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FONT MEMORIES Outsider artist Arne Gutmann heads to the Sunshine Coast

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34 Searching for a legacy Search and rescue in Whistler has come a long way in the last 50 years—thanks in part to lessons learned from a fatal avalanche in 1972. - By Megan Lalonde

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ALL OPPOSED

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Columnist Andrew Mitchell explores the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.

74 MAXED OUT While inherent prejudices get further diluted with each generation, they still exist in all of us, writes G.D. Maxwell.

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52 MUSEUM MUSINGS Freestyle skiing, or hot dogging, has come a long way on the slopes of Whistler since the 1970s.

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Deciphering the spin of Canada’s federal budget READING

THE FOREWORD to Canada’s federal budget released on April 7—and nothing else—one might be left with the impression that everything is financially great in Canada.

The pandemic was tough, sure, but our government’s financial guidance was sound (according to our government), and now, “Canada has come roaring back.”

Whatever that even means for the average person and their grocery bill.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS For some reason, possibly because I am an easily amused nerd, I can’t help but read some of the budget’s prepared text in the voice of an overdramatic movie trailer voiceover guy.

After “a shattering economic blow” it was entirely reasonable to fear that the pandemic would “hamstring us for years; that millions of Canadians would still today be without jobs; and that the task of rebuilding our country would be the work of decades,” the movie trailer voiceover guy says.

“We knew we could not let that happen.”

Cue dramatic audio crescendo overlaid on B-roll of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, finance minister Chrystia Freeland and other federal figures assembling to secure Canada’s financial destiny.

Thanks to our government’s emergency COVID relief spending and a relentless focus on jobs, our economic avengers have saved the day, it sounds like.

“It was an audacious plan,” the voiceover guy says. “And it worked.”

Our economy has recovered 112 per cent of the jobs lost in the early days of the pandemic, according to the budget, and our real GDP is “a full 1.2 per cent above where it was during the pandemic.”

Thank god. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to finally getting some

sleep tonight after hearing this encouraging news about our real GDP. I jest, of course. The budget foreword isn’t quite as delusional as I’m painting it, and if you read a bit further, it does make reference to the challenges real Canadians are facing—things like “snarled supply chains” driving up prices at the checkout counter, and the dismal state of Canada’s housing supply.

But taking in the general sense of optimism conveyed in the budget, does any of it resonate with Canadians? Does the average person care about job growth or GDP? In my experience, no.

They care about the things they notice every two weeks: what they’re paying for rent, and the astronomical costs now attached to homeownership, or the cost of groceries and gas.

In Whistler, they care about what they have to pay to ski (and, in recent years, they care deeply about whether or not Vail Resorts is going to honour their refund).

But the biggest financial concerns for

years, along with policy changes around foreign buying and ownership, critics are saying its measures likely won’t have much impact, with some referring to it as “smoke and mirrors.”

In terms of housing, at least, the budget doesn’t get a passing grade, said Andrey Pavlov, a professor of finance at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business.

“It allocates a lot of money for social housing development and also for municipalities to update their building approval process. But that’s not what we need—there are already plenty of people who are willing and able to build more housing but are held back by red tape and long delays at City Hall pretty much everywhere,” Pavlov said in an email.

The budget is also disappointing in a more general sense, Pavlov said, noting it does not offer any tax cuts or red tape reduction.

“By maintaining the current overly intrusive and complex regulation, red tape, and taxes, the government is stifling the economic growth we need to service the

nauseating at best, stiflingly undemocratic at worst. I like to make my mind up issue by issue (a foreign concept to many these days, it seems), and my vote is never a sure thing.

All of that being said, watching recent videos put out by Poilievre, it’s clear that (whether or not he’s being genuine, or just saying the things he needs to say to get elected) he actually does get it, and that he knows how to speak to average Canadians in a way that matters to them.

Standing in front of a $5-million house in Vancouver in a video posted April 11, Poilievre explains in simple terms how he would address Canada’s housing crisis if elected: basically, stop printing money and cut down on municipal costs and red tape.

Whether or not his policies would prove effective is almost beside the point— listening to his language it’s clear he knows what notes he needs to hit: government fat cats are “protecting the wealthy;” the working-class stiff “who can’t actually pay his or her bills” is losing purchasing power; and “if you’re prepared to work hard, you should be able to own a house.”

I’m looking forward to finally getting some sleep tonight after hearing this encouraging news about our real GDP. most Canadians in April 2022 are likely related to housing.

Thankfully, our government gets it, offering up insightful wisdom like the following tidbits: “Our economy is built by people, and people need homes in which to live. But Canada does not have enough homes.” Yes, very good stuff here—but how to solve that?

“We need more of them, fast.”

Like I said. Our government gets it.

But while the budget includes $10 billion for housing initiatives over five

debt we have accumulated,” he said.

“With all the talk about economic growth, it is not any easier to start or run any business today than it was two or three or five years ago. Growth from inflation is not real growth, as it really doesn’t leave Canadians better off in any way.”

Let me preface this next bit by saying I’m no fan of Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre. I consider him and Trudeau as two sides of the same disingenuous, opportunistic political coin, and in general I find partisan politics to be

It’s pretty basic populist rhetoric, and even though it’s rich coming from a 42-yearold career politician who was first elected at 24 years old and has never held a real working-class job, it’s effective.

I suppose that’s the advantage of being in opposition, particularly against a government approaching its best before date: you don’t have to worry about spinning bad news into good—you just have to speak confidently, and say what people want to hear.

Until the next flip of the coin. ■

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR or 30 minutes outside on a bicycle in the relatively warm, calm and dry valley...

Thomas DeMarco // Whistler

Reflecting on a tragic loss On behalf of the four families who suffered such a tragic loss on April 8, 1972, I’d like to thank Megan Lalonde for her exceptional reporting on the fatal avalanche in 1972 (Pique, April 7, “They just vanished”). One of the victims, Heather (Patrick) Howard, was my sister.

Fifty years later, after reading the article, we all discovered facts we never knew. Getting together with members of the families these last few weeks to commemorate the loss has been a cathartic experience. And Megan’s thorough investigation made it more so.

Though it’s long overdue, we would also like to take this opportunity to thank the numerous volunteers who searched selflessly for hours for our loved ones, too often at their own safety risk. At the time, many of us were somewhat oblivious of exactly how much effort went into the search and I regret that it has taken until now to formally thank those involved.

With tragedy often comes some positive.

The death of these four resulted in great things for Whistler: improved avalanche control, the creation of Whistler Search and Rescue and an avalanche rescue dog program. Again, we are grateful to all of those involved in these projects.

Megan spoke of “what ifs” in her piece. As I went today (April 8) to place a sprig of heather at the spot, I found it ironic that the alpine was

Sea to Sky Rotary Clubs dinner party a HUGE success!

closed due to winds. “What if” that had been the case in 1972?

Finally, our hearts ache for the family and friends of the local skier killed in a slide on Tuesday, April 5. From my understanding, there has not been an inbounds avalanche fatality in Whistler since 1972. A heartbreaking irony.

Chris Patrick // Whistler

A very big thank you to everyone who participated in our online dinner party on April 2. The Rotary Clubs of Pemberton, Whistler, Whistler Millennium and Squamish all came together to create a very special evening of fun and fellowship. The Clubs prepared all the ingredients for a chef-led dinner of Asianinspired risotto with Pemberton Shaw Creek carrots and freshly-grown Rootdown Farms spinach. A flourless chocolate cake, with eggs donated from Sound Garden Landscape and Design of Pemberton, topped off the meal and was paired with two wines from Fort Berens.

The communities of Pemberton, Whistler and Squamish donated many items to our silent auction, which raised close to $8,000.

In total our event raised $11,750, and all funds will go towards equipping a kitchen and laundry facilities at the soon to be built “El Cardonal Children’s Home” in Baja, Mexico.

This home is located about 30 kilometres north of Los Barriles.

If you would like to know more, this short video provides insight into the project and who it will be helping: youtube.com/ watch?v=lyo6srBodMs&t=2s.

Please reach out to our Rotary clubs if you would like additional information on this project!

Where are the Whistler cyclists?

A prolonged transit strike and gasoline at near record prices and yet I am still not seeing a lot of utilitarian cyclists on the roads or trails. I do not understand Whistlerites. The weather is invariably just fine to spend six hours outside on skis up on a cold, windy and snowy mountain but evidently never comfortable enough to spend 20

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We look forward to conducting further fundraisers to support this project. So many people throughout the Sea to Sky have a connection with the Baja, so we hope to engage them. With your support we have had a solid start to meeting our fundraising target of $60,000 for this project.

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Pemberton housing discussion disappointing This is my second letter submitted regarding the lack of affordable rental housing in Pemberton. I was pleasantly surprised by the initial response from the Village of Pemberton.

are higher now, which is why rents are higher.

Mayor Richman chose not to comment in any capacity, other than to forward a motion that I receive a response to my letter.

I am utterly flabbergasted by this inaction.

Why are our elected officials essentially shrugging their shoulders and saying there is nothing they can do? Not even taking five minutes to discuss this issue indicates their complete disconnect from families like mine that depend on rental stock for housing. Why can’t we reduce property tax?

Having long-term tenants increases the per capita spend in our local businesses. Longterm tenants shop in our stores, enrol their children in community centre programs, and work in our local businesses. I understand

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I was informed my letter would be discussed at the next regular council meeting. This was a sign to me the mayor and council were taking the issue seriously and would begin a constructive discussion on affordable rental housing in Pemberton.

I eagerly watched the council meeting via Zoom on April 5. To my extreme disappointment, this “discussion” lasted less than 90 seconds.

Mayor Mike Richman advised the council of my suggestions to reduce annual property tax for homeowners renting to long-term tenants, and a suggested cap on the maximum amount of rent charged per unit. Councillor Ted Craddock stated, “We can’t reduce property tax.”

Coun. Amica Antonelli raised the question of if Airbnb rentals should be investigated.

This was quickly dismissed as a non-issue due to the Village having in place a short-term rental license requirement. Regarding a cap on rent, Coun. Craddock stated that mortgages

property taxes keep the municipality funded, but why is the benefit of long-term tenants to our community not factored in?

Why can’t the Village investigate the current use of secondary suites in Pemberton?

A simple survey of homeowners with registered secondary suites would give the Village a clearer picture on how many of these suites are not in the rental pool.

As for Coun. Craddock’s comments on mortgages and rental prices, I respectfully suggest he educate himself on the gentrification occurring in our community. When people sell their overvalued homes in the Lower Mainland, they arrive in Pemberton pleasantly surprised their mortgage has become affordable. This allows them to let their secondary suites go vacant. The continual rapid increase in monthly rent charged is solely due to the unprecedented lack of supply.

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Backcountry Advisory AS OF WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 Freezing levels around 1,000 to 1,500 metres, alpine temperatures around -10°C, and a powdery snow surface—sure doesn’t sound like April to me! This has been the weather the past couple of weeks, with periodic snowfall occurring between periods of clear skies. The weather forecast looks like more of the same for the weekend.

The most likely concern this weekend will be slabs that may form within new snow. Wind slabs may form in the alpine if strong wind pushes the snow around. Storm slabs could also build and become reactive to riders, being the thickest and touchiest at treeline and

alpine elevations. We should also always keep cornices in mind at this time of year, as they are very large and could fail at any point.

Travel tips for this weekend include: assess for slab formation within the new snow, particularly in steep alpine terrain dial back your terrain choices if substantial snow accumulates watch your exposure on sun-exposed slopes when the sun is shining be wary of ridgelines, where cornices could be present and could fail naturally or from your weight Those wanting typical spring skiing conditions will have to keep on waiting for now! ■

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Strategic Direction No. 3 in this plan states the intent to “Provide information and outreach to community members.” Does this statement exclude renters? Is the Village only interested in the ideas and opinions of homeowners as they are the people paying property taxes? I am tired of renters being looked down on as “less than.” I am tired of being told we can’t look at an available suite because we have a child.

I am heartbroken hearing from others in our community that must move elsewhere as they cannot find a home.

This exodus of the people that work in our businesses should be spurring discussion and a willingness to examine new ideas. The availability of affordable rental housing for low- to middle-income earners is directly tied to the viability of our community. A community is only healthy when all of those in it are valued, their voices are heard, and action is taken in times of need. If what I witnessed during the council meeting was municipal politics at work, then no wonder the status quo is not being challenged. It is time for action, for new ideas and possible solutions, and time to spur decisive change.

I am pleased to report a very constructive telephone conversation with MLA Jordan Sturdy on April 11. He listened to my concerns, shared his own experience with the

housing crisis, and gave suggestions on how to further this cause on a municipal level.

This 30-minute phone call made me feel my voice has been heard, at least at a provincial level. This is the level of personal attention to constituents, concern for the future of our community, and open discourse I expected from our mayor and council.

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Government hypocritical on resource extraction I am confused.

The federal Liberal government wants Canada to reduce emissions and has unveiled its new emissions-reduction plan to reach its new greenhouse-gas targets by 2030. It projects the oil and gas industry needs to cut emissions 42 per cent from current levels if Canada is to meet its new goals.

The same Liberal government just approved the massive Bay du Nord offshore oil and gas development. The Liberal Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador stated that it will “play a key role in supporting our government’s commitment to Net Zero by 2050.”

Read that again. You get to Net Zero by building an offshore oil development? Makes total sense to me. #sarcasm So what is it? Oil bad? Oil Good? Or is this just pandering to the Liberal-held East while continuing to demonize the resource-rich, Conservative-held West?

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The rabbit hole YOU’D THINK LIVING in a superconnected world where people have all the world’s knowledge at their fingertips would make it impossible for conspiracy theories to take hold, and yet here we are—“freedom” protesters carrying signs in Vancouver proclaiming that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a hoax.

BY ANDREW MITCHELL That’s coming after two years of nonstop COVID conspiracy theories that one in 10 Canadians still believe even though thousands of them have been debunked.

For some reason a lot of Canadians, including apparently a few members of government, are also deep into QAnon—the American “deep state” conspiracy factory which has yet to make a correct prediction about anything.

Some of our countrymen and women are deeply suspicious of Bill C-10, which would apply the same broadcast standards for TV and radio to the internet, as well as the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” initiative to align industry players to tackle climate change. There are the people who believe the rediscovery of First Nations

children buried at residential schools is a hoax. And at last week’s Toronto mandate protests I counted at least three “Trump Won” flags, which is an example of people using one conspiracy to sell another. The rabbit hole is getting deeper faster than we can fill it in.

The problem is that while the internet does contain an abundance of verifiable facts, the truth is relentlessly attacked, undermined and buried by a steady stream of lies, propaganda, misrepresentation, misinformation, and other bad-faith opinions crafted for what seems to be a growing audience.

There’s an old expression that “a lie can travel around the world and back before the truth can get its boots on” that probably predates the telegraph by a hundred years, and it’s never been more applicable. These days almost anyone can pollute the public discourse at literally the speed of light.

And it works because a surprisingly large number of people aren’t nearly as skeptical of sketchy, unsourced or unproven conspiracies as they are of all the mostly good information provided by governments, the media, and once-trusted organizations and institutions.

