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MICHAEL WARREN It is with great sadness that Nesters Market says goodbye to Michael Warren. In 2020, Mike began an incredible battle with pancreatic cancer. He fought so hard; his bravery was inspirational to all that knew him. Mike was just a 23 year old kid when he started at Nesters in September 2007. He endeared himself immediately with his humble, kind and positive nature. He was very funny and totally honest. He was loved by all that knew him, co-workers and customers alike. Mike’s wife Aurora and their two children, Emily and Hamish, are in our thoughts as they move forward with many happy memories of life with Mike. He and Aurora will always be part of our Nesters family. He will be forever missed.

A Celebration of Mikey’s Life will take place at: At the Whistler Racket Club 4500 Northlands Blvd. 12pm - 3pm Saturday, May 7th

THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

24 Camp comeback Pique’s guide to kids’ summer camps. - By Brandon Barrett

TROUBLED WATERS

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in Whistler of a red-listed, endangered bird species drives home the need

youngest in the Sea to Sky, and younger than both the provincial and

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Canadian averages.

ELECTRIC FEEL

As grizzly populations recover,

OFF-ICE REFLECTIONS

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electric fences are one tool that can be used to help prevent human-

hockey players reflect on their first NCAA season playing for the Missouri

wildlife interactions in agricultural regions like Pemberton.

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the history of detachable lifts, and push back against populist rhetoric.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Columnist Brandon Barrett pens an ode to Whistler’s recently wrapped Laugh Out LIVE stage production.

62 MAXED OUT Whistler’s White Gold drama can be seen as a litmus test, writes G.D. Maxwell this week. Hold on a bit longer or abandon hope? Stay tuned.

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23 RANGE ROVER As warmer temperatures arrive in Whistler, some predictable spring traditions

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Reporters BRANDON BARRETT - bbarrett@piquenewsmagazine.com MEGAN LALONDE - mlalonde@piquenewsmagazine.com ALYSSA NOEL arts@piquenewsmagazine.com HARRISON BROOKS - sports@piquenewsmagazine.com ROBERT WISLA - rwisla@piquenewsmagazine.com Classifieds and Reception mail@piquenewsmagazine.com Office and Accounts Manager HEIDI RODE - hrode@wplpmedia.com Contributors G.D. MAXWELL, GLENDA BARTOSH, FEET BANKS, LESLIE ANTHONY, ANDREW MITCHELL, ALISON TAYLOR, VINCE SHULEY, LISA RICHARDSON

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40 MUSEUM MUSINGS The Canada jay has delighted visitors to Whistler for generations—and provided “good company for men in lonely places.”

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If you can’t take the heat… THERE’S AN OLD Twitter joke about journalism that only seems to get more truthful as time goes on. “The hours are long and the pay is lousy,” the joke goes. “But at least everybody hates you.” It’s a fun joke. We have fun here. Occasional existential/economic anxiety aside, I’ve never regretted my career choice, even if it was one made mostly out of a spoiled, selfish desire to exist in

BY BRADEN DUPUIS air-conditioned spaces (more on that later— after just a bit more navel-gazing, I promise). For all its downsides, you’d be hard pressed to find employment that offers the same day-to-day variety or the breadth of hands-on learning experiences afforded by journalism. Since starting in the field more than 10 years ago, my job has allowed me to stand on the back of fighter jets, and ride

with Whistler’s mayor and council in June 2019 remains one of the most memorable of “those” days—the days that make up for the long hours and the lousy pay and the fact that everyone hates you. After gearing up in Whistler Village, we rode in a fire truck to the training yard on Highway 99. Over the next few hours, we ripped apart a car with WFRS auto extrication tools, felt the heat of a flashover in a makeshift sea-can training structure, put out a car fire, and climbed to the very top of the WFRS’ highest fire truck ladder. My main takeaway? Being a firefighter is sweaty, dangerous work, and I’m more than happy to let someone else do it. There’s a photo from that day that perfectly sums up my experience. It’s me, in my innocent, spotless turnout gear, holding the Jaws of Life and looking visibly exhausted. Keep in mind that this was still just the idiot’s guide to firefighting—so easy that even mayor and council managed with ease, and they are quite old. When I look at that photo, there is mostly one word that comes to mind: hot. And I’ve never handled the heat all that well.

[H]ave you ever had to put on full turnout gear and attempt to put out a fire? I have. It’s very hot. in helicopters and on ziplines. I’ve been backstage at music festivals, and spoken face to face with some of my favourite musicians. I’ve toured highly secure locations, trained as a police officer, tested out cutting-edge technology, and spent an afternoon pushing the limits of a drunk driver simulator (among countless other unique or just plain weird experiences). But taking part in the Whistler Fire Rescue Service’s (WFRS) “Fire Ops 101” crash course

In my younger days, I suffered more than one instance of severe heat stroke while doing manual labour in open fields—I blame my lily-white skin, and the fact that I was born in the darkest depths of a prairie winter. A previous employer once referred to me as the type of guy who breaks into an uncontrollable fount of sweat at the mere mention of the word “work.” I never forgot that description, because

it is both hilarious and tragically accurate. It was my severe aversion to the heat, ironically enough, that eventually drove me to journalism—it’s hard to get heat stroke when you’re sitting at an air-conditioned desk, I reasoned—which in turn has led to no fewer than three invitations to join volunteer fire departments. Time is a flat circle, after all. Maybe there really is no escaping the heat. I have no intentions of joining up with any fire departments anytime soon, but I’ve got immense respect for the work these men and women do—work that only seems to be getting more difficult with each passing year. So it behooves me to try and make their jobs easier in any way that I can. Because have you ever had to put on full turnout gear and attempt to put out a fire? I have. It’s very hot. May 1 to 7 marks Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada, and on May 7, many communities in B.C. are recognizing Wildfire and Emergency Preparedness Day. There’s no better time to start preparing for the wildfire season ahead. Clean up your yard and FireSmart your property (you can book a free assessment through the Resort Municipality of Whistler); talk to your neighbours about their own preparedness; pack a to-go bag and make a plan to evacuate in case worse comes to worst. While I’m not big on lecturing, I fully intend to stand on my editorial soapbox all summer long, lecturing anyone and everyone about the danger of their unattended campfires and their cigarette butts and roaches. Because all of Whistler’s favourite pet problems—labour, housing, pay parking, Vail Resorts—will be rendered moot if we can’t protect this community from wildfire. Consider that the argumentative conclusion to what is likely the first of many wildfire diatribes to come: we need to be FireSmart so we all have somewhere to argue. Find more info and resources at whistler.ca/wildfire. ■

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What is wrong with the Whistler housing narrative? The Whistler housing crisis means something different to everyone. A lot of people roll their eyes and grin with amusement: “Housing has always been a problem in Whistler.” “Whistler doesn’t owe anybody a home.” “It’s a problem everywhere.” If a problem doesn’t affect you, why bother trying to solve it? When I arrived in Whistler in 2015 to start the region’s only after-hours veterinary emergency clinic, renters could still find a place to live. Now, it’s actually impossible for the average worker to find affordable rental housing. A one-bedroom suite with a six-month lease: $3,000-plus/ month (an entire month’s wage of your Whistler workforce) with 100 applicants in line. When the lease ends in six months, the search will be even worse than it was before. The rental inventory has evaporated in the last few years, with renters being displaced when the unit is either sold from beneath them or converted to Airbnb. The “sizzling hot real estate market” has scorched Whistler’s rental inventory to the bare ground. At one point, I had an amazing team. My right hand and left hand were qualified and

highly skilled emergency workers, and they were in turn supported by qualified support staff. Above all, they were all truly beautiful people—like angels. I watched helplessly as they were displaced from one rental suite to another, as they worked three jobs and still struggled to survive. I watched as they were displaced from Whistler housing a final time, unable to find a rental suite. One of them was left with no option other than essentially squatting in the cold, dark, concrete basement of a local golf course (one of her other jobs); one was left with no option other than to move into a van. They loved Whistler but couldn’t keep

hanging on, and they eventually left for good. I watched as these amazing, kind, highlyskilled, and desperately-needed professionals were pushed out of Whistler, leaving us with no qualified emergency workers, yet unable to hire replacements because there is nowhere for them to live. If you went to a hockey game, and only one player stepped onto the ice, everyone would ask “where is the team?” Emergency care, like many essential services, requires a team. Imagine an ER doctor being forced to use weekenders, tourists and high-school students as stand-ins in the emergency room—for

surgery, anesthesia, CPR. Imagine the stress of trying to do both the nurses’ and doctor’s jobs at the same time, the stress of having my patients die when I know I could have saved them… if only I had my right hand. In a town that swarms with furkids, now there is no emergency vet in the Sea to Sky. The innocent ones are being punished, suffering on the drive to Vancouver. All the while, folks chuckle the old narrative “Whistler doesn’t owe you a home,” their favourite inside joke, on repeat like a broken record. This is not a joke. How can you feel entitled to use the community’s services— the grocery stores, restaurants, schools, and medical services, without also understanding that the people providing those services must have a roof over their heads? Our town’s staffing crisis and homelessness problems are really just policy choices, a direct reflection of decades of downplaying, sweeping under the rug and inadequate oversight. Just as easily as those choices have created our current situation, we can choose something different—swift and emergent action, priorities, planning, a new narrative. The SS Whistler has grown from a tiny ship into a titanic cruiseliner—it’s more than a gift shop and concession stand that can be staffed by Temporary Foreign Workers. To care for the needs of 3 million passengers, an enormous permanent team is required, but you can’t boot the crew out of their cabins and expect them to sleep in the ocean at night. Every Whistler worker—every carpenter, every bus driver, every artist, every

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Don’t be tricked by populist rhetoric How catchy the populist slogans we are treated to these days! (“Letter: Of taxation and term limits,” Pique, April 28)! Too bad they’re false. Even the Canadian Taxpayers Federation acknowledges that of the 45 cents per litre we pay in gas taxes, only the hated five-per-cent GST (currently 10 cents/litre) is on a percentage basis. Some of the others: a 10-cent carbon tax for a livable climate, and if you live in Metro Vancouver, an 18.5-cent tax for public transit (disallowed by the provincial government for the Sea to Sky, but that’s another story). Complaining about gas taxes is the kind of myopic understanding of energy and climate systems that might bring us Woodfibre LNG, a tragedy that can still be averted by bold climate targets, global energy markets and local protest. The UN Secretary-General says that the “dangerous radicals” are now countries that increase their production of fossil fuels, and that investing in new fossil fuels infrastructure is “moral and economic madness.” Thankfully, after decades of stalling, we will now move quickly to electrification of small vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cells for large ones, so we won’t be needing to complain about gas prices much longer. Maybe we should focus our attention on solutions, like local and regional transit? Clearly, the neocon strategy of hiding public transit service provision behind the screen of a third-party contractor is not serving Sea to Sky residents. Three months into this spectacular abdication of responsibility by the NDP government and BC Transit, and still no one is publicly accountable for labour negotiations. Meanwhile, people and the climate continue to suffer. Beware the populists who want you to believe that someone (Justin Trudeau) is limiting your personal and economic freedom, and profiting from it. There is misinformation out there, and there is information that is obsolete, or has been thoroughly debunked. Please, view your media feed with a critical eye, and don’t be tricked by trite rhetoric that plays up fear and mistrust. Jeremy Valeriote, Chair, BC Green Party // Whistler

Pemberton council should support Harrow Road housing project The Harrow Road project being proposed by Sea to Sky Community Services (SSCS) in Pemberton has the potential to dramatically increase our supply of affordable rental units. For those of you who are unaware of this project, the project will be for a mix of rents and incomes within a single building, providing affordable non-market rental housing to families, seniors, and persons with disabilities. Thirty per cent of units will be market rentals (moderate incomes), 50 per cent

will be “rent geared to income” (subsidized units for households that meet BC Housing limits), and 20-per-cent deep subsidy (low incomes). The housing program does not include housing with support services or residential care components. The proposed development will have 63 housing units for community members and ground floor commercial space, some of which will be for SSCS staff and programs so they can provide much needed community services in Pemberton. Sea to Sky Community Services, the Village of Pemberton, and BC Housing have partnered on this exciting project. Many in our community are loudly opposed to this project being approved. Understandably there are concerns about the size of the building, the potential for shading the homes directly behind it, and increased traffic. SSCS has addressed these concerns on its website, and I encourage those opposed to take a moment to learn that their valid concerns have been addressed, facts clearly presented, and solutions found. Why would you not support a project that will allow seniors to continue to live in a community they love? Why would you not support a project that will provide working families a secure rental for as long as they want to work and serve our community? Where will community members in need find support if SSCS cannot find affordable rental space to operate? Young adults in our region do not have the ability to take the first step towards independence, renting a suite of their own, due to the housing crisis. People are leaving town, never to return, as they cannot find a place to live. The Harrow Road Project must be approved by the Village of Pemberton mayor and council. The future of our community depends on this project. I urge all of you who are struggling to pay your rent, those of you who are living in sub-standard conditions, and those who simply cannot find a place to rent, to write a letter to Pemberton’s mayor and council in support of this project. Even a short email letting them know how many of us are in desperate need of affordable housing will demonstrate the high level of community support for this project. Pemberton desperately needs affordable rental housing and approval of the Harrow Road Project is a vital step in making sure those who work here can afford to live here. Tania Chiasson // Pemberton

