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Our cross to bear IT FINALLY HAPPENED. For five years I’ve had a barbecue next to the door of my Whistler Cay suite, and for five years I’ve worried about a bear getting into it. I’ve always been diligent about removing the grease trap, and keeping it as clean as possible, and they’ve always been ambivalent towards it.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS The small patch of green space beside my house is a semi-frequent corridor for wandering bears young and old, but in all the years I’ve lived there, they’ve always just passed through, never bothered by the presumably tantalizing, greasy barbecue sitting by the door. And so complacency set in. Until last week, when I returned home to find a curious, teenaged bear in the process of pulling off my barbecue cover. I would later discover I had forgotten to remove the grease trap from underneath the barbecue, something I’m always very careful to do for this exact reason. After a brief, shock-induced pause, I laid into the horn and shouted obscenities in the bear’s direction, which didn’t seem to mean much to him. He looked at me, but the subtler intricacies of my colourful language seemed lost on him. “Honking the horn in Whistler, it’s unlikely to do anything, just because they’re super habituated in Whistler,” said Sylvia Dolson, the former longtime Whistler bear advocate who now resides on the Sunshine Coast, when I called her for advice. “There are areas where they would still be leery of a horn and take off, but in order to develop any kind of feeding strategy at all in Whistler they have to ignore a lot of

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stuff, and so they ignore horns, and if you’re yelling at them from inside the vehicle, probably not helpful either.” When my honking failed, I moved to improvised strategy No. 2: rocks. Scooping up a handful of small stones from the driveway, I advanced on the bear. When I tossed one in his direction (along with more choice obscenities) he started to get the hint and made a hasty retreat to the corner of the property, where he turned around again to gauge my next move. We locked eyes in a classic Whistler standoff, neither sure of what would come next—a physical, literal representation of man v. nature, playing itself out in my backyard. “This is a constant negotiation with a bear, so they’re constantly saying, ‘do I have to step it up a little to get what I want? Or are they damn serious about what they want?’” Dolson said with a laugh. “So it’s this back and forth, back and forth.”

of the encounter may have been fortuitous, Dolson explained. While bear encounters in residential neighbourhoods should be reported to the COS, the reality is conservation officers often can’t respond in time to teach the bear the proper lesson. “The animal has to have a negative consequence immediately, preferably within two seconds of the behaviour. That’s how mammalian behaviour works,” Dolson said. “Hopefully [the lesson] did stick, but the thing is, in Whistler, there’s 99 other sources for the one that you just deterred him from, right? … If he was a young teenage boy, they’re like any young teenage boy, they’re going to take a little more, they’re going to test their limits more than any other age, class and sex.” As for why my barbecue became a target this year of all years, it was probably only a matter of time, Dolson added. “I could repeat that story a thousand

This being my first bear negotiation, I found myself at a bit of a loss at this point—what happens if he bluffcharges? I’m sure I could take him one-on-one in a fight, but what would the neighbours think? This being my first bear negotiation, I found myself at a bit of a loss at this point— what happens if he bluff-charges? I’m sure I could take him one-on-one in a fight, but what would the neighbours think? I knew I couldn’t concede the barbecue, which was still clearly his objective. So I went back to a tried-and-tested strategy, and threw more rocks, which sent the young bear scampering off the property. While my first instinct in the aftermath of the experience was shame—why didn’t I do more to protect this bear?—the timing

times, people calling me and saying that same thing: ‘I’ve been here 20 years and this has never happened to me,’” she said. “But eventually it does.” Lesson learned, and there will be no more complacency from me when it comes to bear attractants. With the colder spring weather seen in the Whistler Valley so far this year, bears are looking further and wider for food sources—which can naturally lead them into neighbourhoods and poorly managed attractants.

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“Our Environmental Stewardship department has noted that more bears are being observed lower in the valley at this time, likely looking for food due to the amount of snow up high. They have seen some healthy bears and cubs, but also saw one unhealthy sow with two cubs (thought to be underweight due to lack of food which could be from last fall, this spring or during both periods),” said a Resort Municipality of Whistler spokesperson, in an email. According to the Conservation Officer Service, there were 85 reports related to black bears in Whistler from March to May. “It has definitely been a busier start to the bear season,” said COS officer Brittany Mueller, in an email. There have been no bears killed due to conflict, and no relocations aside from two cubs to Critter Care earlier in May, Mueller added. Other key messages from the COS: ensure all attractants are properly

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Enough is enough with American gun violence This morning when I awoke at 6:30 a.m. and reached for the TV remote before I climbed out of bed, on both CBC and CTV there was Steve Kerr, Golden State Warriors basketball coach, with his emotional response to the terrible news of the shooting deaths in Texas on May 24, with 19 young elementary school children and two teachers dead, following a (so far) non-fatal shot to the 18-year-old gunman’s grandmother, before he climbed into his SUV and crashed it into the elementary school. Every American cable news network was focused on the same story, as was the May 25 New York Times. Following a mass shooting in Buffalo the week before, enough is enough, as Steve Kerr emotionally stated, as did U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. Perhaps more correctly, we had already seen enough, and yesterday’s event was too much. On May 25 I was on the road for the two-hour drive from Whistler to Vancouver for routine service to my car, and while CNN, MSNBC, CBS, PBS, etc. are available on my car’s Sirius Satellite radio, as are Canadian TV and radio media sources, I was listening to the BBC World News, and people were calling in from all over the world to BBC Headquarters in London, with comments on the sickening mass

shooting event in Texas. Clearly, one of the defining differences between Canada (as well as all other countries on this planet) and the U.S. is the issue of gun violence and mass shootings. It’s just hard to understand why any country needs more guns, including lethal assault weapons and handguns, than the total number of a country’s population. Americans—like no others—are armed to the teeth, and they are routinely surprised when driving into Canada that their lethal weapons are not allowed. An elementary school teacher for 19 years in Australia called the BBC as I was driving

and described how, after a shooting in the early 1990’s, Australians were fed up with gun violence, and almost all guns in the hands of the public were declared illegal. There hasn’t been a mass shooting in Australia since, as guns were strictly controlled by legislation, with most required to be surrendered, together with strict legislation concerning background checks, weapon types, etc. For more than two decades, Australians have not worried about sending their children to school, and schools do not require armed police onsite. It’s not rocket science, it is simply common sense in the pursuit of life, liberty, and security.

Forget the trash crap about “liberty” by the American gun lobby. Who needs liberty to kill fellow citizens, including their children in elementary schools? With approximately 90 per cent of Americans wishing for some form of legislative restriction on guns and gun ownership, the American constitution is unique and outdated, as its 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowing today’s mass shootings is outrageous and no longer relevant to any supportable requirement in any civilized society, as it arguably was in the late 1700s in America when it was adopted. Meanwhile, 50 Republican senators in Washington refuse to vote on legislation stalled for two years—legislation which would require only the mildest of gun reform legislation— simply to introduce background checks prior to selling lethal assault weapons to anyone who wants to buy one, including an 18-year-old who legally purchased guns on his birthday and then went on a shooting rampage, killing elementary school students. Shame on these 50 Republican, Trumpsupporting senators! Their non-action is simply beneath contempt. What has happened to Ronald Regan’s description of America, the “Shining City on a Hill”? Hardly an example that the rest of the world should follow! When President LBJ was talking about “a kindler more gentle country,” he was looking north. He might have been looking in almost any direction—except inward. Doug Garnett // Whistler

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Library fundraiser a success Once again The Friends of the Whistler Public Library would like to thank the generosity of the Whistler community and visitors in supporting our Giant Book Sale, which was held on the May long weekend. We raised more than $4,600, which will be contributed to our library for resources and programs. Thank you to all who contributed the amazing books, which were collected at all our five sites! We greatly appreciate: Nesters, Creekside Market, Your Independent Grocer, Re-Use It Centre and the library for providing space for our collection boxes, as well as the Grieve Family for providing their garage as a storage depot. Thank you goes out to all our volunteers (more than 40!), who promoted, collected, sorted, transported and sold the books. As always, you are so generous with your time and commitment! Thank you as well to all the library staff who go over and beyond in their efforts to assist us in any way that they can. We also like to acknowledge Pique for their unwavering support in helping us with getting the word out in all our endeavours! Happy Reading! The Directors of Friends of the Whistler Library

