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FLAT RATE

Residents speak out about high cab fares

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HAZARD PAY wildfire risk

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DIVING IN

Art campaign raises awareness of waste in waterways

WHISTLER CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL Presented by Arts Whistler The final two weekends in May, the Maury Young Arts Centre will host back-to-back performances and workshops with the likes of Will’s Jams, Kellie Haines and Native Thunder to name a few! Start your imagination engines, unlock your creativity and most importantly, get ready to have FUN! May 27 – 29 at Maury Young Arts Centre Cultural Connector Trail, Village Stroll.

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IRON MAIDEN

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HEALTHY HIKING The Whistler Health Care

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Founding Publishers KATHY & BOB BARNETT

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In this week’s letters, a pair of longtime locals say goodbye after

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37 years in the resort, and a grateful visitor says thanks for a lovely time.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Rolling back abortion rights is a huge step in the wrong direction, and yet another example of how often the rights of women are put second to the desires of men.

66 MAXED OUT Max digs deeper on a recent housing report and comes up with an unsurprising conclusion: the housing situation in Whistler sucks.

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33 THE OUTSIDER Vince Shuley takes “one more kick at the can” in the Pemberton backcountry—but

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he’s not about to call last run.

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Lifestyle & Arts

42 EPICURIOUS Frenchman Mickael Loiodice wants to share a taste of his home with Whistler through French’eese, the delivery and mobile fondue service offering exclusively French cheeses.

46 MUSEUM MUSINGS The first Whistler Children’s Art Festival was held in 1983 with more than three dozen workshops at Myrtle Philip Community School.

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New media, old ideals GROWING UP in the ’90s, I often lamented how very boring our lives were.

All of the interesting stuff had happened, it seemed, and everything from here on out was just smooth sailing in prosperous seas.

We heard old stories of evil men and their brutal wars; crises averted or met with innovation and tenacity; plagues overcome and revolutions realized—but all of it existed somewhere in the distant,

BY BRADEN DUPUIS unrecognizable past. The Great Depression.

The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Vietnam War. The Summer of Love—history was dramatic, romantic and lyrical; a reflection of a society finding its way, cemented forever in permanent newspaper archives.

But none of the newspapers I read as a kid had anything like that.

And so the ’90s just felt uneventful in comparison; settled even. Or maybe I was just a dumb kid in rural Saskatchewan.

But how naive to believe that history was something that happened in the past, rather than a constant, unending collaboration in which we are all active participants.

Sept. 11, 2001 marked the beginning of the end of that illusion of innocence, at least in my own little bumpkin brain, and the events of recent years have shown us that modern society is still very much a work in progress; current events anything but boring.

And just as the world around us seemingly changes faster by the minute, so too do the ways we record, interpret and understand current events.

But while it’s true that digital is the future of our industry, there’s still something to be said for the permanence of the printed newspaper when it comes to matters of public record. Call me old-fashioned.

On May 14, Pique and our news media colleagues across B.C. and the Yukon celebrated the 100th anniversary of the BC and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association (read more in our cover feature starting on page 34), and May 22 to 29 marks BC Community Newspaper Week.

It’s no secret these are challenging times for journalism, and for media as a business model, but reading the outstanding work of my industry peers, and my friends and colleagues here at Pique, gives me hope for the future.

Good, strong journalism is needed now more than ever, and B.C. is very fortunate in that regard. But our industry is in a precarious place.

When I assumed the role of editor of Pique, it was with a clear mission statement: continue to grow our online readership.

To put it bluntly, the only way to keep Pique successful and sustainable long into the future is to increase our online presence—but not by any means necessary.

And so there is a fine balance at play.

and paid for by Justin Trudeau; in reality, it’s a single drop in a large, leaky bucket of which nobody in the newsroom was even aware, and the suggestion that such a pittance could influence our editorial decisions is both insulting and laughable (and if you’re a regular reader of this column, you might rightly guess I’m no fan of Trudeau, or blind partisanship of any stripe).

Again, the support is welcome, but it’s simply not enough.

Advertising has always been the principle source of revenue (for most free newspapers in Canada, advertising constitutes the lion’s share of revenues) that sustains local journalism, and as more and more readers seek us online, so too do businesses and clients choose to advertise with us online.

As an industry we must learn to adapt, or community news goes away. Simple terms, high stakes.

So adapt we will.

In the coming weeks and months, Pique will be experimenting with new workflows

The new history books, warts and all, are being written day by day and week by week, recorded and interpreted in the printed pages of Pique and other publications.

Our physical archives cover 28 years of local history (and counting), and nearly five full decades when you factor in the physical Whistler Question archives—it is our responsibility to ensure they extend well beyond that.

But as we embrace new mediums and experiment with new methods, the fundamental ideals must remain.

Joseph Pulitzer, the lionized publisher of Pulitzer Prize fame, framed it better than perhaps anyone else.

“An institution that should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, [and] always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers,” Pulitzer wrote in an 1883 editorial, after becoming publisher of the New York World.

Further, journalism should “never lack

“An institution that should always fight for progress and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, [and] always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers.”

-JOSEPH PULITZER

We very much appreciate the support from our readers (and if you’d like to support us, please consider signing up for our newsletter), but that money alone is not enough to keep us operating.

Nor is financial support from the federal government, which Pique and other community newspapers in Canada received in 2021. I’ve been told it’s salacious, incontrovertible proof that we are bought

and new content in an effort to further engage with our audience. Got a story idea you think will resonate? Email me. See a gap in our reporting? Pick up the phone.

Are you young, passionate and good with words? Send me your column samples.

Pass along your good news, your bad news, your photos and your curiosities— you never know what might land with your fellow Whistlerites.

sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, [and] never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty.”

An ideal vision if there ever was one, and one now imposed upon by forces unimaginable in the late 1800s—but something for us to strive for nonetheless. ■

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Farewell Whistler The time has come to say “Thank you, Whistler” for 37 stoke-filled years of living large by ripping it up on the mountains, trails, lakes, rivers and forests in this magical valley.

My young life in Whistler started in 1965.

Lucky for me, my father was hooked on skiing and was involved in the initial building and design of Whistler Mountain. So in 1965 my father and mother built our first house in Creekside and my stoke for skiing was hatched.

I have now skied 56 winters here.

Cheryl’s love of skiing started in the ’60s on the local mountains in West Vancouver and soon transferred to Whistler in the ’70s, where she became a classic ski bum in the ’80s: “get a night job and ski during the day.”

We both met on Whistler Mountain and shared a passion for all that Whistler had to offer.

1985 was a huge year for us. We got married, bought our lot in Alpine Meadows, got a puppy, our son Tyler was born, we moved from West Vancouver to Whistler, got a mortgage, built our house and pottery studio and opened a business. Yes, that was a wild year! Then three years later our daughter Michela was born. This was an epic decade of growth and change for Whistler. A new village, another mountain (Blackcomb) a brand new daycare, elementary school, high school and sports centre. How lucky were we and our kids to have all of these new amenities!

And now the lure of the coast and ocean is calling us back. We have sold our beloved Whistler home and have purchased a beautiful two-acre home in Sechelt with spectacular views of the Salish Sea. Whistler has been an amazing and cherished chapter in our lives and we are sad to say goodbye but excited to open the next chapter and welcome it with open arms.

This coming weekend will be our last pottery and basket sale in Whistler. But don’t worry, our plan is to build a new studio and gallery at our Sunshine Coast property. Stay tuned for the opening of our new location once we have settled in!

Our pottery gallery will close June 5 for good. Feel free to visit us before then.

Keep the Whistler vibe alive. Cheers!

Vincent (Binty) and Cheryl Massey // Whistler The mid-’80s in Whistler was like winning the real estate lottery. Lots were affordable and like-minded people flocked to this place.

We all desired a lifestyle that was filled with powder days that were more important than work or business. Having friends that are just as stoked as you to go outside and play, laugh and live large makes living here epic!

Over the three decades we have nurtured amazing friendships and relationships. We were there for the birth of WORCA, AWARE and the Whistler Arts Council.

I was one of the earlier members of Whistler Search and Rescue back when it was more search than rescue, and now after 34 years on this team it has grown into one of the busiest SAR teams in the province. Absolutely one of the most rewarding times I have experienced in

my life—I could write a book!

Each of us have carved out a creative life that has filled peoples’ homes, restaurants and business with our pottery and baskets.

Living the creative life and making one’s living from our creative passion has had its ups and downs, but we wouldn’t have changed it for anything. Whistler has infused in us a deep passion and love of this place that we hold dearly in our hearts and party souls.

Our children have grown up in this funfilled, outdoor international community with a sense of play and life skills that make them a unique breed. Both are now married, and we are very proud of them and to be grandparents of four grandchildren. Now three out of our four grandchildren are fourth-generation skiers on Whistler Blackcomb.

Thanks for a lovely visit I would like to briefly tell you about the wonderful visit I had to your community on Sunday, May 22.

The scenery couldn’t be better, and the clean, crisp air was so refreshing, as were all the nice vendors at the farmers’ market.

One other thing that really stood out was the kindness of Scott, a maintenance man working along the sidewalk in the village. He looked very approachable, so I asked him a few questions and directions. During the conversation he explained a few interesting facts to me, and that it was opening day for the farmers’ market. He was courteous, interesting, and his friendliness made me feel very welcome.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR After I discovered the wonderful Hot Buns Bakery, where the staff were equally friendly and kind, and the waffles were about the best I’ve ever had anywhere, I bumped into a bylaw officer, Kyle, on the walkway.

As we exchanged comments about the beautiful morning in Whistler, he offered to show me where the market would be on the other side of the bridge. He also was walking in that direction, so as we walked he mentioned a few things about the Indigenous cultural centre, how visitors can go up the slopes to restaurants, and a few other points of interest.

I would like to thank all these kind people that made me feel so welcome and relaxed in the beautiful community of Whistler. My wife and I plan to return soon.

Glenn Robertson // Vancouver

Royal titulature can be baffling G.D. Maxwell admits he’s baffled by how Queen Victoria got her name (which is forgivable—royal titulature can be baffling!), but his intimation that she inherited her last name from her supposedly unwed mother is both untrue and inane. Alexandrina Victoria, as she was baptized, did not take her father’s surname for the simple fact that her father didn’t have one. No royals did until 1917, and many still don’t use them. Looking at the birth certificates (easily found online) of any of the children of William (listed occupation: “Prince of the United Kingdom”) you’ll find the surname of neither child nor parents. While serving in the RAF, the prince himself—currently second in line to the throne—was known as Flight Lieutenant Wales (derived from his title, not his surname) or, more affectionately, as “Billy the Fish.”

We are currently observing the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth Regina (NB, Maxwell, also not her surname), which is an opportune moment to consider what use Canada still has for the monarchy and to what extent this institution has become outdated. Hopefully we can do so without resorting (as GDM’s column did) to patently outdated stereotypes of German bellicosity or other xenophobic tropes.

Brandon Green // Whistler

Vacation property values trigger estate plan review My upcoming free presentation as part of Whistler Community Services Society’s Activate & Connect program on May 27 triggered thoughts about the impact of Whistler property values on estate plans.

The pandemic has been devastating for many people and businesses. But for many vacation property owners, it has offered the benefits of increased property use, as well as growing value.

Let’s take the example of Joanna and Derek, who in 2018, at age 59, were contemplating retirement. Both independent professionals with no pensions, they had accumulated a net worth of $4.3 million. Their financial planner, Kim, summarized the plan as follows: • Everyday spending: average yearly budget of $125,000 until age 90 (adjusted for

inflation), based on $2.8 million of assets, including the vacation property; • Rainy-day protection: $1 million out a valuation of $1.5 million for the principal residence; • Estate and legacy: $500,000 remaining from the principal residence.

This plan provided a good baseline, but not the outcome Joanna and Derek had hoped for.

They were not yet prepared to sell the vacation property. As a result, they put retirement on hold for a few years.

Through the 2020-21 pandemic, Derek and Joanna’s stock market and real estate investments benefited from exceptional gains.

In late 2021, their net worth was now $6 million. They asked Kim to update their estate plan. Good news: they could keep the vacation property, and there was a potential pre-tax inheritance of $2.1 million for their children.

Retirement was now an attractive possibility.

Kim explained that, as it stood, the yearly budget did not include ongoing maintenance costs for the vacation property, nor payment

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for the capital gains on the vacation property which were now substantial. The estate had no liquidity outside the everyday spending allotment, something of concern. Were Joanna and Derek willing to downsize the city home to free up some cash? Or were they again facing the reality that they would have to sell the vacation property?

Kim noted that downsizing in retirement is usually a good idea, if only to reduce the burden on those left managing the estate one day. Kim strongly recommended involving the children in the discussion.

Kathy White, chair of the Whistler Mature Action Community, confirms: “We are seeing our members engaging their family in the planning and decisions regarding the future of their properties. The discussions reveal valuable perspectives about the potential interest of family members in using and potentially buying the properties. With greater clarity, optimized strategy for ownership and property transition can be developed.”

Peter Shrimpton of Mountain Law Corporation also suggests: “When reviewing estate plans in preparation for retirement, it is also a good time to review and update wills, powers of attorney for legal and financial decisions, and representation agreements for personal and health-care matters. ” The time to build your plan—and your team—is now.

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Roe v. Wade; freedom v. oppression EARLIER THIS MONTH, on May 2, shortly after arriving at the Pique office for the day, I was greeted with some news that made my stomach drop and still makes me sick when I think about it. A leaked document showed the U.S. Supreme Court’s plan to strike down Roe v. Wade—the landmark 1973 court case which guaranteed

BY HARRISON BROOKS legal abortions across the United States. Not exactly the start to my birthday that I was expecting when I woke up that day.

Now let’s get this out of the way early so there is no confusion (not that there will be any by the end of this). Not only am I pro-choice, as in a women’s right to choose what to do with her body and what is best for her life—a privilege men have enjoyed since the dawn of time—I am also pro-safe, legal abortions for women for any reason.

