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LEST WE FORGET

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36 Facing future wildfires Conflicting visions in central Idaho force tough decisions over logging and prescribed burning. - By Carl Segerstrom / High Country News

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST The NHL needs to do a much better job of keeping its players safe from harm and helping them when they need it, writes Harrison Brooks.

74 MAXED OUT It’s time to delight in pleasures for the senses looking forward to swooshing downhill, and taking in the treats of Cornucopia 2021 until then.

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52 MUSEUM MUSINGS When people began to visit what is now Whistler in the 1940s it meant using several forms of transportation including steamship and train.

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To honour, listen and remember EVERY YEAR throughout Whistler, across B.C. and Canada people search their change purses (or this year tap their bankcards) to support the annual poppy campaign for Remembrance Day. This year, this powerful blood-red symbol deserves its own moment of silence as it marks its 100th anniversary.

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

It started as a way to recognize those who served in the First World War, but across the decades it has come to symbolize all those lost who we remember and honour, as well as those who returned, many of whom

and curator of the Canadian War Museum’s current exhibition, Forever Changed: Stories from the Second World War in the Globe and Mail recently.

“The poppy is pinned to our history, and for many Canadians it has always been a part of our lives.”

The First World War from 1914 to 1918 killed more than nine million soldiers in battle, and wounded more than 21 million.

The loss is almost unimaginable. Canada lost some 66,000 Canadians to the war and another 172,000 suffered physical wounds.

Nearly everyone knows of the famous poem “In Flanders Fields,” by Canadian battlefield surgeon John McCrae, and that it is the inspiration of the poppy campaign run today by the Royal Canadian Legion.

According to Cook, the rise of the poppy as a symbol was not without controversy, as

“The poppy connects us to history as we bear witness to those who have fallen in service of this country, to those who returned from wars and missions wounded in body, mind and spirit, to those who demobilized or left the forces to contribute to their communities, and to those who continue to serve.”

- TIM COOK

suffer with injury and trauma forever.

“The poppy connects us to history as we bear witness to those who have fallen in service of this country, to those who returned from wars and missions wounded in body, mind and spirit, to those who demobilized or left the forces to contribute to their communities, and to those who continue to serve,” wrote Tim Cook, author of 12 books of Canadian military history

some regarded it as simply a weed or linked it to opium use. But in 1921, Cook explains, the Great War Veterans Association (GWVA), the largest of the many veterans’ groups to emerge in the Dominion after the war, adopted the poppy as a symbol of commemoration and it has been with us ever since.

Other countries also wear poppies as a symbol of remembrance, but their use is

deeply Canadian, growing as they did out of McCrae’s poem.

I usually get a poppy as early as I can.

For myself, and I imagine for countless millions, it is about more than just the day or the veterans and others lost, it’s a way to connect to my father who passed away some years ago at the age of 92. A Second World War pilot, he took his first solo flight Nov. 18, 1943 in a Fairchild Cornell—his logbook shows hours and hours of flying in half a dozen different types of planes including Corsairs and Tiger Moths. He was commended for his marksmanship. There were also two medals.

While he did not talk much about the war, his bittersweet memories of pranks played, a few too many drinks after a tough day and the loss of all but one of his five brothers to German pilot marksmanship stay with me, and I hope with my children too.

Lest we forget.

Canada, as a nation, has much to be proud of, though it was hard to feel that way this year as we came face to face with our own ability to be blind to the suffering of others, to be blind to the horrendous racism and cultural genocide that has marked our society for decades and blind to the ongoing systemic denials that permeate our government structures.

These are truths that my father would have been deeply ashamed of. He fought for a country that listened to its people, which honoured them and looked after them.

As I wear my poppy this year I will be thinking of Turtle Island and First Nations and the war they have been fighting right here, and I hope they will accept my pledge to honour their stories, to listen and believe and create change.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Keep it wild I am writing in support of protecting Mount Waddington, the Whitemantle Range and Homathko Icefield as a non-motorized area, preferably with the formation of a provincial or national park.

Mount Waddington is B.C.’s highest peak, with a long and storied mountaineering history. It deserves to remain wild for future generations, protected from motorized access.

Preserving this range also furthers Canada and B.C.’s goals to avert the climate crisis.

I stand in calling for this protection alongside B.C.’s mountaineering clubs and environmental organizations, including guidebook-author and ski-mountaineer John Baldwin.

As a life-long backcountry skier, mountaineer, and backpacker, born in B.C., and having spent some 25 years travelling in the backcountry, I fully support the call for protecting the Waddington zone, Whitemantle Range, and Homathko Icefield—not only for its environmental value, but as a historical site, home to much Indigenous knowledge and many settler adventure stories.

It is a part of who we all are, and deserves recognition as an ecosphere, kept wild in its full integrity, free from resource development and motorized incursions. tobias c. van Veen // Squamish

Whistler ‘niceness’ alive and well Nearing the end of a walk with my group up and around Lost Lake in mid-October I tripped

on a rock and flew/fell, landing very badly on my left (fortunately non-dominant) arm.

I was on the ground for 40 minutes, during which a number of passersby variously stayed with me, gave up their water to me, stripped off their jackets in an attempt to keep me warm, and generally supported me.

When the emergency teams came, it was the start of very professional and caring service.

They sat me up with the aid of “laughing gas,” got me into the ambulance and transported me to the Whistler Health Care Centre.

There I was carefully, and I would say as quickly as reasonable, diagnosed with a dislocated and fractured shoulder, and a [broken] wrist.

The doctors and nurses were excellent, and

Minister Adrian] Dix played on us when proclaiming skiing is an outdoor sport thus no risk exists to riding in gondolas? No need for a vaccine passport?

Whaaaaa??? Some crazed notion of what constitutes no risk to ski our beloved Whistler Blackcomb and keep our season from fear of early closure yet again?

Who determined that skiing and snowboarding falls into this nebulous category of an outdoor sport, harbouring zero risk, as if we are always, just like in the brochure, merrily schussing open fields of powder with no others in sight ... when the reality is far, far different?

We all want a full blissed out, powderstoked, complete season, for both our mental and physical well-being, and to line provincial, [federal] and municipal coffers with tourism dollars.

Twice in a row our fun, our playground, [has been] locked and barricaded for the season, leaving us like little children, noses pressed to the glass looking at the candy, but not able to touch it?

Has our community not [fulfilled] its full social responsibility to end this pandemic?

Please give us assurance that we will not be shut once again.

This season we will return to being packed like sardines on a gondola—no lift restrictions, the only way up Whistler Blackcomb’s mountains (save for one lonely lift that often doesn’t run to the top and is often closed...).

So, skiing is an outdoor sport? Hmm— me thinks our fearless leaders Henry and Dix have not had the pleasure of riding a

when I left three hours later I had my shoulder in a sling, my lower arm in a cast, and a referral to an orthopaedic surgeon at Lions Gate Hospital.

I feel the overall positive experience of an albeit very unfortunate event is greatly helping my healing process, and I wanted to say it has left me feeling that the “niceness” of Whistler is still alive and well today.

Margaret Condon // Halfmoon Bay

Vaccine passport a must to ski and ride on Whistler Blackcomb Did I, as a [physician], miss some internal joke that our venerated leaders [Public Health Officer] Dr. [Bonnie] Henry and [Health

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR packed gondola with shoulder-to-shoulder strangers, speaking “moistly,” breathing heavily, having shlepped skis/snowboards through a line up, for a 20- to 45-minute ride up the mountain.

Add to that the fallacy of mask-wearing— let’s get realistic here—shifting goggles, ski buffs, shaking off snow; that face mask, that thin piece of wet cloth, [is] a pretense of a barricade to spreading disease [as it] get[s] peeled down while said rider readjusts. Yep and yep...

Does anyone police the ride, ensuring masks are worn correctly for the entire duration? Nope.

Meanwhile, non-vaccinated strangers, some harbouring new variants from lands afar, breathe potentially COVID-19-laden breath directly onto those little tikes not yet able to be vaccinated, the legendary, aged gent over 80 years of age, the person at high risk of COVID-19 fall out.

Do you not get it?

Those healthy, glowing people may have life-threatening diseases kept at bay by immune suppressive drugs, or their loved ones do. No, contrary to your misguided concept... people that are battling diseases do not look necessarily look ill.

Nope, the magic of modern medicine is

they may look buffed, ripped and healthy—just like you!

That ski instructor has cancer, yep? That guy’s taking a drug for inflammatory bowel, yep, that woman has severe liver disease and may need an organ transplant, that man’s child has been in hospital for a month: yep. That tanned guy ripping turns you craned your head to watch going up the lift has MS he keeps at bay by a drug that makes his immune system crap?

Do they need the risk? Do they get assurance at least risk is mitigated by the fact everyone on the ride is vaccinated?

No, some cruel joke is being established that despite medical knowledge the virus is airborne, we are going to pretend we only all gather in vast pillows of powder far, far away from one another and have zero risk skiing.

I call this BS full and loudly.

As a card-carrying MD supporting every effort to get out of this medical nightmare, we need clear action, a public health order, Dr. Henry and Mr. Dix, and urgently.

Some say who cares, what’s the big deal?

This is.

People do not have a big C on their forehead identifying they or a loved one has the dreaded cancer in treatment ... or the big D on their forehead stating they have a disease, which makes them more vulnerable.

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Give your head a shake! Have you not attended a wake for a beloved friend who died of cancer, fundraised for someone who just became spinal cord injured? What happened to your care and compassion about being vaccinated, that you shrug your shoulder and proclaim it isn’t necessary to ski or snowboard—these are your people, ask them what they want, not insist it isn’t necessary.

As a doctor, we know what others don’t tell you, the secrets of your friends, your colleagues: I and the other local doctors do, even if you are oblivious to those right in your midst. For those, taking a risk to share a crowded gondola with the unvaxxed could be a death sentence.

Next time you shoot your mouth off: stop.

Think, and think with love and compassion.

Your friend or coworker just had a baby. The mom needs a mental-health break badly but worries [about riding] with those six guys, as they removed their “masks” on the ride up [and started] to cough. Is she taking it home to baby, are [the riders] vaccinated? Has she put her baby at risk when tomorrow she starts to cough ... should she have insisted they put up their masks when they pulled them off on the ride up, laughing, proclaiming it isn’t necessary and they just ain’t wearing them?

She sat there miserable, stressed because what was her alternative? A fistfight?

Instead, imagine a blissful, stoke-positive, complete season of fun to make up for the last two seasons that were cut short, rendering locals dismal and economically devastated.

What does that take? Yes, what?

This is not an outdoor sport folks when it comes to COVID-19 sharing air, unfortunately skiing with snow, rain, hail and gondola riding requires perfect strangers to be shoulder-to-shoulder, breath-to-breath on gondolas, not just in bathrooms and restaurants that are “policed.”

Bring the vaccine passport before we ruin another season.

Dr. Cathy Zeglinski, MD CCFP Dip SEM

Ski instructor asks WB leadership for vaccine passport for gondolas (Editor’s note: This letter was written to Whistler Blackcomb COO Geoff Buchheister and shared with Pique.)

I am the longest length-of-service ski instructor at Whistler Blackcomb. I hope to work full time to complete my 45th year, but I do not feel safe.

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Last year I was proud of all Vail Resorts had done to make skiing as safe as possible dealing with COVID-19. The year before I appreciated all that was done to make us as safe as possible dealing with huge Christmas crowds and little terrain. This year I am embarrassed and ashamed by us operating without a mountain-wide vaccine policy for all adults and children over 12.

This year we are not making skiing as safe as possible.

In the [Vail Resorts] town hall we were told that there was a 0.1 per cent risk of getting COVID-19 from unvaccinated skiers. But I think that statistic only applies to teaching one student. Assuming normal crowds return, I can ride full gondolas for up to two hours a day in contact with hundreds of guests.

I just read some B.C. government statistics that unvaccinated [people] are 10 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19. If I come in contact with 200 people a day, five days a week for 16 weeks, that is 16,000 chances of getting COVID-19. If 10 per cent were unvaccinated adults or kids over 12… that is 1,600 contacts. Those 1,600 contacts are 10 times more likely to be infected with COVID-19.

I fear like last year the unvaccinated will take their masks off once inside the gondola and not wear them in the lift lines or washrooms.

I am a fit, 71-year-old and getting my third vaccination. Plus, I exercise every day. I do have a historical hereditary mucus build-up in my throat, which would mean COVID-19 could hit me hard. I read a release from the B.C. government that [of the] 46 per cent of those who die from COVID-19 that are vaccinated, most are seniors.

I have concluded Vail Resorts has not made my work environment as safe as possible. I know many other instructors and staff have the same view but are probably unwilling to write [about it].

Except for Whistler Blackcomb, all ski areas in B.C, and Canada with gondolas, except the parking-lot, four-seater at Big White, require a vaccine passport. From what I read, all ski resorts in Austria and Italy require vaccine passports. France and Germany are likely to go that way.

Why wait for the government to act? Why not be the industry leader and make the change before the season starts?

I am prepared to take risks while skiing and teaching, but I try to minimize the risks as much as possible.

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Hockey culture once again falls short in wake of Blackhawks investigation EARLY IN OCTOBER, days before the hockey season officially began, Vegas Golden Knights star goaltender Robin Lehner called out the NHL on the treatment of Jack Eichel by the Buffalo Sabres.

Eichel had missed much of the previous season with a neck injury that required surgery, but things were put on

BY HARRISON BROOKS hold by the organization when there was a disagreement between player and team on what the best surgery would be, Eichel wanting artificial disk replacement and the Sabres wanting a disk fusion surgery.

This situation led to Lehner voicing his concerns about how players are treated in the NHL, saying in a tweet, “Better to have pain the rest of their lives … At least they will supply the pain meds … same old [sh**].”

Over the coming days, Lehner’s tweets recounted how his own injuries have been mishandled by the organizations he’s played for, which includes how the constant pushing of pain medications like benzodiazepines and sleeping pills like Ambien led to his own mental health struggles that took years for him to recover from.

This article was originally going to be about how the NHL needs more players like Robin Lehner who speak out and stand up for making the NHL better instead of succumbing to the status quo.

Then the Blackhawks investigation was released, and Kyle Beach came forward and announced that he was the “John Doe” in the Jenner & Block investigation, and once again, and even more so, hockey culture and how organizations mistreat their employees came under fire.

In his time with the team in 2010, Beach was allegedly sexually assaulted by the Blackhawks video coach Brad Aldrich, who forced Beach to allow him to perform sexual acts on the 20-year-old hockey player under threat of physical violence with a baseball bat and the threat of ruining Beach’s career, stating, “If you don’t lay down and act like you enjoy it, I’ll make sure you never play in the NHL or walk again.”

After the encounter, Beach reported it to multiple people within the organization who assured him that they would take care of it. They brought up the incident to the Blackhawks management team that included General Manager Stan Bowman, assistant general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff, head coach Joel Quenneville, president of hockey operations John McDonough and senior vice president of hockey operations Al MacIsaac.

In a perfect world, that would have been that, Aldrich would have been fired and charged, and maybe Beach would have been able to start the healing process 11 years ago.

But we don’t live in a perfect world. That never happened, and instead the Blackhawks management team decided to sweep it under the rug and wait until the playoffs were over to address it so they wouldn’t “disrupt team chemistry,” as they were on the verge of their first Stanley Cup in 49 years.

A couple days after the playoffs ended, the Blackhawks management team reported the incident to the head of Human Resources. She then scheduled a meeting with Aldrich and presented him with two options: either the Blackhawks would do a formal investigation into the allegations or Aldrich could resign.

He chose the latter, got paid $20,000 in severance, a $15,000 playoff bonus, got his name on the Stanley Cup and even got to have the Cup for a day in his hometown.

Meanwhile, Beach was left to deal with his traumatic experience essentially on his own.

Aldrich went on to work for USA Hockey, multiple universities and a high school where he was arrested in 2013 for criminal sexual conduct involving a minor.

The Blackhawks had proof one of their employees was a predator and they paid

him to leave the organization instead of holding him accountable for his actions all because they didn’t want to mess with team chemistry during a playoff run. Pathetic.

In the wake of this investigation being released, Bowman and Quenneville were relieved of their duties as GM of the Blackhawks and head coach of the Florida Panthers, respectively, and Aldrich’s name was crossed off of the Stanley Cup. But that’s not good enough.

The league’s top executives like Commissioner Gary Bettman and head of the players association Donald Fehr also need to be on the chopping block for how the situation was handled.

And while members of the 2010 Blackhawks team like Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane were still denying they knew anything of the incident at the time while defending Bowman, a few players reached out to Beach to show their support.

One of whom was Robin Lehner, who personally called Beach and had what Beach described in a tweet as a “deep emotional conversation” that “gave me the strength to speak my truth!”

So maybe this is still an article about how the NHL needs more players like Lehner who aren’t afraid to speak out against hockey culture, the NHL, and its outdated and dangerous ways of handling player safety. ■

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Dix, Henry discuss vaccine proof for gondolas after call with mayor IT’S IMPORTANT FOR VAIL RESORTS ‘TO RESPOND TO THE WISHES OF THE COMMUNITY,’ SAYS B.C. HEALTH MINISTER

BY MEGAN LALONDE WHISTLER’S MAYOR is bringing an ongoing community debate to the province’s attention.