A warm thank you to Sea to Sky communities The members of the Whistler Community Church, Refugee Sponsorship Team extend a warm thank you to the communities of Whistler, Pemberton, and Squamish for making the Rummage Sale Fundraiser a huge success! From volunteers, donations and buyers, the

FOR THE RECORD In a May 18 article, “Arts Whistler spread the local love in 2021,” Pique reported Arts Whistler’s 2021 revenue as $906,020, as per its financial filings. A more accurate representation of its financial makeup, however, would be its excess revenue over expenses, which totaled $24,118 for the year. n

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BY MEGAN LALONDE someone new from a different part of the world on a seemingly daily basis. Your routine—or comfort zone, if you prefer—can include everything from the sports you moved to Whistler to pursue to the gondola you usually upload, your favourite trails to run, spots to grab lunch or bars to crawl through on a night out, but it’s still a routine, nonetheless. After all, considering that learning a new skill at the ripe age of 28 is a fairly humbling experience to put yourself through, sometimes sticking to what you know is for the best. But where’s the fun in that? After developing my own set of routines and marking out the parameters of my current comfort zone over the last six years in Whistler, I’ve decided they need an

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hauling bikes more expensive than the vehicles carrying them can’t be wrong, right? Plus, I can always use another excuse to spend time sweating outdoors, and if the motivational poster in every elementary school classroom was right, life begins at the end of your comfort zone. I’ve made some minor progress so far, most importantly replacing my old, too-small bike with a solid-looking used enduro that had all of the features I was told to look for and a price tag that didn’t drain my bank account. I’ve recently learned that there are various sizes of mountain bike wheels

You never want to be the slow friend... Centre staff mention the words “bike park season” and “emergency room” in the same sentence too many times to count; and thirdly, the upfront costs associated with bikes, gear, and lift passes could easily be a deterrent for someone in my current tax bracket. You also need to understand just how steep and intimidating the learning curve appeared to someone who didn’t know what Crankworx was and thought “real” mountain bikes could be purchased at Canadian Tire prior to 2016. But according to my reasoning, all of the drivers heading up the Sea to Sky

(apparently 1.5 inches makes a big difference when you’re rolling over rocks and roots or rounding a corner), and that when talking about full-suspension bikes, the word “travel” doesn’t usually have anything to do with how many kilometres you plan to ride. I’ve also learned that full-face downhill helmets cost many more dollars than your standard ski buckets, that you should definitely be lubing your bike’s chain after rides, and that lululemon generally does not make appropriate trail riding attire. If you can’t tell by that list, I still have a lot to learn.

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It’s still intimidating and a little overwhelming, especially in a town with more than its fair share of expert bikers. You never want to be the slow friend, the needy friend, or worse, the friend whose footage makes it onto Jerry of the Day’s Instagram feed. But the mountain-biking friends I’ve spoken with so far have met my many questions with nothing but encouragement and support; pointing me towards resources and offering up advice with a side of brutal honesty. I’m not naive enough to think I’m not in store for a summer full of bumps and bruises, or to believe I’ll be dropping into A-Line anytime soon. (Honestly, that might not be in the cards for me ever. #LeisureAthletes unite, am I right?) Really I’m just assuming—or hoping?—the potential benefits of falling in love with a new sport will outweigh the fear of sucking. Who knows, maybe I’ll be the rare Whistlerite who doesn’t get the hype about mountain biking and realize after a summer or two that it’s just not my thing. But even if that ends up being the case, I still think the benefits of learning something new and challenging yourself to push past that comfort zone safely— whether with a new sport or anything else in life—will always be a worthwhile experience. (P.S.: Consider this my plea for patience with any beginners you encounter on the trails, and for any hot tips you have to share. We all know I need them.) ■

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In rare move, special mediator appointed to help resolve Sea to Sky transit strike PARTIES WILL HAVE UP TO 10 DAYS TO REACH DEAL BEFORE MEDIATOR RECOMMENDS NON-BINDING SETTLEMENT TERMS

BY BRANDON BARRETT ON TUESDAY, MAY 31, the same day the Sea to Sky transit strike tied the record for the longest transit strike in B.C. history, Victoria appointed a special mediator that will work with the two sides for up to 10 days in the hopes of striking a deal. Special mediator Vince Ready was appointed only a day after Unifor Local 114 members turned down the latest offer proposed by employer and BC Transit contractor Pacific Western Transportation (PWT) in a narrow 36-32 vote. Now, the parties will have 10 days to come to a mediated settlement. If a deal cannot be reached in that time, Ready will provide the parties with his recommended terms for settlement, which they will have five days to accept or reject. Although it is not obligated to do so, Unifor has agreed to put whatever settlement package Ready recommends to its membership for a vote. “The goal for both parties is to reach a mediated settlement prior to the 10 days and for Mr. Ready to not have to issue any recommendations,” said Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor’s western regional director. “But in the event the parties don’t agree, this process allows an independent, well-respected mediator, who has not been involved to date, to look at the issues with a fresh set of eyes and make recommendations that we will take to our membership and they will have a chance to vote on. We think it is important to both the mediator and the employer that

RECORD BREAKER At 125 days, the Sea to Sky transit strike is officially the longest transit strike in B.C. history. PHOTO BY TREVOR BODNAR

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we’re saying right out of the gate that the members are going to get to vote on it.” Appointing a special mediator is relatively rare in B.C. labour relations, and is typically done in disputes that have a particular public interest. Most recently, in February 2020, the NDP appointed two special mediators—including Ready—to resolve an eight-month forestry dispute on Vancouver Island between Western Forest Products and United Steelworkers Local 1-1937. In that case, 81.9 per cent of United Steelworkers union members voted to ratify a five-year

those who can least afford it: the riders.” In a statement Tuesday, PWT said the offer that was unanimously recommended by Unifor’s bargaining committee last week included an increase in wages compared to its May 11 offer, with annual wage hikes of 1.5, two, three, three, and four per cent over the term of the deal, resulting in a driver wage rate of $36.46 an hour at the beginning of Year 5. Under the now expired agreement, drivers made $31.92 an hour at the start of Year 5. That’s in addition to a two-per-cent signing bonus as well as

“The failure to make a deal is only delivering mutually assured destruction for everyone involved in the Sea to Sky transit system—especially those who can least afford it: the riders.” - JACK CROMPTON

agreement with the forestry company. Now 125 days in, the Sea to Sky transit strike has officially surpassed the previous longest transit strike in provincial history; in 2001, the Liberal government of the day legislated buses back on the road in Metro Vancouver after 123 days. “It’s disappointing to have the longest transit strike in B.C.’s history happen in the Sea to Sky corridor,” said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton on Tuesday. “A hundred and twenty-three days with only five days of negotiation is outrageous. The failure to make a deal is only delivering mutually assured destruction for everyone involved in the Sea to Sky transit system—especially

employer-paid benefits for all employees and an agreement to transition to the union’s preferred defined benefit pension plan, points that had been previously agreed upon in negotiations. Although it moved the needle closer, the deal would not have achieved wage parity with Coast Mountain Bus Company workers in Vancouver. “We believe this was a fair final offer and trusted that the committee’s recommendation to accept would yield a positive result in voting and allow a re-start of operations in the near future,” PWT said in its statement. In a lengthy open letter posted to its website Thursday, May 26, the night before negotiations were set to resume, PWT’s director of B.C. operations Steve