Why? Studies suggest that it’s largely because those conspiracies happen to line up with their personal and political beliefs and hurt the people they don’t like—the truth doesn’t matter if the lie works. If only those people

were equally skeptical of all the information that comes their way, both good and bad, then we probably wouldn’t have a growing conspiracy problem.

Research into the psychology of conspiracy theories has found that the world is generally divided into rationalists and intuitionists—the latter of which tend to think they’re the rational ones even though they can be duped into believing just about anything.

There’s also the math to consider.

Studies have shown that the majority of conspiracies are impossible given the number of people that would need to keep the secret over time. A dozen people have trouble keeping something secret for even a few years, while some of the more popular conspiracies going around would require the complicity of thousands, and sometimes even millions, of people.

That said, I will admit that sometimes I do enjoy a good conspiracy. The obsessive research and attention to detail that people put into their investigations of JFK’s assassination, the 9-11 terror attacks, US Air Force “UFO videos,” or the “faked” moon landings can be impressive. I even have a few conspiracies of my own: for example, I’m pretty sure the NBA adds squeaker noises to its broadcasts.

But as a rationalist, I always make a point of looking deeper and getting the

other side of the story. Once a conspiracy reaches the point where it’s causing harm and can no longer be ignored, an army of debunkers will sweep in to tackle them head-on, point by fallacious point. Which is ridiculous—the onus should be on people spreading conspiracies to provide proof that they’re right, not on the people stuck with the job of proving them wrong.

Given the rise of conspiracy culture, we probably all know people—friends, relatives, coworkers—who have been caught up in some of these recent conspiracies.

That begs the difficult question of what we should do about it—do you correct them?

Send them the Snopes link and hope for the best, knowing they probably won’t A) believe you or B) thank you for it?

While it’s tempting to take the high road and let people believe whatever they want, it’s gone too far. More than 30,000 Canadians have died of COVID and continue to die every day. An armed QAnon believer drove onto the Prime Minister’s residence at Rideau Hall to conduct a citizen’s arrest.

Asian Canadians are being assaulted on the street because of conspiracies about the “China virus.” Conspiracies aren’t harmless fun anymore.

Except for my NBA “squeaking sneaker” thing. Watch a broadcast yourself and tell me the squeaks match the action on the court. ■

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WHA tweaks rules to set rental rates at 30% of household income HOUSING ORGANIZATION ALSO REPLACES COMPLICATED NET ASSET TEST WITH MARKET OWNERSHIP RESTRICTION

BY BRANDON BARRETT BASED ON AMPLE feedback from the community over the past two and a half years, the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) has made major changes to how it structures rental rates as well as eligibility criteria for affordable rental housing applicants.

At the regular meeting of council on Tuesday, April 5, elected officials adopted the amendments to council’s existing employee housing policy after the WHA heard from more than 800 program participants and applicants since the municipal subsidiary last tweaked eligibility and rental rates in 2019. Prior to the amendments, income and asset maximums were used to determine rental rates via the Rental Category Framework, which included six income and asset levels for each bedroom category.

While the framework was designed to get close to a household’s 30-per-cent income threshold—the maximum limit most experts recommend a household spend on rent to be considered affordable—“that intention has had mixed results,” noted Marla Zucht, general manager of the WHA. “Depending on the tenant’s current income and asset levels, they can end up bouncing between the six different rent

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categories, therefore creating instability and insecurity in their housing situation.”

This was a common refrain heard by local Alicia Lafon after she posted to the popular Whistler Winter Facebook group last month asking for people’s accounts of how the WHA’s 2019 changes to eligibility and rental rates have created unintended challenges.

“The income brackets on these categories [can] change year by year, without prior notice to tenants,” Lafon relayed in an email.

Some tenants told Lafon, while others reported directly to the WHA, that they chose to turn down extra work or reduced their hours of employment to avoid being bumped into a higher rental category.

“My dilemma is that I’d like to be increasing my income to save or to be approved for a purchase of a WHA house, but increasing my income causes a rent increase,” one single mom relayed to Lafon in a private message that was shared with Pique, with the tenant’s permission.

The extensive community feedback the WHA heard helped inform its decision to move to a simplified structure that sets a tenant’s rent at 30 per cent of a household’s gross income, subject to minimum and maximum rental rates that are dependent on unit type. For reference, the minimum rental rate for a studio in the Chiyakmesh building at 1060 Legacy Way is $868 per month, while the maximum rate is set at $1,639.

“Something that we often throw around is the [term] ‘affordable housing’ and what does affordable housing mean? Something is affordable to someone,” said Whistler Councillor and WHA board chair Jen Ford

at the April 5 meeting. “But what this is, is attainable housing. This is housing that is guaranteed to be safe and [offers] longterm tenancy agreements that give you the clarity and consistency that you can [use to] set down roots and stay in the community.”

The other substantive change passed at the April 5 council meeting effectively replaces a net asset test for WHA rental applicants, a process that turned out to be overly complicated for prospective tenants and cumbersome to administer for WHA staff. Prior to the amendment, applicants needed to disclose all of their savings, bonds, stocks, mutual funds, term deposits, and any personal or business real estate.

“It’s a lot,” Zucht conceded. “Quite often this information is incomplete because it is not well understood on what exactly needs to be disclosed. It often is also timeconsuming to administer, and in actuality, it’s next to impossible to comprehensively verify all of the documentation.”

Feedback to the WHA indicated the asset limits negatively impacted program participants’ “ability to save for the future, as more savings will mean paying a higher rent, which then affects their housing affordability,” said Zucht. “It also negatively affects those who are self-employed, or local business owners and seniors, who may have higher asset levels associated with their businesses and their retirements.”

Instead, the WHA will move to a simplified and easier-to-verify market housing ownership restriction, meaning anyone who already owns market housing in B.C. is ineligible.

“It maintains an asset test for the rental program but is much simpler to understand for program participants and is easy to verify, therefore it’s less vulnerable to abuse,” Zucht said.

On that note, the WHA and municipal staff are working on a future report to council that will include recommendations on improving the enforcement of eligibility requirements and WHA rules.

“I like the conversation tonight around compliance and enforcement,” said Coun.

John Grills. “It’s so expensive and so much work to build this housing, [we have] to make sure that it’s being used the way it was designed.”

Existing WHA tenancy agreements will remain in place, unless a tenant volunteers to move to the new rentgeared-to-income framework, which will require a new tenancy agreement to be drafted. The WHA will prioritize tenants who will see their rents lower under the new rate structure.

Always intended to be an evolving framework, Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton said the WHA rental policy will continue to be tweaked, if needed, based on input from the public.

“We promised we’d improve this policy over time based on community feedback.

These changes do that,” he said. “I’m glad this kind of iterative approach will continue.

It allows us to learn what’s working, what’s not and adjust accordingly.”

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One dead, investigations ongoing after series of inbound avalanches at Whistler Blackcomb A FATAL SLIDE ON APRIL 5 FOLLOWED OTHER MARCH INCIDENTS THAT SAW SKIERS BURIED ON BLACKCOMB

BY MEGAN LALONDE ONE MAN IS DEAD and several others are left shaken after a series of avalanches released within Whistler Blackcomb’s boundaries in recent weeks.

On Tuesday, April 12, the resort confirmed that four inbound avalanche events occurred in open terrain between March 15 and April 6 of this year, ranging in size from 1.5 to 2.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Whistler Blackcomb said the slides resulted from a recent spring storm cycle.

“Whistler Blackcomb is home to big mountain skiing and riding, with unique and variable conditions. We are extremely grateful to our dedicated Ski Patrol team who is relentlessly focused on guest safety and is passionate about what makes Whistler Blackcomb so special,” the statement read.

Though Size 1 avalanches are relatively harmless to people, according to Avalanche Canada, even small slides can pull individuals towards dangerous terrain traps or into other more hazardous situations.

Size 2 avalanches, on the other hand, are big enough to bury, injure, or kill a person.

RCMP CONFIRM 34-YEAROLD WHISTLER MAN KILLED IN SIZE 1 SLIDE OFF WEST RIDGE The lone fatality occurred on Tuesday afternoon, April 5, when a 34-year-old Whistler local was caught in an avalanche on Whistler Mountain.

Whistler RCMP said several skiers called police just before 4 p.m. on Tuesday after locating a man in need of medical assistance at the base of West Ridge, an in-bounds run in the West Bowl area accessed by Peak Chair.

Whistler Ski Patrol and RCMP responded to provide emergency care, but the skier was tragically pronounced deceased on scene, police said in a release.

Responders determined an approximately Size 1 avalanche had occurred, according to RCMP and Whistler Blackcomb, into which the Whistler man is believed to have been swept. A search of the area was conducted and no other individuals were located.

Whistler RCMP is investigating the incident alongside Whistler Blackcomb and the BC Coroners Service.

In a statement, Whistler Blackcomb chief operating officer Geoff Buchheister offered condolences and support to the skier’s family and friends on behalf of the resort, patrollers and parent company Vail Resorts.

The man’s identity has not been released.

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Last week, Pique’s cover feature detailed an avalanche that killed four skiers in Harmony Bowl exactly 50 years ago; a tragedy that sparked significant improvements to Whistler’s snow safety and search-andrescue practices. In an interview for the story, former Whistler Mountain hill manager Hugh Smythe could not recall an inbound avalanche resulting in a fatality at the resort since that day in 1972. The feature was sent to press prior to Pique learning about Tuesday’s fatal avalanche.

SIZE 2 ON BLACKCOMB GLACIER RESULTS IN LOST GEAR, BUT NO INJURIES One day after the fatality, Whistler RCMP was alerted to a Size 2 avalanche in the West Col area of Blackcomb Glacier.

Several skiers were caught in the inbounds slide but no injuries were recorded, police said. One ski pole and one ski were seemingly lost in the incident. The avalanche was reportedly triggered by a bootpacker walking uphill near the windlip.

Due to the recent storm and the presence of a buried melt-freeze crust, avalanche danger for the Sea to Sky on both Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 6 was rated as “considerable” for terrain at and above the treeline.

Criticism for the resort was lobbied across local social media channels later in the week, after longtime patroller Wayne Flann—a Whistler Blackcomb employee who also operates a popular and highly regarded avalanche blog—deleted an Instagram post about the April 6 slide following a request from the resort’s “PR department.” Images and details about the avalanche, however, remain posted on Flann’s blog.

In a statement, COO Buchheister said “the ask by a Whistler Blackcomb team member was made with the best of intentions,” in light of an investigation into recent avalanche activity at the resort that remains ongoing.

“Out of respect for anyone involved, we do not share images or details until an investigation is complete,” he said.

“We are grateful to our patrollers who pour their hearts into protecting our guests, employees, and each other in these mountains every day.”

Whistler Blackcomb also works closely with the Canadian Avalanche Association to transparently report all avalanche incidents, Buchheister added. “Safety is of utmost importance to me and my team.

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U.K. SKIER RECOUNTS FULL BURIAL AFTER TRIGGERING AVALANCHE NEAR SAPPHIRE BOWL Learning about last Tuesday’s death was undoubtedly an eerie experience for Ryan Crisp.

The skier—a frequent visitor to Whistler from the U.K.—recently survived his own brush with death after being fully buried in a Size 2 slab avalanche while traversing to Blackcomb Mountain’s Sapphire Bowl on March 15.

“I was sure I was a goner. Sure my life was cut short, that it was entirely out of my grasp, no longer in my own hands,” Crisp wrote in a lengthy Facebook post recounting the incident.

A representative for the Ski Club of Great Britain who has spent several seasons in Whistler and typically passes at least five weeks in the resort each winter, Crisp said he is exceedingly familiar with the resort’s terrain. He was leading a group, enjoying tree laps through 10 centimetres of new snow and stormy conditions that Tuesday when visibility in the alpine began

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improving. The group decided to cruise down Blackcomb Glacier that afternoon, with the objective of skiing into Sapphire Bowl to Zut Zut. “Fortunately, whenever I ski this zone I always spread the group out. Not because I am directly concerned about avalanche risk, but more so as I like to promote good skiing tactics, this being one of them,” he wrote.

After stopping to watch one of the group members make it through a tricky section safely, Crisp got moving along the traverse toward Sapphire again and immediately noticed snow starting to sluff around him.

“In the next second, my life literally turned upside down as the entire slope

released,” he said. “I didn’t hear a crack, but others did and said it was deep and haunting.”

The snow pushed his skies downhill, pointing toward a cliff band. “The best way I can describe it is it was like just as I thought I was going to escape, a snowy arm came out of moving snow and grabbed me by the scruff of the collar and pulled me into the chaos,” he described.

As he found himself in a “tumble drier” being pushed downward in a cloud of snow, “I was swimming upwards to the light, fighting with everything I had, screaming,” he wrote, “and as a result of the latter, now choking on rushing snow down my throat.”

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Crisp realized he was fully buried as the heavy snow compacted around him, gradually snuffing out any light seeping in from above.

Though his left arm was cemented, he could tell which direction was up and knew his right arm was stuck reaching for the surface. Barely able to move his fingers, Crisp mustered the strength to punch upwards, ultimately cracking the surface.

A friend spotted his hand and quickly dug out his face, with another friend moving in to clear the snow that had filled Crisp’s airway.

He soon learned two other members of his group had been at least partially buried in the slide; one of whom managed to swim to the surface and free herself. Two others were caught in the avalanche, which Crisp said left behind a crown wall approximately 20 metres long, but not buried.

“The difference maker and reason I am here: training and equipment,” Crisp wrote.

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 16 group was able to ride out via Zut Zut after all. Crisp told Pique he was skiing with a transceiver, probe, shovel and airbag pack at the time of the incident. He didn’t have time to activate the airbag.

“The concept of an inbounds patrolled area is one of the reasons I love skiing out here,” he wrote in the post. “We get to regularly ski terrain that would only ever be considered in Europe with full pro mountain guides. Not saying that’s right or wrong, also not saying that that makes us/me not take the hills seriously. I do, and always have worn safety equipment.”

The following day, Crisp said he learned a Size 1.5 avalanche had released on nearby Surf’s Up earlier on March 15 that carried two people, but resulted in no burials.

VANCOUVER ISLAND TEEN’S QUICK THINKING— AND SKIING—RESCUES WOMAN BURIED ON BLACKCOMB GLACIER More skiers are counting themselves lucky after an incident on Blackcomb Glacier last month, with one woman particularly indebted to a speedy Grade 12 student from Nanaimo.

After hiking over the ridge from the top of the Showcase T-bar, Brad Squire and his sons, 17-year old Chase and 19-year-old Jack, dropped into the glacier at about 1 p.m. on March 24, with the intention of

heading toward the ice cave. The family usually makes several trips to Whistler from their Vancouver Island home each winter, but this time was in town for March break.

Brad said he was skiing ahead of his sons and had only made about four turns when he noticed a large chunk of ice out of the corner of his eye, about “half the size of a small car,” rolling and bouncing past him down the hill. Another similar-sized chunk followed, until the slope disintegrated into a fast-moving debris field about 15 metres wide, Brad estimated. The slide narrowly missed all three Squires, but caught several others who had traversed further to skiers’ right.