During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 9, B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix told reporters he received a call earlier in the day from Mayor Jack Crompton to discuss whether proof of COVID-19 vaccine should be required to ride gondolas this winter.

“We spent some time talking about this issue. He’s advocating, obviously, forcefully for his community,” said Dix, “and I think it’s also important for the employer in that case to respond to the wishes of the community as well, and we’re hopeful they’ll do so. I know other ski hills across B.C. have done that.”

Currently, provincial health officials have chosen not to extend the BC Vaccine Card program—which requires people aged 12 and over to show proof they’ve received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in order to access some non-essential events, services and businesses—to ski lifts. Some ski resort operators have taken matters into their own hands and announced vaccine mandates for guests this winter, including Resorts of

STRONG STATEMENTS With two weeks to go until opening day, Whistler Blackcomb guests won’t need to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to board a lift this winter.

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the Canadian Rockies, Revelstoke Mountain Resort, and Grouse Mountain.

With Vail Resorts-owned Whistler Blackcomb planning to once again load its lifts at full capacity when opening day rolls around on Nov. 25, the resort’s intent to allow all visitors aboard lifts—regardless of vaccination status—has prompted a litany of passionate responses from skiers and snowboarders on both sides of the debate.

Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) public health officials have reviewed and endorsed Whistler Blackcomb’s communicable disease prevention plan for the winter season.

In response to Dix’s comments, a spokesperson for Whistler Blackcomb told Pique in an email that the health and safety of the resort’s guests and employees remains its top priority.

“We cannot speak for other resorts and their policies. We trust that all businesses are doing their best to weigh changing circumstances and the evolving nature of the pandemic,” the statement read. “We have and continue to work closely with public officials and operate in accordance with all local public health orders. We are requiring vaccinations for guests who wish to dine at all table service restaurants, restaurant patios and bars, as well as quick service restaurants. Whistler Blackcomb was also one of the first in the industry to require all employees to be fully vaccinated.”

Guests looking for Whistler Blackcomb’s safety plan this winter can find it at whistlerblackcomb.com/explore-the-resort/ about-the-resort/winter-experience.aspx.

Crompton reached out to Dix Tuesday

to better understand health officials’ decision-making process around gondolas, “and to help them understand what I’m hearing from community members and Whistler Blackcomb passholders,” the mayor explained.

Asked whether he agrees with Dix’s claims that the Mayor is “advocating very strongly and certainly directly to [B.C. health officials] as well on this question,” Crompton said, “The context is that I’m helping him understand our context in Whistler. That is a fundamental role of any mayor around the province. He needs to understand our context and I’m the person to help him do that.”

Crompton said he’s been hearing from “a significant amount of people” who would like to see a vaccine card required at Whistler Blackcomb, while admitting “there’s a lot of different opinions” on the issue.

(As of Tuesday evening, more than 10,000 people had signed an online petition calling on the local resort to implement a vaccine mandate for skiers and riders.)

So, on which side of the ongoing debate does Crompton fall? In lieu of a straight answer, Crompton reiterated his confidence in B.C.’s provincial health officials. “It’s pretty easy for me to provide an opinion from the sidelines, but throughout the pandemic, my intention has been to trust in the expertise of public health officials,” he said.

Additional insight into the province’s decision-making can be found in data shared

by Whistler’s Medical Health Officer, showing ski-hill operations posed an extremely low risk for COVID-19 transmission during

the 2020-21 season. The health agency reportedly identified 2,036 cases of COVID19 in Whistler from mid-October 2020 until mid-May 2021, most of which had known sources of transmission, such as between roommates in household settings or among friends at social gatherings.

While 90 per cent of Howe Sound health area residents aged 12 or older are now double-vaccinated, the majority of visitors travelling to Whistler this winter are likely to be vaccinated as well: proof of vaccination is not only necessary to enter Canada from abroad, but is now required to use federally regulated methods of travel like planes and trains.

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry echoed much of that reasoning during Tuesday’s media briefing.

Asked by a reporter whether British Columbians could expect to see any changes in guidance around whether the vaccine card may be used at ski hills this winter, Henry highlighted the “robust” safety plans and numerous layers of protection that already exist across the industry.

“We have been working with local public health, so my colleagues in each of the areas where we have ski hills, have been reviewing the safety plans with each individual ski hill, and there’s a couple of things that all of them must adhere to, regardless of where their headquarters are,” she said. “We have an indoor mask mandate, and gondolas are—like public transit, for example—an area where mask wearing is required, absolutely, and that is the same across the board.” n

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS EMPLOYEES AT the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) were informed recently that the municipality is “in the process of assessing the need” for a mandatory COVID19 vaccine policy for all staff members, though a decision hasn’t been made yet.

“There are currently measures in place to prevent communicable disease spread in the workplace and in our public buildings that are mandated by a Communicable Disease Plan, which we are legally required

by WorkSafe BC to have in place and follow,” an RMOW spokesperson said in an email.

The RMOW has not asked for or surveyed its 518 employees in regards to their vaccination status, the spokesperson said.

A decision is expected in the coming weeks.

Other B.C. municipalities have mandated COVID-19 vaccinations for employees since the provincial government enacted its BC Vaccine Card last month, including Vancouver, Surrey, Creston, and the Capital Regional District.

According to CBC News, the BC Human Rights Tribunal (BCHRT) said it had received 585 complaints related to provincial mask and vaccine mandates as

consideration is given to the human rights of everyone involved.”

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COS, RMOW WORKING ON BEAR ENCOUNTERS Bear encounters at Whistler’s Riverside Resort were a hot topic at a recent meeting of the Whistler Bear Advisory Committee (WBAC), leading to a short discussion at the Nov. 2 council meeting.

Bear encounters at the campground were the “primary issue in Whistler” in mid-August, said Conservation Officer Service (COS) Sgt. Simon Gravel, according to minutes from the Aug. 11 WBAC meeting.

RMOW staff attended the site with COS “when things were happening in the late summer, and looking at a variety of options down there,” said environmental stewardship manager Heather Beresford at the Nov. 2 council meeting.

“There’s been a lot of information sharing and education done on the sites, but we are also considering some modifications to the vegetation down there and just the general tent site layout,” Beresford said, adding that the site presents challenges for the COS. ”It’s just solid bushes, and so the bears

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B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner issued a policy guidance document about vaccine mandates in July (and updated it on Oct. 14), stating that its position on the provincial vaccine card program is that it “is justified from a human rights perspective and will result in increased protection for those among us who are most vulnerable to the virus.”

Ultimately, the commissioner’s position is that vaccination status policies can be implemented “in limited circumstances— but only if other less intrusive means of preventing COVID-19 transmission are inadequate for the setting, and if due

can move through there without being seen—they just kind of pop out—so we’re working on that over the winter,” she said.

The campground’s management has been “really supportive,” Beresford added.

“They want to make this work … They’ve been very progressive on a lot of things, they’re very cooperative, but some of the site layout is just really problematic,” she said.

“So I think that by the time next season rolls around, we’re going to have pieces in place and a plan to try to reduce the number of issues that are in there.”

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SD48 appoints new superintendent of schools CHRISTOPHER NICHOLSON TOOK OVER AS SEA TO SKY SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT ON NOV. 1

BY MEGAN LALONDE LONG-TIME SEA TO SKY school district (SD48) assistant superintendent Christopher Nicholson officially took over as superintendent of schools on Monday, Nov. 1, after his predecessor, Lisa McCullough, left for a job with B.C.’s Ministry of Education earlier this year.

Nicholson said he is “humbled and thrilled” by the appointment.

“Working together through COVID, our staff, our students, our families, our partner groups have just been incredible,” he added. “It really gives me great pride in being a part of this district and now having the opportunity to lead.”

Born and raised in the Lower Mainland, Nicholson has worked in public education since beginning his career as a junior high English teacher in Richmond around 27 years ago. “I’m one of those fellows who’s wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember,” he explained. “And I say that due to some very special teachers that I had when I was a student in elementary and high school.”

He quickly transitioned into a full-time learning support teacher (prior to teaching, Nicholson worked with at-risk youth and

adults with cognitive challenges in group homes), before eventually moving into district administration in New Westminster.

There, Nicholson served as the district viceprincipal of student support services and director of learning services, where he was tasked with overseeing inclusive education.

“It really gives me great pride in being a part of this district...”

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Since joining SD48 as assistant superintendent three-and-a-half years ago, Nicholson has been instrumental in refreshing the district’s education plan and Pathways to Learning, while also heading up SD48’s technology initiatives. To that end, he’s responsible for bringing Google’s learning platform to Sea to Sky students and procuring Chromebooks “as a cost-effective

way to ensure that almost every student would have access to a device,” he explained.

“And my goodness, did that ever come in handy [in 2020],” Nicholson added.

That abundance of experience will serve Nicholson well in his new role, as he looks to continue building relationships with school district stakeholders and supporting SD48’s current strategic plan.

“We’re in year three of our six-year plan, so we need to stay the course,” he said. “It’s a fantastic plan, it’s focused on those enduring understandings of ‘inclusion is a right, diversity is a strength and personalization is the way,’ that are really ringing true now more than ever during COVID.” Nicholson also underscored his and the district’s continued commitment to truth and reconciliation, which remains a major part of that plan. The district will soon hear the results of an equity scan investigating how the district is supporting Indigenous learners that, he said, will ideally provide SD48 with valuable data on which to base a “roadmap” moving forward.

While SD48 does boast relatively high graduation rates, particularly when it comes to students with Indigenous ancestry or particular vulnerabilities, Nicholson said the district is currently focused on improving opportunities for all of its

students following graduation. “Our kids of Indigenous ancestry, especially, continue to be overrepresented in courses that may limit life chances,” he explained. “So just increasing those chances for everyone, with a focus on Indigenous learners, is the key.”

Other initiatives currently underway at the district include the development of specific anti-racism and anti-ableism policies, as well as “maintaining the public confidence that schools are safe places for kids,” Nicholson said.

Another priority that’s now landed on Nicholson’s desk? The push for a new public middle school in Whistler that began several years ago.

With student enrolment in the resort projected to climb in the years ahead, Nicholson said SD48 will maintain pressure on B.C.’s Ministry of Education to consider creating an additional local school.

“It will continue to be part of our school district’s top three priorities,” he said, admitting that seismic upgrades and an expansion of Howe Sound Secondary School in Squamish currently take precedent.

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RMOW closing in on 1,000-bed target PRIVATE DEVELOPER PROPOSALS EXPECTED SOON; COUNCIL HEARS PRESENTATION ON UPDATED HOUSING AGREEMENTS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A LITTLE MORE than four years after it set a target of adding 1,000 new residentrestricted beds in five years, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is closing in on its goal.

There are six active affordable employee housing projects in various stages of development at municipal hall, representing a potential 633 new bed units, said director of planning Mike Kirkegaard in a presentation to Whistler’s Committee of the Whole on Nov. 2.

“In addition to 386 employee beds that have already been constructed in that timeframe, we have the potential to achieve that target of 1,000 additional employee beds,” Kirkegaard said. “There’s been a tremendous amount of time and energy and resources put into these projects by the community—by staff and council and applicants—and I think a number of them are on the cusp of coming forward to council.”

The projects include: 2077 Garibaldi Way (14 employee townhouses and six market townhouses for ownership); 7104 Nancy Greene Drive (about 38 apartment units for rental); 4802-4814 Glacier Lane (66

two-bedroom dorm units for rental); 5298 Alta Lake Road (21 employee townhouses, 11 market tourist accommodation townhouses and 11 market residential townhouses for ownership); and 2028 Rob Boyd Way (13 employee one-bedroom dorm-style units for rental). There’s also the RMOW and Whistler 2020 Development Corporation’s 100 apartment units under construction in Cheakamus Crossing.

The 1,000-bed target arose from the Mayor’s Task Force on Resident Housing, launched by former Mayor Nancy WilhelmMorden in October 2016.

“We’re feeling cautiously optimistic that we’re making good progress,” said general manager of resort experience Jessie Gresley-Jones. “We’re definitely not going to say the job is in hand, and we can step back and relax, but I think we are getting to a point that we’re seeing positive uptake in the private employee housing initiatives, and we’re starting to really work towards that 1,000 bed units.”

Another recommendation of the task force was to tighten up eligibility requirements at the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA), which the RMOW did via an updated Employee Housing Council Policy adopted in July 2019.

The new policy defined eligibility and

qualification requirements for accessing the WHA’s rental inventory, including defining an eligible employee as one who works a minimum of 30 hours per week in the resort (up from 20 hours/week), tightening the definitions around what constitutes a Whistler business, and requiring applicants to report their financial situation, including income and net assets, prior to offer of a tenancy agreement.

With the new housing projects coming online in the coming years, the RMOW is seeking to update its template for housing agreements related to all new projects, Kirkegaard said, adding that the goal is to have a standard approach that provides both certainty for owners and flexibility to evolving policies. As such, the 2019 changes brought in for rental units will now apply to ownership as well.

“Nothing is changing in that regard on the rental side. It’s been working for the last two years, but on the ownership side we’re looking to just align the two programs,” said WHA general manager Marla Zucht, adding that the WHA and RMOW have been in regular consultation with the community to determine what works and what doesn’t.

“We’ve had the benefit of having a lot of input from bringing on the WHA’s four new recent purpose-built rental projects,

so we’ve been going through income and asset verifications for approximately 150 employee waitlist applications,” Zucht said.

“Whenever those units turn over, we are testing the eligibility again for the tenants, and we’ve also started creating some focus groups ... to get their input and feedback into some of these changes.”

Looking ahead, the WHA and RMOW may look to make some “small tweaks” to the policies around income and asset eligibility, “but that may not get picked up for another year or so, it just depends on how long that engagement process takes place,” she added.

The WHA’s purchase waitlist has about 850 names on it, while the rental waitlist sits at 350 (down significantly from the 1,200-plus on the list last February).

Anyone with questions about their eligibility can contact the WHA or find more info at whistlerhousing.ca.

The WHA doesn’t yet have information about when the new purchase product will be made available to the waitlist, but “we’re all excited about it … it’s great news for the community,” Zucht said. “We’ve brought on a lot of new rental inventory in the last four or five years, and it’s exciting now ... that new ownership housing on the horizon.” n

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Whistler’s FireSmart program kept ‘kicking butt’ in 2021, but the work is far from done UPDATED COMMUNITY PROTECTION PLAN, MONITORING PROGRAM IN THE WORKS

BY BRADEN DUPUIS SEVERAL WEEKS of rain will serve the forests surrounding Whistler well after an unspeakably dry summer, but work on wildfire prevention and mitigation is never far from mind at municipal hall.

“There’s a lot of awareness about the potential, but there’s not a lot of understanding. So that’s our responsibility,” said FireSmart coordinator Scott Rogers in a presentation to council on Nov. 2.

“It’s hard to not understand that wildfire is the threat when you see the news, and Lytton burns down, and we hit 40 degrees here in Whistler, and the forest is bone dry in April.”

On a scale of one to 10, awareness of the threat of wildfire in Whistler—which is classified as “wildfire risk class one,” with about $19 billion in assets at risk—is “probably a seven, and that’s a fairly good place to be,” Rogers said.

“People are aware and people are active, which is encouraging. So we just need to continue to advance that and

While the uptake and focus on the forest is encouraging, “it’s very important that we understand we need to start looking at the buildings, and the storage and material around the buildings,” he added. “And we’re seeing people are learning and people are starting to enact change, so it’s very positive.”

On a broader scale, the RMOW completed three fuel-thinning projects and part of a fourth in 2021, including 115 hectares along Cheakamus Lake Road, which is “a key fuel break for the southern boundary of our community,” said environmental stewardship manager Heather Beresford.

The other fuel-thinning projects were completed on Nesters Hill and near Whistler Secondary School, while a project near Taluswood is about half complete, and will be finished in the spring.

Looking further ahead, “we are working on updating the 2011 Community Wildfire Protection Plan, and we have a draft ready for the Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan, which is the new template that the province has announced,” Beresford said, adding that the RMOW’s Forest and Wildland Advisory Committee would review the draft on Nov. 10.

The RMOW is also developing a

support it. We’re making gains. Every year we’re better than we were the year before because of our focus and our activity. So we’re in a good place.”

That said, “we need to do more,” Rogers added.

Whistler’s FireSmart program undertook some new activity this year, working closely with FireSmart BC to deliver workshops and training to other programs throughout the province, Rogers said.

Though COVID-19 meant a few neighbourhood working days had to be rescheduled to next year, Whistler’s FireSmart program still managed to complete work days (removing vegetative hazards on private property) with 24 groups, which Rogers called “an excellent standard” for the RMOW to maintain.

“In the past five years we’ve done over 100 of these. We’re kicking butt, quite honestly,” he said. “Most jurisdictions are doing one or two, they may do five or six. So for us to do 24 is important to recognize.”