Antil questioned the idea of wage parity given how much he said transit duties can differ across communities, and that Sea to Sky workers are already “close to the top of the heap” when it comes to wages. “A transit driver isn’t simply a transit driver—it’s not the same job as in Metro Vancouver. In terms of the intangibles, the Sea to Sky has significant advantages for transit employees compared to heavily urbanized areas. Not the least of which is working for a smaller employer, where employees are able to talk with their managers every day,” Antil wrote. “Driving in the city involves gruelling commutes, long split shifts, heavy city traffic, and health and safety concerns that drivers in the Sea to Sky deal with on a much smaller scale. Squamish, Whistler, and Pemberton offer a living experience that is not comparable to the major urban centres, and that is why we choose to live here.” While union members don’t all agree on certain elements of the proposed deal, McGarrigle said there was no disagreement when it came to Antil’s letter, which he believes may have ultimately swayed Monday’s vote. “A hundred per cent of the members were absolutely outraged at the ratification meeting at the comments on behalf of Mr. Antil denigrating the work that they do and making facile comparisons that don’t even hold up to the most basic of scrutiny,” he said. “I think the public knows there may be some differences [compared to Vancouver] in traffic patterns and things like that, but there are unique challenges in both areas. It is public transit, it is the same job, it is ultimately a public service and people need to be treated with respect.” At press time, no timeline had been set for the mediated talks to begin. n

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Whistler’s summer tourism outlook has improved but ‘challenges haven’t changed’ ROOM-NIGHT BOOKINGS FOR JUNE PACING 10% BEHIND 2019—BUT STAFFING REMAINS CONCERN

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OUTLOOK FOR Whistler’s tourism sector this summer is moving in the right direction coming out of the pandemic, but many of the challenges that have persisted over the past two years remain, caution local leaders. With COVID-19 restrictions loosened and barriers to international travel opening up, Whistler is poised to experience what should be its busiest summer since 2019. According to Tourism Whistler’s (TW) forecasting, room-night bookings for the month of June are pacing approximately 10 per cent behind the same period in 2019. TW president and CEO Barrett Fisher also noted that May and June numbers “have been buoyant” partly thanks to conference and group bookings, many of which are holdovers from 2020 and 2021. “That fares very well from a balanced visitation perspective,” Fisher said. “Because for us, it’s not only how we balance visitation year-round by raising up our fall and spring shoulder period months, but then in summertime looking at how we move visitation off of the peak weekends to encourage midweek visitation.” In terms of the expected visitor makeup this summer, Fisher said TW is anticipating

“The challenges haven’t changed. There is a balance of comfort for the business community and to be able to plan,” she said. “I think we’re getting a better understanding of what volume we’re going to be getting this summer and in order to service that volume, what the staffing levels needs to be so we can focus on, as best as possible, finding the right people.” Always a persistent challenge locally, staffing remains a concern heading into the season, although Ottawa dedicating more resources to processing the backlog of immigration and temporary foreign worker files has helped somewhat. One added wrinkle this year, however, is the tightening of Whistler’s historical shoulder period. “We used to have a bit more of a lull before heading into the season where people could take time off and have a bit of downtime. I’m not hearing the same stories,” Chan said. “What we’re hearing is we just rolled into another season and we need to give our teams a bit of a break. I’m interested in seeing how that plays out for the summer.” You can also make a valid argument that Whistler probably does not appear as desirable to young seasonal workers as it once did, what with its longstanding housing and affordability crises, family doctor shortage, and now four-month-long transit strike. But it is very much an employee’s market, particularly in the hospitality sector, where there is ample room for career advancement,

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“[T]he number of people who come here and want to stay for a career, keeping them past a year is becoming more of a challenge. ” - DIANA CHAN

strong volumes from the provincial and national markets, while Whistler will likely have to wait a while longer to see a full return to pre-pandemic form from some of its historical international markets. “When we looked at winter visitation this past winter, particularly the U.K., which is a pretty resilient market, we saw our U.K. visitors be pretty close to what we would see in a typical year, but then other international markets such as Australia, Mexico, Germany and whatnot, they will likely see a stronger return for next winter, 2022-23,” explained Fisher. The local business community is also gearing up for a busy summer, and with more certainty heading into the season than in the past two years, Whistler Chamber of Commerce chair Diana Chan said businesses have been able to better prepare for what should be an uptick in sales—and staffing.

said Graeme Benn, GM of Delta Whistler Village Suites and president of the Hotel Association of Whistler. “As the resort lurches forward, there’s going to be opportunities for people to move into management roles and supervisory roles,” he said. “I think it’s a season of opportunity for a lot of people who want to come and work in the resort.” Recruitment is one piece of the puzzle, of course, while retention is another. Chan said the factors creating pressure points on Whistler’s frontline staff are the same that make it hard to keep employees in the long term. “There are challenges to recruitment, for sure, but the number of people who come here and want to stay for a career, keeping them past a year is becoming more of a challenge,” she said. This week is National Tourism Week in Canada. Prior to the pandemic, the industry employed one in 11 Canadians. n

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Whistler won’t raise the bar to run for municipal office COUNCIL BRIEFS: ANNUAL COMMUNITY LIFE SURVEY NOW OPEN

BY ROBERT WISLA THE BAR to get your name on the ballot will remain low for Whistler’s upcoming October municipal election. Following up on a motion from Councillor Ralph Forsyth to require more nomination signatures prior to getting one’s name on the ballot, Whistler council sided with a staff recommendation on May 24 to keep the minimum requirements to get on the ballot. Under the rules set by the Local Government Act, candidates only need two signatures to get their names on the ballot. Coun. Forsyth’s motion instructed Whistler staff to look at increasing the threshold for becoming a candidate. Staff then looked at how other municipalities run their nomination process and found most municipalities have only the minimum requirement of two nominators and no nomination downpayment. Under the BC Election Act, the candidate can be required to get either 10 or 25 nominators and a maximum nomination deposit of $100 to run for office. The staff report noted that the vast majority of municipalities in British Columbia

do not require a nomination deposit and that Whistler does not have an issue with too many candidates running for office. In the most recent Whistler General Local Election in 2018, three out of the nine positions available for office were acclaimed (mayor and two school trustee positions). The municipal election will be held on

COMMUNITY LIFE SURVEY UNDERWAY Whisterites are once again invited to have their say in the municipality’s annual Community Life Survey. Used to help inform the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) decision-making on the community’s

“This is the community’s chance to provide input on all things ‘Whistler.’ I encourage all residents to participate in the Community Life Survey.” - JACK CROMPTON

Oct. 15. If you are interested in running for office, the RMOW, in partnership with the Whistler Public Library, will be hosting a Candidate Information Session that will explain the process on June 28 at 6 p.m. More information on the nomination process and becoming a candidate can be found here: whistler.ca/municipal-gov/ elections/candidates.

services, needs and priorities, as well as to measure the municipality’s service performance, the survey will consist of phone interviews with 300 permanent residents and 200 second homeowners, along with an online survey for all residents who wish to participate. “This is the community’s chance to provide input on all things ‘Whistler.’ I

encourage all residents to participate in the Community Life Survey,” said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton in a release. Conducted by Deloitte LLP, the phone surveys are approximately 15 minutes long and begin May 30. All calls will come from the number 877-392-0956. Questions will be focused on community life in Whistler, and will include some demographic questions. Surveyors will never ask for private personal information that could identify you, such as a Social Insurance Number. Those interested can sign up for the online survey at whistler.ca/survey, where they will receive a unique URL by email to access the poll. A link will be sent when the survey becomes available on June 27. Responses will remain confidential and will not be linked to the email address provided, the RMOW said. The online survey runs from June 27 to July 17. Those that participate in the phone survey do not need to fill out an online survey. Survey results are expected to be shared with the public later this summer. The survey has been a part of the RMOW’s community monitoring program since 2006. View the results from past surveys at whistler.ca/survey. - Brandon Barrett n

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‘Eva Lake, like Whistler itself, was his dream come true’ EVA LAKE CEREMONY UNVEILS INTERPRETIVE PANEL FOR WHISTLER ICON, WALTER ZEBROWKSI

