are advised to review application checklists to ensure submissions are complete.

Current processing times can be found at whistler.ca/buildingpermits.

SIGN BYLAW ENFORCEMENT TO START NEXT MONTH The RMOW will begin enforcing sign bylaw regulations in Whistler Village on Dec. 1, after a pilot project grew beyond its original intent.

The pilot project, launched in 2018, allowed food and beverage businesses to use sandwich boards on the Village Stroll (going against the original intent of Whistler’s 1987 sign bylaw).

In the last three years, the RMOW has limited its enforcement of the signs,

including for non-food-and-beverage businesses not included in the pilot.

But the municipality has received “significant feedback” about signs from both residents and guests during the pilot, while the use of sandwich boards has expanded beyond the original intent, including: businesses using more than one sandwich board; signs positioned outside of designated areas; and signs out of line with the project’s intent of providing a positive guest experience.

In a letter sent to business owners on Oct. 26, the RMOW said it would scale the pilot project back to its original intent, and begin enforcement on Dec. 1 (first with warnings, then through ticketing after Dec. 15).

Under the pilot’s guidelines, food and beverage businesses are permitted one sandwich board, and the signs are required to be “of a high quality” while utilizing handwritten lettering with “artistic flair,” and are encouraged to highlight daily specials.

Signs can’t obstruct pedestrian walkways, stairs or ramps, must be placed directly in front of the business, tight to the planter wall or patio edge, and can’t be bigger than 0.6 square metres and 1.5 metres in height.

Council will consider an updated sign bylaw in the spring of 2022 “to provide clear and consistent regulations on the use of this type of signage.”

Business owners can direct questions or comments to planning@whistler.ca.

PROVINCE TO ADOPT UPDATED APPROVAL PROCESSES Amendments to the province’s Municipal Affairs Statutes Amendments Act aim to streamline the development approval process for local governments.

The proposed changes will remove the default requirement for municipalities to hold public hearings for zoning bylaw amendments that are consistent with an Official Community Plan, while also allowing municipalities to delegate minor development variance permit approvals to staff.

“Together, these proposed changes will provide the authority for local governments to improve their processes and help get homes built faster throughout the province,” the B.C. government said in a release.

Asked how the changes will apply to Whistler, and how they might impact public engagement, a municipal spokesperson said further examination will take place in the coming days.

“Overall, the RMOW continues to look for efficiencies in the development review processes that enable projects to proceed, while utilizing available staff time on projects that have the most substantial impact on our community,” the spokesperson said.

“The RMOW continues to be committed to meaningful engagement with the community while also leveraging the clear

guidance established through consultation on our Official Community Plan.”

SOLID WASTE TIPPING FEES SET TO INCREASE Tipping fees at the Whistler Transfer Station are set to increase after council gave first three readings to a related bylaw on Nov. 2.

The new fees impact disposal of biosolids ($215/tonne, up from $185); clean land clearing wood waste ($110, up from $100); dirty wood waste ($160, up from $150); bulky items ($210, up from $190); landfill waste ($210, up from $190); construction and demolition waste ($210, up from $190); the banned materials surcharge ($475, up from $425); organic food scraps or food waste ($80, up from $75); gypsum board ($360, up from $310); and invasive species ($40, up from $30).

“To incentivize waste producers’ efforts to divert waste and optimize revenue generation, it is necessary to update tipping fees levied at the transfer station periodically,” said waste operations coordinator Ian McKeachie at the Nov. 2 council meeting, adding that tipping fees were last increased at the end of 2020.

Increases also help Whistler “to stay in line with other corridor communities and ensure a financial reserve is maintained to finance future improvements at waste facilities,” he added.

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Remembrance Day set to return to Whistler in hybrid format NOV. 11 EVENT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO VIEW IN-PERSON AND ONLINE

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLRITES WILL BE paying their respects this Remembrance Day both in person and online, with organizers launching a hybrid format for 2021.

After the Whistler Cenotaph was cordoned off last year due to COVID-19, organizer Steve LeClair said the public has the option to attend in-person this year, with physical distancing and masks in place.

“We want to give people who are not comfortable in coming out to the event the chance to be able to enjoy the ceremony from the comfort of their own home,” LeClair said. “We’re excited about this year’s event and looking forward to getting back to a more in-person ceremony.”

Marking the 103rd anniversary of the end of the First World War, this year’s ceremony is set to begin next Thursday, Nov. 11 at 10:45 a.m., with silent sentries posted at the cenotaph before the parade sets off down the Village Stroll, which will feature members from the 39 Signal Regiment,

PAYING REMEMBRANCE Members of the Canadian Armed Forces pay their respects at Whistler’s 2019 Remembrance Day Ceremony.

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HMCS Discovery and the RCMP in their Red Serge uniform. Two minutes of silence will be observed at 11 a.m. before the service of remembrance officially begins, followed by the presentation of wreaths, and the singing of “God Save the Queen.” The Whistler Singers and Whistler Childrens Chorus will also be singing as part of the ceremony.

LeClair said he is hopeful to have local veterans attend as well, but conceded that getting them out has grown more

challenging over the years.

“Typically there has been a half dozen that have shown up. I’ve reached out to those veterans and I know that one is planning on intending. One has moved away. Another one is out with an injury but hopes to be back next year,” he said.

“Although the veterans are getting fewer and farther between, that’s what the ceremony is about—it’s about them.”

Despite not having much of a military

presence, Whistler has always come out in force for Remembrance Day, something Mayor Jack Crompton said speaks to the deep well of gratitude in such an international community.

“I think Whistler is a grateful community,” he said. “We’re grateful for where we live and for the freedoms we have.

This is a way we can remember how and why we find ourselves here.”

Attendees are encouraged to tune in via livestream, if possible, at whistler. ca/remembranceday, and if attending in-person, to respect physical distancing and other relevant health guidelines.

In Pemberton, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 201 will be unveiling its newly renovated cenotaph on Remembrance Day. Organizers decided against holding a parade this year and will not be opening the lounge area after the ceremony. Members of the public wishing to attend the service should gather outside the legion at 10:45 a.m., and anyone who has ordered a wreath to be laid themselves can pick it up before then.

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2022 Community Budget Open House Thursday, November 18, 2021 • 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.

In-person at the Maury Young Arts Centre Join members of Council and staff to learn about the proposed priorities and projects in the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) 2022 Budget.

Learn more about how the RMOW funds community services and ask questions and submit your ideas.

Schedule: 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Gallery mingle with Mayor and Council and RMOW staff 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Presentations by the Mayor, CAO and Director of Finance Presentations will also be live-streamed to whistler.ca/budget as well as live to the RMOW’s Facebook page (@rmowhistler) 6:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mayor and Council and RMOW staff available for questions and feedback in Gallery Budget materials will be available before November 15 at www.whistler.ca/budget For more information about Whistler’s 2022 Budget visit www.whistler.ca/budget

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Northlands rezoning concepts expected next year SUPPORT REMAINS HIGH FOR TENNIS IN WHISTLER, WTA SURVEY FINDS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WORK ON THE enhanced rezoning process at 4500 Northlands is ongoing at municipal hall, as Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) staff continue to work with applicant Beedie Living ahead of presenting proposed designs to the community.

“This work includes internal technical review, infrastructure assessment, environmental impact considerations, [and] transportation assessments,” an RMOW spokesperson said in an email.

“These all form the basis of wellconceived site designs, which will be brought to the community for input.”

The municipality is also waiting on additional application materials from Beedie, and expects to be back in front of council in the new year before engaging with Whistlerites again.

“This time we will be presenting site concepts, which will be established through careful reflection of the initial community input on the guiding principles,” the spokesperson said.

Meanwhile, at least one local group aims to shine a brighter light on potential recreation amenities as the process continues.

The Whistler Tennis Association (WTA) conducted a pair of surveys for residents and visitors in recent months, and hopes results will help make the case for continued focus on the sport in the upcoming design concepts.

The WTA surveys garnered 232 responses, representing about one third of its membership (67 per cent of them full and part-time residents and 33 per cent visitors).

Unsurprisingly, WTA members are enthusiastic about the sport in Whistler, with more than 63 per cent of resident respondents saying they play tennis several times a week (and more than 78 per cent playing all year round).

