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TOO WET, TOO RAINY HOW CLIMATE CHANGE COULD END THE SKI BUSINESS FOR MANY B.C. RESORTS

FOREST FUTURES Cheakamus Community Forest looks for revenue beyond old growth

TRAUMA AVERTED WHCC’s new trauma centre officially opens its doors

THAT ’80S SHOW PSS take on The Wedding Singer is a throwback to the age of mullets

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

Too wet, too rainy How climate change could end the ski business for many B.C. resorts. - By Stefan Labbé

FOREST FUTURES

With old-growth harvesting

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on pause until at least the end of the year, the Cheakamus Community

Services hopes to break ground on a new affordable housing development

Forest is looking to other possible revenue generators.

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TRAUMA AVERTED

The Whistler Health Care

Centre officially opened the doors to its new and improved trauma centre

UNSTOPPABLE

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PROVINCIAL BUDGET

Local leaders

THAT ’80S SHOW

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are welcoming provincial funding for housing, daycare and climate

adaptation of the Adam Sandler flick, The Wedding Singer, is a glorious

initiatives—but there’s still no money for regional transit in 2022.

throwback to the age of mullets and pastels.

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week ponder the future of Whistler

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Blackcomb’s development and bemoan the ongoing transit strike.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST If athletes want to speak up on current events, they will. But let’s stop forcing them to be anything more than athletes.

66 MAXED OUT When Mad Vlad unleashed his dogs of war on Ukraine last week, he pushed “repeat” on a story as old as human civilization, writes G.D. Maxwell.

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33 THE OUTSIDER If (hypothetically) Canada ever found itself invaded by an aggressor, Outsider

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42 EPICURIOUS The “War on Chips” is yet another consequence of Canada’s supply-chain disruption.

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46 MUSEUM MUSINGS There is one skier who, despite making quite an impression during his time

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Death, taxes and making regional transit a priority SOMETIMES, WHEN you repeat a word or phrase enough, it begins to lose all meaning. The name for this phenomenon is semantic satiation, which is an enjoyable turn of phrase in itself. In researching this column, I went down a rabbit hole of repetition so deep I semantically satiated myself into a waking coma. Regional transit—what does it even mean? I know the letters put together form words, and the words denote a phrase

BY BRADEN DUPUIS describing some vague concept. But I’ve heard the words regional transit spoken so many times I’m not sure it’s even a real thing anymore—rather just something politicians say because it’s something politicians have always said. Shake a few hands, kiss a few babies, ensure the electorate that regional transit is a priority—all in a day’s work. In my eight years at Pique, I have personally written more than a dozen articles about regional transit, and doing a search through our archives on the topic is almost comical. Case in point: an article I found from December 2006, titled: “SLRD committed to regional transit strategy.” I didn’t go back further than that, but I assume this has just always been a topic of the day, and that if I looked up the inaugural issue of the Whistler Question from 1976 I would find an article featuring quotes from local elected officials recognizing the importance of regional transit. I can’t confirm this, but I’m pretty sure regional transit was on the agenda for Whistler’s first council meeting in Pat Carleton’s living room in 1975. I guess it’s comforting to know some things stay static in these times of global tumult and societal turbulence.

The case for getting it done is clear: with less housing availability in Whistler, more are commuting. Get their passenger vehicles off the highway as much as possible, and you get less congestion, fewer accidents and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Regional transit would help ease the employment burden for local businesses, and on health-care facilities, while also bolstering tourism in the corridor. It is so obviously a win, in so many different areas—yet for some reason it remains a political white whale for all who utter the cursed words “regional transit.” While there seemed to be a real sense of optimism in recent years, the unveiling of the B.C. government’s 2022 budget on Feb. 22 left elected officials in the Sea to Sky once again banging the tin mug against the bars, holding out their hats, pockets outstretched (insert your own old-timey cartoon metaphor here). A study released in 2017 pegged the costs to get regional transit up and running at about $3.31 million—with $1.9 million of the spend to be split amongst six local governments. In late 2018, the Sea to Sky regional transit committee—made up of Whistler,

elected official, and I do realize that these decisions are never quite as cut and dry as they may appear to armchair pundits. Local governments and elected officials have a multitude of factors to weigh with every decision they make. They also make hundreds of decisions, big and small, throughout the course of a term, each one carrying potential repercussions on other areas of daily life of the citizens they represent. It also should be noted that the regional transit question is made more complex by the very nature of the proposed system, which would span no fewer than seven areas of authority. But in the grand scheme of things, the hypothetical numbers attached to regional transit have always confounded me. For something that literally every elected official, at every level, lists as a top priority (year after year, forever into eternity), it sure is taking a long time to gather the peanuts needed to get this initiative off the ground. Yes, a gas tax model would ensure a self-sustaining service long into the future. But the province rejected that concept in

To his credit, MLA Jordan Sturdy hasn’t let the issue die in Victoria since his party took a backseat to the NDP in 2017. “We have a model. We have a plan. We have agreement with all the local governments, with the two First Nations. We’ve decided on a transit commission. We agree on the funding model where everyone contributes equally,” Sturdy said in the legislature last week. “We’re five years in and no progress. No progress at all.” The NDP has recently restated the importance of regional transit to the Sea to Sky, both in comments made by Premier John Horgan and in mandate letters issued to Minister of Transportation Rob Fleming and Minister of Environment George Heyman. And yet, another budget season comes and goes with nothing in the way of transit concessions. I know there are some who will offer a different philosophy—and it should also be said that the past two years have been challenging for governments, to put it lightly—but in my eyes, it comes down to a matter of priorities.

“We have a model. We have a plan. We have agreement with all the local governments, with the two First Nations. We’ve decided on a transit commission. We agree on the funding model where everyone contributes equally. We’re five years in and no progress. No progress at all.” - JORDAN STURDY

Squamish, Pemberton, the SquamishLillooet Regional District and the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations—proposed a funding model 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. In July 2019, the province rejected that model. Let me preface this next bit by saying I am not a government accountant, or an

2019, telling local leaders to “get creative” on funding—and we just… asked again? Gave up? There are literally no other funding options available to six different governments looking to pay for a relatively modestly priced transit system? For context: Whistler’s annual project spend tends to hover around the $40 million or so range. In 2022, the provincial budget calls for $71 billion in spending.

If regional transit were such a huge priority for the province, they would fund it. And if it were a priority for Whistler and its neighbouring communities, surely they could have made it work by now. Instead we’re left with more hopeful consultations, and another slate of municipal council candidates eagerly ensuring us that “regional transit is a priority” as they cross off all the squares on their local government election bingo card this fall. ■

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Is it time to develop Whistler Blackcomb’s South Base?

The devil is in the details

This letter was sent to Whistler’s mayor and council and shared with Pique. Like many of the residents of Whistler I am aware that our town has lost some of its influence in the management of Whistler Blackcomb. All of you are aware of how this is playing out, and I’m sure that there has been some discussion at least of working with other Vail Resorts communities that are feeling some similar repercussions related to centralized Vail management. We have been informed that Vail Resorts is planning an upgrade to Whistler to the extent of some $30 million. While a bigger gondola and six-pack chair will increase upload from Creekside, many of us do not believe this will solve the ongoing problems associated with crowds on-run, or even in lift lines. Certainly without other related planning this will only cause more parking and traffic issues, something that is part of Whistler-Vail Resorts joint responsibilities. I encourage you to offer a partnership with Vail Resorts to use the promised $30 million— along with monies from the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and the province—to carry on with the development at Cheakamus (once the proper approvals are in place) to include parking above Cheakamus Crossing and a lift to the ridge at Frontier Pass, as an alternative to the current

proposal. This idea has been bypassed as too expensive because of road building costs, but if the RMOW and the province were to partner with Vail, perhaps it could become part of the solution. [Editor’s note: though the “South Base” has been listed as one of several possible areas for development in Whistler Blackcomb’s Master Development Agreement for years, there are still no active plans to expand there at this time, according to Whistler Blackcomb.] There is an obvious advantage in this for the RMOW, because parking south of Creekside would alleviate some of our traffic problems, and re-focus the owner’s (Vail’s) responsibilities for providing a certain amount

I have had a season pass to Whistler (prior to the Blackcomb days) for some 35 years or more. I’ve had a place on Creekside since 1988, and we do enjoy the winters and the summers in Whistler. [On Friday, Feb. 18], while skiing with my wife and grandson, eight years old, we had the unfortunate timing to be on the Green Chair, sorry, the Emerald Chair for some 25 minutes between 10:30 and 11 a.m. While getting off the chair, there was a very nice young man handing out what he said was, “Hot Chocolate coupons, sorry for the inconvenience.” I want to thank Vail Resorts for the thought. We did have a lunch reservation at that time, and as we were all cold and shivering, we went in. My wife went to purchase our lunch and one hot chocolate for my grandchild. Reaching the cashier, my wife was politely told that the coupon is no good—we need to exchange it for another coupon at guest relations. She purchased our lunch. Just to let you know, as I am sure you do, there is no guest relations at the top of the mountain. (There used to be.) You have to go down to either Creekside or the village. That way, you have to stand in line again just to redeem a coupon for a coupon. Coming down cold, we did not immediately go into guest relations as we all wanted to get home and warm up. Then, we read the fine print, and I am sure that you know what it says. You have to redeem the coupon for a coupon on the day it is given, if not, it is worth nothing. No good will, no good intentions, nothing.

of free parking. As well, this would be a positive improvement for day-skiers from Vancouver. Vail Resorts, too, would get more value for its added investment: a real increase in lift capacity, justifying its contractual responsibility toward parking, service to its Vancouver pass holders as well as some new runs and more use of the underutilized Peak to Creek run. Good partnerships are win-win, and often the real benefits come from the improved relationships that develop along the way. Our connection with Vail Resorts needs improvement and this may be an opportunity. I encourage you to explore the possibilities. Al Whitney // Whistler

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AS OF WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2 In like a lion for March! The February high-pressure weather system finally broke down, allowing a juicy Pacific frontal system to invade the Coast Mountains. The Sea to Sky region received nearly 40 centimetres of new storm snow that was accompanied by strong southeast-to-west winds. This formed new and reactive direct action storm slabs and wind slabs at upper elevations. Loose, wet avalanche activity also occurred at lower elevations due to rain and warming. Additionally, the storm was the perfect recipe to build upon and increase the size of existing cornices along ridgelines. The forecast shows a clearing, cooling, and drying trend for the weekend. Natural avalanche activity is expected to taper off as the recent storm snow settles out and starts to stabilize. We’ll likely see the danger ratings in our public avalanche forecasts drop to Moderate or even Low. However, spring has sprung and the sun will affect the upper snowpack, potentially weakening

cornices and the recent storm snow, especially on sunny slopes. Knowing that the March weather can really pack a punch, time your day accordingly and practice safe travel habits that reflect the current avalanche hazard and conditions. Pay attention to wind direction and loading patterns, and look for signs of fresh wind slab like smooth and hard surface snow or whumping and cracking beneath your feet. Give cornices a wide berth from above and below. They are especially unpredictable when the sun is out and they can be a hazard on their own or act as a large trigger on the slope below. Pay attention to the aspect and elevation as solar radiation intensifies and melts and weakens the upper snowpack. Check the most recent avalanche forecast at avalanche.ca to get the most up-to-date information on conditions. This will help with your decision-making process on which terrain to avoid, and which to shred.

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In a Pique article on Feb. 24, “Whistler working to consolidate CECAP, Big Moves Climate Strategy,” it is reported that Whistler’s mayor and council heard an update on Tuesday, Feb. 22 on the progress of the Community Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP), and how the plan will be applied going forward. In the article, Pique journalist Megan Lalonde writes that “The RMOW …. counted wins in its promotion of public and active transportation.” Does anyone else see the absolute absurdity in the Resort Municipality of Whistler patting itself on the back for doing a good job in promoting public transit at this time? If a major goal of the climate strategy is to encourage residents and visitors to use public transit, might I suggest an edit to their climate strategy? Step 1: Actually Have Public Transit. While we are only four weeks into a legal strike action by the unionized drivers of

Whistler Transit Ltd., these two sides have actually been in an ongoing labour dispute, and without a contract, for more than a year, which the current mayor and council were aware of. From the RMOW’s website, the Transit Management Advisory Committee to the RMOW includes the following members: Councillor Jen Ford; Rob Ringma, BC Transit, Senior Regional Transit Manager; Bronson Bullivant, BC Transit, Senior Transit Planner; Juan-Carlos Gomez, Whistler Transit Ltd.; Colin Hoffmann, Whistler Transit Ltd. The RMOW website also indicates that this committee meets multiple times a year, including previously in: October 2021, August 2021, July 2021, March 2021, etc. I am now wondering if the mayor and council have spent the last year actually focused on issues that are most important to the community, including doing anything and everything they could to prevent this impending transit strike. In the year leading up to this strike, could the mayor and council have spent more time communicating the community’s transit needs to BC Transit? Did the mayor and council spend any time discussing subsidies for the local transit system? In the last year, could the mayor and council have made more efforts to reach out to the provincial government about this labour dispute, instead of “requesting a meeting with the Minister of Labour” only a few days ago, four weeks into this strike? These and other questions to think about before the next municipal election… Isla Robertson // Whistler ■

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Athletes aren’t politicians, so why are we treating them like they are? EARLY LAST WEEK, the world woke up to the frightening news that Russia has declared war on Ukraine and began invading the country. Since then, social media has been rife with terrifying scenes from Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, where people are hastily trying to evacuate while Russia unleashes bomb after bomb on the city.

BY HARRISON BROOKS As I’m sure many others in the news industry did, when I first heard of the invasion, I went straight to the trending page on Twitter to find more real-time updates on what was happening. And while scrolling through the trending topics, it wasn’t a surprise to see “Ovechkin” trending right alongside “Russia” and “Ukraine.” Post after post was pondering what Russian superstar hockey player Alexander Ovechkin’s response to the war might be. And it got me thinking: who cares? Why do we as media insist on putting every athlete right in the middle of the discussion on geopolitics happening in their country? At the best we get a clickbait headline with no real substance

claiming Player X shares their stance on Issue Y. But at worst, athletes speaking out about issues, especially Russian athletes criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin, can lead to things getting really bad, really quick. Take New York Rangers superstar Artemi Panarin for example. Last year Panarin criticized the political structure under Putin, comparing the Russian system in which most taxes go directly to Moscow, meaning other parts of the country get stuck in limbo with no government support, to the American one where taxes are used to improve cities in each state. Almost immediately after he made his criticism, Panarin was labelled as a “foreign agent” by many in Russia and a fabricated assault allegation from 10 years prior was released to the media. “I am more of a patriot than those people who hush up the problems,” said Panarin in a translated interview on a Russian news site in 2021. “They are playing with people’s emotions by saying that you have to love your country no matter what and hate others. I think it’s wrong. If I see issues and don’t talk about them, I think it’s a greater treason than when I talk about them.” Following the allegation, Panarin was

forced to take a leave of absence from the Rangers basically out of fear for his and his family’s safety. Now, here’s the thing: professional athletes do have a huge platform, and I applaud the ones, like Panarin, who use it to speak out on issues they care about, especially if it could put them at risk of repercussions. And we have had no shortage of these types of examples in the past, whether it’s Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police brutality in the U.S., basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom, whose outspoken stance on the Chinese Communist Party led to Chinese state media refusing to broadcast any games he played in, or more recent examples like Andrey Rublev, who wrote “no war please” on the camera screen after advancing to the finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships last Friday, or German F1 racer Sebastien Vettel refusing to race in the Russian Grand Prix. But we need to let athletes use their platforms when they want, or it leads to the same stale and recycled answers that we saw during the Black Lives Matter movement, where almost every player asked said they were just “watching, listening and learning” about the protests and the movement. So what good does it do to ask a guy like Ovechkin about the situation between