BY BRANDON BARRETT A CEREMONY Thursday, May 26 at Eva Lake Park unveiled a new interpretive panel highlighting the many contributions late Whistler developer, community builder, and war hero Walter Zebrowksi made to the resort community. But you can be sure the sign could never contain all of the accomplishments and qualities of one of modern Whistler’s earliest boosters and visionaries. “It’s such a pleasure to be here with all of you celebrating someone who left a deep and important mark on this place. I’d say left many marks on this place,” said Mayor Jack Crompton during the ceremony. Born in Poland in 1913, Wladyslaw “Walter” Zebrowski became a major in the Polish Army under British command, and was in Italy in 1944 during the Second World War when his brigade helped capture Monte Cassinno. He survived being a prisoner of war on three separate occasions, “never knowing how much more time he had to live,” recalled daughter Ewa, for whom Eva Lake is named after. “If you read his military history, you’d know nothing was going to stop him,” said

Garry Watson, Freedom of the Municipality holder and longtime friend and business partner of Zebrowski’s. “Walter was the most determined son of a bitch.” After the war, Zebrowski moved to Canada, a country that represented “freedom and a new beginning,” Ewa said, before landing in Whistler in 1963. A Whistler, it should be noted, that had no running water, no electricity, and no ski lifts at the time. A stubborn, hard-working man who wouldn’t take no for an answer, Zebrowski had his hand in virtually every aspect of the growing resort town over the 30-plus years he spent here before his death in 1996. He started the Whistler Volunteer Fire Department, the Whistler Rotary Club, helped found the Whistler Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in bringing the first free television signal to the valley. “Boy, that was a job,” Watson recalled. “He started by climbing every mountain, I think, to find [a signal] and he had a little television receiver, three inches square, and he’d check for signals everywhere he went and bothered the hell out of everybody.” An avid fisherman, Zebrowski ensured there was a place for young anglers in the community to throw out a line when he had a marshy area on his Creekside

checked out at the clinic in Pemberton, literally crawling to his vehicle. “The pharmacist was terrified at the sight of him and wanted to put him in a helicopter to the hospital. Walter got back in his car, drove here, then he drove to the hospital in North Vancouver,” Watson said. “Diagnosis? Severe heart attack. Severe. We almost lost him. But he recovered and came back to carry on.” Now, a panel sits at the very same site, in the park that bears his daughter’s name, ensuring the legacy of one of Whistler’s most tireless advocates will live on in memory for generations to come. “I’m proud to be here today to celebrate and remember, not only his achievement, but his spirit. That continuity and history are important. Our connections matter. Our life’s work is a reflection of us. Our legacy and values are intrinsic. And what we do and why we do it is what truly matters,” said Ewa to close out the ceremony. “Eva Lake, like Whistler itself, was his dream come true. Dare to wonder. Dare to rediscover. Dare to create. Dare to build. Dare to dream.” The Walter Zebrowski panel is one of approximately 130 outdoor interpretive panels throughout Whistler designed to create awareness and understanding of the area’s natural history and heritage. n

WALTER’S WAY Ewa Zebrowski speaks to the assembled crowd at Eva Lake Park for the unveiling of a new interpretive panel in honour of her father. PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS

property dammed and dedicated in perpetuity as Eva Lake, which was later stocked with trout. Testament to his unrelenting commitment to the cause, Zebrowski did much of the painstaking work of preparing the site himself, removing large boulders and bringing in timbers to begin building the dam. One day, he felt some pain in his chest and had to lie down in the grass for a while before deciding he better go get himself

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‘It’s an encroachment’: Spruce Lake property owners raise concerns about BC Parks plans for new ranger station STAKEHOLDERS UPSET BY LACK OF CONSULTATION; DISAGREE WITH PROPOSED LOCATION IN SOUTH CHILCOTIN MOUNTAINS PARK

BY MEGAN LALONDE A GROUP CONCERNED about BC Parks’ plan to build a ranger cabin in South Chilcotin Mountains Park (SCMP) this month is looking to take their dispute to court. It’s not so much BC Parks’ longstanding plans to build a cabin on Spruce Lake that has property owners and other “Friends of Spruce Lake” worried, said Whistler homeowner Dennis Perry, but BC Parks’ chosen location along the northeastern edge of the lake, coupled with what Perry described as BC Parks officials’ failure to consult with stakeholders. Located near Gold Bridge, about 200 kilometres north of Whistler, Spruce Lake has been referred to as the “jewel” of the rugged SCMP. The area is home to wildlife like grizzly bears and California bighorn sheep, as well as a small campground and a handful of cabins built decades ago on the north and west sides of the lake. The lake is typically accessed by foot, mountain bike, helicopter or float plane, but riding pack horses in has always been the traditional way for Perry’s family.

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Perry has been heading to Spruce Lake to visit one of those cabins for more than half a century. “In the 1950s there were three cabins on the lake, and if you don’t count Chilcotin Holidays’ outfitter camp, there are still only three cabins on the lake,” he said. BC Parks has intended to build a cabin at the site since 2009, when a thenrepresentative for BC Parks promised at the time to discuss any ranger cabin construction with lake residents prior to finalizing project plans. Despite these assurances, cabin owners didn’t hear anything about the ranger station until BC Parks staff informed lake residents in February that the agency intended to move forward with construction near the existing helipad this year. A ranger station at the proposed site on the lake’s eastern shore would deface “one of B.C.’s most beautiful wilderness lake viewscapes forever,” said Perry. Chief among Perry and his fellow property owners’ concerns are the potential for the new cabin to harm both Spruce Lake’s sensitive ecosystem and lake residents’ enjoyment of their properties. He said the A-frame, which will stand

approximately nine metres tall, will be the largest structure on the lake. In a “Frequently Asked Questions” document posted on the SCMP website, BC Parks said the ranger station is being constructed in anticipation of future user growth in the park. (Representatives for BC Parks did not return numerous requests for comment before Pique’s deadline. ) Lake residents have been in touch with BC Parks staff in recent months to propose alternate sites for the ranger station that they say would be more appropriate, but Perry said those suggestions have not been seriously considered. According to BC Parks’ FAQ list, the chosen site “balances proximity to the floatplane dock, campground, and commercial operator camps while maintaining enough distance not to disturb the occupants there and provide separation for BC Parks staff,” is accessible by an existing trail and is “of relatively low value ecologically, recreationally, and archaeologically.” BC Parks says the site was selected in accordance with the agency’s rigorous internal environmental impact assessment process. The document also claims the

site is “not visible from any of the cabins, campgrounds, or commercial operators on Spruce Lake,” but admits it “may be seen from the dock of the ‘midpoint’ cabin on the west side of the lake.” Perry joined BC Parks’ regional director and other representatives on Tuesday, May 31 for a site tour at Spruce Lake. He said BC Parks representatives told him during the tour switching sites at this point in the process would require an additional archaeological survey, which could take another three years to complete. “I think the whole exercise was simply for them to be able to say, ‘Oh, we consulted,’” said Perry. “We know that’s not consulting, because it was after the fact.” Armed with “around nine or 10” affidavits, Perry said the Friends of Spruce Lake group is now in the process of applying for a judicial review. “From a big picture standpoint, I don’t want to see the lake that I’ve loved for 60 years destroyed. I’d love to see it stay the way it is forever. And this [ranger station] changes things forever … it’s an encroachment and, you know, where does it stop? “Frankly, I feel violated.” n

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Cold, wet May behind busy start to black bear season for Whistler COS CONSERVATION OFFICERS URGING PUBLIC TO AVOID CALLAGHAN VALLEY AFTER CONFIRMING REPORTS OF GRIZZLY BEAR SEEN FEEDING IN THE AREA