Forty-one per cent said they play exclusively at the Whistler Racket Club (WRC), while 50 per cent use both the WRC and public courts.

Survey respondents also expressed strong support for court expansion and facility improvements at the WRC. “It’s pretty broad-based support both amongst the local community and potential visitors and resort-destination visitors,” said WTA president Ben Cherniavsky.

“There is support for both indoor and outdoor tennis, but obviously the indoor is something that people really value as a weather-proofing alternative in the community.”

While the WTA has been saying for a long time that there is demand for a new facility, “it’s one thing to say that, [and] another thing to prove it with data and market research,” he added.

“And that was really our intent with the survey, was to have some hard supporting

“There is support for both indoor and outdoor tennis ...”

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evidence from the community, that says if a new facility is built we will use it.”

Another helpful finding from the survey was hearing that respondents did want a component of outdoor tennis to the facility, Cherniavsky said.

The lands currently hold three indoor courts and seven outdoor, “and we sort of think that in reverse would be [amenable] … we’d like to have 60 per cent indoor and 40 outdoor” he said.

“But that was helpful for us in this

process, was understanding how people feel about that.”

While any potential amenities delivered with the rezoning have yet to be decided, there is always a possibility the current courts are relocated off-site—a factor the WTA has “had a lot of discussion” about as well, Cherniavsky said.

“We want to be reasonable, we want to be able to compromise on some things,” he said, adding that the current site just north of Whistler Village off Lorimer Road is a “perfect location,” but there are also competing interests at play on the courts, such as pickleball.

“Having other recreational activities is helpful for the community, we recognize all that, [but] when you sort of draw those conclusions, you also realize you just can’t do all of that on the current spot,” Cherniavsky said.

“So the question is, do we push hard to stay on-site, and be tennis only, and probably come across as being unreasonable and obstinate in our ask, and risk not getting anything? Or do we compromise location and say, ‘Look, we’re willing to move this if we can still preserve year-round tennis in Whistler at a scale that we think is appropriate?’”

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Upgraded In-SHUCK-ch FSR has offered a lifeline to First Nation communities NATIONS MADE ROAD SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS A KEY PART OF TREATY NEGOTIATIONS OVER THE YEARS

BY BRANDON BARRETT SOMETIMES A ROAD is just a road.

But for the First Nations communities located along the In-SHUCK-ch Forest Service Road (FSR), the busy route represents much more than that: an essential thoroughfare, an economic generator, and, for the few hundred band members that have moved from the city back to their respective communities, it’s a path home.

“It was identified as an urgent infrastructure need by my communities going back to the early ‘80s, and from that period of time to the present, there’s been quite an influx of residents, of my people, into the valley,” explained Gerard Peters, who was the main negotiator for the In-SHUCK-ch Nation, representing the Samahquam, Skatin, Xaxstsa and N’quatqua, in treaty negotiations from 2003 till 2015.

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busiest FSRs in the B.C. forest ministry’s Sea to Sky Natural Resources District.

The upgrades were “a very long slog,” Peters said, and a key demand of the Nations until treaty talks ended about five years ago. First priority was addressing the longstanding safety issues, particularly around flooding and slides.

Fifteen years ago, it wouldn’t have been unusual for sections of the road to be

Sky Natural Resources District. “It’s quite a narrow spot in the winter; that’s quite a treacherous little stretch to drive, and not an easy one to try and design. That’s why it took us a few years as well as a few years to secure some funding, and that’s the stretch that we’ve just now completed, so we’re pretty excited about that.”

The province has invested considerably in the FSR, representing about 80 per

“It was identified as an urgent infrastructure need by my communities going back to the early ‘80s…”

- GERARD PETERS

immersed in water, which meant essential supplies like food had to be flown in. The road had also seen a number of fatalities over the years, areas the province targeted first in its upgrades.

“The real tough nut to crack was the zero-to-two-kilometre stretch. That’s been a real challenge and something we’ve been looking at for years,” said Malcolm Schulz, engineering officer for the Sea to

cent of the Sea to Sky district’s annual infrastructural budget. Victoria has spent about $800,000 annually on upgrades, on top of the roughly $5.8 million it spent on recent improvements to the zero-to-twokilometre stretch, and continued to invest after treaty negotiations had concluded.

“There was a lot of work for us to secure the funding and the internal planning and those types of things. We had to make some

changes to accommodate the road traffic while the project was going on,” said Dave Southam, Sea to Sky Natural Resource District manager. “But overall, we’ve seen such great support from the community that it’s been relatively easy for us to do this project. Other areas, like if you’re working in a city, it’s not quite as easy.”

That’s not to say the work is completed. As recently as last summer, Pique heard from concerned drivers about the condition of the road that they believed had only deteriorated as traffic had increased in the pandemic.

Kúkwpi7 Skalúlmecw Lil’wat Nation Chief Dean Nelson said paving the road should be a key priority moving forward.

“It’s very important for all people travelling that road to be safe,” he said.

“That road benefits all of us.”

Southam noted that the district has looked at what it would take to pave the road from the junction of Highway 99 down to Harrison Mills, but the high cost to do so doesn’t make it feasible for the time being.

Along with providing an essential lifeline to nearby communities, Peters said the FSR also offered the kind of political leverage the Nations needed at the negotiating table.

“I think political profile was needed to get as far as we have. We’ve got as far as we have, I think, because of that,” he said. n

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Despite ‘code red,’ governments continue to support fossil fuels WHAT’S THE BEST way to respond to a “code red”? Recent research is testing us on that. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s “Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis”—the first part of its sixth assessment—confirms we’ll continue accelerating on a terrible trajectory if we don’t rein in greenhouse gas emissions and protect natural areas that absorb and store carbon.

An earlier International Energy Agency report said keeping the world from catastrophic heating and meeting global net-zero emissions goals by 2050 requires

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ending new oil and gas exploration and development and not building coal-fired power plants.

A “code red for humanity,” as the IPCC report has been called, should be met with a united, effective, ambitious response—as with COVID-19. With so much evidence that humanity faces a collective existential threat, one would expect governments, industry and civil society to come together to resolve the crisis, especially given the many available and emerging solutions.

To be fair, we’ve seen some effort at global climate summits and such, but still more talk than urgently needed action—“blah blah blah,” as Greta Thunberg aptly put it.

As many experts point out, we’re “adding fuel to the fire” of the climate crisis when we should be doing everything possible to extinguish it. According to

externalities such as damage to health, infrastructure and the environment, an Environmental Defence report estimated Canada’s subsidies at about $18 billion, with $3.28 billion in direct spending and $13.6 billion in public financing for oil and gas companies. The report notes the total “is an underestimation, as we’re missing a lot of public transparency from the government and oil companies around this financial support, especially tax breaks.”

Some subsidies were for pipelines. “In 2020, Export Development Canada provided up to $5.25 billion in financing renewals for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a publicly owned project that will cost at least $12.6 billion and comes with a hefty carbon footprint,” a Narwhal article says.

ED notes that the federal government has committed just $15 billion—over 10 years!—for climate initiatives.

G7 countries, including Canada, have been promising to phase out fossil fuel subsidies since 1990, and in 2016 set a deadline of 2025! They’ve made little progress. According to ED, “Canada ranks second worst of the G20 countries for public finance to oil and gas” (behind China) and is the worst per capita.

The IPCC report confirms that burning fossil fuels and destroying natural carbon sinks are heating the planet at unprecedented and accelerating rates, that warming will continue at least until mid-century no matter what because of the gases we’ve already emitted and that global warming will exceed 1.5 or 2 C this century unless we rapidly reduce emissions.

We understand the problem, and we have solutions. But we can’t shake the

“In 2020, Export Development Canada provided up to $5.25 billion in financing renewals for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion...”

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the International Monetary Fund, world governments are subsidizing coal, oil and gas to the tune of US$11 million every minute! That amounted to almost $6 trillion in 2020. Canada was especially generous, giving the industry close to $64 billion.

The IMF breaks down subsidies into those that cut fuel prices (eight per cent), tax breaks (six per cent), failing to make polluters pay for deaths and poor health caused by air pollution (42 per cent) and for heat waves and other impacts of global heating (29 per cent).

In other words, although subsidies through royalty concessions, tax breaks, infrastructure purchases and such are significant, many are derived from the fact that industries like coal, oil and gas don’t account for the costly damage they cause to society. Their price does not reflect their full societal costs.