Russia and Ukraine? He’s known to be a supporter and close friend of Putin, so all we’re doing by asking him to speak on it is hoping we get something that makes us feel OK about continuing to cheer for him on the ice. What do you even expect Ovechkin to say? That he fully supports his country murdering thousands of innocent Ukrainians? Doubtful. What we are going to get almost every time we put an athlete in that kind of awkward situation is exactly what we got: a toeing-the-line response about how hard the situation is, how he can’t control anything and how he hopes for peace in both countries, without any criticism that could put him and his family in danger. And if we already know what we’re going to get, what’s the point in doing this every time there’s another crisis somewhere in the world? Maybe instead, we can just ask them how they are holding up, how their families are doing amidst the scary and difficult situations. You know, treat them like people instead of political pundits who we hope will give us some juicy quotes that will lead to lots of clicks but no real impact whatsoever. If they want to speak on it, they will. But let’s stop forcing athletes to be anything more than just that: athletes. ■

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Old-growth logging at CCF deferred until end of year as board looks to diversify revenue WITH LITTLE COMMERCIALLY VIABLE OLD GROWTH LEFT, THE CHEAKAMUS COMMUNITY FOREST HONES IN ON SECOND-GROWTH, CARBON CREDITS

BY BRANDON BARRETT WITH OLD-GROWTH harvesting on pause until at least the end of the year, the Cheakamus Community Forest (CCF) is looking ahead to other possible revenue generators—including a greater focus on its carbon sequestration program and logging mature and second-growth trees. The CCF board hosted a virtual open house Tuesday evening, Feb. 28, giving the public its first look at the proposed harvest plans for 2022. Co-managed by the Resort Municipality of Whistler, the Lil’wat Nation, and the Squamish Nation, the CCF hasn’t seen much commercial logging in recent years. Last June, in the midst of rising local opposition following the highprofile blockades at Fairy Creek, the board decided to defer what few plans it had to log old-growth trees last year—the first old growth that would have been harvested since 2018. That will continue through at least the end of this year, as the board looks to diversify the CCF’s revenue streams. “At this point we do not know if the deferrals will be permanent or temporary,”

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explained CCF manager Simon Murray of the halt on old-growth logging. “That is still yet to be seen and I can’t really comment any more on that.” Even without the spotlight created by Fairy Creek, the CCF already had little commercially viable old growth—defined in B.C. as trees over 250 years old—remaining, given the long history of clear-cutting in the Whistler Valley and the steep cost it

ha. available for harvest, 2,735 ha. are made up of old-growth stands. Taking that out of the equation leaves 5,321 ha., representing about 18 per cent of the forested area within the CCF, “a pretty high level of protection,” Murray said. Nearly half—46 per cent—of the CCF is legally protected from harvest. With a dearth of commercial old growth, the CCF board now intends to hone in on mature and second-growth trees, an approach

“At this point we do not know if the [old-growth] deferrals will be permanent or temporary.” - SIMON MURRAY

would take to build roads into the viable old growth that’s left. That has made it increasingly difficult for the CCF to meet its annual allowable cut of 21,000 cubic metres, as set out by the province. (It’s worth noting that, generally speaking, the amount of timber harvested on public lands regularly falls below the set annual cut, and at least one B.C. community forest— the Indigenous-led Xáxli’p Community Forest in Lillooet—continues to flout provincial harvest requirements.) According to the CCF, of the roughly 8,000

that won’t be without its challenges. During its supply review last year, the CCF’s managers determined a reduced annual allowable cut of 13,090 m3 could be maintained over a planning horizon of 250 years—but it means foresters will have to go after younger and younger trees. Timber supply modelling indicates the optimum age for harvest of Douglas Fir stands, for example, is between 70 and 90 years, and “what we’ve really determined is at the moment we don’t have a whole lot of stands of that age group,” Murray noted,

“so in order for us to maintain our annual allowable cut, we are going to have to go after stands far younger than that.” Ideally, the CCF would rely on trees between 100 and 249 years old until the younger stands have a chance to mature. Going after younger trees is a strategy that local conservationists have questioned both from a commercial and ecological standpoint. “I just think it’s a very short-sighted way of creating jobs to log forest that not only has very low [economic] value, but by any professional forester’s analysis in past years, it would have been way too early to cut [young trees] because it’s not when they’re putting out the most volume and the most valuable volume. So even from a timber perspective, it doesn’t make sense,” local ecologist Bob Brett told attendees to a forestry webinar last spring. “From an ecological perspective, the areas that would most likely be looked at to log are among the ones that need to be recruitment forest that would at least help us come closer to restoring the historic level of old growth in this valley over the next couple centuries.” Carbon credits look primed to become a bigger piece of the CCF’s financial pie as well. In 2015, the CCF became B.C.’s first community forest to ink a deal with the province to sell carbon offsets—essentially credits for greenhouse gas reductions achieved by one party that can be used

NEWS WHISTLER to compensate, or offset, the emissions of another. An analysis last year found that the switch to harvesting second growth wouldn’t negatively impact the CCF’s carbon sequestration program. “During this period of very low log sales, the community forest has relied on carbon to generate sales,” explained Whistler Councillor and CCF board chair John Grills. Lil’wat Nation CAO Kerry Mehaffey said the CCF recently sold its second set of carbon offsets, representing “the first time that they’re actually in a pretty strong financial position.” Getting a handle on the economics of the CCF has proven somewhat of a challenge in recent years. At of last spring, there hadn’t been an annual report posted to the CCF website since the 2018 edition (although the 2020 report has since been added). Mehaffey said financial reporting would improve moving forward. “The CCF, for its first number of years, was actually in more of a start-up mode and sort of struggled to get some good financial reporting out there,” he said. The CCF is operated under an ecosystem-based management approach— which aims to sustain the forest ecosystem to meet both ecological and human needs— and the board has discussed a variety of ways to monetize the forest beyond commercial timber. “The CCF overlaps a valley where most low-elevation, easily accessible forest has been logged. This makes the remaining old growth even more valuable to preserve for non-timber values, which are inherently under- or un-monetized values relating to fire resilience, ecosystem services,

costs, Murray added, which may help explain why harvest plans are now moving forward. There are plans to harvest secondgrowth trees at 16 Mile Creek on Cougar Mountain, an area in the northern part of the forest that has not seen any logging since the ’90s. The board is proposing five openings, with low retention, along with some wildfire fuel thinning. Upgrades to the 16 Mile Forest Service Road are planned as well, improving access to the nearby Ancient Cedars recreational site. Also close by is the Superfly Zipline Basecamp, with Murray noting logging in the area would have “somewhat” of an impact on the operator. “So we’ve got to make sure that the timing of the operations are coordinated with the recreation tenure holder to minimize disruption to their operations.” Wedgemount Creek will see some harvesting this year as well, with four openings proposed, and moderate levels of retention. Tree retention will need to be designed to avoid impacts on the red-listed northern spotted owl, Canada’s rarest owl, as well as protecting the extensive nearby trail network. Still in the planning stages for this year is Brew Creek, where 16 small openings with low-to-moderate retention levels have been proposed. Located within the Brew Creek community watershed, additional buffers around sensitive riparian features and special consideration for water quality will be required. At this stage, the project’s mapping and harvest boundaries have not been finalized—but the CCF board is considering heli-logging at the tricky site. “Because it’s lots of small openings

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HARVEST PLANS There are four projects proposed for the CCF this year, all for retention harvesting. One that has been on the books for several years now is a 6.6-ha. opening slated for Brandywine Creek. A mature forest type, foresters will give special attention to largediameter and old veteran trees. “We’ve got low-to-moderate retention planned in there; retention meaning the numbers of trees that we’re going to leave behind, either scattered in openings or in clumps,” Murray said. Recent road upgrades by a mining tenure holder near the proposed site has “greatly reduced” the road development

that are scattered in that particular area, it appears that we may need to use a helicopter for part of it, but we are still working on the economics of that at this time,” Murray said. The suggestion of heli-logging prompted a question from an attendee about whether the CCF should track the greenhouse gas emissions associated with that harvest method, which drew mixed responses from the board. In Ruddy’s view, it would be a worthwhile undertaking to better understand forestry’s footprint in the CCF. “As businesses and governments are building carbon calculations and accountability into much more complex operations, the case for the CCF to do a true cost accounting on GHG emissions from all logging operations is compelling, especially when part of their model is selling carbon credits,” she said. To view the full harvest plans proposed for this year, visit cheakamuscommunityforest.com. n

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Whistler Health Care Centre officially opens doors to new trauma unit ‘TO HAVE EVERYTHING OPTIMIZED FOR WHEN WE DO GET PUT IN REALLY DIFFICULT POSITIONS MAKES OUR LIVES BETTER’

BY MEGAN LALONDE AFTER YEARS of fundraising and months of renovations, Whistler’s new trauma unit has finally opened its doors. The $1.5 million in upgrades were 100 per cent funded by the Whistler Health Care Foundation (WHCF), courtesy of the single largest fundraising campaign in the foundation’s history. A small group of stakeholders gathered at the Whistler Health Care Centre (WHCC) to tour the new space and mark its official opening on Wednesday, Feb. 23, four years after local doctors first came to the WHCF to ask for help. “We have to do some really hard stuff here, and to be able to have everything optimized for when we do get put in really difficult positions makes our lives better so that we can serve our community and our visitors,” explained emergency physician Dr. Fern von der Porten, praising the WHCF’s “the-sky’s-the-limit attitude.” The goals of the highly-anticipated renovation were to create more usable space, improve the area’s functionality and update the electrical and mechanical gas systems required to provide the life-saving care patients need. Walls were knocked out

to transform the area into two larger trauma rooms, as well as a small anteroom where medical staff can store supplies and don protective gear before meeting their patient. The bright, open space features folding glass walls that can be moved aside to create one bigger trauma room, if need be, and allows for air pressure to be negative or positive—“a function essential for infection prevention and control,” according to Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH). It also includes UV lighting that automatically turns on after five minutes if no movement is detected, which helps disinfect surfaces in the space, as well as an isolette to treat the occasional baby unexpectedly born at WHCC. Arguably the most game-changing additions to the space are the state-of-theart booms that now hang over the treatment areas, centralizing important surgical equipment and utility services rather than having countless machines and cords running across the floors. The renovations were critical for the small WHCC. Previously, the main trauma room measured in at just 18 square metres (less than 200 sq. ft.). Since the WHCC opened in 1994, the space had outgrown the community’s needs—particularly since the former trauma unit was constructed pre-Whistler Mountain

Bike Park, which in itself is responsible for many of the most serious injuries that come through WHCC’s doors each summer. The facility provides care for more than 22,000 patients and clients each year, with approximately 1,500 people needing critical care. Staff handled 41 recitations in 2018. Some days up to 140 patients come to the facility in varying degrees of need. “It’s not just the volume of cases that is notable,” explained von der Porten in a WHCF video created early on in the Foundation’s fundraising campaign. “In the last 10 years, the seriousness and complexity of cases has pushed patient care to a level not seen at most small, rural medical facilities.” Renovations began last spring, after the WHCF reached its monetary goal for the project in January 2021. The WHCF’s campaign began with significant donations from the Sea to Sky Regional Hospital District and the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation, ($500,000 and $300,000, respectively), while major contributions from GFL Environmental ($300,000), the Rockowitz Family ($100,000), the Squamish Hospital Foundation ($100,000), the KatzAmsterdam Foundation ($90,000) and other donors rounded it out. VCH came on board in November 2019

once the fundraising campaign passed the seven-figure mark. The WHCC is “one of our gems,” noted Sean Parr, interim vice president of VCH’s coastal region, during the unit’s official opening. With the project now complete, the WHCF is looking ahead to its next endeavour. Event organizers are inviting potential sponsors to contribute to the inaugural Hike for Health fundraiser, scheduled for Sunday, June 19. The upcoming fundraiser aims to drum up money for general medical equipment upgrades at the WHCC. The first annual Hike for Health event will take place on Blackcomb Mountain’s Ascent Trails. Participants can embark on one of three hikes: the single-kilometre Little Burn, the 3-km Big Burn, or the full 6-km Heart Burn that brings hikers to the top of Blackcomb Mountain. (Anyone unable to participate in the hike is also invited to hop on the gondola to enjoy the post-hike festivities.) There are currently three sponsorship tiers available, with the highest level including naming rights. Prospective donors can contact organizers Lindsay Burch at lindsburch@ gmail.com or Michelle Gemmill at michellegemmill@gmail.com. n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT NOW THAT THEY’VE had a week to digest B.C.’s 2022 budget, Whistler leaders weigh in on what the latest round of provincial funding could mean for the resort. Last week, Pique delved into the funds specifically earmarked for the tourism sector. This week, we look at monies set aside for other industries and initiatives relevant to the resort. When asked what stood out for him in the budget tabled Feb. 22, Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton didn’t hesitate to point out what he saw as a glaring omission that was undoubtedly top of mind with the Sea to Sky transit strike now entering its fifth week. “There isn’t any funding for regional transit or any local transit improvements,” he said of the corridor-spanning transit line proposed to connect Mount Currie to Whistler and Squamish that local leaders have been actively lobbying for since 2017. A funding model proposed by the Sea to Sky regional transit committee—made up of Whistler, Squamish, Pemberton, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations—was

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‘It’s real war. It’s not a movie’ WHISTLER-TRAINED UKRAINIAN SKELETON ATHLETE VLADYSLAV HARASKEVYCH GIVES VIEW INTO ‘ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING’ SITUATION ON THE GROUND IN KYIV

BY BRANDON BARRETT A UKRANIAN skeleton athlete with close ties to Whistler is urging the international community to help put an end to Russia’s invasion of his native country. “Sanctions won’t work now. They will work in 30 days, in two months, three months—but people are dying now. Governments should do something,” said Vladyslav Haraskevych from just outside of Kyiv on Friday, Feb. 25. The Olympian’s comments came the day after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the brazen invasion that has shocked the world, and just hours after Russian troops pressed their advance and missiles pounded the capital. “It’s terrible. Absolute nightmare right now what is happening in Kyiv,” Haraskevych said. “It’s real war. It’s not a movie. It’s hard to understand it and to recognize it, but real people [are] dying.” UN officials reported at least 136 civilian deaths (and 400 injuries) as of March 1, mostly from shelling and airstrikes. Russian troops have seized Chernobyl, the former

PLEA FOR PEACE Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Haraskevych holding up a sign caling for peace in Ukraine after one of his runs at the Beijing Winter Olympics last month. SCREENSHOT / NBC

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RMOW’s vaccine requirement now in effect FACED WITH UNPAID LEAVE, WHISTLER FIREFIGHTER PENS LETTER TO COUNCIL OPPOSING MUNICIPAL MANDATE

BY MEGAN LALONDE ANY RESORT Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) staff, contractors or volunteers who have not yet provided proof they’ve received at least two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine are officially off the job. Municipal personnel had until Tuesday, March 1 at 4 p.m. to submit their documents. Those who hadn’t presented proof of vaccine by that deadline are officially on unpaid leave until further notice. The RMOW confirmed 18 employees—six permanent and 12 casual— have been placed on unpaid leave. The requirement applies to all of the RMOW’s 619 employees, in addition to its roster of contractors and volunteers. As Pique previously reported, council approved the policy during a closed meeting nearly three months ago, on Dec. 7. While Whistler’s mayor and council received a pair of letters from residents opposed to the vaccine requirement during its last meeting on Feb. 22, an RMOW spokesperson said the municipality is not currently considering lifting the mandate. One of those letters was from retired

Cpl. Richard Poilly, who identified himself as a firefighter with the Whistler Fire Rescue Service who previously served as an infantry soldier in Afghanistan. “I served our country for the freedom and rights of others to have choices and

the vaccine, and have watched the mental health decline come from of all of it. I have held the hands of those suffering vaccine injuries (in their own words) and hugged the people suffering from the mental decline. This virus has touched many

“It has become clear that this virus spares no one. Where there is risk, there must be choice.” - RICHARD POILLY

to have a brighter future for all. I have seen the devastation and destruction that comes when freedoms are taken away, and do not take that lightly,” he wrote, adding that he has “seen the very real effects this virus has had on friends, loved ones, partners, co-workers and patients. “I have seen the effects on both physical and mental health, and have seen the divide we have all come to. I have seen the devastation from both the virus and