BY MEGAN LALONDE THE BC CONSERVATION Officer Service (COS) is urging the public to avoid heading into the Callaghan Valley area after confirming several reports of a grizzly bear spotted feeding on natural vegetation beside Callaghan Valley Road, near Whistler Olympic Park. Officers are “asking the public to avoid the area in order to allow the bear to feed in its natural habitat. Vehicles stopping within 100 metres to the bear can cause habituated behaviour and possible conflict,” the COS said in an emailed statement. “The best thing we can all do for the bears at this time is to avoid areas bears are feeding.” Though the number of grizzly sightings in alpine terrain on the west side of Whistler Valley have increased in recent years, at times triggering a series of alpine trail network closures, the bears’ visits to the valley bottom tend to be less frequent. The Coast to Cascades Grizzly Bear Initiative estimated in its 2021 update that there are approximately 59 bears in the Squamish-Lillooet population, which encapsulates the towns of Lillooet,

BIG OL’ BEAR COS asks the public to avoid the Callaghan Valley for the time being after a grizzly bear was spotted feeding in the area. PHOTO BY ROBERT WISLA

Pemberton, Whistler and Squamish. Whistler also saw a total of more than 70 millimetres of precipitation fall over the valley throughout the month of May, according to Environment Canada, while the average mean daily temperature was a mere 8 degrees C. That makes it the wettest and coldest May in Whistler since Environment Canada began recording those statistics in 2005. That has meant more snow for local

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peaks, and for the area’s more commonly seen black bears, a lack of food availability in higher-elevation terrain, said Sea to Sky conservation officer Brittany Mueller. “We’ve had a very busy spring, lots of active bears, and more than likely that’s due to the late spring and a snow load that we have up top,” she said. “The only food availability for bears right now is in the valley bottom. The grass, all the natural vegetation, has them coming down, and

so we’re seeing a higher frequency of bears in the valley than usual.” It has also meant more encounters, Mueller said. But encouragingly, few of those encounters have been worrisome outside of a small number of reports of bears behaving aggressively. Mueller said that behaviour has mostly manifested in the form of bluff charging, including in one case where a series of reported bluff charges prompted the Resort Municipality of Whistler to temporarily close a section of the Valley Trail. The black bear “was just starting to show some defensive behaviours, so we thought, ‘Let’s close it down,’ with … the RMOW making that final decision. We were able to reopen it, I think after about a week, and that bear moved on.” Whistler conservation officers received about 45 bear-related calls last month, according to Mueller, significantly more than the 24 reports officers received during May 2018, for example. No bears have been destroyed due to conflict with humans or relocated (aside from two cubs who were taken to Critter Care after their mother, found emaciated in Whistler’s Rainbow neighbourhood, was euthanized for humane reasons in April). n

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HOUSING HOTSPOT Housing under construction in the WedgeWoods neighbourhood. PHOTO BY ROBERT WISLA

WedgeWoods bylaw change could mean more housing for Whistler area PROPOSED CHANGE WOULD ALLOW MORE AUXILIARY UNITS—BUT SOME SAY SHORT-TERM RENTALS MAKE MORE FINANCIAL SENSE

BY ROBERT WISLA A ZONING CHANGE proposed for the WedgeWoods neighbourhood north of Whistler could increase the amount of housing in the community. The changes would make it so property owners could have up to two auxiliary dwelling units, one within a single-family dwelling and one with a carriage house. WedgeWoods is a private development about 15 kilometres north of Whistler, just outside municipal boundaries in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD). The community is primarily composed of single-family dwellings spread out over 108 lots up to an acre in size. Under the current zoning, WedgeWoods property owners can only have one additional unit on their property; the new zoning would double that. The property owner would be required to register a Section 219 covenant against the property title at the Land Title Office, which will specify that the units may not be used for short-term or vacation rentals and must be rented to a person who is currently employed within the SLRD, a family member, or a retiree that has worked in the region over the last five years. The proposed changes stemmed from a Housing Need and Demand Study commissioned by the SLRD in 2019, following provincial legislation that required municipalities and regional district areas to study their housing situation. “WedgeWoods always was planned as a community. As you may or may not be aware, the minimum lot size in WedgeWoods is a half-acre. Quite frankly, a number of the lots are one acre, an acre and a half, and it was always contemplated under the zoning that we had the opportunity to have single-family homes that could have a suite within it, but it also had the potential that you could create an auxiliary building or carriage home and that auxiliary building could contain a suite,” said WedgeWoods

developer David Ehrhardt. “So there was always the option to have a suite either in the main home or in the auxiliary building. The primary difference is that with the modification of the bylaw, there is an opportunity for an incremental increase, which does, to a degree, increase the overall density but, given the large size of the lot, does not necessarily impact or create a challenge to the subdivision.” While he can’t speak for every WedgeWoods owner, Ehrhardt believes as long as the new zoning doesn’t take away benefits of the existing zoning, the new plan would not be viewed as a problem. In theory, the proposed bylaw change could lead to an additional 216 units of housing if each property built a suite and an additional carriage house. However, through the rezoning process, some residents in WedgeWoods have raised concerns about the costs associated with adding suites, noting that the proposed changes may not bring enough incentive to develop the secondary unit if it is coveted for long-term renters instead of the more profitable short-term renters. After considering the second reading of the proposal at its May 25 meeting, the SLRD board sent the bylaw back to staff to bring forward stronger covenants for longterm renters. “We’re not trying to make it complicated. We’re trying to make it clear and secure, so that when we do provide affordable employee housing, we do it properly, and we do it for the long term,” said Pemberton Mayor Mike Richman. “We’re just trying to do it right. This is not complicated. When we put the covenant together, this is nothing new. Whistler Housing Authority has a million covenants, and communities all over the place have a million covenants in different ways to manage affordable housing. “We’re being told that our corridor is suffering an affordable housing crisis. We’re trying to solve it in a way that is permanent and long term and well thought out.” n

A Lawerly Life

MOUNTAIN LAW CORPORATION’S Former Associate Legal Counsel. With sorrow, we announce that a good friend of Whistler and our beloved long time legal counsel, passed peacefully away on May 24, 2022 after 93 years, including 50 years practising law in Vancouver. He was the father of longtime local lawyer Peter, and proud grand-parent to Whistlerites, Harrison, Samantha, Michaela, and Kiara. David was born in London, England and after serving with the British Army Occupation Forces in North Africa immediately after World War II, followed in his father’s footsteps to become a lawyer as well. Wanderlust brought David to Vancouver to visit a distant relative in 1957. Apart from short stints living in Germany and England, he loved living in that city for the rest of his life. Employed at a downtown law firm, he soon met a vivacious legal secretary from Germany and married Gudrun (Gudy). Very soon after the arrival of Peter, they ventured up the pot-holed and gravelled Sea to Sky Highway, with their baby in a car seat. And that was when they (all three!) fell in love with Whistler. After Paul and Mark were born, they made it a regular habit to do much hiking around Whistler, with the Tyrol Club as their “home away from home”, often accompanied by their three ski crazed sons during the wintertime. After stints as estate counsel at both Canada Trust and Royal Trust, David eventually bought out his employer’s law firm in 1977, which his son Peter joined in 1988. Peter took over that firm soon thereafter, and moved to Whistler to start a young family and to found Mountain Law Corporation. David continued to provide his wise legal counsel at the Vancouver branch before retiring in 2009. David’s long career in the law was marked by an undiminished dedication to his clients and the highest integrity in his dealings with colleagues and co-workers. He was well liked for his gentlemanly manner and modesty. His advice was to the point and unerringly accurate. After his retirement he continued to spend much time outdoors, including frequent trips to Whistler with Gudy to visit the grandchildren and explore our beautiful mountains. Upon becoming less mobile, they plied the ocean on cruises and continued their local sojourns by holing up on the fabled eighth floor of the Fairmont Chateau to receive visitors and enjoy the views. David is pre-deceased by his beloved wife, Gudy, who passed away four years ago, and is survived by his sons Peter (Rose), Paul (Karen) Mark (Carolyn) and eight grandchildren. His Funeral Mass will take place on June 4th, and for live streaming information please email peter@mountainlaw.com.