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More on the history of detachable lifts For the ongoing discussion of the earliest detachable lifts, even before the first gondola in Whistler, there was a detachable chairlift in Scotland in the Cairngorms. Like Whistler, the chair was pushed into position manually after it had been loaded. A curious difference: the chairs faced to the side rather than uphill. I first rode this lift in 1962. Skiing in Scotland, prior to snowmaking, was created by the wind blowing what snow there was into gullies. Tough if the wind blew in the wrong direction. I drove to the Cairngorms early June one year when there was no snow anywhere except a sliver beside the aforementioned detachable chairlift. Bill Davis // Vancouver

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We had a garage sale in Alpine this weekend, including a free canoe that generated a lot of interest. We had been gifted this *rustic* canoe when we first came to Whistler, from a friend that was moving across the country and couldn’t take it with her. The time had come for us to pass it on, too. There was a frenzy of messages for the canoe, and some entertaining skepticism about what must be wrong with it if it’s free. Two eager takers showed up on site and we agreed to honour the protocol of first to message gets dibs. But guess what happened next? Without skipping a beat, the lucky couple that got the canoe offered that they’d be happy to share with those who missed out, and swapped contacts. Turns out they lived close by. In a world of skyrocketing prices and our ever-increasing lifestyle “needs,” it’s wonderful to be reminded there are simple solutions out there for sharing, being thoughtful about our

implemented 30 km/h speed limits have also made it illegal for cars/trucks to pass cyclists. Studies show that the existing paint and signage “share the lane” throughout the Village make biking more dangerous than no signage at all. Since the roads are all max 30 km/h anyway, and we need cyclists to feel safe riding on our roads, perhaps the suggestion that drivers yield to cyclists for a few seconds, and not pass dangerously, would improve safety for cycling families. 4. Purchase e-bikes for all graduating Grade 8 students. This will ensure these local children will have the freedom of mobility for their formative high school years, free their parents from driving them around, and teach other kids and adults that e-biking is the best way to get around Whistler, all year. What do you think should be done to improve safety and mobility in Whistler? Brendan and Amanda Ladner // SMARTWhistler

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We have been without public transit for months here in Whistler. As a result, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) finds itself with a small pile of unaccounted-for transportation budget. While the strike has hampered mobility for many in the valley, some of these savings can now be used to improve mobility for years to come. With e-bikes now expected to outsell not just all EVs, but ALL CARS within the next few years, it’s time for Whistler to build accordingly. Here is a list of quick and cheap projects the RMOW could/should implement this summer, to increase safety for all non-car travel (aka: active transportation): 1. Create a link between the Valley Trail south (coming past the Whistler Golf Club underpass) to the skateboard park and the Upper Village. We could use existing pavement and simply add some pylons and paint—creating sidewalks, bike lanes and transit-only lanes under the bridge along Village Gate Blvd. There is plenty of car/truck capacity on Lorimer Rd. 2. Elevate all crosswalks. This makes pedestrians more visible to increasingly tall trucks, and serves as speed bumps to help ensure the 30km/h zones are obeyed. This should be done at all crosswalks within the Village, and at Valley Trail crossings elsewhere. 3. “Take the lane” signage. Many places around the world that have

Thank you from the Pemberton Canoe Association The Pemberton Canoe Association (PCA) was fortunate to take part in the annual California Orange fundraiser this year. The club would like to send a huge thank you to Ryan Creek Farms for bringing up the oranges from California and giving us the opportunity to sell them. We would also like to thank Kuurne Farms for the use of their cooler and delivery truck, Animal Barn Pet Food & Supply for the use of their storefront and sales teams for sales, Pemberton Dance for selling oranges with us, Whistler Waldorf School for allowing us to sell oranges to their families, and to the PCA members who helped sell the oranges. The club would also like to acknowledge and thank KidSport Canada for grant money received, through Canoe Kayak BC, to provide funding for our spring programs for new to Canada, low income, and Indigenous families. This grant money has allowed more families in Pemberton, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District and the Lil’wat Nation to access and experience paddling programs and be active. The club is back up and running for the 2022 season. The dragon boats are on the water with practices taking place for the adult crew, the junior crew, and the Grade 5-7 program. In May, the sprint canoe and kayak afterschool programs will begin with a FUNdamentals program for new paddlers and a Sprint Development program for more experienced paddlers. Shortly, you will also see the outrigger paddlers out on Green Lake and then Summer Canoe Kids Camps will be running all of July and August at One Mile Lake. If you want any more information on our programs, check out our website at pembertoncanoe.com or email registrar@pembertoncanoe.com. Karen Tomlinson // Pemberton Canoe Association n

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Laugh Out LIVE proved me wrong in the best way GOING BACK YEARS now, local entertainer and producer extraordinaire Ira Pettle and I have had a version of the same debate: would a weekly resort show at the Maury Young theatre fly here? On the face of it, it would appear we have all the ingredients to make it happen: millions of deep-pocketed visitors looking

BY BRANDON BARRETT for something to do once the hill closes, a dedicated and fun-loving local audience that loves to see Whistler culture reflected back at it, and a gorgeous 200-person theatre ready to welcome them all in. Admittedly, Ira was always more optimistic than I was about such a show’s prospects. Maybe it’s the cynical reporter in me, maybe it was the years I’ve spent grinding in our decidedly grassroots theatre scene, but I had my doubts. And boy, was I wrong. Laugh Out LIVE, the 19-plus comedy variety show blending improv, sketch, stand-up and audience games, just wrapped its 15-week run last Thursday at the Maury Young, selling out every single show along the way. Co-produced by Arts Whistler and

the hard-working team of Pettle, Rebecca Mason and Dave Francis, it’s clear this Whistlerified cross between Saturday Night Live and Whose Line is it Anyway? struck a chord with local audiences. I got to take in the show both as an occasional guest performer and audience member, and every week, one of the three main troupe members would ask the crowd who had attended a show before, and without fail, at least half the audience would raise their

every element of the production had their fingerprints on it. As someone who has been producing theatre locally for a while, I know how much work goes into it, and it was their influence that turned Laugh Out LIVE into one of the hottest tickets in town. Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Arts Whistler’s generous support as well. The local arts organization and executive director Mo Douglas threw their full weight behind the project, at a time

Arts Whistler and their staff eagerly took on every whacky idea thrown at them and ran with it. Dress my half-naked body up in a wedding-dress-turned-robe for a showopening sketch about the world’s worst-run cult? Sure, why not. hand. I’m sure the pandemic played a role in attracting ticket-buyers eager for a laugh— one woman who attended 11 of the 15 shows told me it was her “weekly therapy” after months of COVID restrictions. But I’m more inclined to chalk it up to the incredible work ethic and talents of Laugh Out LIVE’s main three-person troupe. Along with being front and centre as the show’s main stars, Francis, Mason and Pettle were tireless workhorses behind the scenes, and virtually

when there was so much uncertainty around the viability of running in-person shows. (The four-month run wasn’t immune to the effects of the pandemic, of course: one week ended up being cancelled as cases flared up, and a couple of the shows were held at half-capacity.) Arts Whistler and their staff eagerly took on every whacky idea thrown at them and ran with it. Dress my half-naked body up in a wedding-dressturned-robe for a show-opening sketch

about the world’s worst-run cult? Sure, why not. Help organize a lucrative prize giveaway based around a giant, veiny dildo? Of course. (You, uh, had to be there.) Let us drop 300 celebratory balloons on the stage for the run’s closing show? Absolutely! By its very mandate, Arts Whistler has always nurtured local arts and culture, but for the longest time, it felt like Whistler’s burgeoning theatre community was the forgotten stepchild compared to other, arguably more popular artforms: live music and visual arts, primarily. Part of that, in my opinion, is our theatre scene just wasn’t at the level of these other mediums, but after seeing the popularity and high standard set by Laugh Out LIVE, I fully believe Whistler’s live comedy and theatre scene has arrived. I was lucky enough to guest star on both the inaugural show back in December, and the season finale last week, and even in that short time, it was obvious the show just kept getting better and better as the main troupe and its roster of special guests and comedians honed their performances and learned what audiences wanted. And if you didn’t manage to make it to one of the shows, well, first of all, you’ve been missing out. But the good news is, Laugh Out LIVE will be back later this year for Season 2, and if its inaugural sold-out run is any indication, things are just going to get bigger and better from here. ■

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Endangered bird sighting drives home need for further protections at Green Lake MORE BRUSH-CUTTING ALONG PROTECTED SHORELINE PROMPTS WARNINGS FROM RMOW

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE FIRST KNOWN sighting in Whistler of a red-listed, endangered bird species drives home the need for further protection and education around the ecological importance of Green Lake, conservationists say. On Friday, April 22, local birder Dea Lloyd was crossing the boardwalk at Green Lake when she spotted “two gigantic, stunningly white birds gliding down the water.” As she soon discovered, those birds were American white pelicans, considered endangered in B.C. due to their “small, extremely localized, and vulnerable breeding population,” noted the Atlas of the Breeding Birds of British Columbia. Known to have only one nesting colony in all of B.C., located at Stum Lake, it was the first recorded sighting of the species in Whistler, according to Karl Ricker, local naturalist and former organizer of the Whistler Christmas bird count. Known to winter as far south as Central America, it’s likely the pair of pelicans were using Green Lake to rest and refuel—as several migratory bird species do—before the final leg of their journey to the Chilcotins. “A sight like these birds reminds us life is so much bigger than us,” Lloyd said in an email. “Here is a species heeding a deeply engrained, millennia-old biological imperative to circumnavigate the globe to

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find the best conditions to mate and raise new life. To think of everything these birds have seen and done in the weeks before they decided to touch down on a lake in Whistler is mind-boggling.” The sighting is another example of the biodiversity on display at Green Lake, home at various times of year to more than 200 of the estimated 269 bird species in Whistler, Ricker told Pique last spring. Providing vital wetland habitat to dozens of bird species, migratory birds use the small delta at the southeast end of the lake—known colloquially as the “Fitz fan” and one of only two sandy deltas remaining in Whistler— as a crucial stopover point. A variety of ducks, sparrows, warblers, thrushes and vireos use the delta for breeding, while shorebirds such as the killdeer, the spotted sandpiper and the America pipit often build their nests right in the sand, making them difficult to spot and easy to trample. And yet, for all its ecological importance, Green Lake continues to suffer the effects of Whistler’s popularity. A 2007 master’s thesis study determined then that Whistler had lost more than three-quarters of its wetland habitat to development, a figure that is bound to be higher 15 years later with the addition of the Nesters bus depot on valley-bottom wetland, extensions to the Valley Trail alongside Alta Lake and Millar Creek, and the natural degradation of riparian areas that comes with an explosion in visitor numbers. “That doubling of tourism over the last decade has mostly been in summer, which is when the landscape is exposed and when people want to be by the water,” said Claire Ruddy, executive director of the Association of Whistler Area Residents for

the Environment. “That means the pockets of wetlands in these riparian areas, the ones by the rivers and lakes, are incredibly important to retain in as natural a state as we can, because we have so little space for the species that rely on that habitat.”