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of the federal and B.C. governments, which both announced COVID-19 vaccine mandates for public sector workers last fall. Whistler’s decision also follows the lead of other B.C. municipalities, including Vancouver, Surrey and the Capital Regional District. “Throughout the pandemic, the RMOW has been diligent in following the advice of public health experts and taking all available steps to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 in our workplace and in our community,” said Mayor Jack Crompton in a release announcing the municipality’s vaccine mandate last year. “British Columbia’s PHO says being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 is the most effective measure to safeguard employee health and reduce the risk of transmission within the workplace.” B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner issued a policy guidance document about vaccine mandates last July (and updated it October), 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.” - With files from Braden Dupuis. n

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Sea to Sky transit strike talks break down a day after they resumed PACIFIC WESTERN TRANSPORTATION SAYS UNION REJECTED OFFER THAT INCLUDED WAGE INCREASE AND FULL BENEFITS

BY BRANDON BARRETT ONLY A DAY after the parties returned to the bargaining table, talks have broken down between the union representing striking Sea to Sky transit workers and their employers. In a statement Friday, Feb. 25, Pacific Western Transportation (PWT)—the parent company of Whistler Transit Ltd. and Diversified Transportation in Squamish— said they met with Unifor Local 114 on Feb. 24 and proposed a settlement offer that included a wage hike for all employees in each year of the agreement, retroactive pay increases back to 2020, and full benefits for all employees. PWT said the union rejected the offer and declined to put it to its members for a vote. Unifor did not present a counter proposal. “Whistler Transit Ltd. and Diversified Transportation are disappointed in their decision and it’s the company’s opinion that the union’s refusal to move off of their initial offer of nearly a year ago represents a lack of [earnestness] in bargaining for a reasonable deal,” PWT said. “We understand the impact this matter has on the community as many depend on transit, and we apologize for the inconvenience of the past few weeks. We were hopeful we could reach a resolution and felt the offer presented gives the employees a fair deal and increases wages in excess of other systems. We hope the Union reconsiders their position and returns to the table.” Unifor’s western regional director Gavin McGarrigle told Pique the union was “disappointed” with the offer PWT put on the table, claiming the proposed wage increase remained below Canada’s current inflation rate of about five per cent. “Not much changed with the wage offer we saw this week, if at all, from what we saw last January,” he said. “Bargaining is about identifying the issues and really rolling up your sleeves to get it done and what we saw this week was unfortunately a seriously inadequate offer from the employer, a lot of game-playing, and no willingness to really get to a deal. It’s very unfortunate. We were expecting a lot more.” Transit workers in Whistler, Pemberton and Squamish began their job action on Jan. 29, and no talks occurred until the brief bargaining session on Feb. 24. The main sticking points for the union concern wages, benefits and job security, particularly in light of the high cost of living in the corridor. Unifor has contended that drivers make anywhere from $3 to $5 less than their counterparts in Vancouver and Victoria. But in a rare statement last week, PWT pushed back against what it sees as “misleading and inaccurate information” around its current wage scale and compensation. “We cannot comment on any specifics of either party’s bargaining positions,

[but] we encourage anyone interested to seek out the facts on wage scales, as it is all public information,” the company wrote on Feb. 21. According to the five-year collective agreement that was previously in place between Unifor and Whistler Transit, a new driver with no experience in April 2019 would have had a base hourly pay rate of $27.92, which increased by a dollar with every 600 driving hours accumulated, to a maximum rate of $31.92. A recent job posting for a BC Transit operator in Victoria, meanwhile, lists the pay scale ranging from $21.77 after the initial training period to a maximum of $33.18 after five years of service. McGarrigle was quick to point out, however, that compensation for Victoria transit workers—who are employed directly by BC Transit, rather than a private contractor—also comes with “a fully funded pension plan, with benefits for all, and a whole bunch of things that come with a robust collective agreement,” he said. “For us, the employer is simply being disingenuous.” McGarrigle added that there has been “no acknowledgement on the part of this employer that comparisons with transit wages down the road at [contracted Vancouver transit operator] Coast Mountain Bus Company make sense. That’s a huge problem.” In regards to PWT’s offer to extend full benefits to all transit employees, McGarrigle didn’t want to get into the specifics of the proposal with negotiations ongoing, but noted “there is contract language attached to all of these things. At the end of the day, they didn’t reach what we needed to see in terms of getting benefits for employees in a fair manner.” He added that this week PWT “talked about how they had philosophies opposed to pensions.” Unifor has previously said a cap on the number of employees eligible for benefits means 38 per cent of the bargaining unit is without benefits. PWT has pushed back against this figure, although it wouldn’t say what percentage of workers is not currently covered, as it can fluctuate depending on the time of year. A company spokesperson did tell Pique this week that PWT offers a group RRSP pension plan, and said all year-round, unionized employees receive full extended health and disability benefits, in addition to a “good portion” of seasonal staff. Unifor has been vocal about its stance on private contractors delivering public transit, which it believes lies at the root of the current dispute. “We’ve always questioned what it is any private contractor can bring to managing a bus system that BC Transit can’t do itself,” McGarrigle said. “This is the result, unfortunately, and it impacts the working people the worst. That’s why we actually agree with the business community and the workers in the region that the government needs to do a heck of a lot more here to help us get a deal.” n

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TRAGIC END Peter Oleski, left, and his son, River, went missing last fall while mushroom picking on Mount Currie. A coroner’s report determined they both likely died of cold exposure. FACEBOOK PHOTOS

Coroner concludes Lil’wat mushroom pickers likely died from cold exposure PETER OLESKI AND HIS SON RIVER WERE FOUND DEAD ON PEMBERTON FOREST SERVICE ROAD IN OCTOBER 2020

BY BRANDON BARRETT A LIL’WAT MAN and his son, who were found dead in late fall 2020 after going missing on a mushroom-picking trip, likely died of exposure to the cold, concluded a B.C. coroner. Peter Andrew Oleski, 48, and his 21-year-old son River, were last seen on Oct. 22, 2020, when they left to go mushroom picking on Mount Currie. Family reported them missing the following morning after they hadn’t returned. Local RCMP, Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police and Pemberton Search and Rescue joined

were determined not to have contributed to his death. Oleski and his son became lost, likely in an early snowstorm, the report continued, and although Oleski had experience in the outdoors, he was “not prepared for an unsheltered overnight stay in the mountains, particularly in the unseasonably cold and snowy weather.” Although it is believed that Oleski died soon after he went missing, the day his body was discovered was listed as his date of death due to a lack of corroborative evidence to specifically support an earlier day. While the Jan. 21 coroner’s report only detailed the cause of death for Oleski, Pridgeon concluded that River also

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volunteer crews in their search, and on Oct. 29, tracked down the father-andson’s pickup truck near the end of the McKenzie Forest Service Road. The same day, the two were discovered deceased in a densely wooded area approximately 500 metres from the Jack the Ripper mountain bike trail. Oleski, who was found lying on his back, was wearing a hoodie, dark pants and running shoes at the time, all of which were “extremely wet,” coroner Lucy Pridgeon wrote in her report. A post-mortem examination found evidence consistent with hypothermia, “along with some non-contributory natural disease processes,” Pridgeon noted, before adding that abrasions found on his legs

succumbed to the cold. Oleski’s death was ruled as accidental, and therefore no follow-up recommendations were made. News of the father-and-son’s tragic deaths rocked Mount Currie and Pemberton. Dozens of community volunteers lent a hand in searching for the pair in those first few uncertain days. “The determination of the Lil’wat community and the search and rescue teams was inspiring to all those who participated in the search,” said RCMP Sgt. Sascha Banks in a statement at the time. “Although this is not the ending we had all hoped for, I am thankful they were located, as this is not always the case with those that go missing in our backcountry.” n

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NEWS WHISTLER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ELECTORAL AREA D Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 4pm

Public Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 466 of the Local Government Act that a Public Hearing will be held electronically regarding the following bylaw: 1. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area D Oﬃcial Community Plan Bylaw No. 1135-2013, Amendment Bylaw No. 1717-2021. PURPOSE OF BYLAW 1717-2021: The SLRD Electoral Area D Development Permit Areas (DPAs) require updating to address new development concerns, legislative changes, and current planning practices. The Howe Sound East developments in particular require more extensive Development Permit Areas to guide development in these existing and future neighbourhoods. Bylaw 1717-2021 applies to the entire Electoral Area D, although some Development Permit Areas only apply in certain areas or for certain types of development:

INFORMATION A copy of the proposed bylaw and relevant background documents may be inspected at the Regional District office, 1350 Aster Street, Pemberton, BC, during office hours 8:00 am to 4:30 pm from February 17 to March 10, 2022 not including weekends and statutory holidays or on the SLRD website at www.slrd.bc.ca/ AreaDDevelopmentPermitAreas. The public hearing is to be chaired by Electoral Area D Director Tony Rainbow as a delegate of the SLRD Regional Board. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION All persons who believe that their interest in the property is affected by the proposed bylaw shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the bylaw at the public hearing. All persons can 1) submit written comments; and/or 2) make oral representations LIVE via online video or phone conferencing (your image will not be broadcast to the Board or the public). 1. Submit Written Comments to the Board: Written submissions must be addressed to “SLRD Board of Directors,” and include your name and mailing address. Until 4:30pm on March 9, 2022, written submissions will be received at the following: Email: Hard Copy:

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Written submissions will also be accepted on March 10, 2022 between 8:00am and the time when the motion to close the Public Hearing is made. During this timeframe, written comments must be submitted by email to: cdewar@slrd.bc.ca 2. Participate LIVE via Online Video or Phone Conferencing The live Public Hearing will take place March 10, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. via online video and phone conferencing. The Public Hearing will be conducted using Zoom and can be accessed via either online video or phone conferencing. Log-in details will be posted to the notice page: www.slrd.bc.ca/inside-slrd/notices three days prior to the Public Hearing. You may also call the Planning Department starting three days prior to the Public Hearing at 604.894.6371 to get the log-in information.

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WNORTH returns to foster in-person connections ‘WE NEED A NEW LEADERSHIP THAT PLACES HUMANITY AT ITS HEART,’ SAYS FOUNDER

BY MEGAN LALONDE WHEN WHISTLERITE Heather Odendaal first envisioned a women-only business leadership conference eight years ago, the idea of fostering in-person connections was one of the most motivating factors. At the time, she was working as a sales representative for a Fortune 500 company, after nearly a decade of marketing and event planning experience within the resort. “I saw a lack of opportunity for advancement in women in that midmanagement tier, and as a remote employee based in Whistler, I was seeking some more leadership development opportunities— this is also well before the proliferation of online learning and development opportunities—and I was specifically looking at conferences,” said Odendaal. “At the time, many people were talking about how there were more Daves and Johns in the C-suites than there were women, but very few people were talking about the pipeline to executive leadership and why women were getting stuck.” In Odendaal’s experience, much of the available resources were dedicated to further elevating a smaller group of women who had already reached executive status, or who were further along in their career, she said. “When I couldn’t find … that community, that conference, all of the things, my husband really pushed me to consider what I was going to do about it.” Cue WNORTH, established in 2015. Now, the conference is returning to Whistler— in-person—for its seventh-edition to help keep that leadership pipeline flowing. “Who would have thought it would be a three-year hiatus? But we’re really excited about it, for sure,” said Odendaal, who on Friday, Feb. 25 was named a top 50 Changemaker of 2022 by Report on Business magazine. (The annual list of Canadian Changemakers are selected from hundreds of nominees by The Globe and Mail’s editorial team based on finalists’ ideas, accomplishments, and impact, as determined by their nominations, subsequent interviews, and reference checks, according to a release.) Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the WNORTH conference scheduled for April of that year went fully virtual, and has been making good use of digital platforms ever since. The event “doubled-down on online learning,” that spring, explained Odendaal, offering sixweek leadership courses and expanding on its existing membership model to offer more virtual leadership and development opportunities to entrepreneurs and corporate

leaders alike. As a result, WNORTH saw its membership triple in just a few weeks. But while “there is a time and a place for virtual learning,” Odendaal acknowledged, “WNORTH is really focused on creating those powerful connections, of which in-person is vitally important.” The conference will be incorporating some strategies learned over the last two years to bring the event back in a hybrid format. Included in its programming is a range of receptions, panels, workshops, training and networking opportunities that fit within this year’s theme: The New Leadership Playbook for an Inclusive Economy. The inspiration for this year’s theme was drawn from WNORTH’s 2018 keynote speaker and former Icelandic presidential candidate Halla Tomasdottir, who recently co-authored The New Leadership Playbook, described as “a collection of stories, insights and resources on 21st-century business leadership.” The playbook “essentially recognizes that the leadership strategies that we have adhered to … in the last 30 or 40 years are not going to change the world’s biggest issues,” said Odendaal. “And so they’re saying, ‘We need a new vision, we need a new leadership that places humanity at its heart’ … We’ve very much seen over the pandemic a fundamental shift towards empathetic leadership, collaborative leadership, and women are, I believe, kind of at the heart of leading that way.” The conference is set to take place at

“I’ve always recognized that it’s not the quantity of connections, it’s the quality.” - HEATHER ODENDAAL Nita Lake Lodge from April 27 to 29, with virtual portions scheduled to stream on Bizzabo beginning Thursday, April 28. All attendees must follow B.C.’s current provincial health orders regarding COVID-19, and WNORTH is also requiring participants to provide proof of a negative antigen or PCR test carried out within 72 hours of the event’s start date. Find more info at wnorthconnect.com. “I’ve always recognized that it’s not the quantity of connections, it’s the quality,” said Odendaal. This year in particular, that means “the opportunity to develop new connections,” she added. “The networking components will be really strong at this event with a focus on rebuilding your network post-pandemic.” n

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Affordable housing project in Pemberton moves one step closer to development THE NEW DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED FOR HARROW ROAD COULD BRING 63 NEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS TO THE VILLAGE

BY HARRISON BROOKS EARLIER THIS WEEK, Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) wrapped up its second and final community dialogue session to discuss a new affordable housing project on Harrow Road in Pemberton. The project, as proposed, will be a fivestorey development with 63 affordable housing units on the top four floors with a ground-floor commercial business space, located on the corner of Harrow Road and Highway 99 in Pemberton. In the works since 2021, the project has been approved for funding by BC Housing and represents a crucial need for the fastgrowing community. “I think [affordable housing] is hugely important. There is such a shortage of rentals in Pemberton, period. And then there is a shortage of affordable rentals in Pemberton,” said SSCS communications and marketing manager Kim Konnert. “In 2008, a two-bedroom rental averaged about $1,300 per month. In 2021 a two-bedroom rental now costs $2,300 a month, which is a 74-per-cent increase. So again, there’s just a need for rentals in the area and the need for affordable rentals is quite strong.” According to SSCS, the building will contain a mix of one, two and three-

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bedroom units, 30 per cent of which will be market rentals, 50 per cent will be “rent geared to income” (or subsidized units for households that meet BC Housing limits), and 20 per cent will be “deep subsidy,” or geared to those with low incomes. However, as is always the case with new proposed developments, there were some concerns raised by the community during the two dialogue sessions. Some of the main concerns raised about the development revolved around

dramatic geography, floodplains, and the Agricultural Land Reserve—all while keeping the town’s character, is one of the biggest challenges for Pemberton’s council, according to Mayor Mike Richman. “Because we are so beautiful and welllocated, growth is coming, that demand is there, so balancing that with maintaining the character of Pemberton and the rural and smaller community personality that we have here is definitely a tough balance,” said Richman.