Because at the end of the day, abortions are health care. Even if you remove all the other reasons someone might want to get an abortion—like they don’t feel ready to raise a child, they were raped and now find themselves pregnant, or any other reason under the sun—sometimes abortions are

necessary to protect the life of the pregnant woman. And it is outdated and archaic to believe forcing a woman to put her life at risk and possibly die to save a cluster of cells the size of a raspberry is the righteous thing to do.

Now, don’t get me wrong—I’m not saying pro-lifers are evil, or anything like that, even if I do think you might be a little bit dumb. You are entitled to your belief, and if that’s what you feel is best for yourself, great. Just don’t tell other people how they should live their lives. And for Christ’s sake, don’t stand outside a clinic spreading misinformation and berating

or that “life begins at conception,” or that they are protecting the lives of the unborn babies who don’t have a voice.

But whatever their argument may be, one thing is clear: they don’t actually care about the babies. Nor do they care about the women having those babies. All they care about is control—controlling women’s bodies and forcing them into the stereotype of what they think women should be.

If they did actually care about these unborn babies, all those people in the streets passionately making their opinion known that abortions are a sin would be

It was never about protecting lives. women, many of whom might be going through one of the most confusing, difficult and frightening times of their lives. That’s just wrong on so many levels.

But the real issue isn’t with the beliefs of individual people. The real issue starts at the top. After all, it’s the Supreme Court that is considering striking down Roe v.

Wade and has the power to do so without the public’s input.

Of course, those making these decisions will all say they are “upholding Christian values” or some derivative of that sentiment,

equally passionate about putting programs in place to look after these babies once they are born and supporting the mothers raising them. Or they would be lining up to adopt these otherwise aborted babies like the “saviours” they claim to be.

And that’s where this belief is failing me. It was never about protecting lives. It’s always just been about forcing a moronic and outdated belief on as many people as possible and then letting them deal with the outcome alone.

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scared and lonely 16-year-old girl, whose family would disown her for having a child out of wedlock, from having an abortion.

That girl, who is still just a kid herself and probably isn’t emotionally mature enough to raise a baby, is going to need support. That baby is going to need support. And if none is given, there’s a good chance that kid lives an extremely difficult life of poverty or ends up in the underfunded and ignored foster care system.

And if you are reading this thinking, ‘that’s the States, that would never happen here,’ don’t be so naïve. This isn’t an overnight decision; this is a process that moves at a glacial pace. You might barely notice anything changes year after year, then one day you realize everything has changed and you find yourself trying to claw your way out of a massive valley.

Case in point: just over a week ago, the Supreme Court of Canada made a ruling that criminal defendants in cases involving assault—and sexual assault— can use a defence of self-induced extreme intoxication, meaning they were too intoxicated to control their actions.

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Whistler Taxi reportedly charging up to $200 for trips to Pemberton NO WHISTLER OR SEA TO SKY CAB COMPANY IS APPROVED BY PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION BOARD TO OFFER FLAT RATES

BY BRANDON BARRETT A WHISTLER TAXI company has reportedly been charging up to $200 for a one-way trip to Pemberton, despite not being approved to do so, and in one case, Pique has heard, a driver refused to turn on the meter at a passenger’s request.

On April 24, Pemberton resident Christopher Britt and several members of his hockey team hailed a Whistler Taxi Ltd. cab in the village after a tournament and were initially given a flat rate of $200 to Pemberton.

Depending on the exact location, traffic and timing, a metered rate from Whistler to Pemberton would typically be anywhere from $65 to $80 before tip, according to two other local cab companies Pique spoke with.

Britt also said the driver refused to turn the meter on, even after he requested it, which goes against provincial regulations, according to a spokesperson with B.C.’s Passenger Transportation Board (PTB).

Eventually, Britt said, the driver was talked down to $150, which the passengers agreed to—but not before the driver allegedly called his manager to have them

UNRATED Whistler Taxi has reportedly been charging up to $200 flat rates for a one-way trip to Pemberton, despite not being approved to do so.

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explain the company was permitted to offer flat rates. Pique has reviewed banking info that showed Britt was charged $150 by Whistler Taxi on the night in question, as well as photos that appeared to show the car in motion, with the meter off. “[W]hat ends up happening is we have more drunk drivers at the end of the night, we end up with people who live in town who don’t want to come into [the village] and spend money … or people who make bad decisions at the end of the night,” Britt said. “All you’re doing is hurting the local

“I don’t know if I explicitly asked directly [to have the meter on] but it was definitely implied that they couldn’t turn the meter on when he showed us the text from his boss,” the passenger said.

The other passenger said a Whistler Taxi driver reportedly refused to take them back to Pemberton in the early hours of May 13 unless they paid a $200 flat rate.

“They seem to switch between the meter fare of $60 to $70 and $200 on a whim,” she said.

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“All you’re doing is hurting the local demographic and endangering people on a highway that’s already risky enough.”

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demographic and endangering people on a highway that’s already risky enough.”

Pique also heard from two other Pemberton residents who claimed they were recently charged a flat rate back to Pemberton. One passenger, who couldn’t recall the cab company, said it happened twice in the past two months. The first time, she said, the driver allegedly showed a text message he claimed was from his manager indicating the company was allowed to offer flat rates.

May 16 to ask how much it would cost from Whistler Village to Pemberton, and a dispatcher indicated it would be $150. A call the following day to Blackcomb Taxi, which is under the same ownership as Whistler Taxi, said the company did not offer flat rates. Whistler Resort Cabs said the same when called.

Whistler Taxi did not return numerous requests for comment for this story.

Taxi rates must be approved by the PTB, and only companies approved to offer

non-metered rates are permitted to do so.

Cab companies that have been approved for non-metered fares are also not permitted to fluctuate their rates.

“This is to avoid potentially contentious interactions around rates between the driver and the passenger and ensures pricing is transparent, as it is the responsibility of the Board to regulate the passenger transportation industry,” wrote a PTB spokesperson in an email.

Out of the dozens of taxi companies registered in B.C., only 13 have been approved for non-metered or contract rates—and none in the Sea to Sky. While there is presumably incentive to hike prices amidst the corridor’s now118-day-long transit strike, the issue has reportedly been going on even before the job action began in late January.

In a post to the Pemberton Community Forum Facebook group from December 2021, multiple commenters described being charged $200 or more from Whistler to Pemberton. One commenter wrote she was quoted $250 to get from Pemberton to Whistler one morning during the busy holiday period, although she didn’t indicate what company she was referring to.

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B.C. forestry watchdog urges RMOW to adopt bylaw addressing industrial debris AUDIT FINDS FIRE HAZARD WASN’T PROPERLY DISPOSED OF IN CHEAKAMUS COMMUNITY FOREST

BY BRANDON BARRETT B.C.’S FOREST PRACTICES Board is urging the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to adopt a bylaw addressing industrial debris after an audit last year found that logging debris wasn’t properly disposed of, creating “significant wildfire risk.”

In a release Wednesday, May 18, the independent forestry watchdog said the Cheakamus Community Forest Limited Partnership met almost all of the requirements of the provincial Forest and Range Practice Act, the Wildfire Act and related land-use orders—with the exception of a requirement to address fire hazards following logging activity.

In its September audit, the board found two piles of logging debris, called slash piles, in one cutblock, which fails to meet requirements to dispose of the piles to reduce wildfire risk. Eight additional slash piles were also not disposed of, but because they were technically within RMOW boundaries, municipal bylaws supersede some sections of the Wildfire Act. The board noted, however, that Whistler’s bylaws do not include a requirement to address debris left after industrial activities.

“Leaving this slash created a significant

concerning that it is commercially induced, so all the more obligation to make sure it’s cleaned up at the end of the project,” he said.

Discussing what such a bylaw would look like, De Jong was hopeful that, within the limits of the Local Government Act, it could address fire hazards left behind by residential construction and renovation.

“I think when we have industrial activity—a reno, a house construction in the interface … are we strong enough with our development permits that areas where there is ignition activities, that they are fully FireSmarted?” he said. “I know we have development permits that address that, but you’re catching me thinking about wildfire.”

Two cutblocks were harvested during the CCF audit period to reduce forest fuels and wildfire risk. The board noted it was “pleased to see the CCF proactively managing forest fuels in the area, and this needs to be supported by proper disposal of slash following harvest.”

De Jong also noted that in his three years and counting on the CCF board, he was happy with the work done in and around the forest.

“From a stewardship standpoint, I have not seen a level of sloppiness that puts it in a red zone for me in terms of failed practices,” he said.

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“The board is recommending the municipality update its bylaws to create a requirement equivalent to the Wildfire Act.” - KEVIN FRIESE

wildfire risk,” said Kevin Kriese, chair of the Forest Practices Board, in the release.

“These piles were adjacent to forest service roads in areas with significant public use and unregulated camping. The risk of a fire starting in these piles was significant, and this is a gap in the local bylaws. The board is recommending the municipality update its bylaws to create a requirement equivalent to the Wildfire Act.” The slash piles have since been disposed of.

Councillor Arthur De Jong, who also sits on the board of the CCF, said he spoke with municipal staff, who indicated the slash piles were left behind primarily due to staff shortages.

“We were unable to burn it and unable to get crews in time going into the fall,” he explained.

De Jong also agreed “100 per cent” with the Forest Practices Board that the RMOW should have a bylaw in place addressing industrial debris.

“It’s part of the fuel hazard and all the more

kilometres of road and 11 crossing structures, as well as carrying out reforestation and regeneration activities, the board noted.

Auditors also examined requirements in the Sea to Sky Land and Resource Management Plan as well as the legal objectives for the Whistler Interpretive Forest, including “protection of old growth, cultural places, forest health, recreation, riparian areas, water, wildlife and visualquality values,” the release went on. “The CCF’s activities were consistent with these objectives and requirements.”

The CCF is co-managed by the RMOW, the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations.

In February, the CCF board decided to defer old-growth logging until at least the end of the year, as it looks at ways to diversify its revenue. With little commercially harvestable old growth remaining in the community forest, the partners are looking to put greater focus on other potential revenue generators, such as mature and second-growth logging and its carbon sequestration program. n

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It is with deepest sorrow to announce that our beloved Dr. John Roberts passed away peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, May 5th at his home in West Vancouver.

He was 86 years old.

Dr. John came to Whistler because of his love for the mountains and opened Creekside Dental in the late 80’s.

He graduated from dental school at McGill University and practiced for almost 40 years.

John officially retired from dentistry in May 2009.

A charismatic and personable dentist, John was well loved by all his patients, young and old. He always had time for a good catch up with his patients, talking about hockey and golf or he just had a good joke to share. Dr. Roberts was an exceptional dentist but was always first to applaud his office team. He had the gift of the gab and always shared his words of wisdom but he treated all his dental family like one of his own.

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Man files civil suit alleging excessive force on part of Whistler RCMP INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS OFFICE OF BC CLEARED OFFICERS OF WRONGDOING IN 2021 ARREST THAT LED TO BROKEN WRIST

BY BRANDON BARRETT A WHISTLER RESIDENT filed civil suit in B.C. Supreme Court earlier this month, alleging local RCMP officers used excessive force and were negligent in his arrest, which led to a broken wrist and other injuries.

According to the May 9 filing, the individual had an interaction with Whistler RCMP members on or about Aug. 25, 2021 that led to his arrest. He claims officers’ conduct during the arrest was “excessive” and constituted “assault and battery,” with police “aggressively taking hold” of him; “body checking” him into a vehicle; “forcefully” taking him to the ground and putting their weight on his back and legs; stepping on his wrist(s); striking him; and “aggressively” pulling his arms behind his back.

The suit also called the officers’ conduct during the arrest negligent both “in failing to use reasonable care to ensure the safety and well-being of the Plaintiff” as well as for “applying excessive force” resulting in injury.

“The members of the Whistler RCMP were negligent in the execution of their duties and the result of such negligence caused harm to the Plaintiff,” the filing reads.

(Pique is withholding the plaintiff’s name on the advice of a health-care professional as he has subsequently come into doctor’s care associated with the public filing.)

An earlier investigation into the arrest, which led to a fractured wrist, as well as, the suit said, injuries to the individual’s back, neck and shoulders, provided more context to the incident.

As previously reported in Pique, the Independent Investigation Office (IIO) of B.C. in January released the results of its investigation, which ultimately cleared officers of wrongdoing.

In his report, the IIO’s chief civilian director Ronald J. MacDonald noted that, on the afternoon of Aug. 25, three Whistler RCMP officers responded to a 911 call alleging a man had uttered threats to a woman during a domestic incident. In the course of the arrest, “there was a scuffle” before the suspect was taken to the ground and handcuffed, the report said. After being apprehended, it was discovered the man had suffered a fractured wrist, and the IIO was notified.

When the officers arrived, they found the suspect in front of the building, where they said he initially appeared calm, but investigators said he “became non-compliant when he was told he was being detained because of the [woman’s]

complaint to police about him.” One officer then reportedly took the suspect’s arm behind his back and applied a handcuff to his left wrist, before all three officers found themselves unable to “complete the cuffing process because they could not control [the man’s] right arm.”

In his written statement (both the individual and the original complainant declined to be interviewed in person by the IIO, instead submitting their written accounts through a lawyer), the man said he was having a panic attack at the time and said that he “began to have a full body tremor” as a result of multiple sclerosis. He described a condition in which his “entire body turned very static or rigid,” unable to move his arms or legs. He noted that his hands were “shaking uncontrollably” and said “it can be quite violent looking.” He goes on to say one of the officers tried to “tackle” him to the ground, and said he was initially unable to get down on the ground because of his disability.

The officers’ statements described the suspect as variously “pulling away,” “twisting” and “spinning,” with the subject officer characterizing him as an “active resister,” and another officer calling his behaviour “assaultive.”