BARRIERS TO ENFORCEMENT The human-caused stresses to Green Lake can mostly be traced back to two issues: clearing of shrub, bushes and trees along its shoreline, which provide vital cover and nesting habitat to a variety of birds; and disturbances along the Fitz fan, commonly caused by off-leash dogs, illegal campfires, and people crossing over to the fenced half of the delta, which is closed to the public. In recent weeks, dozens of clearings have been spotted at various places around Green Lake’s shoreline, designated as protected riparian areas and enforced by local bylaw officers and the Conservation Officer Service. Pique toured the sites and noted significant, deliberate cutting of bushes and shrubs as well as alder, willow and some cottonwood trees. The illegal clearing prompted the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to issue warning letters explaining the regulations to homeowners located near the path between Nicklaus North Golf Course and the mouth of the River of Golden Dreams. “However, we were not able to locate a witness to obtain a statement … that would support issuance of bylaw notices,” a municipal spokesperson said in an email. Green Lake’s shoreline-adjacent areas are divided into municipal parkland, where any vegetation cut without permission would “presumably be non-compliant

with the Parks Bylaw,” a municipal spokesperson said, while the area owned by the Nicklaus North Golf Course would be subject to development-permit guidelines that, through provincial legislation and covenants, would add further protections. But the prevalence of the issue dating back years is proof that whatever restrictions are in place aren’t having their intended effect. “This is a perfect example of where the legislative tools we have and the mechanisms for enforcement are not enough to prevent the environmental degradation that is supposed to be designed out by these regulations,” Ruddy said. “The big issue being … bylaw has to catch people in the act or they have to have some form of proof of who it is. That is challenging in situations like this, which is why this has happened for many years and there hasn’t been any enforcement against it—which we’d obviously like to see change.” Education is one approach, of course, and one the RMOW has relied on by installing extra signage by the Fitz fan, along with “multiple patrols throughout the day” in the area, the spokesperson said. But education doesn’t necessarily equate to compliance, despite our best intentions. “Looking at the overall picture, there’s a lot of bad actors when it comes to environmental [degradation] and going against bylaws, just in general, everywhere,” said local ecologist Bob Brett. “Unfortunately, the bad actors tend to get what they want and tend to get off with doing bad stuff and they’re told not to do it again. It’s just a fault in our system that we assume that people will hear it’s the wrong thing to do and won’t do it again.” n

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Whistler council discusses upping signatures required to become election candidate COUNCIL BRIEFS: HOUSING AGREEMENT FOR NORDIC DEVELOPMENT GETS FIRST LOOK: CEP GRANTS APPROVED

BY BRANDON BARRETT WITH WHISTLER’S FALL election months away, local officials at the April 26 council meeting discussed raising the minimum number of signatories required to be considered as a candidate. Currently, political hopefuls only need two signatures to get their name on the ballot, the minimum required by B.C.’s Local Government Act. “There’s currently no barrier and at least from my perspective, having been through several elections now, when there’s no barriers it really dilutes the candidate pool,” said Councillor Ralph Forsyth. “If we went to something like 25 names, or something that would require a modicum of effort to get on the ballot, then that would improve the process.” Upping the threshold would require a bylaw amendment, and council has asked staff to come back with a report to that effect. If officials choose to go that route, they would have to raise the number of required signatures to a minimum of 10, and a maximum of 25. Also on Tuesday, April 26, council gave first three readings to an election bylaw amendment that follows the province’s decision to remove eligibility requirements for mail ballots in the Local Government Act. Now all eligible voters can request a vote-by-mail package for their local election. There were nearly 900 registered non-resident property electors who made use of mail-in voting last election. Given the impact of COVID-19, “we are anticipating a significantly larger number of mail-in ballots this time,” said Pauline Lysaght, the RMOW’s chief election officer for the upcoming election. Whistlerites head to the polls on Saturday, Oct. 15.

COUNCIL GIVES FIRST READINGS TO NORDIC HOUSING AGREEMENT Local officials got their first look at a “robust” housing agreement for a Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) development proposed for Nordic Estates. At the Tuesday, April 26 council meeting, officials gave first three readings to the housing agreement bylaw for 2077 Garibaldi Way, a proposed 20-unit townhome development that, if approved, will include 14 employee-restricted units and six market units. The agreement establishes occupancy and purchase eligibility, sale and resale price restrictions, as well as rental restrictions,

and sets out penalties for misuse. While the employee and market units can be built concurrently, the agreement also mandates that occupancy permits must be obtained for the employee units before the market units can be filled. The maximum initial sales price for the employee units is set at $559 per square foot, while the maximum rental rate is $2.75 per sq. ft., and a maximum monthly rental rate per room of $1,000. For owners wishing to sell their unit, it must first be made available to qualified candidates on the WHA waitlist, according to priority. If, after a period of 60 days, the unit still has not sold, then the owner can sell it to anyone who meets the definition of a qualified employee under the WHA’s criteria. A penalty of $700 per day will apply to a unit that is used or occupied in breach of the agreement. Councillor Cathy Jewett called it a “more robust” housing agreement than has been in place previously and designed to promote employee occupancy in perpetuity. “Now the other thing about these housing agreements is that they are not promoting people renting them out,” she added. “In fact, they can’t be absent for more than six months, unless they apply for hardship. So people can’t buy these things and then take off and go traveling for a couple years and rent them out.”

COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT GRANTS APPROVED Also at last week’s council meeting, elected officials approved more than $150,000 worth of Community Enrichment Program (CEP) grants to 34 local organizations. Coming from general revenue, the RMOW’s annual grant program this year handed out $151,800 to a total of 37 initiatives run by local non-profits and societies. The amount provided to each organization cannot be more than half of a program’s total costs. Among the largest grants doled out were: $14,000 to Whistler Community Services for its counselling assistance program; $13,000 to the Whistler Women’s Centre drop-in program, run by the Howe Sound Women’s Centre (HSWC); $8,000 to the HSWC’s PEACE program; $7,000 to the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program; and $6,273.78 to the Whistler Multicultural Society for its Multicultural Community Kitchen program. As part of the program, the municipality also awards $1,000 scholarships to six members of Whistler Secondary School’s graduating class. The school’s Scholarship Committee will provide a list of recommendations before council finalizes its selection in June. n

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Grizzly bear safety workshops highlight electric fences as useful deterrent RECENT WORKSHOPS ADDRESS GRIZZLY SAFETY IN PEMBERTON

BY MEGAN LALONDE AS BEAR SEASON in the Sea to Sky ramps up, the importance of securing wildlife attractants like garbage, recycling, fruit trees and bird feeders around your home is reiterated often. But what do you do when your home is located on agricultural land with fields full of wildlife attractants? That was one topic addressed in a series of grizzly bear safety and coexistence workshops held in Pemberton last week, led by Gillian Sanders, a Kootenays-based coordinator with Grizzly Bear Coexistence Solutions, and co-presented by the Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative (C2C) and the Grizzly Bear Foundation (GBF). Though grizzly sightings remain relatively rare in the valley, Pemberton sits at the habitat fracture of two threatened and recovering grizzly bear populations: the Squamish-Lillooet and South Chilcotin population units, estimated to include 46 bears and 222 bears, respectively. “One of the most important ways we can

keep people and bears safe is by preventing bears from accessing attractants around our homes, farms, and communities,” explained Jolene Patrick, coexistence and education coordinator with C2C, in a release. “This includes not storing garbage outside, cleaning our barbecues, and taking down bird feeders when bears are active. In farm country, as in Pemberton Meadows, this also means protecting crops, fruit trees, honey bees, and livestock, to allow bears to pass through the valley safely, avoiding encounters with people.” For many property owners in the Pemberton area, an answer can be found in properly designed and maintained electric fences, explained Sanders. “All the materials are manufactured and sold for [the purpose of fencing livestock]— we’re using those tools in a specialized design to deter bears,” explained Sanders, who estimates she has installed close to 500 bearspecific fences. “Sometimes people think or are told, ‘Put up an electric fence for bears,’ and they might go and put up a design that would be quite effective for cattle or horses, but completely ineffective for bears.” The main difference in fence design is

the number and the spacing of wires, said Sanders, since bears’ thick fur can often work to insulate the animals from the shock. She generally recommends five to seven wires, spaced about 20 centimetres apart. As far as cost, an electric fence could protect an average-sized chicken coop from bears for about $500. Plus, “there’s really no known safety hazard with a well-installed fence,” Sanders said. In addition to the workshops, Sanders and her fellow grizzly advocates conducted outreach with farmers in the Pemberton Meadows area. “That seemed really positively received and hopefully we’ll be having some electric fencing going up in the near future,” said Sanders. The specially designed fences will also work just as effectively to deter the more commonly spotted black bears, even if the two species tend to behave differently. “Grizzly bears evolved more on open habitats, and behaviourally perhaps, evolved more to stand their ground when faced with a threat. Black bears evolved more in treed habitats and evolved to flee to the safety of the forest and climb a tree if threatened,” explained Sanders. “One of the

differences is that people maybe sometimes yell at a grizzly bear and expect it to leave, and it might not leave, or it might not leave at a run—they might just walk away slowly, but it’s still leaving.” C2C and GBF are currently working to launch an electric fencing cost-share program, “to support farmers with their coexistence efforts in key grizzly bear connectivity areas,” according to the release. For the many Sea to Sky residents who may be more likely to encounter a grizzly in the backcountry than on their property, Sanders advises always carrying bear spray in an easily accessible location, and knowing how to use it. Those in attendance at the grizzly bear safety workshop, held at the Pemberton Library on April 27, had the chance to practice with inert bear spray during the event. Sanders also advises avoiding using headphones or ear buds while in the backcountry, reading up on bear behaviour and properly securing any food or attractants while camping. “Bears really go out of their way to coexist [with us], and so I think we can meet them partway by making sure we’re not attracting that to our campsite,” she said. n

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New report explores geothermal potential near Whistler COULD WHISTLER BE THE HUB OF GEOTHERMAL POWER PRODUCTION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA? aquifers around Mount Cayley. The Mount Cayley research is part of the larger Garibaldi Geothermal Volcanic Belt research project, which is funded by Natural Resources Canada and Geoscience BC. The project includes researchers from several universities and support from the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations. “The first phase released its results a year or two ago, which focused on Mount Meager near Pemberton, which really helped to pull people together and attract investment and interest in that area and at Meager Creek,” said Truman. With that phase complete, the researchers moved south, to “what they see as one of the next best prospects for geothermal energy, and to try and better understand what’s beneath the volcanoes, to see if there’s potential for geothermal energy around Mount Cayley,” Truman added. “They started that research last summer and worked pretty hard with the Squamish Nation to make sure that the Squamish Nation was happy with the research that was being done and that they don’t have any concerns,” he said. “So we just released that field report and the data from that, and we’re just in planning at the moment for following up and finishing off this phase in summer 2022.”

BY ROBERT WISLA COULD YOU IMAGINE a massive geothermal power plant just outside of Whistler? That could be a possibility, according to Geoscience BC. A new study released April 26 examines the geology and ground temperature in the area of Mount Cayley, located about 20 kilometres west of Whistler. “At the moment, Canada is the only country on the Pacific Rim to not produce any geothermal energy,” said Rich Truman, vice president of external relations with Geoscience BC. “And so the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt, as it’s known, which stretches from roughly Squamish up past Pemberton and up into Chilcotin territory, is probably one of the best prospects for generating geothermal energy in B.C.” The April 26 report summarized fieldwork that was completed in the summer of 2021. The study provides a better understanding of the stratovolcano by creating bedrock mapping and age dating of the volcanic eruption history in the area, and will be used to create a threedimensional model of the rocks, faults, and

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Emergency Preparedness Week highlights wildfire dangers in the Sea to Sky OUT-OF-CONTROL SETON FIRE MARKS EARLY START TO WILDFIRE SEASON

BY ROBERT WISLA ARE YOU PREPARED for the worst? If not, now is the perfect time to take action. May 1 marked the beginning of Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada, an annual event that brings together fire and emergency services across the country to educate Canadians about wildfire and other risks. Making sure private properties and municipalities across the Sea to Sky are FireSmarted is key to preventing a worstcase scenario in the event of another bad fire season in B.C. Residents can help FireSmart their neighbourhoods by holding clean-up events, which can be held in partnership with your municipality. Sheri Buswell is one such Whistler resident that wanted to prepare her strata in Creekside for potential fires. She has organized a cleanup event happening on May 7. “With Lytton the way that it was, I just like to increase awareness of our susceptibility to something similar happening in Whistler and for people to take advantage of the services offered by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to help them better prepare themselves and their properties for a

catastrophic incident that could potentially happen in Whistler,” said Buswell. Buswell encourages Whistler residents to make use of RMOW FireSmart resources to get their private residences prepared for any possibility. The FireSmart event Buswell is putting on is just one of dozens that have happened over the last five years, and one of many that are planned to come. “We’ve supported over 100 of these projects in our valley, and usually the groups are sort of 12 to 15 people that come out,” said RMOW FireSmart coordinator Scott Rogers. “We have worked with groups as small as four people and as large as 60. Sometimes these events happen on a single day, sometimes they happen over a weekend, and sometimes they happen over a longer period of time where people continue to do work,” said Rogers. “Most of the work follows guidance that’s been given to the homeowners from a FireSmart assessment. So usually, that’s the best place to start, to get good information and some direction. We usually book these six months to a year in advance. And on average, I would say we probably support between 18 and 24 of these projects annually.” Pemberton will also be hosting a