“It certainly doesn’t solve affordability issues in Pemberton, but it’s a good, solid step in the direction of trying to work towards more affordable options here.” - MIKE RICHMAN

its height, regarding both the potential to block sight lines and possibly sunlight for some of the nearby residences, as well as the building looking out of place in the village’s small-town aesthetic. Other community concerns included the parking needs of the building, as well as tax implications for current residents. Keeping up with the housing and infrastructure needs of a fast-growing town like Pemberton—which is limited in its expansion by multiple factors like

“As development and demand grows, how do we build new housing that doesn’t sprawl into the countryside, that doesn’t change the character of Pemberton? Part of that requires some densification somewhere. And densification is something that’s always a bit of a struggle for people to adapt to at first because it’s a change, but there has to be some somewhere. “We want to make sure that as we are moving forward, as we open new development lands, that we are building diverse housing,

that we are building neighbourhoods that include housing so that they are healthy, complete neighbourhoods.” Adding another element of difficulty to these types of development processes, according to Richman, is the fact that you can never make everybody happy. No matter what, there will be people with valid concerns who will be upset about the outcome of the development, but it’s the job of mayor and council to be able to look at the big picture and make the best decisions for the community, even if it may be unpopular, said Richman. And while the full scope of the Harrow Road Project has yet to be presented at a Village of Pemberton council meeting, Richman’s initial thoughts on the project are that it could be a benefit to the community moving forward. “I think it’s fairly easy to acknowledge, in my mind, the importance of this project,” he said. “I think it’s super vital to the community, I think it’s super vital to providing for many of our community members. It certainly doesn’t solve affordability issues in Pemberton, but it’s a good, solid step in the direction of trying to work towards more affordable options here.” The next step in the process for the Harrow Road Project is to bring proposed Official Community Plan amendments to mayor and council for review, which is slated to happen sometime this month. If approved, SSCS hopes to break ground and start construction in summer 2023. Housing applications would open in 2024, and occupancy would follow in 2025. Read more about the project, and follow its progress at sscs.ca/programs/harrowroad. n

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‘The possibilities for this small-town time machine are truly endless’ A Q&A WITH PEMBERTON AND DISTRICT MUSEUM AND ARCHIVES SOCIETY OUTGOING CURATOR AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NIKI MADIGAN

BY MEGAN LALONDE THE PEMBERTON and District Museum and Archives Society is on the hunt for a new curator and executive director, as Niki Madigan prepares to step down after 14 years in the role. Madigan “has brought a unique skill set to the museum. Her strengths include leadership, organizational skills, integrity, and youth mentoring; as well as her dedication to her work, chronicling the history of Pemberton and area,” said museum president and chair Brenda McLeod in a release, adding that “it has been a tremendous privilege and honour to work alongside Niki, and to learn the workings of our museum from her. The impact of the incredible work she has done will be felt at the museum for generations to come.” Madigan’s responsibilities at the site— which today counts five historic buildings and three modern builds among its structures— included handling the museum’s policies and procedures, archiving, developing programming and events, and writing grants, to name just a few. Prior to officially hopping on board as curator and director, Madigan spent six years volunteering for the organization as a director on the museum’s board (she remembers one board meeting in particular where a debate about whether to buy a computer was raging). “I just thought the museum was a treasure that not a lot of people seem to know about, which I thought was amazing,” she recalled. Madigan will officially leave the position later this spring, before the 2022 museum operational year begins in May. While she admits “there’s no right time to move on,” from the community she’s called home since 1995, Madigan and her partner have decided to relocate back to their hometown in the Ottawa Valley to be closer to family. Pique caught up with the longtime Pemberton resident to talk about her years with the museum and what’s next for the non-profit. (This conversation has been edited for length and clarity.) PIQUE: What have been some of the biggest projects that have gone on at the Museum during your time there?

NIKI MADIGAN (NM): There’s been a lot of exhibit development, because [when I started], the museum was only open two months of the year—maybe three. Since 2001, there were new buildings added to the site. So the footprint has continued to grow, so therefore the exhibits as well. What are some of the initiatives that the Museum has put out that have resonated the most with the public, in your view? NM: I think this most recent project, with the restoration and replication of the Pemberton Station School and the Arn Cabin. The museum was gifted the buildings by the school board in 2013, and it took us until now to get the funding in place and the logistics to save those buildings. There was always a lot of community interest, generally, in that outdoor school facility because so many kids, including in Whistler, went to that outdoor school and did pioneer activities. The whole facility almost burned down during the 2009 wildfires, too. We’ve received a ton of community support and donations towards this project, and a ton of support from Heritage Canada, the province, and local foundations. We were kind of stalled out through the pandemic—I was concerned that interest would wane, but we saw even more interest and more support that got us over the hurdle of the pandemic and got the buildings in place. They’re empty spaces that are ready for exhibit development, and I think it’ll be a cool community engagement project. It’ll provide space for school groups in the spring and fall because at the site [currently], most of the Heritage houses aren’t heated—it’s challenging on a cold, rainy day with a group of 30 kids, when all of a sudden space is really limited. The schoolhouse will really help with that. What’s something interesting that you’ve learned about Pemberton during your time with the museum that you might not have had the opportunity to find out without this job?

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NM: I guess the depth of knowledge here about the region—the Lil’wat [Nation] and the deep knowledge there, about the land and the people. I don’t know that I would have gotten that kind of experience in another job, just because I’ve had to work

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closely with Lil’wat Nation, especially the lands and resources department, because of repatriation requests, and even just trying to understand what items we had in collection. I just found people so supportive and helpful. The Charlie Mack book blew my mind—The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack. Continually, year by year, [I’d] think that I understood it all and then find more information, or more knowledge would be shared and the story would just get deeper—I’m thinking of [Mount] Meager. Recently, there were some archaeological studies and the archaeologist was sharing with me the fact that Mount Meager likely was higher than it is today, because there was a volcanic explosion 2,500 years ago. Some of the traditional stories had said that you could see the ocean from the top of Mount Meager, which you can’t today, but before the top of the mountain blew off, you could. And how small Pemberton was for so long, until recent times—like, we’re talking under 500 people. I mean, everybody knew everybody; they knew your business before you did … and you can really see it in the community collection, like the archives and the newspaper clippings. Somebody had a baby and it was announced; somebody went for a trip to [Vancouver] Island to visit relatives and came back, and that’s a news item in the paper. [Working at the museum] was just like

MOVING ON After 14 years as the executive director of the Pemberton and District Museum and Archives Society, Niki Madigan is stepping away. PHOTO SUBMITTED

working in a time machine, really. You would just be able to go to a different time through the records or the objects or the stories that people would tell you. What role do you see the museum playing in the future now, as Pemberton continues to grow? NM: I would think still building those community connections. For me, the community events at the museum have been a highlight: the homemade food, the music, the long-arm draws, the 50/50s, the

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baking—did I mention the food? You see community connections formed at these kinds of gatherings. You see people talking and they hadn’t caught up in 10 years, or the new people talking to older people or young people hanging with seniors. I just think the museum is an awesome backdrop for that. With these new buildings, the hope is that there would be more community gatherings and events, because that schoolhouse will also be a space available for private use. What advice would you have for the

NM: The museum will tell you what it needs. And [so will] the people involved with it. I feel that there was a lot of guidance and mentorship and visions for the site—I don’t want to take any credit for what happened there, I’m just a really good grant writer. And so it was lots of administration; I’m good at administration and I was able to be the arms to get that stuff accomplished. But this Pioneer Village concept and what’s happened there has been in place since 1982, when even though it was a volunteer entity, they catalogued everything … it truly is amazing what the volunteers did, even before funding. I think it’s just such a gem for a town so small—you think of all the small towns in Canada, and how many of them actually have a museum that runs like this? Is there anything else that you want the community to know? NM: I learned more than I thought I ever would running a small community museum. It’s been a great job, and it’s a tough decision to leave. The museum is a recognized Heritage Institute, with recognition from Heritage Canada, because it’s got a significant regional collection. We do get annual funding, and we’re able to access provincial and federal grants, so I really think the possibilities for this small-town time machine are truly endless. n

Currently Seeking Curator/Executive Director - FT, April-Dec Reports to: Board of Directors SYNOPSIS: Your leadership and organizational skills and stewardship of our artifacts, archives, exhibits, programs and budgets will ensure the Pemberton Museum continues to provide excellent service to our stakeholders. As a representative of the Pemberton Museum and Archives society you will steward, promote, and manage curatorial and collections services that define the Pemberton Museum’s mandate and themes. Your attention to detail and service oriented approach will serve you well as you keep our community and the visitors to our community, involved and excited about the people, places, traditions and stories that illustrate Pemberton. The Curator will be accountable to the Board of Directors. RESPONSIBILITES: Business Development – creates and executes the annual business plan using project management and human resources. Promotes

the Pemberton Museum & Archives Society’s key themes & mandate. Liaise with voluntary groups, the community, industry and grant agencies to secure sponsorship for programs, events, publications and development projects. Assists the Board in long term planning and records all formal plans in a master plan document. Applies for funding and manages grant monies as per funding requirements and completes final reports. Assists with capital campaigns and fundraising initiatives.

Policy Development – develops and implements policies, manages staff and carries out museum priorities. Assists the Board in policy development.

Operations – Oversees daily activities and procedures of Collections, Programing, and Operations departments to streamline overall operations and ensure daily activities are supporting the short and long term goals of the Business Plan.

Public Relations & Liaison – liaises with trustees, local council and political groups to secure ongoing support of the long range

business plan. Represents the museum as a spokesperson when relevant. Corresponds with other museums and organizations as directed by the board. Send out press releases regarding operating hours and special events. Responsible for the management of the website and social media accounts and the creation and distribution of the PDMAS newsletter.

Collection Management – effectively implements and manages short and long term collection and archival initiatives according to basic museum practices and principals, including Rules for Archival Description (RAD). Responsible for volunteer and staff co-ordination and training, budgeting and project management, grant applications, and monitoring the care of the collection to ensure long term preservation. Implements and reviews Collection policies, technologies and best practices as required to steward the collection. Personnel – Assists the board in ensuring a positive work environment. Recruits and hires staff with assistance from Personnel Committee. Coordinates staff and volunteer work assignments. Follows all Human Resources polices and ensures BC Labour Standards are enforced. Assists with board and committee development. QUALIFICATIONS: GENERAL: • Dynamic leadership style, ability to resolve conflict and negotiate win/win outcomes, persuasive presentation skills and strategic thinking. • Business Administration skills – knowledge of budgets, cash flow forecasting, management and interpretation of financial statements and the ability to generate revenue. • Service oriented with excellent customer service skills • Team worker, previous experience leading in a team environment • Innovative, previous experience developing programs and/or services, and/or events • Community Awareness, familiarity with Pemberton and the Sea to Sky Corridor a definite asset SPECIFIC: • Minimum 2 years Post-Secondary education specific to Anthropology, Cultural Resource Management, Conservation, History, Museum & Archives Studies, Tourism or Business Administration. • Previous experience leading a team, training, coaching and mentoring. • Experience presenting to public and/or education/training experience. • Experience managing a budget, writing grant applications and reporting variances. • Experience collecting data and writing formal reports • Experience participating on not-for-profit boards and committees • Experience working in a small archives & collections environment is an asset. • Accession and/or Collection management experience and familiarity with methodology is an asset. • Proven track record of securing funding through various means such as grant writing and partnerships is an asset. • Literate in MS OFFICE [word, excel, access, publisher, outlook], graphic & design software, file management software. • Previous experience managing an operation or facility management is an asset.

Consults with: Board of Directors Term of employment: (Full time, $30/hr., 42 weeks, 1680 hours) April 01 2022 – Dec 19, 2022. Resumes will be accepted until Mon, March 21, 2022 at 4:00 pm. We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only individuals shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. Please forward resumes with cover letters to: Board of Directors • info@pembertonmuseum.org.

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New climate report shows urgent need to adapt and change THE LONGER we put off seriously addressing climate disruption’s causes, the more we’ll have to adapt to unavoidable consequences. Those who have been bleating that getting off fossil fuels will be too expensive are in for a surprise: adaptation can be far costlier than mitigation, and without the latter, we’ll have to accelerate the former—and we still can’t avoid doing what we should have started 35 years ago: quitting coal, oil and gas. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, shows we’re at a point when

BY DAVID SUZUKI the choice isn’t between one or the other. We must do everything to reduce the worst effects of climate disruption and adapt to the damage we’ve already locked in with our profligate burning of fossil fuels and destruction of carbon sinks like forests, wetlands and peatlands. This is the second of three working group reports, which—along with three special reports and a synthesis report— make up the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. The first section, released in August 2021, assessed the physical science and provided overwhelming evidence that “climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying.” The third, expected in March, will be on climate change mitigation. As the IPCC shows—and as anyone can see—we’re already living with impacts, and they’ll worsen if we fail to change: more

life can flourish. Protecting and restoring terrestrial, freshwater, ocean and coastal ecosystems can help draw out and keep carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and protect against now-unavoidable impacts. For example, although adapting to sea level rise sometimes means employing strategies like “managed retreat” or building infrastructure such as seawalls, it can also include restoring coastal ecosystems to absorb the impacts of events like storm surges and flooding. Adaptation also means ensuring strategies don’t disproportionately affect the most vulnerable people and communities. The IPCC report notes this includes economic diversification, technologies and strategies that strengthen resilience, reduce inequalities and improve climate-related human well-being. It’s not just about addressing an existential crisis. Adapting to and preventing the worst impacts of climate disruption will create a better society for everyone everywhere, with less inequality and waste, and with recognition of and respect for the importance of nature, of which we’re a part. A world with billionaires, let alone those who can rocket into space—or worse, start planet-threatening wars—while so many people lack life’s basic necessities, is a world out of whack. When we evaluate human “progress” according to how much we spend and consume, with little or no thought to actual well-being, something isn’t right. When we view economic and population growth as necessary and good, even though our planet and all it has to offer are finite, it’s impossible to imagine a sustainable future. The climate scientists and experts who compile the IPCC assessments examine the

When we evaluate human “progress” according to how much we spend and consume, with little or no thought to actual well-being, something isn’t right. heat domes, wildfires, intense weather events, flooding, drought and extreme heat. As for “vulnerability,” we know the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting those who have contributed to it the least. Through excess consumption and unsustainable lifestyles, wealthy people and nations continue to speed the trajectory to climate chaos. They also have more resources to insulate themselves from the impacts, although no one will be immune to the mounting consequences. The report contains slivers of hope, though. One is that some key methods of adapting to climate disruption will also help prevent it from accelerating beyond our control. That’s because a major contributor to climate change, outside of burning fossil fuels, is destruction of natural systems that sequester carbon and help keep the carbon cycle balanced so human and other

current and most relevant science regarding all aspects of the crisis. Assessments must then be agreed upon by the 195 member countries and jurisdictions (only a few countries have not formally signed the IPCC’s 2015 Paris Agreement). Final reports tend to be conservative and watered down in order to garner agreement. Since the first assessment in 1990, evidence and certainty have become incontrovertible. This report, and the Sixth Assessment as a whole, show that we have no time to lose, that we must employ the many available and emerging solutions before it’s too late. Doing so will usher in a better world for all. 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. ■

THE OUTSIDER

What if this Winter War was ours? “There is a nice sound to the phrase ‘mountain warfare.’ It has a ring of daring; it sounds cleaner than trench warfare and lighter than tank warfare. The only thing that can match it is the war in the air, and that has become too deadly to be nice any more. It has also become too familiar; while war in the

BY VINCE SHULEY mountains is still strange enough to sound romantic. Except, of course, to the men who have to fight it.” - McKay Jenkins, The Last Ridge

LIKE MANY OF YOU, over the past week I’ve been in shock watching Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Just when we think we’ve seen enough generation-defining world events to last us for the next century, Putin decides to flex his imperialist muscle and plunges two nations—one a military superpower—into an unprovoked and unnecessary war. Let’s be clear: there’s no freedom convoy division, lets-try-to-listento-both-sides argument here. There’s the belligerent in the Kremlin on one side and on the other, thousands of soldiers and civilians defending their homeland. Millions of people are now displaced. The world stands with Ukraine. I stand with Ukraine. I’m no military man, and I’m lucky enough that I haven’t experienced war. I do