The program also serviced more than 240 properties with its community chipper days this year, and more than 800 in the last three years, Rogers said.

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monitoring plan in response to concerns from some in the community over fuel thinning, Beresford said.

“This will help us understand what is happening when we do these thinning projects—what is the efficacy of these projects? How much does it reduce the wildfire behaviour?” she said.

“And then we could be adding that information to the body of literature for others to understand how these projects are assisting in reducing the wildfire behaviour and mitigating the effects.”

Council also endorsed a grant application worth $150,000 to the Union of BC Municipalities’ Community Resiliency Investment Program to help pay for ongoing wildfire mitigation efforts in 2022 at the Nov. 2 meeting.

If successful, the money will pay for FireSmart coordinators and operations such as chipper days, home and property assessments, education initiatives and more.

Whistler’s total annual FireSmart program budget is $525,000, $144,000 of which is covered by the provincial Resort Municipality Initiative program.

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Sea to Sky firm wins Architecture Foundation of BC award STARK ARCHITECTURE TAKES HOME EMERGING FIRM AWARD

BY BRANDON BARRETT IF YOU’RE AN architect looking to design high-performance, luxury homes, you could do a lot worse than Whistler and the Sea to Sky. Between deep-pocketed clients, an emphasis on modern, sustainable design, and contractors with the skill to make it happen, it’s the kind of place where innovation is encouraged.

“The Whistler and Sea to Sky area has really allowed us to drive our design forward,” said David Arnott, founder and principal of Squamish-based Stark Architecture, which just took home the 2021 Emerging Firm Award handed out by the Architecture Foundation of BC. “It’s quite an accomplishment,” he added. “The firm has to be under six years old to win it, so it’s relatively hard to get a body of work together in that amount of time. They didn’t award it last year, so we were pretty fortunate to win it this year.”

With just under three years in the corridor, the firm has already made its mark, with a number of cutting-edge projects in Whistler to its name, including a reclad on Drifter Way that used the bones of an old A-frame for a contemporary, spacious redesign, a 6,000-square-foot house on Snow Valley Place that includes a ski-on roof, as well as half a dozen new homes in WedgeWoods.

In Revelstoke, the firm’s Tantrum commercial building earned a citation award at the 2020 Passive House Institute US Projects Competition, and was certified as the first Passive House office commercial building in North America.

The firm leans heavily into the energy-efficient design that B.C. and its new building code is leading the way on nationally, without sacrificing the livability and mountain aesthetic that this region is known for.

“We at Stark are certainly very designfocused, and then we bake in and integrate all that high-performance,” Arnott said. “We

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do a lot of our builds with pre-fabricated components or cross-laminated timber, that sort of thing. There is really no reason why a high-performance building can’t be architecturally interesting.”

With fewer and fewer A-frames dotting the valley, there are some who lament the loss of a particular era of mountain design, but Arnott believes there is a healthy middle ground that can be achieved between the past and future.

“With the introduction of crosslaminated timber, there’s a huge opportunity to do a modern take on the log home, so it’s very well-suited to that,”

he said, highlighting a Passive ski cabin made mostly from heavy timber the firm designed in Revelstoke that mimics the A-frame form while maintaining its energyefficient components.

The annual AFBC Architectural Awards of Excellence were held Nov. 3 at a ceremony in North Vancouver. A jury selected the winners from more than 106 submissions based on criteria including theory and design principles, budget and time constraints, and sustainability principles.

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Whistler council hears update on climate initiatives RMOW TEAMS UP FOR HEAT PUMP PILOT PROJECT

BY BRADEN DUPUIS EDGAR DEARDEN of local sustainable building company GNAR Inc. hit a milestone recently.

“I can report that as of today I have finally done it; I have been fired from a project for trying to encourage that homeowner to not use fossil gas in their project, “ Dearden said during the Q&A portion of the Nov. 2 council meeting.

“So I now have a concrete example of the struggles I’m having in trying to follow the [Resort Municipality of Whistler’s Big Moves Strategy] in my business.”

Dearden has been outspoken about the need for urgency on climate change as of late, urging council to do more to curb the use of fossil gas in Whistler homes and move faster to hit its stated emissions reduction targets.

He wasn’t alone in his efforts at the Nov. 2 meeting, as Brendan Ladner of local

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climate advocacy group SmartWhistler was also on hand to ask questions.

“As we’re approaching the budget for this year, I’m wondering what kind of climate accounting will be included in the project summaries that we can expect to see this year,” Ladner asked.

The full process isn’t worked out yet, but “we are looking at how everything we do connects back with the Big Moves Strategy, so you’ll start to see evidence of different internal methods and procedures coming out of that, aligning with that more,” said chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen.

“So I would say stay tuned,” she said.

Whistlerites will get their first look at the 2022 budget at an information session at the Maury Young Arts Centre on Thursday, Nov. 18.

“There is no doubt that we are in the middle of a climate emergency; the urgency has never been higher and we must be aggressive,” said Mayor Jack Crompton at the Nov. 2 council meeting. “I’m grateful to have a community that is pushing us in this

EMISSIONS MISSION Whistler’s mayor and council watch a presentation on climate action at the Nov. 2 council meeting.

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direction, and pushing us hard, and we are lucky to have professional staff who share the urgency and who do such good work.”

CECAP UPDATE Whistler’s climate-change-heavy council agenda on Nov. 2—with four out of five reports to council focused on environmental initiatives—was timely given the ongoing COP26 climate conference in Glasgow,

Scotland, and there are several initiatives underway at municipal hall, said climate action coordinator Luisa Burhenne.

Work is taking place to consolidate Whistler’s Community Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP) and Climate Action Big Moves Strategy into one comprehensive plan, with an eye to presenting it next spring and adopting it by the summer.

The consolidated document will allow for clearer reporting towards key

NEWS WHISTLER performance indicators, “rather than going through an expansive list of 140 actions and deciphering when we did progress or not,” Burhene said.

Further to Ladner’s question, Burhenne said the RMOW is also working on a GHG impact tool that will allow for potential GHG emissions to be considered at the outset of each municipal project.

“How can we know how a project is aligned with our climate targets, and which of our projects brings us away from our climate targets?” she said.

“So we are working with consultants on that.”

Given the fact that passenger vehicles and natural gas use make up the bulk of emissions locally (at 40 and 39 per cent, respectively), several initiatives are underway on both fronts.

An E-mobility strategy in development in collaboration with the Community Energy Association aims to help residents, commuters, visitors and businesses shift to electric vehicles, while the municipality is also planning an assessment of its own vehicle fleet to find the best path to electrification.

On buildings, the RMOW is updating its green building policy, Burhenne said, adding that a stakeholder workshop is scheduled for Nov. 24 to gather feedback.

There’s also the Zero Waste Action Plan (endorsed by council on Aug. 17); ongoing work on wildfire mitigation, including an updated community protection and monitoring plan; a priority habitat management strategy; and an energy study of the Meadow Park Sports Centre, to name just a few of the RMOW’s current environmental initiatives.

In total, there are 86 CECAP initiatives currently underway, and eight completed, Burhenne said.

PILOT PROJECT PUSHES ELECTRIC HEAT PUMPS Council also heard a presentation on a new pilot project—launched in partnership with the District of Squamish, City of New Westminster and the Community Energy Association—at the Nov. 2 meeting.

The project aims to make it easy for homeowners to switch to electric heat pumps, which could reduce a home’s greenhouse gas emissions by about 72 per cent on average, Burhenne said.

The RMOW has seen little success with its current incentive and rebate programs, the main barriers being a lack of industry capacity and the complexity of the incentives themselves.

With that in mind, the Pump Up Savings in Heat (PUSH) pilot program, as it’s being called, hopes to change that by helping identify verified heat pump technologies and qualified installers, as well as streamline access to incentives and financing.

The program aims to support fuel switching to electric pumps in 20 Whistler homes next year (as well as 40 each in Squamish and New Westminster), before scaling up in 2023.

With 1,033 homes in Whistler currently using fossil-gas heating systems, and a target of switching 61 to electric heat pumps

every year, the RMOW sees the PUSH program as a “viable pathway” to achieving its emissions reduction targets for existing buildings (20 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030).

But the program has its work cut out for it, pointed out Councillor Duane Jackson.

“A heat pump will do a lot, assuming they have enough electric power … but what’s the solution for domestic hot water?” he asked.

“Because if you have to add an electric hot water tank, that’s an additional cost.”

The PUSH program is only for heat pumps used for space heating, but “this is just a pilot, and the idea is that it can be expanded in scope in the future to include many other retrofits,” said Alison Jenkins of the Community Energy Association.

But for someone to completely remove their gas supply, the program needs to solve both, Jackson pointed out, adding that heat pumps are also “hard to get” at the moment, not to mention the technical expertise needed to install them.

“All of that said I think this is great, and I hope you get people that you can learn from and share that information,” he said.

“I think Mr. Dearden has probably got a whole bunch of people that you can probably use as a test case.”

SMALL STEPS CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS TRANSIT, CHRISTMAS SHOPPING Complementing the RMOW’s climate initiatives is the ongoing Small Steps for Big Moves campaign, launched in September with the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment, which aims to motivate Whistlerites to do their part to support the RMOW’s Climate Action Big Moves Strategy.

The Small Steps campaign highlights a different area of focus each month, with November’s call to action encouraging Whistlerites to use public transit wherever possible.

And with Christmas shopping season upon us, December’s theme encourages the community to “green our gifting” by focusing on local products and experiences.

Further to Dearden’s message about moving away from natural gas, Crompton noted the campaign will focus on heat and energy sources in a future month.

“We have a year left in this term to move the Big Moves and CECAP harder, faster than we ever have before,” said Coun.

Arthur De Jong, a longtime advocate for sustainability and overseer of council’s environment portfolio.

“I know certainly natural gas use is an Achilles heel of that, but this council is very committed.”

While Whistler becoming sustainable might be like “taking a teaspoon to the Titanic,” it can still make a difference, De Jong said.

“If we can set the bar for global tourism, global tourism is roughly 10 per cent of the economy, and that’s very powerful for us to inspire 10 per cent,” he said. “So I appreciate everyone here this evening, and staff’s deep efforts.”

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Unmarked Grave Program aims to give all deceased veterans a proper resting place A SURPRISING NUMBER OF VETERANS ARE BURIED IN UNMARKED GRAVES. THIS PROGRAM AIMS TO CHANGE THAT

BY ANDY PREST GLENN SMITH has spent a lot of time in cemeteries recently, which has helped him pick up a very unique skill.

Walking among the headstones and grave markers, Smith has developed an uncanny ability to spot unmarked graves, places where bodies rest without any official marking above. When most people think of unmarked graves, they may envision some hasty monument associated with a sudden death in a crisis situation—a staple of war movies or old westerns—or perhaps a quiet pasture where a family buried the ashes of a loved one under an old oak tree. But unmarked graves are actually not all that uncommon

in official cemeteries, said Smith, an Abbotsford resident. You just have to know what to look for.

His line of work with Canada’s Last Post Fund often has him visiting the veterans sections of cemeteries around the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley— nearly every cemetery has a section like that, he said—and it’s there where his skill kicks in.

“If you go into these veterans sections, you can be walking along a row of graves that have markers, and then all of a sudden there might be a spot where there isn’t a grave marker. A void space,” he said. “That gives me a bit of a red flag, and I’ll go and talk to the cemetery operator and say, ‘There’s a void space there, can you tell me if there is an individual resting there?’ They can look at their records and

UNMARKED GRAVES Glenn Smith, the B.C. coordinator of the Last Post Fund’s Unmarked Grave Program, visits graves at North Vancouver Cemetery on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021.

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say, ‘You know what, there is. And this is the person’s name.’”

The name is the key to Smith’s work as the B.C. coordinator of the Last Post Fund’s Unmarked Grave Program. The goal of the program is to identify veterans who are buried in unmarked graves and to provide headstones for them free of charge. Once Smith has a name, he’ll get

to work.

“I’ll take that name home and do my research,” he said. He’ll search through various sources, such as military records stored by the Library and Archives of Canada, to see if the person is indeed a veteran. “If there is a veteran in that void space, I can apply and get a headstone.

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Those are the basics of Smith’s role with the Last Post Fund, a non-profit organization founded in 1909. The group’s origin story is a powerful one, from 1908, when an unconscious man was found on a Montreal street and taken to hospital where he was labelled a homeless drunk. But the hospital’s head orderly, a man named Arthur Hair, noted the man was carrying a distinct blue envelope, which Hair identified as the man’s honourable discharge from Britain’s war office. Trooper James Daly was suffering from hypothermia and malnutrition, not drunkenness, and died two days later. The blue envelope was his sole possession.

Daly’s body was unclaimed and his remains were to be turned over to science, but Hair, stunned by the indifference shown to a 20-year veteran who had served in South Africa, raised enough money from friends and colleagues to give Daly a dignified funeral and burial.

From that beginning came the Last Post Fund, which has helped provide financial assistance for nearly 150,000 servicemen and women since then.

Smith volunteered with the Last Post Fund earlier this year and quickly jumped into his role with the Unmarked Grave Program, which was added to the Last Post Fund’s list of services in 1996. He’s a veteran himself, having served as a military policeman for three years in the

mid-1980s. While some may think that looking for unmarked graves is a macabre job, Smith says it is important work that is rewarding for him.

“It’s a great volunteer role to be doing in my retirement time,” he said. And there’s much more to it than poking around cemeteries. Many cases come from family members contacting the

“There could be any number of situations where that individual died alone ... and they were just put in the ground in an unmarked grave.”

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Unmarked Grave Program to inquire about getting a military grave marker for a deceased relative. A number of veterans died decades ago, or even more than a century ago. There are many ways in which someone can end up in an unmarked grave, said Smith.

“There could be any number of situations where that individual died alone … and they were just put in the ground in an unmarked grave,” he said.

“It’s kind of a cold reality, but sometimes

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that’s how it happens. Or there’s times where family members just didn’t have the financial means to give that person a proper burial—at a funeral home or have a headstone made for them—and they just have them resting in an unmarked grave.”

Smith was giving a presentation at a Royal Canadian Legion branch in Nanaimo earlier this year and was approached by a

man after he finished speaking. The man said his grandfather died in 1938, was a First World War veteran, and was in an unmarked grave in Vancouver’s Mountain View Cemetery.

“Is there anything you can do?” the man asked.

Smith took down all the information, and “within a week I’d made an application to our Montreal office to have a headstone placed on this gentleman’s unmarked grave.” That headstone also

included information on the veteran’s wife, as she was buried beside him in another unmarked grave.

The headstones provided by the Last Post Fund can come in different styles, but the most common is a standard threefoot-high granite military headstone marked with the veteran’s name, regiment crest, where they served and date of death.

Typically, the words “lest we forget” are inscribed on the bottom of the gravestone.

The Unmarked Grave Program is on target to place more than 1,000 headstones across Canada this year. Anyone who knows of a deceased veteran who may qualify for the program, is encouraged to go to the program’s website for more information or contact Smith directly by email. There is also an Indigenous Veterans Initiative, introduced in 2019, that provides grave markers for deceased Indigenous veterans in unmarked graves and also adds traditional Indigenous names to existing military grave markers.

It’s all meaningful work, said Smith.

“Being a past military member myself many years ago, it’s important to recognize the contributions that these veterans provided for those of us in the rest of society that perhaps weren’t military people,” he said. “The veterans, they sacrificed an awful lot, as we all know, and I would just like to do what I can to recognize and pay tribute to those veterans who made my life a little bit better than it could have turned out to be.” n

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two years after the provincial government rejected a proposed funding model for regional transit in the Sea to Sky, stakeholders in the region are still seeking ways to get the project over the finish line.

On Nov. 4, MLA Jordan Sturdy introduced legislation to expand the Sea to Sky transit commission to officially include reps from the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations.

While it remains to be seen if the NDP government will table Sturdy’s private member’s bill, the MLA said it was one of two legislative hurdles that need to be cleared before regional transit can become a reality.

“The second one would be the authorization of a transit levy (or gas tax, which was part of the funding model rejected in 2019),” Sturdy said.

“I just wanted to raise the profile, I wanted to make the house aware of it,” he added.

“I wanted to make them aware that all of the participants want to go in this direction, so let’s get on with it—and if nothing else, tell us why you don’t want to get on with it.”

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weekly deadline, but after the annual Union of BC Municipalities Convention in September—at which local elected officials discussed regional transit with ministers—a spokesperson with the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said the province “is committed to working with partners to better integrate public transportation options, including along the Sea to Sky corridor.”

Communities in the Sea to Sky each have robust local transit systems, and “there are also private operators that offer service within this corridor, including the Squamish Connector, which provides commuter service to Vancouver,” they said.

“BC Transit is working with local

total costs of implementing regional transit in the Sea to Sky to be about $3.31 million.

The rejected funding model sent everyone back to the drawing board, “but everybody is quite keen on finding a solution, and it’s something that I really

“I just wanted to make them more aware that all of the participants want to go in this direction, so let’s go with it...”