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SLRD SEES FIRST BIG WILDFIRE OF 2022 Over the Easter long weekend, while many families were hunting for eggs and enjoying fantastic weather, the Seton Lake Volunteer Fire Department (SLVFD) was called to attend to an out-of-control fire, marking an early start to the 2022 wildfire season in B.C. The April 16 blaze began as a controlled burn above the community of Shalalth, according to the SLFVD, but quickly got out of control. “The fact that it lit up like that, it should have never happened [at] this time of year,”

said volunteer firefighter Terrance Kosikar. “I’ve been a firefighter for Whistler Fire Rescue for seven years and been a member up here volunteering for 15 years, and I’ve never seen anything like that in April.” While the fire was relatively small at just 8.5 hectares, it could be a worrying sign of things to come. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, this coming summer is expected to be another hot one, with above-average temperatures expected across British Columbia and the Sea to Sky. In preparation for the coming fire season, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District’s Areas C and D have both adopted new Community Wildfire Resiliency Plans. Kosikar wants to remind people that every person can help with the fight against wildfires. “There’s lots of things people can do to prevent their fires from taking off, their houses from burning down, [and] the whole Sea to Sky corridor from lighting up,” he said. “That actually starts now, which means raking your property, all the dead leaves and everything ... getting stuff off of your roofs, moving your jerry cans and propane tanks away from your property, your house. There’s many things that we can be doing to prepare for [the coming fire season].” Find more tips and stay up to date on the wildfire situation in B.C. at bcwildfire.ca. n

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Rocky Mountaineer passenger rail service returns to the Sea to Sky THE ROCKY MOUNTAINEER IS THE LAST REGULAR TRAIN SERVICE ON THE GREAT PACIFIC EASTERN RAILWAY THAT RUNS FROM VANCOUVER TO PRINCE GEORGE

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WHISTLES will soon be sounding off again in the Sea to Sky as May 7 has been announced as the day when people will see the return of the Rocky Mountaineer passenger train service. “We’re thrilled to see the Rocky Mountaineer resuming its Whistler route this spring,” said Tourism Whistler CEO Barrett Fisher in an email. “The Rocky Mountaineer’s Whistler tour is an iconic West Coast experience for domestic and international visitors alike, offering not only a scenic way to travel to Whistler but a relaxing alternative to driving as well. We’re very happy to welcome them and their guests back to the Sea to Sky.” The Rainforest to Gold Rush route follows the Canadian National (CN)-owned rail line from Vancouver to Whistler, up through the Coastal Mountains to Quesnel and then on to Jasper in the Rocky Mountains. The route is becoming increasingly popular with rail tourists and is expected to

have more guests in the 2022 season. “We are anticipating over 5,000 guests onboard this route this year, which will put us close to pre-pandemic guest counts,” said Rocky Mountaineer communications coordinator Dallas Carlson. “This year, we are only offering our twolevel GoldLeaf domes on this route, given the high level of interest in this service from our guests.” The train will arrive in Whistler twice a week from May to September. Residents are advised to be aware that the rail line is active again. The railway crosses Highway 99 several times between Squamish and Pemberton, which will affect traffic. “Those travelling on the route eastbound will arrive in Whistler between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., so they will have the afternoon and evening free to explore the village. Guests travelling westbound arrive in Whistler in the evening, but they do not depart until 3:30 p.m. the next day, so they have the morning and early afternoon free,” said Carlson. Pemberton’s train station will continue to be used as an on and off point for the railway. The use of Pemberton’s rail station as an embarking point began last year due

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to new federally mandated rules around train speed in steep grades. “Due to the long travel days of this route and the possibility for our trains to be speed restricted during hot summer weather, this saves at least an hour of travel time. We started doing this last year, and it resulted in a better experience for our guests, so we will continue this process moving forward,” said Carlson.

The Rocky Mountaineer is now the primary traffic source on the former Pacific Great Eastern Railway line. CN has owned the rail line since it was controversially acquired in 2003, but has since generally stopped using it for freight aside from during the 2021 floods and fires that impeded train movement in the Fraser Canyon. For Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman, the main concern with the Rocky Mountaineer’s return is the increased fire risk that train traffic brings to the Sea to Sky corridor. “The biggest concern around the rail these days is the fact that it’s not used. The line through our communities is not used nearly as much, if at all, compared to years past,” Richman said. “So if they’re going to put the Rocky Mountaineer here or any other train traffic, the concern is around maintenance and ensuring that mowing has been done, and the track is maintained so there’s not any fire hazards that might be increased due to the fact that the rail line has been dormant. “We want to make sure that the rail maintenance is being kept up so that Rocky Mountaineer and whatever rail traffic is coming through is safe traffic.” n

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Pemberton population youngest in Sea to Sky STATS CANADA RELEASED A NEW BATCH OF CENSUS DATA ON APRIL 27 REGARDING AGE, GENDER AND DWELLINGS IN THE SEA TO SKY

BY HARRISON BROOKS RECENTLY RELEASED Statistics Canada census data shows Pemberton has a younger population than provincial and national averages. The average age in Pemberton is 35.4, compared to a provincial and national average of 43.1 and 41.9, respectively. Pemberton’s average age is also the lowest in the Sea to Sky, with Whistler and Squamish both coming in at 37.9 and the SquamishLillooet Regional District (SLRD) at 38.8. In addition to age demographics, the findings of the data, released on April 27, also included gender and types of dwelling statistics. In February, StatsCan released population data showing a 32.4-per-cent increase in the village’s population, which

RAPID GROWTH Statistics Canada’s recently released census data helps paint a picture of the village’s steady growth. PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES

grew from 2,574 in 2016 to 3,407 in 2021. Among the community’s population, 25.5 per cent falls within the 30-to-39 age category, with a 430/440 male to female split. The second most populous age range is 40 to 49, with 20.3 per cent of the total population and a 360/330 male-female split. Overall, the town’s male-female population is roughly split 52 to 48 per cent. Since 2016, Pemberton has seen an approximately 67-per-cent increase in residents aged 30 to 34, and a 41.3-per-cent increase in residents aged 35 to 39—the two largest age group increases over the five-year span. Meanwhile, there was an approximately 19-per-cent decrease in residents aged 25 to 29 over that same span, but a 37.5-per-cent increase in people aged 20 to 24. “It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why. I think there’s a few factors at play there,” said Mayor Mike Richman. “We have, for quite a while, been one of the younger [communities] in the province. So you know, we’ve always been an attraction for young families. It’s a great place to raise a family and I think that a lot of people see that and want to move here for that reason.”

Along with the population increase, Pemberton also saw the number of private dwellings increase by 40.8 per cent from 964 in 2016 to 1,357 in 2021. Among those 1,357 private dwellings, approximately 30 per cent (405) are duplex apartments, while row houses make up 28 per cent (385) of the total. Apartments in buildings less than five storeys tall and single detached houses are the third and fourth most popular dwellings, accounting for 18.4 and 16.6 per cent of the total, respectively. “We’ve been working hard to encourage and support different forms of housing. We need diversity of housing in our community,” said Richman. “So that’s something we’ve done, and we’ll continue to do moving forward to make sure that the different needs within the housing spectrum are being met.” While housing is always a major issue for Pemberton, Richman said the rate at which housing is growing compared to the population is encouraging and hopes to see that trend continue into the future. “That’s going to be a constant tug of war

in this environment, where there is such a demand to come up the corridor, come to a place like Pemberton, and we can’t just keep building, to fill the demand,” he said. “On one hand, we’ve got to keep step with it and make sure that the housing development meets the needs. But there’s other tools and other ways we need to look at this to make sure that housing prices don’t continue to go through the roof.” While Pemberton falls right in line with the rest of the Sea to Sky as well as B.C. and Canada with an average household size of 2.5, the village is far ahead of the norm when it comes to three- and four-person households, which make up 21 and 17 per cent, respectively, while the provincial average is 14.5 and 12.6 percent. At the same time, the village falls well below the average when it comes to fiveperson households, with a rate of 5.1 per cent versus 8.2 per cent in B.C., and oneperson households where the village sits at 22.5 per cent of the total versus the 29.4-percent provincial average. Statistics Canada will release more census data on July 13. n

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The new rites of spring AFTER MISSING OUT for two years, I’ve rebooted my annual tradition of heading to Sweden’s Arctic for a stint of work. Sitting in the lounge at YVR seems all too familiar and yet also strange. The airport is nowhere near as busy as would normally be the case, some parts sealed off, and I don’t have the

BY LESLIE ANTHONY same workaday feeling I usually have before boarding international flights; it’s more a mix of “oh, right, this…” and mild dread at the extra tedium that will doubtless ensue in what is already typically a 26-hour marathon. And it’s not just me. The vibe here seems different as well—almost as if few have ever travelled overseas before, the air rife with the kind of bubbling (muted by masks) that go along with a first time. Hardly believable, but there’s enough novelty for many that when the workhorse Lufthansa 747 rolls up to disgorge arriving passengers, a dozen people excitedly skip to the gate windows to take selfies with the big bird in the background. Me? I’m just trying to find an electrical outlet that works. Some things never change. Which gets me thinking of things that never change around Whistler in the spring, and that I’ve now had two springs and a few weeks to take note of. They range from the pleasant to the repulsive,

DOO DOO DUTY Columnist Leslie Anthony wants people to clean up after their dogs and stop leaving bags of poo all over the valley floor. PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES

the expected to the absurd. And if I don’t exactly celebrate them all, I can at least enumerate them. First off is weather. The vernal season has always been notorious for its “unsettled patterns.” That’s a meteorologism for crapshoot. But there was once a predictability to how that crapshoot played out that seems to have gone walkabout the past two decades. The new normal for spring weather in Whistler is Forest Gumpian in being like a box of chocolates— you never know what you’re going to get. Recent trends have been toward early heat up high with cataclysmic destruction of the snowpack prohibiting any real enjoyment

The first group are all positive: picking up the garbage on my street; conducting surveys of emerging endangered snakes in Pemberton; taking advantage of new recreational opportunities like hiking and canoeing; and getting the vegetable garden going—something I never would have dreamed of when I first moved here, but which has become a cherished activity thanks to AWARE‘s amazing GROW program. The unconscious rites aren’t as much fun: assessing the damage of winter and assessing the damage of dog owners. The former has clearly accelerated in the past few years. There are more road signs

WTF is up with people who go to the trouble of conscientiously (one assumes) bagging their pet’s poo but can’t be bothered to carry the bag to a garbage receptacle?

beyond April. This year is spectacularly different in being cooler and snowier above 1,400 metres, harking back to days of yore, enabling touring and, with the mountain open for a change, de facto spring skiing from powder top to bottom slop. Never mind finding 20 centimetres of snow on your car in the morning—the afternoon’s going to be great! Still, the valley has pretty much melted out, bringing two more groups of rites into focus—those I choose to engage in, and those in which I’m but a passive observer as the snow deliquesces down storm drains.

knocked over, massive rocks prised up, trailside vegetation destroyed and barriers and curbs smashed than has ever been the case. Is it pandemic related? A shortage of plow drivers, perhaps, such that people without experience are recruited? Or pros imported from the city who don’t know the landscape? It’s a mystery—doubtless an expensive one. The latter rite remains as perplexing as it is alternately maddening and comical. To wit: WTF is up with people who go to the trouble of conscientiously (one assumes) bagging their pet’s poo but can’t

be bothered to carry the bag to a garbage receptacle? Fascinating aspects of human behaviour are revealed by the placement of these vile packages, which fall into three categories: the Random, the Hail Mary, and the Magical Thinking. The Random covers those bags literally dropped where the doggie-deuces happened—streetside, in parking lots, wherever. The bagger has clearly and bizarrely declined to carry their treasure a centimetre. The Hail Mary is a guilt-driven toss as far into the bush as the person could muster. As a result, the forest floor around the Valley Trail is littered with Hail Marys— trees decorated, too. Finally, the Magical Thinking leitmotif involves carrying the bag to a location where it’s left in plain sight with the magical expectation that someone else (likely the RMOW) will pick it up. These include street corners, trail intersections, park entrances, mailboxes, artworks, electrical transformers, pump-houses and cement risers of all descriptions. If justice were possible, the perpetrators of all three could be placed in stocks in the Village Square for a day, decorated with their detritus. As it is, no one knows who they are and so bags continue to accumulate and contaminate the entire valley—the complete opposite of what they’re meant for. This particular rite of spring is infuriating to everyone—probably even those who cause it. And I now realize how much I’ve missed its antidote: going skiing somewhere far away where it’s still deep winter, then coming home when greenery has covered up the mess. Leslie Anthony is a Whistler-based author, editor, biologist and bon vivant who has never met a mountain he didn’t like. ■

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you’re of a certain age, geography and means (and your parents just wanted you out of their hair for a few weeks), chances are you spent your childhood summers at one of those sleep-away camps that, for so many kids, end up being a deeply formative time in their young lives. For me personally, I was lucky enough to spend a couple weeks one endless summer at a popular overnight camp in Ontario cottage country. For such a short period, it felt, at least to my pre-pubescent brain, like I had packed in a lifetime’s worth of experiences. New friendships were formed; new crushes rose and faltered; and many (so many!) fireside chants were sung. For generations of kids, especially in Canada, these camps marked the first time they were away from their parents for an extended period, giving them their first taste of independence and helping them shape their still-malleable identities. In a town like Whistler, where space comes at a premium, these kinds of overnight camps aren’t quite as common, but that’s not to say there isn’t a wide variety of summer camps on offer for local and visiting youth. Of course, you’ve got your more specialized sports camps, for the future elite athlete and curious beginner alike, along with more generalized camps that offer a range of activities and programming for kids to get their feet wet—literally, in some cases. Unfortunately, over the past two years of shifting COVID-19 measures, local camps have had to adapt on the fly, with some not able to operate at all. But, with B.C. opening up and restrictions loosened once more, it’s gearing up to be something of a comeback for Whistler’s slate of camps. Pique caught up with a few of them to hear how they coped through the pandemic, and to get the rundown of what’s on tap for yet another idyllic summer in Tiny Town.