MOUNTAIN WARFARE What if Canadians were called to defend their homeland? PHOTO BY GUVENDEMIR / GETTY IMAGES

like to study military history as a bit of a hobby, which leads to many hours listening to Dan Carlin podcasts. I’ve never believed war is the answer, but if it comes to your doorstep and threatens your family and country (as it has for the Ukrainians), I believe defence of one’s homeland is justified. Such an event on this scale taking place in the 21st century got me thinking: what if it was us being invaded at the behest of a narcissistic autocrat? It’s a scenario highly unlikely given Canada’s fortuitous geo-political position, but dystopian fiction writers have explored the plausibility of annexation from the United States. So let’s imagine, for a second, that in the middle of a cold winter, Canada was invaded on

Swedes and repelling the attack, Norway realized the advantage of quick mobilization on snow and enlisted every skier they could find into their military ranks. In the 1800s, Nordic military ski patrols began to organize competitions which led to the foundation of modern Nordic ski racing. The ability to travel quickly over rugged mountain terrain was essential to the armies in the European Alps in the 20th century. In the context of skiing soldiers defending against a superpower, the best example is the Winter War, which began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the outbreak of the Second World War. The Finns were vastly outnumbered and

If this scenario were to come to pass, I would volunteer for a Mountain Division. several fronts by armed forces far superior to our own and Canada’s leader called on every person of fighting age to take up arms against the aggressor. If this scenario were to come to pass, I would volunteer for a Mountain Division. Not because of any delusion that ski warfare would somehow be more fun than urban warfare, but because I know I have the skills to travel across snow and through mountainous terrain relatively quickly. Military skiing has a rich history in the Scandinavian nations. In 1716, during the Great Northern War, a Norwegian general was alerted of an imminent Swedish attack by a messenger on skis. After surprising the

under-resourced, with many recently enlisted soldiers not even having uniforms and making do with their own winter clothing. But they knew their terrain and their climate and almost all Finnish soldiers were skilled in crosscountry skiing. They used the cold, snow, forest, and long hours of darkness to their advantage. The Finns dressed in layers with ski troopers donned in lightweight white snow capes, the camouflage making them almost invisible and able to execute many successful guerrilla attacks against Soviet columns. The U.S. has the 10th Mountain Division, which was active during the

Second World War and still served recently as a dedicated mountain warfare unit in places such as Iraq and Syria. While special operation training programs for mountain travel exist in Canada, the armed forces still do not have a dedicated mountain unit, at least not one they want us to know about. In a 2017 service paper titled “Mountain Warfare In The Canadian Army,” Canadian Forces College student Maj Aafaq Hyder wrote: “The [Canadian Army]’s recent involvement in the alpine operations in Korea, the Balkans and in Afghanistan has highlighted the importance of preparing its leaders and troops for [Mountain Warfare] and combat in high altitude. Currently, the [Canadian Army] has limited focus to prepare standing units specially trained or equipped to deploy to a mountainous theatre. To remain operationally viable and meet its military commitments to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the [Canadian Army] needs to develop proficiency in mountain operations. It needs to carve out a niche for itself as an expeditionary force capable of rapid response in [Mountain Warfare].” Of all the things I associate with skiing, war has never been one of them. And I sincerely hope war never comes to Canada’s doorstep. But if the last week has shown us all one thing, it’s that the tyrants of this world might just choose to wage it anyway. Vince Shuley encourages you to donate to the Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince. shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_ vince. ■

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FEATURE STORY

TOO WET, TOO RAINY HOW CLIMATE CHANGE COULD END THE SKI BUSINESS FOR MANY B.C. RESORTS

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FEATURE STORY By Stefan Labbé

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Snow will still fall. Over Christmas last year, the temperature dropped, piling thick drifts of powder snow on Vancouver’s North Shore mountains, only to later melt in over a week of rain. By mid-February, what was supposed to be the height of the ski season, little snow had fallen in weeks. Such swings in climate extremes will only become more entrenched in the coming decades, says Anslow. Fifteen thousand years after the North Shore mountains emerged from a sea of ice, its ski resorts are poised to be among the first casualties in another climate tipping point.

mine,” Pidwirny is among many scientists warning of the cascading impacts a disappearing snowpack could have on a long list of species that rely on the cool waters to live through the summer—not least of all, humans. But snow is also the essential ingredient for a ski industry that generates billions of dollars per year. The researchers’ projections spell the potential end of a way of life for thousands of coastal British Columbians who take the mantra “hit the slopes and beach in one day” seriously. “For the coastal resorts, by 2050, it’ll be really hard to have a sustainable ski business,” said Pidwirny. “There’ll be so many years where it’s just too warm and too wet, too rainy to ski.”

on a bluebird day about 15 millennia ago, you had stood on any summit overlooking Vancouver, you would have come eye level with a blanket of ice soaring 1.5 kilometres into the sky. If you watched long enough, you might notice signs of a frozen world already fading—a rivulet of water at your feet, a thundering crack below you. A trigger, likely a natural drift in the planet’s orbit around the sun, had launched a great melt. Ice sheets that had gripped most of North America, Europe and Asia were retreating to their alpine and Arctic sources. A few thousand years earlier, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet had spilled from British Columbia’s mountain ranges, The 2015 ski season was one many British Columbians covering nearly the entire province. Now, its edge was have tried to forget. At Whistler Blackcomb, crews blasted pulling back from the continental shelf. As it slipped over the Horstman Glacier with snow guns in an attempt to slow What are resorts doing about it? Vancouver Island, huge chunks cleaved into the Salish its decline; at Cypress Mountain, resort operators cobbled Glacier Media contacted six coastal resorts in Sea, choking it with icebergs. From the Interior, ice dams together an absurdly thin winding path of snow before southwestern British Columbia to understand how they are plugging the largest lake in the province burst, sending a closing altogether in February. planning to survive increasingly mild winters. biblical-sized flood down the Fraser Valley. “It was the worst season they’ve ever seen,” said Michael Two coastal resorts, at Cypress and Mount Seymour, The world was opening up. Pidwirny, an associate professor in environmental science said they have heavily invested in snowmaking equipment On B.C.’s south coast, the heavy ice had sunk the at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. and off-season run grooming to make up for dwindling continent into the Earth’s upper mantle, raising sea levels It was also a season that got the climate scientist snowfall projected over the coming decades. hundreds of metres higher than today; but on the north questioning what was coming next. Scientists generally Over the past five years, Mount Seymour has spent the offcoast, that weight created an offshore bulge of ice-free agree greenhouse gas emissions have warmed the world 1.2 season dumping at least 3,000 truckloads of dirt on ski runs to land, where humans and open forests were penned into C since 1880. But when Pidwirny pulled 118 years of mean smooth out the surface below. That allows it to operate with now underwater refuges. As the walls of ice retreated, those winter temperature data at Cypress Mountain, he found an “significantly less snow,” Seymour Mountain spokesperson people—along with soon-to-be-extinct imperial mammoths, “obvious warming trend” of 1.5 C. Simon Whitehead told Glacier Media in an email. ground sloth and giant bison—filled a barren landscape “If Cypress had seen 25 per cent more warming than the “We have diversified, and will continue to diversify, to emerging from a long winter. global average, how was it going to survive into the future?” allow Mt. Seymour Resort to operate year-round,” he said. “It would have been pretty spectacular,” says geologist questioned Pidwirny and his graduate students Ethan Clark Cypress Mountain Ski Resort took on a new look last John Clague, picturing the scene atop a 1,450-metre peak at and Kalim Bahbahani. summer, after the resort opened a 1.7-kilometre-long Cypress Mountain Ski Resort. “I would have loved to be a fly In a study presented to the American Geophysical “mountain coaster.” Whipping visitors through forested on Mount Strachan.” Union, the three researchers modelled future climate vistas at 40 kilometres per hour, it has been billed as In a geological wink, global temperatures warmed by as across 154 resorts across Western North America, later Canada’s longest. much as 8 C, setting the stage for the rise of farming, citybuilding and 10,000 years of human civilization. But while GETTY IMAGES humans flourished, the pattern was clear—it would not last forever. The planet was slowly cooling again. “We should be seeing a gradual slide into the next glaciation,” Clague said. “We should be, but we’re not.”

THE END OF WINTER AS WE KNOW IT?

A RACE TO ADAPT

SKI HILLS AN EARLY CLIMATE CASUALTY Eduardo Huertas stayed for the snow. A Spanish-American who had spent most of his life floating between the U.S. and Europe, Vancouver was an escape from a personal life that had collapsed around him. An oceanside city crowned with three ski resorts—for him, it embodied freedom, a life with one foot “on the verge of civilization.” “It’s not as good as I thought it’d be,” he recently told me as we creaked to the summit of Mount Strachan on Sky Chair, an old two-seater lift. Below us, a steep run caught between two groves of conifers was bathed in ice. The marginal conditions were the latest in an unpredictable season. November rains had brought devastating floods to the province, and when they lifted, so too did the snow line. On Dec. 3, unseasonably warm temperatures—including a Canadian record of 22.5 C in the town of Penticton—prompted Environment Canada to warn of flooding across the province as snowpacks melted. To get snow on B.C.’s coastal mountains requires the right mix of storm systems tracking in from the North Pacific and cold outbursts of arctic air. But as the planet heats up, that mix is threatened. Mountains lying closest to the ocean will be the first to feel the impacts of weakened arctic air and the growing influence of a warming ocean. The atmospheric rivers that hit B.C. last fall are more common south of the U.S. border, where winters begin later and snowpack is already disappearing, As Faron Anslow, a climate scientist with the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC), put it to me, as climate change advances, “California is kind of creeping to the north.”

honing in on 12 B.C. resorts, from Vancouver Island to the Rocky Mountains. The result: dozens of British Columbia’s ski hills face precipitous drops in snowfall over the coming decades as a warming Pacific Ocean warps regional weather patterns. The heaviest future snowfall declines lie near the coast, where maritime influences are expected to turn snow to rain. At ski hills like Mount Washington, Cypress and Sasquatch Mountain Resort near Chilliwack, a worst-case emissions scenario would lead to mean temperatures crossing the zero-Celsius threshold by mid-century. By then, Pidwirny’s modelling suggests the 2015 season will become the average—meaning from year to year, half of future seasons are predicted to be even warmer. Describing mountain climate as “the canary in the coal

Last summer, the resort made ski runs “look like a golf course” so it could open without much snow. It has also added 15 more snow guns this season to boost snowmaking capacity by 40 per cent on Mount Strachan, the tallest of its three peaks. “With the right temperature, we can go from green to white overnight. And with a few days of snowmaking can get ski runs open,” said Joffrey Koeman, Cypress Mountain Resort’s director of sales and marketing. When asked what threshold will make a winter business impossible at Seymour, Whitehead said “there are too many variables” and it’s “impossible to say.” Experts are divided over just how far snowmaking can delay increasingly impoverished winters. Daniel Scott, a professor of geography and

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FEATURE STORY environmental management at the University of Waterloo, is among a small group of researchers looking to understand the winners and losers of a ski industry on the brink of an existential crisis. At the global level, he recently found that if carbon output follows today’s trend, Sapporo, Japan, would be the only city out of 21 past Winter Olympic hosts that could hold a reliable, safe and fair Games again by the end of the century. By the 2050s, a returning Olympic big in Vancouver would mean facing marginal conditions, including February rain and wet snow up to half the time. One thing that is predictable: a 100-per-cent chance of machine-made snow. In 2014, roughly 80 per cent of snow for the Sochi, Russia Games was artificial. In Pyeongchang, South Korea, the percentage rose past 90 per cent. This year’s games in Beijing, China, has pushed the manufacturing of Olympic snow to a new high: early competitions relied on 100 per cent fake snow. Scott says snowmaking can go a long way to keeping mountains open even through marginal conditions. But the conditions must be right. Whereas snowflakes form from water vapour in the air, snowmaking machines, or snow guns, pump vast amounts of water through highpressured nozzles.

A traditional snow gun is hooked up to two hoses, one feeding it water from a series of underground pipes, and another compressed air. The high-pressured air then atomizes the water molecules as they cool and get blasted into the air. Other snow guns use fans instead of compressed air. Temperature matters and the threshold for efficient snowmaking is around -5 C, though chemical or biological additives can provide a larger buffer closer to 0 C. In the end, what falls aren’t perfect snowflakes but icy granules closer in appearance to salt than a fresh dusting of powdery snow. In places like Beijing, scarce water and less than green energy sources raise a number of questions over the sustainability of making snow. But in places like B.C. or Quebec, Scott says vast reserves of hydroelectricity and relatively abundant water sources make the process more viable. “You could double or triple the snowmaking and it will mean nothing in terms of carbon emissions,” said Scott. When do the operating costs of making double the snow stop making sense? Only the companies running ski resorts can answer that question, said Scott. When Glacier Media asked, neither Seymour nor Cypress Mountain ski resorts had any projections showing how far snowfalls

would need to decline before snowmaking couldn’t keep up. A spokesperson for Mount Washington, Grouse and Sasquatch resorts—among those expected to be hardest hit—did not respond to questions from Glacier Media. Temperature and cost aren’t the only limiting factors. The ability to blast runs with human-made snow is also affected by how much moisture is in the air, noted Pidwirny, who is skeptical of putting too much faith in snowmaking. “[Scott] thinks that we can solve all our problems by snowmaking,” Pidwirny said. “It’s easy to make snow when it doesn’t snow much or doesn’t precipitate much out east. But in these warmer years that I’m talking about in the future… there will be this threshold that you hit. “Snowmaking just doesn’t work anymore if there are too many warm, wet days.” Without major global emission reductions, by the 2080s, efforts to cling to a fast-disappearing winter season will almost certainly fall short, said the UBC researcher. “Those areas are for sure finished,” said Pidwirny. “I see all the ski resorts in Western Canada just putting their head in the sand like an ostrich. They’re trying to, you know, ‘let’s not talk about it. Maybe it’s not going to happen.’” As the ski lift climbed higher, I thought about the message climate scientist Faron Anslow left me with earlier that day. “When we get these warm maritime atmospheric river events,” he had said, “only the highest mountains are going to see snow.” The summit of Mount Strachan came into focus. There was no ice shelf, no thick dump of powder—just the steady whir of the old German machinery. Huertas and I shifted out of our seats. Our skis and snowboard crunched down an icy ramp. Below us it was night. The surrounding mountains were bathed in darkness, but the resort’s twin peaks glowed under fluorescent lighting, a spectacular sight framed by Metro Vancouver’s nightscape flickering into the horizon. “What a place to live,” said Huertas.

B.C. ski hills that survive global warming could reap tourism windfall, says expert

many metrics, the future of the global ski industry looks grim. A high-carbon future would largely wipe out all 99 ski areas in the American Midwest by late century; across Quebec, Ontario and the northeastern corner of the U.S., only 29 out of 171 ski resorts are projected to survive. Out west, places like California, where water sources to make snow are limited, will get “clobbered” in the same way the European Alps will lose out, calculated Daniel Scott, who studies the intersection of tourism and climate change at the University of Waterloo. “There are winners and losers with each one,” said Scott. Places like Quebec will be among the winners, said the climate researcher, as ski hills in neighbouring Ontario suffer under the warming effects of the Great Lakes. What will happen in British Columbia? Scott declined to share details of his research on Western North America, which has yet to be published. But according to Michael Pidwirny, a climate scientist from the University of British Columbia Okanagan, his projections suggest coastal mountains— including Mount Washington, Cypress Bowl, Grouse Mountain, Mount Seymour and Hemlock—will face steep declines in snowfall by mid-century. That will inevitably

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FEATURE STORY challenge their very existence as a winter resort, he said. B.C.’s Interior will face even more warming than coastal regions. But with already cold winters and longer seasons, resorts like Lake Louise and Big White will remain viable well into the future, according to an unpublished study Pidwirny conducted across 12 B.C. ski hills. As resorts face diminished snowfall, Scott and Pidwirny agree even operators with the deepest annual snowpacks need to start asking themselves how they will adapt.