- JORDAN STURDY

partners in the Sea to Sky communities to ensure that their existing local transit systems and levels of service remain viable.”

The funding model rejected by the province in 2019 was based on the current provincial/municipal cost-sharing formula for local transit: ridership fares, property tax and a motor fuel tax of 2.5 cents.

A study released in 2017 estimated the

think that all orders of government need to work together on,” said MP Patrick Weiler.

For its part, the federal government announced $14.9 billion in new funding for public transit projects last February, Weiler said. Though that money is meant more for urban or municipal projects rather than interregional, “that can always be altered,” he said.

Canada’s new minister of infrastructure Dominic LeBlanc is also heading up the federal intergovernmental affairs file, and “he also comes from a rural area, which I think is very important, and actually we had some good discussions about this [on Nov. 9] as the rural caucus that I’m also a part of,” Weiler said.

On Aug. 3, the federal government also announced $250 million in federal funding over five years for a rural transit solutions fund, he added.

“That’s something I would definitely flag as a potential option too,” he said. “It’s going to open up for applications quite soon … I am committed to working with the communities on this, and as soon as it’s open I will be connecting with them.”

With the provincial budgeting process for 2022 underway, now is the time to get it done, Sturdy said.

“I think they want to try and cost-share as much as they possibly can, and fair enough, and reduce the capital costs as much as we can, fair enough. But we’ve got to get started,” he said.

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Governments must end support for coal, oil and gas FOR YEARS, Alberta’s government has been spending millions of its citizens’ dollars to defend and promote the most profitable industry in human history, despite dire warnings of how that industry is fuelling a global climate crisis that threatens human health and survival. It also leaves the province on the hook for everything from “stranded assets” as the fossil fuel market winds down to cleaning up thousands of abandoned and orphaned oil and gas sites.

At least Alberta’s government makes no secret of its support for fossil fuels, especially the tarry bitumen it wants to

BY DAVID SUZUKI export to the world. Other governments talk about the need to address what they agree is a climate emergency, and develop plans and targets, all while paying for pipelines with tax dollars, subsidizing oil and gas and promoting rampant methane fracking for liquefied “natural” gas.

The twisted premise appears to be that the human-created economy and its jobs take precedence over environmental concerns, regardless of how critical they are. But support for coal, oil and gas fails even on that flimsy argument.

It’s important that working people from sunset industries get support and retraining if they want it, whether their jobs are threatened by growing automation or declining markets and the urgent global energy transition. In rethinking our

the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, International Energy Agency, World Bank, World Health Organization and more spelling out the increasing urgency.

With governments continuing to promote and subsidize fossil fuels even as they meet for conferences like COP26 in Glasgow to hammer out solutions and agreements, it’s no surprise the world isn’t on track to avoiding the worst climate impacts.

A recent study by the UN Environment Programme and others found that current plans and policies will keep global oil and gas production rising for the next two decades, with coal production falling only slightly. According to the Guardian, “Detailed analysis of 15 major fossil fuelproducing nations found that the U.S., Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and China all project increases in oil and gas, while India and Russia intend to increase coal production. Only two of the countries expect oil and gas production to decline: the U.K. and Indonesia.”

It also found the world has directed more than US$300 billion of new public financing to fossil fuel activities since the COVID-19 pandemic began—outpacing public investment in renewable energy.

The Guardian also notes that the world’s 60 biggest banks have provided US$3.8 trillion in financing for fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement in 2015.

Those who have been pleading for decades about the need to curtail fossil fuels have repeatedly been told that a transition “can’t happen overnight.” But that’s been an excuse to keep it from happening at all, as we clearly see now. And despite growing evidence, we’re still being treated

“Only two of the countries expect oil and gas production to decline: the U.K. and Indonesia.”

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economic priorities, we must also rethink the ways we work. But even under current systems, better economic and employment opportunities exist in the expanding clean tech sector.

Jobs in oil and gas have been declining steadily in Canada. The industry currently employs about 160,000—one per cent of our 15 million workforce.

But this only shows that an energy transition needn’t bring the economic catastrophe fossil fuel supporters predict.

The truly overwhelming economic fact is that the accelerating impacts of global heating—from floods, droughts and wildfires to disease spread, pollution and refugee crises—are extremely costly and will get even more so if we fail to confront climate disruption.

Evidence continues to mount on the catastrophic consequences of failing to address the climate emergency, with reports from international bodies including

as enemies by governments like Alberta’s.

It’s not just environmental advocates that are calling for fossil fuels to be left in the ground, for subsidies to end and for carbon sinks like wetlands, grasslands and forests to be protected and restored. It’s a massive majority of scientists, world leaders, thinkers and international agencies.

We’ve heard a lot of promising talk from world representatives in Glasgow. Let’s hope it’s not more “blah blah blah,” as Greta Thunberg says. Our jobs, health and lives depend on ambitious action to get off fossil fuels. Governments must lead, and politicians must remember they’re elected to serve the people, not a single, declining, destructive industry.

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

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THE OUTSIDER

Marcus Eder’s The Ultimate Run celebrates everything skiing SKI MOVIES have had to evolve quite a bit over the last decade or so. They used to be about showing what new types of terrain people were skiing. Then it became what kind of tricks and style people could show in that terrain. Now, it’s about entertaining

BY VINCE SHULEY the audience—as much as showing them rad skiing—with cohesive story, real human character, unique adversity or some other such quality.

In the era of YouTube and RedBull TV, having a series of impressive segments is no longer enough to lift the standard of ski films.

I was lucky enough to work with The Blank Collective over the summer of 2021 to sharpen the story elements of Tales from Cascadia. While this crew of Sea-to-Sky locals didn’t have the travel and production budget of the big ski media production houses, with a distinct look and feel of the film, Blank managed to nab Best Film at the IF3 awards this year.

Such an achievement for a grassroots

MORE THAN THE SUM OF ITS PARTS Marcus Eder skis through glacial features near Zermatt, Switzerland while filming The Ultimate Run. PHOTO BY LEGS OF STEEL/RED BULL CONTENT POOL

group of Whistler skiers gives me hope that good ski films—ones where you buy a ticket to a premiere and sit tight for 45 minutes—won’t simply fade into the ether of YouTube segments and other free streaming services.

But all ski films have their work cut out for them now. If you haven’t watched Marcus Eder’s The Ultimate Run yet, take the 10 minutes to watch it on YouTube now.

This is the kind of video experience that I don’t want to spoil for you.

The majority of The Ultimate Run is

that make that all come together. Eder is the star, but Thoresen is the engineer of The Ultimate Run. One of the things I (and from what I’ve heard, plenty of other skiers) enjoyed the most about watching this YouTube video was spotting all the previous ski film influences. The biggest is arguably JP Auclair’s street segment from Sherpas Cinema’s All.I.Can. Auclair was one of skiing’s great polymaths who also had a very skilled eye for film, a quality that has become more and more important for

[I]t’s filmmaker Christoph Thoresen’s directorial and editing decisions that make that all come together. Eder is the star, but Thoresen is the engineer of The Ultimate Run. filmed on location in and around Eder’s home resort of Klausberg in the SüdtirolAlto Adige region of Northern Italy. From atop a peak, Eder executes his dream ski run. It’s not filmed as a one-shot or anything, the entire project actually took a couple of seasons to capture. But every scene, from the backcountry alpine glaciers to the resort groomers to the alpine village “street” skiing is edited seamlessly and cohesively. And it’s filmmaker Christoph Thoresen’s directorial and editing decisions

athletes. Eder’s freestyle skiing through a high-mountain village, an ageing mining town and medieval castle doesn’t quite have that same dirty rawness that we saw from Auclair in Trail, B.C., but it does perfectly segue the transition from a modern resort to an ancient urban landscape.

The next biggest influence I would hazard to list is pretty much every film project by Candide Thovex. Ski the World, an advertising partnership with Audi, was great at showing how the best skiers can

ski anything (Thovex skied on pretty much every surface except snow in that film), but it was the single-run flow of the One of those Days series that felt the most familiar while I was watching The Ultimate Run. Eder’s stylistic aerials, the group big air scene through the terrain park and butter smooth transitions between man-made and natural surfaces definitely does Thovex’s preceding work justice.

The final influence I would name is the mid-2000s era of Seth Morrison and Shane McConkey. These skiers made flipping (back or forward, it didn’t seem to matter) over 30-metre (100-foot) cliffs look like a Lakeside Bowl Booterville session. Eder took that type of balls-out big mountain skiing high onto the Zermatt Glacier, flowing off massive seracs with off-axis spins and landing effortlessly. He does have a crash on one particularly sketchy feature (after which he dusts himself off and keeps skiing), a part that was intentionally left in to demonstrate that Eder is actually a human under all that Gore-Tex. Every ski film strives to be more than the sum of its parts. The Ultimate Run not only rethinks how we can approach skiing in the mountains in the modern era, it inspires us to achieve our own ultimate ski run, whatever that may look like.

Vince Shuley is getting a wee bit excited for skiing. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail. com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■

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FA ACOCMMINUNGITYFFIGUHTTSUFRE WILDFIRES, OR ITS FOREST

BY CARL SEGERSTROM// PHOTOS BY REBECCA STUMPF / HIGH COUNTRY NEWS

CONFLICTING VISIONS IN CENTRAL IDAHO FORCE TOUGH DECISIONS OVER LOGGING AND PRESCRIBED BURNING

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moke blotted out the midday sun as firefighters rappelled from helicopters into the remote backcountry of the Salmon River Breaks in central Idaho. A small but swiftly growing string of blazes roared across the granitic walls of the river gorge. It was a late July day in 2012, and the Mustang Fire, as it came to be known, had just ignited.

“I thought we were going to die,” firefighter Jonathon Golden later told NBC News.

The area is nightmarish, deadly terrain for wildland firefighters. Its canyons— deeper than the Grand Canyon—tend to fill with thick smoke and channel unpredictable, fire-stoking winds. Less than an hour after Golden’s crew landed, they were in trouble.

Scattered amid smoke so thick the whirling helicopter rotors barely seemed to stir it, the firefighters unshouldered their heavy packs and fled the flames, leaving behind tools, water bottles and even a wallet. They were shaken but alive.

That aborted attack on the Mustang Fire made it clear that terrain and weather, not firefighters, would determine how long and how far the blaze would burn through the backcountry. “There was no access,” Fritz Cluff, the fire manager for the Salmon-Challis National Forest, where the fire was located, told me recently. “It was on a really ugly piece of ground.”

As the fire roared through thick stands of scaly-barked Engelmann spruce, subalpine fir and lodgepole pine, it drew closer to the small communities of North Fork and Gibbonsville, where cabins are tucked into conifer groves on either side of Highway 93. Firefighting crews prepared to defend homes by clearing brush, setting up hose lines and starting backburns, which clear out tinder on the ground. In the nearby town of Salmon, the sky was the apocalyptic orange now familiar across much of the Western U.S. In the end, the fire spared the towns, in part because of a forest-thinning project that had started the spring before in the Hughes Creek drainage, an area of wooded canyons set between the communities and the backcountry. After years of planning by the Lemhi Forest Restoration Group, a local collaborative convened by a conservation

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non-profit, thick stands of trees had been selectively logged to help protect homes. The logging didn’t leave dramatic gashes of downed trees or abrupt, clear-cut expanses; it had been designed to thin the forest, turning tightly packed clumps of overgrown trees into roomier groves that a person could easily stroll through without getting snagged.

In a sense, that’s what thinning is supposed to encourage wildfires to do: amble along the forest floor rather than brush up against tree branches and carry flames from trunk to treetop, torching entire stands and making firefighting untenable. Along the Highway 93 corridor, the thinning had helped keep the fire at bay. “These treatments were well placed, well implemented and were clearly a practice that paid significant dividends,” a 2013 Forest Service report on the fire concluded. The thinned spots were places where fire crews could comfortably dig fire lines and set backburns, as long as the weather cooperated. “From a safety standpoint, [the firefighters] didn’t feel like we were putting them in a bad situation,” Cluff said.

Between late July and November, the Mustang Fire—central Idaho’s most recent major blaze—scorched 336,028 acres (135,986 hectares), making it one of the largest fires in the United States in the last century. Despite its massive footprint, no homes were destroyed and no one was injured. But the threat remains—a lightning strike or careless match could spark the next megafire at any moment. The challenge now, for the communities and the Forest Service, is how to prepare.

PEOPLE IN THE SMALL TOWN of Salmon and its even smaller

neighbour, Challis, refer to the land as “country,” a term befitting the expansive landscape but also an apt description of who manages it. In Lemhi and Custer counties, where Salmon (population 3,096) and Challis (population 758) are located, the federal government—primarily the Forest Service—administers more than 90 per cent of the

FEATURE STORY land. Vast stretches of the Salmon-Challis have a high level of protection, including environmental consequence, things like renewing a rafting company’s permit or repairing 1.3 million acres (526,091 ha.) of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, the a bathroom. But recently there’s been an uptick in exclusions that cover broad swaths of largest contiguous wilderness area in the Lower 48. land. This concerns agency watchdogs, who worry that landscape-level projects are being On a sunny morning in early April, I met Charles “Chuck” Mark, the forest carried out with the minimum level of analysis and public engagement. supervisor tasked with managing the Salmon-Challis. Mark has held his position and In October 2020, Mark released plans for two sweeping categorical exclusions on the lived in Salmon since 2013. From the agency headquarters south of town, we drove up Salmon-Challis intended to combat wildfire risk. One proposed allowing prescribed fire Williams Creek Road, a popular local access point for campgrounds, fishing, hiking and hand-cutting timber on 2.4 million acres (971,246 ha.)—the entire forest, except for and hunting. As we climbed a ridge, we passed fields swept by the long arms of centre designated wilderness or roadless areas. The other proposed thinning and prescribed fire pivot sprinklers, winding through a steep sagebrush canyon and into mixed stands on an overlapping 1.4 million acres (566,560 ha.). Neither included commercial logging. of conifers. Mark, who started working for the agency as a seasonal firefighter four A national review of agency planning documents by the environmental decades ago, wears his uniform neatly and looks as if he could hike many miles to a organization WildEarth Guardians found that nearly 3.8 million acres (1,537,805 ha.) backcountry fire. When asked a question, he typically pauses to reflect before giving a of projects were proposed under categorical exclusions between January and March of detailed answer. He told me that wildfire is his biggest challenge in leading the forest.

2020. The review’s authors found that many of the projects lacked specifics regarding At the top of the ridge, we got out and stood above a natural clearing. A blanket where activities like thinning and road building would occur, and there was often of trees stretched dozens of miles from the Bighorn Crags, a smudge on the horizon no indication of the role, if any, the public had in influencing the agency’s decisions. where granite peaks cradle alpine lakes, to the edge of the town of Salmon. A Cassin’s “There is rarely an opportunity for meaningful public involvement,” the report noted. finch trilled above us. Mark, who was wearing an earflap hat with the flaps tacked up, “And in many instances the public is left in the dark as to the rationale behind the leaned his wiry frame against the door of his government-issued white Ford Explorer. authorization or any extraordinary circumstances until the project has been approved.”

He pointed out stretches of deep green forest splotched with light brown—places In a December phone call, Mark was frank about why he wanted to use categorical where beetle outbreaks had killed the trees. This area, dissected by deep and steep exclusions at a landscape scale. “We’re trying to ... start treating more acres,” he said. canyons, is Mark’s primary concern when it comes to protecting the people below— “I think we’re too far behind already. But to start gaining some ground, I think that’s his friends, neighbours and critics—from wildfire. Since the Mustang Fire, the Forest what’s needed.” What Mark didn’t foresee was that wielding this tool, even to mitigate Service has overseen limited logging in the Salmon-Challis, but Mark sees a need to wildfire risk, would stoke the frustrations of groups that had felt left out of the Forest greatly increase it. “It isn’t a question of if,” he said. “It’s when we’re going to have fire. Service’s plans in the past. … So we’ve got to start poking some holes in this.”

After the devastating 1910 wildfire known as the Big Burn, when flames raced across millions of acres in the Northern Rockies in just a couple of days, killing scores of wildfire, the Forest Service and of people, the Forest Service began extinguishing fires as quickly as possible. But Western politicians harp on the importance of increasing logging and controlled Western forests are adapted to wildfire; some lodgepole pine cones, for example, don’t burning. But some environmentalists and ecologists—particularly those that prioritize release their seeds until they are scorched. The agency’s firefighting actions have a hands-off approach to forest management—argue that aggressive thinning has little drastically altered the natural cycles of the forests. Over the last century, more and potential to change fire behaviour. “You just can’t do it on enough of the landscape more trees, shrubs, logs and duff—what wildfire scientists collectively call fuel—have accumulated, priming the landscape for larger and hotter fires.