The police and suspect’s accounts

diverge here somewhat. One officer told the IIO he saw the suspect twisting and pulling away from police, his left arm still held by the subject officers while his right arm was free and “flailing.” The officer goes on to say he was concerned that the subject officer and other officer, both physically smaller than the suspect, might lose control and need to escalate their use of force. This officer said he ran towards them, intending to tackle the suspect to the ground, but then decided to grab the subject officer and suspect together in a “bear hug” and pin them against the side of the police cruiser.

The man’s written account said one officer came running “and at full speed smashed my head into one of the police vehicles. He used his entire body to throw me into the police vehicle. I immediately sustained a concussion, was lightheaded, nauseous and had blurred vision.”

In addition to the previously listed injuries, the lawsuit asserted the plaintiff suffered aggravation of pre-existing conditions; headaches, including migraines; concussion and post-concussion symptoms; cognitive difficulties; and depression and anxiety.

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Whistler council approves new noise bylaw NEW BYLAW WILL INCREASE TOTAL HOURS CONSTRUCTION NOISE IS PERMITTED

BY ROBERT WISLA AFTER NEARLY A year of deliberation, Whistler council is closing in on adopting a new noise bylaw that would increase the total number of hours construction noise is allowed in the resort.

At the May 24 council meeting, a bylaw recommendation was brought forward by staff that would change the hours that loud construction is permitted.

The hours proposed by staff would have made it so that loud construction would only be allowed from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Friday, with the weekends and statutory holidays starting an hour later. Currently, loud construction is allowed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day.

This change would have added about 12 extra building hours for the year, and was an attempt at bridging the gap between the wants of the construction industry and residents.

Councillor John Grills brought forward an amendment to have Saturday construction start times brought in line with Monday to Friday start times so that Saturdays would also begin at 7:30 a.m. The amendment passed, with Coun. Cathy Jewett opposed.

Coun. Duane Jackson recused himself

from the discussion due to being a Sea to Sky Home Builders Association director.

“We’re increasing the hours even more for construction, so what we’re doing is that we are not increasing the peace and quiet on weekends and holidays. We’re actually decreasing it. So I will be voting against this,” said Jewett.

But it is a challenge to get crews on site and projects completed, and the costs associated with building are extreme, Grills noted.

“So, personally, I’d rather have work get done and save the evenings more than in the mornings, but I think Saturday is still a pretty strong construction day, and the staff has recommended that construction starts later on Sundays, which we went with,” he said.

“The construction industry is a really big part of our community right now and has been for a long time, and they’ve asked for some additional time to get the projects done. I don’t know if they’ll use those hours all the time, but they’re available to them.”

The bylaw would amount to 4,472 construction hours per year, adding 65 more construction hours over the current allowable amount.

Initially, changes to the noise bylaw were brought forward to council in July 2021 and were to be adopted at the Sept.

7, 2021 meeting. But council felt there

should be more input from the construction industry and the community before the bylaw was approved.

So the bylaw was sent back to staff for more community consultation. In October, a community survey was initiated, and 387 people responded with their preferred times. A majority of respondents in the survey wanted to limit the hours of construction, especially on weekends and statutory holidays.

Council was worried that such a restriction on construction times would

hinder the municipality’s available building hours (a concern shared by the Sea to Sky chapter of the Canadian Home Builders Association), which in turn would hamper efforts to address the housing crisis by building more housing.

The new noise bylaw will also add new definitions for noise and noise-related construction and industrial activities, and remove the sections in the bylaw on watercraft operation on lakes as navigation, which can only be regulated by the federal government. n

CIVIL SUIT FROM PAGE 16 the suit said, due to the officers’ failure to obtain immediate medical attention for the plaintiff.

As a result of these injuries, according to the filing, the individual experienced pain and suffering; disability; loss of confidence; mood changes; fatigue; dizziness; sleeplessness; loss of amenities; and loss of enjoyment of life.

The plaintiff, the suit said, also sustained and continues to sustain a loss of earning capacity and income; damages for medical expenses, including for treatment and physiotherapy, prescription costs, and other

incidentals. Further, the suit said, the man’s family and/or friends have either undertaken or assisted him “in relation to activities of daily living, including, but not limited to, housekeeping, home maintenance and travel to and from appointments.”

The plaintiff is seeking general, special, aggravated and punitive damages, including: damages for past and future wage loss, earning capacity and opportunity; loss of past and future housekeeping capacity; and costs of future care.

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Whistler Lakes Conservation Association gaining momentum THE CONSERVATION GROUP HAS BEEN RESEARCHING WHISTLER’S FIVE MAJOR LAKES TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THEM

BY ROBERT WISLA DURING THE WARM summer months, the five major lakes within the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) are hotspots for tourists and locals alike.

However, as the usage of Whistler’s lakes has steadily risen, many Whistlerites have become increasingly worried about the long-term future of the lakes.

As the lakes have become increasingly popular, there has been a growing concern around noise, pollution and safety issues.

The Whistler Lakes Conservation Association (WLCA) was formed in 2020 to address some of these concerns.

Originally founded as an organization for lakeside property owners, the group has slowly grown into a coalition of concerned residents and lake users from across the municipality.

On May 21, the WLCA held its firstever in-person annual general meeting.

The group elected a new board and heard a talk from Dr. Nicholas Collins, a retired professor from the University of Toronto.

Collins taught ecology and evolutionary biology and has extensively researched lake management.

The WLCA works closely with the RMOW’s environmental stewardship department to study Whistler’s lakes and recommend ways to improve them. Most recently, this has taken the form of helping create a dock management strategy that will see derelict docks removed.

as the jurisdiction of local lakes is split between the municipal, provincial and federal governments, who each manage a different aspect of the water. The RMOW recently adopted a new framework to deal with lake management at Whistler’s May 10 council meeting.

“Some of our members have expressed concern about the amount of fertilizer that’s leaching into the lake. Some from people’s gardens and some from golf courses, and that raises the nitrogen level,” - PEGGY ENGLISH

“We have the quarterly meeting with them in which we raise issues, and they raise issues with us, and we try to resolve them and express our concerns on some matters. It’s been a very good relationship with the municipality. We anticipate that that will carry on in the future,” said Tom English, WLCA board member and one of the group’s founders.

Lake management is a complex topic,

Recently, the WLCA has undertaken a lake monitoring program to improve its understanding of the lakes. As part of the program, volunteers go out to the deepest part of a lake with a Secchi disc and a dissolved oxygen meter to get the readings of the temperature and water quality in the lakes.

The oxygen meter can give an idea of the levels of nitrogen in the lake. Bodies

of water can often become saturated with nitrogen from farming or industrial activities. Put in simpler terms, the meters help determine how much poop is in the water.

“Some of our members have expressed concern about the amount of fertilizer that’s leaching into the lake. Some from people’s gardens and some from golf courses, and that raises the nitrogen level,” said WCLA founding member Peggy English.

“That’s why we’ve encouraged the municipality to put a lot of porta potties around the lakes so that people aren’t using the bushes. As one of our members always says, ‘what’s happening on the land affects our lakes.’”

Added Tom: “We are trying to make sure the lakes are able to stay healthy and to deal with any issues that may interfere with that or bring it to the attention of people that can deal with it.”

People can do their part to help keep Whistler’s lakes clean by making sure they pick up after themselves when they are camping, using available facilities and keeping mindful of where their excess waste ends up.

Read more about the work of the WCLA at whistlerlakes.ca. n

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Girls to the Power of Math founder wins Loran Award THIS YEAR, ALEXA BAILEY SUCCESSFULLY EXPANDED HER GIRL-TO-GIRL, MATH-BASED LEARNING PROGRAM TO WHISTLER’S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

BY HARRISON BROOKS WHEN

VANCOUVER native and Whistler part-timer Alexa Bailey first started Girls to the Power of Math (G^M), her only goal was to help a small group of young girls in her hometown of Vancouver gain a newfound confidence in math that they would be able to take with them throughout the rest of their academic lives.

Now a few years since its inception, and G^M is a registered non-profit organization, which has successfully expanded to Whistler, where, last month, it wrapped up its 10-week program.

“We had our closing ceremony, our final day at the end of April. I know the girls enjoyed it and the mentors did as well.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t there for it, but the mentors have told me that everybody had smiles on their faces,” said Bailey.

“I have pictures where they are all there with their medals and they said all the girls had a lot of fun throughout the program, and we got some really great feedback from one of the parents.”

Among that feedback, one parent

reached out to Bailey to say her daughter’s “confidence in math was very, very low before your sessions, but now she says math is one of her favourite things in the world,” Bailey said.

In addition to the satisfaction Bailey gets from helping these young girls gain confidence in math, her work developing and implementing the program was also a key factor in her becoming one of the 36

“In addition to providing financial support for university, [the award] also includes some really unique points, including mentorship, which is so valuable to me. I’ve had experience with that and it also is one of the key aspects to G^M, which I find is so fitting and is why I love the Loran award.”

Bailey, who spent her gap year volunteering with the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program as a community coach,

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winners—out of 5,000 applicants across the country—of the annual Loran Award.

Loran awards are given out annually to as many as 36 high school students who display “integrity, courage, compassion, grit and a high level of personal autonomy,” according to the award’s website.

“They look for people who have given back to their community and I’ve done that with G^M,” Bailey said.

has finally made a decision on her postsecondary career and will be attending McGill University for biological engineering in the fall.

Although she is going to be across the country for most of the year and not as involved in the program as she was this year, Bailey still hopes to see G^M continue growing and reaching as many different schools as possible.

“I do think there will be challenges being that I won’t be in B.C., but that’s why I’m really glad that I have a great team of volunteers who make up our steering committee and our board. We want to grow our programs, so we are always looking for people to join in on any leadership opportunities whether that be a mentor running the program or more behind-thescenes things,” said Bailey.

“Our model for sustainability is to get an elementary school involved and then the nearest high school involved and create a partnership between them so the high school is always supplying mentors and the elementary school is supplying space and participants. While I do expect there will be more expansion, I also want to make sure we are keeping the schools we have on, and I’m really interested to continue the program in Whistler because I know that both the participants and the mentors found it really valuable.”

For anyone looking to bring the program to their kid’s school, Bailey suggests talking to the school’s principal about the benefits of the program or contacting the organization at info@girlstothepowerofmath.org for assistance in getting it up and running. n

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Hike for Health—and to help the Whistler Health Care Centre THE WHISTLER HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION’S INAUGURAL SPRING FUNDRAISER IS SET FOR JUNE 19

BY MEGAN LALONDE EVEN THOUGH the alpine is still covered in snow, hiking season is approaching—fast.

If you’re looking for a way to ease back into uphill travel as the weather warms up, the Whistler Health Care Foundation’s (WHCF) upcoming fundraiser is giving locals a chance to do exactly that, all while giving back to the Whistler Health Care Centre (WHCC) and the heroes who keep it running.

The WHCF’s inaugural Hike for Health is set to take place on Father’s Day, on Sunday, June 19. Participants will meet at the base of Blackcomb Gondola before setting off along Blackcomb’s ascent trails.

Originally, the intent was to offer hikers the choice between the Little Burn, Big Burn and Heartburn trails, but with snow still covering much of the terrain above mid-station, it’s looking increasingly like participants will make the trip halfway up the mountain, before hopping into a gondola (or turning around) to head back to the valley bottom. Anyone unable to hike is welcome to participate by riding the gondola in both directions.

“Health care in Whistler affects every single one of us in the community, and so the

fact that there’s a fundraiser that’s affordable and fun and makes a big difference, I think is a great way to include everybody,” said Dr. Fern von der Porten, an emergency physician and WHCC medical director.

Entry fees—$35 for a single hiker ticket, or $100 for a family of four (all participants must be from the same household, with a maximum of two adults)—include a day pass for the Blackcomb Gondola, as well as a $10 food voucher from Whistler Blackcomb, plus “the opportunity to do the hike with lots of cheerleading and aid stations and surprises” along the way, said Jen Black, vice chair of the WHCF’s board of directors.

With about 50 of the 200 available tickets already spoken for, Black expects the event to be a sold-out success. Though the WHCF has already surpassed the $50,000 fundraising goal it set through sponsorships, “there’s no cap on what we’d like to raise because there’s always needs at the health-care centre,” said Black. Other ways to support the fundraiser are with a donation, by signing up to volunteer, or by purchasing a pair of Hike for Health-branded socks.

Whistler Blackcomb is generously supporting the event—with that support coming in the form of a $200,000 Epic Promise grant—alongside the Touchet family, among others.

The event is more than two years in the making, said Black, after the idea for Hike for Health was broached in December 2019. The community event was originally intended to help raise funds for the WHCC’s new trauma room.

“We were starting to get the ball rolling when COVID hit, and health care went to the top of everyone’s agenda,” she explained.

“We opened the campaign for the trauma room, and it was the fastest campaign we’ve ever had for fundraising, so we were able to get all the funds into the trauma room well before we expected to.”

The WHCF is responsible for funding the $1.5-million renovation to the WHCC’s trauma room, unveiled earlier this year.

As it became increasingly possible to host events safely, the WHFC turned its sights back to the fundraising idea with a new focus in mind. The board is re-centring its efforts to instead fund medical equipment upgrades for the new trauma room and WHCC, “so that we can continue to have this amazing emergency facility, and as an opportunity to acknowledge all of the health-care workers who’ve helped us through this crazy time,” said Black. “So it’s sort of a party to honour them, as well.”

On the cusp of what is expected to be a busy bike park and tourist season, “Working

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“Advances in medicine are happening all the time, and what we want to do as a healthcare providing team is give the best possible care that’s available, and often that does mean buying equipment that is outside of the health authority budget,” she said. “And that’s something that the Whistler Health Care Foundation has allowed us to do.”

British Columbia is currently in the midst of a continuing health-care crisis, von der Porten pointed out, with a healthcare system that was already stretched thin before the COVID-19 pandemic placed major burdens not only on health-care workers, but on the provincial budget.