‘WE WILL TAKE THE MARKET SHARE’ Glacier Media contacted 34 ski resorts in B.C. to understand how operators are planning to adapt to a changing climate and the diminishing snowfall that comes with it. At Big White outside of Kelowna, management monitors 10-year snowfall averages but is still discussing how it is going to adapt to warmer, wetter winters, according to marketing director Michael J. Ballingall. “We know we will take market share away from those who don’t have snow. People will keep skiing wherever they can,” he said. Buried deep in the Rocky Mountains north of Prince George, owner and manager of Powder King Mountain Resort Jim Salisbury said he hasn’t done any official modelling for the mountain. But anecdotally, he said, the resort used to average 20 metres of snow a year; now, it averages just over 12. “We get the arctic outflows, we get the Pacific influence and you know, we’re just blessed here. I mean, a bad year here at Powder King is still a good year,” he said, describing his mountain as a 200-year operation in a fortunate spot. “If we don’t get snow, the whole world’s got bigger problems going on.” SilverStar Mountain Resort’s Ian Jenkins said he is focused on reducing emissions and limiting the resort’s impact on the local environment. It is a message echoed by most of the ski resorts Glacier Media surveyed across B.C. Another thing they have in common: nearly all the larger ski hills surveyed said they were expanding offseason activities to make up for any future drops in snowfall.

‘THINKING WAY OUTSIDE THE BOX’ Only a few kilometres from the U.S. border, the resort at Baldy Mountain climbs out of the southern reaches of the Okanagan Valley. Promoted as a place “Where the world can’t see you, but you can see the world,” Baldy’s lifts reach an altitude of over 2,100 metres, making it among the highest resorts in B.C. But that hasn’t stopped its operators from moving ahead with plans to adapt to any potential drop in snowfall over the coming decades. Troy Lucas, who helps manage the resort, told Glacier Media the mountain avoids snowmaking and the huge volume of water it uses. Instead, he said they are looking to create an elaborate system of lightweight, movable fences that—properly shaded and insulated—could capture enough snowdrifts to cover the resorts over 55 kilometres of trail. By design, the resort’s runs sit idle two days a week. Marketed as “Powder Thursdays,” the weekly skiing sabbatical doubles as a built-in safety net for snow accumulation. “We’re thinking way outside the box,” Lucas said. Baldy Mountain Resort is also working to become a year-round business, opening up the hill to mountain biking, camping, frisbee golf and even farming. For the first time last year, the mountain opened to summer visitors, turning on lifts and offering hikers access to a wide network of trails; and in July, “Baldy Beach” kicked off, an event bringing people together through horseshoes, a s’mores pit and volleyball. Despite the plan to diversify, Lucas said the resort has not engaged with any long-term snowfall models for the mountain. And its five-year plan does not account for any drops in snowfall.

“For the coastal resorts, by 2050, it’ll be really hard to have a sustainable ski business. There’ll be so many years where it’s just too warm and too wet, too rainy to ski. -MICHAEL PIDWIRNY

CHRISTMAS SEASON AT RISK Ski hill operators in more secluded parts of the province say expanding summer operations is not possible without more money or better access to tourism. “I don’t know if we have anything in our toolkit,” said Hildur Sinclair, the second-generation owner-operator of Troll Ski Resort near Quesnel, one of the first bumps on the west side of the Caribou Mountains. “We don’t make snow. We groom things as low as we can. We mow our hill so we don’t need as much snow… That’s about all we can do.” Sinclair said she remembers deep freezes when her parents ran the resort. But in the last 20 years, she said winters have warmed, with the lowest temperatures shifting later in the season and impacting peak sales over Christmas. The holiday season is a make-or-break time of year for ski hills around the world, said Scott. Most resorts do 25 per cent of their business over Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Miss that, and a mountain will have financial problems they will never catch up to for the rest of the season, said the expert on climate change and tourism. Sinclair’s solution has been to cater to local skiers and snowboarders. That loyal customer base has helped the resort come through shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic relatively unscathed. Now, she’s in talks with Alpine Canada to move their training from the Coast Range into more consistent climes. “They are concerned about where they are going to train. They are looking to the Interior,” she said.

B.C.’S MEGA RESORT AT A CROSSROADS Somewhere between the destinies of B.C.’s coastal and Interior mountains lies Whistler Blackcomb. With three climatic zones and a global brand, it is the biggest and most profitable resort in the province. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at least a quarter of B.C.’s foreign tourist dollars were spent at the resort village. In the past, that money has offered a significant source of

public dollars, bringing in $1.37 million in tax revenue every day, according to a 2016 economic planning report. It’s an economic engine built on snow, but one that could soon be sputtering. By mid-century, the annual average temperature in the Whistler region is projected to warm by about 3 C. Snow will continue to fall at upper elevations, but skiing into the village could become impossible as the annual snowpack drops by up to a metre, according to a report from the University of Victoria’s Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium (PCIC). In what PCIC scientists describe as a “remarkable” confluence of climate change at one location, Whistler will face more heavy rain, milder winters and more summer drought. By the end of the century, Pidwirny projects Whistler Blackcomb’s mean winter temperature could resemble the average climatic conditions at Cypress Mountain Ski Resort between 1971 and 2000. A spokesperson for Vail Resorts, the ski conglomerate that owns Whistler Blackcomb, said “We’re not preparing for more or less snowfall; we are preparing for more change.” “That said, across our resorts, we are seeing a higher variability in conditions, especially in the early season,” corporate communications manager Marjory Elwell said in an email. Vail Resorts, added Elwell, is ramping up snowmaking to adapt to a changing climate. Adapting to a rising snow line has meant building lifts at higher elevations into “future snow zones,” Whistler Councillor Arthur De Jong told Glacier Media. “We don’t build ski areas anymore. We build four-season mountain resorts. The dynamics of tourism have changed,” he said. “People want to be in mountains more to walk, to hike, to simply be in nature.” Or to mountain bike—Whistler’s 200-kilometre network of trails has become big draw in recent decades, bringing in millions of dollars in the off-season. Ultimately, conglomerates like Vail Resorts—which has a pass program in place at ski hills across North America, Australia, Canada and Japan—are banking on a membership model where skiers can buy one pass and access multiple resorts should their closest hill suffer a snowless year. If one season, Whistler is starved of snow, pass holders can simply fly to Colorado, the thinking goes. It’s a proposition some experts say completely ignores the reality of both a changing climate and market conditions. Scott expects that over the coming three years, publicly traded ski operators like Vail Resorts will have to disclose the level of risk climate change poses to their businesses. “The challenge for that is the Whistlers of the world are international destinations. You’ve got people flying from New York, Austria, Japan,” he said, pointing to the lack of green alternatives in aviation. “There’s no technology for that now. There won’t be by mid-century and so that’s a part of the carbon puzzle.” Over the course of nearly four decades, De Jong has risen from a teenager working with Blackcomb Ski Patrol to occupy Vail Mountain resort’s role of senior manager of mountain planning and environmental resource management. In that time, he has become a leading voice in the resort’s push to survive a changing climate. De Jong said the pandemic has offered a hint at what damage could be done should climate change impact international tourism. At one point in 2021, international visitors had dropped to 15 per cent of total visitors, down from nearly half of all visitors in the previous fiscal year. “We’ve built an engine here that is of a scale that we need both a strong destination and regional market,” said the Whistler councillor. But what frightens De Jong most is not the COVID-19 pandemic or even a lack of snow. As he puts it, “it’s not the weather that’s going to take us down” but the geopolitical fallout of climate change as it triggers water and food shortages across the planet. “That could potentially just make us irrelevant. People won’t be travelling as much,” he said. “We will go as the global economy goes.” n

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Whistler’s Jepsen looks to cap off incredible season with Paralympic success WITH A NINE-RACE PODIUM STREAK STILL INTACT THIS YEAR, MOLLIE JEPSEN SETS SIGHTS ON PARALYMPIC PODIUMS

BY HARRISON BROOKS IN AN UNPRECEDENTED season that features both last year’s rescheduled World Para Snowsports Championships as well as the Paralympic Games in Beijing, Whistler’s Mollie Jepsen has been up to the challenge. Coming off nearly two full years without competing due to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as a Crohn’s disease diagnosis, Jepsen is having a season for the ages, going nine for nine with podium finishes so far this year. Early in the season, the West Vancouver product, who was raised on the slopes of Blackcomb and now lives in Whistler full time, wasn’t sure what to expect or where she stacked up against the other racers. But coming off an entire year of strictly training, little did she know she would go on to have the most consistent season of her career starting the season with six straight podiums en route to the World Championships in January. “I think [my success is due to] just a level of maturity I’ve gained in this world since I was 17 and I started competing on the World Cup circuit,” she said. “I’ve kind of just learned how to manage myself and learned what the environment is like, and

MEDAL STREAK Mollie Jepsen skied her way to three medals at the World Para Snow Sport Championships in Norway in January. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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also just spent a lot of time in the gym and a lot of time on snow training and gaining confidence in myself.” But despite her torrid start to the season, gearing up for the World Championships was still nerve wracking for the 22-year-old, as it represented her first major competition since the 2018 Paralympic Games. Battling through the nerves, Jepsen— who was born without several fingers on her

rankings, she will no longer accept anything less than the best from herself on the hill. “I was not skiing the way that I know I can ski so I wasn’t happy, and I think honestly if I had won that race, if I had been in third, fourth, fifth, I would have had the same reaction knowing that I could have done more and I could have skied that better,” she said.

“So a second or a third is always going to mean lots to me ... but I’m always going to want more and keep pushing for more.” - MOLLIE JEPSEN

left hand—was wildly successful, adding two more bronze in downhill and giant slalom, and a silver in super-G to her medal total. The only thing is, despite all the success, that silver medal, on that day, wasn’t good enough for Jepsen. The way she skied in that event, making a few minor errors on the course and knowing she “left some stuff on the hill” soured what many would consider the highlight of their season. But for Jepsen, with all this season’s success, the bar has been raised, and regardless of where she ends up in the

“I’m always going to want to reach higher and I think that’s really the cool part about a sport like ski racing is you kind of check one box and then you’re ready for the next thing, and you are always just building and wanting more. So a second or a third is always going to mean lots to me, especially with the girls field being so competitive, but I’m always going to want more and keep pushing for more.” While her competitive nature is evident and gives her the upside of holding herself accountable, the hyper competitive mindset also has a downside and has, in the past, led

Jepsen to be too hard on herself. But she believes as long as you are aware and continue to treat yourself, your teammates and your competition with respect, there is no such a thing as being too competitive. “As long as I’m just keeping it about myself and my own experiences that day and being conscientious of everyone around me who might have had the best day ever and are sitting behind me,” said Jepsen. “I think those things are really important especially as an individual sport that is also a team sport. But I think the biggest implications of potentially being too competitive are just about yourself and learning to control those stressors and keep being nice to yourself. That’s the biggest thing.” Jepsen is currently in Beijing preparing for the 2022 Paralympic Games, where she hopes to cap off the season on a high note and follow up her performance at the 2018 Games in which she won four medals across five events. This time around, she will only be competing in three of the five alpine events (downhill, super-g and giant slalom), but with her newfound consistency this season, the top spot on each podium is well within Jepsen’s reach. “I’m definitely pushing for podiums, but also I’m just hoping to go out there and put down my best skiing and have a fun and safe time with the team,” she said. “It would be lovely to go and have a race where we had no scary COVID stuff and finally get to really enjoy something after the grind the last two years have been.” n

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Coast Outdoors Payak returns to Whistler Olympic Park WIN CANUCKS TICKETS!

AFTER A ONE-YEAR HIATUS, THE LONG-RUNNING ANNUAL CROSSCOUNTRY EVENT WENT OFF WITHOUT A HITCH ON FEB. 26

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE CONSTANT chatter of the hundreds of participants lining up for the 25-kilometre race at the Coast Outdoors P’ayakentsut event comes to an abrupt stop when “30 seconds to start” is announced over a megaphone. Waiting in silence for what feels like much longer than just 30 seconds, the field of racers springs into action with the sound of an air horn marking the start of the race. With the 50-km racers already 20 minutes into their more than two-hour trek, and the 15-km racers set to take off in 20 minutes, the annual Payak event is well underway at Whistler Olympic Park for the first time in more than a year. The Coast Outdoors Payak, which is a loppet-style, family-friendly cross-country ski race, has been happening each year at Whistler Olympic Park since 2011, save for the 10th anniversary that was unfortunately cancelled in favour of a virtual race thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race features athletes of all ages and skill levels, from highly competitive national level athletes to people competing in their first-ever organized cross-country race. This year more than 500 people were on hand for the Feb. 26 event. Approximately 34 minutes after the final set of athletes made their start for the 15-km event, the first athlete crossed the finish line. Competing in the youth category, Hollyburn Cross Country Ski Club’s Eamon Wilson put up the top time across all age groups in the 15-km event with a time of 34:53.6. Wilson and his peers from Hollyburn were using Saturday’s event as a competitive training session in hopes of peaking for nationals, which are also being held at WOP on March 20. “The goal wasn’t to go super hard, so we mostly did it pretty medium pace and I think it went pretty much as I planned. I wasn’t really expecting anything, but at the end it was not a lot of climbing, really fast conditions, so I’d say I’m happy with that time,” said Wilson, who has competed in the Payak pre-COVID and was happy to be back at the event again this year. “I love how big it is, and it’s a good opportunity for local companies to show off their products and hosting ability. It’s just a great opportunity for local racers to get together and have a lot of fun.” As people continuously filter across the finish line and start to crowd the area outside of WOP’s cross-country building, smiling, laughing and catching up with their fellow racers over their complimentary bowls of chili, it is evident that Payak chief of race Sherryl Yeager’s best case scenario

of “clear skies and happy faces” officially came to fruition. The fun-first, family-friendly spirit of the race that Yeager and all the other volunteers hoped to see was perfectly encapsulated by the costume-clad, fatherdaughter duo officially listed on the start list as Gorilla Gorilla and Banana Banana. “I used to race pretty seriously … I’m in university now, and it’s just a good way to keep with the sport and get out there and have fun and see all your friends again,” said Banana. “It’s low-key but it’s still a little bit competitive, so it’s a good combo.” On the more competitive side of things, the big winner of the day was Whistler’s Michael Murdoch, who finished the 50-km race with a time of 2:05:10. For Murdoch, who despite the fun nature of the event said he’s too competitive to not push for the win, the mass-start format did add a little more of a social

“It feels like we’ve come back full circle now ... the Payak is just a fantastic event. People are so happy.” - SHERRYL YEAGER

aspect to the race that he doesn’t often get in the more highly competitive events he competes in. “[Having] a couple buddies to ski with in the first lap made it a lot more enjoyable. Just having people to push you is always a lot more fun, because you can also draft off of them and work with each other and take turns leading, and you can conserve a lot more energy when you get to ski with someone else,” he said. “And then on the second lap I was feeling pretty good, so I started to make my move there and just kind of skied alone for most of it. I felt really consistent throughout the whole race and just can’t really complain when there are such good conditions like today.” Whether attending the event for training purposes, trying to win, or to just have some fun and get exercise, the same excitement and happiness to just be back to in-person events was shared by all the athletes as well as the volunteers who were instrumental in putting the event on. “Oh it’s fantastic. It actually feels like we are edging into the new normal,” said Yeager. “It feels like we’ve come back full circle now … the Payak is just a fantastic event. People are so happy.” Find full race results at payak.ca. n

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RESORT MUNICIPALITY OF WHISTLER

Notice Of Disposition Of Land Pursuant to Section 26 of the Community Charter and in accordance with section 94, notice is hereby given that the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) intends to dispose, by way of sale, 100 strata lot units to be in two buildings located at 1340 and 1360 Mount Fee Road in the Lower Cheakamus Valley within the RMOW. Proposed Building A, under construction, is pictured above. The strata lots will be subdivided from a parent parcel legally described as Parcel Identifier: 031-508-502, Lot 1 District Lot 8073 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan EPP111931 - generally known as Cheakamus Crossing, Phase 2. The nature of the disposition is the irrevocable transfer of ownership of each strata lot. The RMOW as vendor is holding and transferring these affordable employee housing lots, and other lands in Cheakamus Crossing, as nominee, agent and bare trustee for its subsidiary beneficial owner Whistler 2020 Development Corp in relation to the RMOW employee housing strategies and policies. Each lot will be subject to an employee housing restrictive housing agreement and covenant limiting the price and prescribing owner qualifications. The purchase process to acquire strata lots is to visit www.cheakamuscrossing.com and click on the links to 1340 and 1360 Mount Fee Road. The purchasers of these homes are restricted to qualified registrants on the Whistler Housing Authority Housing Waitlist who meet the eligibility criteria of the Housing Covenant that will be registered on title. Eligible buyers are contacted in their priority position on the Housing Waitlist by our sales team from The Whistler Real Estate Company (Ray Longmuir and Victoria Cole). This is NOT an offering for sale or a disclosure statement, but merely a municipal statutory notice. This is the ﬁrst of two notices respecting this matter. Dated the 3rd day of March 2022.