Other forces have also made the region and its people more vulnerable. As neighbourhoods and isolated homes expand into wooded areas, blazes are more likely to damage property and endanger lives; in 2020, nearly 18,000 structures burned in wildfires in the U.S. And climate change has led to less snow, more extreme weather, and hotter, drier conditions overall, driving longer, more intense fire seasons. Researchers from the forest supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service in Salmon, sees wild University of Idaho and Columbia University estimate that human-caused climate change fire as inevitable. Mar k is doing ever ything has doubled the amount of forest burned in the Western U.S. since 1984. he can to treat the timber on the mountains here in order to In recent years, wildfires have destroyed entire towns; Paradise, Calif., and Blue prevent future fires from destroyin g towns.

River, Ore., among them. With the stakes so high, there’s a major push across the Forest Service’s ranks, from leadership to on-the-ground staff, to manage the landscape in a way that reduces the risk of devastating consequences. For the agency, that means thinning forests and setting prescribed burns—controlled fires in specific areas to clear out the underbrush, so that subsequent fires burn less intensely.

From the overlook, Mark pointed out an example of the kind of cutting he’s trying to avoid: Three bright emerald patches of trees stood out among the deep green and beetle-kill brown of the surrounding forest—decades-old clear-cuts. There, young trees were crowding each other in what’s known in forestry lingo as doghair thickets, dense growth that could spur instead of slow flames.

Mark wants to explore every option available to expand thinning and controlled burns in the Salmon-Challis. One mechanism at his disposal is a federal agency planning tool called a categorical exclusion—a way to quickly and efficiently move a proposed project forward. Classic examples of projects covered by categorical exclusions are painting a picnic table or mowing a lawn—routine tasks with little environmental impact.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which governs federal agencies’ decision-making on projects that affect the environment, requires agencies to be clear about what they’re doing, where they’re doing it and what the impacts might be. There are three different ways of doing this, but categorical exclusions allow the government to be as tight-lipped as possible. The other two options—environmental assessments and environmental impact statements—are more involved: They both mandate objection periods during which the public can submit critiques that the agency must answer. Under categorical exclusions, however, the agency doesn’t have to provide rigorous documentation of possible environmental harm or justify its actions to commenters—or even respond to comments at all. The only way for the public to get that kind of response is a lawsuit.

Over the last two decades, Congress and agency officials have expanded categorical exclusions well beyond picnic tables and blades of grass. In a 2018 federal funding bill, for example, Congress tacked on a new categorical exclusion for thinning projects of up to 3,000 acres (1,214 ha.). The Forest Service has also expanded its own authority to use categorical exclusions through administrative changes.

An analysis of Forest Service NEPA planning conducted by researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Davis, published last year, found that between 2005 and 2018, more than 80 per cent of Forest Service projects were approved with categorical exclusions. Most of those projects were routine and of little

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FEATURE STORY to make a big-enough difference,” said Dominick DellaSala, the chief scientist for the environmental non-profit Earth Island Institute’s Wild Heritage program, which focuses on forest protection. “And even if you could, it only will work under low to moderate fire weather.”

Thinning can also make fires worse and even damage ecosystems, he added. Wind speeds can increase in thinned stands, driving fires even farther and faster, and logging-access roads damage wildlife habitat through erosion. Those same roads also make it easier for people to go out and start fires—more than 80 per cent of wildfires are sparked by humans.

DellaSala has seen firsthand how out-of-control fires can destroy communities.

Last September, the Almeda Fire ripped through his hometown of Talent, Ore.; it killed three people and levelled thousands of homes. With that in mind, he thinks fire protection should start in backyards rather than the backwoods, and be small and targeted rather than forest-wide. “We can be surgical about how we treat the landscape, go to the places that are closest to the homes and work from the home out,” he said.

While opinions differ on the impact of thinning, ecologists and forest managers generally agree that prescribed fires can help reduce the likelihood of megafires.

Intentional burning by Indigenous nations shaped Western forests for millennia.

The genocide and dispossession of Indigenous people by European colonizers disrupted the links between humans, fires and forests. Programs like the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network are working to repair those relationships and return cultural fire to the landscape by building partnerships between Indigenous fire practitioners and the government employees responsible for controlled burns.

The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network is not yet active in Idaho, but tribal agencies in the state are working to get more fire on the ground, including in partnership with the Forest Service. “Prescribed burning is something that we do as much as we can,” said Jeff Handel, who leads the Nez Perce Tribe’s fire-management program. Handel also participates in the Idaho Prescribed Fire Council, a group of tribal, federal and state governmental and agency representatives, as well as private citizens, created in late 2020 to promote planned fires and share resources. Tribal and federal agencies already partner on putting out wildfires, Handel explained, so it makes sense for them to work together on prescribed fires. “We fight fires that way,” he said. “I think we should also do our forest planning and burning that way.”

DRIVING INTO SALMON

“PEOPLE WANT USE OF THEIR FEDERAL LANDS. FOR JOBS, FIREWOOD, RECREATION AND GRAZING. AND THEY WANT TO FEEL LIKE THE FOREST SERVICE IS LISTENING TO THEM.” DOLORES IVIE

from the north, you emerge from steep-walled forests into a rolling valley bottom. In April, wobbly calves stood next to their mothers in a pasture at the edge of town, beneath a Confederate flag. An hour south in Challis, a large billboard depicting blackened trees against a red backdrop blamed devastating wildfires on people who oppose logging: “Environmentalists... you own this! Log it, graze it, or burn it!” Both counties are overwhelmingly white and Republican.

At a picnic table at the intersection of Main Street and Highway 93 in Challis, Dolores Ivie, a former administrator for the local power company, schoolteacher and 2019 inductee into the Idaho Republican Party Hall of Fame, ran through a litany of frustrations with how Forest Service officials and D.C. politicians have managed the Salmon-Challis. Ivie, along with many in the area, felt like the Forest Service wasn’t serving their needs; instead, it was reintroducing wolves, expanding wilderness and working too closely with a local conservation organization. “People want use of their federal lands,” she said, for jobs, firewood, recreation and grazing. And they want to feel like the Forest Service is listening to them, she added.

As we sat under the bright but chilly spring sun, Ivie wore sunglasses over readers and smoked Basic brand cigarettes, neatly tucking the butts back into the pack after extinguishing them. Ivie coordinates a citizens’ group called the Lemhi-Custer Grassroots Advisory, or the LCGA, created to amplify local concerns over how the Forest Service is managing the land. She was chosen to lead it for a simple reason: “I have organizational skills that scare most people,” Ivie said, cracking a wry grin.

The LCGA formed as a counterpoint to two other Salmon-Challis stakeholder groups.

Both are what’s called a forest collaborative: an association of people with diverse interests in a particular forest who debate issues like wildfire risk and habitat restoration, then offer their advice to Forest Service managers. Forest collaboratives rose to prominence in the 2000s and 2010s as a way to involve communities in federal land management, though they’re not led by the Forest Service—instead, a group such as an environmental organization typically convenes them—and they lack official decision-making authority.

Still, the agency generally looks to these groups to help develop plans and build awareness and consensus around upcoming projects. There are two Salmon-Challis collaboratives: the Lemhi Forest Restoration Group, which helped plan the fuel treatments that were effective during the Mustang Fire, and the Central Idaho Public Lands Collaborative. Both groups are facilitated by Salmon Valley Stewardship, the local conservation organization whose influence chafed at Ivie.

The catalyzing moment for the LCGA’s creation came at a public meeting in 2017, when a Forest Service staffer, who is also the former head of Salmon Valley Stewardship, was presenting proposals for revisions to the Salmon-Challis forest plan. Forest plans are influential, detailed documents: They guide all of the agency’s decisions on a given national forest. But when one member of the public asked a question, Ivie recalled, the staffer “basically told her to sit down and be quiet; they didn’t want to hear from a bunch

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of ‘angry villagers.’” Today, Ivie’s SUV and other local rigs sport yellow stickers with black lettering declaring themselves Angry Villagers. After years of feeling unrepresented on decisions that impact their community, “that was the icing on the cake,” Ivie said. “That’s what started the LCGA.” Federal land planners often cite collaboration and public participation as fundamental to effective management. But there’s no set model for how collaboratives function or who gets to participate in them—no framework to balance interests and ensure that a truly diverse range of viewpoints is represented. Members of the LCGA felt left out; they see the collaboratives as more accessible to environmental professionals, who, after all, get paid to sit in long meetings about forest policies. On the other side of the ideological spectrum, environmentalist critics, like author and activist George Wuerthner, have argued that collaboratives are a waste of time that benefit industry at the expense of wildlife and land protection.

Today, the LCGA has more than 300 members, Ivie said, who favour more economic activity and fewer protective land designations. They’ve organized public-comment submissions, rallied people to public meetings, been active in the op-ed pages of local newspapers, met with their representatives in Congress and aired grievances to the Forest Service.

The relationship between the group and

FEATURE STORY the agency has improved since the heated meeting in 2017. “We’ve had input into some issues that have changed their minds,” Ivie said, including a large logging project meant to reduce wildfire risk. They also spoke up about the pair of categorical exclusions Mark proposed late last year, the wide-ranging plans to increase thinning and burning on the Salmon-Challis. LCGA members criticized the agency for presenting sprawling plans with so few details, and not including more opportunities for commercial cutting; they’d rather see trees logged than burned. “Resource use is a high priority for the two communities,” Ivie said. “That’s what we survive on.”

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is foundational to the Forest Service. When the federal government created the agency in 1905, it was supposed to prevent wholesale clear-cutting and conserve forests for future generations. But the agency disregarded the knowledge of the Indigenous peoples who had stewarded and shaped the landscape for thousands of years. Instead, it focused on what agency leaders and politicians considered sustainable harvesting.

Most logging on national forests happens through timber sales: The Forest Service outlines where and what kind of cutting it wants done, then private companies bid for the chance to harvest the trees. As part of the process, the Forest Service often offers large, fire-resistant trees—which are more valuable because of their size and tight grain—as an incentive for companies to bid on the thinning that, in many cases, is a sale’s true objective. “Something’s got to carry the load,” Mark said. “Otherwise, you’re not going to be able to sell the sale and you won’t get anything done.”

Sometimes, however, the agency can sidestep this economic model. Unprofitable timberwork on the Salmon-Challis is done through partnerships with the Idaho and Montana conservation corps. These work programs channel the spirit of the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps—nicknamed “Roosevelt’s Tree Army”—which, in the 1930s, employed millions of workers who planted billions of trees. Mark doesn’t think today’s programs are large enough to make a difference on a landscape scale.

But the Biden administration’s American Jobs Plan, which proposes a $10-billion investment in a 21st-century twist on the CCC called the Civilian Climate Corps, could help scale up similar forest-thinning efforts.

Today, annual timber harvests on Forest Service land are less than a quarter of what they were in the 1980s, in part, at least in the Northwest, because of endangered species protections for spotted owls. In towns like Salmon and Challis, the decline of public-land logging has left a shell of a local timber economy as large mills closed and hundreds of local timber jobs dwindled to just a handful.

One of the few timbermen still making a living logging on the Salmon-Challis is Joe Frauenberger, a Challis local who started his own company, Twin Peaks Timber, in 2017. It’s a small outfit, with just two employees, and it isn’t geared toward the kind of large-scale logging that occurs in places with an active commercial timber industry, like the Cascades in Oregon, where clear-cuts might cover hundreds or thousands of acres. Frauenberger only has the capacity to cut about a couple hundred acres per year.

And unlike big companies, which send their wood to mills to be turned into lumber, Twin Peaks mainly sells logs for use in local wood stoves. In Lemhi and Custer counties, about a third of households depend on firewood as their main source of heat. Twin Peaks Timber also provides logs and stumps for habitat restoration projects, and does tree-trimming work and other odd jobs around town that require heavy machinery.

Frauenberger said his relationship with the Forest Service has helped his business get all the timber it needs, though it doesn’t hurt that he’s the only show in town and there’s no competition for the small sales he’s buying. But Mark doesn’t think there’s enough local capacity to do the kind of large-scale projects he sees as necessary to reduce fire risk and protect the towns on the edge of the forest—hence the two huge categorical exclusions he proposed in late 2020.

AFTER YEARS OF FRUSTRATION with the Forest Service and

each other, members of environmental organizations, the Lemhi Forest Restoration Group collaborative and Ivie’s group, the LCGA, found something to agree on: No one liked the categorical exclusions Mark had proposed for the Salmon-Challis. “Both sides disagree on a lot,” said Josh Johnson, who participates in the Lemhi Forest Restoration Group as a staffer for the Idaho Conservation League, an environmental non-profit. “Where we agree is that the Forest Service hasn’t done the best job at public involvement.”

Environmental groups argued that the projects would indeed have significant environmental impacts and called for a more in-depth planning process. Members of the Lemhi Forest Restoration Group balked at the assertion, in planning documents, that they’d approved of the project—they hadn’t. The LCGA complained that the plans were a pet project of environmentalists and didn’t include enough logging. All sides agreed that more details were needed to assess the impacts and justifications for the proposals. They wanted to know where projects would occur, and how and when they would be carried out. In short, they felt like Mark was going about this the wrong way. “Get the input from the beginning,” Ivie said; to her, the solution seemed obvious.

“Don’t come out with a decision and then get clobbered by it.”

After receiving that community feedback—and seeing other national forests get sued for similar landscape-level categorical exclusions—Mark put a pause on the

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coordinates a citizens’ group that wants more economic activity and fewer protections on the Salmon-Challis National Fore st. Her car spor ts a bumper sticker locals made after a contentious meeting with U.S. Forest Service officials.

proposals. “Some people are uncomfortable, and I knew that coming in,” he said. “But I guarantee you get another (fire) that’s threatening this ridge with a smoke cloud that’s 30,000 feet in the air, I know you’re going to be uncomfortable.” At the end of the day, Mark’s priority is not how the thinning and prescribed fire treatments are planned, it’s figuring out ways to make sure that they’re actually getting done.

Meanwhile, as Mark decides what to do next—whether to pursue the categorical exclusions or do a more extensive environmental assessment—smaller projects are already underway. This spring and summer, a commercial timber company is logging 872 acres (353 ha.) and shipping the logs 200 miles (322 kilometres) north for milling. It’s the largest sale in the area in years, and one that will thin the forest to put firebreaks between the millions of acres of backcountry and the town of Salmon in the valley below. For that project, the Forest Service did sit down with the LCGA to hash out details, giving Ivie the sense that the agency was getting better at involving the community. “I don’t think it matters how you get there, but that you get there, and you start waking up to why people feel the way that they feel,” Ivie told me. “That’s kind of where we are right now, taking steps in that direction. They’re baby steps, but they’re in the right direction.”

In April, after Mark showed me the trees above Salmon that are bound to burn sooner or later, we wound back down the canyon. There, on the side of the ridge facing Salmon, firefighters stand a better chance of stopping a fire threatening the town, because flames are more likely to die down as they move downslope. As the SUV ground over gravel and through spring snowmelt, we passed signs marking the bounds of the logging project. The trees that will be cut were ringed with a line of blue spray paint.

The next time a fire starts in the forest, firefighters will likely be positioned among the remaining trees, waiting to fight the flames. “We’re trying to be strategic about it,” Mark explained, by focusing on the most advantageous places for firefighters to take a stand against a blaze. “Then we might get the opportunity to at least slow it down, and maybe, in places, stop it,” Mark said. “But there’s no guarantees.”

This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here with permission.

View it at hcn.org/issues/53.6/north-wildfire-and-a-forest-worth-fighting-for-communityidaho. Research travel for this story was made possible by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Fund for Environmental Journalism.

Carl Segerstrom is an assistant editor at High Country News, covering Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and the Northern Rockies from Spokane, Washington. Email him at carls@hcn. org or submit a letter to the editor. ■

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By Brandon Barrett // Photos by Sara Marrocco “IT’S CONTROLLED CHAOS,” my partner remarks as we watch drivers weave in and out of rush-hour traffic in Bogotá, Colombia.

“But I trust them. They know what they’re doing.”

It’s a fitting introduction to Colombia’s teeming capital of roughly 9 million. For those, like us, accustomed to the comparatively placid experience of the modern Canadian city, Bogotá can at first feel like sensory overload.

Fruit vendors beckon with low, melodic calls of aguacate, vibrant murals adorn nearly every available inch of wall space, and scores of restaurants and

storefronts only add to the cacophony by blasting competing cumbia songs from prodigious speaker set-ups.

The urban symphony has the notunpleasant effect of constantly ushering you back to the present, a sort of involuntary mindfulness we’ll notice throughout our time here.

It’s hard not to be present in one of Bogotá’s largest markets, the Paloquomao. Featuring a mind-boggling and mouth-watering array of fruit, vegetables, flowers, meat and fish, the Paloquomao dates back to 1946 and serves as a showcase of the country’s rich biodiversity. Because Colombia is

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That diversity also means the country is home to some of the tastiest and most unusual fruit in the world, much of which will be completely unfamiliar to the average Canadian (along with inarguably better versions of more common fruit, like passionfruit, guava, mango, and the biggest avocadoes you’ve ever seen.) There’s an abundance of delicious fruits to sample at the market, but my personal favourites are guama, also known as “monkey fruit” and “ice-cream bean” for the sweet flavour and smooth texture of its pulp; lulo, a tart, citrus-like fruit favoured in drinks and desserts that looks like a tomato from the outside but tastes like anything but; and guanábana, known in English as soursop, a large, spiky marvel of a fruit that tastes like a mix of strawberry, apple and citrus, with a white, creamy pulp inside that has a similar texture to banana.