JUNE 2, 2022

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All-Brit Classic Car Run not returning to Whistler LONG-RUNNING CAR SHOW RELOCATED TO HARRISON HOT SPRINGS DUE TO RMOW CLIMATE POLICY

BY HARRISON BROOKS FANS OF CLASSIC CARS and revving engines are going to have to look outside of Whistler to get their fix after the annual All British Field Meet (ABFM) Classic Car Run found a new home in Harrison Hot Springs this year. For the past 27 years, the ABFM Classic Car Run has made the drive up the Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver to Whistler where the cars were put on display at Whistler Olympic Plaza. It’s an event that many in town, like local musician Greg Reamsbottom, look forward to each year. “I’ve been a fan of car shows my whole life,” he said. “Cars are bookmarks of design, technical innovation and history. The hard work and care of preserving these cars is commendable, and the camaraderie of these events is worth experiencing. You’ll never meet a nicer group of people.” But due to the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) “commitment to climate action, it was determined that supporting gasoline car shows didn’t fit the community values, as demonstrated in the Official Community Plan and Big Moves Climate Action Strategy,” said an RMOW

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“This town’s entire economy is dependent on fossil-fuel burning tourists. Until the RMOW has no internal combustion vehicles in their fleet, no leaf blowers or lawn mowers. Until they ban patio heaters etc., they’re just ‘blowing smoke.’” - GREG REAMSBOTTOM spokesperson in an email. “Additionally, the placement of 100 vehicles onto the Village Stroll posed safety concerns, given the increased volume of

people that now are visiting and enjoying the pedestrian stroll … The dates they were asking for were on a weekend when we already had a large volume of visitors with

the Victoria Day long weekend and the Whistler Children’s Festival.” Regardless of how many reasons the RMOW gives for not bringing the show back this year, Reamsbottom said he’s not buying it and calls their reasons “classic virtue signalling” that “reek of hypocrisy.” “This town’s entire economy is dependent on fossil-fuel burning tourists. Until the RMOW has no internal combustion vehicles in their fleet, no leaf blowers or lawn mowers. Until they ban patio heaters etc., they’re just ‘blowing smoke,’” he said. “Not allowing this event in Whistler didn’t change anything, the event simply went somewhere else. The event’s carbon footprint remained the same (or worse) so really, what was gained by this decision? I know that people will argue that ‘every little bit helps,’ and that we ‘have to start somewhere,’ but in this case I believe it was a hollow gesture.” Reamsbottom also noted the “obvious” financial benefits the show brings to the village’s hotels, pubs, restaurants and gas stations. When asked about not being able to return to Whistler, a spokesperson for the ABFM Classic Car Run declined to comment, stating “we are done with this and have moved on.” n

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Whistler Fire Rescue Service prepares for structural fires WFRS COORDINATES WITH BC WILDFIRE SERVICE AND BLACKCOMB HELICOPTERS ON TWO-DAY TRAINING EXERCISE

BY ROBERT WISLA WHAT WOULD HAPPEN if the mountains around Whistler caught fire in tinder-dry conditions? What would the Whistler Fire Rescue Service (WFRS) do if an interface fire threatened buildings? How would WFRS work with other agencies to fight back against the fire? That was the scenario presented to local firefighters during a training session held in Whistler on May 26 and 27. The session brought together various different fire services and community partners for structural training exercises to prepare for the worst-case scenario of a massive wildfire in the resort municipality. “The program is specifically designed to be a training program for firefighters and other community stakeholders to get a better understanding of structure protection strategies,” said Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) emergency services coordinator Ryan Donohue. “Structure protection really comes into play when everything else has kind of not gone well.” In all, 30 WFRS and BC Wildfire Service firefighters took part in the exercise at the base of Blackcomb Mountain’s Lot 6, with support from Blackcomb Helicopters. Crews rapidly set about filling up a massive bladder with water from fire hydrants. However, if municipal water supplies are unavailable, this is often done with water trucks or air support. A row of sprinklers was laid out along a defensive line, going on top of buildings with portable pumps pumping water from the bladder. As the bladder was drained out, Blackcomb Helicopters came in with a bucket full of water and filled it right back up again. “It’s a bit of an exercise in interagency collaboration, to try and create this situational awareness for our community stakeholders, so that you know if the time comes where we have to deploy

these particular strategies for structural protection, we’ll be better suited to work together and be more efficient at putting these strategies into play,” said Donohue. While the training was viewed as a success, Donohue wants to remind people that it is a last resort, and that the public needs to do its part in the coming fire season to help fight back. “Ideally, the No. 1 strategy to mitigate wildfire is not to have it. The second thing is to ensure that if it does happen that we’re prepared to be able to respond to it, but more importantly, our community is resilient to it,” said Donohue. “So FireSmarting properties to ensure that they will not ignite if a wildfire comes through, having personal preparedness kits, so we’re ready to go if we have to evacuate. “There needs to be an understanding from the public that their emergency preparedness and the more prepared they are, the more likely they’re going to be more resilient when one of these disasters strikes.” FireSmarting is a big part of a strong community plan to fight against fires, and residents are reminded to sign up for a free FireSmart assessment on their properties. “What we’ve learned over the past 10 years is that the FireSmarting of properties is probably the most effective approach to wildfire mitigation in terms of loss of structures. It’s also super effective in not taxing resources, like when communities become engulfed in a wildfire,” Donohue said. “It’s very difficult for those response agencies to be able to mitigate those once those fires have started ... So preventing those structure fires by FireSmarting them and having the homeowners do the assessments and make the necessary changes to their properties to make them non-combustible, or as non-combustible as possible, has proven to be the most effective strategy for saving communities from wildfires.” Find more info and resources at whistler.ca/wildfire. n

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Major Lil’wat housing development moves closer to fruition MIXED-USE DEVELOPMENT WOULD ADD 53 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS IN MOUNT CURRIE

BY ROBERT WISLA A NEW LIL’WAT NATION mixed-use development on Highway 99 in Mount Currie aims to help address the challenging housing situation in the region. Located at the intersection of Highway 99 and Pemberton Portage Road across from St. Christopher’s Parish, the Lil’wat Main Street Development, as it’s called, is a proposed mixed-use commercial and residential development consisting of 53 housing units and six commercial spaces in two separate buildings. Thirty-six of the housing units will be non-market subsidized housing, provided by BC Housing, with the remainder being affordable market rental housing.

MOVING FORWARD A rendering of the proposed development in Mount Currie. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE SLRD

The units will be a mixture of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units. The project will be able to house between 100 and 120 people. “There is a shortage of units [in Lil’wat Nation] which is one of the key things, and having different sizes of units available for single people or small families and things like that is an important part of the development,” said Lil’wat Chief Dean Nelson. The new development, now headed for third reading at the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD), is designed to be a village centre of sorts. It will include general commercial uses, a small park with a playground, a community garden for residents and 110 parking stalls for commercial and residential users. The development is also planned to make the Highway 99 intersection and Mount Currie village area more pedestrianfriendly. The plans call for turning the existing three-way stop into a four-way stop

with new sidewalks that will connect to existing commercial facilities and the T’szil Learning Centre. The development’s six commercial shops could include a range of commercial ventures that are needed in the community. “We were thinking of all different types of things like possibly a bank, or maybe doctortype things and coffee shops,” said Nelson. “The big thing is that we had to purchase the lands to make sure that they’re not developed by someone else, where we would like to develop. So we saw this as really important, to secure those lands.” The land is also important to the Nation from a historical perspective, Nelson said, adding that there is “a lot of history” that needs to be researched. “So it is a very valuable piece of property for us, like all lands are ... as far as a business centre, it fits in with the gas station there and with T’szil Learning Centre. It’s like a core of the nation, but it’s mainly a business

opportunity for us to build on,” he said. A zoning amendment bylaw and related Official Community Plan amendment bylaw for the project passed second reading at the April 21 SLRD board meeting, followed by a public hearing held on May 17. While the housing development is focused on tackling the challenging housing situation faced by members of Lil’wat and the wider St’át’y’emc Nation, the broader community could also potentially be able to use some of the housing. “What we’ve articulated to BC Housing and what would be eligible under the Indigenous Housing Fund would be that it will be a tiered selection process. Lil’wat Nation members will have priority, St’át’y’emc members are second and the broader community third,” said Lil’wat director of infrastructure, housing and public works Tom Laviolette in a presentation to the SLRD. Find more info at slrd.bc.ca. n