Using calculations that didn’t include

myths of constant growth and fossil-fuelled economic engines. And so, the world continues to prop up a wasteful, archaic, destructive industry simply because it has fuelled our consumer society and its economy for decades.

Giving trillions of dollars to a dying industry that all evidence says must be stopped is not the proper response to a code red. With the world’s nations meeting in Glasgow for the UN climate conference until Nov. 12, they must recognize that the time for incrementalism has long passed.

As Greta Thunberg says, we’ve had enough “blah blah blah.” It’s time for real, transformative change.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. ■

RANGE ROVER

A POWerful voice on climate WITH ALL EYES ON what national leaders will say at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, a simple axiom coined in the heady environmental movement of the 1970s still holds more agency: Think globally, act locally. And if there’s one credo that Protect Our Winters (or POW—you’ve doubtless seen the logo) lives by, it’s this. But we’ll come back to that.

BY LESLIE ANTHONY COP26 kicked off a day after a prelude G20 meeting in Rome failed to see those same leaders commit to a target to halt net carbon emissions by 2050. That’s the science-derived deadline to prevent the most extreme effects of the irreversible global warming already underway—something the Sea to Sky is all too aware of. Instead, the Rome talks merely blah, blah, blahed about “the key relevance” of halting net emissions “by or around mid-century,” reached no agreement on phasing out coal, and diluted commitments to cut emissions of methane, the powerful greenhouse gas of fossil fuel extraction and agriculture. With this damp squib, the inevitable cheerleader/protestors milling outside the Glasgow facility were already restless, with Swedish activist Greta Thunberg inciting them with “No more whatever the f*ck they’re doing in there!” and rightly asking her millions of supporters to sign an open letter accusing world leaders of betraying their constituencies, a letter I didn’t hesitate to sign.

POWER TO THE PEOPLE Protect Our Winters Canada at its annual leadership summit in the Squamish Valley.

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It would be a mistake, however, to conflate not doing all that’s necessary with doing nothing, because significant movement is afoot. Trudeau’s new cabinet reflects it, as does his Glasgow announcement that Canada will put a hard cap on emissions—the much-awaited move needed to checkmate unmanaged growth in the tar sands. Canada’s renewed commitment on climate, however, comes with no illusion about the fossil-fuel industry—still regularly caught in lies over its own emissions—which feigns cooperation while employing every scintilla of accounting creativity it can muster, starting with long-held objections to consider “exported emissions” of oil, gas and coal that leave the country (ditto emissions embedded in trade and international travel). Yet the reality is that from 2012 to 2019 Canada’s exported emissions rose by about 50 per cent, outpacing domestic emissions; in 2019 that was 730 megatonnes of domestic CO2 versus 954 mt exported. For context, the latter figure exceeds domestic emissions of the U.K. and Japan combined. Clearly much work is required to hold both industry and government to account in such key areas, for Canada’s citizens to pick up the climate advocacy ball and run. Which brings us back to POW, an organization not only aware of such weighty things, but committed to addressing them from the ground up.

Founded by American snowboard icon Jeremy Jones in 2007, POW is a cause célèbre uniting the global winter sports community in a dozen countries to educate and act on climate change through athlete, science, creative, brand and local alliances.

Free to join, Canada’s 22,000-plus members comprise 11 chapters including Whistler, where I caught up with the national organization’s board chair, Mike Douglas, a few weeks after I attended POW’s annual

leadership summit in the Squamish Valley.

The informative, energized conclave featured expert speakers and workshops on topics such as: what the climate leadership landscape in Canadian politics looks like; diversity, equity and inclusion in climate activism; climate change communication with energy worker communities; key ingredients for social media success; carbon capture science and investment; and pathways to net zero.

“Such a wide variety of presenters made this year’s summit great,” says Douglas. “That was helpful because the biggest reason to bring POW ambassadors, chapter leads and staff together is to recharge their batteries.

Over time you tend to get disengaged— particularly during COVID—but where you’re loaded up with fresh information and energy it brings you back. After a meeting like this everyone feels stronger about the mission— more inclined to dig in and get work done.”

If knowledge truly is power, the information on offer in engaging and digestible chunks highlighted a key POW mission: turning passionate outdoor people into effective climate advocates. Most informative were two dovetailing talks; the first explored the benefits, the challenges and the role in reducing emissions of POW’s four policy pillars of Renewable Energy, Carbon Pricing, Fossil Fuel Divestment and Nature Based Solutions, followed by lawyers from the NGO Ecojustice describing how each were currently actionable.

“As a group we tend to get swayed into the whimsical side of climate action,” says Douglas, “but real-world practicalities like these—as well as carbon capture and getting to net zero—can sober you up to the challenges ahead and how they need to be managed.”

The interest in both knowing and doing is out there. POW Canada has grown swiftly, adding more staff to work on programs

with an expanding number of chapters.

“Someone wants to start one in Squamish, which is great,” Douglas tells me, to which my immediate reaction is why not just have a Sea to Sky chapter? “Because each community has its own issues. There are a million puzzle pieces to solving climate change, and if you focus on that you’ll get nowhere. But community chapters working on solving small challenges add up to getting the puzzle done.”

He points to the huge potential of organizations to influence policy with an unexpected example. “Look at the NRA. At its peak it had massive influence over governments in the U.S.—no matter how absurd the gun problem got. If that’s the potential of a large group of people working together on something [on the] negative side, we’d like to do that on the positive side.”

That might already be happening.

During Canada’s recent federal election, POW hit the national media when NDP leader Jagmeet Singh mentioned the “Climate Policy Report Card” for federal parties that POW had circulated.

In terms of future direction, Douglas notes, “Our highest level of energy is aimed at the money pipeline—divestment, or, as coined at the summit, the more positive term ‘sustainable finance.’ Money drives the direction of the energy industry, so the need to shift from bad to good as soon as possible requires moving the money. For example, Quebec’s biggest pension holder, Caise Populaire, just committed to pulling out of fossil fuels. That’s huge.”

That kind of momentum, as well as some landmark shifts coming out of COP26, are at least something to build on—and certainly better than blah, blah, blah.

Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. ■

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TEN JOBS FOR GETTING TO WORK ON A

ZERO-EMISSIONS FUTURE A climate-fixing economy will mean new livelihoods like these in B.C. and across Cascadia

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FEATURE STORY [Editor’s Note: Coinciding with the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which runs until Nov. 12, not to mention Whistler’s longstanding labour shortage that has only been exacerbated by a global pandemic, Pique is running this Tyee feature exploring the future of work in B.C. and wider Cascadia in a zero-emissions economy.]

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f any bioregion is well-suited to streak towards a net-zero carbon emissions economy it would seem to be Cascadia. British Columbia, Washington and Oregon set some of North America’s first mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions over a decade ago. Abundant hydropower provides an edge, and most voters in all three places say they want to transition away from fossil fuels.

Of course, getting to zero would require heavy political lifting. Small progress so far has come in fits and starts.

But if the climate crisis is to be averted, greenhouse gas emissions must be dramatically reduced. And that, as Dr. Jennie Moore, who directs the Office of Institute Sustainability at BCIT, points out, would bring big changes to the world of work.

So a dozen experts were asked the question: what are some top jobs we can expect in a net-zero emissions economy in B.C. and by extension Cascadia?

Everyone uses their hands, head and heart to do their jobs well. Still, we took what we heard and broke our list into three broad categories. Hands: Technicians and carpenters, people able to roll up their sleeves and unafraid of getting their hands dirty. Heads: Environmental accountants and engineers who can brainstorm non-traditional fuel sources—the numbers people. Hearts: Those with a desire to improve how we live, farm or shop.

Here are some key jobs for a net-zero carbon emissions future economy that may be around the corner.

HANDS 1. Assembly line home fabricator To slash emissions, we’re going to have to dramatically change how we build new homes. The days of individually constructing homes piece by piece are over—but this could be a good thing for the province’s forestry industry, says Alex Boston, executive director of Renewable Cities and fellow at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University.

Boston proposes building homes on assembly lines where companies can better manage cost, quality and waste. Walls, floors and other sections of a home could be assembled in a factory—down to the insulation and wiring—and then shipped and pieced together like Lego blocks.