A confused Brad noticed Chase bolting toward the debris, losing a ski in the process. “He was going really fast, recklessly in a straight line, and you know, kind of bouncing all over the place because of the rubble,” said Brad.

Chase managed to keep skiing for a few more metres on one ski until he bailed and lost that one too, but “before he even stopped tumbling from the fall he was up again and running.”

Brad only began to clue in once Chase dropped to his knees and started digging.

“As soon as I saw him pull this arm out, I realized,” he said. “It all happened so fast, but yeah, I was pretty proud of him.”

Skiing behind his dad and his brother, Chase said he only noticed the slide after it moved over the well-travelled traverse path and started knocking people down.

BLACKCOMB BOULDERS Brad Squire, right, and a woman Squire’s son Chase helped dig out of avalanche rubble, centre, look over a debris field following a slide on Blackcomb Glacier in March.

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“I saw these big chunks of ice flying and honestly I didn’t see it hit anyone, but once it all came to a still all I saw was this girl’s helmet,” he said. Though covered in snow and avalanche debris with a rectangular chunk of ice more than a metre long laying horizontally across her back, Chase could make out the woman’s head resting “almost on top” of another large ice block, he remembered. “I knew it was a person so I just started skiing as fast as I could.”

The woman had been bowled over and carried by the falling snow, coming to rest about 20 to 30 metres downslope from the

traverse she had been crossing, but was conscious and seemingly uninjured.

After some digging, Chase managed to pull her out from underneath the massive ice block that Brad said “wouldn’t budge.”

Across the slope, “everybody else was just kind of yelling around to see who was in their group to make sure nobody was missing,” recalled Brad. “And then some people started pulling those bamboo poles out”—typically used to designate a marked run—“and were kind of probing around.”

Brad said a snowboarder hiking above the traverse had inadvertently triggered the slide.

“What he told us was that he had hiked up there, noticed that the cornice had separated from the rock, and said to himself, ‘oh my god, this is obviously not stable, I shouldn’t be up here.’ And then he said, without any warning, [the slope] just let go.”

Brad added, “He saw it coming down and he started screaming [to warn] all the people, but he said he didn’t see any heads turn, and then he saw everybody get knocked down.”

Brad said the avalanche affected about 10 people, including one who was injured, though the woman Chase raced to dig out was the only one buried. A few people lost pieces of equipment.

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Unanimous opposition to Nita Lake development at second public hearing CRITICS OF POLARIZING PROJECT CONTINUE TO SAY IT DOESN’T OFFER ENOUGH BENEFIT TO COMMUNITY would add 21 employee-restricted units, 11 tourist-accommodation units and 11 market residential units to a 1.93-hectare parcel.

That compares to the 15 employee-restricted units (eight of which were to be maintained by the proponent) and 22 market touristaccommodation units originally proposed.

Criticisms of the project have remained fairly consistent throughout the yearslong rezoning process, with opponents taking particular issue with its density, and its potential impacts to the lakefront ecosystem and traffic along Alta Lake Road. But what has been perhaps the most persistent issue among opponents is a belief that the proponent, the Michael Hutchisonled Empire Club Development Corp., is not offering enough benefit to the community for what it’s getting in return.

“My greatest concern with the whole project is the [private employee housing] guidelines have been … abandoned,” said Garry Watson, a former RMOW councillor who is widely considered a forefather of modern Whistler. “There’s been no reference back to the guidelines, that is the guidelines that were to optimize the amount of employee housing within this proposed development and allow for only a limited amount of new unrestricted market accommodation to support the project viability.”

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLERITES GOT A second chance to have their say on a polarizing housing project proposed for the shores of Nita Lake last week, and if the small-but-vocal group in attendance was any indication, public opinion of the development remains overwhelmingly opposed.

A public hearing for the mixed-use development proposed for 5298 Alta Lake Road was first held in March 2021, but due to a procedural oversight that meant Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) staff did not consult with School District 48 in time as it was statutorily obligated to do, a second public hearing was triggered.

Held digitally last Wednesday, April 6, 11 different members of the public spoke at the hearing, and while the original hearing last year appeared to be more evenly divided, that was not the case last week, with each public attendee voicing their opposition.

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and the second in October 2020, contending they don’t reflect the current reality on Alta Lake Road. (Both studies predicted the project would generate minimal traffic in comparison to overflow from Highway 99.)

“I think Whistler has fundamentally changed as a result of COVID, and as a result of the increased traffic and any studies that were done that looked at that three years ago, fundamentally, they need to be reviewed, because it’s just changed too much,” said Danielle Slavin.

By the staid standards of a Whistler public hearing, last week’s meeting was fairly eventful. There were comments likening the project to “an illegal invasion,” another that compared the difficult and unexpected decisions local officials are facing to the tough calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has had to make to protect his country, and even a caller who admitted to having drank “some wine” before phoning in, which was self-evident. So is the wave of opposition legitimate community concern or unfettered NIMBYism?

“This is not a neighbourhood problem because Nita Lake is not a neighbourhood good,” said project critic Brandon Green.

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Watson told council he had come up with his own formula that would set the number of market units at 15, eliminate the touristaccommodation units entirely, and increase employee units “by up to 30 units”—in light of the fact the proposed restricted units are a fraction of the size of the market units—while still producing “amazing, amazing profits” for the proponent.

Others reiterated the need to preserve Whistler’s sensitive lakeside ecosystems, especially given the immense strain already placed on the resort’s green spaces.

“If we keep approving developments like this and undervaluing nature, Whistler is going to suffer in the long-term— economically, ecologically, culturally and spiritually,” said environmental consultant Taylor Green, one of three members of the Green family to speak at the hearing.

“This proposal, with its densely packed townhomes, will require a substantial clear-cut on one of our last undeveloped stretches of lakefront. The amount of loss is unacceptable to me and the tree preservation areas will not be enough to block the buildings and protect the cherished natural appearance of this lake.”

Several attendees were also critical of the pair of traffic studies that were carried out at the proponent’s behest, the first in August 2019,

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BY BRANDON BARRETT IF THERE’S ONE thing the past two uncertain years have taught outgoing Whistler Chamber of Commerce CEO Melissa Pace, it’s that she doesn’t have to— nor should she—steer the ship alone.

“I learned it’s OK not to think I can do it all. I’ve had to really overcome that.

I cannot and don’t have to do everything alone,” said Pace, who announced last week she’ll be leaving the chamber after five years at the helm.

Part of that was a desire to spend more time with family, and part of it was an acknowledgement that, after leading the resort’s largest business network through what have undoubtedly been two extremely lean years, it was simply time for a recharge.

“There’s nothing here at the chamber that should have changed or anything that could have been done differently. It’s the times,” she said. “I stepped into COVID as most of us did, thinking it would be a couple months, maybe six months. We went at a pace where we were just on fire. We were on the frontlines. It was seven days a week.

We all know what it was: the changes in government, the pivoting, the new strategic

planning, letting go of staff. All of this, including my own personal uncertainty of my future and the world’s future, it was pretty impactful.”

It was a hard-won lesson for the former managing partner at Landsea Tours & Adventures, who first joined the chamber staff as member relations manager in 2015, and became CEO in February 2017 after a brief stint as acting CEO. The bristling pace of the pandemic also served to reinforce the need to support Whistler’s business owners following the past two-plus years.

“We need to, as chambers, really consider what mental health looks like in the workplace, and what can we do as a chamber community to bring in the resources, the tools and work with Whistler Community Services to bring these things to life,” Pace noted.

Along with ushering Whistler’s business community through COVID-19, Pace was instrumental in shifting the chamber more towards an advocacy role than ever before.

Some of those efforts, which began with past Chamber CEO Val Litwin, bore fruit last week when the federal government announced the easing of certain rules on temporary foreign workers aimed to stimulate areas of the economy that have been particularly hard hit in the pandemic,

including hospitality and food services.

“That was a big one. We’ve been working on that for years,” Pace said.

Another of the chamber’s signature initiatives, the Whistler Experience customer service training program for employers and employees, grew more localized under Pace’s leadership.

“Even taking it from where Val had taken it, to then bringing it local, was a big undertaking. It took a lot of effort and a lot of planning to get that done,” she explained.

Pace also credited her team for being nimble enough to shift the chamber’s mandate into more of a recruitment role as businesses struggled even more than usual to fill positions and scores of foreign workers left the resort at the onset of the pandemic.

“One of the things we’ve definitely changed since COVID starting was being a recruitment organization,” she said. “All of a sudden you really have to do what you have to do to support the community. I think that’s where our resort partners and stakeholders really came together, because it’s not something we’ve ever done before, and it literally took a village to decide how to move this forward.”

To that end, Pace said the chamber is putting the finishing touches on its Whistler Community Talent Plan, essentially an all-

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“That is literally speaking to the national, provincial and local organizations that have anything to do with employment, employment resources, tourism, and bringing it all together to really understand how we’re going to work together and what this chamber can do with our partners to ensure that we recruit and retain the best talent we possibly can,” she said. “Right now we do a lot behind the scenes, so we need to put it in front of the members and say, ‘This is what we’re doing all the time and this is what we’re going to achieve by this date.’

That way they have a better insight into not only what the chamber is doing but also what the rest of the community is, along with provincially and nationally, to help our community.”

As a committee led by board chair Diana Chan now undertakes a search for the chamber’s next leader, Pace had some words of advice for whoever steps in to fill her shoes.

“Enjoy the ride, enjoy the journey and be bold. Be bold, with compassion. That’s really important,” she said. “And take a rest when you can.”

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How should the Olympic movement’s role change in the coming years?

WHISTLER INSTITUTE HOSTS GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES SPEAKER SERIES EVENT ON THURSDAY, APRIL 21

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A POTENTIAL Vancouver/ Whistler bid for the 2030 Games on the table and the second Olympics in as many years recently wrapped up, the Olympics are an even hotter topic of discussion in B.C. than usual.

The Whistler Institute might be joining that collective conversation with its upcoming talk, “The Role of the Olympic Movement in an Ever-Changing World,” but don’t mistake that for hopping on the bandwagon.

When it comes to the Institute’s Global Perspectives Speaker Series, “We have this little process where we kick around ideas, kind of see what catches people’s interest,” said Dave Williamson, the Whistler Institute’s board chair. “We started talking about this one quite a while ago, and it sort of slowly came together. Some phone calls; gathered some support, and we kind of solidified it last fall.”

Set to take place at the Rainbow Theatre next Thursday, April 21 from 6:30 to 10 p.m., the event marks the fifth iteration in the Institute’s ongoing series, but the first to take place fully in person since the series commenced in 2019. Previous topics included electric and autonomous vehicles,

tourism, and the climate emergency.

“It’s nice to be back in person. I think everybody’s looking forward to that,” said Williamson.

The speaker series is designed to stimulate discussion around major global issues by featuring “accomplished international thought leaders who have made a global impact through evolutionary and even revolutionary advancements in their fields,” according to the Institute’s website.

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karate athlete and member of the Olympic refugee team; and Paralympic basketball champ Richard Peter. Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton will moderate the discussion.

“So there’s going to be seven people up on the stage, having a kind of a dialogue, talking about what they see as the future of the Games and how it seems like things are changing,” said Williamson.

Particularly in light of Whistler’s deep Olympic roots—the Games were part of the founding vision for the ski resort decades

“Sport event landscape changed over the duration of the pandemic, impacting every part of events, from the athlete to the spectator.”

- SUKI CHEYNE include Olympic Games Executive Director Christophe Dubi and Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) president Tricia Smith, as well as an athlete panel comprised of Paralympic swimmer Chelsey Gotell, current chairperson of the International Paralympic Committee Athletes’ Council; Clara Hughes, the only athlete to win multiple medals at both the summer and winter Olympics; Hamoon Derafshipour, a

before Whistler became a host location in 2010, noted Whistler Institute executive director Suki Cheyne in an email—“The goal of this panel discussion is to continue the ‘thought leadership’ theme of the Global Perspectives Series to learn how the Olympic movement is evolving and addressing social and environmental challenges and UN Sustainable Guidelines,” she explained.

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A VIP reception and fireside chat, featuring a discussion between athlete and two-time International Olympic Committee vice-president Dick Pound—who is also credited as the founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency—and retired Olympic champion speed skater Catriona Le May Doan—who most recently served as Team Canada’s chef de mission at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing— will take place immediately following the event, upstairs at the Whistler Conference Centre from 8 to 10 p.m.

With more than a few current and former Olympians among the resort’s resident population, the Whistler Institute said it also plans to celebrate local Olympic athletes at the event.

Tickets to the theatre event and VIP reception are available for purchase on the Whistler Institute’s website for $80, with tickets to only the theatre portion of the evening on sale for $30.

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From Afghanistan to Whistler SHAH HUSSAINI GHULAMI LEFT AFGHANISTAN WHEN HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD—EIGHT YEARS LATER, HE FINALLY HAS A HOME

BY ROBERT WISLA WHILE ALL EYES are on the humanitarian crisis playing out in Ukraine, and efforts are underway to bring Ukrainian refugees to Whistler, the resort is still doing its part to house refugees from other parts of the world as well.

On March 4, Afghanistan native Shah Hussaini Ghulami landed at Vancouver International Airport en route to Whistler, marking the first time in eight years he has a place he can properly call home.

“I still can’t believe that I’m here in Canada,” said Ghulami. “I’m free now. I can do anything here in Canada. It makes me so happy. It’s a big change for me, especially in Whistler.”

Ghulami was just 16 years old when he left Afghanistan in 2014. He is from the country’s Ghazni region, which saw fierce fighting between the Taliban and the NATO-backed government during the Taliban’s insurgency campaign last year.

Once landing in Canada, Ghulami spent four days getting adjusted to his new life before he started working for the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, where he has been staying in staff accommodations.

“Staff housing is so nice, it’s so good.

Everything is fully furnished. Everything is nice,” he said. “And because you’re free, you can decide to move to another city or province where you can find another house because you can work right now.”

Ghulami’s journey to Canada was a long one. He was one of the thousands of people that moved to Indonesia from wartorn Afghanistan with hopes of making it to Australia or somewhere in the West.

When he arrived in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ghulami didn’t know the language, employment opportunities were limited, and daily life was a struggle. Ghulami was stuck in limbo for nearly a decade as one of the more than 13,000 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees-registered migrants in Indonesia, 57 per cent of whom are from Afghanistan.

Being a refugee and asylum seeker is a complicated topic in Indonesia, where, until a change in policy in 2018, migrants would regularly be put in detention centres on arrival and could spend months or even years awaiting their fate.

Ghulami was spared being put into a detention centre, but still found that he faced discrimination while in Indonesia.

“If we are in Indonesia, we are not allowed to go to school. We are not allowed to work, to travel,” he said.

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“We are not allowed to buy a SIM card.

We are not allowed to travel from one city to another city to buy a SIM card.”

Ghulami thought he might be stuck in Indonesia for decades, until a stroke of luck put him in contact with former Whistlerite Laurie Cooper, a refugee advocate who has

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helped settle more than a dozen people from across the world in Canada.