Those stressors came in addition to the ongoing family doctor shortage, she added.

“There’s many layers of challenges in the health-care system right now, and the one thing that’s really special for us in Whistler is that we have such strong [fundraising],” said von der Porten. “[That] can identify the gaps and help to fill them in so that we are not just in a queue for new equipment, and that we can actually be proactive and achieve our goals.”

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Whistler sponsors preparing for refugee family’s arrival WHISTLER COMMUNITY CHURCH REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM HOSTING RUMMAGE SALE FUNDRAISER ON MAY 28

BY MEGAN LALONDE PEMBERTON RESIDENT Selam Kibrom hasn’t seen her sister since before she arrived in Canada four years ago, in April 2018.

Along with her husband and two young boys, Kibrom arrived in the Sea to Sky as a refugee from Eritrea, in northeast Africa.

Life “is good” in Pemberton, said Kibrom.

“It is a big, big change [coming] to Canada, but the Pemberton community, everybody helps us, and they support us in different kinds [of ways].”

Here, “it’s peaceful,” she said. “The security… [we’re] free to work, free to learn, free to everything.”

One thing that would make life in B.C. even better for Kibrom is for her extended family to join her. Kibrom’s sister and her husband have also been separated for years, since Kibrom’s brother-in-law crossed the border into Djibouti in 2015.

Her sister and the couple’s three children, meanwhile, escaped Eritrea for Ethiopia in 2019.

Bordered by the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the west, and Ethiopia and Djibouti to the south, Eritrea experienced

more than its fair share of brutal conflict prior to gaining independence in 1993 and eventually signing a peace treaty with neighbouring Ethiopia in 2018. As a one-party republic, Eritrea has never experienced a national legislative or presidential election. Citizens are required to serve in the country’s defence forces for a minimum of 18 months, officially. In practice, that compulsory service often lasts indefinitely, and has been described by the United Nations as “slavery-like.”

An estimated 507,300 Eritreans live in exile out of an estimated population of about five million, according to Human Rights Watch.

The organization consistently criticizes the Eritrean government’s human rights record for “widespread forced labo[u]r and conscription, imposing restrictions on freedom of expression, opinion and faith, and restricting independent scrutiny by international monitors.”

With immigration paperwork finalized for Kibrom’s sister, her sister’s children and her brother-in-law, plane tickets are the last hurdle standing between the family’s reunification and their arrival in Canada.

The issue? With continued delays because of the COVID-19 pandemic, no one on either side of the Atlantic can

predict exactly when the Canadian government will be able to issue those airline tickets.

Even getting to this point has been a long time coming for the Whistler Community Church, ever since it began the process of sponsoring the family of five’s immigration to Canada back in February 2019, through the Mennonite Central Committee.

“Because of COVID and other little blips along the way, we’re finally at the place where everything is done, and they’re just waiting for an airline ticket to come,” said Lorida Ashton, a member of the church’s Refugee Sponsorship Program.

The Whistler Community Church group opted to sponsor this family in particular, because they knew their relatives—Kibrom, her husband and her two boys—were living in the corridor, after being sponsored by a group in Pemberton.

The idea of reuniting with her sister renders Kibrom “speechless,” she said. “It’s just hard to wait, but one day they will arrive here.”

While the Whistler Community Church has managed to gather some funds to support this family whenever they are able to arrive, the church is

looking to raise even more to help the five refugees settle comfortably into the Whistler community.

“We have different committees, like for housing and maintenance and for helping them with transit. Medical, education, finance, [homemaking/social]—all those sorts of things,” explained Ashton. “And we will be relying on the Whistler Welcome Centre for a lot of things. There’s so much to do, like getting them set up with their social insurance numbers, for example.”

Ashton added, “Selam and her husband will be here too—they’ve gone through it, so they’re going to be there to encourage them in the ways that they’ve learned.”

The sponsorship group has a lead on temporary housing for the family, Ashton added, but is on the lookout for something more permanent.

The church is holding a community rummage sale fundraiser at its Fitzsimmons Road N. location on Saturday, May 28 beginning at 10 a.m., with all proceeds from the sale going towards the Whistler Community Church’s Refugee Sponsorship Program.

Locals looking to help are invited to drop off donated goods for the sale on Friday, May 27 from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m., or attend the fundraiser this weekend. n

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This requires an amendment to the Squamish Lillooet Regional District’s Solid Waste & Resource Management Plan to include explicit approval of the lateral expansion of the Squamish Landfill, as well as waste export out of region (as the back-up option).

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From Ireland to India: Whistler family embarks on yearlong moto trip TODD AND CHRISTINA LAWSON ARE INTRODUCING THEIR DAUGHTER SEANNA, 10, TO JOYS OF LIFE ON THE ROAD

BY MEGAN LALONDE WHISTLERITES Todd and Christina Lawson are no strangers to long-haul motorcycle trips.

Beginning in 2004, the couple rode the 47,000 kilometres from Whistler to Chile, hitting 23 different countries before ending their trip in 2006. They headed off on another big trip a year and a half later, travelling through 15 countries in Africa for most of 2008.

They’re embarking on another crosscontinental ride this week, this time with an additional crewmember in tow: 10-year-old Seanna.

“We became addicted to the freedom of motorcycle travel and just the connections that you make with people on the road,” said Todd, “and we wanted to share that with our daughter.”

The family departed B.C. on Tuesday, May 24, boarding a flight headed for Dublin.

There, they’ll kick-start a yearlong journey that will bring the trio from Ireland to India with countless stops in between.

The trip, now three years in the making, was timed carefully, Todd explained. “[Seanna’s] going to be old enough to

RIDE ALONG Todd and Christina Lawson, along with their 10-year-old daughter Seanna, departed Whistler for Ireland on Tuesday where they’ll begin a year-long motorcycle journey to India.

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remember everything, and life isn’t just about her friends yet,” he said. “We’re still her world, and it’s just a good time with everything.”

Their bikes are also making the crossAtlantic trip courtesy of Air Canada cargo.

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They’ll be riding one Royal Enfield and one Ural, both specially purchased with this trip in mind. Seanna’s spot is in the Ural’s sidecar, which has been kitted out with a piece of sheepskin to make it extra cozy.

The only concrete plans the family has for their trip at this point is a campsite booking in Pamplona, Spain, where Todd will live out his lifelong dream of seeing the running of the bulls. “Our route off the start is only being dictated by the friends that we want to visit and see,” he said. “Then once we get to Eastern Europe where that sort of dissipates, we’re just going to wing it and see where the wind takes us.”

As sponsored stand-up paddleboarders, Todd and Christina will also be looking to spend as much time as possible surfing and SUP’ing on rivers, lakes and oceans across Europe. They anticipate taking a few multi-week breaks for off-bike adventures over the next year—like trekking in the Himalayas, for example.

Asked what part of the trip she’s looking forward to most, Seanna couldn’t pinpoint one part of the adventure. “I don’t really know,” she said. “I’m looking forward to all the stuff.” But when it comes to locations, the 10-year-old admits she’s “probably most excited” about visiting Greece, Italy and Spain.

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Court orders Whistler strata to amend ‘unfair’ unit entitlements ADVENTURES WEST LAKESIDE OWNERS WOULD HAVE RECEIVED FRACTION OF ASSESSED LOT VALUE IN CASE OF DESTRUCTIVE EVENT

BY BRANDON BARRETT A B.C. SUPREME Court judge has ordered a Whistler strata development to amend the “significantly unfair” way it calculates unit entitlements following a complaint to the provincial Civil Resolution Tribunal (CRT).

In his May 16 decision, Chief Justice Christopher E. Hinkson ruled that the way unit entitlements had been calculated in the event of a sale, fire or other destructive event for strata lot owners at Whistler’s Adventures West Lakeside residential development was unfair and based on legislation first enacted in 1966.

The issue initially arose from a claim by a strata owner brought before the CRT, which was initiated to address “an alleged overpayment of strata fees, which were not in conformity with the Strata Entitlement system for calculating contributions.”

In a nutshell, the 1966 Strata Titles Act, the first statute allowing for the creation of strata properties in B.C., did not contain any requirements related to unit entitlements aside from mandating the entitlements be expressed in whole numbers. The original act also did not

contain any provision allowing for the amendment of unit entitlements.

Under the unit entitlement schedule filed for the strata plan, lots were divided into three categories, based on square footage. Under that schedule, owners of the smaller lots would receive between $198,010 and $313,810 less than they would based on 2021 assessed values in the case of a destructive event, representing up to 48 per cent of their total value, depending on lot size. The mid-sized strata lots, meanwhile, would receive between $23,971 and $141,971 less than their 2021 assessed value, also dependent on lot size,

while the large lots would receive between $48,839 and $157,561 less than last year’s assessed value.

The petitioner in this case sought to amend the unit-entitlement schedule that was in place and adopt a schedule of interest on destruction, a formula based on each unit’s comparative recent assessment value. Ultimately, it was deemed the remedies being sought were beyond the scope of the CRT, which is how the issue wound up in the Supreme Court.

“I accept the petitioner’s submission that the distribution of proceeds upon a Destructive Event based on the [unit-

entitlement] system is significantly unfair given the entitlement of each owner would not be proportionate to the value of their [strata lot],” Hinkson wrote in his decision.

“I find this result to be unreasonable and transcends beyond mere prejudice or trifling unfairness.”

The judge ordered the strata to adopt an interest-on-destruction entitlement system, which was supported by the majority of owners and “are in their best interests as a community,” Hinkson said. He also ordered relief be paid to the petitioner retroactive to Nov. 1, 2019, when the owner purchased the lot. n

FAMILY MOTO TRIP FROM PAGE 26 will take up valuable space in her backpack alongside her sketchbook and pencil case.

Todd, a writer, photographer, photo editor and publisher of Mountain Life magazine, is preparing for the release of his book, Inside the Belly of an Elephant in fall 2023, while Christina, owner of Freeflow Yoga, can work with clients online and said she’s looking forward to instructing a few yoga classes on the road, “in glorious places of the world.”

They’ve subletted their Whistler home for the duration of the trip.

“We’re a pretty tight little family of three … so if anything, I think this is going to draw us closer together,” said Christina.

“We’ll have great challenges together and surpass them and work through them together. You know how travel is; it just enriches your life so much and we are so ready, post-pandemic, to just get out there and live freely on the road.”

The family plans to camp about “70 or 80 per cent of the time,” said Todd, with the remaining nights spent at the occasional

hotel or at friends’ homes—whether those friends go way back or were made that day.

“Our No. 1 goal for this whole trip is just to expose Seanna to the road; to the wonders of the world on the road and just to the people and the serendipitous moments that happen that we don’t know about, that you have no way of planning for,” said Todd.

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NEWS PEMBERTON & THE VALLEY

Delayed freshet leads to fears of flooding in the Pemberton Valley ANNUAL SNOWPACK THAW A MONTH BEHIND AFTER COLDER-THAN-NORMAL MAY

BY ROBERT WISLA COLDER-THAN-USUAL

spring temperatures and an above-average snowpack are prompting flooding concerns in the Pemberton Valley, according to the Pemberton Valley Dyking District (PVDD).

So far, this year has seen half the usual spring melt (or freshet), said the PVDD in a May 18 Facebook post.

“The freshet will not start! Last year on this date, the Lillooet River was flowing at 286 m3/sec, and today it is at 89 m3/sec.

The Fraser River at Hope was flowing at over 6,000 m3/sec last year, and today it is at 3,800 m3/sec. This delayed snowmelt, and in our region, the ongoing snowpack development, is a concern,” the post read.

The late melting of the snowpack is worrying due to the potential for higherthan-normal stream flows, which can potentially lead to flooding. The diking district noted that the delayed freshet is similar to 1948, when the Fraser River experienced one of its largest floods in living memory.

“In the last large flood on the Fraser in 1948, the weather mirrored what we are seeing this year very closely,” PVDD’s Facebook post continued. “The only difference is that this year we had a warmer-

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than-average March, and in 1948 we had a colder-than-average March.”

Overall, 2022 has been abnormally cold so far. Century-old temperature records have been shattered in the region, with the snowpack actually increasing in the Coastal Mountains.

Longer-lasting snowpacks mean the Hurley River Forest Service Road is staying closed longer, the bike season is slower to start and, most worrying of all, this extra snow could melt and melt fast.

“What’s happened this year is we’ve had a continuing build of the late-season snowpack with a colder-than-average April and May. So what that means is that the snow is going to melt at a faster pace than it normally would if we had normal weather in April and May,” said PVDD operations and maintenance manager Kevin Clark.

Clark noted that rapid melting events are tough to predict, and flood events at this point in time are as likely as they are unlikely.

“It’s really hard to tell, because it depends on many things. Alpine temperature and humidity affect snowmelt and overnight temperatures. So you can have a hot day, but if the alpine temperatures in the night dip down, then we’re OK,” he said.

“It’s if we get a heat event like we had last year, where we’re up in the 40s and the evening temperatures in the alpines were in the 20s. That’s what causes us concern, but if Mother Nature cooperates and we get some warm days, and it cools off at night like it should, then we might just have a higher flow rate for most of the summer.”

Typically, the spring melt takes place through May and peaks in mid-June before tapering off through the summer, Clark said.

“So what it means is that the rivers normally run at 350 or 400 cubic metres per second for most of the melt,” he said.

With the delayed freshet, “what it means is we might just be running at 500 or 550 [m3/ sec]. But that’s OK. If we get above 750 or 800, that’s when things get complicated.”

Down the highway in Whistler, there have been several historical flooding events since the ’70s, many related to Fitzsimmons Creek or low-lying areas like Tapley’s Farm, said Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) emergency services coordinator Ryan Donohue.

“We’ve done some flood mitigation strategies over the past 10 or so years to help mitigate that, with the diking along the training berm, along the village and the day lots extending through White Gold, Spruce Grove and into the Mons area,” Donohue said.