Low quality B.C. lumber, such as smaller trees or branches, could be made into mass timber, a fabricated material that layers and laminates wood fibre that is comparable to concrete in strength, Boston says. Mass timber and pre-fab could be used to build efficient commercial, residential and institutional buildings while maintaining an industry for sustainably harvested lumber.

Passive Houses are intentionally designed to reduce emissions and could easily be mass produced on an assembly line, Boston says.

But let’s go a step further and imagine massproducing Active Houses, which not only reduce emissions but also have a net-positive effect on the

environment and people.

House-building assembly lines will shrink the number of some kinds of construction jobs, but Canada’s workforce is shrinking, too, Boston notes. And there is potential for big growth in greener construction.

2. Home energy auditor and retrofitter Don’t go rushing to bulldoze current buildings to build greener ones, Boston cautions, because the greenest home is the one that’s already been built.

But older homes don’t cut the mustard when it comes to energy efficiency and there’s a big market for auditors who can map out those inefficiencies and help homeowners or building managers improve their energy use. A 2017 Columbia Institute report says retrofitting buildings will create 2 million construction jobs by 2050—so get ahead of the curve, specialize and start handing out business cards.

Building retrofits are currently done by many tradespeople, like plumbers installing energy-efficient washer and dryers; electricians installing smart thermostats; and by contractors choosing better insulating windows and doors.

3. Marine retrofitter Cars can be run off electricity, so why stop there? Retrofitting freighters and tankers to be run off of batteries, or to be hybrid engines, will reduce emissions and noise pollution, Boston says.

Corvus Energy is a B.C. home-grown success story for retrofitting ships with batteries, but most of their business happens in Scandinavian countries, Boston says. That’s due to Scandinavian regulations that protect entire marine areas from fuel-burning engines, so ships have to use alternative energy sources to navigate those waters, he says. If Scandinavia can do it, why shouldn’t we be trying something similar in our local waters?

We should also change how we access BC Ferries, Boston adds. To travel from Vancouver to Victoria, we first have to drive out of town and then drive on a ship run off of fossil fuels. Adding an electric ferry that ran passenger sailings between downtown Gibsons and downtown Vancouver, for example, would reduce emissions and congestion while reducing the demand for noisier, more polluting sailings on other BC Ferries.

4. Electric vehicle technician Clean Energy Canada says the green transportation sector is going to be one of the largest green sectors over the next decade. The Columbia Institute’s report predicts Canada will spend $150 billion building urban transit infrastructure

like rapid transit, subway tunnels and dedicated bus lanes between 2017 and 2050, creating 245,000 construction jobs.

Quebec and Ontario will likely remain provincial leaders in electric vehicle manufacturing but there will be a lot of chances for B.C. to contribute to the sector, says Joanna Kyriazis, Clean Energy Canada senior policy advisor.

She points to the previously-mentioned Corvus Energy, which helps retrofit ships with battery power, and Portable Electric, a Vancouver-based company specializing in portable batteries to replace diesel generators at festivals, or after natural disasters.

That means lots of work for technicians specializing in electric vehicles. But the electric car boom comes with a large caveat. We can’t electrify our way out of the climate crisis.

To get to a zero-carbon world, we need to restructure our cities so we don’t drive—period, says BCIT’s Moore, who argues we need to embrace the reality that our current rate of economic growth is unsustainable. Everything from buses to bikes has to be made somewhere, usually burning fossil fuels along the way, so it’s best to aim for walkable cities over all else.

Being able to walk to your butcher, your baker and your cappuccino maker makes people less reliant on cars, which are surging in ownership per capita in B.C., says Boston. B.C.’s population has increased 18 per cent while car ownership had jumped 34 per cent since 2007, he says.

That’s due to the province favouring vehicle-centric growth, and because people are transitioning from multi-person to single-person homes, which makes sharing a car less likely.

HEAD 5. Environmental engineer specializing in non-traditional fuel sources We’ve all heard of harnessing power from the sun or wind, but what about garbage, poop or animal carcasses?

A 2019 Clean Energy Canada report predicts the wasteto-fuel industry will increase seven times faster than the rest of the country’s economy over the next decade.

Vancouver’s False Creek neighbourhood already heats 534,000 square metres of residential, commercial and institutional spaces by harnessing heat generated by local sewage.

Poop does more than produce heat. Waste generated by 1 million people could run the Parkland oil refinery in B.C. for one whole day, SFU’s Boston says. Poop is fuel, which is why the refinery is working on a plan to run biosolids to its facility over the next couple years, he says.

Boston credits this innovation to B.C.’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard, which requires fuel to reduce its carbon intensity.

In Pemberton, the all-wood BC Passive House factory, itself pre-fabricated, produces components for structures that can cut emissions by 90 per cent. FILE PHOTO BY DAVID BUZZARD / DAVIDBUZZARD.COM

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Moore says. Accountants are vital to help the public and government understand the true cost of carbon, which is wildly different than the price we currently pay, she notes.

Environmental accountants would specialize in calculating the costs of pollution and the benefits of going green.

Some B.C. municipalities are already starting to measure their natural resources through an emissions lens. For example, the West Vancouver city council has started to track how much carbon its trees can store, as well as how pretty they are or how much shade they give off, Moore says.

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The City of Surrey’s biofuel facility turns the city’s organic waste into compost and fuel for its waste trucks, which then go out and collect more food scraps. The methane released during the composting process is turned into fuel.

The amount of biofuel produced is limited to the amount of organic waste produced in the area, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more innovative fuel sources to be found.

Quebec farmers are turning cow poop into power and a Quebec company is collecting trash that can’t be recycled or composted and turning it into fuel.

6. Emissions auditor Net-zero isn’t some fanciful future dream that looks like the Jetsons—take it from a small business that’s on track to becoming the first of its kind to hit net-zero within the next decade.

Platinum Pro-Claim Restoration in Richmond has been operating since the early 1990s, employs 170 people, has a fleet of 90 cars and takes on around 1,750 home and building restoration projects annually, explains Jamie Madill, CFO and director of sustainability.

The company has always been environmentally conscious but decided to target its emissions back in 2016 after moving into a larger warehouse, Madill says. To do that they partnered with Climate Smart, a company that specializes in reducing carbon emissions by first mapping emissions and then creating solutions to reduce them.

Climate Smart’s training can be taken on by anyone on the team, but it works best if you find people in accounting

The zero-net emissions jobs of the future favour those with a love of nature and a heart open to imagining a very different world, noted various experts we talked to. Asked to paint a possible picture of a world transformed by a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, BCIT’s Moore says we can still live well—but we’ll have to travel less, enjoy our own neighbourhoods more and re-examine much of what we take for granted. Instead of hopping in our air-conditioned cars to drive to the beach on a hot summer day, we’ll walk through our neighbourhood community garden to reach the entrance to a literal underground movie theatre—built below ground so it’s always cool and dark.

and operations who are passionate about the environment and invite them to participate, Madill says. That means they’ll already be familiar with things like hydro bills and 8. Wilderness restorer inventory. Training takes around 30 hours spread over three months.

“We need to re-wild a lot of Earth’s surface,” says Moore.

Platinum Pro-Claim Restoration has since introduced Human impact is everywhere—while cities take up around 18 electric vehicles to the fleet, built public vehicle charging one per cent of the planet, logging and agriculture take up stations at its office, cut power costs by changing to LED 70 per cent, she says. Mass plant and animal extinctions are lights, improved warehouse insulation and created 14 happening because only 30 per cent is wilderness. different waste streams to divert material from the landfill.

If we’re going to shift to a low-carbon-emissions That adds up to over $120,000 in fuel savings since economy and stabilize our climate we need to pull back 2016, and that number jumps every time the company adds on human expansion and help native plants and animals another electric vehicle, Madill says. reclaim their habitat. Ecological restoration skills will be in Transitioning a business might take some extra upfront high demand, Moore says. costs, but once the infrastructure is in place it’s selfJobs in this field can already be found in salmon stream sustaining and companies will see a reduction in costs restoration. For the ongoing restoration of the Kennedy while saving money, he says.

Flats watershed and its Chinook salmon, restoration Mapping company emissions and creating a plan to get required a complex understanding of the region’s historical to net-zero is something every small to medium Canadian Indigenous stewardship and the impacts of modern business can do, he adds. industrial logging and development.