The market also features plenty of no-fuss food stalls, where you can whet your appetite with some of Colombia’s comida típica, a hearty cuisine that leans towards fresh ingredients and insanely massive portions. You can’t go wrong with Bogotános’ favourite soup, ajiaco santafereño, typically made with chicken, three kinds of potatoes, and a local green herb known as guasco. For the truly famished, order a bandeja paisa, a gargantuan farmer’s platter that typically includes (although there are many regional variations) rice, red beans, ground beef or pork, chorizo, black pudding, crunchy chicharrón, fried egg, plantain and avocado.

On our second day, still catching up on sleep, we head to Divino Café Especial in the heart of Bogotá’s romantic, cobblestone-lined colonial district, La Candelaria, where we meet Leandro Galindo, a third-generation coffee farmer whose knowledge of coffee is only rivalled by his easygoing charm. Looking like something out of a science lab, Leandro has set up an extensive coffee-tasting experience for us, crystal beakers, Chemex coffeemakers, and wine glasses lining

the table, as the faint aromas of freshly ground beans permeate the room. (To arrange a tasting, email Leandro at divino.cafeespecial@gmail.com.)

Even for caffeine junkies such as ourselves, the experience is incredibly informative, as Leandro walks us through his family’s growing techniques, flavour notes, and the different methods for brewing the perfect cup, tailored to our particular taste. It’s clear Leandro and his family are at the vanguard of Colombia’s artisanal coffee movement, a country that, sadly, has only in recent years begun to appreciate the high-quality coffee available in its own backyard, due to it being out of the price range of the average citizen, with the majority of single-origin beans exported to North America and Europe.

A welcome change of pace from the frenetic energy of El Centro, we ride a gondola up to one of Bogotá’s most recognizable landmarks, Monserrate, visible from nearly every part of the city. An imposing mountain considered sacred by the Indigenous Muisca who inhabited the area in pre-Columbian times, it became a popular pilgrimage site for colonial-era settlers. Whether for fitness or religious reasons, Colombians today continue to make the thigh-burning trek—although you can also take a scenic ride on a gondola or funicular railway—to a monastery built in the 1600s at the mountain’s peak. On the day we visit, we watch as one of the faithful crawls, barefoot, on hands and knees up the church’s central nave. Outside the monastery you’ll find cafés, restaurants and vendors selling all kinds of touristy kitsch, both religious and not, but Monserrate’s real draw is its breathtaking views. Perched 3,000 metres high, it’s the perfect spot to take in the Bogota skyline, as well as bear witness to the city’s notoriously moody weather; in the hour or so we were there, the skies turned from sunny to overcast to full-on hail storm, proving that old Mark Twain adage that if you don’t like the weather, just wait 10 minutes.

This is Part 1 of 3 of Brandon Barrett’s travel series on Colombia. Pick up the Nov. 25 edition of Pique for the next instalment on the Colombian Amazon. n

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Local athletes Natalie Corless, Trinity Ellis make Luge World Cup ELLIS AND CORLESS HAVE ARRIVED IN CHINA AHEAD OF THEIR FIRST WORLD CUP EVENT ON NOV. 22

BY HARRISON BROOKS LUGE CANADA announced the roster for this season’s World Cup team on Oct. 27.

The team includes a good mix of returning athletes as well as rookies eager to make their mark ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, like Whistler’s Natalie Corless.

“I am so excited. It was definitely a tough preseason; we did our selection races at a track that I’d never been to, so I kind of had to step it up right off the bat and show that I could adapt to the training, which I did, and I’m pretty happy with how the selection races went,” she said.

“It’s going to be my first year on the World Cup circuit, and I’m going to be one of the youngest competitors, but I’m just really happy to have the opportunity to prove myself against the best in the world now.”

With the Olympics coming up quick, Corless, who used to spend a large majority of her time racing in the doubles category, moved to Calgary this summer to train as a single slider in hopes of making the World Cup team due to their being no Women’s Doubles category at the Olympics.

While Corless achieved what she had set

LUGE LADIES Whistler’s Natalie Corless and Pemberton’s Trinity Ellis are excited for the World Cup season to get underway later this month.

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out to, unfortunately her long-time friend and doubles partner, Caitlyn Nash, missed the cut and the two will be spending the season apart for the first time in five years.

“That’s really tough for me. We’ve kind of been training and competing together for the last five years,” said Corless. “So it’s kind of tough to be taking that step on my own. But at the same time, I know we’re both going to be doing great things this year. She’s still going to have some great

before the World Cup circuit kicks off on the same track on Nov. 20.

Despite not having seen the track yet as they are currently being quarantined in their hotel awaiting the latest test results for members of other national teams who previously tested positive for COVID-19, both Corless and Ellis agree that just being in China with the chance to slide on the Olympic track in Yanqing for the first time is adding to their anticipation for this season.

“[The Yanqing track is] bringing a lot of excitement. It’s a track unlike any other I’ve ever seen or slid on.”

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opportunities, so as tough as it is, I think we’ll be all right.”

But despite the unfortunate setback for her teammate, Corless is looking ahead to her upcoming schedule with her eyes on qualifying for the Olympics.

And right there by her side throughout the journey will be Pemberton’s Trinity Ellis returning for her third season on the World Cup team at just 19 years old.

The team recently arrived in China where they will be able to practice on the Olympic track 80 kilometres north of Beijing for a week

“It’s bringing a lot of excitement. It’s a track unlike any other that I’ve ever seen or slid on,” said Corless. “And I think having everyone in the same boat of having to learn the track at the same time as all the other nations, I think is going to be a really awesome learning experience for everyone to have and kind of figure out this new Olympic track.”

While Ellis is equally excited for her chance to slide on the Olympic track and compete for her chance to qualify for the Olympics, she’s also just happy to get back to a full travel schedule after the COVID-

19-interrupted season last year, even if it means she’ll be away from home for nearly five months.

“We didn’t get any international racing and were just sliding in Whistler last year,” she said. “So I was really missing that and I’m really just excited to get back to competition and kind of just focusing on taking it race by race and competing the best I can and then hopefully that will end up with me qualifying for the Olympics at the end of all this.”

According to Ellis, the biggest advantage working in her favour in her bid to make her first Olympics is the experience she’s gained over the past few seasons training and competing with some of the world’s best.

“I think I’ve grown up a little bit.

In the last couple of years, I’ve kind of realized how much I’ve gained just from the environment of the team and having those mentors like Justin [Snith] and Tristan [Walker],” said Ellis. “I think it’s a really valuable relationship I have with them.

Just being friends, but also being able to ask questions and advice and just have that bit of leadership role on the team.”

After the first World Cup event at the Olympic track in China, the team will be heading to Sochi, Russia for a double World Cup event at the end of November and start of December. In total, there are nine stops on the World Cup circuit before the Olympics begin with the last stop in Switzerland on Jan. 22 and 23. n

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Cooper Bathgate eyes the podium on Freeride World Tour BATHGATE TWINS WILL BE RIDING SOLO THIS YEAR AS COOPER TAKES THE STEP TO THE FREERIDE WORLD TOUR

BY HARRISON BROOKS FOR THE SECOND year in a row, Whistler’s Cooper Bathgate has found himself on the Freeride World Tour (FWT) roster.

However, unlike last year, when injuries forced him to miss the cut after the first three stops on the world tour, Cooper’s got his sights set on a podium finish this year.

“My Achilles was not that good last season, so I wasn’t skiing super strong and then obviously I didn’t make the cut because of that, so I got knocked off.

But because there was no freeride worldqualifier events in Canada last season, they basically brought me back on in that Canadian spot,” he said.

“So it’s pretty exciting because I kind of thought it was over with, so for them to bring me back is pretty sweet. My expectation is a podium, and my goal is a win, but we’ll see.

I’m just really happy to give it another crack and show what I’m capable of.”

Cooper, like most kids who grew up in Whistler, started skiing at a young age but knew early on that ski racing wasn’t for him. It wasn’t until he joined the Whistler Freeride Club’s Mountain Adventure Program that he discovered his passion for freeriding and the freedom and individuality it allows you as opposed to more structured disciplines like freestyle.

Now, at 23 years old, he has reached the top of his chosen discipline and is looking to make a name for himself on the FWT. But getting to this point wasn’t a solo effort.

Cooper has always had an advantage over pretty much everyone else in the sport due to the fact he has had his twin brother Jackson right there by his side through every competition.

“It’s awesome. I found it really helpful when we did the qualifier events together because a lot of people are so secretive with everyone else of where they are going to go ski, but Jackson and I would always tell each other where we are going to go because we ski similar styles but a lot of it would be different,” said Cooper. “So it’s nice having someone like that to bounce feedback off of that you know isn’t going try and bite your line and go ski it before you.”

While Cooper is more calculated about his runs, and tends to stick to things he knows he can land, Jackson is more of the go-big or go-home style of rider who will “hit the biggest air on the face… and have a 50-50 shot at landing it,” according to his twin.

For Jackson, who was kept out of competitions all last year after suffering a

slipped disk in his back, seeing his brother competing on the world stage at the top of their sport has added some extra motivation to show out this season in hopes of joining Cooper on the tour in 2023. “[Seeing Cooper on the FWT] definitely kind of lights a fire,” said Jackson. “It kind of makes me want to do it more … We are so similar at skiing so if he can do it, I’m sure I can be up there with him.”

But despite the advantage of having someone to bounce ideas off before your run, and the fact that there is no one they’d rather see win than each other, when the Bathgate brothers are competing head-to-head, there’s also no one they want to beat more.

“That’s kind of the fiercest competition at the end of the day is between us”

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“That’s kind of the fiercest competition at the end of the day is between us, and then everybody else just kind of fits in,” said Jackson.

But when asked who has gotten the better of whom over their many competitions, Jackson joked that it probably “depends who you ask.”

“If you ask [Cooper], I’m sure he’ll say he’s in the FWT,” said Jackson. “So he’s probably lucked out a few more times than I have, but hopefully my luck will turn around and I’ll get to be up there with him and show him who’s boss on the Freeride World Tour.”

The World Tour kicks off Jan. 22 to 28 in Baqueira Beret, Spain before making stops in Ordino-Arcalís, Andorra, Golden, B.C., Fieberbrunn, Austria, and Verbier, Switzerland.

Meanwhile Jackson will be competing in Revelstoke and Kicking Horse on Jan. 24 and 27, respectively, where he will try to be among the top 50 North American riders who will head over to Europe for two more competitions in hopes of qualifying for the 2023 World tour.

“I just have to stay healthy. That’s the biggest thing I have working against me,” said Jackson. “I haven’t put in full season in four years now just with injuries and all that. So I just want to get a full season of skiing and competing and then I think I can do it from there if I get to go to all the events that I want to.” n

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TWO YEARS AGO, highly ranked Canadian skeleton racer Evan Neufeldt made the decision to walk away from the sport at just 32 years old when he started getting chronic long-lasting headaches on a regular basis.

After seeing a neurologist and getting multiple tests done, the results came back with news that Neufeldt had epilepsy.

“Pretty brutal finding out. Pretty tough realization there,” he said.

“I don’t want to say that I accepted it gracefully, but now it has really changed my outlook on life where I recognize some of the things I used to be stressed about, or some of the things I used to complain about were so irrelevant.”

To make matters worse for the Saskatoon native, during one of his hospital stays in the spring of 2020, Neufeldt suffered another seizure that resulted in him falling out of bed and breaking his neck, which caused some nerve damage in his right arm, potentially spelling an end to his skeleton career and life as an athlete in general.

“I spent the summer rehabilitating like it was my job. I’m grateful for all my sporting background because really, it’s everything from nutrition to exercise,” said Neufeldt.

“I healed my neck so fast. I was determined; I was on a mission sort of thing.

I did have some brutal side effects, so there was a little bit of luck to have a solid recovery because I have talked to a lot of people with spinal injuries and not everybody comes out of it the way they went in. There are often permanent, lasting effects.”

Just five months after breaking his neck, fully recovered and feeling as strong and healthy as ever, Neufeldt received a text from a former coach asking him if he’d like to come out and try skeleton again.

And while he believed that stepping away from the sport was the right decision at the time due to burnout and the high cost of the sport, it didn’t take long for him to realize how much he missed it.

“I talked to my neurologist and my psychiatrist, and everyone agreed that there was no real reason [I couldn’t] go back. [They said] epilepsy is not stopping you from sliding. If your seizures are under control, then you can go play, essentially. So I gave it a try last year, very experimental, but I felt at home,” said Neufeldt.

“If anything, I’m addicted to this

sport. It’s a combination of things. The speed is fantastic. When things are going right here in Whistler, Whistler is the fastest track. I mean we’re an inch off the ground, but it really feels like we are flying. Gravity is relative when you are going through a corner at 140 kilometres per hour. It’s hard to describe how freeing this feels.”

This past weekend, a year after getting back into the sport on a trial basis, Neufeldt won the Canadian Skeleton selection race on Whistler’s sliding track to earn his spot back on team Canada.

However, since he doesn’t have the prerequisites to qualify for the World Cup Circuit—five races on three tracks over two years—Neufeldt will have to start the season on the lower level circuits before hopefully being bumped up to the World Cup later this season.

But starting on the lower circuits doesn’t change much in the way of Neufeldt’s goals for this season as he is “gunning hard for the Olympics,” and believes he’s got as good of a chance as anybody to make that goal a reality.

“The Olympics are going to be a chosen few based on the season and really from my perspective it is 50-50 whether I’ll be going, but there are no strong components working against me. I am one of the fastest starters in the country, and I’m one of the best pilots in the country,” said Neufeldt.

“I just need to have a smooth season.

Right now, physically I am feeling fantastic, I feel like I am in my 20s again. We’ve got some great athletes in Canada, but I feel confident about it.”

Three or four years ago, the Olympics might have been the only end goal for Neufeldt, but since his time away, his rediscovery of his love for the sport and his new work as an ambassador for Epilepsy Canada, that’s not the case anymore. Now, he’s committed to five more seasons of sliding, and just wants to show others with epilepsy that they can still follow their dreams, Olympics or not.

“Ultimately, whether or not I make the Olympics, I want to show other epileptics that I’m competing at the top level of this sport, disability or not,” he said.

“Everybody’s life is different; I wouldn’t trade any of my problems for someone else’s. So I feel like I can be a strong representative for others who are dealing with the same issues that I’ve got.

Woking with Epilepsy Canada has given me a whole new piece of the puzzle where I am proud to be working for them, and as much as I’m still a selfish athlete, there is a larger picture at play that I’m trying to show off.” n

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Luis Valenzuela wants to change the way you think about Mexican food TORONTO CHEF AND TV HOST WILL LEAD DINERS ON A ‘JOURNEY THROUGH MEXICO’ AT CORNUCOPIA EVENT

BY BRANDON BARRETT EVERY SEMESTER, Toronto chef and culinary instructor Luis Valenzuela asks his students at George Brown College the same simple question: if you have two chefs of similar skill and experience, and one prepares a crêpe and the other a pancake, which dish costs more to make?

“In every semester I’ve taught this class, everyone always answers the crêpes. The reality is pancakes are more expensive because they use substantially more ingredients,” he said. “However, because crepes are French, it seems like it must be fancy or expensive or luxurious.”

It’s the kind of unconscious class association the executive chef of Toronto’s Mad Mexican restaurant often encounters with the food of his homeland.

“The economic problem I sometimes see with Mexican food is that it’s still disregarded as a cheap type of food, or a food that is so easy to make that you only pay a little bit for it,” he said.

It’s a misconception the Guadalajara native is eager to break through at his award-winning restaurant, as host of Gusto TV’s Latin Kitchen, and at cooking demos, like the Culinary Stage event set for Nov. 13 as part of Whistler’s annual food and

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drink festival, Cornucopia, that will usher diners on a “Journey Through Mexico.” (I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Valenzuela is also contracted to cook for the Toronto Blue Jays, and once word got out among Latin American players across the league, he began cooking for visiting players when they were in town looking for a little homecooking as well.)

“I thought we would try to do something just a little different, so hopefully [guests] will have a different conversation when

commonly eaten at Christmastime.

“It makes a very beautiful, very vibrant green mole. The idea is that it breaks from the stereotype of moles,” Valenzuela said.

“People are going to be like, where is the chocolate?”

(In a nod to the influence colonialism can still hold over the food we eat, Valenzuela told me a theory as to why Mexico’s chocolate mole sauce is so beloved.

As one legend would have it, before the bloody fall of Tenochtitlan, the modern

“The economic problem I sometimes see with Mexican food is that it’s still disregarded as a cheap type of food, or a food that is so easy to make that you only pay a little bit for it.”

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they leave,” Valenzuela said.