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Another roadside attraction SUMMER SEASON is driving season, and if you’re sick of Whistler’s burgeoning weekend traffic jams, you can actually escape them by hitting the road yourself, joining those scrambling across our province’s highways to camp, kayak, fish, boat, hike, Instagram influence or just hang at the

BY LESLIE ANTHONY cabin. Most of these sporty folks will be off the road after Labour Day, of course, but the rest? Well, they’re just driving. Across town. Across the province. Maybe even across the country. I like to do that every few years myself, with lots of crisscrossing to other places along the way. It’s a big ol’ country with plenty to see from a car window, but in my travels I’ve found there are two constants. First, a string of bizarre and seemingly random roadside attractions. I use that term loosely and don’t include the many odd things in this class for which stopping isn’t required to observe, like, from west to east: a giant lumberjack, giant coal truck, giant bear, giant teepee, giant Sasquatch—in northern Ontario, no less—giant thermometer, giant Canada goose, giant nickel, giant apple… etc. Second, there are the classic roadside motels strung along the Trans-Canada Highway. The two are not entirely unrelated

QUAINT OR CREEPY? Columnist Leslie Anthony ponders the practicality of many of the country’s so-called roadside “attractions,” like this hotel located in Three Valley Gap outside of Revelstoke. PHOTO BY GETTYIMAGES.CA

as one often seems to be reason for the other (which, I suppose, might make them less random). Let’s talk about the former. What exactly comprises a roadside attraction? As conceived by their proprietors, doubtless something that should captivate you so completely that you immediately want to abandon your drive, slam on the brakes, and pull off the highway to partake of it. Like, say, that weird grown-over mini-golf place on the outskirts of every town in the west, or a go-kart track in the middle of nowhere (because you are so sick of driving forward that you want to… go in circles?). Ever wondered over the roadside hallucination of B.C.’s Three Valley Gap, with its chateau right out of The Shining, heritage ghost town (which seems truly

the requisite middle of nowhere, is The Log Barn where, apparently, “The West is Truly Wild!” No surprise since this place is also referred to by road-tripping cognoscenti as Dave’s Goat Walk, the dinosaur ranch, the pumpkin farm, the pie place and any number of other possible appellations to describe a bricolage of large-scale prehistoric creatures, model birds, antique vehicles, flower gardens, a three-story chef with a pie in his hand, live goats that walk over an arched bridge above the parking lot, a food stand, and a pond full of turtles. It doesn’t get much better—or more inexplicable. If you like this kind of thing, chase down the ones along your next driving route at the very thorough roadsideattractions.ca. And now, motels. I could go on about any

I stopped there once to pee and had my fortune told by a disembodied head inside a glass box. redundant), and creepy strange Enchanted Forest concession? Me, too. It’s odd, but the national winner in my mind was the absolutely cringe-worthy Hotel Madrid, with its collection of concrete dinosaurs and monster trucks that languished for decades in the monotonous bush halfway between Montreal and Quebec City. I stopped there once to pee and had my fortune told by a disembodied head inside a glass box. Fortunately, someone saw fit to demolish the place in 2011. If there’s a competition, another contender lies in the north Okanagan near Armstrong. Here, in

aspect of this anachronistic collection of neoHoser architecture but that might be giving it more attention than it deserves. Instead, I’ll stick with the naming of these institutions, which you can keep track of from the road. To start, there are thematic clusters of names (Silver Sage, Ranchman, Prairie Oasis, Cowboy Hat) or vague compass points (Superior North, Nor-West, Best Northern) that, should you be without a map, offer vague orientation. Forests and trees figure prominently in the canon (Woodland, Westwood, Black Spruce, Pine, Lone Pine, Shady Pines, Pine Grove,) and

segue nicely into the “overlook” trope (Pine View, Park View, Valley View, Mountain View), through a river jag (River View, River Mist, Riverside, Deep River, High Falls) to land up on a colourless theme (White River, White Otter, White Fang) that may or may not have something to do with snow. Equally common are descriptive pairings (Iron Bridge, Mystic Isle, Falcon Ridge, Blueberry Hill, Jackfish Lake) and odes to celestial phenomena (Sunset, Northern Lights… does Satellite count?), pastoral Victorian life (Coach House, Old Mill, Barrel Inn, The Clansmen, Carriage House) and a television show (Shady Rest— remember Petticoat Junction?) A few generic classics (Continental, Ambassador, Traveler, Holiday, Hide Away) and cross-border throws (American, Trans Canada), pathetic portmanteaus (Sun-dek) and some that make no sense whatsoever (Pals, Red Top, Tel Star—uh, isn’t that a satellite, too?). Oddly, very few directly channel the history you’re traversing (Circle Route, Voyageur, Trading Post, Mohawk, and a couple versions of Champlain) which I find sad. Sad enough to want to pull into any of an uplifting series of names that, on the face of it, have no place in the mountains, prairies and boreal forests of our beloved land, but add an exotic flavour every time you count one, and which always make you go Hmm… (Villa Bianca, Villa Inn, Catalina, Bel-Aire, Sapphire, Flamingo, and the king—Spanish Fiesta). I might hit the road again soon, because, of course, it’s the quickest way to Paradise… or at least its eponymous motel. Leslie Anthony is a Whistler-based author, editor, biologist and bon vivant who has never met a mountain he didn’t like. ■

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Decision on future of B.C. salmon farms to come within ‘weeks,’ says DFO Ottawa says it is within weeks of making a decision on the province’s salmon farm industry—a move meant to protect wild Pacific salmon from disease. By Stefan Labbé

rom Vancouver’s North Shore to Victoria, droves of sea lice have “infected” the windows of several B.C. politicians in recent months. The unexpected visitors—giant cutouts of the parasitic sea lice—have shaded out the windows of British Columbia Premier John Horgan, federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and Patrick Weiler, MP for the breathless riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country. “They are people who love wild salmon—fishers, recreationalists, regular British Columbians,” said Watershed Watch Salmon Society scientist Stan Proboszcz of the crafty protest.

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FEATURE STORY The displays of frustration came as the future of B.C.’s open net-pen salmon farming hangs in the balance. The debate has played out across industry groups, First Nations, hundreds of scientific studies and multiple levels of government. Even Canada’s Federal Court has weighed in, deciding in April former federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan had breached B.C. salmon farmers’ rights to procedural fairness when she ordered all salmon farms out of the Discovery Islands—a decision made in late 2020 as a measure to open up a bottleneck for migrating sockeye salmon. Often out of sight of millions of British Columbians, the province’s 79 remaining salmon farms dot the coast, generating an estimated $1.5 billion for the province’s economy, according to the B.C. Salmon Farmer’s Association. The association points to several DFO studies completed over the last several decades indicating disease and sea lice originating in the open-water pens and passing to wild populations pose a benign risk. Dozens of other scientists, however, have come to other conclusions.

farming Atlantic salmon in B.C. dating back to the later 1800s. “The really important thing is that when we sampled wild fish closer to the farms, they were more likely to be infected,” Mordecai said shortly after his research was published. Less than a week later, the BC Salmon Farmer’s Association shot back with a nearly 1,800-word email to Glacier Media, calling Mordecai’s science into question and stating his research team “has simply succeeded in generating alarm and uncertainty.” “What we’re seeing here is the manufacturing of a scientific debate,” said Proboszcz of the back and forth. “Science cannot show with 100-per-cent certainty any one thing.” What science reaches decision-makers at DFO has received increased attention in recent weeks after the Globe and Mail published details of a 2012 report documenting the first cases of PRV in farmed salmon—including symptoms of jaundice and anemia, both associated with the disease. In chinook salmon, which have not had the same time to adapt to the virus, those symptoms cause red blood cells to burst, leading to kidney and liver damage. Kept quiet by multiple federal governments, the report was only made public in March after a decade-long battle to release it through the federal Information Commissioner. A key author of the report, Dr. Kristi Miller-Saunders, was forced to keep silent about its findings despite a rising body of scientific work that confirmed what she had seen. Yet concerns the DFO manipulates science have circulated for years. In testimony to the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on April 26, 2021, Miller-Saunders was asked if DFO’s independence from industry had changed in recent years. “Well, I am supposed to be sticking to the science, but in short, no,” she said. Last week, that committee heard from several other scientists echoing concerns that DFO has consistently ignored expert advice in favour of the aquaculture industry.