7. Environmental accountant

9. Agroecology farmer

The phrase “green jobs” might bring to mind more millennials working at a tech startup involving windmills and less the numbers nerds with their calculators, but accountants are vital when it comes to a net-zero economy, BCIT’s Moore says.

Canada’s economy will never transition towards net-zero emissions if we continue underpricing carbon,

Shipping food is incredibly carbon intensive, so we have to radically shift where and how we produce food, says Moore.

Buh-bye, golf courses and hello, neighbourhood farms. But don’t expect to see high-rise vertical farms because they’re energy intensive, Moore says.

To cut carbon we also need to look beyond sustainable farming practices or organic and reach for a new standard

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FEATURE STORY known as agroecology, which works to improve the relationship between plants, animals, humans and the environment. B.C. organic fruit farmers and ranchers practice agroecology when they allow wildflower cover crops to flourish, or use chickens to control pests.

Canada’s agricultural industry is unlikely to hit zero emissions but near zero is possible, according to a March 2021 report from the National Farmers Union. The report calls for electric tractors, crop biodiversity and federal programs that return unproductive farmland to grassland, wetland, riparian area, tree rows, bluffs and forests.

10. Circular economy retailer We need to change a lot about how we make, use and waste things, Moore says. To start, we need to slash how much we consume. The planet needs us to reduce our energy use by 90 per cent, she says—and that means we need to stop shopping and start repairing, retooling and redesigning what we already have.

This means bending the current take-make-waste system into a circular economy, where the waste from one industry becomes fuel for another industry. This goes beyond recycling and calls on entrepreneurs to look at waste steams as business opportunities for creating entirely new marketable material.

In Surrey, B.C., a company is tackling battery waste and maybe even preventing the construction of future mines.

RecycLiCo breaks down lithium batteries and recovers 100 per cent of the lithium, cobalt, magnesium, nickel and aluminum, which can then be fed back into the electronics industry. Building wind turbines requires materials, but that doesn’t mean those materials aren’t already available in landfills if we change how we approach waste.

When asked what a zero-carbon world looks like, BCIT scientist Moore points out that nothing lives in a zerocarbon world except glass sponges. All other life on Earth is made up of carbon so no matter what there will be carbon somewhere on the planet, she explained.

But when it comes to what a zero-carbon emissions world looks like, Moore cautions that humans will always need to do things like eat and move around.

That means getting to a zero-emissions future will be very challenging. In other words, it’s going to take a lot of work—made up of a lot of new kinds of jobs.

ABOVE: With the transportation sector predicted to be one largest green sectors over the next decade, there is anticipated to be lots of work for technicians specializing in electric vehicles. PHOTO BY SINOLOGY / GETTY IMAGES. BELOW: Because shipping food can be such a cost-intensive endeavour, sustainable, smallscale farms are anticipated to flourish in a net-zero economy. PHOTO BY TOM WERNER / GETTY IMAGES

This story originally appeared in The Tyee and is republished here with permission. It is the latest in a year-long, occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations exploring what it will take to shift the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy. It is supported in part by the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

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Whistler skier Teal Harle looks to make his second straight Olympic Games AFTER A PODIUM FINISH AT A WORLD CUP IN SWITZERLAND, HARLE’S CHANCES OF A SECOND CONSECUTIVE OLYMPICS ARE PROMISING

BY HARRISON BROOKS WHEN OLYMPIC freestyle athlete Teal Harle first started skiing, the freestyle discipline wasn’t even on his radar. In fact, he thought the terrain park was something skiers and snowboarders just did for fun.

But being the kid in a Nancy Greene ski program at Mount Washington who would spend more time bombing through the trees and hitting all the little jumps than on the actual runs, when he finally did try freestyle for the first time, something just clicked.

However, it wasn’t all smooth sailing for the Campbell River product, now Whistler resident, as he finished dead last in his firstever freestyle competition.

But where many pre-teens might be discouraged about finishing last, Harle saw his competition as a new benchmark for where he wanted to be. “[I wasn’t discouraged] at all. I didn’t enter my first contest in a competitive way, I just did it because it was around—like, why not? So I had no goals or expectations going into it,” he said. “I just went in and did my stuff, didn’t have any expectations of how it would go. If anything, it probably

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motivated me more to learn more and get better because I was like, ‘Oh wow, there is so much more that I could do or learn to be better at.’ And the next year I think I got third in that contest.”

Harle kept that same recreational approach to the sport throughout the next few years of his life. Even as he started to really excel at freestyle skiing while competing in the Timber Tours and the

where he finished fifth in slopestyle.

“PyeongChang was awesome, and we were lucky enough last time, that we went there for the opening ceremony, and we stayed for the whole thing and the closing ceremonies as well, which was super cool because you could get the whole experience,” he said.

“And that’s what it’s really about … You are there for the big Olympic experience

“You are there for the big Olympic experience and you get to wear the Team Canada outfit. That’s what makes it really special.”

- TEAL HARLE

B.C. Winter Games, it was never something he envisioned doing professionally.

“It was always just for fun and it was just a thing to do, a hobby,” said Harle.

But at around 16 or 17 years old, things changed for Harle. He started to view freestyle as a potential career after being selected for the BC Team, followed by the National Team the very next year.

And just three years after making the National Team, Harle had the chance to do something many spend their whole lives dreaming about. He got to represent Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang,

and you get to wear the Team Canada outfit.

That’s what makes it really special.”

Now, with the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing right around the corner, Harle is hoping to build off his previous Olympic experience to take that next step and land on the podium.

So far this year, Harle has set himself up well for a chance to qualify for his second straight Olympics. He opened the season with a silver medal at the Big Air World Cup event in Chur, Switzerland last week, where he battled back from a crash on his first run to lay down a score of 98 on his second,

vaulting him into first place before the very last rider stole the top spot with a 99.

“It’s a little bit of both [happiness and disappointment]. You have to be happy and excited with yourself that you landed your trick, that’s always the main goal. That’s the only thing that you can have an expectation on,” said Harle.

Early next week, Harle will be jetting off to Austria for the second stop on the World Cup circuit and his first slopestyle event of the season. And while he said his “rail skiing is a little lacking” so far this season, and that he’ll need a sledgehammer to break off the rust, having one podium finish already this year is helping to put his mind at ease and raise his confidence that he will be heading to his second Olympics in February.

But unlike last time in PyeongChang, where he held back a little to ensure he would at least put up a score in his first-ever Olympics, this time Harle will be throwing caution to the wind with a podium-or-bust mentality.

“I don’t have any expectations to do better than I did. Fifth at the Olympics is amazing and if I can do better than that, then awesome, and I will be shooting for the podium as always,” he said. “I would rather go for it and land on the podium than end up somewhere lower down.”

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The ever-evolving Araxi marks its 40th anniversary SINCE OPENING ON HALLOWEEN 1981, THE RESTAURANT HAS ALWAYS STAYED AHEAD OF THE CURVE

BY BRANDON BARRETT FOR SO MANY Whistlerites, Araxi Restaurant is a constant. Whether celebrating a birthday, an anniversary, or taking advantage of its annual anniversary prix fixe menu, you can always count on Araxi to serve up a special culinary experience.

But for the people behind the scenes at the resort’s first fine dining restaurant, if there has been one constant over the past 40 years, it’s change.

“I think the biggest thing was never sitting on our laurels. Even when things were good, there was always an eye on the big picture, on forecasting,” said James Walt, culinary director for Toptable Group.

“It was never about just sitting here in Whistler; we were always reaching.”

Araxi marked its 40th anniversary this week, four decades after the restaurant opened its doors in the nascent village on Halloween night, 1981. To get a sense of the continued evolution of one of Canada’s most highly regarded restaurants, you of course have to understand the unrelenting drive of its founder, Jack Evrensel.

Charmed by the crepe shops he found in ski resorts in his native Quebec, engineering student Evrensel and his wife Araxi made the cross-country trek to Whistler in 1980 with dreams of opening a quaint eatery in the sleepy ski town.

“The idea was to open a restaurant in a ski resort with another couple and ski all day—and how much work can it be having fun with people at night? And then we would lock the doors and go fishing in the summer. That was the plan,” Evrensel told Pique in a 2011 interview.