Building Momentum For 30 years now, Momentum Camps have been shaping the next generation of top snow-sport athletes. Held on Horstman Glacier, arguably some of the best summer ski and snowboard terrain in North America, Momentum offers the perfect place to quickly level up your skills, whether it be moguls, slopestyle skiing, or snowboarding. The proof is in the proverbial pudding—a who’s who of champion Canadian and international skiers and riders have made their way through the camps, many returning as coaches years later to pay forward what they’ve learned. Among the Olympians and world champions that have passed through Momentum are Alex Bilodeau, Dale Begg-Smith, Jenn Heil, Kristi Richards, Joss Christensen, Dara Howell, Cassie Sharpe, Mike Riddle, Max Moffatt and Sarah Burke—and that is just a fraction of the list. “It attracts people who are passionate about skiing and can’t get enough, so much so that they don’t even want to stop when the snow melts. They’ll come from far and wide to continue their passion,” explains

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camp director John Smart. But it’s not just snow-sport studs that attend the camps. Because Momentum has its own terrain park, a low-risk environment for the aspiring athlete to test out their latest trick without fear of injury. “Our summer camps are obviously very unique in that we create our own purposebuilt environment up there,” Smart says. For the daredevils in the bunch, the camp also counts two large landing bags that are only available at its summer camps (the bags are too difficult to maintain in the cold), trampoline beds, and even a water ramp for campers to test out their latest trick without fear of injury. “It’s for all levels, not just for the high end. Kids can learn their first 360 with no consequences,” Smart says. For the past two summers, Whistler Blackcomb closed Horstman Glacier, as it did not have adequate time to prepare it for the camps with the pandemic dragging on. For a camp that welcomes more than 200 campers a week, along with a number of national teams that spend summers training there, it was a huge blow, financially. “The first year when it happened, it was totally understandable, but last year was very tough because it looked like we could make it and it was the last chance for national teams to train for the Olympics,” Smart says. “As a business but also for the industry of skiing in general, it’s been very, very tough.” Since launching in 1992, Momentum has also seen first-hand the effects climate change has had on the glacier. And although there is of course an obvious impact from

running a popular ski and snowboard camp and all of its related infrastructure, the camps also help prevent ice melt on Horstman, Smart says. “One of our jobs when we build the park is we move the snow around, scrape it from areas, and cover the ice so it’s never exposed. That wasn’t done when we weren’t up there, so therefore it melted faster,” he says. “It’s been 30 years we’ve been running so we’ve watched the glacier change and we’ve changed with it over all these years.” For more information, visit momentumskicamps.com.

Adventure abounds Mariano Liu and Roberto Gibbons, co-owners of one of Whistler’s newest summer camps, know a thing or two about adventure. Liu runs Camp Ecolart, which offers day and overnight camps in Montreal, Banff and San Diego, in addition to Whistler, while Gibbons is a travel blogger, adventure photographer and brains behind The Expeditioners, Instagram’s favourite adventure family, which sees Gibbons, his

wife Bella and son Mikio touring some of the most scenic and rugged locales around the globe. “Eating and breathing adventure daily,” the two cousins teamed up a few years ago to launch The Expeditioners Adventure Camp in Whistler, bringing campers aged eight and up to eye-popping destinations around the Sea to Sky—doing everything from hiking, biking and paddling to get there. The aim of the camp isn’t necessarily to hone kids’ outdoor skills (although that is often a welcome side effect), but to spur their sense of curiosity and exploration. “Sometimes a kid is not into mountain biking or sailing or anything like that, so they want another option. We’re just trying to put all these things together because we’re more of an adventure camp,” Liu explains. “The biking we do, the paddling we do, the hiking is more recreational. We’re not trying to be the best hikers or bikers. We’re trying to show these kids that doing all these activities, they help you to adventure, to explore, to reach new boundaries and get farther.” Travelling everywhere from Panorama Ridge and Joffre Lakes to Brandywine Falls, Liu describes Ecolart as “the first real summer overnight camp experience in Whistler.” The camp also incorporates traditional camp games—think tug of war, capture the flag and scavenger hunts—that

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wouldn’t seem out of place at a sleep-away camp in Eastern Canada. “We want to give that true summercamp experience,” Liu says. “You know you go to Ontario or Quebec … and there’s the vibe of playing, meeting new friends, having kids from all over the place. That’s what we want to give.” For more information, visit campecolart. com/whistler-summer-camp.

Lateral movements In such a sports-obsessed town, having the Audain Art Museum’s After School Art program for kids is akin to finding a diamond in the rough. “It just underlines the really nice range of educational possibilities in Whistler, but this fills out the cultural side of things based on what this museum can do with its collection and our studio,” explains Dr. Curtis Collins, director and chief curator at the private museum housing a comprehensive collection of B.C. art. The after-school workshops, led by Elyse Feaver, allow kids in Kindergarten through Grade 5 (the program is divided into two age cohorts) to tour the museum’s extensive permanent collection, often honing in on a particular artwork or gallery of significance, like James Hart’s large, cedar The Dance Screen that welcomes visitors into the Chrystal Gallery, or the Barbeau-Owen Gallery housing a selection of vivid landscape paintings by renowned B.C. artist, E.J. Hughes, or something more contemporary like Paul Wong’s neon light installation, NO THING IS FOREVER. After learning about the work, the young artists will get to try their hand at making something of their own at the museum’s in-house studio. “That’s going to be the fun part, because it will be multimedia, so stuff involving carving or sculpture, whether that’s plasticine or soap. Similarly, Polaroid cameras and that sort of photobased practice. Then, more obvious ones like painting, for example,” Collins notes. “The orientation is to have the workshops

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really cover a full range of practices, so the kids get a nice variety of how to make things.” What’s more is the afternoon sessions are incredibly affordable, at $10 per session for museum members and $12 for nonmembers, thanks to a generous donation subsidizing the program from Allen Bell and Ola Dunin-Bell. For Collins and the Audain, it’s another way to not only engage with the local community and increase accessibility, but nurture the creativity of Whistler’s next generation. “I really think people underestimate the value of creativity in relation to things like language and math. The ability to think laterally in creative ways has great parallels in other disciplines that make a fuller person,” Collins says. “Whistler is quite unique in that way. Whistler kids are quite fortunate to have access to something like this. It’s our way of taking a public responsibility and making a contribution to the community, which is important for us.” Sessions run on the first and third Tuesday of each month, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Registration opens two weeks before each session. The first Grades 3-5 session is May 17, and the first Kindergarten to Grade 2 session is June 7. For more information, visit audainartmuseum.com/afterschoolart.

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One-stop shop If variety is the spice of life, then Whistler’s Combo Camps have crafted the perfectly seasoned dish for young campers. Formerly the Whistler Sport Academy, Combo Camps offers dynamic programs for kids aged five to 12, combining sports development and skills training with mountain life activities. This summer’s range of offerings includes specific bike, tennis, adventure, dance, improv, sailing, and for the first year, fencing combo camps, which allow the kids to engage in their chosen sport or activity in the mornings before hitting the lake in the afternoons for canoeing, kayaking and paddleboarding. “It’s sort of a one-stop shop,” says Combo Camps co-owner Olly Nixon. “If you have a family of three, it doesn’t mean they’re all into biking. We’ve always wanted to offer something to everybody.” Along with the Combo Camps, there are also Leadership Camps for teens 13 and up to develop their leadership skills and learn the essentials of bike, tennis and water training. After successfully completing the five-day camp, the teens will get a leadership certification that will allow them to work with Combo Camps as assistant counsellors. “Those kids who are 13, 14, 15, who’ve maybe went to five or six Combo Camps now, we’re looking to take them on as assistant coaches,” Nixon says. “We’ve

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known some of them since they were six years old, so it’s cool to see them working as coaches.” Hosted primarily at the Whistler Racket Club, which is also operated by the Combo Camps owners, Nixon says the venue on the outskirts of the village is the perfect complement to what they do, with its range of programming, such as pickleball, axethrowing, and more that also gives campers’ families something fun to do. “It’s a really cool spot and there’s literally something for everyone there,” Nixon adds. For more information, visit combocamps.com. n

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Trio of Whistler hockey players wrap up first NCAA season WHISTLER MINOR HOCKEY ALUMS CODY FLANN, NOAH BRUSSE AND NOAH MALTHANER RECENTLY WRAPPED UP THEIR ROOKIE SEASON FOR THE MISSOURI STATE ICE BEARS

BY HARRISON BROOKS DESPITE THE geographical differences between the lush green forests and snowcapped mountain ranges of Whistler and the flat, golden prairies of Missouri where the sky stretches on ad infinitum, the move south to play for the Missouri State Ice Bears in the NCAA went better than expected for Whistler Minor Hockey alums Cody Flann, Noah Brusse and Noah Malthaner. While being able to make the move with a couple longtime friends no doubt added to the smooth transition for the trio, it was the hot start to the season for the Ice Bears that really brought the entire team together quickly, according to Flann. “It’s not always easy adjusting to the new country and environment and school, but I thought we all adjusted pretty good. Just having those two familiar faces with me was definitely helpful,” he said. “And I think the season went really well. At the start, we were clicking as a team … and a lot of the guys down here, we became really good friends. So by the end of the season, I felt like I had a bunch of good friends that I knew really well.” After the hot start, which saw the Ice Bears win 14 of their first 18 games, the team hit a bit of a slump to round out

ICE BEARS Whistler’s Noah Brusse (left) and Cody Flann (middle) celebrate a goal during their rookie season for the Missouri State Ice Bears. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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the year, finishing with an overall record of 19-10-3. Their struggles continued through the national championship tournament where they failed to win a game, despite their strong ranking inside the top 20 of the American Collegiate Hockey Association. But even though the season didn’t end the way they had hoped, each of Flann, Brusse and Malthaner described their

said Flann. “But it’s part of the game and it does suck that it has to be like that, but I’m a shorter guy and I play like I’m bigger ... that’s just how I’ve always played, and injuries have always been part of that. Maybe I’m playing a bit too hard for my size, but that’s just how I’ve always played, and I can’t change myself.” The two Noahs, on the other hand, each found success on the backend, but did it in

“[I] play like I’m bigger and that’s just how I’ve always played, and injuries have always been part of that. Maybe I’m playing a bit too hard for my size, but that’s just how I’ve always played, and I can’t change myself.” - CODY FLANN

individual experiences in their first season of college hockey as a success. Flann, the only forward of the three, got off to a quick start, producing just under a point per game while finding a role as his line’s defensive conscience. Unfortunately, as has been the case for years, Flann’s heavy game led to his season being cut short by injuries. “It’s not fun. You never want to be injured, but I’m kind of used to it at this point. I just have to keep working on being healthy and whenever I am playing, I can’t strive away from my game, I have to still play physical and hard-nosed,”

different ways. Brusse, despite being a rookie, finished the year as the team’s highest scoring defenceman, while Malthaner found himself in more of a shutdown defensive role with the team. “I started off on powerplay but as the season went on, I kind of moved to playing more penalty kill and just solid defensive play. I didn’t get scored on much, still an all-around game, but just a little more defensive-minded,” said Malthaner. “I always want to have an all-around game, so I wouldn’t say that I just focus on one end of the ice, but when you move up to the next

level sometimes there are guys that are better than you at certain things. So it wasn’t new by any means, but maybe just a little bit of a change not playing powerplay.” With the season over and the school year quickly coming to a close, the boys are excited to return to B.C. for the offseason. Brusse is heading to the Island for the summer where he will live and work in Victoria, while Flann and Malthaner will be returning home to the Sea to Sky with plans of taking it easy, working and enjoying everything summer in the area has to offer. Heading into next season, with Flann already making the decision not to return to Missouri next year and Malthaner still on the fence as well, Brusse might be making the trip south by himself as the Ice Bears’ lone Whistler representative. But regardless of where Flann and Malthaner end up, Brusse is focused on building off the success of this season and hopes to see his team take another step forward and increase its rankings for the end-of-year national championship tournament. “I know we want to have a better performance at nationals next year and obviously getting back there is always the goal, I’d say maybe try to get a higher ranking than this year even,” he said. “Lots of our freshmen players and firstyear guys were some of our top scorers on the team and some of the guys getting the most minutes, so I think just adding to that with a couple years of experience means good things are coming.” n

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CHOP CHOP Axemen centre Blake Mahovic fights his way through tackles and braces himself for contact in Saturday’s match against Coquitlam United in Squamish. PHOTO COURTESY OF AXEMEN RUGBY CLUB

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BY HARRISON BROOKS THE VICTORY CHANT of “Axemen chop chop chop … chop chop chop … Axemen chop chop chop,” echoed throughout Squamish’s Brennan Park on Saturday, April 30 after the Axemen’s 53-10 win over Coquitlam United in the BC Rugby Division 2 semifinals. “It was a scrappy win; we came out the gates really good. But after that, we got into our heads a bit, but it was awesome that we came away with the score line pretty advantageous on our side and now we get to go to the finals next week which we are really excited about,” said Axemen centre Blake Mahovic on the win that punched the team’s ticket to the league’s grand final. “I’m so excited, it’s been a long time. Since COVID kind of cut everything short a few years ago, we’ve been building towards this and we actually won the division below, and now we’ve came through and in the first competitive season back, we’ve finished top of the table for the league and now we’re going to the final so hopefully we can make it back-to-back victories.” The Axemen opened the scoring in the early minutes of the game and kept their foot on the gas, scoring multiple tries before United was able to get on the board. “Our counter-attack is fantastic,” said head coach Keith Reeves. “We plan to attack every turnover, and that always gives us a chance to score spectacular tries. As I see it, every time they give us the ball through a kick or a turnover, then that is our opportunity to push because we aren’t working against an organized defence and we have some very highly skilled backs and that’s our best chance to use them.”