With the snowpack still remaining in the alpine, a rapid rise in temperatures could lead to “an unusual amount of runoff over a very short period of time coming into the creeks,” he added.

“So that was one of the main concerns about us having such a cold and precipitationheavy month or spring in May here: additional snowpack on the mountains,” he said. “Obviously, it’s going to melt when it gets hot. It’ll be over a much shorter span of time than it usually is in spring.”

The RMOW monitors River Forecast

Centre reports and uses a flood risk grading tool to assess how incoming weather events might impact river levels in the resort.

If the risk is high and flooding imminent, “we would activate our emergency operations centre to support the groundlevel flood response,” Donohue said. “At that point, we will probably be starting to communicate [with the public].”

Sea to Sky residents are advised to make sure they have downloaded their local government areas’ respective emergency alert applications and have an emergency kit prepared for worst-case scenarios.

“All the emergency preparedness is done through the Village of Pemberton, the regional district, or Lil’wat First Nation. So if people are wondering what the current situation is, then look to each of those local governments for updates. As the diking district works through them, if we do get a forecast, which puts us on alert, then that’s who puts out the information to the residents,” said Clark.

“It’s good to have people just understand the snowpack for what it is, and they can get ready, or if they are concerned, they can always reach out to the diking district or their local government for any advice that they might need,” said Clark.

If you are interested in learning more about the diking district or want to get involved, the PVDD is holding its annual general meeting, which is open to the public, on July 14 at 7 p.m. at the Pemberton Community Centre.

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Fossil gas isn’t natural, and it’s not a climate solution THE FOSSIL FUEL industry has

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employed many strategies over the years to keep money flowing. It has covered up its own science showing that burning its products is heating the world. It has sowed doubt and confusion about the evidence through front groups and compromised “experts.” And it has lobbied politicians and contributed generously to their campaigns.

Industry executives have consistently put their own interests ahead of the health and survival of humanity.

It has also used “greenwashing” and misleading language to garner support for its

BY DAVID SUZUKI destructive products. One example is the term “natural gas.” As a fossil fuel, it’s no more natural than coal or oil, and just as destructive.

In the face of increasing concern about oil and coal’s pollution and climate impacts, the industry has upped its campaign to promote fossil gas as a cleaner alternative or as a “transition” or “bridge” fuel while the world shifts to renewable energy. A 2011 David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute report detailed the fallacy of the bridge fuel argument, as has more recent research.

My home province’s gas company, FortisBC, has joined others—including Enbridge, TC Energy and ATCO Ga—in Fuelling Canada, an organization created by the Canadian Gas Association. Part of a push by gas companies everywhere, these companies and organizations have been

step of the process—fracking, processing, transporting and burning in homes and buildings—even more than industry and governments have been reporting.

Renewable natural gas is mostly methane obtained from agricultural, landfill or other waste. Although it’s better than fracked gas, as it can utilize some methane that would otherwise escape into the atmosphere, and has applications in hard-to-decarbonize industries, it doesn’t live up to the hype.

For example, FortisBC offers customers the option of being supplied with RNG, but it doesn’t mention that existing customers are getting the same gas as everyone else, which is more than 99 per cent fossil gas.

For building cooling and heating, heat pumps are far more efficient, and less expensive, than gas. Gas usage in homes and buildings also causes indoor air pollution, emitting nitrogen oxides, formaldehyde, nitric oxide and carbon monoxide, which can linger for hours. Studies have shown this can cause respiratory ailments like decreased lung function and asthma, especially in children.

University of Saskatchewan chemist Tara Kahan and colleagues measured pollution in homes with gas stoves in 2017 and 2018. “All of the researchers were pretty horrified,” she told CBC, adding that she switched her gas stove to an electric induction appliance. Many chefs are also switching to efficient induction stoves.

Buildings were the third largest greenhouse gas emissions source in Canada in 2019, much of it from space and water heating.

The solution to the climate crisis and to building and home emissions—as scientists and experts worldwide from organizations and

“All of the researchers were pretty horrified.”

- TARA KAHAN

spending enormous amounts on advertising (often designed to appear as journalism) on numerous platforms and outlets.

As Vancouver and Quebec join jurisdictions around the world banning fossil gas in many new building developments, gas companies are fighting back. With ads and articles extolling the virtues of “clean” gas, “bridge” fuels and “renewable natural gas,” the companies want customers to believe they’re part of the environmental solution to climate disruption.

They aren’t. So-called “natural” gas is, in fact, a processed fossil fuel composed almost entirely of methane—a greenhouse gas about 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over the short term. Most of it is now obtained by fracking vast landscapes— blasting large volumes of water, chemicals and sand into rock formations to shatter them and allow bubbles of trapped gas to escape and funnel into wells. Methane escapes into the atmosphere in every

institutions ranging from the International Energy Agency to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have shown—is not more fossil fuels; it’s electrification using renewable energy and storage, along with energy efficiency and conservation. As a new David Suzuki Foundation modelling study finds, doing so is entirely possible in Canada by 2035.

As every scientist and energy expert who understands the climate crisis keeps saying, we can’t continue fracking, building pipelines, expanding oilsands and developing oil, gas and coal projects if we want to avoid worsening climate impacts— and we don’t have to.

We have solutions. Fossil gas isn’t one of them.

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

THE OUTSIDER

One more kick at the can I THINK OF my final day of skiing for the season only in retrospect. Like the common superstition of skiers, snowboarders and mountain bikers hurting themselves while pushing their limits on the designated “last run,” my last day of sliding on snow is never planned. It just happens if I don’t get around to any more ski days.

BY VINCE SHULEY An exception to this rule for many is of course the tradition of Gaper Day, where people rally to the Whistler Blackcomb lifts in costume and party attire to celebrate the final day of resort operations and all the good times the season brought them. But your final day of skiing need not be tied to the lifts ceasing spinning. You can still drive, walk or ride your bike to find snow and ski it, taking care to not get involved in the spring avalanche cycles, of course.

Last weekend I had a day of skiing that I’ll simply describe as “one more kick at the can.” For those not familiar, Wiktionary describes this expression as “an attempt or an opportunity.” After

NEVER CALL LAST RUN Spring snowpack will allow plenty more spring skiing for those willing.

Like Dan Cudlip, pictured here.

PHOTO BY VINCE SHULEY

spying a break in the weather last Sunday, I jumped in a truck with some friends at 6 a.m. and took off up the highway in search of some skiable backcountry snow.

By 7 a.m. we were already running into the first logistical challenge. The logging road we were using for access had deep, rough and unforgiving cross ditches every hundred metres or so. With my buddy’s capable 4x4 having one too many scrapes and dashboard lights illuminated, we pulled over, booted up and walked the final couple of kilometres.

(and sagging) cornices above. We chose to climb the ridge, requiring a detour into the somewhat tricky yet safer treed terrain. It would give us a break from the blazing sun, anyway.

A couple of hours later we gained the ridge, our vantage point showing the true steepness of the slope which was not apparent from our digital maps or views from the logging road. To avoid entering the bowl via the aforementioned cornices, we’d have to wrap around way past the summit and traverse a minefield of chutes and

While it wasn’t the best ski run I’ve had this year or the most efficient travel, it was a new zone I got to explore.

We came to a fresh cutblock at the foot of a steep slope, the snow still a few hundred metres away. Climbing through mud and organic debris we finally arrived at the snow line and donned our boot crampons, the brisk morning temperatures allowing reasonably efficient travel up the slope that was too debris-ridden for skinning.

Observing that the morning sun was blasting our objective, we wisely decided that we should not ascend straight up it, lest we all fall victim to the looming

exposed slopes. All below in the bowl was avalanche debris from the previous week’s snowstorm; baked, slid, frozen, melted and frozen again.

Not the type of skiing that inspires.

We gained a few hundred metres more when we reached a crucial decision point.

To avoid the ripe cornice line of the ridge we’d have to cross an open, east-facing slope that had been baking in the sun since it rose at 5:16 a.m. It was now 12 p.m.

“Do we keep going?” asked one of our

group, in a tone that said a “no” answer was acceptable, a “yes” would need to be discussed and scrutinized. The group answered no. The risk for the reward of hazardous and mediocre skiing was not making sense.

So we found a safe rock outcropping looking over our original objective with views of fierce mountains in all directions and a green valley below. We cracked and shared a tall can of beer with our lunch. My friend and backcountry dessert aficionado Dan Cudlip made us chocolate chip pancakes on his Jetboil. We talked shit, laughed a lot and got to know each other better before skiing heavy snow more or less adjacent to our skin track.

While it wasn’t the best ski run I’ve had this year or the most efficient travel, it was a new zone I got to explore. And some of those turns were actually pretty good. Then we had to descend down through the mud and trudge back to the truck, which was uncomfortable in my ski boots with my skis on my pack, but hey, that’s spring touring.

Was it my last day of touring or even skiing for the 2021-22 winter season? I don’t know yet, but I’ll keep you posted if I get one more kick at the can.

Vince Shuley likes to normalize conservative decision-making, especially in the rapidly rising temperatures of spring snowpacks. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■

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Thank you Pique Newsmagazine For your ongoing commitment to municipal and local news coverage. Community newspapers and NewsMedia continue to play an important role in connecting our communities.

The Delta Optimist’s Edgar Dunning being interviewed by the CBC in the 1950’s. The Delta Optimist, founded in 1922, joins the Arrow Lakes News this year in celebration of their 100th anniversary.

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BY TIM SHOULTS

he BC and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association celebrates 100 years this year. There aren’t many records of its component members at that time, but nearly 20 of its 93 current members have pedigrees that go back long before they started working together in 1922.

The two oldest continuously publishing community newspapers in B.C. are the Golden Star and the Chilliwack Progress, both founded in 1891. The Chilliwack Progress was founded by William Thompson Jackman, who purchased a printing

Congratulations to the BC & Yukon NewsMedia Association as it celebrates its 100th anniversary!

Resort Municipality of Whistler

press in Toronto and moved it to the then-fledgling agricultural community in 1891.

The Golden Star was founded as the Golden Era by E.A. Haggen, an Australian mining engineer who came to the community to make his fortune.

Beyond those two, there are 17 more community newspapers that have been continuously published for 100 years or more that are members of the BCYCNA. (See sidebar.)

With that rich history in mind, we took a look back on 100 years of the association, as well as the annual awards that bears both its name and the name of one of the province’s feistiest publishers and writers, the outspoken Margaret “Ma” Murray.

1895: Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal 1896: Boundary Creek Times 1897: Grand Forks Gazette 1902: Okanagan Advertiser (as Armstrong Advertiser) 1905: Merritt Herald 1906: Abbotsford News (as Abbotsford Post) 1907: Salmon Arm Observer 1908: Summerland Review 1908: Mission City Record 1908: Ladysmith Chronicle 1908: Quesnel Cariboo Observer 1909: Smithers Interior News 1913: Peninsula News Review 1914: Revelstoke Review 1916: Prince George Citizen 1922: Delta Optimist 1922: Arrow Lakes News

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THE NEWSPAPERING PIONEER BEHIND THE AWARDS W

ho is this “Ma” Murray, and why are the BC and Yukon Community NewsMedia Association’s annual awards named for her?

In a newspapering world dominated by men, she pioneered a host of community newspapers, argued with premiers and prime ministers and took no guff from anyone on her way to becoming a legend.

Margaret Lally was born in Kansas in 1888, the seventh of nine children.

She left school at the age of 13 to enter the working world before moving to Vancouver with her sister Bess in 1912 with the aim of moving on to Calgary and marrying a cowboy. Instead, she met her true love, a young journalist named George Murray at the Greater Vancouver Chinook, and her true calling—the newspaper business.

The Murrays settled in Lillooet in the 1930s, where George won elected office to the B.C. Legislative Assembly, and the couple founded the Bridge-River Lillooet News in 1934.

Ma’s unique style came shining through in its masthead: “Printed in the sagebrush country of Lillooet every

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the 1940s and founded another newspaper, the Alaska Highway News, with another memorable motto still found on the nameplate to this day: “The only newspaper in the world that gives a tinker’s damn about the North Peace.”

The Murrays also founded papers in Squamish—the Howe Sound News, which folded during the Second World War— and in Fort Nelson—the Fort Nelson News, which continues to this day.

The Murrays merged politics and journalism over the decades, with George serving as Liberal MLA for Lillooet while Ma edited the paper. She later sought office herself as a Social Credit candidate in the Peace River area (placing third), while her husband became a federal Liberal MP for the Cariboo in 1949—she stayed behind in B.C. to run the papers while George went to Ottawa—as she found the conversation “too damned dull.”

Thursday, God willing. Guarantees a But she still found herself at the chuckle every week and a belly laugh forefront of politics in B.C., backing the once a month, or your money back. provincial Liberals and showing up to Subscriptions: $5 in Canada. Furriners: heckle Premier W.A.C. Bennett at one of $6. This week’s circulation 1,769, and his public meetings. every bloody one of them paid for.”

Ma and George moved back to The Murrays moved to Fort St. John in Lillooet in 1958, where George died in

1961. Ma rededicated herself to the News, bashing out editorials and columns that were picked up across Canada.

Her eclectic and utterly fearless writing style, punctuated with her signature ending “and that’s fer damshur,” made her famous despite the relatively remote environs of Lillooet. A 1966 profile in Maclean’s magazine, titled “The Salty Scourge of Lillooet,” begins thus: “She is like her paper—as gentle as a shotgun and timid as a muleskinner.”

She made a memorable guest appearance on the CBC-TV show Front Page Challenge, followed by her own halfhour, twice-monthly TV program. She also kept up a lively correspondence with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and was named to the Order of Canada in 1971. Playwright Eric Nichol wrote a play about her, Ma! A Celebration of Margaret Murray, which debuted in 1981 at the Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops.