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SLOPE SHREDDERS Tait Jordan, shown here, and WMSC teammate Nathan Romanin hope to turn their familiarity with Panorama into Junior World medals. PHOTO SUBMITTED

Whistler Mountain Ski Club athletes set off to the Alpine Junior World Ski Championships TAIT JORDAN AND NATHAN ROMANIN ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THEIR FIRST JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPS

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(WMSC) Tait Jordan and Nathan Romanin have made their way to Panorama Mountain Resort to compete in their first ever FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships from March 1 to 9. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, neither skier was able to attend the event in the last two years, but with this year’s event being hosted on home soil, the longtime WMSC members can barely contain their excitement to finally put their skills to the test against the world’s best junior ski racers. “Panorama is a great location for us. The snow is always pretty hard, we have a good relationship with the mountain, and because of that, really great training, and I think it all plays as a huge benefit for me and Tait leading into these races,” said Romanin, who is in his last year of eligibility for the Junior World Champs. “I’m super excited. It’s something I’ve looked forward to for a number of years, as we haven’t been able to send teams from Canada due to COVID … and especially to have this home field advantage skiing in Panorama, I’m really looking forward to it.” At 19 and 20 years of age, respectively, North Vancouver’s Jordan and Squamish’s Romanin have been skiing together at the WMSC for nearly 10 years already. So to be able to experience their first junior World Championships together makes it all the more exciting for them. “It’s so awesome. I’ve grown up with Tait now for the past 10 years of ski racing. We’ve always gone back and forth in the racing, and we’ve grown a really strong friendship to build off of,” said Romanin. “And I think it brings you a lot of confidence having your best buddy next to you going through the same thing, whether it’s success or failure. I think we’ve learned a lot together.” So far this year, both skiers have seen some success on the Nor-Am Cup level. Romanin, who plans to compete in

all five alpine events in Panorama but is focusing mostly on super-G and giant slalom, started off the year with a podium finish in Colorado and said he’s been building off that throughout the season. Meanwhile, Jordan has been able to snag a couple top-15 finishes as well as a near-podium finish with his sixth-place in Panorama earlier in the season. But despite the successful seasons to date, neither Romanin nor Jordan are putting too much emphasis on their results this week in Panorama, preferring to instead focus on the process. However, at the same time, they know strong results here could go a long way towards making the jump to the World Cup level in the next couple seasons. “I’m trying not to put any results or positions in my head, but I really do think just between having skied so much at Panorama and my confidence through this year, [that] I can really compete and push the pace out there. I don’t really have any results in mind but definitely some high expectations,” said Jordan, who also plans to compete in all five alpine events. “I try to keep my mind clear for sure, but I think that doing well at the World Juniors would definitely help me make that step up to the national ski team, which is a huge goal of mine. But as we get into this whole series I think that just trying to keep my mind clear and [skiing] hard is going to be probably the most productive approach that I can take.” Even though neither of them have a specific placement goal in mind, with the combination of home soil advantage and the strong skiing from the entire Canadian team so far this year, Romanin believes some podium finishes are definitely within reach for Canada. “I think it’s looking really great. We have a really strong group of 12 athletes— six guys and six girls—so I could see some big results coming down the pipeline with the team,” he said. “I’m really excited for myself but also my entire team to be having this opportunity. I think we’ll be having a really good look at it this year.” n

Notice of Public Hearing LAND USE CONTRACT TERMINATION BYLAW (1400 ALTA LAKE ROAD) NO. 2340, 2022 Tuesday, March 15, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m. Via Zoom Online/ Telephone

Purpose: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to terminate the Tamarisk Land Use Contract (LUC) from the subject lands and apply a new RM73 Zone (Residential Multiple Seventy-Three) to the subject lands. The RM73 Zone accommodates the existing apartments, an auxiliary residential dwelling unit and other auxiliary uses. Subject Lands: The lands that are the subject of the proposed Bylaw are located at 1400 Alta Lake Road, and are identified as “subject lands” on the map attached to this notice. The existing development on these lands is known as “Tamarisk”. To learn more: A copy of the proposed Bylaw, background documentation and written comments received from the public regarding Public Hearing for LUC00021 are available for review from March 3, 2022 to March 15, 2022 at: •

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‘War on Chips’ yet another consequence of Canada’s supply-chain disruption PEPSI’S RECENT DECISION TO QUIT SELLING TO LOBLAWS SYMPTOMATIC OF LARGER PROBLEM FACING THE FOOD INDUSTRY, EXPERTS WARN

BY BRANDON BARRETT OVER THE PAST few weeks, a fight has quietly waged on between a Canadian retail giant and one of the world’s largest food manufacturers. And while it hasn’t managed to capture the attention of most Canadians, as news of trucker convoys and war in Ukraine have dominated the headlines, you can be sure very few Canadians won’t feel its consequences in their pocketbook. Reporters have recently learned that Frito-Lay, a brand owned by PepsiCo Canada, made the unlikely decision to stop selling to Loblaws after the retailer shot down requests from Frito-Lay to increase their prices. That sounds like good news for the average Canadian who has already seen their food costs skyrocket in the pandemic, right? So what’s the problem? Well, it’s not quite that simple. Unlike most other industries, food sector suppliers pay their clients to do business. Manufacturers will pay listing fees for the privilege of getting their products onto a grocer’s shelves, a long-accepted cost of doing business. But with shrinking profit margins, labour shortages, issues with packaging, unprecedented supply-chain disruptions and historic inflation rates, it’s clear that at least some manufacturers are tired of playing ball with Canadian

CHIP WARS Frito-Lay recently decided to stop selling to Loblaws after the retailer shot down requests to hike up its prices—but that won’t necessarily translate to savings for consumers. GETTY IMAGES

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grocers that are increasingly jacking up their fees and, in some cases, have even reduced suggested retail prices without manufacturers’ consent. For a brand like Frito-Lay, which uses Canadian potatoes grown by Canadian farmers, the volatility was too much to bear. But why blame Loblaws for keeping retail prices low? Well, the reality is, the Canadian consumer doesn’t always benefit from this kind of tactic. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois, senior director of Dalhousie University’s agri-food analytics lab, has called Canada’s retail

is tired of and desperate to stop ‘supply chain bullying.’” In the professor’s mind, the situation speaks to a growing need for an industrywide code of practice that would allow companies to go to an arbitrator to settle these kinds of disputes and avoid further disruptions to the market. “This situation affecting the chips section of the grocery store is concrete evidence of how supply chain wars can impact consumers directly,” he said. “We need supply chain peace; we need an authoritative code.”

“This situation affecting the chips section of the grocery store is concrete evidence of how supply chain wars can impact consumers directly. We need supply chain peace; we need an authoritative code.” - SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS

grocery sector an “oligopoly,” with almost 90 per cent of all the food Canadians buy sold by just five retailers. “Grocers want to remain competitive and will defend margins the best they can against market rivals,” Charlebois wrote in a recent release. “If Loblaws get a lower price, it doesn’t mean Canadians benefit all the time. They may sometimes, but shareholders are often the big winners.” In years past, when there were supplychain issues ongoing, food manufacturers “always had to blink first,” Charlebois went on. “PepsiCo’s move signals that the sector

Loblaws doesn’t exactly have the most glittering track record either. In 2017, Canada’s competition bureau began investigating a bread price-fixing scandal among the country’s biggest grocers, which had artificially hiked the shelf price of commercial bread products over a span of 14 years. Loblaws handed out $25 gift cards for its role in the ordeal, leading many to believe the saga was over—but the investigation remains ongoing and charges could still be forthcoming. Mindful of the economic toll of the pandemic, grocers are increasingly looking

to other brands—including their own in-house brands—to fill any gaps on their shelves potentially left by major suppliers like Pepsi. “With current market conditions and the fact that the food inflation rate is north of [six per cent] now, consumers will be trading down and seeking more house brands,” Charlebois wrote. “Grocers know it, so the time may be right for them. Remember, they have the power and many weapons at their disposal.” Food manufacturers aren’t likely to take such market manoeuvring laying down, however. Since the pandemic started nearly two years ago, many food manufacturers, including Pepsi, have explored the possibility of cutting out the middle man and selling food directly to consumers, giving them more control over market conditions. Given the size and reach of a brand like Pepsi, it’s not unrealistic to think it could extend its fleet of trucks to connect its plants directly to shoppers—although, as Charlebois warned, many companies have tried to transition to a business-toconsumer model in the pandemic and “failed miserably.” Given the extent of the upheaval the pandemic has caused on Canada’s food supply, it’s worth noting we only know about this latest dispute between retail giants likely because someone wanted the information in the public sphere. But make no mistake: Canada’s so-called “Chip War” is probably only the tip of the iceberg. “[M]any other manufacturers and other grocers are involved in a similar tug-of-war match,” said Charlebois. “It’s happening in dairy, bakery … many food categories are impacted by this.” n

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Pemberton Secondary channels the glorious, mulleted ’80s in The Wedding Singer STAGE ADAPTATION OF CLASSIC ADAM SANDLER FLICK MARKS PSS’ 22ND THEATRE PRODUCTION SINCE 2015

BY BRANDON BARRETT JONATHAN CABEZA used to like “You Spin Me Round,” that quintessentially ’80s jam by quintessentially ’80s English pop band, Dead or Alive. That is, until he landed the lead role in Pemberton Secondary School’s (PSS) stage adaptation of the Adam Sandler-helmed Hollywood comedy, The Wedding Singer. “Now that I hear it every day, it gets on my nerves,” says Cabeza with a laugh. Cabeza is one of a dozen students cast in drama teacher Renata Zablotney’s latest production, which, as she described, tend to skew towards the “unconventional,” at least compared to your standard high-school play. When Cabeza initially learned he would have to belt out several ’80s classics as the titular crooner and failed rock star Robbie Hart, “I literally wanted to drop out,” he says. Fortunately, he warmed up to the role as rehearsals progressed—and discovered a new favourite tune along the way: “Somebody Kill Me Please,” written explicitly for the film, and making up one of its most memorable scenes, as Sandler’s lovelorn protagonist belts out the lyric “Put a bullet in my hea-a-a-a-d” with

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surprising poignancy. “‘Somebody Kill Me Please’ is definitely my favourite song to perform out of the whole entire play. I just get to yell,” explains Cabeza. “He has a career in a punk band after this,” Zablotney chimes in. Marking the PSS theatre program’s 22nd production (!!) since 2015, The Wedding Singer was adapted for the stage by Zablotney herself, who added a few winkwink elements for the audience. “We take as much as we can from the original source material, but we tried to

Julia Sullivan, the sweet, kindhearted love interest portrayed in the film version by Drew Barrymore, an actor Richards relates to on a couple of fronts, not least of which is the fact she is one of her mom’s favourite stars. As the story unfolds, we see Julia gradually “learn to stand up for herself but also accept her flaws and be silly and embarrassed,” says Zablotney. It was a lesson Richards had to learn herself while embodying the character. “I struggled in one scene where I was really uncomfortable but then I pushed past that,” she says. “It makes it more

“Now instead of crying when I spill my milk, I get to cry in front of a bunch of strangers.” - GRACE COOK

make it a little bit relevant to the cast we have,” she says. “For example, the actor who played Billy Idol is German and so we’ve added new jokes where it’s like, ‘I thought Billy Idol was British!’ and he’s like, ‘That’s a common misconception.’ So we’re just poking fun at a lot of the things that naturally happened in the ’80s and we made a lot of comparisons to how horrible some of the gender roles were in the ’80s versus how they are now.” Amelia Richards takes on the role of

funny when you’re totally comfortable humiliating yourself.” That didn’t seem to be as much of an issue for Grace Cook, who relished the chance to play Hart’s “crazy ex-girlfriend” Linda, along with three other characters. “I was always told as a child that I was really dramatic—from many people, my family mostly. Now I get to put that into something I like doing,” she says. “Now instead of crying when I spill my milk, I get to cry in front of a bunch of strangers.”

Cook had added inspiration in taking on the roles. Along with The Wedding Singer being her mom’s favourite movie, Cook’s mother also shares a name with Barrymore’s character, and the memorable “Julia Gulia” line from the 1998 film has been a long-running joke among friends. But the coincidence doesn’t end there: Cook’s dad also shares a name with Julia’s jerky fiancé in the movie, Glen. “It’s so cool in my first year of theatre to [play a part based] on a movie that I’ve actually seen before and loved,” Cook says. “My mom is going to be so excited and I’m really happy I get to share this with her.” After two years of intermittent remote learning and pre-taped theatre, getting the chance to perform in front of a live audience again comes as a welcome change of pace for the cast. “I think my parents were just happy I’m actually doing something and not in my room for 12 hours a day,” Cabeza jokes. After a last-minute change of venues, tickets are actually sold out for the March 10 and 11 shows at the Pemberton Community Church. However, there are usually a handful of leftover tickets, so anyone interested in attending can email rzablotney@sd48.bc.ca to get on the waitlist. The shows start at 7 p.m. and run for approximately 90 minutes. “I think a lot of people will feel like they’re in some kind of crazy family wedding that just seems maybe a little too familiar for some of the older audience members,” Zablotney adds. n

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The lasting legacy of Dag Aabye BY ALLYN PRINGLE MANY OF THE NAMES of runs on Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains pay homage to skiers and, slightly less often, snowboarders who made a mark on the mountains, whether as an employee, an investor, or an athlete. Some of these names, such as Franz’s Run, McConkey’s, and Arthur’s Choice are fairly easy to trace back to their source, while others like Bushrat, Jam Tart, and Jolly Green Giant require a bit more knowledge of their namesake. During a 2019 speaker event, however, it was pointed out that there is one skier who, despite making quite an impression during his time in the Whistler Valley, has no namesake on Whistler Mountain: Dag Aabye. When Roy Ferris and Alan White

McConkey, who took over the management of the ski school in 1968, described Aabye as “just a phenomenal skier” and recalled watching him jump off a cornice on the Whistler glacier, land, and ski straight down. Aabye became known for his first ski descents on Whistler Mountain, including areas of Whistler’s peak that are permanently closed today such as Don’t Miss and the Weekend Chutes, sometimes waiting days for the right conditions before hiking up from the top of the T-bar. In some cases, it would be another 20 to 30 years before the next person made the same descent. Aabye could be seen skiing in films by Jim Rice, including a short 1968 film featuring Aabye and Cliff Jennings skiing the glaciers around Whistler by helicopter. Off the mountain, he also became known for his willingness to ski off man-made structures, such as the Cheakamus Inn.