But as often happens when a team gets out to a big lead early, the Axemen took the foot off the gas and fell away from their gameplan, resulting in a lull in the middle part of the game with no scoring from either team for several minutes. Thanks to what Reeves described as intense defensive play, the United offence was held in check until, eventually, the Axemen were able to refocus and get their groove back, scoring multiple more tries in the second half to put the game away. Mahovic led the way for the Axemen with three tries himself, while Peter Foley scored a pair and five conversions. Cathal Donnelly, Jack Couzens and Scott Geddes also chipped in with one try a piece. In the other semifinal matchup being played on the same day, the Surrey Beavers managed to edge out Scribes RFC in a close match with a final score of 26-23. Despite winning their semifinal matchup in dominating fashion and having beaten the Beavers already this season, Reeves isn’t going to let his team get too confident before the May 7 final and believes there is still a lot of work to be done throughout the week if the Axemen want to take home the championship. “We’ve played and beaten both teams this season. It will be different with it being a final, but I don’t think we need to change [our gameplan] next week,” said Reeves immediately after the win on April 30. “But we’ll be working on the set plays for next week because both teams in the other semifinal have very strong forward packs, so we need to work on the set plays like scrums and lineouts. That was definitely our Achilles heel today.” The Division 2 final will be played at the South Surrey Athletic Park on Saturday, May 7. Kickoff is set for 12:45 p.m. n

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Crankworx adds fourth stop in Australia SPORTS BRIEFS: HOCKEY DEMO EVENT TO BE HELD AT MEADOW PARK; PHIL CHEW INDUCTED INTO CANADIAN SKI HALL OF FAME

BY HARRISON BROOKS WITH CRANKWORX returning to its usual schedule for the first time since 2019, excitement was already high for the 2022 season. Adding even more fuel to the fire, Crankworx announced on April 27 it will be adding a fourth stop in Cairns, Australia to the tour this year. From its inception in 2004 through 2014, Crankworx was just a one-stop celebration of everything mountain biking taking place in Whistler each summer. But in 2015, the idea for a Crankworx tour started to take life with the addition of an event in Rotorua, New Zealand. Two years after that, another stop to the tour was added in Innsbruck, Austria. And now Cairns, Australia joins the fold. “[Cairns] brings something new and unique … and it has a history of hosting major international mountain biking events. It has held the World Cup a couple of times and the World Champs in 2017,” said Crankworx managing director Darren Kinnaird. “So it’s got great riding, it’s got a unique culture, and it’s a completely different tropical destination that brings a new flavour for Crankworx.”

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While the new stop in Cairns won’t be happening until October, the 2022 tour kicks off in just over a month on June 15 in Innsbruck, followed by its return to Whistler from Aug. 5 to 14. After its stop in Whistler the tour heads to Cairns from Oct. 5 to 9 and wraps up in Rotorua from Nov. 5 to 13.

HOCKEY DEMO PROGRAM TO TAKE PLACE AT MEADOW PARK On Friday, May 6, the Whistler Minor Hockey Association (WMHA) is hosting a hockey demo event for U13 players to help increase interest in the sport in response to registration numbers dropping over the past two years. One of WMHA’s volunteers Paul Kinnea believes that, in addition to COVID, registration numbers in the lower age groups have declined due to rumours that hockey requires a major time commitment, but “it’s actually no more of a commitment than it is for soccer or baseball,” he said. “I think the whole concept of having this whole open session is for parents that are curious or on the fence or want to know more to just come along and see

a typical coaching session, meet the kids and meet the other parents.” The demo session will run from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. and will consist of last year’s players and coaches on the ice for a coaching session and scrimmage. U9 players will be on the ice for the first hour followed by the U13 players. Any attendees are welcome to join the on-ice session for free if they have the gear to do so. For anyone who might be struggling to come up with registration fees or money for equipment, Kinnea will also be sharing info on three different avenues available to help people get involved in hockey. The first is Whistler Community Services Society’s Kids on the Move program, which provides up to $450 in funding to qualified applicants to help get kids involved in team sports. The second is WMHA’s intro to hockey program, which, for $50, provides kids with three training sessions where they can meet other kids in the sport, get on the ice and see if they like it. The third program Kinnea will be promoting is called First Shift, which for $230 provides kids with equipment, an expert session and on-ice training.

Friday’s demo program is open for walk-ins and does not require any sign-up beforehand. However, if anyone is interested in learning more about the event or WMHA in general they are encouraged to email info@ whistlerminorhockey.com.

PHIL CHEW INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME Nearly two years since the announcement of his Hall of Fame induction, Whistler’s Phil Chew was finally officially inducted in to the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame. The virtual induction ceremony took place on Thursday, April 28. Chew was recognized for his decadeslong career that saw him compete in three Paralympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1992 and spend another 23 years as a coach, working with B.C.’s para-athletes. In his time as a coach, Chew saw 24 of his athletes graduate to the national team. Chew’s fellow 2020 Canadian Ski Hall of Fame inductees included freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau, alpine builder Gordon Canning, freestyle builder Joe Fitzgerald, alpine builder Darrell MacLachlan and Nordic coach Dave Wood. n

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Public Notice is hereby given in accordance with Section 466 of the Local Government Act that a Public Hearing will be held electronically regarding the following bylaws: 1. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area C Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 689, 1999, Amendment Bylaw No. 1741-2022; 2. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area C Zoning Bylaw No. 765, 2002, Amendment Bylaw No. 1697-2020; and 3. Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area C Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 689, 1999, Amendment Bylaw No. 1698-2020. PURPOSE OF BYLAW No. 1741-2022 The bylaw seeks to introduce a Wildfire Protection Development Permit Area (DPA) for Electoral Area C. A Wildfire Protection DPA is needed to help reduce the risk to public safety, property and forests from wildfire hazards. Electoral Area C is the only area within the SLRD not covered by a Wildfire Protection DPA. The objective of the Wildfire Protection DPA is to ensure new developments in Electoral Area C are designed and constructed to minimize wildfire hazard, and contribute to the fire safety of neighbourhoods and communities. The bylaw applies to the entire Electoral Area C. PURPOSE OF BYLAW No. 1697-2020 and 1698-2020 The bylaws are associated with an application to amend the zoning and OCP designation at 2037 Sea to Sky Hwy 99 to facilitate a Village type mixed-use commercial and residential development on vacant land within the Mount Currie commercial area. Specifically, the project proposes two separate buildings with ground level commercial and 1-2 levels of residential. The South building consists of 36 units of affordable non-market rental housing units, , while the North building consists of 17 moderate income - affordable market rental units. The current Community Commercial Zoning and Commercial OCP Designation does not provide for residential development, thus the need for a Zoning and OCP amendment application. The Zoning and OCP amendment applications are being processed concurrently. The area covered by Bylaw 1697-2020 and 1698-2020 is PID: 031-105-084 LOT 1 DISTRICT LOT 209, LILLOOET DISTRICT, PLAN EPP102417 as outlined on the map included in this notice:

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A DIY Mother’s Day brunch to delight mom, and you! EASY, HEALTHY—HERE’S A NOD TO A FUN SONG AND EATING OATS TO STAY STRONG WHAT WAS THAT OLD children’s song? Mares eat oats and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy... I bet you can hum along, and if you grew up anywhere around Sea to Sky or any place in North America, good chance your dear mom sang it to you as a kid. If you think about it, there’s a gem of an idea embedded in those lines along with the

BY GLENDA BARTOSH usual fun as we meander towards Mother’s Day and contemplate how to celebrate our dear moms, who give a lot and ask for so little. If you’re like me, you might be puzzling over how to avoid the usual Mother’s Day dilemmas, like negotiating brunch in what could be crowded or soldout restaurants or escaping the clutches of a predictable box of chocolates or bouquet of flowers. Those can’t hurt, but there’s nothing like a personal, homemade touch, especially when wee kids are involved and it’s easy-peasy. A super-healthy, super-nutritious but fun brekkie that anyone six or older can make with just a little supervision is exactly what Mother’s Day calls for. It could even lead to a kid being transformed into a little lamb in the eyes of mom. (I know… groaner!) Add to that the fact that “mare” in its earliest usage often meant the mother of a horse versus any old female horse or

BRUNCH BUNCH A nutritious but fun breakfast that anyone six or older can make with just a little supervision is exactly what Mother’s Day calls for. GETTY IMAGES

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equine animal, and oats are one of the healthiest foods on the planet, and you’ll see how far a song can go. If mares eat oats, then count me in! The provenance of mare is an interesting one. It’s an Old English word that traces back to Teutonic times and Old Frisian, a language spoken in West Germany as early as the 8th century near Europe’s North Sea Coast. The Irish/Gaelic form is marc and Welsh, march. You can almost hear the calls on ancient Saxon farms for the animals to come for their oats. But don’t kid yourself. The farmers weren’t far behind. Oats, oats and more oats fuelled the mighty Scottish Highlanders, huddled in their frigid stone cottages and castles, herding their shaggy cattle and ponies around the wind-swept moors, and clanging their broadswords threateningly, if we’re to believe the great legends. Oats also fuelled their Celtic cousins in Ireland and Wales, before spilling out into the rest of the British Isles, and then to the colonies clutched in the grasp of empire. While Whistlerites may find this unbelievable, Reay Tannahill in Food in History discounts one anthropologist’s supposition that the first Neolithic interest in grain was for beer. Sorry. But they didn’t have containers for brewing beer in in those ancient times since pottery hadn’t yet been developed. No, the primary evidence of the first human grain use is eating it, which, given the extent to which it would be indigestible, points to either sprouting it or cooking it after the little prickly bits were removed. Ergo oats as porridge or gruel. The ancient Greeks and Romans considered oats a diseased form of wheat. Too bad for them. Oats are like a miracle food! They’re made up of about 17 per cent

protein and about 7 per cent of a healthy form of oil. They also contain an enzyme which digests fat, as noted by scientist and food wizard, Harold McGee, as well as phenolic compounds which make for good antioxidants. Their indigestible carbohydrates, called beta-glucans, absorb and retain water and reduce the risk of heart disease, especially when included in a low-fat diet. Otherwise known as soluble fibre, one serving of good oatmeal delivers about a gram of this hearthealthy fibre. Oats’ high level of complex carbs along with all the water-soluble fibre generates another big health advantage: Good old oatmeal helps to encourage slower digestion and steady your blood glucose levels, giving you—and mom—a ready-steady fuel supply

P.O.P. (PETER’S OAT PANCAKES) Mix 1/2 cup flour and 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder into a bowl and stir together well. In a separate bowl, mix 1/2 cup oat bran and 1/2 cup oat milk. Let soak for 20 minutes or longer, then add: Another 1/2 cup oat milk, 1 lightly beaten egg and 2 teaspoons oil (canola). Stir well. Pour into the dry ingredients and mix all together. Lightly oil, then pre-heat on medium-low a heavy frying pan. Spoon out batter to make smallish pancakes. Cook slowly, as the mixture is thicker than the usual pancake batter. When the top is dry-looking, flip over and cook until golden brown. Serve with berries or your mom’s favourite fruit. Eat!