Even after selling the Lillooet News to Jeff den Biesen in the 1970s, Ma continued writing for the paper with her trademark salty wit right up to her death in 1982 at the age of 94.

The BCYCNA named its annual awards of excellence in her honour in 2001, and her name lives on in the Margaret “Ma” Murray Community School, opened in Fort St. John in 2018.

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PIQUE HAS ANOTHER STRONG SHOWING AT 2022 MA MURRAYS

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t was another strong year for the Pique Newsmagazine team at the 2022 Ma Murray awards, held in Richmond at the River Rock Casino Resort on May 14—the first in-person ceremony held since 2019.

Nominated for nine awards—the most of any other publication—Pique took home five golds, a silver, and three bronze.

Pique took gold in the General Excellence category for its circulation class, narrowly beating out sister paper The Squamish Chief by just 0.2 points on the judges’ scorecards. Pique writer Alyssa Noel also won the Neville Shanks Memorial Award for Historical Writing, for her in-depth epic, “The Legend of Frank Gott”; while Brandon Barrett earned the Environmental Initiative Award for his feature, “Green Lake is a hub of biodiversity, so why aren’t we doing more to protect it?” Pique also took home the Reader Engagement Award for its 2021 Best of Whistler feature, while Whistler Magazine won the Special

Publications Award for its circulation class. Municipality of Whistler. Megan Lalonde Braden Dupuis and Barrett, meanwhile, earned a bronze in the Outdoor Recreation won silver in the Business Writing category Writing category for her feature on standfor their series on Whistler’s labour up paddleboarding, “What’s SUP?” while shortage. Dupuis and former editor Clare Lalonde and Noel earned another bronze Ogilvie also won bronze in investigative in the Environmental Writing category reporting for Pique’s series on last year’s for their feature on glacial monitoring, ransomware attack at municipal hall, “Generations on the Glaciers.” and subsequent lawsuit by the Resort - Brandon Barrett

The BCYCNA receives more than 1,000 nominations from members for general excellence for the previous year by early January, with the submissions evaluated by an army of professional judges and the top three finalists in each category announced in March.

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A CENTURY AS PIONEERS OF TECHNOLOGY C

ompared to your smartphone, a printed newspaper may not seem like a high-tech device.

But the process of printing news on paper has been evolving and innovating for decades—with community newspapers right at the heart of that innovation.

Many community newspapers at the time of the founding of the BCYCNA would have been individual sheets cranked out—literally, cranked by hand— on roller presses with inked blocks, known as letter-press printing—the same technology that Johannes Gutenberg used when he created the first printing press in the 15th century.

With that simple but effective technology, the local newspaper was also often the town job printer, printing flyers, forms, business cards and stationery for local businesses and residents.

Offset printing (also known as offset lithography or litho) revolutionized the printing industry in the 20th century.

Printing plates (originally made from lead, now usually made from aluminum) are used, with each plate holding an image of the content to be printed. The plate is mounted on a cylinder on the press, where the image on the plate picks up ink and transfers that image to a rubber blanket, which is then transferred to the printed page.

Offset printing allowed newspapers to use photographs for images instead of etchings or engraved illustrations, and print more pages more quickly than ever.

Adding more units to a printing press also made it possible for newspapers to print in colour—at first just spot colour (one unit putting black ink on a page, the other putting a specific colour ink on), and then later in process colour, with four different units printing in different colours—cyan, magenta, yellow and black—combining to make full-colour images. (This is the same process used to print colour pages today).

The process of preparing pages to be printed has also transformed radically over the years. From setting manual type in frames 100 years ago to linotype machines, which created whole lines of text from hot lead, to phototypesetting (projecting characters and images onto film) and finally to computer typesetting using programs like Adobe InDesign, the process has become extremely streamlined.

Adding pictures to print has also become radically different as technology advanced. Newspapers used to have to have darkrooms to develop their own film, then make prints and convert those prints to images made of dots (like pixels on a screen) that could be reproduced on printing presses using halftone or photomechanical transfer machines. That entire process, which took hours to create a single image for the press, advanced

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through computer technology, first scanning images into desktop publishing software, then film negatives, and now, with digital photography, the whole process can happen in seconds.

Even getting the files to the press has advanced. As late as the 1990s, newspapers had to print out and paste individual pieces of copy, ads and photos together onto sheets (called flats) and drive the flats to a printing press where they would be photographed and turned into printing plates. Now, ads, stories and photos can be made into press-ready pages entirely on a laptop computer and sent directly to the press using computer-to-plate technology, all of which speeds up the newsgathering pace. Now a community newspaper can cover a fire or a council meeting at 6 p.m. with the story and pictures in print just hours later—a process that used to take a full day or even two.

And as we move beyond print and into an increasingly digital world, remember we’ve been here for decades too.

Community newspapers were also among the first websites found on the World Wide Web, as it was known in the 1990s, and have also been pioneers in using new social media platforms to distribute news to readers (community newspapers, of course, being the original social media).

Today, dozens of our members are using new digital tools to tell local stories, from video shows to podcasts and more.

In short, innovation and adoption of new technology have been in our blood for 100 years and will be for many more. ■

Today’s Pique is printed at Kodiak Press in Vancouver, which prints several newspapers from around the province. Kodiak’s pre-press and press operators receive the e-files from Pique on Wednesday afternoon and the presses start rolling shortly thereafter.

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Purpose: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to terminate the Blackcomb Land Use Contract (LUC) from the subject lands and replace it with the following zones: 1.

A new CC4 Zone (Commercial Core Four) to provide a mixture of commercial uses, personal services and tourist accommodation facilities located at the base of Blackcomb Mountain; and

2. A new TA18 Zone (Tourist Accommodation Eighteen) to provide commercial tourist accommodation and ancillary facilities adjacent to the ski slopes of Blackcomb Mountain.

Subject Lands: The lands that are the subject of the proposed Bylaw are shown on the map attached to this notice. The subject lands comprise the following five developed properties: Chateau Fairmont – 4599 Chateau Blvd, Le Chamois – 4557 Blackcomb Way, Glacier Lodge – 4573 Chateau Blvd, Embarc Whistler – 4580 Chateau Blvd, and Blackcomb Springs Suites – 4899 Painted Cliff Road.

To learn more: A copy of the proposed Bylaw, background documentation and written comments received from the public regarding the proposed Bylaw are available for review from May 27, 2022 to June 8, 2022 at: •

Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (statutory holidays excluded) • Online on the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) website at: whistler.ca/LUC00023 How to provide input: All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be given an opportunity to provide written and verbal comments that will be considered by Council as follows: 1.

Submit written comments to Council via email: corporate@whistler.ca (must be received by 3:30 p.m. on June 8, 2022) (include “Public Hearing for LUC00023” in the subject line, address the comments to “Mayor and Council”, and include your name and mailing address in the email); and/or

2. Submit written comments to Council via mail/hand delivery: Resort Municipality of Whistler, Legislative Services Department, 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler BC V8E 0X5 (must be received by 3:30 p.m. on June 8, 2022) (include “Public Hearing for LUC00023” in the subject line, address the comments to “Mayor and Council”, and include your name and mailing address in the letter); and/or 3. Provide verbal comments at the Public Hearing via online video or phone conferencing. Visit whistler.ca/LUC00023 or scan the QR code below for instructions on how to access and participate in the Public Hearing. The Public Hearing link and phone numbers are also below.

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

For more information visit: whistler.ca/LUC00023 Public Hearing link: https://whistler.zoom.us/j/64315487496 Public Hearing phone numbers: +1-778-907-2071 +1-647-374-4685 Webinar ID: 643 1548 7496

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SPORTS THE SCORE

Whistler’s Marla Zucht completes Ironman World Championships THE RACE AT THE BEGINNING OF MAY MARKS ZUCHT’S FIFTH IRONMAN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE, BUT THE FIRST SINCE 2019

BY HARRISON BROOKS WHEN

WHISTLER long-distance runner Marla Zucht found out the deferred 2021 Ironman World Championship race was moved to St. George, Utah instead of its usual location of Kona, Hawaii, she wasn’t sure what to expect.

But not even that uncertainty was going to stop her from competing in the 226-kilometre triathlon event, held on May 7, even with the more challenging conditions.

“There was some skepticism of how it would feel as a World Championship not being held in Kona, but really the communities of St. George, Hurricane, and Washington, Utah, where the race spanned, did a fantastic job of welcoming the athletes, friends and families to the area—but it was definitely difficult,” said Zucht.

“For me, I would probably say it was more challenging. The heat and the winds probably would be similar to what we get in Hawaii, but what made it more challenging would be the hilly terrain.”

However, even with the approximately 35-degree heat, strong winds, colder water requiring a wetsuit and nearly 2,500 metres of climbing combined in the biking and running legs of the race, nothing could put a damper on the energy and camaraderie that comes with the return of in-person

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competitions after two years without them, according to Zucht.

Zucht’s final time of 12:20:04 was good enough for 11th-place—and first Canadian finisher—in her age category, representing her best finish out of the five Ironman World Championships she’s raced in so far.

“I just feel very honoured to race among the best triathletes in the world,” she said.

“It’s a very humbling experience and it’s incredibly impressive and inspirational to be among these very strong athletes, and the World Championship event itself is really nothing short of amazing. It’s kind of the pinnacle of the race experience.”

The swim portion went well for her, Zucht said, adding that she felt “really

and hydration that I needed. It’s not easy by any means, but I can look back afterwards and feel happy with my performance, and just being able to endure it and get through it takes a lot of mental fortitude.”

For Zucht, who has been long-distance running for years, starting with the sprint

“It’s a very humbling experience and it’s incredibly impressive and inspirational to be among these very strong athletes.”

- MARLA ZUCHT

good” getting on the bike, too.

“I think I did a good job of pacing and did a good job with my nutrition and staying hydrated. But the marathon was definitely challenging for me with the heat,” she said.

“I had a hard time keeping my body cool enough through the marathon, and then just getting enough fluids and calories in. I think I probably did sacrifice some of the nutrition

distances before working her way up to the Olympic distance, Half Irons and then full Ironman distance, participating in these types of races has always been about continuously challenging and pushing herself to bigger and better things.

Keeping with that trajectory, Zucht now plans to take the next step and compete in the Ultraman Canada race in the Okanagan

in July. Unlike the one-day Ironman races, the Ultraman happens over an entire weekend with a 10-km swim and 180-km bike on the first day, a 280-km bike the second day, and finishing off with back-toback marathons on the third day.

In addition to July’s Ultraman, Zucht’s summer race schedule includes a Half Iron in Oliver in June, as well as the Ironman Canada race in Penticton at the end of August where she hopes to once again qualify for the World Championships.

“It’s an event that attracts and inspires people from all over the world, so it’s an amazing experience to be a part of,” she said. “I’m always full of gratitude when I get the opportunity to race in these events and they are experiences that I savour because I never know if I’ll have that opportunity again to compete at the world championships, so they’re pretty special.

And it’s nice to have friends and family to share it with too.”

For anyone who is interested in getting into long-distance running but doesn’t know where to start, Zucht suggests getting involved with Whistler’s “really great triathlon community” and building up your endurance from there. n

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Pemberton’s Liam Fisher attempts 10-km tire flip challenge for cancer research FISHER’S ‘PROJECT TIRED’ CHALLENGE HAS RAISED NEARLY $8,000

BY HARRISON BROOKS IF YOU ARE OUT and about in Pemberton anytime between 4 p.m. on Friday, May 27 and 4 p.m. Saturday, May 28, you might catch a glimpse of Liam Fisher doing his Workout to Conquer Cancer tire-flipping challenge.

During his challenge, named Project Tired, Fisher will be attempting to flip a 300pound tire 10 kilometres over the course of 24 hours to raise money for cancer research.

The cause hits close to home for Fisher, who has already seen multiple people in his life lose their battle with cancer, including his grandmother as well as his sister, Riva, who Fisher’s challenge is dedicated to. “[Riva] was just an absolute shining light, one of those magnetic people that just drew everyone in,” said Fisher. “When she got hit with cancer, it was something that came totally out of left field, being a healthy, 19-year-old kid.”

But, amazingly, the cancer didn’t slow Riva down much, Fisher said.

“While she was in her chemotherapy, she went travelling around the world, and with a terminal diagnosis decided she was going to go back to school, and got a degree,” he said.

“She just kept pushing forward and got everything she could out of life. She lived more in her 25 years than a lot of people do in a whole lifetime.”

Initially, Fisher planned to do the challenge on the Seawall in Vancouver, where he now lives. But not having enough time to get the permits needed, he decided to come up to his hometown of Pemberton where he was welcomed with open arms by the community.

“The thing about being up here, my sister’s ashes are sprinkled on top of Mount Currie and in the Lillooet River, so she’s right here with me when I’ll be flipping the tire,” said Fisher. “I grew up here full time from about two years old; I’m very closely tied to the community and it’s nice to be able to give back to the hometown. I know lot of people in this valley have been touched by cancer in different ways and knew my sister. In a way it sort of worked out the way it was supposed to. To be back here it feels better or more natural to be doing it at home.”

While Fisher has been involved with Workout to Conquer Cancer before, doing 30 workouts in 30 days during Cancer Awareness Month as well as a challenge where he wore a 50-pound weight for 12 hours each day for 30 days, he said this is the biggest challenge he has attempted from a physically demanding standpoint.

To get through it, Fisher has been focusing his training on forearm work to stave off potential cramping during the challenge. He also said pacing will be a key factor as well, not only to help him

get in a rhythm but to be able to continue throughout the entire 24-hour period.

But if he does hit a wall during the challenge, Fisher will be relying on the support of the community as well as his sister’s message to keep him fighting through it and pushing forward.

“People would ask [Riva] how she was feeling today and no matter what, with a big smile and laugh, she’d say it’s like reading your favourite book—if there’s a major plot twist, you don’t stop reading and put the book down, you flip the page and keep going. And that was sort of the thing, flip the page, flip the tire. Just keep going no matter what,” he said.