Aabye became known for his first ski descents on Whistler Mountain, including areas of Whistler’s peak that are permanently closed today such as Don’t Miss and the Weekend Chutes. opened the Garibaldi Ski School in 1966, they asked Ornulf Johnsen from Norway to come manage it. Johnsen persuaded the lift company to bring over fellow Norwegian Dag Aabye to work for him. Aabye had previously been working as a ski instructor in Britain and as a movie stuntman, including skiing in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, and he soon arrived to begin instructing on Whistler Mountain. According to Lynn Mathews, Aabye was “tall, lanky, quiet,” a “really nice guy who would do these most unbelievable things.” Mathews described him as “a cat on skis” and remembered watching him ski down the Red Chair lift line, “touching lightly from side to side as he went down these cliffs.” Jim

According to Mathews, this was done mostly “for fun. Cause doesn’t everyone ski off the roof and land 50 feet down?” Aabye also built his own jump in his efforts to land a backflip on 215-centimetre skis and could often be found walking on his hands with his skis still on. In summers, Aabye worked as a coach at the summer ski camps alongside ski celebrities such as Toni Sailer and Nancy Greene. In his 80s today, Aabye is still known as an athlete, competing annually in ultra marathons prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Though he long ago left Whistler and ended up outside SilverStar (where the run Aabye Road bears his name), Aabye is still talked about in the valley and on the mountain. n

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CHEERING SQUAD Pemberton neighbours gathered recently to show their support for local para Nordic skier Ethan Hess, who’s in Beijing competing for Team Canada at the 2022 Paralympic Games. Catch him competing in the para cross-country skiing sitting events beginning on Saturday evening, March 6 (PST). PHOTO COURTESY OF KELLY COSGROVE. 2 SNOW WHITE Jesslyn Gates making a friend in the lift line. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 HEALING UP Whistler Animals Galore 1

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I not only bow to the inevitable,” wrote Aries author Thornton Wilder. “I am fortified by it.” Wow. That was a brazen declaration. Did he sincerely mean it? He declared that he grew stronger through surrender, that he derived energy by willingly giving in to the epic trends of his destiny. I don’t think that’s always true for everyone. But I suspect it will be a useful perspective for you in the coming weeks, Aries. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Vive la différence! Hooray for how we are not alike! I am all in favour of cultural diversity, neurodiversity, spiritual diversity, and physical diversity. Are you? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to celebrate the bounties and blessings that come your way because of the holy gift of endless variety. The immediate future will also be a perfect phase to be extra appreciative that your companions and allies are not the same as you. I encourage you to tell them why you love how different they are. Now here’s poet Anna Akhmatova to weave it together: “I breathe the moonlight, and you breathe the sunlight, but we live together in the same love.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini singer-songwriter Bob Dylan said, “I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” I think that will be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. Dylan described the type of hero I hope you aspire to be. Be alert! You are on the cusp of an invigorating liberation. To ensure you proceed with maximum grace, take on the increased responsibility that justifies and fortifies your additional freedom. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I’d rather be seduced than comforted,” wrote author Judith Rossner. What about you, Cancerian? Do you prefer being enticed, invited, drawn out of your shell, and led into interesting temptation? Or are you more inclined to thrive when you’re nurtured, soothed, supported, and encouraged to relax and cultivate peace? I’m not saying one is better than the other, but I urge you to favour the first in the coming weeks: being enticed, invited, drawn out of your shell, and led into interesting temptation. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A woman from Cornwall, U.K., named Karen Harris was adopted as a little girl. At age 18, she began trying to track down her biological parents. Thirtyfour years later, she was finally reunited with her father. The turning point: He appeared on the “Suggested Friends” feature on her Facebook page. I propose we make Karen Harris your inspirational role model. Now is a favourable time to find what you lost a while ago; to re-link with a good resource that disappeared from your life; to reclaim a connection that could be meaningful to you again. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa told us, “Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquility.” Instead, he said that meditation is how we “expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.” Excuse me, Mr. Trungpa, but I don’t allow anyone, not even a holy guy like you, to dictate what meditation is and isn’t. Many other spiritual mentors I’ve enjoyed learning from say that meditation can also be a discipline to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, and tranquility. And I suspect that’s what Virgo meditators should emphasize in the coming weeks. You people are in a phase when you can cultivate extraordinary encounters with all that fun stuff. If you’re not a meditator, now would be a good time to try it out. I recommend the books Meditation for Beginners by Jack Kornfield and How to Meditate by Pema Chödrön. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Comedian Fred Allen observed, “It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.” That’s an unromantic thing to say, isn’t it? Or maybe it isn’t. Maybe it’s very romantic, even enchanting, to exult in how our allies help us make our

dreams come true—and how we help them make their dreams come true. In my astrological opinion, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to focus on the synergies and symbioses that empower you. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood!” declare many self-help gurus. “It’s never too early to start channeling the wise elder who is already forming within you,” declare I. Oddly enough, both of these guiding principles will be useful for you to meditate on during the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you’re in an unusually good position to resurrect childlike wonder and curiosity. You’re also poised to draw stellar advice from the Future You who has learned many secrets that the Current You doesn’t know yet. Bonus: Your Inner Child and your Inner Elder could collaborate to create a marvellous breakthrough or two. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “A myriad of modest delights constitute happiness,” wrote poet Charles Baudelaire. That will be a reliable formula for you in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You may not harvest any glorious outbreaks of bliss, but you will be regularly visited by small enchantments, generous details, and useful tweaks. I hope you won’t miss or ignore some of these nurturing blessings because you’re fixated on the hope of making big leaps. Be grateful for modest delights. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I found out some fun facts about renowned Capricorn poet Robert Duncan (1919–1988), who was a bohemian socialist and trailblazing gay activist. He was adopted by Theosophical parents who chose him because of his astrological make-up. They interpreted Robert’s dreams when he was a child. Later in life, he had an affair with actor Robert De Niro’s father, also named Robert, who was a famous abstract expressionist painter. Anyway, Capricorn, this is the kind of quirky and fascinating information I hope you’ll be on the lookout for. It’s time to seek high entertainment as you expedite your learning; to change your fate for the better as you gather interesting clues; to be voraciously curious as you attract stimulating influences that inspire you to be innovative. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light,” said P. G. Wodehouse. “There have been several complaints about it.” I know what he means. During my own crusade to express crafty, discerning forms of optimism, I have enraged many people. They don’t like to be reminded that thousands of things go right every day. They would rather stew in their disgruntlement and cynicism, delusionally imagining that a dire perspective is the most intelligent and realistic stance. If you’re one of those types, Aquarius, I have bad news for you: The coming weeks will bring you invitations and opportunities to cultivate a more positive outlook. I don’t mean that you should ignore problems or stop trying to fix what needs correction. Simply notice everything that’s working well and providing you with what you need. For inspiration, read my essay: tinyurl.com/HighestGlory PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Pastor and activist Charles Henry Parkhurst (1842–1933) said, “All great discoveries are made by people whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.” The approach worked well for him. In 1892, he discovered and exposed monumental corruption in the New York City government. His actions led to significant reforms of the local police and political organizations. In my astrological opinion, you should incorporate his view as you craft the next chapter of your life story. You may not yet have been able to fully conceive of your future prospects and labours of love, but your feelings can lead you to them. Homework: See if you can forgive yourself for a wrong turn you haven’t been able to forgive yourself for. Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com

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Full Time Maintenance Manager Eligible successful candidates may receive* • Extensive benefits package which may include; ski pass or wellness allowance, disability coverage, travel insurance and extended health and dental. • Travel Allowance and discounted employee rates at any Diamond Resort International resort. • Full-time work year round and a FUN work environment. *eligibility and conditions based on DRCL policies and practices set out in general terms and conditions of employment. Please note that Hilton Grand Vacations (HGV) acquired Diamond Resorts International (DRI) as of August 02, 2021. If you apply to work at a Diamond Resorts company you will be an applicant of a subsidiary of HGV. A transition to HGV will occur as we integrate technology, systems and branding but it will take time until our separate operating systems, employment policies and benefits are fully integrated. As a result, for a period of time, employees will receive correspondence and messaging from Diamond Resorts as well as from HGV and related entities.

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At the Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) our vision of ‘Service. Relationships. Results.’ is all about providing a valued service, building strong relationships with our stakeholders, and achieving greater results for the province. The LDB is one of two branches of government responsible for the cannabis and liquor industry of B.C. We operate the wholesale distribution of beverage alcohol within the province, as well as the household retail brand of BC Liquor Stores. We employ nearly 5,000 people in over 200 communities and have been named one of BC’s Top Employers 13 times over for offering exceptional places to work rooted in values of fairness and respect, work-life balance, and inclusion and diversity. We believe that our people are our greatest asset. Being a reputable employer with programs of skills training and professional development are what attract candidates to BC Liquor Stores, while our progressive, forward-thinking culture is why employees with a growth mindset thrive. Auxiliary positions are on-call, meaning hours of work are not guaranteed and subject to availability. Some auxiliary employees may not initially work a full 35-hour week, but with more hours worked and more seniority gained, more opportunities for more hours of work will follow. Auxiliary positions are not permanent full-time but can lead to permanent full-time opportunities with a very competitive total compensation package, including a comprehensive pension plan, medical and dental coverage (including massage and physiotherapy), tuition reimbursement and scholarship programs, and access to public service employee benefits including career support services, financial and legal services, and employee and family counselling. We are dedicated to the highest quality of customer service, delivered with friendliness, individual pride, initiative, and retail passion! If you fit this description and you are prepared to work in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply to become a part of the Whistler area BC Liquor Stores. To be eligible, applicants must meet the following qualification requirements: • • • • •

Be at least 19 years of age Be able to legally work in Canada Be able to provide excellent customer service Be able to communicate effectively and professionally with the public Be able to demonstrate aptitude for cashier and related duties, including calculations • Be able to perform physically demanding work, including lifting 20-25 kg boxes • Have a valid Serving It Right Certificate™ • A Criminal Record Check is required.

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BC Liquor Store Sales Associates may be required to operate a variety of mechanical and hand-operated equipment, in addition to handling large volumes of bottles as part of the LDB’s recycling program. Rate of Pay (as of April 11, 2021): Auxiliary Sales Associate - $19.45 per hour For exciting and challenging retail opportunities, please apply online at: http://bcliquorstores.prevueaps.ca/pages/openings/ Or apply in person at: Whistler Marketplace 101-4360 Lorimer Rd, Whistler On November 1, 2021 the BC Public Service announced the COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that defines the conditions and expectations for BC Public Service employees regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Among other possible measures, proof of vaccination will be required by November 22, 2021. It is a term of acceptance of employment that you agree to comply with all vaccination requirements that apply to the public service. More information can be found here: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/careers-myhr/all-employees/safety-health-well-being/health/ covid-19/covid-19-vaccination-policy-for-bc-public-service-employees

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And if you’re a local – well, you know you’re in the right place to forge a career and lucky to call Squamish home. We’ve got an opportunity to work and truly be a part of this inspired community at its media hub, The Squamish Chief. We’re part of Glacier Media Group and Local News Network, the largest local digital network in Canada. We work with our clients to offer cutting edge solutions like programmatic, Social, SEO, sponsored content and community display advertising on our website – and yes, we reach customers through our trusted newspaper as well. We’ve got media opportunities covered.

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Marketing & Communications Coordinator The Whistler Chamber of Commerce is looking for an experienced and driven individual to join our team. The ideal candidate has a background in marketing and communications; has a great eye for design and detail; and is confident to jump in and support wherever needed.

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How to crowdfund regime change ANYONE who still believes one person can’t make a difference isn’t paying attention. When Mad Vlad Putine—Russia’s answer to the Pillsbury Doughboy—unleashed his dogs of war on Ukraine last week, he pushed “repeat” on a story as old as human civilization (sic). Thirst for power, glory, status, treasure, immortality, whatever, once again drives one man to throw the whole theory of evolution into question. Hurt feelings, deflated ego, crumbling empires and self-delusion are at the core of the travesty unspooling in the former Soviet state. Ironically, those hurt feelings,

BY G.D. MAXWELL deflated egos and crumbling empire have been traced back to the last time the then Soviet Union—and Warsaw Pact nations— decided to invade a neighbour, in that case the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Historians have written the catalyst for the invasion, the Prague Spring reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubček, trace eventually to the breakup of the Soviet Union two decades later. But who pays any attention to history? The U.S. and other Western democracies reacted to that invasion with a shrug of their shoulders. The Soviets were acting within their own “sphere of influence” and no Western country was interested in sparking another world war by taking any action against it. Comrade Brezhnev was given a free hand to quash the reforms and the country as far as they were concerned. The U.S. specifically had more than its fair share of problems in both Vietnam and the streets of Chicago at the time. So how likely is it NATO and the West will set their collective hair on fire over Putine’s excursion into Ukraine? Well, it’s not like he invaded to quash some humanistic reforms in Ukraine. But he is seeking to assimilate an old Soviet dance partner back into the arms of mother Russia. So the odds of any reaction, beyond the scope of sanctions already taken and those left untaken, is about as close to zero as world leaders who hate to pass up any dick-measuring opportunity can come. Ain’t going to happen. Ukraine? Take it. Just don’t get greedy and start making googoo eyes at Poland because then you’d be challenging the all-for-one underpinning of NATO. Sadly, the new world order isn’t any stronger than the old world order... which was largely chaos. Russia still has a seat on the United Nations’ Security Council and, therefore, a veto on any actions taken by that body. Not that they need it since their bosom buddy China is also a permanent member and it seems the new, new world

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order is likely to be Russia and China against the rest of the world. So assuming Putine is just suffering from hurt feelings and small-man syndrome and will be happy to stop at Ukraine and not light a nuclear candle, Western nations, and particularly the European Union, will keep tightening the sanction screws until the EU decides whether it can or can’t foresee a future without Russian energy. Whether Putine’s actions embolden China to perform a shotgun wedding with Taiwan or simply become a drain on that country’s treasury is anybody’s guess. But one way or another, the Cold War 2.0 is beginning to be assembled, at least until Putine is replaced by someone with less anger and more kumbaya. Not sure how or when that happens but if sanctions have any efficacy, it’ll happen

idea. Being tech and money nerds, they figured there must be a way to do good and make a killing. They started GoFundMe. Brad and Andy bailed six years later and made their killing—the start up being valued at around $600 million at that time—and taking a five-per-cent cut, GoFundMe does a handsome job of funding its investors. Canada enjoys a spot on the top 10 GoFundMe campaigns of all time with $11.5 million raised for the Humboldt Broncos— No. 5 as of now—with America’s Food Fund still top dog with $45 million. Of course, not all GoFundMe campaigns are as altruistic. The No. 2 spot is held by We Build the Wall, a fundraiser to build Trump’s U.S.-Mexico wall that raised $25 million. All donations were eventually refunded when the campaign failed to raise the $1 billion target and, later, turned out to be a

So how likely is it NATO and the West will set their collective hair on fire over Putine’s excursion into Ukraine? within. The Russian people, the Russian oligarchs, the Russian military leaders will all be players in either supporting or dismantling whatever Mad Vlad has in mind. And that’s where unfettered free market Western capitalism might play a role. Back in 2010, Brad Damphousse, Rob Solomon and Andy Ballester had this crazy

scam cooked up by, among others, Steve Bannon. Rather than build the wall—and have Mexico pay for it—the folks behind the plot planned to line their pockets. But really, whether it’s GoFundMe or some other effort, how much could be raised to fund regime change? Not that I’m suggesting anything like that, but let’s be honest, why should it always be some

government—some covert, undercover, black-ops action—that brings about a sudden change in a country’s leadership? The U.S. has done it any number of times in any number of countries. It wasn’t an open, transparent, democratic upswelling of outrage that got Salvador Allende replaced by Augusto Pinochet in Chile. Wasn’t fair and honest elections that replaced Juan Torres with Hugo Banzer in Bolivia. It was money and disaffected military people who made it happen. And it wasn’t just the U.S. If memory serves, they partnered with the U.K. to choreograph the 1953 coup in Iran that put the Shah in power and kept the oil flowing. Surely there are dissatisfied generals in the Russian Army who would be tempted by the thought of becoming oligarchs themselves. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if they weren’t waiting around for the go signal and a pot of untraceable money to, well, you know. If people are fickle enough to contribute $10,000 so Rusty the Rescue Mutt can have ACL surgery, the global population would certainly kick in a few bucks each to keep a madman from firing up World War III. Wouldn’t that be a much more democratic way of operating? Of course I’m not suggesting a GoFundMe account to do something I’m sure is illegal if done by anyone other than another government, which would deny any knowledge of it. And just to be clear, since I hate it when my door gets broken down in the middle of the night by security forces, my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek, or whatever the written word equivalent metaphor might be. ■

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