Through a process that started in 2019, Ghulami finally arrived in Canada in March. So far, he has taken well to the Sea to Sky, with other refugees, including Murhaf Ghaibour, Canada’s first Syrian refugee ski instructor, showing him the region.

“They’re really, really nice, those who are from Syria and Afghanistan,” Ghulami said.

“They’re amazing. You know, we are a kind of family. I know we are from different countries, but we are like a family, like brothers.”

Ghulami hopes to one day see his family again, and possibly bring them to Canada, but doesn’t have much hope with the Taliban still in power in his home country.

“I’m looking for a way to bring them here, but unfortunately, since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan, the people cannot get their passports. With the previous government there was an opportunity to see them, or maybe they could come see me here, but right now, I think there’s no chance for me to see them.”

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Resort Municipality of Whistler adopts new Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan NEW PLAN CALLS FOR FIRESMART REBATES, THINNED VEGETATION, BETTER INTERAGENCY COMMUNICATION AND ROOFTOP SPRINKLERS

BY ROBERT WISLA IN 2021, British Columbia endured one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, fuelled in part by record-breaking temperatures across the province in June—including in Whistler.

Tragically, almost 600 British Columbians lost their lives to the heat wave, while nearly the entire village of Lytton burned to the ground.

Aside from some smoky skies, Whistler largely avoided the impacts of the 2021 wildfire season—but that doesn’t mean local officials are sleeping easy.

“It’s not a question of if we have a fire. It’s more a question of when, which is why we need to have plans for the worst-case scenarios,” said Whistler Councillor Arthur De Jong. “Out of all the issues and things that I deal with, especially environmentally and public safety, the risk of wildfire is in a league of its own. It is by far our biggest threat.”

Avoiding a similar fate to Lytton is top of mind for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), which is why mayor and council voted to adopt a new Community Wildfire Resiliency Plan (CWRP) at the April

5 council meeting.

The new CWRP—which replaces the 2011 Community Wildfire Protection Plan— was drafted by B.A. Blackwell & Associates with input from community stakeholders and RMOW staff.

In the 145-page document, 32 recommendations have been put forward to make the community more resilient to wildfire. This includes reinstating the RMOW Wildfire Working Group, which will be renamed the Community FireSmart and Resiliency Committee, that had its first meeting since 2017 last month.

The committee will be expanded to include members from the RMOW, Whistler Blackcomb, BC Wildfire Service, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, the Cheakamus Community Forest and representatives from the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations.

Once the committee is reinstated, it will work to implement the recommendations of the plan.

While the plan recommends thinning forested areas in and around Whistler, particularly along the Highway 99 corridor, FireSmarting high-risk neighbourhoods is its highest priority.

“I think we need to do a lot more FireSmart,” said Heather Beresford, environmental stewardship manager for the RMOW, in a presentation to council. “I don’t want to reduce what we’re doing for thinning, but you look at Lytton—that was not a forest fire after it hit the town. After that, it became a structure, after structure, after structure fire, so that’s what I am very worried about.

“This work on the outside of the community is important and helps, but if you have those [fire] brands landing in the middle of a neighbourhood, and now the whole neighbourhood’s burning because they are not FireSmarted, we’re done.”

The plan recommends more FireSmart assessments to take place on private properties.

These assessments are done for free as part of the FireSmart Home Partners Program. To encourage residents to deal with hazards, the plan also recommends a rebate program be established, which could cover up to $500 for removing identified threats.

In tandem with the FireSmart assessments, the plan also recommends creating a rooftop sprinkler program for residential properties in the municipality.

Pre-installing rooftop sprinklers reduces the time and resources needed for installation

in the event of a wildfire.

The plan will also see some of Whistler’s trails widened and thinned to allow emergency crews 4x4 access into difficult terrain. The plan specifically recommends the Flank Trail and Green Lake Loop as priorities for this work.

“I know I felt a little consternation when I saw these recommendations ...

You’re considering road-upgrade projects along some of our key trails, trying to improve access to the frontcountry,” said acting Deputy Fire Chief Steve Doyle. “[But] it’s been shown in other communities when they’ve had fires that being able to get crews into the forested areas to be able to take response before it’s in our backyards has been really crucial to saving and protecting those communities.”

Taken as a whole, the new Wildfire Resiliency Plan is “more comprehensive” than its predecessor, De Jong added.

“I’m impressed with its comprehensive approach to managing the risk,” he said.

“It’s more detailed. It is more tactical with where our money is best spent on fuel reduction. It identifies more of the higherrisk areas and is more specific. I think it gives us more accuracy on where to spend the money with the funds we do have.” n

The Whistler Valley Housing Society is seeking applications for nominations to the Board of Directors Board of Directors Term until 2023 AGM Interested in people with either lived experience or formals skills in the following areas:

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• Construction Industry • Non-profit housing development • For-profit housing development The Whistler Valley Housing Society is a not-for-profit established in 1983 and is the owner of Whistler Creek Court, a 20 unit affordable rental housing project for Whistler employees.

Our Vision To provide, and advocate for, a broader spectrum of housing opportunities for the Whistler community.

Applications close April 21st. Contact WVHS.info@gmail.com for additional information and to express interest.

VILLAGE OF LIONS BAY PARCEL TAX ROLL REVIEW TAKE NOTICE that the Parcel Tax Roll for the 2022 tax year in relation to Kelvin Grove Wastewater Treatment Plant Parcel Tax Bylaw No. 586, 2021, is available for public inspection at the Village Office at 400 Centre Road in Lions Bay during the office hours of 9 am to 4 pm on weekdays, excluding holidays.

AND TAKE NOTICE that any complaints of the tax roll must be received by the Chief Financial Officer no later than 4 pm on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in person at the Village Office, via mail to Box 141, 400 Centre Rd., Lions Bay, BC, V0N 2E0 or via email to finance@lionsbay.ca.

Valid complaints may be made on one or more of the following grounds but only in relation to the person’s own property: • there is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll; • there is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel; • an exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

A complaint must be in writing and must: (a) clearly identify the property in respect of which the complaint is made, (b) include the full name of the complainant and a telephone number at which the complainant may be contacted during regular business hours, (c) indicate whether or not the complainant is the owner of the property to which the complaint relates, (d) if the complainant has an agent to act on the complainant’s behalf in respect of the complaint, include the full name of the agent and a telephone number at which the agent may be contacted during regular business hours, (e) include an address for delivery of any notices in respect of the complaint, (f) state the grounds on which the complaint is based, and (g) include any other prescribed information.

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Sea to Sky Soils presents update to Pemberton council COUNCIL BRIEFS: OFFICIALS TO HEAR REPORT ON RODENTICIDES; APRIL IS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH

BY HARRISON BROOKS WITH THE GOAL of updating Village of Pemberton (VOP) mayor and council, Scott Kerr, general manager of Sea to Sky Soils—a local soil and compost producer in the corridor—was on hand at Pemberton’s April 5 council meeting to share what the company will be focusing on in the coming year.

Looking back on 2021, Sea to Sky Soils processed more than 30,000 tonnes of organic waste despite losing a major organic waste contract partway through the year, according to Kerr.

“So that’s great. That’s all stuff that was kept out of the landfill … it’s not generating methane in the landfill, it’s being used to generate compost and soil amenders and the nutrients are kept in the food cycle,” he said.

“And the fact that this contract was lost also meant that there was some available capacity on site and some new opportunities as well that we tried to seize on.”

Heading into this year, Sea to Sky Soils plans to continue producing premium soil and compost to aid in the production of food by the corridor’s farmers. The company also has plans to increase environmental

THE YEAR AHEAD Sea to Sky Soils looks to continue its soil and compost production this year while focusing on reducing environmental impacts.

FILE PHOTO BY HARRISON BROOKS

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protections, including stormwater capture and treatment, and incorporate “more stringent environmental monitoring.”

“Compost that leaves the site is tested all the time already and will continue to be,” said Kerr. “So any stormwater that is running off the site will be tested much more thoroughly in the future as well. So, those will be some changes that happen.”

One concern brought up by Councillor Amica Antonelli is the amount of plastic that usually ends up on site during compost production, and whether that would be a focal point for Kerr in the coming year as well.

While plastic is the perennial problem for compost producers, according to Kerr, he said despite Sea to Sky Soils having less plastic than many other similar sites, cleaning up the stray plastic left behind during production is a major focus for the company moving forward.

“Some of [these sites], you walk on and it feels like you’re walking on to a landfill just littered with plastic. So there’s a few aspects to solving the problem … a big one is education. The more we can get people to stop throwing plastic in their bins, the better off the whole system works,” said Kerr. “What we do now is primarily manual removal. So you can imagine people standing, bending over and picking up a piece of plastic is pretty hard on your body, it’s pretty inefficient.

And so we have set up and are in the final stages of commissioning a picking plant

where people are standing in a comfortable position and they pick off the plastic as it moves by them on the conveyor belt. So that’s sort of the main step we’re taking for plastic removal this year.”

COUNCIL TO HEAR REPORT ON RODENTICIDES Pemberton local Nicole Jean joined council in person on April 5 to share her thoughts about the use of rodenticides and the risks they pose to the local bird population.

Jean, who spoke to Pique about her concerns for an article in the March 24 issue, told council her story of finding multiple dead and dying birds of prey in a small area around her house all within the last year.

“I’m just here as a concerned citizen.

I’ve lived in the Pemberton area for 30 years and I have never had this experience before,” she told council. “So I just wanted to raise awareness in our community that this is starting to become a problem.”

Jean requested council to consider joining the many other municipalities in the province which have already banned rodenticides altogether, to which Mayor Mike Richman informed her this issue has been brought to council’s attention in the past.

Council is expecting a report on the topic to be presented by staff at a future meeting where a decision will be made on how to move forward, the mayor said.

APRIL IS SEXUAL ASSAULT AWARENESS MONTH The third and final presentation at the April 5 council meeting was made by Howe Sound Women’s Centre Society’s (HSWC) community program director Shana Murray, who was there to request that council proclaim Sexual Assault Awareness Month for April.

“We’re just looking for all the communities in the Sea to Sky corridor to proclaim it for us as a way to sort of basically put forward the intention for the increased awareness in our communities,” she said.

“We see this not only as a foundational act of political support, but support in a way that aims to prevent sexual violence in our communities.”

The HSWC hopes that the proclamation can help educate and bring awareness to people in the corridor.

Council ultimately approved the request and proclaimed April to be Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

The HSWC has many different projects planned to raise awareness this month, including presentations planned for different groups, social media campaigns and the Clothesline Project—a public art display of people’s images or experiences with gender-based violence—happening this week in Squamish and Whistler.

More information on Sexual Assault Awareness Month and other HSWC projects can be found at hswc.ca. n

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How has the world responded? With lots of talk and inadequate, often counterproductive measures. Banks continue to pump billions into coal, oil and gas development, governments are ramping up production and wars are being fought to keep the polluting, climate-altering fuels flowing.

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UN secretary general António Guterres called the IPCC report “a litany of broken climate promises.” Within days of the release of Part 3 of the four-part assessment, as well as Canada’s emissions reduction plan, our federal government approved the Bay du Nord offshore oil megaproject in Newfoundland and Labrador—albeit with 137 conditions.

Banks have been increasing investments in fossil fuel developments and infrastructure, and industry lobbyists are using Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to justify calls for ramping up oil and gas production.

A report by Oil Change International found, “fossil fuel financing from the world’s 60 largest banks has reached nearly USD $4.6 trillion in the six years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, with

It doesn’t have to be this way. The recent IPCC report, “Mitigation of Climate Change,” lays out a viable plan to reduce emissions and forestall the worst impacts of a rapidly heating world. It wouldn’t cost much more than we’re now spending to keep burning fossil fuels. We’d also save enormous amounts by avoiding the health care and infrastructure costs of pollution and extreme weather-related events such as floods, droughts, heat domes and storms.

Along with improved energy efficiency, renewable energy is now the most costeffective way to power societies. Costs of wind and solar power and battery storage have dropped by up to 85 per cent since 2010.

“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F),” said IPCC Working Group III co-chair Jim Skea in a news release. “Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible.”

We have important choices to make, choices that will determine the future for us, our children and grandchildren and those yet to be born. Although much of the onus is on governments, banks and industry to take the big steps, individuals have a role.

Ensuring your investments aren’t fuelling the climate crisis is a start, by divesting from funds and banks that support the industry and switching to non-fossil funds.

People can also join the growing movement calling for change, through activism, community engagement, political pressure and voting. Reducing meat consumption, avoiding flying and relying less on private automobiles will also help.

As Guterres said, “Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous

“Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”

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$742 billion in 2021 alone.” Alberta oilsands financing jumped 51 per cent from 2020 to 2021, to $23.3 billion, much of it from Canadian banks RBC and TD Canada Trust.

Banks have also invested heavily in Arctic and offshore oil and gas, fracking, liquefied fossil gas and coal mining and power.

Meanwhile, estimated costs for the Trans Mountain pipeline project, which Canada’s government bought in 2018 for US$4.5 billion, have ballooned by 70 per cent, to $21.4 billion!

Think of what that money could do invested in energy efficiency, renewable sources and protection and restoration of natural areas that sequester carbon.

As Guterres wrote, “So far, highemitting governments and corporations are not just turning a blind eye; they are adding fuel to the flames by continuing to invest in climate-choking industries. Scientists warn that we are already perilously close to tipping points that could lead to cascading and irreversible climate effects.”

radicals. But the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is moral and economic madness.”

The Sixth Assessment consists of four parts, based on thousands of studies representing the most up-to-date climate science from around the world, with the final part, a synthesis, to be released in September. The first assessment was released in 1990, and the world has since consistently failed to heed the increasingly urgent warnings.

In the face of overwhelming evidence, ignoring the world’s scientists or believing they’re somehow mistaken is an unnecessary, suicidal gamble.

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

Pounding pavement—roadie style WHEN I WAS a mountain-biking teenager hanging out with other mountain-biking teenagers, one of our favourite pastimes was making fun of road cyclists, or “roadies”

BY VINCE SHULEY as we unaffectionately referred to them. I mean, how lame is riding on a busy road compared to hitting sweet singletrack and boosting jumps?

Like a lot of teenagers, I thought I knew everything. And later on I realized my views on the sport of road cycling were, in fact, incredibly ignorant. The first epiphany occurred when I met a fellow rider from my mountain bike club who also road biked.

The crew was razzing him on his opinion of why road bikes were way more exciting to race than mountain bikes (clarification: we’re talking about cross-country MTB racing here, which was a lot more popular before enduro came along).

“Tactics,” he replied coolly. “With road, you’re constantly playing chess with slipstreams, attacks and breakaways. With mountain biking, one guy will get way ahead and no one can catch them grinding in the forest.”

Having completed my share of cross-

HIT THE ROAD Road cycling has its own attractive qualities—and hazards.

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country MTB races—some even with decent results—I had trouble countering that argument. I had also begun to take notice of the amazing televised coverage of the Tour de France every year and saw those road racing tactics in action. I have to give credit to the expert commentary of Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen for everything I know about the world’s greatest cycling race and the riders and teams who dominated it over the years.