As fate would have it, that’s not quite how things panned out. Once settled in the resort, Evrensel began to make trips across the West Coast, and the restaurants he visited in L.A., San Francisco and Seattle

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY Toptable culinary director James Walt was first hired to head Araxi’s kitchen in 1997, and over the next year or so, he oversaw the transition from a traditional Italian restaurant to a more regionally focused, farm-to-table menu.

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instilled in him “an unwavering passion to do something special,” said Walt.

One of the restaurant’s first outside hires when he took over as executive chef in 1997, Walt was privy to what would eventually become the restaurant’s single biggest transformation, from a traditional Italian restaurant replete with not one but two pizza ovens, into a regionally focused purveyor of farm-to-table cuisine well before the term had become a favourite buzzword of the restaurant world.

“We just leaned right into the B.C. element. We grew the B.C. wine list, the B.C. products, the style of cuisine, redid the room and then just basically reimagined the space,” recalled Walt. “When we first did the 100 Mile menu, that’s all everyone was talking about. I remember saying to people it really wasn’t that challenging. In this part of the world, we have everything. If we were in Churchill, Manitoba or something, it would have been a feat. We were talking the talk and walking the walk.”

If Walt was looking for affirmation of the new direction, he didn’t have to wait long. In 1998, he was invited to cook at the prestigious James Beard House in New York City, and Walt and his team doubled down on the local approach.

“I took six coolers of products. We went all in, B.C. wines, everything.

We were relentless with this Canadian product,” Walt said. “It was amazing.

The people were thrilled; standing ovation. I felt incredible. I think it kind of validated what we were trying to do.”

Another watershed moment for Araxi came ahead of the 2010 Olympics, when the restaurant was featured in Season 6 of the Gordon Ramsay-helmed reality cooking competition, Hell’s Kitchen, which also helped catapult Araxi’s first cookbook into selling more than 20,000 copies.

“You can’t deny the Hell’s Kitchen thing,” Walt says. “I don’t want to say we were ignorant, but I don’t think Jack and I realized the reach of that.”

In 2014, renowned Vancouver restaurant group Toptable purchased Araxi from Evrensel, and in the subsequent years, the company has expanded its presence in Whistler with the opening of tapas spot, Bar Oso, the acquisition of Umberto Menghi’s elegant Italian restaurant, Il Caminetto, and, most recently, announced plans for a new space, tentatively called Provisions, next to Araxi.

Walt believes it speaks to the trend first established by the restless Evrensel, allowing the countless cooks, servers, hosts, bartenders and sommeliers that have passed through Araxi’s doors the opportunity to progress in an industry not known for its career prospects.

“For myself, I’m getting older, so it’s more about the people around me. If people feel like they’re learning something or they’re a part of something bigger than themselves, that’s what we want,” he said. “We realize it’s just a restaurant, but to us it isn’t just a restaurant, it’s almost a way of life.” n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT AROUND THIS TIME last year, the organizers of the Whistler Film Festival (WFF) were dealt about the worst hand you could imagine for an event that was just weeks away from opening night.

“We were licking our wounds because we had just been informed that we would have to shut down the theatres and focus on online offerings only,” recalls director of programming Paul Gratton.

But instead of lamenting the situation, organizers set to work, transforming the 2020 edition into an entirely online model. That 11th-hour shift, combined with an extensive research project the festival undertook to gauge the future of film festivals in a postpandemic world, proved invaluable for organizers looking to this year’s edition, which will for the first time incorporate in-person and online screenings.

“Everything has been developed in

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this hybrid model,” said executive director Angela Heck at a press conference this week unveiling the festival’s full lineup. “I can tell you it’s not an easy soundbite to talk about in this way, but it is the reality of developing film festivals and presenting the work that we do in 2021.”

Dec. 1 to 5 will mark the in-person portion of the festival, which, per provincial guidelines, will allow moviegoers into theatres at full capacity, with masks and proof of vaccination required, while films will be available to screen through WFF’s online portal from Dec. 1 to 31.

The industry content summit, meanwhile, will also run in a hybrid format, from Dec. 1 to 10.

Selected from more than 1,550 submissions, this year’s lineup features 81 movies in all, representing 20 countries, including 40 feature-length films, half of which are directed by women, a milestone for the festival.

“That’s quite a threshold to attain.

I’m not sure any other international film festival can say that,” notes Gratton.

Already generating Oscar buzz, the opening night film, The Lost Daughter, will screen in-theatre Dec. 1 and marks awardwinning actor Maggie Gyllenhaal’s first foray into the director’s chair. Starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson and Peter

Sarsgaard, the movie is based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante and effectively “sets the tone for our whole film festival,” Gratton says. “It’s a very innovative, chance-taking, indie-spirited movie.”

The closing night film on Dec. 5, Chasing the Line, is another potential Oscar contender and one that should appeal to Whistler audiences. Directed by Andreas Schmied, the biopic centres on Austrian champion alpine ski racer Franz Klammer and hones in on the fateful few days leading up to his 1976 Olympic gold medal win.

“It’s not a documentary; it’s actually an exciting theatrical movie that integrates acting, very cool 1970s music and actual footage from the Olympics,” Gratton says.

As always, WFF will feature a healthy dose of CanCon, with 61 per cent of its lineup made up of Canadian films, including 15 flicks up for the coveted Borsos Competition for Best Canadian Feature and $15,000 cash prize. In the running this year are: Serville Poblete’s Altar Boy; Valerie Buhagiar’s Carmen; Jeffrey St. Jules’ Cinema of Sleep; Luc Picard’s Confessions of a Hitman; Shelley Thompson’s Dawn, Her Dad & the Tractor; Stephen Campanelli’s Drinkwater, Carl Bassai’s Evelyne, Renée Beaulieu’s Inès; Jason Brennan’s L’Inhumain; Aviva Armour-Ostroff and Arturo Perez Torres’ Lune; Sarah Fortin’s Nouveau Québec;

Jonathan Keijser’s Peace by Chocolate; Zoe Hopkins’ Run Woman Run; Philippe Grégoire’s The Noise of Engines; and Katie Boland’s We’re All in This Together.

For online viewers, WFF will be premiering one or two movies a day from Dec. 1 to 25, with all films available to stream through Dec. 31. Kicking the online portion off on Dec. 1 will be the Canadian premier of Robin Hauser’s $avvy, a documentary that explores why it’s so important for women to understand and take control of their financial freedom. The closing online film, the aforementioned Peace by Chocolate, screens Dec. 25 and tells the story of a family of Syrian refugees who settle in Nova Scotia and establish a successful chocolate manufacturing company.

Overall, WFF’s 21st edition will feature a dozen world premieres, three North American premieres, and 21 Canadian premieres. In a nod to its reputation as one of North America’s most filmmakerfriendly festivals, 41 per cent of this year’s lineup is made up of first-time directors.

“That’s a very particular niche that I think Whistler has developed,” Gratton says.

“We’re very much about priming the pump for talent in Canada.”

Pique will have more on the festival as opening night approaches. For more information, visit whistlerfilmfestival.com. n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT OVER THE PAST few years, local artist Laura Scarr has planted 173 trees without so much as touching the soil.

The 34-year-old landscape artist has long been fascinated by what she calls “the beautiful and mysterious forests” of British Columbia and a few years back she decided she would have a tree planted for each one she depicted in her paintings—173 and counting. That’s how Scarr connected with One Tree Planted, a Vermont-based nonprofit dedicated to reforestation efforts in 43 countries around the globe that is also the charitable recipient for Arts Whistler’s latest exhibit, “Trees for the Forest.”

“They’re working with local populations and rebuilding forest corridors, and it was just so inspiring,” Scarr says. “It became one of the things I was most excited about with my work and I really wanted to take that a step further because I feel like it’s such an exciting and positive thing.”

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was in B.C. after relocating from Ontario, she saw her own work become “completely transformed” by the forest around her.

“Opening up that inspiration to other places, it’s the same way that travelling opens you up. As soon as you bring in fresh inspiration, it really makes you appreciate the place you’re in and it makes you so much more aware of other places, too.”

Arts Whistler executive director Mo Douglas says having such a specific theme to a show means “people come in and are blown away by the diversity of what people have done with it. That’s what makes it so fun: it is one theme but look at how different the interpretations are.”