“Being here in the valley, I feel her in the wind … and where we’re going to be flipping will have an open view of Mount Currie, so I know she’ll be watching over. And then as I mentioned too with my granny passing, even though she’s not actually with us today, I know, in spirit, she’ll be at the finish line.”

Fisher will be doing the challenge on Oberson Road in Pemberton, and encourages anybody who wants to show support to come out, say hi, enjoy some food and refreshments donated by Pemberton Valley Supermarket and Valley Hardware and cheer him on towards his goal. His only

“She lived more in her 25 years than a lot of people do in a whole lifetime.”

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- LIAM FISHER

request is that anyone who does come to show support does so on foot or by bike to keep car traffic on the road to a minimum.

With all the donations from local businesses and nearly $8,000 of his $10,000 goal already raised, Fisher is blown away by the support he has seen so far and is thankful to each and every person who will be helping him reach his goal come Saturday.

“It’s huge. It’s one thing to just say, ‘hey, we’re going to do this,’ but with this turnout, it really feels like it’s kind of turning into a bit of a community effort here,” said Fisher. “I mentioned before there’s a ton of people in this valley who’ve been affected by cancer, so at this point, I think anytime someone’s in to share some inspiration and help someone through this battle, it speaks to this community that we show up for each other and we’re all here together.”

Donations to Fisher’s cause can be made at workouttoconquercancer.ca/ participant/2569009/3944, or in person during the challenge at a live donation centre that will be set up for the event. n

Saturday, May 28 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Raising Funds for Refugee Sponsorship of a Family of 5 from Eritrea Eritrea is a northeast African country on the Red Sea Coast.

It shares borders with Ethiopia, Sudan, and Djibouti.

The capital city is Asmara.

Whistler Community Church is responsible for support of the family during their first-year introduction to a new community and new country.

Donations of gently used goods may be dropped off at the church at 7226 Fitzsimmons Road North on Friday, May 27 between noon and 6:00 pm.

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From the Alps to your door, French’eese wants you to savour the best fromage France has to offer MICKAEL LOIODICE IMPORTS EXCLUSIVELY FRENCH PRODUCTS FOR YOUR NEXT CHEESE BOX OR AT-HOME FONDUE

BY BRANDON BARRETT THERE IS THIS IDEA , probably not all that inaccurate, that the French people believe in their heart of hearts they have achieved the highest version of any number of life skills. Be it matters of love, literature, language or art, you name it, and chances are there’s a Frenchman around to tell you La République perfected it first.

While such a claim is sure to spark some debate, depending on the crowd you’re with, it would be difficult to argue the French haven’t cornered the market on one particularly beloved and ubiquitous food: cheese.

So when Mickael Loiodice first landed in Whistler four years ago, he understandably missed the food and culinary culture of his homeland—and in particular, the small restaurant run by his parents in the French Alp ski village of Morzine, where he began making pizzas at the tender age of five.

“Sometimes you’re going to the ski resorts and you stop by maybe a friend’s place or a

BEAU FROMAGE Mickael Loiodice wants to share a taste of his home with Whistler through French’eese, the delivery and mobile fondue service offering exclusively French cheeses.

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small restaurant with a grandmother doing a specific dish in the back and you pay like 10 Euros for an entrée and dessert and maybe coffee. And if you know people, they will maybe give you some liquor, homemade,” Loiodice muses. “People who open a restaurant in France have a big passion for food and want to share the very best.”

Loiodice, who works for Whistler Blackcomb, began bringing home select cheeses from his trips to France. Soon

All the cheeses are selected specifically

by Loiodice himself for their premium quality, and imported from French farms, with the vast majority coming with a protected designation of origin, which means they have been vetted for their quality, authenticity and traceability. (I was fortunate enough to sample a handful of the cheeses, including the flavourful, 12-month-aged Comté and a gooey, to-diefor Saint-Marcellin. Still drooling.)

“I want to give the best experience to everybody who has never been to a French farm ...”

- MICKAEL LOIODICE

enough, he would be fielding requests to bring back this or that product, or come over to cook one of his patented fondue dinners. Loiodice saw not only a business opportunity, but a chance to share a piece of his culture with Whistler. Thus, French’eese was born, a delivery service that brings custom-made French cheese and charcuterie boxes right to your door, as well as fondue dinners right to your kitchen.

Loiodice is as eager to source quality products as he is to share the stories behind them. He is well versed in how each cheese is made, and the often-centuries-old recipes behind them, as well as the farmers who have perfected their craft over generations.

“It’s important to know these stories,” he said. “Sometimes you go to the restaurant, and you can have your dishes, but you don’t know anything about them. Every time I try

to know what kind of ingredients are inside, who is making it and everything, so when you taste it, you say, ‘Wow, it’s crazy. Where did you get this? How do they do that?’ You need to be interesting.”

Being in a ski town that borrows much of its après culture from Europe, Loiodice is entering a market that, up until a few years ago, had a long tradition of fondue and raclette thanks to the Bavaria Restaurant that operated where Pizzeria Antico now sits. (Nick North still does a great fondue in the winter months as well.)

For now, at least, Loiodice plans to keep French’eese a mobile business, with aspirations of one day setting up a small shop, where he can offer a small slice of the French Alps right here in Whistler.

“Sometimes, in Europe, everybody grabs a bottle of wine and one kind of cheese and we share that around the table.

This is the best time ever, because we share experiences and we share everything and it’s good. It’s what we like and what we miss a little bit here,” he said. “So I’m very happy for these things. I want to give the best experience to everybody who has never been to a French farm, for example, or they have been and they miss the French cheese.”

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Deep impact: Whistler artists turn trash from lakes and oceans into treasure DIVING IN IS A B.C.-WIDE ENVIRONMENTAL ART CAMPAIGN AIMED AT RAISING AWARENESS OF THE WASTE IN OUR WATERS

BY BRANDON BARRETT ARNE GUTMANN is good with trash.

Or rather, he’s accustomed to taking objects that others ignore or deem ugly, and turning them into something beautiful. The longtime Whistler artist—who recently relocated to Powell River—of poo font fame (Google it) once created an entire art show out of the hair strands haphazardly left behind on the shower wall by his wife. So when the organizers of Diving In: The Art of Cleaning Lakes and Oceans approached him to create a piece made from trash recovered from B.C. lakes and oceans, he jumped at the chance.

“I was like, ‘Good, garbage is my middle name,’” Gutmann told Pique in an interview last month.

Gutmann is one of three Whistler artists, alongside Paulo and Cary Campbell Lopes, the husband-and-wife team behind the whimsical specialty costume and bodypainting company, Paintertainment, who took part in the B.C.-wide environmental art campaign.

Run in collaboration with the Sea to Sky Arts Council Alliance, the collective has partnered with the volunteer-led Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans, which, since it began in 2013, has collected approximately

DEEP DIVE Cary Campbell Lopes’ piece, Anemone, using trash recovered from B.C.’s lakes and oceans as part of the Diving In art exhibit.

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35,000 pounds of trash from B.C.’s waters— including right here in Whistler.

Each artist is given a large coffee sack full of trash, from which they are asked to create a piece, with the only instructions being that the work has to be able to transport easily enough from the various galleries showcasing the art, as well as come with a list of instructions in the event the piece begins to fall apart.

possibly can,” explains Cary. “Also, for cost reasons, my costumes are a lot of structures and pieces we have to develop.

They’re not always made from fabric, so it is more of a crafty thing.”

Because the couple each got a bag of trash, they were able to share found items and choose what worked best for their specific piece. Cary gravitated to the neontipped fish floats she received to create a

“There were alcohol beverage tins and everything, and that’s sad because that’s literally just someone dumping them in there.

That’s not a mistake. It’s careless.”

- PAULO LOPES

The creative exercise came with its own challenges for the Lopes’—although given the low budgets and often structural nature of the work they do through Paintertainment, it was not an altogether unfamiliar process for the couple.

“I’m a collector of all sorts of things, whether it’s stuff from dollar stores, or I often find things or take apart things.

With most of the jobs we have for the entertainment industry, our budgets are not massive in the way that we can spend a lot on the products and the costume pieces that we use, so we do try to reuse, recycle and repurpose anything we

work reminiscent of both the deep sea and the beloved Pixar film, Finding Nemo.

“It was really trying to create a beautiful image of what’s really under there and what we do want to protect by using all the pieces that we have. I used the sunglass pieces as a coral structure on one side of it, and then after creating that whole thing and doing a lot of painting of more underwater, sea paint as my background, I actually came across one item that was not found in the trash bag,” she says.

That item? A dollar-store toy Dory, the perfect addition to her orange-hued Nemos already accenting the piece. “The colouring

was so perfect, so he’s actually in there as my Dory, and there are two or three little Nemos,” Cary adds.

Paulo’s bag, meanwhile, was overflowing with aluminum beer cans and alcohol bottles, which reminded him of the rum-soaked pirates that used to terrorize the open seas. His piece resembles the classic skull-and-crossbones flag—except without the crossbones. The skull is made up of the cans, while discarded paddle heads make up the eyes and nose. The difficult part was figuring out a way to affix the cans to a wooden frame so they wouldn’t fall off, which Paulo eventually achieved by incorporating chicken wire.

Although the process was admittedly a fun challenge, Paulo says it was deflating to see the volume of waste that was plucked from our waters.

“There were alcohol beverage tins and everything, and that’s sad because that’s literally just someone dumping them in there.

That’s not a mistake. It’s careless,” he says.

Gutmann’s piece was also heavy on cans, which he weaved together to create the shimmering effect of a waterfall. Like the Lopes’, the hardest part wasn’t the creative process, but the actual cleaning and assembly of the discarded materials.

“I was pleased,” he said. “I only got one good cut and one puncture.”

Diving In: The Art of Cleaning Lakes and Oceans comes to Whistler from June 1 to 29 at the Maury Young Arts Centre gallery. Admission is free.

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New Pemberton Museum curator has eyes on expanding programming FORMER ARTS WHISTLER STAFFER CHARMAINE CARPENTER BRINGS ARTS AND CULTURE BACKGROUND TO NEW ROLE

BY BRANDON BARRETT BETWEEN 2016 AND 2021, Pemberton’s population grew by almost a third, with waves of young families and Sea to Sky transplants choosing to settle down in the rural community.

Such a demographic shift of course comes with a number of knock-on effects, be they social, cultural or economic. And for an organization like the Pemberton and District Museum and Archives Society, dedicated to preserving and promoting the region’s rich and varied history, it makes the work the team there does all the more essential.

“Pemberton is clearly growing and it’s not just people with a long history here, but there are a lot of new people moving into the community, so we want to get them to actually engage with the neighbourhood and the spaces around them and find ways to bring them out,” says the museum’s new curator, Charmaine Carpenter.

Carpenter is primed to find new ways for the museum to engage the public. Coming from an arts and culture background, Carpenter was an Arts Whistler staffer between 2018 and ’20, programming the organization’s slate of street entertainment and curating such shows at the Maury Young Arts Centre gallery as Levi Nelson’s debut exhibit as well a show dedicated entirely to the art of tattooing. She also previously served as a team lead in the early years of the Vancouver Mural Festival and worked as the programming and marketing manager for the Mount Pleasant BIA in Vancouver, one of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods.

“I have a background working in historical places, telling stories about the places and knowing the people and everything that makes a community,” Carpenter says. “So when this opportunity came up, I jumped at it. It’s a really great fit and so far, so good.”

Carpenter acknowledged she has some pretty big shoes to fill after the departure of curator Niki Madigan, who recently left the museum after 14 years.

“She completed some incredible work, especially in the last few years with the capital projects they completed. So there are two new buildings on the site,” Carpenter explains. “She’s a very successful grant writer and she was able to modernize the museum.

Obviously it’s an old place full of old things and it started as a passion project for people that live here, and she took it into the future.

“She created a playground and a space to fill, and hopefully I’ll be able to do that.”

These days, the museum counts three modern and five historic buildings in its footprint, including the Pemberton Station School and Arn Cabin, gifted by the school board in 2013 and restored in recent years.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Former Arts Whistler staffer Charmaine Carpenter brings a background in arts and culture programming to her new role at the Pemberton Museum.

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Those sites should be ready to host exhibitions and touring school groups by the fall.

Carpenter says another of the museum’s buildings is in the process of possible repatriation to the Lil’wat Nation, part of an ongoing effort over the past few years to get back cultural items and artifacts that originally belonged to the Lil’wat as well as Squamish Nation. In 2019, for instance, several objects, including stone pieces and baskets, were returned to the Lil’wat, the culmination of a project that saw museum staff collaborate with a summer Lil’wat student, Johnny Jones of the Lil’wat Lands and Resources office, and Alison Pascal from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre.

“Obviously [the Lil’wat] have a lot of things on their plate, but we’re here to support the community any way we can and setting the tone for how they would like to handle certain things, like objects we might have that would historically be theirs,” Carpenter says.

“I’m so grateful to be part of an organization that sees their place in all of this and understands the history of Pemberton doesn’t start with the gold rush, but in fact started thousands of years before that. A lot of the young staff are coming from the Nation and they’re learning, I think, about themselves and then also about their place in the greater area.”

Carpenter is also keen to build on the many relationships Madigan forged in her time here, and wants to grow the museum’s technological capabilities to expand the ways in which guests interact with the museum and Pemberton’s long history.

“I hope to build on the relationships [Madigan created] and see the future of the museum moving forward, including technology and events that people want to come to and try to populate and get people in here and understand the stories of the place they now live,” she adds.

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OLD SCHOOL A shirt-printing workshop takes place in Myrtle Philip School during the 1991 Whistler Children’s Art Festival.

WHISTLER QUESTION COLLECTION, 1991

Whistler’s first Children’s Festival

BY ALLYN PRINGLE IN A TOWN known for festivals featuring mountain bikes, snowsports, and fine dining, you might be surprised to learn that the longest-running festival in Whistler began as a way to expose local and visiting children to different forms of visual and performing arts.