While I never intended to race road bikes, I always wondered if I would enjoy riding them recreationally. I had thrown

rigged up a new-to-me Wahoo Kickr smart trainer with a Cannondale Synapse road bike, all of which you can read about in my April 6, 2021 column “The inescapable convenience of indoor cycling.”

So with a perfectly capable road bike sitting in my home office, I figured I’d be remiss if I didn’t get it out on the road at least a handful of times last summer. It wasn’t easy to justify leaving my mountain bike in the garage and road biking instead, but I found this was an easier decision when I was recovering from one of my many mountain bike crashes.

[R]iding on that butter-smooth asphalt with slick, road bike tires felt like black pow, or something.

a leg over one, of course, and I knew the appeal of such minimal rolling resistance and the speeds the bike can go when you have a downhill piece of road and a tailwind.

But it was never a priority to get properly equipped for it. It can be a hard sell when three knobby-tire bikes already occupy your living space. But when I made the decision to buy a trainer for indoor cycling in the fall and winter, buying an actual road bike and smart trainer made so much more sense than getting something as outlandish as a Peloton. Last year was the first time I

My first few rides I kept it simple and looped around Westside Road, with a climb up Stonebridge. Turning around at the start of the Sirloin climb to just ride back down the road felt strange, but to get the most out of road biking, you have to stop comparing it to mountain biking every second.

The next ride I tackled was from Whistler to WedgeWoods, about 32 kilometres round trip. This began to get a bit more exciting (and scary) since it was my first attempt at riding properly on Highway 99 and getting passed by cars driving in excess of 100km/

hr. The best part was riding on the freshly paved surface between Alpine and Emerald— remember the one that caused all the traffic headaches last summer? Well, riding on that butter-smooth asphalt with slick, road bike tires felt like black pow, or something.

Before the All Time Fall Time riding season kicked in, I wanted to try my hand at a classic Whistler road ride out to Whistler Olympic Park. I chose a sunny September afternoon, snapped the visor off my helmet and took off down the highway. Southbound had quite a bit of downhill cruising, which I knew would come to greet me later as an uphill grind. I found piles of gravel that I had to carefully dodge without giving myself a flat, or worse, making myself into a traffic statistic. I scanned ahead for a safe line on the right of the rumble strip where I could and always, always keeping my wits about me.

Once I turned onto Callaghan Road the whole experience felt more relaxed. Fewer cars, amazing views and friendly waves from every single road cyclist I passed in the opposite direction. By the time I pulled into my driveway I was feeling it from 50 kilometres and 770 metres of climbing. My mountain bike certainly can’t rack up those stats in two hours.

If only my teenage self could have seen that.

Vince Shuley still prefers his mountain bikes 95 per cent of the time. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■

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This notice is applicable to owners of property situated within the Resort Municipality of Whistler and whose properties are subject to one or all of the following parcel taxes: • Emerald Sewer Specified Area Parcel Tax • Water Parcel Tax • Sewer Parcel Tax The Resort Municipality of Whistler advises that the parcel tax roll for the 2022 roll year are available for public inspection at the Resort Municipality of Whistler Municipal Hall, 4325 Blackcomb Way, business hours 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday only (inclusive) (statutory holidays excluded).

The Resort Municipality of Whistler also advises that any complaints of the tax roll must be received by the Manager of Financial Services no later than 4:30 PM, Tuesday, April 19, 2022.

Valid Complaints are: • Errors or omission of a name or address, • Errors or omissions on inclusion of a parcel, • Errors or omissions of taxable area or taxable frontage, • An exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

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Whistler Search and Rescue carries out a crevasse rescue on Wedgemount Glacier. Archived photo from Whistler Magazine, courtesy of Whistler Search and Rescue

WSAR volunteer Wayne Flann is pictured gearing up to rescue a group of fallen climbers on Sunday, July 19, 1998.

Archived photo by Bonnie Makarewicz, the Whistler Question

The powerful, quick-moving slide continued on for kilometres down the mountainside and took out everything in its path, aside from the searchers who miraculously managed to get out of the way. As they’d soon come to understand, a second search party exploring higherelevation terrain directly over Pike’s group had triggered the avalanche. “The obvious lesson was that search coordination needs to know where every party is,” explains Al Whitney, who was probing alongside Pike when the slab released.

The searchers later skied out over the avalanche path, where “the rubble had set like concrete,” Pike remembers. “I gained a great respect for the power of avalanches

that day that served me well for the rest of my days in the mountains.”

It was one of several near-misses illustrating the hectic nature of the two-day effort that culminated in the retrieval of four bodies from Whistler’s Harmony zone, with the help of an RCMP dog. (A fact that would eventually inspire one Whistler patroller to found the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association, but more on that later.)

In its immediate aftermath, the tragedy highlighted Whistler’s existing need for a rescue group that could rapidly deploy and save the lives of mountaineers, hikers and skiers in the backcountry and challenging terrain, recalled Cliff Jennings in an email earlier this year.

He, alongside fellow Whistler locals Dave Cathers, Stephen Les, Trudy Salmhofer and Paul Burrows, would go on to found Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR)—initially dubbed Alta Lake Search and Rescue—that same year. Ever since, the organization and its crew of highlytrained volunteers has been tasked with finding and saving the many people who find themselves lost, injured or otherwise in need of help in the Sea to Sky’s unforgiving backcountry. In those 50 years, Whistler SAR has saved thousands of lives—and, just as important, offered closure to dozens of loved ones.

A coordinated search-and-rescue organization wouldn’t have made a

difference half a century ago in whether the four lost skiers—Heather and Peter Howard, Dave McPhedran and Gerry Schlotzhauer— survived the avalanche in Harmony Bowl.

“They were killed on impact,” acknowledges Heather’s brother, Chris Patrick. “But the system would have been set up far better to search for them.”

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS Whistler—or Alta Lake, as it was then known—was a very different place half a century ago. When Whistler Mountain first opened to the public in January 1966, any search-and-rescue demands fell to ski patrol. But in the years leading up to the

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Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 1,333

Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square Feet: 522

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 1,026

WHISTLER CREEKSIDE

WHISTLER VILLAGE

WHISTLER CREEKSIDE

A short walk to the lifts, parks, and lakes makes for an ideal weekend or full-time home. The shops and some of Whistler’s best restaurants are also nearby.

This well cared for home is ready for the next family to personalise and create their Whistler history!.

Powder Lodge in the heart of the Village is the ideal place to spend your getaway. Minutes to the lifts and all the amenities -relax poolside, soak in a hot tub, try the dry sauna, or use the gym. Unit sleeps 4 with loft bdrm, fireplace, kitchen, and balcony.

Steps to Whistler Mtn, shops and restaurants. Spacious layout including spa like bathrooms, double sided fireplace, euro kitchen, private laundry and features pool, sauna, steam, gym, hot tub, movie and games room!

Enjoy being slope-side for a quarter of the price!

Townhouse

Condominium

Condominium 1/4 share

$1,485,000

$269,000

JILL NOTMAN COLPITTS

Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms: 1 Square Feet: 795

Come home to this perfect family home located in a fantastic Pemberton neighbourhood. The main level features an open concept living with high vaulted ceilings, 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms and a large deck that is directly adjacent to the dining and kitchen area. Property contains a legal suite.

KAREN VAGELATOS

Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 3 Square Feet: 2,302

WHISTLER

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#201 - 4573 CHATEAU BOULEVARD

PEMBERTON

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7446 DOGWOOD STREET

$1,489,000

$355,000

DANIELLE MENZEL

1469 HEMLOCK STREET

OWL RIDGE, MOUNT CURRIE

Personal Real Estate Corporation

1827 LUMPY’S WAY

PEMBERTON

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1481 HEMLOCK STREET

JANE HEIM

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#412 G3-4653 BLACKCOMB WAY

#339C - 2036 LONDON LANE

Bedrooms: 1 Bathrooms:1 Square Feet:648 Ski home to this one-bedroom quarter share at The Horstman House giving you one week every month to enjoy Whistler. Also enjoy two weeks of consecutive usage for Christmas and New Year’s 2022 in this top-floor, west-facing, spacious suite. The fantastic location on Blackcomb Way is just across the road from the Valley Trail.

Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet:1,247 This 3 bedroom Legends property is in one of the best locations in town, right at the base of Creekside. Walk out the door and be at the Creekside Gondola within seconds, and then ski home at the end of the day! This home boasts a full kitchen, living and dining area, gas fireplace, in-suite laundry and large covered deck with a view of the ski hill.

WHISTLER

Condominium 1/4 share

$225,000

CREEKSIDE

Condominium 1/4 share

TRACEY CRUZ

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#8 - 4890 PAINTED CLIFF ROAD

#239 - 4800 SPEARHEAD DRIVE

WHISTLER

$465,000

WHISTLER

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 1,001

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 789

Perched high up on Painted Cliff Road, this quiet and exclusive complex backs on to forested land and your ski home trail! This upper unit has vaulted ceilings, modern updates and a private hot tub. The phase 1 zoning allows for unlimited owner use and nightly rentals.

The Aspens is a very popular building in an ideal ski-in/ski-out location right on Blackcomb Mountain. This well maintained unit is on the 2nd floor and has its own private balcony with barbecue. This is a turn-key property, ready for a new owner to step in and enjoy unlimited owner use and nightly rental income.

Townhouse

Condominium

SOLD

$2,249,000

$1,689,000

2930 STANLEY ROAD BIRKEN

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 1,385

Personal Real Estate Corporation

DAN SCARRATT

dan@wrec.com | 604 938 4444

Come home to this rare gem nestled amongst the Birken and Cayoosh ranges!

This bright and well kept 2 bed/2 bath home on over a half acre landscaped lot has oak hardwood floors, new appliances, and several outbuildings. The large aluminum shop is ideal to work on your projects and store your toys.

Chalet

$749,000

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#224C - 2036 LONDON LANE CREEKSIDE

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square Feet: 951 You can’t beat this Creekside location at the base of Whistler Mountain! The large floor plan offers an open living space with a fully equipped kitchen, a cozy gas fireplace, and a covered balcony for relaxing summer evenings. Enjoy 1 week out of every 4 for unlimited personal use or earn revenues through the onsite rental management.

Condominium 1/4 share

$329,000

317-4320 SUNDIAL CRESCENT VILLAGE

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2

Square Feet:807

One of the best view units in the best hotel in the village. This two bedroom suite faces directly up the slopes and has views over the pool area, as well. The Pan Mountainside is one of the best revenue producing properties, and is located just steps from the lifts and all village amenities.

Condominium

$1,395,000

FEATURE STORY fatal slide, the establishment of an auxiliary search-and-rescue group was already beginning organically, remembers Burrows, WSAR co-founder and former patroller.

Without cell phones or internet, “Everything was very basic and very primitive,” says Burrows, over the phone from his home in Salmon Arm, adding, “There were only five of us [patrollers] to control the whole mountain. And so … we had to get others involved in the community.”

WSAR began as “kind of an ad hoc thing,” Burrows explains, “where you just knew somebody who knew what they were doing and wasn’t in danger of [setting off] a search for themself, rather than looking for somebody else, in the process.” As more people began visiting Alta Lake and smaller numbers began venturing into the backcountry, “The whole genesis of the search-and-rescue issue at Whistler is that it was a gradual reaction to the need of the day.”

Eventually, the organization was designated a member of B.C.’s Provincial Emergency Program and earned non-profit status. By the time current WSAR president Brad Sills joined the organization’s ranks in 1973, “it was a pretty ragtag crew,” he recalls. Even still, search team leaders like Jennings and Cathers were “very good role models” to the rest of the group, who, like a lot of Alta Lake residents at the time, were squatting throughout the valley, says Sills.

“But we were climbing and we were ski touring and we were doing all those things,” he adds. “We definitely wanted to help, we just didn’t have telephones or anything.”

A call for help would normally reach the RCMP detachment in Squamish first.

“Typically, they would phone somebody up here to see if they could get any help and the person up here would usually call the Boot Pub and see who was around,” says Sills with a laugh. Word would eventually reach the fire department, and travel on from there. “During the winter, everybody would know where to go. Somebody would come around to the squat, knock on the door and say, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’” says Sills.

SAR training provided by the province would only come into play about a decade later, meaning volunteers had to rely on their own climbing and mountaineering experience. They’d also have to rely on their own gear, Sills remembers, from hauling in their own climbing ropes to packing their

relationship with other emergency responders in the corridor, but boosted the organization’s budget. Prior to the search for Potton, WSAR’s annual budget was $4,000.

The following year, it expanded to $40,000.

In 2022, WSAR’s annual budget is set at approximately $325,000, says Sills. Only about $87,000 is funded by government.

WSAR’s crew is currently comprised of 27 full members, and 14 members in training.

Even five decades later, after hundreds of search missions, Sills says lessons from the fatal slide in 1972 still apply—particularly when it comes to the internal battle to keep responders’ safety at the forefront of any rescue mission. “We still fight it on every call,” he says. “There’s something about an avalanche call that sets people’s hair on fire.

Even practiced SAR people tend to get very, very excited … It sets you off, because the timeframe is such that, you know you have to do something immediately, even if it’s not the most prudent thing to do.”

DOG DAYS

A Whistler Blackcomb patrol pup makes the most of sunshine and fresh snow while at work in the Harmony area. File photo by Joe Wakefield in 2019

own lunch.

“The first meeting I went to, I remember, the team owned two radios, a rope, and a backpack,” he says. In terms of both equipment and coordination, “it’s come a long, long, long way.”

One major shift came in 1994, after Ann Marie Potton went for a Thanksgiving Day hike on Whistler Mountain and never returned.

The search for Potton—an avid outdoors person and a recent university graduate who had moved to Whistler for a year from Ontario—lasted seven days. It was, at the time, the largest search ever in B.C. history, Sills told writer Dawn Green for a feature

story celebrating WSAR’s 40th anniversary, published in Pique in 2012. “We had well over 125 people every day ... It was very intensive, and yet at the end of seven days it yielded no results.”

Potton’s body was discovered in Glacier Bowl the following year. Severely injured, she had crawled under the rock where she ultimately died, hidden from view. “An ice storm had ensued, which would have encrusted her in a layer of ice, sealing her body from scent and making it virtually impossible, even with dogs and infrared, to find her,” wrote Green.

The incident and subsequent search effort not only strengthened WSAR’s

Today, the crew responding to one of those avalanche calls almost always includes a four-legged member, certified by the Canadian Avalanche Rescue Dog Association (CARDA).

In 1972, it was an RCMP tracking dog named Rocky and his handler, Cpl. Dale Marino, responsible for locating the four victims under avalanche debris in Whistler’s harmony zone. Despite the fact that Parks Canada had trained dogs on hand in case of a slide and Rocky wasn’t specifically trained for avalanche purposes, it was among the first instances in Canada of a dog taking part in an avalanche recovery call, following similar instances in Fernie and Jasper earlier in 1971 and 1972, respectively.