Featured in the exhibit alongside Scarr are Vanessa Stark, Nicole Koshure, Alyssa Bruijns, Ben Poechman, Andrea Mueller, Anna Lynch, Jessa Gilbert, and Sherry Klassen.

Typically hosting up to eight exhibits a year, Douglas says it’s not unusual for one or two of those shows to be the brainchild of a local artist like Scarr.

“We’ve reached a nice balance of driving some stuff ourselves, filling niches, and then having artists bring their concept to the exhibition level, too,” she explains. “It’s been awesome to watch the development of this community gallery. It gets stronger every year.”

“Trees for the Forest” opens Nov. 4 and runs at The Gallery in the Maury Young Arts Centre until Dec. 23. A portion of each artwork sold will go directly to One Tree Planted in support of reforestation in the country that inspired the work. Learn more at onetreeplanted.org. n

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have a variety of accommodation options from campsites to luxury hotel suites. In the 1970s there weren’t nearly as many choices. In 1972, Garibaldi’s Whistler News described the situation as: “There are no big, fancy resort-type hotels in the area offering everything under the sun. Instead, scattered around the base of the lifts are numerous inns and restaurants offering a good selection of accommodations and dining facilities.”

Most of these establishments, such as the Cheakamus Inn, Highland Lodge, and Christiana Inn, were located around the area now known as Creekside. The Ski Boot Hotel, however, was a little further away.

In 1966, David and Irene Andrews purchased a ten-acre site along Highway 99 and Fitzsimmons Creek for $10,000, about five kilometres north of the newly opened gondola base. Over the next year, they began construction of the Ski Boot Motel, a “modern” motel expected to open during the 1967/68 ski season. The Andrews offered a variety of accommodations in their 32 units, from private rooms to suites that slept eight. During its first season, the Ski Boot Motel provided reasonable rates, sometimes as low as $5/night, and even offered a “ski week” that included five nights accommodation, meals, and lift tickets for just $67.50.

Over the next few years, more development was planned and built north of the ski lifts, though the majority of the lodges and nightlife continued to be found around the gondola base. In 1971, the Andrews announced a major investment of $100,000 (about $1.35 million in today’s dollars) in their Ski Boot property, now called the Ski Boot Lodge

Hotel, to turn it into “Whistler’s Largest and Most Complete Tourist Resort.” They proposed to add a full-service dining room, cocktail lounge, beer parlour, convention facilities, laundromat, Finnish sauna, and additional accommodations, along with plans for live entertainment and a bus to transport skiers between the lifts and the lodge (the purple bus became known to some as the “Purple People Eater,” no doubt from the 1958 song). The beer parlour opened to the public (guests and residents alike) in January 1972, with the dining room following that March. The lodge also introduced two new members of staff that season: two St. Bernard puppies named Ski and Boot. While rates did increase during this period, the Ski Boot continued to be known for reasonable prices.

The Andrews reportedly sold the Ski Boot Lodge Hotel for $350,000 in 1973, though not much is known about this period. Over the next few decades, the property was sold numerous times and went by various names, including the White Gold Inn (during which time exotic dancing was first introduced), Fitzsimmons Lodge, Bavarian Inn, and the Shoestring Lodge.

The term “Boot,” however, continued to be associated with the property and specifically the Boot Pub. Despite being located outside of both the gondola base and later the Whistler Village, the Andrews’ early commitment to reasonable rates and additions to the original lodge laid the foundation for the Boot to grow into an institution as the Whistler area continued to develop and grow. Though it closed its doors in 2006 and was then demolished, many residents and visitors still fondly share their stories of times spent at the Boot, whether they stayed there when they first arrived in Whistler, ate at Gaitors as a child, or spent their evenings at the bar. n

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night, Oct. 31. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 6 HAPPY BARKDAY Remember Terra, who received an 18th birthday shout-out in this space a year ago? Well, her humans are pleased to report that Terra turned 19 on Nov. 1, or about 92 in dog years. “Her senses may be getting somewhat dulled, and we saw proof of that when a bear ran right past her yesterday morning (on the Ted Nebbeling bridge) and she didn’t even look up,” wrote owners Raymond Bryant and Hannah McIntyre in an email.

PHOTO SUBMITTED. 7 SCAREDY CANS The Whistler Secondary School Leadership Team crewed the entrance to Tapley’s Farm Halloween on Oct. 31. The crew organized the ‘We Scare Hunger’ campaign for the Whistler Food Bank, while a Whistler Community Foundation neighbourhood grant supported the campaign and entrance. Together, more than $1,100 in cash and 170 kilograms of food was collected for the Whistler Food Bank. PHOTO SUBMITTED.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The delights of selfdiscovery are always available,” writes author Gail Sheehy. I will add that those delights will be extra accessible for you in the coming weeks. In my view, you’re in a phase of super-learning about yourself.

You will attract help and support if you passionately explore mysteries and riddles that have eluded your understanding. Have fun surprising and entertaining yourself, Taurus. Make it your goal to catch a new glimpse of your hidden depths every day.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini novelist and philosopher Muriel Barbery says, “I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.” In the coming weeks, I hope you will overcome any tendency you might have to manipulate yourself in such a way.

In my view, it’s crucial for your mental and spiritual health that you at least question your belief system‚ and perhaps even risk shaking its foundation. Don’t worry: Even if doing so ushers in a period of uncertainty, you’ll be much stronger for it in the long run. More robust and complete beliefs will be available for you to embrace.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In her book Mathilda, novelist Mary Shelley (1797-1851) has the main character ask, “What had I to love?” And the answer? “Oh, many things: there was the moonshine, and the bright stars; the breezes and the refreshing rains; there was the whole earth and the sky that covers it.” I bring this to your attention in the hope of inspiring you to make your own tally of all the wonders you love. I trust your inventory will be at least 10 times as long as Mathilda’s. Now is a favourable time for you to gather all the healing that can come from feeling waves of gratitude, even adoration, for the people, animals, experiences, situations, and places that rouse your interest and affection and devotion.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Our memories are always changing. Whenever we call up a specific remembrance, it’s different from the last time we visited that same remembrance‚ coloured by all the new memories we have accumulated in the meantime. Over time, an event we recall from when we were nine years old has gone through a great deal of shape-shifting in our memory so much so that it may have little resemblance to the first time we remembered it. Is this a thing to be mourned or celebrated? Maybe some of both. Right now, though, it’s to be celebrated. You have extra power to declare your independence from any memories that don’t make you feel good. Why hold onto them if you can’t even be sure they’re accurate?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in a spacecraft. His flight marked the first time that NASA, the agency in charge of spaceflight, had ever used electronic computers. Glenn, who was also an engineer, wanted the very best person to verify the calculations, and that was Virgo mathematician Katherine Johnson. In fact, Glenn said he wouldn’t fly without her involvement. I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because I believe the coming months will be a favourable time for you to garner the kind of respect and recognition that Katherine Johnson got from John Glenn.

Make sure everyone who needs to know does indeed know about your aptitudes and skills.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to an Apache proverb, “It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand.” If you act on that

counsel in the coming weeks, you will succeed in doing what needs to be done. There is only one potential downfall you could be susceptible to, in my view, and that is talking and thinking too much about the matter you want to accomplish before you actually take action to accomplish it. All the power you need will arise as you resolutely wield the lightning in your hands.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To encourage young people to come to its shows, the English National Opera has offered a lot of cheap tickets. Here’s another incentive: Actors sing in English, not Italian or French or German. Maybe most enticing for audiences is that they are encouraged to boo the villains. The intention is to make attendees feel relaxed and free to express themselves. I’m pleased to give you Scorpios permission to boo the bad guys in your life during the coming weeks. In fact, I will love it if you are extra eloquent and energetic about articulating all your true feelings. In my view, now is prime time for you to show the world exactly who you are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If we’re not careful, we are apt to grant ultimate value to something we’ve just made up in our heads,” said Zen priest Kosho Uchiyama. In my view, that’s a problem all of us should always be alert for. As I survey my own past, I’m embarrassed and amused as I remember the countless times I committed this faux pas. For instance, during one eight-month period, I inexplicably devoted myself to courting a woman who had zero interest in a romantic relationship with me. I bring this to your attention, Sagittarius, because I’m concerned that right now, you’re more susceptible than usual to making this mistake. But since I’ve warned you, maybe you’ll avoid it. I hope so!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author Asha Sanaker writes, “There is a running joke about us Capricorns that we age backwards. Having been born as burdened, cranky old people, we become lighter and more joyful as we age because we have gained so much practise in wielding responsibility. And in this way we learn, over time, about what are our proper burdens to carry and what are not. We develop clear boundaries around how to hold our obligations with grace.” Sanaker’s thoughts will serve as an excellent meditation for you in the coming weeks. You’re in a phase when you can make dramatic progress in embodying the skills she articulates.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As author Denise Linn reminded us, “The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you.” With that advice as your inspiration, I will ask you to deepen your devotion to self-care in the coming weeks. I will encourage you to shower yourself with more tenderness and generosity than you have ever done in your life. I will also urge you to make sure these efforts are apparent to everyone in your life. I am hoping for you to accomplish a permanent upgrade in your love for yourself, which should lead to a similar upgrade in the kindness you receive from others.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have at your disposal a prodigiously potent creative tool: your imagination. If there’s a specific experience or object you want to bring into your world, the first thing you do is visualize it. The practical actions you take to live the life you want to live always refer back to the scenes in your mind’s eye.