all day long. So are you ready to whip up some unbelievably delicious and good-for-you pancakes for mom? Here’s an easy-peasy recipe for P.O.P.s (Peter’s Oat Pancakes) that hubbie whipped up for me for a preMother’s Day treat loaded with oat bran and oat milk. Best in those departments are Bob’s Red Mill for the oat bran, and Earth’s Own for the oat milk, something the baristas at Alpine Cafe in Alpine Meadows turned us on to years ago and for which we’re eternally grateful, it’s so good. Plus it’s super sustainable and made right in Vancouver! Kids young or old couldn’t dream up a better recipe for Father’s Day either, just around the corner. Either way, try drizzling the batter into letters, like “M. O. M.” or “P.O.P.” Or use them to make up your own goofy words. As for “Mares Eat Oats” and its goofiness, it was a huge wartime hit for bands and the radio alike. Written in 1943 in the midst of the Second World War, it was a nonsense song meant to lighten hearts, and it has delivered. It’s been covered many times since by the likes of Burl Ives and Fred Penner. These are the zany original lyrics, something you’d never find on any social media today: Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey A kiddley divey too, wouldn’t you? That last line translates as, A kid (meaning a baby goat, although I guess it could also mean some adventuresome youngsters) will eat ivy too, wouldn’t you? Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who wishes moms everywhere a Happy, Healthy, Easy-Peasy Mother’s Day! n

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Desirée Patterson, the photographic artist combining arresting visuals with troves of climate data FORMER WHISTLERITE’S PIECE FROM ANOMALY SERIES INCORPORATED TEMPERATURE GRAPHS INTO PHOTO OF HIMALAYAN GLACIER

BY BRANDON BARRETT One challenge you sometimes hear in the fight against climate change is that environmental issues often lack a compelling narrative for the public to latch onto. The problem, taken as a whole, can seem too big, too scary, too abstract, and, for some at least, no amount of environmental data and research sounding the alarm is going to move the needle. Former Whistlerite Desirée Patterson has, over the course of her career, landed on a nexus between art and environmentalism to create compelling and urgent narratives

ARTISTIC ENVIRONMENT Top photo: The piece from Desirée Patterson’s Anomaly series that was auctioned at last month’s Audain Illuminate Gala. Opposite page: The artist in her Vancouver studio. PHOTOS SUBMITTED

around the degradation we hear about so frequently these days. The Vancouver photographic artist blends raw, unfeeling data with a visual aesthetic you can’t help but be moved by. Take her Anomaly series, inspired by a 2018 trek through the Himalayas, which fused Patterson’s glacial photographs with dual layers of colour, moving from cool blues to warmer reds, meant to highlight the delicate fragility of these glaciers. Produced as asymmetric diptychs, these compositions referenced the same colour scheme used in climate graphs generated by the University of Reading’s Ed Hawkins, who simplifies decades worth of temperature recordings into colour bars that demonstrate global warming trends. In this case, Patterson drew from more than a century’s worth of recordings from Nepal, and the resulting graph will be depicted as a mural or as a light projection directly over top of the works once the series goes

to exhibition, which was originally slated for 2020 at a Vancouver gallery before being postponed by the pandemic. One of the works from the series also auctioned last month at the Audain Art Museum’s annual fundraiser, the Illuminate Gala, a touching moment for the Vancouver artist who spent five years living, working and taking photos in the resort between 2006 and 2011. “I’m really grateful there was a collector in the room who was new to my work and really saw the value of what I’m creating and decided to acquire that piece for their collection,” Patterson says. “I’m still buzzing from the experience. It was a really heartfelt and big moment for me.”

NOMADIC VISIONS Although she’s been making work with an environmental bent for years now, it was a circuitous route for Patterson to arrive

at her current practice. Her story should be readily familiar to other nomadic Whistlerites who needed to venture out into the world to discover themselves. With a camera in her hands from a young age, Patterson graduated high school without a clear idea of what she wanted to do. So she decided to go travelling, which turned into seven years of exploration through dozens of different countries. She worked as a stewardess on private yachts that took her to Florida and the Caribbean; she was a divemaster in Australia for a year; she spent time in the U.K., Italy and even helped build Swiss chalets in the Alps. In Paris, her first digital camera was stolen, and she couldn’t help but feel like an essential piece of her was lost along with it. “That was a really important thing that happened, even though I was devastated at the time and had a limited budget as a backpacker for a year on end,” she says. “I never realized how much in my life that

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BLACK PUMAS meant to me because I always had the means to make an image, to make a capture.” Eventually, she got a new camera, and in Whistler, much of her time was spent teaching rock climbing at The Core and capturing the jaw-dropping feats of her adventurous climber and snowboarder friends, a time that helped nurture her love of the outdoors. “Most of my time in the Sea to Sky was spent immersed in these really beautiful environments with these really epic athletes. That’s what I thought I wanted to do, be a sports photographer,” Patterson recalls. Although she was working full time, picking up commercial gigs wherever she could, Patterson still wasn’t convinced it was the career she wanted. It was actually another silver lining from an otherwise dark cloud that nudged her to where she is today: a car accident that left her with long-term injuries to her neck and shoulder. Without the same capacity to lug her heavy camera bag around, Patterson focused on two separate tracks: architectural and commercial work that allowed her to better control her environment and rely on tripods instead of a travel bag, and her photographic art, which drew heavily on the archival images she had already captured on her past globe-trotting.

DIVERGING PATHS At a certain point, however, Patterson had to make a decision between the two paths. “I chose to go into the art direction because I felt it was less demanding of me physically,” she explains. ‘Then, by the time the summer [of 2015] rolled around, I decided I needed to make work that was really authentic to me and not something generic that had the promise of easy saleability,

which I had banked on up until then.” Getting to that point didn’t come easy, however. Patterson was initially reluctant to tackle environmental concerns in her art because she feared the potential backlash. “I wasn’t really prepared to have conversations that might offend anybody with challenging subject matter,” she says. But the more she learned about the climate crisis, the more she knew it was the kind of impactful work she needed to be doing. She began making changes in her life that would lessen her personal impact on our oceans, a cause near and dear to her after her scuba years. “That eventually permeated everything and I wanted to make art about it and talk about it,” she says. “That’s where that longing came from, but then I was really scared to go that route because I didn’t see a lot of people doing it, and especially in the realms I was exhibiting in, I didn’t think it would be saleable, and I had this fear. Eventually I just bit the bullet and made a body of work.” The rest, as they say, is history, and today Patterson is a highly sought-after visual artist and muralist whose works can be found in galleries around the province— including the Whistler Contemporary Gallery, which is exhibiting two pieces featuring Mount Currie: one with the mountain fused into a cityscape, and the other where majestic Mount Currie appears to be melting down the canvas. “That work and that narrative really does [drive] home a lot of what I feel,” she describes. “It was inspired by an Einstein quote that no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. In saying that, I hope humanity rises to the challenges that we need to in order to sustain things.” To learn more, visit desireepatterson.com. n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT MUCH HAS BEEN SAID about the ways the so-called Whistler bubble influences life here. For a certain segment of local, it’s insulation against the goings-on in the wider world. Why rain on paradise if you can avoid it, after all? For others, the impacts are a bit more tangible; the economic realities of living in a region so closely tied to tourism—the rising cost of living, lack of affordable housing and career options, et al.—while not exclusive to the corridor, certainly feel more pronounced here. But less has been said about the ways the bubble indirectly creates certain artistic barriers. Take Pemberton-based Mountain Movement Dance Collective as an example, a studio that counts young dancers from across the Sea to Sky spanning from seven to 18 years old, who, for all their athletic prowess as typical local kids involved in myriad outdoor sports, don’t get exposed too often to the thriving dance scene outside their area. That’s where studio owner and creative director Hayley Edmondson and her team of instructors come in.

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“In Whistler, it’s obviously not a dance town. If you’re a competitive skier, you go up the mountain for the day and you’re surrounded by world-class skiers.” Edmondson says. “So we go to competitions so that they can see the other dancers their age doing the same thing as they do and it’s not like an Instagram thing. They see the other dancers on Instagram, but it’s not tangible. But this is like, ‘Oh, they’re real. They’re right there.’” For Edmondson, who grew up dancing competitively across North America, this kind of exposure isn’t solely about stoking students’ competitive fire. As a rule, she doesn’t usually discuss her students’ individual accomplishments publicly, because she has seen firsthand how cutthroat the wider dance community can be. She does it to expose them to the craft and demonstrate that a life in dance is not an unrealistic prospect. “I really find the performing arts exposure here is limited. But we’re a small town and we can only do so much, so that’s where I feel it’s my responsibility to be that kind of ambassador and show these kids that if this is what you love, there is a whole world out there, even if you can’t see it right now because it’s not so prominent here,” she says.

That’s not to say Mountain Movement hasn’t enjoyed its successes. At a competition in Vernon earlier this year, the studio brought home a slew of awards, including being named “Top Studio” based on the team’s top 10 scores across the entire event. While other studios lost significant chunks of their competitive teams in the pandemic, Mountain Movement has mostly retained its 45-strong crew, which Edmondson believes is partly to do with the competitive circuit dancers have gotten to take part in—but there’s more to it than just that. “When I asked them why they didn’t quit during COVID they mostly spoke of two things,” Edmondson relayed in a follow-up email. “Dance is such an emotional outlet that during those hard times it was a lifeline for a lot of them; [and] the studio did a really good job of staying consistent and creating ways to keep them training so they never really stopped dancing for long enough to consider quitting.” It’s been a busy spring for the competitive team, which, along with the Vernon event, just wrapped up the View Dance Challenge this past weekend at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, before heading to its last competition of the

season over May long weekend at the Westin in Whistler. Edmondson credited the team for its commitment and resilience in the face of constant feedback from event judges. For the uninitiated, how it typically works at competitions is you will have a panel of judges at the back of the room who speak into a microphone as a routine takes place, the audio of which gets overlaid on a video of the routine that students watch back later. It’s a level of scrutiny that some of the younger dancers have to get accustomed to over time. “I’m so proud of our kids. Even just saying that out loud: they get up onstage literally asking for someone to tell them everything that’s wrong with them,” Edmondson notes. “If it’s not done correctly, and discussed after the fact and explained to the kids, it for sure could be damaging. But we make it very clear. “If they hear that and understand it’s just one judge’s opinion, then from such a young age they develop the mental skills necessary to go into it as teenagers and take it really well and handle it.” The studio will cap its season with an end-of-year recital on May 31 and June 1 at Whistler’s Maury Young Arts Centre, before resuming classes again in September. n

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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. MAY 5, 2022

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JAY WAY The Canada jay, seen here on Whistler Mountain around 1969, has captured hearts throughout time. Many would agree with the Canadian Wildlife Service: “Without the gray jay with its soft wingbeats, its sudden appearances out of the dark green backdrop, the austere northern forests would lose much enchantment and character.” CLIFF FENNER COLLECTION

The Canada jay: Good company for men in lonely places BY JILLIAN ROBERTS WHILE IT IS EASY to point out the changes to Whistler throughout time, one thing that has remained constant on the mountains is the friendly birds up at the top. It is common to hear exclamations of delight in the lift lines of Harmony, Symphony or 7th Heaven as Canada jays fly from ski pole to helmet, looking for an easy lunch. The Hinterland Who’s Who published by the Canadian Wildlife Service in 1973 phrases it beautifully: “Among birds, the gray jay has intelligence and graces that set it apart. We, who are not accustomed to being approached by any wild creature without fear and anger, are charmed by its easy audacity and prompt to forgive its sins.” Before lift lines and backcountry campgrounds were the places to be, the Canada jay would join lumber camps, hunters and farmers waiting to “gorge upon warm entrails” of whatever meat was being prepared for dinner. When humans are not butchering the food, Canada jays can do it themselves, catching small mammals, birds, amphibians and insects, and chasing birds from their nests to get the eggs. They are omnivorous and will also feed on berries, needles and buds from trees. To survive alpine winters, the Canada jay caches food when it is abundant. The food is covered in saliva in the mouth and then the sticky saliva balls are stored in trees for later. One study found that a single Canada jay can store and retrieve thousands of pieces of food annually. However, it is suggested that a warming climate, especially during fall, may cause these perishable food stores to spoil, threatening the reproduction of the Canada jay. One study specifically found that a higher number of freeze-thaw events in fall correlated to fewer and weaker offspring as