The incident—coupled with his own experience being partially buried and having to dig out a colleague without shovels or probes after a 1978 slide off Whistler peak— sparked an idea for then-Whistler patroller Bruce Watt. It had taken days for Cpl. Marino and his dog, based in Nanaimo, to join the search effort. So, Watt thought, why not train an avalanche response dog as part of Whistler’s patrol team?

“There was no real avalanche training, really, in those days. So it kind of spurred me on to think, ‘Well, we need to be able to

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Rosamary June White

September 2, 1928 - March 21, 2022 Live like it's heaven on earth!

Rosamary passed away peacefully at home after 93 years of treating every day as a gift.

She joins the family members she longed to meet again—her son, Barry (1950-1979), husband Alan (1925-2018), brothers Ted, Jim, Bob, and Lee, her parents Bud and Esther, and the grandparents she had loved so much as a girl. She is survived by her daughter Brenda Lea, son-in-law Charles, grandson Harrison, her nieces and nephews, and her many close friends at Whistler.

Rosamary was born and raised in the Yukon. She met Alan in Dawson and, once they married in 1948, they left for Vancouver, then Trail, Burnaby, Taiwan, and back again to Vancouver where they raised their family.

Kids launched, she undertook a new chapter as an athlete—running, downhill and cross-country skiing, biking, and hiking all over the Lower Mainland with Alan. They built a little cabin at Whistler in 1973 and began a four-decade love affair with all the mountains and valleys around them. They became an inspiration to their younger outdoor-loving friends, known for their ambitious hikes, enthusiastic year-round volunteering, and for being constant fixtures at Meadow Park Gym into their late 80s.

They were immensely proud when Lost Lake Cross Country dedicated a bench in their honour on Tin Pants overlooking Lost Lake.

Rosamary never lost her love of Vancouver and in 2018 she moved back to live at Terraces on 7th, where she found firm friendships in the community and wonderful support from kind and caring staff.

Friends and family will gather to celebrate Rosamary's life from 2 to 4 pm on Saturday, May 14, at 9246 Emerald Drive in Whistler. In July, once the high snows have melted, her friend Eric will take her on one last hike, up Wedge, to join Barry and Alan in their final resting place.

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TOP: RCMP dog master Dale Marino, pictured here holding a shovel, was one of the responders responsible for locating four avalanche victims in Whistler’s Harmony zone in 1972. BELOW: Bruce Watt and his dog, Radar, at an RCMP / PARKS CANADA validation course in Banff February 1983. Photo courtesy of Bruce Watt.

have better rescue gear,’ and the dog was Rescue Dog Association started, so that we the ultimate rescue gear to have.” could get those validations and stay up to Watt adds, “If an avalanche comes down date on a yearly basis—because that’s what and you don’t know if there’s anybody in all dog handlers have to do.” Alongside it, you can send a dog in and they’ll search Rod Pendlebury, a Fernie-based patroller that area very quickly, so you don’t have to Watt met through B.C.’s informal avalanche put a probe line in and you don’t have to put forecasting network, Watt officially people in danger under cornices or hangfire.” co-founded the non-profit organization in Watt brought the proposal to lift 1982, with the mission to train and validate company president Franz Wilhelmsen. avalanche dogs.

Whistler Mountain had already committed Watt and Radar eventually became the to increased snow-safety measures first civilian handler and dog team to be following the fatal spring avalanche in certified for helicopter long-line rescue. ’72, bringing up an expert from Alpine “That was kind of a big deal at the time,” Meadows, Calif. named Norm Wilson to says Watt. “Now, of course, everybody uses help develop an avalanche safety and that and it’s a really effective way to get control plan and outfitting patrollers in and be safe about getting into the slide, with transceivers. The lift company also and getting the dog on that debris fast.” started working with the National Research For years, the pair would respond to both Council to complete avalanche studies Whistler Ski Patrol and WSAR calls. and had begun developing an avalancheToday, the program has grown forecasting program, explains Watt. significantly. At Whistler Blackcomb in But when it came to an avalanche dog, particular, with two dogs working on the “Franz wanted an actual piece of paper mountain each day and space for about 10 that said, ‘Hey, you are legally allowed to in total, says Watt. be on that slide path,’” recalls Watt. “So The biggest mark of success for CARDA, that was our first goal, to get that piece of and for Watt’s efforts, came in December paper. And we did, but it took about four 2000, in Fernie, when Robin Siggers and his or five years to actually get that through dog Keno carried out the first live recovery all the red tape.” in Canadian history.

Watt found a dog, a German shepherd “It took a while, and you know, there he named Radar, and started connecting hasn’t been another one since,” says Watt. with RCMP dog masters—including Cpl. “It’s hard to get people out of avalanches Marino—for training tips. quickly, but the dog was right there. It was “But when it really mattered, they said, quite an emotional thing—we were pretty ‘Well, we can’t just allow you to come to pumped up about that. these RCMP courses all the time, so why “We always said ‘If we could only just don’t you form an organization of your own? save one life, it would be all worth it.’ Well, So that’s where the Canadian Avalanche we did. It was great.” ■

Notice of Public Hearing Land Use Contract Termination Bylaw (1200 Alta Lake

Road) No. 2347, 2022 Tuesday, April 19, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m.

Via Zoom Online/ Telephone

Purpose: This is the second Public Hearing for Land Use Contract Termination Bylaw (1200 Alta Lake Road) No. 2347, 2022. A second hearing is being held because the Bylaw has been revised to include both of the Land Use Contracts that the Bylaw was intended to terminate, and to increase the maximum permitted gross floor area of Area A from 7,765 square metres to 20,035 square metres, to reflect the actual gross floor area already constructed.

The purpose of the proposed Bylaw remains the same: to terminate the Twin Lakes Land Use Contracts (LUC) from the subject lands and apply a new RM72 Zone (Residential Multiple Seventy-Two) and the existing PAN1 Zone (Protected Area Network One) to specified portions of the subject lands. The RM72 Zone proposes new permitted uses including: “child care facility”, “personal service” and “auxiliary residential dwelling unit”.

Subject Lands: The proposed Bylaw pertains to lands within the Twin Lakes Development. The lands that are the subject of this proposed Bylaw are shown on the map attached to this notice. The subject lands are known as strata plan VAS905 and the civic address for the portion proposed to be zoned RM72 Zone is 1200 Alta Lake Road.

To learn more: A copy of the proposed Bylaw, background documentation and written comments received from the public regarding Public Hearing for LUC00009 are available for review from April 7, 2022 to April 19, 2022 at: • •

Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (statutory holidays excluded) Online on the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) website at: whistler.ca/LUC00009

How to provide input: All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be given an opportunity to provide written and verbal comments that will be considered by Council as follows: 1.

Submit written comments to Council via email: corporate@whistler.ca (must be received by 3:30 p.m. on April 19, 2022) (include “Public Hearing for LUC00009” in the subject line, address the comments to “Mayor and Council”, and include your name and mailing address in the email); and/or

2. Submit written comments to Council via mail/hand delivery: Resort Municipality of Whistler, Legislative Services Department, 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler BC V8E 0X5 (must be received by 3:30 p.m. on April 19, 2022) (include “Public Hearing for LUC00009” in the subject line, address the comments to “Mayor and Council”, and include yourname and mailing address in the letter); and/or 3. Provide verbal comments at the Public Hearing via online video or phone conferencing. Visit whistler.ca/LUC00009 or scan the QR code below for instructions on how to access and participate in the Public Hearing. The Public Hearing link and phone numbers are also below.

After the conclusion of this Public Hearing, Council cannot receive further input from the public on the proposed Bylaw.

For more information visit: whistler.ca/LUC00009 Public Hearing link: https://whistler.zoom.us/j/67791481561 Public Hearing phone numbers: +1-778-907-2071 +1-647-374-4685 Webinar ID: 677 9148 1561

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Whistlerite Aiden Bayliffe to play in Telus Cup with Vancouver Chiefs SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD BAYLIFFE WILL BE UP AGAINST THE BEST U18 HOCKEY TEAMS IN THE COUNTRY WHEN THE TELUS CUP GETS UNDERWAY IN MAY

BY HARRISON BROOKS AFTER WINNING the U18 AAA BC Elite Hockey League (BCEHL) championship at the end of March, Whistler hockey player Aiden Bayliffe and his team the Vancouver North East Chiefs travelled to Alberta where they played, and beat, the Calgary Buffaloes in a three-game series to punch their ticket to the Telus Cup. “This is the first time in our organization’s history that we’ve made it and we all know that it’s a super big opportunity,” said Bayliffe. “So we’re all super excited, knowing how many teams have never been able to achieve that, and the opportunity we have to work hard and really do something great.”

Capping off the season with a national championship berth is the cherry on top of a dream season for Bayliffe and the Chiefs.

After a good start to the season that had them sitting third in the standings, the Chiefs really started to click coming

TELUS CUP BOUND Whistlerite Aiden Bayliffe (far right) and his Vancouver North East Chiefs teammates will be heading to the national U18 AAA championship tournament in May. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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out of the Christmas break, and went on to finish in first place with a record of 26-4-1-5, good enough for 58 points—five more than the Vancouver North West Hawks in second.

After sweeping both games against the North Island Silvertips in the first round of the playoffs, the Chiefs dropped Game 1 against the Greater Vancouver Canadians

that second game we realized we had to work a lot harder, and we didn’t want our season to end right there. I think once we won that second one, we knew we would win the third. We just knew we had the momentum to win after that.”

Heading into the finals against the Hawks—who they split the season series with—the Chiefs were able to keep the

“I think once we won that second one, we knew we would win the third. We just knew we had the momentum to win after that.”

- AIDEN BAYLIFFE

before rallying to win the next two to advance to the league final against the Hawks.

“It’s hard to say what went wrong, but in that second game it was do or die and we knew we weren’t going to have this team again, so we really pushed back, and we wanted it a lot more compared to that first game,” Bayliffe said. “I think maybe we weren’t taking them very serious because we did so well in the first round, but I think

momentum with an overtime win in Game 1 before capping off the series in Game 2 with a regulation victory and a chance to be the Telus Cup’s western representative with one more series win against the Calgary Buffaloes.

“Game 1 [against Calgary] we lost in overtime. It was a tight game and we knew it was going to be tight. So it was a little unfortunate we lost that first one because

we were kind of on the back foot, but we knew we could push back and win both,” said Bayliffe.

Game 2 also proved competitive, going to double overtime—but a big win swung momentum back in the Chiefs’ favour for Game 3, which they won in regulation.

“It was another super tight game; [it] was tied for most of the game,” Bayliffe said. “So it was super hard, super physical, super scrappy. It was a hard series but luckily we won.”

This year’s Telus Cup, getting underway in Alberta on May 16, marks the first since 2019 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and consists of the top team from each of the Pacific, West, Central, Quebec and Atlantic regions as well as a host team.

Each team will play a five-game round robin with the top four making the singleelimination playoff bracket.

Heading in, Bayliffe knows that this will be the toughest test his team will have faced this year, but believes if they play their game, anything is possible.

“Obviously the goal is to try to win it, but our goals are definitely just to go shift by shift,” he said. “We want to win each shift. If we win each shift, we’ll win the games. Just knowing what we have to do and knowing what the key to our game is, and what we’ve worked on all year to get it done.” ■

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Whistler gymnastics club athletes have strong showing in return to in-person meets MULTIPLE WHISTLER GYMNASTICS AND TRAMPOLINE ATHLETES ACHIEVED TOP-10 FINISHES AT PROVINCIALS IN LATE MARCH

BY HARRISON BROOKS AT THEIR FIRST in-person meet in more than two years, many Whistler Gymnastics Club athletes hit personal bests at the Gymnastics BC Championships held from March 24 to 27 in Surrey.

Level 4 trampoline athletes Max Oughtred and Sofia Wright led the way with their second-place finishes in double mini trampoline as well as an additional secondplace finish for Wright in trampoline.

Some of the club’s younger athletes— who were competing in their first in-person competitions—also walked away with some strong finishes, including Maxine Charron finishing second in Level 1 trampoline, followed by Makenna Griffiths, Sophie Yajima and Cora Campos who finished fourth, ninth and 10th, respectively, in the same category.

“This season’s been interesting. This was our first in-person meet back in two and a half years. It was pretty amazing actually,” said Whistler Gymnastics’ head trampoline coach Tanya Liquorish.

“The kids have all been training hard, but doing the competition brought back all the reasons why we do it—not necessarily to compete and to win, but just to be around other people.”

Without the social aspect of competition, it’s been a hard training season for the athletes, Liquorish added.

“That’s made it a really big challenge,” she said. “Also, we haven’t seen any other competitors in years, so we had no idea how we’d do, but the kids did really well at the last competition.”

On the gymnastics side of things, the club also saw many strong performances and personal bests led by a third-place finish in beam for Avery Lang. Other notable performances included Sienna Osborn with a 10th-place finish in vault and eighth-place on beam, Kirra Douglas with a 10th on beam and seventh on floor, Ruby McLatchie who also earned a 10th-place finish on vault in her age category, and Maya Langdale who finished 10th on bars.

“These guys showed spectacularly well considering how few hours we train compared to some of the Lower Mainland teams that are in the gym 16 to 20 hours, while we train a maximum of 12,” said head gymnastics coach Karin Jarratt. “They’re not as experienced as some of the bigger clubs, so any results in the top 10 are fantastic. That means they really hit what they wanted to do,” The Whistler Gymnastics Club has got its share of talented athletes, but they lack the experience that can only be gained

through in-person meets, Jarratt added. “[Provincials was] just about going to a meet and doing what they are used to doing, but doing it under pressure,” she said. “So it was really interesting to see who could hold their own given the added stress.”

Not having in-person competitions over the last two years has been a challenge for both the club, which has lost many of its athletes, and the athletes themselves, who have been forced into solely working on individual skills as opposed to putting them all together into routines, which Jarratt said is “what gymnastics is in their minds.”

But despite all the added challenges that come with gymnastics training in a pandemic, both Liquorish and Jarratt are incredibly proud of the way their athletes have stuck with it and continued to put in the work despite not having actual meets.

“I’m very proud of them. They are a very small group and sometimes in small groups the dynamic isn’t quite as exciting as a bigger group of girls training. So they really rely on each other to pull each other up,” said Jarratt. “So this group is good at keeping each other motivated and psyched, and they celebrate when someone completes a new skill. They’re really good to each other—it’s like a big sisterhood.”

With just under three months left in their season, the athletes are working on polishing up their skills before they head off for an invitational meet in Richmond in a few weeks. After that, they will head to Kelowna at the end of May and finish their season off by hosting an invitational meet right here in Whistler.

According to Jarratt, the Whistler invitational is often the highlight of the season because of its indoor/outdoor format with the beam and vault events taking place on the lawn outside the facility in Cheakamus.

As for the trampoline athletes, due to their strong performances at the B.C. provincials, the team has decided to travel to Calgary in a couple weeks to perform at Alberta’s provincial meet, where Liquorish hopes to see some of her athletes build on their recent performances and continue to set personal bests.

“For some of them, like [Wright], we’re looking to try to get her to accomplish the national level [standard],” she said. “And then for the other kids, now that they’ve been exposed to competing, I’m hoping that they can focus on their execution scores, so like form and height, and just achieving their personal best again and trying to beat their results at provincials.