And so every goal you fulfil, every quest you carry out, every liberation you achieve, begins as an inner vision.

Your imagination is the engine of your destiny. It’s the catalyst with which you design your future. I bring these ideas to your attention, dear Pisces, because November is Celebrate Your Imagination Month.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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MAXED OUT

Can you feel the mountains calling? I can…

THERE’S A palpable difference in the air this year. Or is that just the teasing weather?

People who don’t usually seem particularly excited by the prospect of another ski season are almost giddy, torn between the thrilling anticipation of a child’s Christmas and the latent fear of Halloween. Is that Santa coming... or Freddie?

Heightened anticipation extends well beyond the newbies who’ve drifted into town, fewer in number than needed.

They’re always pumped at the prospect of bumming through their first season in

BY G.D. MAXWELL a place they’ve either visited or simply dreamed about. Easily identifiable in their newly acquired, not quite comfortably fitting phatpunk attitude, they wander the village sneaking quick looks up the slopes, judging for themselves the depth and quality of virgin snow, nearly bursting to get up there and slide back down.

Shoulder season weather teases them.

Endless foreplay; no relief. Some snow, some rain and, to underscore the irony in their lives, a bit of sunshine, something otherwise treasured but wholly unwelcome at this very moment, revealing, as it does, slopes not yet ready for prime time.

Walking slump-shouldered and toqued, they’ve become supplicants to pagan gods and goddesses of precipitation. Let the heavens open up and unleash their manna.

Pray to Ullr. Find a virgin to sacrifice. Let it be me.

It’s expected of them. The drama plays out yearly as every new crop of fresh-faced seekers drifts into town. But when you see the same look on faces etched and worn by age and repeated exposure to hundredday seasons too numerous to clearly recall anymore, well, maybe this is the new world order, the lens through which events of mid September get simultaneously focused and blurred.

“Get back to leading your normal lives,” our leaders extol. Sort of. Be careful.

Continue to take precautions. Get jabbed.

Admonitions within a changing the landscape virus-tinged, climate-threatened reality lying so far beyond normal no one can be sure they know what it means.

“I remember normal,” we each think, remembering something perhaps unrecognizable to the person next to us.

Normal is shuffling through the off-season with a cadence of expectation. Normal is sweating through the chill of October and November, sweating the snow that seems to come only teasingly if at all, sweating the unsure start of a new year on the calendar of ups and downs, sweating rebirth at a

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time the rest of the hemisphere celebrates the season of death. Normal is the painful realization you don’t have nearly enough dough to afford a season pass and new board(s) this year and normal is realizing you didn’t need new after all, just a chance to get the old out, patch the base and let gravity pull you toward a state of bliss where you can’t even remember what you’re riding, just that you’re riding.

Normal is more newbies than either jobs or housing, not businesses closed as much as open.

The trouble with normal is, as Bruce says, it always gets worse. Usually that just means it gets normal, it loses its thrill because of repetition and diminishing marginal utility.

So will the thrill come back to town this year?

Is it as simple as seeking refuge from the insanity of the new normal? Does it have something to do with looking at what’s

contagion gripping the world. Go skiing.

Live life. Let your face freeze in the winter’s wind. Feel the pow float up your nostrils and choke your breath away in its icy grip.

Lose your sense of up and down as you tumble ass over teakettle down Whistler Bowl, laughing your brains out like a looneytune all the way down. Climb the career ladder in reverse or, better yet, jump off entirely and live your passion.

Surrounded by a town full of snow junkies, of unrepentant winter lovers and adrenaline-fuelled thrill seekers, I wonder why more people—everyone—and especially Canadians whose very definition of self rests on a foundation of winter, don’t ski? Or board? I don’t wonder about it for the same reasons skico execs wonder about it, it’s not a monetary, bottom-line, grow like a cancer cell or die sort of thing.

I just wonder how they can know there’s something out there, something they can do in an otherwise dreary, endless, dark

Maybe that’s the answer to the contagion gripping the world. Go skiing. Live life.

dear through cleansed eyes? Could it be the devil-may-care, live for today, tomorrow we die syndrome so familiar to those facing a scary and uncertain future?

Hell, I don’t know. I just wanna go skiin’.

I just want a season that ends sometime after March. And so does everyone else I know.

Maybe that’s the answer to the

season, that’s better than sex, better than food, better than drugs, better than driving a fast car on a twisty road, better than a technicolour sunset on a deserted beach, better than clipping along at 20 knots on a sailing yacht with the leeward rail under water and the keel threatening to come out, better than... chocolate. Hmmm.

Is it the expense? The cold? The fear of

falling? The stories of friends and friends of friends injured and broken after a skiing holiday? The learning curve and the visible foolishness felt struggling with something those surrounding you do with such grace and simplicity. Not knowing anyone among your circle of friends who’s caught the fever? Fear of the uncaring vastness of mountainous landscapes? Fear of trying something so powerful it can suck the soul out of who you thought you were and send you careening on a new life path? Fear of fear?

It may be raining in town but it’s snowing further up the mountains. The snowguns were blasting diamonds earlier this week. The rhythm of the season has my body dancing to a downhill beat. Skis in the garage whisper it’s almost time to scrape off their storage wax. Listen—the mountains beckon.

I can’t wait.

Update: Still no justification from Vail Resorts on riding the gondola without being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Still hewing to their, “We won’t do anything we don’t have to,” strategy. No new pledges.

Meanwhile, Resorts of the Canadian Rockies—Fernie, Kicking Horse, et.al.,— greeted November with this announcement: “Following the advice provided by the Provincial Government Health Authorities,(emphasis added) RCR has decided to require proof of COVID19 Immunization Record to access all chair lifts and indoor facilities at our resorts this winter. This decision has been made with the goal of providing you, our guests, our staff, and our resort communities with the safest environment possible.”

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1565 Khyber Lane

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Valhalla is known for being one of the most centrally located nightly rental properties in Whistler. This beautiful one level corner suite, 1 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom townhome is nearly 900 square feet and is bigger than most two bedrooms in the Village. There is even room to add a den and make it a two bedroom!

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9329 Warbler Way

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This 5th floor studio has a fully equipped kitchen, living/dining area, gas fireplace, sundeck, beautiful bathroom and sleeps 4 comfortably with a queen size murphy bed and queen size pull-out couch. Amenities include a heated year-round salt water pool & dual hot tubs - the perfect vantage point after a day of summer fun or winter après.

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7063 Nesters Road

$2,788,000

LOCATION....LOCATION. Conveniently located between Nesters Plaza and Whistler Village with the Valley Trail and public transit at your doorstep. Enjoy the peaceful setting from the covered deck or relax by the wood-burning fireplace in the spacious living room with a vaulted ceiling. Recently updated with new kitchen and bathroom granite counters plus new flooring.

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$95,000

Adjacent to the Fairmont Chateau golf course, this rarely available, 1/10th interest in an immaculate 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhome boasts a spacious open layout , heated slate floors in bathroom. A cozy wood burning fireplace, large master bedroom with sitting area, and plenty of secure parking are among the many amenities.

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9297 Stellers Way

$1,850,000

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