The five-course menu exemplifies the rich and regionally diverse cuisine of Mexico, and in some cases seeks to deepen diners’ knowledge of more well-known Mexican ingredients, like the Mexico City street food staple, tlacoyos, a blue corn tortilla Valenzuela has stuffed with Oaxaca cheese, green bean purée and crema fresca, or the time-intensive mole verde made from Poblano chiles, roasted zucchinis, squash, spinach and pistachio, which differs in flavour, aesthetics and texture from the more popular spicy chocolate mole sauce

Aztec capital where Mexico City now sits, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés asked to sample some of the Aztec’s finest cuisine, and he was brought a mole, which he purportedly couldn’t get enough of. Like with most colonial accounts, however, take that with a heaping helping of salt.)

In other instances, Valenzuela draws on his own personal memories to craft a dish, like the sweet pineapple tamale that harkens back to his schoolboy days.

“When I was a kid, before we used to go to classes, there was a guy who had what was like a hot dog stand. He was on a

bicycle and instead of hot dogs, he would sell tamales with pineapple and guava and strawberries, and he would open a baguette and stuff a tamale inside. So it was carbs on carbs, but it was sweet and delicious for a kid. That’s where the idea comes from,” he explains.

Along with wanting diners to see Mexican food through a new lens, Valenzuela is hopeful Canadians gain a deeper appreciation of the array of multicultural cuisines found within Canada, inflected as they are by generations of new immigrants and the abundance of quality ingredients in our fields and oceans.

“I want people to start thinking about Mexican food, for example, not just as Mexican food. I am a Canadian citizen who loves this country and I want to bring a bit of what I have from my roots to this place and cement them here, grow them here, and make it part of the Canadian landscape.

You don’t need to go to Mexico to have amazing Mexican food,” he said.

“Food gets passed down by families through the years, so if my daughter knows that we do a turkey dinner that has some Mexican elements at Thanksgiving, then maybe she’s going to pass it along to her daughter and her daughter after that.

Maybe that is going to happen two, three generations down the road, and all of a sudden, a hundred years later, it’s part of the Canadian repertoire.”

Culinary Stage: A Journey Through Mexico is set for noon on Nov. 13 at the Whistler Conference Centre. Tickets are $55, available at showpass.com/culinarystage-a-journey-through-mexico. n

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Whistler’s Mike Douglas mentors young climate activist in Sam & Me ARTS BRIEFS: PEMBERTON FREESKIER TATUM MONOD IN NEW FILM; HAIDA NATION ARTIST WINS AUDAIN PRIZE

BY BRANDON BARRETT AS A VOCAL climate activist and chair of Protect Our Winters (POW) Canada, freeskiing legend Mike Douglas is used to getting letters from people asking for advice on what they can do to fight climate change.

“But this was the first time I got a letter from someone so young and also someone so freaked out about his future,” says Douglas of a letter he received from then13-year-old Pembertonian Sam Tierney.

An avid skier and mountain biker himself, Tierney reminded Douglas of his younger self and, moved by the teen’s letter, he emailed him back almost immediately.

His advice followed a common mantra at Protect Our Winters: action is the antidote to despair. With that in mind, Tierney got to work, first by joining the climate advocacy group, then organizing a petition calling for more youth involvement in Pemberton’s climate action plan, which he and a group of students delivered by hand to Mayor Mike Richman after school one day.

Douglas also tapped Tierney to consult on a POW campaign aimed at engaging youth called Hot Planet, Cool Athletes.

“It was definitely a very good way to relieve all that anxiety I was feeling,” says Tierney, now 14.

BETTER TOGETHER Mike Douglas, left, and Sam Tierney while filming the new documentary, Sam & Me.

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It was about a month later that the two finally met face-to-face at a climate march in Whistler, and Douglas, an accomplished documentarian in his own right, pitched Tierney an idea: the pair would meet once a week to go skiing and talk climate, with a film crew in tow. That formed the basis of Sam & Me: Lessons from a Life on Snow, which premieres as part of the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival’s (VIMFF) fall series, running from Nov. 12 to Dec. 12. The documentary will also be screening at the Maury Young Arts Centre in Whistler on Nov. 19, with both Tierney and Douglas in attendance.

For Tierney, the experience was not only a way to work through his climate fears but also fulfil a dream of many a young Sea to Sky shredder.

“I’m not gonna lie, it feels really good, especially with the place we live, it’s sort of the holy grail around here to be in a ski movie,” he says. “I’m just super glad I got the chance to do that and get a good message out there.”

Before meeting Douglas, Tierney, like so many of us, felt paralyzed by the daunting scale of the problem of climate change, reading magazine articles that kept him up at night. But these days, he recognizes that climate action must start at the individual level, a realization that has helped lessen his anxiety.

“There’s a lot of stuff you can do on the individual level, like trying to drive less, take public transport, ride a bike, shop for food more effectively so you don’t waste it.

Compost. Eat less meat,” he says. “That’s

most of the super easy ones to do.”

Although Douglas filled the mentor role in his new friendship, the teenaged Tierney also imparted some important lessons on the climate advocate and freeskier, who himself gets bogged down at times by the weight of the issue.

“Being a climate advocate is tough.

It is a depressing subject. It’s so rare to get good news in this world,” he says. “So having someone like Sam and seeing his enthusiasm, seeing him rise out of his despair and see hope in things and look at these mountains that I’ve been skiing for 33 years with new eyes … all those little things give you shots of inspiration and motivation to keep going.”

Tickets to the Whistler screening of Sam & Me are $20 for adults and $15 for those under 16, available at showpass. com/samandme. Doors are at 7 p.m., with the film beginning at 7:30. Following the film will be a panel discussion featuring Douglas, Tierney and other notable locals talking about the next steps for climate action in the Sea to Sky.

TATUM MONOD REDISCOVERS HER LOVE FOR SKIING IN NEW FILM In 2017, Pemberton skier Tatum Monod suffered a debilitating knee injury while filming in Alaska that set her on a nearly two-year-long recovery. Unsure if she would ever set foot on skis again, she lost her passion for the sport that had fuelled her since childhood.

“If I miss a ski season, it’s my livelihood, my income. My life revolves around skiing, so just dealing not only with the physical side of the injuries but the mental side and that aspect was definitely really hard to overcome,” explains the Red Bull athlete.

As Monod would eventually learn, sometimes the only way forward is by going back. It wasn’t until she began retracing her family’s long history in skiing that she reignited her passion, an effort that was captured in her new short film, which also premieres at VIMFF, Passage.

“It reminded me why I do what I do and why I love what I do,” she says.

For as long as she can remember, Monod was on the sales floor at her family’s mountain sports store in Banff, Monod Sports, which her grandfather founded in 1949. A Swiss ski guide who spent years in Chamonix, it was his example that reiterated “that skiing is just so much part of my blood and my DNA.” Monod says.

“He was skiing, in the backcountry especially, before backcountry skiing, quote-unquote, was a thing. He was really a pioneer of that in a sense,” she recalls. “I didn’t realize the profound effect he had on so many people in terms of inspiring them to ski and inspiring them to enjoy the mountains and the outdoors. That’s really my goal with what I do. To be two completely different timeframes apart but to have my grandfather and I share the same commonality and the same goal at the

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Star of post-apartheid film Lune delivers unflinching portrayal of bipolar disorder ACTOR, CO-WRITER AND CO-DIRECTOR AVIVA ARMOUR-OSTROFF GIVES POWERFUL PERFORMANCE INSPIRED BY LATE FATHER

BY BRANDON BARRETT TORONTO ACTOR, writer, producer and director Aviva Armour-Ostroff was thinking of a character to play in her next film. She knew she wanted to portray someone “smart and funny and powerful and scary and sexy and dangerous.” Suddenly, a light bulb went off.

“I realized I’m kind of describing my dad,” she recalls.

Armour-Ostroff co-wrote, co-directed and stars in Lune, which sees its Western Canadian premiere at this year’s Whistler Film Festival. She delivers a powerful performance as Miriam, a bipolar, JewishSouth African freelance journalist who

leaves Toronto in 1994 to return to South Africa at the dawn of post-apartheid to vote for the recently-freed Nelson Mandela.

It’s a story that hits incredibly close to home, with the character of Miriam based on Armour-Ostroff’s late father, Brian, or Dr. Bro as he was affectionately known, and adapted from a play she wrote at 17.

“This story came about because I lived it,” she says.

What strikes you about ArmourOstroff’s performance is its unflinching authenticity, something not seen too often in Hollywood’s depictions of mental illness.

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A ski movie regular and popular Instagrammer with nearly 100,000 followers, Monod’s other passion also connects back to her roots. Working at her family’s shop almost as soon as she could walk, she gained a deep knowledge of outerwear product design, something she eventually parlayed into work with Arc’Teryx.

“Really, when I think outside of skiing, product design is what totally stokes my fire and lights me up,” Monod says.

With a particular passion for women’s outerwear, Monod is striving to move on from the days of “pink it and shrink it” to create functional gear that women actually want to wear in the backcountry.

“Even from the silhouettes, the fits, the colours, [Arc’Teryx] realizes women want to be comfortable. We don’t want to wear extra smalls and synch out our hips and showing our figures,” she says. “We’re out there with the men pushing ourselves and we need the gear that is going to match and keep up.”

Passage is one of five shorts screening as part of VIMFF’s Snowsports Show 2 on Saturday, Nov. 20 at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver. Doors are at 6:30 p.m., with the films starting at 7:30. Tickets are $23 for adults and $20 for youths and seniors, available at vimff.org.

HAIDA NATION CARVER WINS $100K AUDAIN PRIZE Haida Nation master carver and Eagle Clan hereditary chief James Hart is this year’s winner of the Audain Prize and $100,000.

Hart, the creator of The Dance Screen (The Scream Too), the centrepiece of the Audain Art Museum’s permanent collection, was honoured at a luncheon Monday, Nov. 8 at the Fairmont Pacific Rim.

“It is a real honour to make this award to one of B.C.’s greatest living artists—Jim Hart,” said Michael Audain, chairman of the Audain Foundation, in a release. “Mr. Hart is a carver in a long line of Haida artists: master carver and Hart’s ancestor Charles Edenshaw, Bill Reid, and Robert Davidson with whom Hart apprenticed with in 1978.

“The Audain Foundation wants to see our leading artists become better known.

British Columbia has many internationally renowned visual artists who are not as widely recognized in our own province as they should be.”

Awarded to British Columbia’s most distinguished visual artists, the Audain Prize was created in 2004, and over the years has been handed out to a who’s who of the B.C. art world. Past recipients include: Ann Kipling; Edward J. Hughes; Eric Metcalfe; Gordon Smith; Jeff Wall, Liz Magor, Robert Davidson, Rodney Graham, Marian Penner Bancroft, Takao Tanabe; Gathie Falk; Fred Herzog; Michael Morris; Paul Wong; Carole Itter; Susan Point; and Stan Douglas.

The Audain Foundation also announced the recipients of its annual $7,500 travel grants for students in university-level visual arts programs. This year’s recipients are: Pip Dryden of the University of British Columbia Okanagan; Carly Greene of the University of Victoria; Erick Jantzen of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design; Homa Khosravi of Simon Fraser University; and Romi Kim of the University of British Columbia.

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ARTS SCENE << FROM PAGE 49 productivity was interrupted by this condition, it was important to reflect that people who have a condition aren’t cuckoobananas-cat-lady-from-The-Simpsons crazy. They’re just regular people that are often challenged to exist in this society,” she says. “I remember so often thinking, if my dad could just go live by himself in the middle of the woods, he’d be just fine. It’s actually society’s constructs that make it challenging for him to exist.”

Although Armour-Ostroff says the film functions as something of an homage to her late father—“My partner and I joke that the film ended up being Dr. Bro’s greatest hits”—it was important that audiences see Miriam’s, and by extension her father’s, flaws as well. In one scene we see Miriam hurl a racial epithet at her daughter’s African-Canadian boyfriend, a moment that ends up triggering a manic episode and the film’s climax.

“Throughout the film, Miriam is so clearly anti-apartheid and really wants to support this young Black man and help him make his music, and it’s genuine, and yet she’s still affected by her upbringing,” Armour-Ostroff says. “She grew up in a fairly affluent, privileged way. That’s in her, so I guess I wanted to expose the complexities of our own humanity and not paint it, for lack of a better term, in black and white, but in a grey zone that needs to be examined but is so hard to examine.”

CLAIR DE LUNE Aviva Armour-Ostroff, left, and Vlad Alexis, in Lune, which plays the Whistler Film Festival on Dec. 3 and 4.

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Armour-Ostroff’s father saw the complexity of race firsthand while growing up in South Africa. In a poem he wrote that was adapted for the film, Brian says how he, a dark-skinned Jew, saw himself as white until the age of 13, until a burly Boer rail station master assumed he was coloured and struck him to the

ground for boarding on the “white side” of the tracks.

“That was an awakening for him, just the unfairness of it. I do think it chemically altered him,” she remembers. “Whenever there would be an awareness or another political protest or another great arrest or violence, he would get emotionally triggered

and that would often trigger his mania too.

The fight against apartheid came from a genuine place of seeing it was unfair.”

At a fraught time in history when fights for racial and social equality have arisen across the globe, and more recently, in Canada after the discovery of unmarked graves at several former residential schools, what lessons can be applied from postapartheid South Africa?

“For me and I would assume for my dad, too, this is no surprise. On some level it’s amazing that people are becoming more and more aware, but it’s also incredibly sad and frustrating that we’re like, ‘What, racism? In our own backyard?’ It’s not new information,” she says. “People have been saying that residential schools have existed and children are missing for years and years and years. People have been saying that cops are going to treat blacks differently than they are going to treat whites for years and years and years. So what I take from this on a personal level is more examination of my own bias and my own prejudice, and also there’s a lot of validation in my own beliefs and politics that I’ve had my entire life because I have been exposed to such deep racism in South Africa.”

Lune screens in-person as part of this year’s Whistler Film Festival at Village 8 Cinemas on Friday, Dec. 3 at 8:30 p.m., and Saturday, Dec. 4 at noon. Armour-Ostroff, actor Chloe Van Lanschoot, who plays Eliza, and Vlad Alexis, who plays Mike, will be in attendance. ■

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TREKKING TO WHISTLER In the 1940’s, reaching what is now Whistler meant using several forms of transportation, including steamship and train.

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Remembering trips to Alta Lake

BY ALLYN PRINGLE WHEN THE MUSEUM conducts oral history interviews, one of the questions asked is how the interviewee first came to the Whistler area. This question is often interpreted in one of two ways, with answers as varied as the individuals. Some interpret it as why they visited or moved to the area, while others answer more literally (one memorable answer was simply “car”). In a 2012 conversation with Kenneth Farley, he provided answers for both variations, including a description of travelling from Vancouver to Alta Lake in the 1940s, featuring at least three different means of transportation.

Kenneth’s parents, Frank and Hilda Farley, first visited Alta Lake in 1943 and rented a cabin at Jordan’s Lodge on Nita Lake for a week in the summer. Frank was a keen fly-fisherman and so the couple decided to buy property along the railroad tracks by Alta Lake from a Mr. Noble, who they knew from their home in Vancouver’s Kerrisdale neighbourhood. According to Kenneth, he came to Alta Lake “to see what it was all about” after his parents told him they had already bought the property. This was the first of many visits for Kenneth and his family.

The Farleys’ trips began in Kerrisdale on 49th Ave. From there they would walk eight blocks down to 41st, where the family caught the No. 7 streetcar, which would take them downtown. The next step was to walk across the overpass above the freight yards to the waterfront, where the Union Steamship would be waiting.

The trip aboard the Union Steamship was hardly an express route. After sailing through the Narrows, the ship stopped at most of the small colonial settlements along the Howe Sound, including Woodfibre and Britannia, before arriving in Squamish. As Kenneth recalled, it was often so windy in Squamish that the journey was made even longer as the captain faced the challenge of docking. Upon arrival in Squamish, Kenneth recalled navigating around “great big puddles full of water” to the Chinese

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restaurant, where they would eat apple pie while waiting for the train to be loaded with its freight. Eventually, the engineer would whistle and everyone would run to board the train before it went “rambling off in a cloud of dust and smoke.”

According to Kenneth, the cars used by the Pacific Great Eastern Railway were “real antique,” with sliding windows, a potbelly stove for warmth, and oil lamps suspended from the ceiling. The views along the route, however, made up for any discomfort on the train. Passengers could even disembark at Brandywine Falls to walk over and take a look at the falls before continuing north.

The train usually reached the Alta Lake Station around 5:30 p.m., and the Farleys would leave their baggage there while they walked to their cabin. When making the first trip of the spring, they often had to fix the chimney (which the snow had pushed over) and bail out the skiff made of rough planks. Once the skiff was emptied, someone would have to row back to the station to collect the baggage and then row back, finally completing the journey.

Kenneth remembered one memorable occasion travelling with his wife Shirley and sons Patrick and Greg when an additional stage was added to the journey.

As he recalled, “It was raining, rain was slashing against the windows, and the train stopped in the middle of nowhere. And people started to get out of the train and go across the ditch on a 2x12 plank and the conductor was helping them across.