“I’d also like them to bond as a team—that’s a really big one—and then also to achieve new skills, build their confidence and then just working on higher execution.” n

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Spud Valley Nordic Ski Association would like to thank the

Village of Pemberton, the SLRD and the Pemberton & District Initiative Fund Program

for the PVUS grant which covered the cost of the race fees and subsidized travel costs which allowed Spud Valley Nordic Ski racers to take part in events both locally as well in various locations throughout the province.

NOTICE: RMOW Water Main Flushing Program – April to October 2022 The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) will commence its annual water main flushing program in April 2022. The purpose of the program is to clean water pipes, maintain water quality and improve the integrity and durability of the piping system.

The program will run until October 2022.

During water main flushing, water service may be interrupted for a short time. Residents are advised to limit water use during periods when crews are flushing in your neighbourhood.

If discoloured water appears from your fixtures, do not be alarmed: • Do not use discoloured water for purposes that require clean water.

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Axemen look to make grand final; Wolves’ season gets underway SPORTS BRIEFS: LOCAL FREERIDERS SHINE AT NOR AM CHAMPIONSHIPS; LOCAL ATHLETES RESULTS ROUNDUP

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE SEA TO SKY Axemen Rugby Club wrapped up its regular season on April 9 with a 59-12 win over Simon Fraser University (SFU).

The win secured the Axemen first place in Division 2 and a first-round bye when the playoffs get underway later this month.

The next game for the Axemen will be a semifinal match up against the winner of SFU or United Rugby Club on April 30 at Brennan Park in Squamish. Kickoff is set for 12:45 p.m.

Once the season wraps up, the Axemen will shift to summer programming, which includes weekly community drop-in sessions and touch rugby games open to anyone who is interested in learning about the sport.

While the Axemen gear up for the end-ofseason run, the Whistler Wolves Rugby Club is prepping for the start of its summer season.

Starting on Wednesday, April 27, the Wolves begin training at the all-weather fields in Cheakamus. Once able, training sessions will move into town at either Whistler Secondary School or Myrtle Phillip Elementary School.

President of the club Blake Stewart said the team is shaping up well with 15

returning players and another 17 people interested. However, he is more concerned with creating a club environment and getting as many people out and enjoying the sport that he loves as possible.

The Wolves season kicks off on May 28 with a 9’s tournament, before league matches start the following week.

The Wolves will have two home games this season, on June 18 and July 9.

LOCAL FREERIDERS SHINE AT NOR AM CHAMPIONSHIPS IN BIG SKY After sweeping every podium at the Junior Freeride National event in Whistler a few weeks ago, 14 athletes from the Whistler Freeride Club (WFC) got invited to the 2022 IFSA North American Championships at Big Sky, Mont. last week, where they continued their dominance.

The WFC’s top performers at Big Sky included Brooke Hemstead, who finished first in the 12-14 Ski Female category with teammate Zahra Dimma also landing in the top-10 with an eighth-place finish.

Dimma’s older sister Drea and best friend Sofia Guy also managed top-10 finishes in the 15-18 Ski Female category with their eighthand ninth-place finishes, respectively.

On the men’s side, Tannen DesBrisay and Floyd Guy finished third and fifth in the 12-14 Ski Male category, while Tristan Curran and Marcus Goguen each snagged a podium spot with their respective second- and third-place finishes in the 15-18 category.

For Hemstead, Goguen and Floyd, their performances were enough to get them the top spot in the overall North America junior freeride rankings for the season.

Meanwhile, Drea’s performance managed to snag her fourth overall on the season.

Being the top-ranked Canadian male and the second-ranked Canadian female should be enough for both Goguen and Drea to earn a berth to the 2023 Freeride Junior World Championships when selections are made in the coming weeks.

WHISTLER ATHLETES RESULTS ROUNDUP The ski cross season came to a close last week with the Canadian National Championships in Nakiska.

Whistler local Marielle Thompson capped off an impressive year (that included Olympic silver in Beijing) with a first-place finish on the event’s first day.

Meanwhile, fresh off their Ski Cross

Junior World debuts at the end of March, Whistler’s Emeline Bennett and Nick Katrusiak each managed to snag two top-10 finishes. Bennett came in seventh and eighth in the two days of the event, while Katrusiak snagged two 10th-place finishes.

Also taking place from April 7 to 10, the Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) hosted its Whistler Spring Invitational event.

With more than 220 athletes from all over the country competing, the WMSC still managed to grab a handful of podiums.

Leading the way for the WMSC with two podium finishes apiece were U14 women’s skier Teagan Mac Con with a second in slalom and a first in giant slalom and U14 men’s skier Dreas Gibbons with a first-place finish in each of the slalom and giant slalom events.

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EPICURIOUS

New Braidwood Tavern pop-up offers fresh takes on a Canadian favourite FOUR SEASONS CONCEPT SERVES UP FOUR DISTINCT, GOURMET POUTINES

BY BRANDON BARRETT FOR BETTER OR WORSE, poutine is generally accepted as Canada’s de facto national dish. In its purest form, that trifecta of fries, gravy and cheese curds is as delicious as it is simple. But for the kitchen team at Four Seasons Whistler’s Braidwood Tavern, the humble poutine is merely a canvas for all kinds of culinary creativity.

“The whole idea was a brainstorm with the team. We just wanted to give the classic poutine that we have on the menu a twist and bring it to Braidwood,” explained Sajish Kumar, the Four Seasons’ executive chef.

Not Your Regular Poutine is the latest pop-up concept to hit the Braidwood, where diners can sample the hotel’s beloved staple, the What the Duck poutine, alongside three

CURD’S THE WORD The new pop-up concept for Four Seasons Whistler’s in-house Braidwood Tavern features four distinct takes on Canada’s beloved national dish. Pictured is the Italian-inspired Carne Joe poutine.

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other new gravy-fied creations.

The limited-time menu draws heavily on the personal experiences and heritages of the Four Seasons’ kitchen crew. There’s the Carne Joe, a nod to cook Joseph Abbruscato’s Italian roots, which switches out the classic gravy with a rich beef

Tex-Mex-inspired Taco ‘Bout a Poutine, which brings together a smorgasbord of flavours and textures, with battered fried cod, fresh avocado, cheddar, salsa and classic gravy atop a pile of curly fries.

That’s in addition to the aforementioned What the Duck poutine, a favourite among

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ragu piled high on a bed of parmesan truffle fries that are topped with pieces of bocconcini cheese, cherry tomatoes, crispy bacon and a fried egg. Executive sous chef Michael Samsair makes good use of his secret, homemade gravy recipe for the Feelin’ Hot poutine, smothering heaps of paprika-dusted sweet potato fries and strips of scorching Nashville hot fried chicken and jalapenos. Then there’s the

hotel guests, that features Brohm Lake duck leg paired with squeaky cheese curds and pickled poblano peppers over a helping of crispy fries.

“Every chef is behind a poutine, so he puts his flavour in,” said Kumar. “Then we tried them and they were amazing.”

For a country with an abundance of quality, natural ingredients in its backyard and one of the world’s most

diverse dining cultures, you would think Canada could do better than the poutine as its most recognizable dish. But to hear Kumar tell it, it’s the poutine’s adaptability that has made it so popular in the Great White North.

“When I think about Canada and talk about poutine, it’s a dish you can eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner,” he said. “It’s a dish that fulfils your appetite from morning to night.”

Kumar was hired as executive chef in December after nearly four years with Four Seasons Whistler. Formerly serving as executive sous chef, Kumar brings more than two decades of experience to the position, including stints cooking in India, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar, and elsewhere in Canada.

“It’s been great. Whistler is amazing.

What I say to everyone is the talent we get here is amazing,” he said of his time in the position so far. “I love cooking. It’s my passion. I love making the best out of the food and ensuring our guests love it.”

The Not Your Regular Poutine menu is on until May at the Braidwood Tavern. For more information, visit braidwoodtavern.com. n

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‘Normalcy is just so normal’: The irreverent outsider art of Whistler’s Arne Gutmann LOCAL PHOTOGRAPHER, CURATOR AND MIXED MEDIA ARTIST LEAVING WHISTLER AFTER A QUARTER CENTURY

BY BRANDON BARRETT “JUST TYPE ‘ARNE’ and ‘poo’ into YouTube,” longtime local artist Arne Gutmann instructs me.

I dutifully do as I’m told, and the first result is a clip from 2011 of a shaggy-haired Gutmann sporting a blinding neon tracksuit on the set of Shaw TV’s Urban Rush. What brought the Whistlerite to the now-defunct Vancouver daytime talk show, you ask?

Well, Gutmann is the brains (and bowels) behind what my diligent research surmises was the first excrement-based font to hit the graphic design world, better known as the poo font, created—I shit you not— from actual images and hours and hours of painstaking work in Photoshop.

“My duration of time in Whistler is equitable to the time it took me to produce the poo font—even though it extended a little bit further into the Toronto timeframe,” says the Toronto native who has called Whistler home for 26 years. (In case you’re wondering, he actually made money off the endeavour—you can purchase the poo font for a cool $4.99 at poofont.com.)

Of course, Gutmann—a talented street photographer, mixed media artist and curator in his own right—is known for so much more than just the poo font, but I can’t think of a better project that

FONT MEMORIES Irreverent outsider artist Arne Gutmann is headed for the Sunshine Coast.

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encapsulates his distinct approach: irreverent, subversive, and a little bit gross.

Landing in Whistler in ’96 after falling in love with the place on a short snowboarding trip, Gutmann used the $1,500 he had just won in the lottery to fund his cross-country move. Hailing from Toronto and its thriving underground art scene, Gutmann was surprised at the art he found here.

“It was boring. It was sedate. It was almost laughable,” he says. “I found it just blasé, so lukewarm, and my style’s never been like that. I always liked the

much of his career, content to boost the profile of other local artists as much, if not more, than his own.

“Normalcy is just so normal.

Everything’s just mellow, sedate,” he says.

“And that was another reason I did a lot of shows, because I saw that. Back in the early days, there was a few people doing cool things but it’s like they needed a hype man or something—something to help them.”

Gutmann’s profile-raising wasn’t relegated to flesh-and-blood artists, either.

In 2013, after being denied a solo show

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difference, the gritty aspects of reality and, just expounding on that over time, it was just a natural progression to start doing these things like the poo font.”

It didn’t take long for Gutmann to find his tribe, however. Connecting with other likeminded artists like Dave Petko and the late, great Whistler painter Chili Thom through Randy Smith’s Blind Mute Productions, Gutmann started taking part in DIY exhibits, and eventually began curating shows himself that showcased the small-but-burgeoning DIY art scene here. It was a trend that he would maintain through

by Arts Whistler, he came back to the Maury Young Arts Centre with a group exhibit featuring up-and-coming street photographers from around the world.

Only thing was: all the shots were taken by Gutmann himself on his travels. He didn’t reveal the prank until the exhibit’s opening night, which just so happened to coincide with April Fool’s Day, his birthday.

“When I made the announcement … [former Arts Whistler director] Doti Niedermayer was there, and I just remember the colour going from her face. Her smile just dropped,” he recalls. “I didn’t expect

the kind of repercussions that I got, but it was worth it.”

More recently, Gutmann enjoyed a successful solo show last year at Vancouver’s Beaumont Studios called Stranded that featured photos of his wife’s hair left on the shower wall in interesting patterns. In June, his work will return to the Maury Young as part of Diving In, a group environmental exhibit that features art made from trash removed from B.C. lakes and rivers. Weaving together discarded pop cans, he created a reflective, tactile piece that mimics the waves of the ocean, further proving Gutmann’s innate ability to find beauty in the unlikeliest of places.

Asked what the common thread is tying his work together across a wide variety of styles and mediums, Gutmann takes a second to ponder.

“Oh gosh, uniqueness. Showing your individual spirit, showing what the individual artist can create,” he says.

Now, after more than a quarter century in Whistler, Gutmann and his wife are headed to Powell River, the Sunshine Coast enclave that has recently added a number of Whistler transplants—a good thing for the artist with a rebellious streak, who has always thrived with a community around him.

“I always meet people that are involved in the arts, but they find it really problematic to get started or to do something. I think the best thing to do for any artist is to align themselves with the community at hand, whether it’s the arts councils or just likeminded people,” he says. “Because to me, I’d be nothing without the arts and that creative outlet.” n

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MOUNTAIN DANCE A new short doc follows Whistler mountain biker Hailey Elise as she and her crew venture into the forests surrounding the resort to build—and ride—a daunting, unsanctioned trail.

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BY BRANDON BARRETT LAST YEAR, Hailey Elise and a few friends shot one of their downhill sessions entirely in the buff—and even that wasn’t as revealing as the pro mountain biker and photographer’s latest film.

“We did a shoot last year where we were all naked, riding, and at the time, I thought it better to just not think about it until [the video] showed up,” Elise says with a laugh.

“I feel it’s kind of similar to this film: I don’t want to think a lot about it until maybe I go to the premiere.”

Premiering April 29 at Vancouver’s Rio Theatre, part of the iF3 Mountain Bike Film Festival, before a still-to-be-confirmed Whistler screening at the Maury Young Arts Centre, Elise is at the centre of the new documentary, Dancing with the Mountains.

The 20-minute film, produced by Canadian organic muesli brand Holos, follows the Whistler mountain biking prospect as she and her crew of local dreamers and rippers venture into the forests surrounding the resort to build—and ride—a daunting, unsanctioned trail. The short doc also discusses both the physical and mental toll the sport can have, and delves into Elise’s own mental health challenges along the way.

“Working through anxiety and the psychological side of sports has been something that has been a common thread in my sports journey,” Elise says. “That was something we thought would be cool to talk about more.”

Also starring fellow Whistlerites Kaz Yamamura, Denis Courchesne, Mark Mackay and Elise’s partner, Ollie Jones, Dancing with the Mountains depicts the passion project that saw the crew carve a trail out of the Soo Valley that was more technical than they had planned.

“When they built it, they really wanted it to be fun for everybody, but it developed

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into being kind of rowdy. I knew that approaching it for the first time was going to be challenging,” recalls Elise. “The actual riding of it was challenging. It had stuff that, when you’re going through it, you don’t really realize how difficult it is until you try to ride it. ‘Hey, it’s not so smooth right there. That doesn’t set you up best for the next one.’ It was definitely challenging both technically and mentally.”

The friends eventually crafted the trail to their liking, but it took plenty of trial and error to get there, a process Elise likens to her own mental health journey. On one particularly tricky section, she kept getting in her head about it, worried a specific feature wouldn’t give her enough speed to make the next jump.

After talking it over with her crew, they went to work smoothing it out.

“It was just this reminder to not get stuck and remembering all the possibilities before you,” she says.

“That’s what’s kind of cool when you want to be better at a sport and you’re presented with barriers mentally. Trying to overcome those, there are a lot of parallels with dealing with anxiety: Positive thinking, positive self-talk, looking at the challenge from a different perspective. Having a support network to talk about things with and to work through it. All of those were there for me on that trail.”

It was this, the unyielding power of community, that Elise has continually relied on whenever coming across another bump in the trail, be it literal or figurative.