The first Whistler Children’s Art Festival was held in 1983, just one year after the Whistler Community Arts Council—now known as Arts Whistler, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year—was formed in 1982. In February 1983, the Arts Council began planning for what it hoped would be the first of many Children’s Art Festivals.

Over the next few months, a committee of 14 volunteers led by Margaret Long spent many hours planning for the two-day event.

The first festival was a combination of hands-on workshops, performances, and author readings, as well as an art show at Blackcomb Lodge featuring works for children by professional artists. On June 18 and 19, children could attend 38 workshop sessions at Myrtle Philip School, then located next to Whistler Village. The workshops were mainly led by artists and instructors from Whistler and Vancouver and included pottery, banner making, mask making, photography, writing, and, of course, painting and sketching with Isobel MacLaurin. Other activities included face painting, a flower-painting contest on the nearby plywood construction fences (in 1983 there were still quite a few lots under construction in the first part of the Village to be developed), readings, karate demonstrations, and performances by the Celestial Circus, Pied Pear, and a children’s choir under the direction of Molly Boyd.

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According to Long, all but two of the workshop sessions were filled to capacity and one parent told the Whistler Question that their children were so excited for the festival they barely slept the night before.

Judging from the thank-yous printed in the local paper after the festival, it was clearly a community event with support from hundreds of volunteers and many of the local businesses.

The success of the first Whistler Children’s Art Festival led to an even bigger festival in 1984. More than 65 workshops were offered for a small fee, including many of the favourites from the year before.

Setsuko Hamazaki led an origami workshop while Penny Domries led a graffiti workshop; Arlene Byne taught children how to paint their faces while Cecilia Mavrow taught others about writing poetry.

Under the Whistler Resort Association’s brightly striped tent in Village Square, groups listened to stories from authors such as Robert Munsch, Elizabeth Brockmann, Graham Walker, and Linda Lesch, and watched acts including the Extraordinary Clown Band and breakdancers in Jane Bailey’s dance company.

The festival continued to grow through the 1980s, though they began to run out of space to hold workshops. In June 1993, the 11th festival moved to a new location in the new, larger Myrtle Philip School on Lorimer Road where about 130 workshop sessions were offered. In 2005, the festival moved to Creekside, and in more recent years—not including the past two, when it has been held online—the festival has returned to Whistler Village. Though the school may be long gone, there are still many familiar elements to the festival which, this year, is taking place over two weekends (last weekend, May 21 and 22, and this coming weekend, May 28 and 29). n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In defining the essential elements at play in a typical Aries person’s agenda, I’m not inclined to invoke the words “sometimes” or “maybe.” Nor do I make frequent use of the words “periodically,” “if,” or “ordinarily.” Instead, my primary identifying term for many Aries characters is “NOW!!!” with three exclamation points. In referring to your sign’s experiences, I also rely heavily on the following descriptors: pronto, presto, push, directly, why not?, engage, declare, activate, venture into, enterprising, seize, deliver, and wield. You are authorized to fully activate and deploy these qualities in the next three weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I like Joan Didion’s definitions of self-respect. As you enter a favourable phase for deepening and enhancing your self-respect, they may be helpful. Didion said self-respect is a “sense of one’s intrinsic worth,” and added, “People who respect themselves are willing to accept the risk that the venture will go bankrupt, that the liaison may not turn out to be one in which every day is a holiday. They are willing to invest something of themselves.” And maybe the most essential thing about self-respect, according to Didion, is that it is “a discipline, a habit of mind that can never be faked but can be developed, trained, coaxed forth.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Reality is not simply there; it does not simply exist,” claimed author Paul Celan. “It must be sought out and won.” I think that is excellent advice for you right now. But what does it mean in practical terms? How can you seek out and win reality? My first suggestion is to put your personal stamp on every situation you encounter. Do something subtle or strong to make each event serve your specific interests and goals. My second suggestion is to discern the illusions that other people are projecting and avoid buying into those misunderstandings. My third suggestion is to act as if it’s always possible to make life richer, more vivid, and more meaningful.

And then figure out how to do that.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Wilma Mankiller was the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

She said, “The cow runs away from the storm, while the buffalo charges directly toward it—and gets through it quicker.” Political analyst Donna Brazile expounded on Mankiller’s strategy: “Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment. I become the buffalo.” I recommend Mankiller’s and Brazile’s approach for you and me in the coming days, my fellow Cancerian. Now please excuse me as I race in the direction of the squall I see brewing in the distance.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The New Yorker is an influential Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine that features witty writing and impeccable fact-checking. In 2017, its stories exposed the extensive sexual misconduct committed by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein—and helped lead to his prosecution. How did the magazine get its start? It was co-founded in 1925 by Harold Ross, who had dropped out of school at age 13. He edited every issue for the next 26 years. I’m sensing the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Leo. In the coming months, you may get involved in a project that seems to be beyond the reach of your official capacities or formal credentials. I urge you to proceed as if you can and will succeed.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo-born Jocko Willink is a retired naval officer and author. In his book Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, he lays down his manifesto: “Become the discipline—embrace its cold and relentless power. And it will make you better and stronger and smarter and faster and healthier than anything else. And most important: It will make you free.”

While I don’t expect you to embrace Willink’s rigorous ethic with the same fanatical grip, I think you will benefit from doing the best you can. The cosmic rhythms

will support you if you make a fun and earnest effort to cultivate liberation through discipline.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Some nights you are the lighthouse, some nights the sea,” writes Libran author Ocean Vuong. According to my astrological analysis, you are better suited to be the lighthouse than the sea in the coming days. Lately, you have thoroughly embodied the sea, and that has prepared you well to provide illumination. You have learned new secrets about the tides and the waves. You are attuned to the rhythms of the undercurrents. So I hope you will now embrace your role as a beacon, Libra. I expect that people will look to your radiance to guide and inspire them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons,” observes author Edna O’Brien. She should know. She has hung out with many big film stars. Since you’re probably not in the movie business yourself, your demons may be much higher quality than those of celebrity actors and directors. And I’m guessing that in the coming weeks, your demons will become even finer and more interesting than ever before—even to the point that they could become helpers and advisors. For the best results, treat them with respect and be willing to listen to their ideas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’m all in favour of you getting what you yearn for. I have no inhibitions or caveats as I urge you to unleash all your ingenuity and hard work in quest of your beautiful goals. And in the hope of inspiring you to upgrade your ability to fulfil these sacred prospects, I offer you a tip from Sagittarian author Martha Beck. She wrote, “To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to author Caroline Myss, “You should see everything about your life as a lesson.” Whoa! Really? Each trip to the grocery store should be a learning opportunity? Myss says yes! For example, let’s say you’re in the snack foods aisle and you’re tempted to put Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips and Lay’s Barbecue Potato Chips in your cart. But your gut is screaming at you, “That stuff isn’t healthy for you!” And yet you decide to ignore your gut’s advice. You buy and eat both bags. Myss would say you have squandered a learning opportunity: “You’ve harmed yourself by blocking your intuitive voice,” she writes. Now, in accordance with astrological omens, Capricorn, here’s your homework assignment: Regard every upcoming event as a chance to learn how to trust your intuition better.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): An Aquarian poet was disturbed when a suitor told her, “I’m really very fond of you.” She responded, “I don’t like fond. It sounds like something you would tell a dog. Give me love, or nothing.

Throw your fond in a pond.” I don’t advise you to adopt a similar attitude anytime soon, Aquarius. In my oracular opinion, you should wholeheartedly welcome fondness.

You should honour it and celebrate it. In itself, it is a rich, complex attitude. And it may also lead, if you welcome it, to even more complex and profound interweavings.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I need a playlist of all the songs I used to love but forgot about,” wrote Tumblr blogger Yuyuuyuyuu. I think you could use such a playlist, too, Pisces. In fact, I would love to see you receive a host of memos that remind you of all the things you love and need and are interested in—but have forgotten about or neglected. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to recover what has been lost. I hope you will re-establish connections and restore past glories that deserve to accompany you into the future.

Homework: Is there a postponed dream that you might be able to resume working to fulfil? What is it? Newsletter.

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Estate papers Unheeded prophetess Stir-fry Holiday figure Skirt cut (hyph.)

Very angry Ramp alternative Zoom Succeed (2 wds.)

Barely scraping by Sharp barks Toy bear From Geneva Confused fight

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Country estate Strongman of myth Filter New days Peruvian animal Medal

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Run-of-the-mill Possessed Film genre (hyph.)

Oregon’s capital Pain reliever Seawater Mooch Attention getter Weakens Winged goddess Cabbie’s income Primate Not high

LAST WEEKS’ ANSWERS

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MAXED OUT

Digging deeper on the Whistler housing report PRIOR TO the election of Trump and the pandemic—still trying to decide which was worse—my reading material was heavily skewed towards non-fiction. So little time; so much to learn. But as reality, or what passes for it, became so ugly under both plagues, I found myself slipping through the event horizon of fiction. I particularly began to devour authors of old mysteries where things were screwed up beyond belief but unravelled and solved in a couple of hundred pages.

I’d stopped reading and writing fiction decades ago when I realized I couldn’t make

BY G.D. MAXWELL stuff up that was weirder than what was actually going on around me. Still can’t. But as weird gave way to brutal, fiction was the salve that made things a little easier.

Roundabout way of saying last week’s dip into nonsense was a refreshing breather for me and I’d hoped to indulge in frivolous piffle again this week.

But then came the housing report.

Another black hole with a pull I’m finding stronger than my ability to escape.

In case you didn’t read the 69-page report—a requirement mandated by the province and to be repeated every five years—or the one-page article in last week’s Pique, let me sum it up as briefly as possible.

The housing situation in Whistler sucks.

While tempted to file under Sun Rises in the East, the report underscores problems far more daunting than the lack of affordable housing in Tiny Town. It rests on a foundation far more complex than the lack of, in no particular order, “below market rentals, social housing, transitional and supportive housing, short-term shelter and other underserved housing target groups.”

Lost in the doom and gloom of the report is one shining success, albeit of the Great, So What Have You Done For Me Lately variety. And that is the finding that 85 per cent of employees live locally. At least they did in 2019. That is 10 percentage points higher than the benchmark goal of the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA).

(Full disclosure: I currently sit on the board of WHA, but am not representing that group in anything that follows.)

Virtually everything in the housing report comes as no surprise to anyone who has both lived here very long and takes any notice of what’s going on in town.

The latter requirement cited lets a lot of the local population off the hook because, increasingly, they neither know nor care what’s going on in town.

The report is hard to interpret in some ways. For example, it keeps referring to

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Whistler’s housing market while, in actuality, there are three distinct Whistler housing markets. There is, for lack of a better term, Resort Lands Market Housing, all those properties that pay fees to Tourism Whistler. They are all the hotel-like condos and timeshares and the big homes on the flanks of the mountains. Some of the condos allow owners to live in them year-round; some don’t.

There is the Market Housing Market, homes of all descriptions built on land that is part of the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) but are not part of Resort Lands. They’re the ones with average selling prices above—in many cases way above—$2 million and some condos and townhouses headed that direction.

Finally, there is the Non-Market Housing, also known as employee-restricted housing. Most of that is thought of as WHA housing but includes a smattering of non-

outside RMOW boundaries housing, like WedgeWoods. And then there’s the Van Nation and Squatting in the Woods housing non-markets, but they won’t become important until the latter starts a wildfire that threatens the town.

What’s really missing from the report— other than solutions—are two underlying forces, both of our own making, neither under our control.

The first is our bed unit cap. The fact we still have a bed unit cap is a presumption on my part. I don’t know if we do, if it’s real or if anyone has the political will to slam the doors shut once we’ve reached whatever it is these days and whatever loopholes it contains.

But let’s face it, if there is still a bed unit cap—a quaint throwback to an earlier time when local town builders were concerned with the valley’s “carrying capacity”—it can only have two consequences: Market

…let me sum it up as briefly as possible. The housing situation in Whistler sucks.

WHA housing that carries some form of employee/retiree restriction.

This triumvirate of housing markets is an interesting mix and provides both headaches and potential actions in beginning to tackle what is increasingly termed our housing crisis.

But wait. There’s more.

While not officially a fourth housing market, there is also the nearby but

housing of both types will become more and more expensive, lacking draconian political intervention, and Non-Market Housing will never catch up with demand as long as it’s counted within the bed unit cap.

Both consequences are premised on two demand factors. People will still want to make Whistler their home, and people will still open new businesses and require staff.

Right now, the latter is superfluous, since

there doesn’t seem to be sufficient staff to run existing businesses. But that rarely seems to stop people from opening new businesses.

Peeling another layer off the onion, both consequences are a consequence of Whistler’s success. In the Before Time, people gravitated to Whistler to ski. They discovered non-ski season was pretty great here as well. They stayed. They built a town. They created a Resort Municipality.

They dreamed about it becoming a World Class, Four-Season resort. They succeeded.

They’re getting old. Dying. Leaving.

People who come here now might come here to ski. Many come here because it’s both a success and it’s still beautiful, albeit increasingly crowded. Many are retired. Many are remote workers. Many are homeowners but not residents. Many have destroyed or decommissioned suites the Before Time people found helpful, useful or both. Many don’t care how much housing costs.

Other people, younger, poorer, are Troopers—here for a good time, not a long time—except like so many former Troopers, they get sucked in by the same things the rest of us got sucked into. Whistler is still a great place. They want to stay. They need housing. Market rentals are becoming extinct. They’ve always been insecure.

Despite our success on so many fronts, we can’t build enough Non-Market Housing for all of them. Certainly not fast enough.

Right now, not affordably enough. And that doesn’t begin to address the Other Housing the report cites as needed. Housing for seasonal workers, social housing, emergency shelter, and all the rest.

So what are the solutions? Damned if I know. Doesn’t mean I won’t explore some next week. ■

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