And I thought, ‘Gee, this must be some new settlement or something or other,’ and then he came and said, ‘It’s your turn.’”

There had been a derailment ahead and the passengers were taken to dump trucks with makeshift benches that took them up rough logging roads to a point further along the railway. There they boarded what Kenneth described as “vintage rolling stock,” with he and his family riding the caboose at the end.

The Farley family began driving to Alta Lake after a road was constructed from Vancouver in the 1960s, though the journey could still be eventful. Kenneth Farley’s recollections of earlier trips, however, provide useful information about how visitors used to travel. n

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1 ROAD OPEN Community members and stakeholders gathered on Friday, Nov. 5 for a reopening ceremony marking the improvements made over the years to the In-SHUCK-ch Forest Service Road near Mount Currie. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 2 DOG DAYS Longtime WAG resident Lola relaxes at the local animal shelter while she awaits her forever family. For more information about Lola, head to whistlerwag.com. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 PAN PACIFIC GIVES BACK Staff from the Pan Pacific Whistler made their annual donation to the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice on Sep. 30, bringing the total amount donated over the past 11 years to more than $115,000 through the Village Centre location’s Canuck Place Suite. The local hotel also donated a two-night stay at the suite to Canuck Place’s Gift of Time Virtual Event auction on Saturday, Oct. 30. Pictured, Jill Donaldson (co-chair), Robyn Lalani (co-chair), Tarnia Taverner (Canuck Place CEO) and Heather Finlayson (co-chair) pose for a photo during the gala. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 CAT NAP Whistler cat Princess Peach ignores the snowy weather outdoors and instead curls up by the fire in her alpine home. PHOTO BY CLARE OGILVIE. 5 HART’S ART Artist James Hart, hereditary chief of the Eagle Clan of the Haida Nation, accepts the Audain Prize in the Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel on Monday, Nov. 8. The Audain Prize, which was established in 2004, awards a distinguished British Columbia artist a cash prize of $100,000, and is now one of the big three annual Canadian arts awards. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUDAIN ART MUSEUM. 6 VILLAGE BEAR The ground might be covered in snow, but it appears not all bears have settled in for their long winter nap yet. PHOTO BY DOUG RYAN. 6 PUMPKIN DROP Cst. Graebling from the Whistler RCMP helps clean up the gooey debris from Whistler’s eighth annual Pumpkin Drop, held at Spring Creek Fire Hall on Saturday, Nov. 6. The event raised funds for the Whistler Children’s Centre. PHOTO COURTESY OF WHISTLER RCMP.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): For much of her life, Aries poet Mary Ruefle enjoyed imagining that polar bears and penguins “grew up together playing side by side on the ice, sharing the same vista, bits of blubber, and innocent lore.” But one day, her illusions were shattered. In a science journal, she discovered that there are no penguins in the far north and no bears in the far south. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the coming weeks will be a good time to correct misimpressions you’ve held for a while—even as far back as childhood. Joyfully modernize your understanding of how the world works.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Actor Elizabeth Taylor described her odd rhythm with actor James Dean.

Occasionally, they’d stay awake till 3 a.m. as he regaled her with poignant details about his life. But the next day, Dean would act like he and Taylor were strangers—as if, in Taylor’s words, “he’d given away or revealed too much of himself.” It would take a few days before he’d be friendly again. To those of us who study the nature of intimacy, this is a classic phenomenon. For many people, taking a risk to get closer can be scary. Keep this in mind during the coming weeks, Taurus. There’ll be great potential to deepen your connection with dear allies, but you may have to deal with both your and their skittishness about it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): There are many different kinds of smiles. Four hundred muscles are involved in making a wide variety of expressions. Researchers have identified a specific type, dubbed the “affiliation smile,” as having the power to restore trust between two people. It’s soothing, respectful, and compassionate. I recommend you use it abundantly in the near future— along with other conciliatory behaviour. You’re in a favourable phase to repair relationships that have been damaged by distrust or weakened by any other factor.

(More info: tinyurl.com/HealingSmiles) CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to feminist cosmologists Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor, “Night, to ancient people, was not an ‘absence of light’ or a negative darkness, but a powerful source of energy and inspiration. At night the cosmos reveals herself in her vastness, the earth opens to moisture and germination under moonlight, and the magnetic serpentine current stirs itself in the underground waters.” I bring these thoughts to your attention, fellow Cancerian, because we’re in the season when we are likely to be extra creative: as days grow shorter and nights longer. We Crabs thrive in the darkness. We regenerate ourselves and are visited by fresh insights about what Sjöö and Mor call “the great cosmic dance in which everything participates: the movement of the celestial bodies, the pulse of tides, the circulation of blood and sap in animals and plants.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your heart has its own brain: a “heart brain.” It’s composed of neurons similar to the neurons in your head’s brain. Your heart brain communicates via your vagus nerve with your hypothalamus, thalamus, medulla, amygdala, and cerebral cortex. In this way, it gives your body helpful instructions. I suspect it will be extra strong in the coming weeks. That’s why I suggest you call on your heart brain to perform a lot of the magic it specializes in: enhancing emotional intelligence, cultivating empathy, invoking deep feelings, and transforming pain.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): How did naturalist Charles Darwin become a skilful thinker who changed the world with his theory of evolution? An important factor, according to businessperson Charlie Munger: “He always gave priority attention to evidence tending to disconfirm whatever cherished and hard-won theory he already had.” He loved to be proved wrong! It helped him refine his ideas so they more closely corresponded to the truth about reality. I invite you to enjoy using this method in the coming weeks, Virgo. You could become even smarter than you already are as you wield Darwin’s rigorous approach to learning.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You could soon reach a new level of mastery in an aptitude described by author Banana Yoshimoto. She wrote, “Once you’ve recognized your own limits, you’ve raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you’re closer to the real you.” I hope her words inspire you, Libra. Your assignment is to seek a liberating breakthrough by identifying who you will never be and what you will never do. If you do it right—with an eager, open mind—it will be fun and interesting and empowering.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio theologian Eugene Peterson cleared up a mystery about the nature of mystery. He wrote, “Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.” Yes! At least sometimes, mystery can be a cause for celebration, a delightful opening into a beautiful unknown that’s pregnant with possibility.

It may bring abundance, not frustration. It may be an inspiring riddle, not a debilitating doubt. Everything I just said is important for you to keep in mind right now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 2017, Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize for Economics. His specialty: researching how unreasonable behaviour affects the financial world. When he discovered that this great honour had been bestowed on him, he joked that he planned to spend the award money “as irrationally as possible.” I propose we make him your role model for the near future, Sagittarius. Your irrational, nonrational, and trans-rational intuitions can fix distortions caused by the overly analytical and hyper-logical approaches of you and your allies.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Neurotic” and “neurosis” are old-fashioned words. Psychotherapists no longer use them in analyzing their patients. The terms are still useful, though, in my opinion. Most of us are at least partly neurotic—that is to say, we don’t always adapt as well as we could to life’s constantly changing circumstances. We find it challenging to outgrow our habitual patterns, and we fall short of fulfilling the magnificent destines we’re capable of. Author Kenneth Tynan had this insight: “A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because you now have extra power to adapt to changing circumstances, outgrow habitual patterns, and uncover unknown secrets—thereby diminishing your neuroses.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Author Darin Stevenson wrote the following poetic declaration: “’No one can give you the lightning-medicine,’ say the people who cannot give the lightning medicine.” How do you interpret his statement? Here’s what I think. “Lightning medicine” may be a metaphorical reference to a special talent that some people have for healing or inspiring or awakening their fellow humans. It could mean an ingenious quality in a person that enables them to reveal surprising truths or alternative perspectives. I am bringing this up, Aquarius, because I suspect you now have an enhanced capacity to obtain lightning medicine in the coming weeks. I hope you will corral it and use it even if you are told there is no such thing as lightning medicine. (PS: “Lightning medicine” will fuel your ability to accomplish difficult feats.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The superb fairywren gives its chicks lessons on how to sing when they are still inside their eggs. This is a useful metaphor for you in the coming months. Although you have not yet been entirely “born” into the next big plot twist of your hero’s journey, you are already learning what you’ll need to know once you do arrive in your new story. It will be helpful to become conscious of these clues and cues from the future. Tune in to them at the edges of your awareness.

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MAXED OUT

Time to feast the senses MOST—OK, all—dictionaries define foreplay as the arousing activities leading to, well, you either know or you’re too young to be reading this in the first place.

With dictionaries expanding their list of words every year and a slew of new words hatching out of the current pandemic—slew being a unit of measure frequently used when you don’t want to look up the actual number—I’d like to suggest the accepted definition of foreplay is far too limited.

Case in point: The month of November in ski towns located in the Northern Hemisphere. If what we’re experiencing

BY G.D. MAXWELL right now isn’t a form of foreplay, I can’t think of a better word to describe it.

Foreplay, in its limited sense, is designed to arouse desire. Duh. I don’t know about you but it’s all I can do to keep from dragging my skis out and scraping the storage wax off.

But if I did that, I’d have to find something else to look forward to or start smoking.

Fortunately, my friend Sue Eckersley has given me—us—something to look forward to. Scrubbed last year because of that devilish pandemic, this year’s instalment of Cornucopia, Whistler’s Celebration of Food+Drink— ‘+’ being a stand-in for the word ‘and’ when the writer is, (a) lazy, (b) visual design oriented, or, (c) working with a constrained number of characters—is a month-long sublimation to ease the strain of ski season foreplay.

Little Cornucopia has grown from a long weekend to a week to longer than a week—op.cit., too lazy to look up—to a whole month with mid-week days off to recover.

Brief history diversion: Cornucopia was not dreamed up as a way to get Whistleratics’ minds off the just-out-ofreach mirage of ski season. It was dreamed up to bring people up to Whistler during a month they rarely bothered to come here.

You read that right. In the Before Time, people tended not to come to Whistler in November. I know, hard to believe. But they figured they could either stay home and get rained on or they lived somewhere it wasn’t raining so why bother coming up here to get wet in Whistler. Not that it never snowed in November. Actually it frequently snowed a lot.

History diversion redux: If you lived in Whistler B.V.—Before Vail Resorts—snow in November was way more exciting than it is now. Not that the snow was different.

Well, it did seem to be more copious but it was still snow but that’s neither here nor there. B.V., was a time of heightened competition and the acknowledged importance of media PR. When it snowed a lot in Whistler, the mountains would open earlier than the “official” opening day. That’s because Whistler Blackcomb— and Whistler and Blackcomb before they

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got married after years of foreplay—loved nothing more than sticking it to Vail Resorts by opening earlier than the eponymously named mountain in Colorado and releasing a barrage of PR broadside into their soft underbelly.

How early, I hear you ask? With the caveat my memory is diminished by both age and experiences generally referred to with the shorthand “The Sixties,” I have a vivid recollection of skiing Blackcomb top to bottom on November 11, 1994. After, of course, attending Remembrance Day ... I

Cornucopia can’t help much with appetites for things other than food+drink. But if you’re like me—and I’m sure you hope you’re not—food+drink are things you frequently hunger for. I know I do. In the case of food, several times a day. Not counting snacks. And when it comes to food, I’ve been on an endless quest, since growing tired of Kraft Dinner, to learn more about how to prepare it, what to prepare, what food goes with what other food, what food goes with what drink and how I can get someone else to prepare it for me so all

… if you had a choice to study for exams or tour wineries in the Napa Valley which would you choose? Exactly. think.

With Vail Resorts understandably not wanting to stick it to Vail, not to mention distaining any PR not their own, the chances of the mountains opening a minute before the official opening day are about as good as the braintrust in Broomfield deciding they actually give a damn about Whistler and mandating vaccine passports to access the mountains this year.

But I digress.

All November’s foreplay can leave you with a raging appetite. OK, appetites. But

I have to do is show up, sit down and enjoy.

And that, in one convoluted sentence, is what Cornucopia is all about.

Some time in the late 1970s, I was touring wineries in the Napa Valley. I was supposed to be studying for exams, but let’s be honest, if you had a choice to study for exams or tour wineries in the Napa Valley which would you choose? Exactly.

Pulling up to one winery—I don’t remember which one and yes, we were being driven by someone who wasn’t drinking—I walked into the tasting room

munching on an outstanding chocolate chip cookie. When the person leading the tasting saw me eating it he gasped in horror and, foreshadowing Seinfeld’s soup Nazi, said, “No wine for you.” He proceeded to “enlighten” me, in a voice best described as scolding with threats of reprisal, that wine and chocolate were something only an irredeemable savage would mix.

I apologized. Well, if you consider telling him he was crazy, grabbing a glass of wine sitting on the table and slamming it down my throat like a shooter an apology, I apologized. He was right though. Sort of.

His wine did not go well with chocolate chip cookie. Assuming it was a flaw in his process, I never bought that brand of wine.

But I was vindicated. Wine+Chocolate is now recognized as a perfect marriage of two major food groups. So universally recognized that there was a seminar last Sunday on pairing wine with chocolate.

Of course, pairing wine and chocolate isn’t the only thing you can learn attending a Cornucopia event. And you still have three long weekends left and dozens of events to choose from. Which is to say too many to list here. But of course there’s a website: whistlercornucopia.com. And if you just want to cut to the chase, there’s a schedule of all events: whistlercornucopia. com/schedule.

Heck, there’s probably even a need for more volunteers, which will definitely take your mind off the painful wait for opening day on the mountains and immerse you in close proximity to food+drink.

So much to gain; so little to lose. ■

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#35 - 1450 Vine Road

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$719,000

This 2 bedroom 2 bathroom townhome in the popular Peaks complex in Pemberton comes with an oversized single garage, and the ability to park 2 vehicles in front of the unit, allowing space for all the toys to be safely stored inside.

The back deck overlooks a quiet grassy common space with a very private feel to it.

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604.902.4260

#510 Pan Pacific Mountainside

$495,000

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.

Sally Warner*

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604.905.6326

9202 Pinetree Lane

This spacious lot in Emerald has fantastic views of Arm Chair and Wedge Mountain. Take advantage of this wonderful elevated lot assuring privacy and mountain views. This serviced corner lot sides/backs onto parkland, is on the bus route, is a short walk to Emerald Park and the Green Lake boat launch.

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#418 - 4369 Main Street

$458,786

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604.932.8629

9329 Warbler Way

$2,788,000

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604.905.8855

#101 - 4338 Main Street

$659,000

1565 Khyber Lane

$3,850,000

This One-Of-A-Kind Mountain Home is located in the exclusive Spring Creek residential neighborhood and shows off its quality with soaring vaulted ceilings accented with large heatsaving low e windows. The open floor plan and large deck invite you to enjoy a cozy feeling while entertaining or just relaxing at home.

Ann Chiasson

Bruce Watt

604.932.7651

3D Tour - rem.ax/2585lakeviewrd

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.

Dave Beattie*

$1,275,000

Just 12 minutes from Village North and 5 minutes from groceries, liquor store and gas! Compare this price to all other offerings in Whistler and Wedgewoods will win! Half acre lots, views and 2150 SF auxiliary buildings allowed. Build 4629-5920 SF homes. Only 9 lots remain.

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7063 Nesters Road

604.932.1315

3D Tour - rem.ax/1565khyber

Large Southwest facing studio on the 4th floor at the Alpenglow in the heart of Whistler Village. This unit features a cozy fireplace, big sun deck boasting wonderful views of the Village and surrounding mountains. Walk to all restaurants, shops, ski lifts and everything the Village has to offer!

Ursula Morel*

$1,700,000

2585 Lakeview Road

3D Tour - rem.ax/638legends

$5,450,000

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

Dave Sharpe

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638A - 2036 London Lane

$190,000

Enjoy views of skiers on the slopes from 638A Legends at Whistler Creek. A 590 sf, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom condo with vaulted ceilings in the living room. 1/4 share means 13 weeks of personal use or rental a year. Perfect for remote workers with a flexible schedule. 638A is on the top floor, right above the ski lockers where you can walk right onto the Creekside Gondola.

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604.902.2033

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#301 - 4280 Mountain Square $2,500,000

9297 Stellers Way

Ever thought of owning a Coffee Shop in Whistler, BC? Here is your rare opportunity to own one of Whistler’s longstanding coffee shops in a wellestablished location by the Olympic Plaza. Strong sales volume year-on-year, despite the obstacles of the pandemic, reflect good long-term value and profits.

Carleton Lodge – one of Whistler’s most iconic buildings – a small boutique condo. Located at the base of both Whistler/Blackcomb gondolas you can’t get any closer to ski-in/ski-out. Unit 301 is an end unit, 2 bed/2 bath facing the slope. This unit is in the absolute centre of it all.

Welcome to Wedgewoods, a master planned community of 108 beautiful properties. Phase Six includes the final 19 estate lots which allow for luxury homes plus a carriage house. Stunning mountain views and sunshine make Phase 6 a very special offering. Only 12 minutes north of Whistler with hiking, and biking trails at right at your door and snowmobiling close by.

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$1,850,000

604.935.9171

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