“My community and my friends and my people have always been alongside me, pushing me. We’ve had this reassuring relationship where we’re all just trying to make it work here and be our best selves, and I think they really help us out a lot,” she says. “They also are always a good reminder of what’s really important, and that’s good people.”

Tickets to the Rio Theatre screening are available at if3mountainbike.com. n

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Hot dogging and the evolution of freestyle skiing

BY JILLIAN ROBERTS PEOPLE WERE FLYING through the air on skis long before the Wright brothers took to the sky. However, freestyle skiing, or “hot dogging” as it was once known, really took off in the 1970s. With few rules, the aim of hot dogging was to go down the slope in the most spectacular way possible.

Looking back at the evolution of freestyle skiing can feel like reading a different language. Even avid freestyle skiers today may not be familiar with the popular tricks from the 1970s, such as the Mule Kick, Back Scratcher or the Leg Breaker— however, you may be able to visualize the movement from the name. Other tricks were named after the first person to complete or popularize a manoeuvre, such as the Daigle Banger, named after Canadian ski legend Michel Daigle, who lived in Whistler and worked as a ski patroller and freestyle ski instructor.

The Daigle Banger was a popular ski ballet move that involved a front flip and rotation with one hand planted on the snow.

In the 1960s, skiing followed a rigid structure with specific ideas about how a person “should” ski, and ski racing was the sole competitive focus. Freestyle skiing was born out of rebellion against the “rules” of skiing. While freestyle skiing was not always accepted by the competitive sporting bodies, it quickly became popular with spectators watching as the competitors put on a great show, combining speed, strength and imagination. In early competitions, it could be difficult to tell if a person was somersaulting down the hill on purpose, but initially it did not really matter. The scoring of very early hot dog competitions was largely based off of crowd reaction, and the cheering could be loudest after an

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Freestyle skiing was recognized by the International Ski Federation (FIS) in 1979, and the judges at the Freestyle World Cup were looking for a lot more than audience reaction. Made up of three disciplines, a competitor participated in moguls, aerials and ski ballet (also known as acroski) to become the overall Freestyle World Champion. While you have likely watched aerial and mogul competitions more recently, ski ballet fell out of favour in the early 1990s and never became an official Olympic sport.

Ski Canada Magazine from spring 1980 explained what spectators should expect when watching ski ballet. “The ballet competition is run on a smooth intermediate slope, each competitor performing a run made up of dance-like steps, spins and turns mixed with leaps and stunts. The degree of difficulty of the skier’s run is a major factor in his eventual score.

His style, control, innovation as well as the fluidity of the routine count for most of the skier’s total score. Judges look for good choreography and interpretation of the music and well-constructed combinations of the basic manoeuvres. Often, the simplest manoeuvres are also the most difficult to execute well.”

Freestyle skiing has seen dramatic changes since the days of hot dogging, thanks to athletes constantly pushing the boundaries of the sport, as well as advances in equipment. Join us at the Whistler Museum for a night of freestyle skiing on April 18 at 7 p.m. At this Speaker Series event we will be hearing from three-time Freestyle World Champion Stephanie Sloan, and “godfather of freeskiing” Mike Douglas. Tickets are available now at the Whistler Museum for $10, or $5 for Whistler Museum members. n

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REMEMBERING HEATHER Despite the alpine being closed on April 8, Whistler Mountain host Chris Patrick continued his annual tradition of laying heather across Whistler’s slopes in honour of his late sister. Heather Howard was one ROCKSTAR READERS Congratulations are in order for “Milkshake Mountain” from Spring Creek Community School! This team won the 2022 Whistler Reading Link Challenge, a provincial initiative that fosters a love of reading in Grade 3 and 4 children. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 LOVE FOR UKRAINE The Whistler Racket Club hosted a fun evening of live music, dancing and silent auction-ing on Saturday, April 9 to raise money for Sea to Sky local Kat Jezowiczova’s Refugee Crisis Mission, ahead of her trip to the Poland/Ukraine border. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 BALDING FOR DOLLARS Ali Paul braves the clippers during Whistler’s annual Balding for Dollars fundraiser at the GLC on Sunday, April 10. The event raised $22,432 for the BC Children’s Hospital’s oncology ward, contributing to a grand total of 2

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according to this principle: If I’m afraid of it, then I must do it.” Aries author Erica Jong said that. Since I’m not an Aries myself, her aspiration is too strong for me to embrace. Sometimes I just don’t have the courage, willpower, and boldness to do what I fear. But since you decided to be born as an Aries in this incarnation, I assume you are more like Erica Jong than me. And so it’s your birthright and sacred duty to share her perspective.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out another phase of this lifelong assignment.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Sometimes suffering is just suffering,” writes novelist Kate Jacobs. “It doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t build character.” Now is your special time to shed suffering that fits this description, Taurus.

You are authorized to annul your relationship with it and ramble on toward the future without it. Please keep in mind that you’re under no obligation to feel sorry for the source of the suffering. You owe it nothing. Your energy should be devoted to liberating yourself so you can plan your rebirth with aplomb.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I am very much afraid of definitions, and yet one is almost forced to make them,” wrote painter Robert Delaunay (1885–1941). “One must take care, too, not to be inhibited by them,” he concluded.

He was speaking of the art he created, which kept evolving.

In his early years, he considered his work to be NeoImpressionist. Later he described himself as a “heretic of Cubism,” and during other periods he dabbled with surrealism and abstract art. Ultimately, he created his own artistic category, which he called Orphism. Everything I just said about Delaunay can serve you well in the coming months, Gemini. I think you’ll be wise to accept definitions for yourself, while at the same time not being overly bound by them. That should ultimately lead you, later this year, to craft your own unique personal definition.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): As a postgraduate student in astronomy, Cancerian-born Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered radio pulsars in 1967. Her supervisor, who initially dismissed her breakthrough, was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in 1974—and she wasn’t!

Nevertheless, she persisted. Eventually, she became a renowned astronomer who championed the efforts of minority researchers. Among the 25 prestigious awards and honours she has received is a three-million-dollar prize. I urge you to aspire to her level of perseverance in the coming months. It may not entirely pay off until 2023, but it will pay off.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards,” wrote author Oscar Wilde. Let’s make that your motto for the next six weeks.

If life could be symbolized by a game of poker, you would have the equivalent of at least a pair of jacks and a pair of queens. You may even have a full house, like three 10s and two kings. Therefore, as Wilde advised, there’s no need for you to scrimp, cheat, tell white lies, or pretend.

Your best strategy will be to be bold, forthright, and honest as you make your moves.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “In all the land, there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than 16,” said comedian and actor Amy Sedaris. She was making a sardonic joke about the possibility that none of us may be quite as unique as we imagine ourselves to be. But I’d like to mess with her joke and give it a positive tweak. If what Sedaris says is true, then it’s likely that we all have soul twins somewhere in the world. It means that there are numerous people who share many of our perspectives and proclivities; that we might find cohorts who see us for who we really are. I bring these thoughts to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect the coming months will be an excellent time for meeting and playing with such people.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A team of biologists unearthed a fascinating discovery in Costa Rica. When the group planted a single tree in pastureland that

had no trees, biodiversity increased dramatically. For example, in one area, there were no bird species before the tree and 80 species after the tree. I suspect you can create a similar change in the coming weeks. A small addition, even just one new element, could generate significant benefits. One of those perks might be an increase in the diversity you engage with.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Smallpox has been eliminated thanks to vaccination, but it was once among the most feared diseases. Over the course of many centuries, it maimed or killed hundreds of millions of people. For 35 per cent of those who contracted it, it was fatal. As for the survivors, their skin had permanent scars from the blisters that erupted. As disfiguring as those wounds were, they were evidence that a person was immune from future infections. That’s why employers were more likely to hire them as workers. Their pockmarks gave them an advantage. I believe this is a useful metaphor for you. In the coming weeks, you will have an advantage because of one of your apparent liabilities or imperfections or “scars.” Don’t be shy about using your unusual asset.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian author Pearl Cleage sets the tone for the future I hope you’ll seek in the coming weeks. The Black feminist activist writes, “We danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl.” Are you interested in exploring such blithe extravagance, Sagittarius? Do you have any curiosity about how you might surpass your previous records for rowdy pleasure? I hope you will follow Cleage’s lead in your own inimitable style.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I can never rest from tenderness,” wrote author Virginia Woolf. I won’t ask you to be as intense as her, Capricorn. I won’t urge you to be constantly driven to feel and express your tenderness.

But I hope you will be focused on doing so in the coming weeks. Why? Because the astrological omens suggest it will be “in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.” (That’s a quote by aphorist Jenny Holzer.) For inspiration, consider trying this experiment proposed by Yoko Ono: “Try to say nothing negative about anybody: a) for three days; b) for 45 days; c) for three months.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I gamble everything to be what I am,” wrote Puerto Rican feminist and activist poet Julia de Burgos, born under the sign of Aquarius.

Her gambles weren’t always successful. At one point, she was fired from her job as a writer for a radio show because of her progressive political beliefs. On the other hand, many of her gambles worked well. She earned awards and recognition for her five books of poetry and garnered high praise from superstar poet Pablo Neruda.

I offer her as your role model, Aquarius. The rest of 2022 will be a fertile time to gamble everything to be what you are. Here’s a further suggestion: Gamble everything to become what you don’t yet know you must become.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman was a trailblazer. He created the genre known as free jazz, which messed with conventional jazz ideas about tempos, melodies, and harmonies. In the course of his career, he won a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and MacArthur Fellowship “genius” grant. He was a technical virtuoso, but there was more to his success, too. Among his top priorities were emotional intensity and playful abandon and pure joy. That’s why, on some of his recordings, he didn’t hire famous jazz drummers, but instead had his son, who was still a child, play the drum parts. I suggest you apply an approach like Coleman’s to your own upcoming efforts.

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The long fight against prejudice “You’ve got to be taught, before it’s too late Before you are six, or seven, or eight To hate all the people your relatives hate You’ve got to be carefully taught.”

– Rodgers & Hammerstein, 1949

THE PREJUDICE I harbour I learned at home… at a young age. The rest of it I just picked up along the way from the usual sources: media, friends, literature, and the propagandistic teachings of public school.

The statistical distortions represented within my very un-random sampling of real-life prejudice were coloured by the very

BY G.D. MAXWELL lack of colour in my real world. Mine was a vanilla upbringing. The neighbourhoods I lived in were homogenous, Caucasian tracts just around the block from Beaver Cleaver’s house. There were tons of white boys and girls.

There were no black people in any of the worlds I lived in. None in the ‘hood, none in school, none in church, none at the grocery store and, not surprisingly, none on the television. Black people were called coloured people by polite society at that time, and various words by quite a few people in impolite society, words that’ll get you fired from your job these days.

I learned most of those words from my grandfather, who was oblivious to the profound depths of his own prejudices, racial being only one in a grab bag that included assorted ethnicities, women, religions, locales, languages, foods, automobiles, fishing tackle and, well, just about anything one might harbour a prejudice against or predisposition towards.

In those early days of black-and-white television, not many years after Jackie Robinson had broken the colour barrier in professional baseball and long after the boxing ring had largely come to be dominated by black boxers, my darkest lessons of racial intolerance were absorbed during Friday night’s Gillette Cavalcade of Sports. I’ve never been certain whether my grandfather was a fight fan or if it was just something he did to make Friday night bleed into Saturday morning, but I watched enough boxing with him for the memories of it to seem voluminous. But then, I was probably five years old.

He didn’t have a favourite fighter. He just had a hierarchy of prejudices. On the rare nights when there was a white guy in the ring, he’d want the white guy to win. I’m sure there were times two white guys fought and those nights I don’t think he really cared who won unless one of them had a funny-sounding foreign name and the other one was named Smith or something very vanilla. White guys were always favoured. Italians—not what he called them—were okay, especially if they were fighting a coloured guy… who he never

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called a coloured guy. Wasn’t polite enough.

When two black guys were fighting, he seemed to harbour a wistful fantasy about seeing them both land simultaneous knockout blows.

The prejudice of my grandfather was watered down in my father. Not enough, but enough to give me hope. His life spanned profound changes in North American society. His international exposure helped him overcome much of the poison injected into his soul when he was a kid.

I believe the pool of my own prejudice has been diluted still further. Like the religion I was exposed to as a child, the

prejudices are still there. All these years later. Like a drop of iodine in a gallon of water, they taint the largely unknown volumes of my unconscious, they bubble toward the surface at the most unexpected of times, the surface being the dim gloaming of my conscious thoughts. Even at that unspoken, unacted-upon level, they shame me and leave me feeling diminished. They remind me how little I—and presumably all humankind—have really evolved. They help explain things like the rise of antiAsian violence, ever-present anti-Semitism, sexism, oppression of gender-fluid people, acts of blind prejudice great and small.

But the cesspool of deeplyingrained prejudices are still there. All these years later.

baggage remains. I just refuse to carry it.

When they finally appeared in my world, age eight, I made friends with people of colour. Chicanos and Native Americans first, since we moved to the southwest.

Blacks later, after I discovered in high school and university we had more in common than I ever imagined and, notwithstanding having lived their lives under a repressive shadow of overt racism, were willing to befriend a bleached-out white kid who was happy to deal with them evenhandedly and maybe even become friends.

But the cesspool of deeply-ingrained

I’ll never drive them out. You’ll never drive yours out. For the most part, I’ll never even understand what all of them are; neither will you. The sad fact is this: the best we can hope for, the most enlightened we can be is to keep them at bay and not act on them. Right now. And for the next five minutes. And the next 24 hours. And the next week. One minute at a time. If we can make it through today without giving light and air to those prejudices, that’s as much as we can hope for. That’ll make us good people. Today. That’s enough to back up the boast: “I’m not a racist.” Even if, at some

level, we all are.

It’s good enough because there is a wide void between being prejudiced and being a racist, or a sexist, or an anti-Semite, or... name your poison.

But sometimes, rarely with good luck, never with great luck, we might slip. Stress, depression, fatigue, agitation, war, some combination of forces that drive us to the edge of human-ness will open a portal between unconscious and conscious. We’ll find ourselves thinking, “You damn (insert any one of many prejudicial epithets here)” maybe even whispering it as we’re cut off in traffic, aced out of a scarce parking spot, slammed into on the mountain, watching the news, whatever. The target might be any of the people our relatives hated. These days, might be a Russian. Doesn’t matter.

Shine a strong light on your own cesspool and you’ll understand what I mean.

But a momentary eruption of what lies in our unconscious does not an “...ist” make.

Giving voice to our prejudices— occasional, rare, heated voice—doesn’t make us racists or misogynistic assholes.

Makes us human. But there shouldn’t be a free pass. Any time we let that vile poison out is a time we deserve the opprobrium of those around us. But absent a clear pattern, a human screwup doesn’t deserve a permanent branding, cancellation.

Intolerance is just another ugly prejudice, one that fuels mobs, one that demands consequences far beyond the offense, one that makes lynching seem reasonable.

Intolerance is its own vile shortcoming.

Just one hour, one day at a time, people.

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