there was not enough food to both survive and reproduce. The Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) was officially recognised as the gray jay between 1957 and 2018, and is also commonly called the whisky jack. Depending on one’s affection for the sneaky birds they may be known as “camp robber,” “venison hawk” or “grease bird,” alluding to the jay’s fondness for meat and petty thievery. To prevent confusion stemming from multiple common names, scientific binomial names assign each species a unique two-word identifier so they can be recognised globally. The first word being the genus name (Perisoreus) and the second is the species name (canadensis). Until recently it was thought that birds could only change their feather colour when they moult. Adding to confusion while classifying and identifying this species, the Canada jay appears to be an exception to this rule, becoming browner throughout the year until they moult back to a fresh grey coat in May/June. It also appears that preserved specimens may continue to lose their grey colour, becoming browner throughout time in museum collections. This colour change tricked taxonomists into originally identifying Canada jays as multiple species. The 1941 Field Guide to Western Birds in the museum library contains separate descriptions of the Canada jay (Perisoreus canadensis) and Oregon jay (Perisoreus obscurus). With advances in identification and classification, including DNA technology, we now know they are a single species. Luckily, Margaret Mackenzie, the owner of the field guide, had ticked them both off as identified anyway. Regardless of what you call them, the love for these birds is widespread. “Trusting and easily tamed, the gray jay is good company for men in lonely places,” reads the Hinterland Who’s Who. They just do not write governmental scientific publications like they used to. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Poet Jennifer Willoughby writes, “I am so busy. I am practicing my new hobby of watching me become someone else. There is so much violence in reconstruction. Every minute is grisly, but I have to participate. I am building what I cannot break.” I wouldn’t describe your own reconstruction process during recent months as “violent” or “grisly,” Aries, but it has been strenuous and demanding. The good news is that you have mostly completed the most demanding work. Soon the process will become more fun. Congratulations on creating an unbreakable new version of yourself! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z tells us, “Don’t ever go with the flow. Instead, be the flow.” Here’s what I think he means: If we go with the flow, we adjust and accommodate ourselves to a force that is not necessarily aligned with our personal inclinations and needs. To go with the flow implies we are surrendering our autonomy. To claim our full sovereignty, on the other hand, we are wise to be the flow. We should create our own flow, which is just right for our unique inclinations and needs. I think this is the right approach for you right now, Taurus. Be the flow. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Italian language used to be a dialect spoken in Tuscany. That area comprises less than eight per cent of the country’s territory. How did such a dramatic evolution happen? Why did a local dialect supersede other dialects like Piedmontese, Neapolitan, Sicilian, and others? In part, it was because three potent 14th-century writers wrote in the Tuscan dialect: Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, and Giovanni Boccaccio. Another reason: Because Tuscany is centrally located in Italy, its dialect was less influenced by languages in France and other nearby countries. I offer this as a metaphor for you in the coming months. One of your personal talents, affiliations, or inclinations could become more influential and widespread—and have more authority in your life. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Always strive to be more interested than interesting,” said actor and activist Jane Fonda. That may not be easy for you to accomplish in the near future, dear Cancerian. Your curiosity will be at peak levels, but you may also be extra compelling and captivating. So I’ll amend Fonda’s advice: Give yourself permission to be both as interested and as interesting as you can imagine. Entertain the world with your lively personality as you go in quest of new information, fresh perceptions, and unprecedented experiences. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When in doubt, act like God,” proclaimed Leo singer-songwriter Madonna. I wouldn’t usually endorse that advice. But I’ll make an exception for you Leos during the next three weeks. Due to a divine configuration of astrological omens, you are authorized to ascend to new heights of sovereignty and self-possession— even to the point of doing a vivid God impersonation. For best results, don’t choose an angry, jealous, tyrannical deity to be your role model. Pattern yourself after a sweeter, funnier, more intimate type of celestial being. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My Virgo friend Amanda told me she felt tight and overwrought. She was overthinking and on the verge of a meltdown. With a rueful sigh, she added, “I adore anything that helps me decompress, unwind, simmer down, stop worrying, lighten up, compose myself, and mellow out.” So I invited her to take deep breaths, close her eyes, and visualize herself immersed in blue-green light. Then I asked her to name influences she loved: people, animals, natural places, music, books, films, art, and physical movements that made her feel happy to be alive. She came up with eight different sources of bliss, and together we meditated on them. Half an hour later, she was as relaxed as she had been in months. I recommend you try a comparable exercise every day for the next 14 days. Be proactive about cultivating tranquil delight. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Anne Lamott is renowned for her tender approach to expressing

her struggles with addiction, depression, and other tribulations. One of her supreme tests was being a single mother who raised her son Sam. In this effort, she was her usual plucky self. Anytime she hosted playdates with Sam’s young friends at her home, she called on the help of crayons and paint and pens and clay and scissors. “When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down,” she testified. I recommend a comparable strategy for you in the coming days, Libra. You will have extra power as you tame, calm, or transform your demons. Making art could be effective, as well as any task that spurs your creativity and imagination. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “My heart has developed a kind of amnesia, where it remembers everything but itself,” writes Scorpio poet Sabrina Benaim. If you suffer a condition that resembles hers, it’s about to change. According to my astrological analysis, your heart will soon not only remember everything; it will also remember itself. What a blissful homecoming that will be—although it may also be unruly and confounding, at least in the beginning. But after the initial surprise calms down, you will celebrate a dramatic enhancement of emotionally rich self-knowledge. You will feel united with the source of your longing to love and be loved. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Just because things hadn’t gone the way I had planned didn’t necessarily mean they had gone wrong,” writes Sagittarian author Ann Patchett. Her thought may be helpful for you to meditate on. My guess is that you will ultimately be glad that things didn’t go the way you planned. God or your Higher Self or the Mysterious Forces of Destiny will conspire to lead you away from limited expectations or not-big-enough visions so as to offer you bigger and better blessings. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) confessed she was a “wild beast.” Really? The author who wrote masterfully about the complex social lives of wealthy British people? Here’s my theory: The wild beast in her made her original, unsentimental, humorous, and brilliant in creating her stories. How is your own inner wild beast, Capricorn? According to my reading of the astrological omens, now is an excellent time to give it fun, rich assignments. What parts of your life would benefit from tapping into raw, primal energy? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian poet Jack Gilbert wrote, “I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end.” I don’t know how Gilbert solved his dilemma. But I suspect you will soon be inclined to pose a similar question. In your case, the answer will be that the quiet in you is a beginning. Ah! But in the early going, it may not resemble a beginning. You might be puzzled by its fuzzy, meandering quality. But sooner or later, the quiet in you will become fertile and inspirational. You will ride it to the next chapter of your life story. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The genre of poetry known as haiku often relies on unexpected juxtapositions. Critic R. H. Blyth observed, “In haiku, the two entirely different things that are joined in sameness are poetry and sensation, spirit and matter.” I suspect your life in the coming weeks will have metaphorical resemblances to haikus. You will be skilled at blending elements that aren’t often combined, or that should be blended but haven’t been. For inspiration, read these haikus by Raymond Roseliep. 1. in the stream / stones making half / the music. 2. horizon / wild swan drifting through / the woman’s body. 3. birthcry! / the stars / are all in place. 4. bathwater / down the drain / some of me. 5. grass / holding the shape / of our night. 6. campfire extinguished / the woman washing dishes / in a pan of stars. Homework: You can now make a change that has previously seemed impossible. What is it? Newsletter. FreeWillAstrology.com

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LAST WEEKS’ ANSWERS

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MAY 5, 2022

MAXED OUT

Pulling at the threads of Whistler’s social fabric “From this valley they say you are leaving… We shall miss your bright eyes and sweet smile...” – Red River Valley

“I MENTIONED this (leaving Whistler) to a lot of friends of mine, and somebody said, ‘Well, you’re abandoning Whistler,’ and I said, ‘No, it feels like Whistler is abandoning me,’” You and a whole lot of other folks who’ve been here a long time, Keith. That sucking noise you hear is longtime Whistleratics

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pulling up deep roots and leaving town. The sentiment—reported in last week’s Pique—was voiced by White Gold resident Keith Auchinachie in response to the pending property tax bill he and other homeowners in the neighbourhood just north of the village face. Like so many others, he’s staring into a pool of unwanted expense, the depth of which is unknown. But huge. In the Before Time—before covid— some White Gold residents commenced a Local Area Service petition to get approval from both the residents of White Gold and the RMOW to bury the overhead power lines. To be honest, I understand their position. Pulling into the neighbourhood there is a veritable cat’s cradle of lines running every which way down the sides and across the roads. While not the blight some who live there may think, it is ugly. But not as ugly as a slim majority of homeowners leveraging their aesthetic sensitivities to hobble their neighbours, who may be less financially comfortable, with an unknown but sizable tax bill to make the ugliness go away. And here I always thought it was just the RMOW who undertook expensive projects without knowing the actual costs. Silly me. Once again, late last month, residents opposed to the project were out and vocal before council in an attempt to call a halt to the project. Their arguments came down to cost and fairness. Cost is still a black hole. The estimate in December 2020 was $4.6 million to bury the power lines. That worked out to $38,751 per homeowner. The options were to suck it up all at once if they happened to have that much in the “I don’t know what to do with all this money” kitty, or bleed it out slowly over the course of 30 years with a couple of thousand bucks tacked on to their annual property tax bill (or, if they qualify under provincial property tax deferral programs, homeowners can defer the cost together

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with their regular property taxes). That was enough to leave some of them wondering where the closest AED machine might be. But that was just the first estimate. Since then, the projected cost has gone up by an RMOW toilet unit—nearly $3 million more! So root around in the mattress and find another 8 grand each, folks. C’mon, you must have it; you’re Whistler homeowners and everyone knows that means you’re filthy rich. Of course, this is still an estimate. The meaning of estimate in the current state of markets ravaged by supply chain disruptions, vanishing workers, skyrocketing costs of virtually everything, increasing labour costs and worker militancy has been reduced to a wild-ass guess. The fact is no one knows for certain how much this project is going to cost. Jumping into a project with uncertain costs is best left to people with unlimited assets, or, in the case of the RMOW, the ability to increase taxes or juggle capital

best before date rolls around. Others probably need a GPS to find Whistler from YVR. But a lot of the ones in White Gold are house-rich and cash-poor. They’ve won the longevity lottery. They arrived here when White Gold was a new neighbourhood and building lots were affordable, if not cheap. They arrived here later and sunk almost everything they had into a home. They lived here, worked here, volunteered here. Grew roots. And now they’re wondering whether they can stay. Or whether they’ll join the increasing numbers of longtime locals who have looked around, weighed the benefits of staying where their social networks are as opposed to moving somewhere else and decided to hit the road. It seems as though it’s been impossible to have conversations with friends— especially since we’ve actually been able to get together socially—and not hear about someone else, someone who’s been here

C’mon, you must have it; you’re Whistler homeowners and everyone knows that means you’re filthy rich. budgets. For many White Gold residents, jumping into a project with uncertain costs means staying or leaving. The myth of the wealthy Whistler homeowner is just that: myth. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of wealthy homeowners here. Some of them are even residents, people who live here, contribute to the community, plan to stay until their

since near the beginning, who has decided they just can’t stay any more. The reasons vary. There’s an increasing chasm between the wealthy new homeowners— many of whom never actually looked at what they were buying, it being not a home but just a line on their balance sheet—and people who remember a time when nobody was crazy enough to

invest in Whistler property unless they were going to try and make a go of living here. Some just can’t stomach what the mountains have become under current ownership. Some simply need more access to health-care than the town can provide. Some just want to cash out and enjoy their retirement. But many, like the ones who pleaded with council, just want to stay in their homes without being hit with a huge bill to make their neighbourhood more beautiful. Their arguments hinged as much on fairness as they did on cost. While 50-per-cent-plus-one may be enough to win a seat on council, there’s a gut-level revulsion to applying that metric to decisions that negatively impact people in fundamental, personal ways. Social scientists have long referred to it as the Tyranny of the Majority. Whether the project proceeds or not is up to council. If the best wild-ass guess of costs remain above the initial guess, there will be another petition, another 50-percent-plus-one vote. Or council can just pull the plug on the project. If the sun rises in the west and costs come in below the first guess, council can still decide to not proceed. In some ways, it doesn’t really matter. Absent a catastrophic world event—lookin’ at you, Putin—White Gold will eventually go the way of other Whistler neighbourhoods. The current homeowners will eventually sell. The new buyers will not be Whistler residents except in name only. It will cease to be a vibrant neighbourhood and gradually take on the dark, empty-home quality of other places in town. But for now, it can be seen as a litmus test. Hold on a bit longer to the sense of community that’s existed since the dream became reality, or abandon hope and embrace the dark, empty future? Stay tuned. ■

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4739-B Settebello Drive

Enjoy owning a 1/4 share in this 1376 sqf. beautiful 3 bedroom townhome. It comes with 3 bathrooms, as well as a 1 car garage. It has absolutely great views of Blackcomb mountain. You get 1 week every 4 weeks. After a hard day on the ski hill, you can enjoy relaxing in your own private hot tub.

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$1,100,000

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9129 Riverside Drive

#202 - 1411 Portage Road

$675,000

This rarely available end unit floor plan faces South for sunny summer days on the large patio. At nearly 750 square feet, this newly renovated two bedroom condo feels spacious and bright. Being one of the closest buildings to the village, getting a morning coffee takes only a few minutes.

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$299,000

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$212,000

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$4,750,000

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$678,900

99 Highway 99

$4,500,000

Owning a share in the 1350 square ft condominium on the Benchlands near Blackcomb is great way to insure that you family has year round access to Whistler and an Ownership position that will last in perpetuity. Each year you have access to 2-3 ski weeks and/ or 2 or more summer weeks.

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