University of British Columbia scientists dissect wild Pacific salmon tissues for molecular analysis and viral genomic sequencing. - Amy Romer PHOTO BY AMY ROMER

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ast year, for example, UBC viral ecologist Gideon Mordecai found a debilitating virus widely seen in Atlantic salmon has been transmitting through open-water pens into wild Pacific salmon populations. The study, which traced the piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) through genome sequencing, found it has been continuously transmitted from open-net salmon farms to wild juvenile chinook salmon for at least a decade—underscoring how aquaculture has become a pathway to introduce novel pathogens to wild species. The genomic sequencing estimated the virus’ introduction into wild chinook salmon took place roughly 30 years ago, the same time Atlantic salmon eggs were brought to the West Coast. That refutes claims the virus was introduced during earlier attempts at

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FEATURE STORY “DFO hid the science showing PRV causes organ failure in chinook salmon and thus allowed this Norwegian blood virus to escape DFO regulations and spread into the Skeena Fraser, and everywhere in between,” Alexandra Morton, an independent scientist who has worked on Pacific salmon for 30 years, told the committee May 12. “Ninety-five per cent of farmed salmon for sale in B.C. supermarkets is infected.” Researchers say there is no evidence PRV is harmful to humans. Describing DFO as “a captured regulator of the fish farm industry,” First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance chairman Bob Chamberlin told the committee that many Indigenous communities have lost faith in the government’s scientific vetting process. DFO’s scientific advisory secretariat (CSAS), he added, has “zero credibility” among the 102 First Nations that support a transition to land-based fish farms. Chamberlin proposed expanding independent First Nations-run laboratories to identify threats from pathogens to salmon and the legally protected food security they represent. “The decision DFO Minister Joyce Murray will be making soon needs to be deeply guided by the legal realities of the Supreme Court of Canada and Canada’s constitutional protection of Aboriginal rights,” said Chamberlin. “Simply stated, this is a case of rights versus the privilege of a license.”

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“I think this industry has become a political liability,” said Proboszcz. “How is this transition going to happen? We haven’t heard much.” By March 2022, just as the information minister moved to release the suppressed 2012 DFO report, Premier John Horgan wrote a letter to Trudeau urging the prime minister to provide assurances that a transition program would be in place to help workers affected by salmon farm closures. He cited concerns in several Vancouver Island communities that the federal government was poised to make decisions on the salmon farm licences within weeks. The letter added that eliminating salmon farm licences “would fly in the face” of commitments by the federal and provincial governments to pursue the intentions of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous

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ost British Columbians appear to agree that it’s time for B.C.’s aquaculture industry to transform itself. In a July 2021 Insights West poll, 75 per cent of B.C. residents said they believe opennet salmon pens need to be transitioned to land-based pens. Last fall, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s mandate letter to incoming federal fisheries minister Joyce Murray reaffirmed the federal plan to transition away from traditional ocean-based salmon farming in B.C. by 2025.

Peoples, considering some First Nations are Despite calls from some scientists exploring salmon farming. and Indigenous leaders, none of the As the end-of-June deadline to renew all federal commitments made so far have 79 fish farm licences drew closer, the “sea pointed to a transition to land-based lice outbreak” landed at Horgan’s Langford aquaculture, according to B.C. Salmon office, later spreading to the constituent Farmers Association spokesperson offices of other politicians. Michelle Franze. A spokesperson for federal fisheries Franze said the province’s salmon minister Joyce Murray said the ministry is farmers want to work with all governments working with all sides to create a transition and First Nations to make a transition that plan for workers. works for rural coastal communities and Claire Teichman, press secretary for the the environment. But Franze says that Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian transition requires new technology, and Coast Guard, said DFO is in consultation with to make that shift, the industry needs the farm licence holders and that “a decision certainty it can continue to exist in B.C. will be made in the coming weeks.” About 4,700 B.C. jobs are at risk, she That decision, said Teichman, will said. come against the backdrop of the escalating “If all remaining licences aren’t renewed effects of climate change. or if ‘temporary’ licences are issued “The protection of wild Pacific salmon is (i.e., a return to one-year licences), then a priority for British Columbians,” she said. investment in the sector will likely come to “In recent years, climate change, including an end,” she said in an email. B.C.’s recent landslides and flooding, Salmon farm operations, she added, habitat loss and fishing pressures have “will have to wind down.” negatively affected Pacific salmon at every -With files from Nelson Bennett and the stage of the lifecycle.” Canadian Press ■

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Longtime Whistler Blackcomb ski coach leaving Sea to Sky AFTER MORE THAN 30 YEARS IN WHISTLER, SKI COACH DENIS EBACHER IS MOVING HOME TO QUEBEC

BY HARRISON BROOKS UNLESS YOU HAVE kids who have gone through Whistler Blackcomb’s ski programs, or you grew up here and went through the lessons yourself, you might not know who Denis Ebacher is. But that doesn’t mean his impact on Whistler’s ski community hasn’t been huge. For the past 30 years, Ebacher has been the man behind the mountain’s J4 program, which taught kids aged 10 years old the fundamentals of skiing before they picked their competitive path. But now, more than three decades later, Ebacher is leaving Whistler and heading back home to Quebec in July to be closer to his family. “My mom is getting older. She’s still in great shape and she’s got a pretty good relationship with my daughter, and I want them to benefit from that a little bit more than just Skyping all the time,” he said. “We also want my daughter to experience a different lifestyle than the Whistler bubble that we live in. She was born and raised here, so she’s a real Whistler kid. And if we wait too long, then home is going to be here

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for her, and I want her to feel like she has another home too. “But it’s bittersweet, for sure … I spent more than half my life here, but we’re excited for the new adventure, the new life and to be close to family.” In a town like Whistler, it’s no surprise that of the hundreds of kids to go through Ebacher’s programs over the years, many would go on to have great ski careers. Some, like Mike Janyk, Mollie Jepsen, and Broderick and Marielle Thompson, just to name a few, even competed on the sport’s highest stages—the Olympic and Paralympic Games. While Ebacher doesn’t want any credit for the success his former students have had, as he believes the ones who made it would have made it regardless of coaching, for both Janyk and Jepsen, Ebacher’s impact on their careers won’t soon be forgotten. Now 22 years old with six Paralympic medals already under her belt, Jepsen distinctly remembers Ebacher giving her confidence in her abilities and urging her to take up ski racing. “He pulled me aside out of the group one day and was like, ‘hey, I think you are a really good skier; I think you should try this,’ and so we ended up just me and him doing a little bit of light gate training,” said Jepsen. “This would have probably been the first gates I actually ever skied around, and I think it’s probably the reason that I did pursue ski racing in the end, which is kind of a cool thing to think about. He just gave me my

foundation in ski racing and made me feel like it was possible for me to be in ski racing.” Similarly, for Janyk, a three-time Olympian and the current executive director of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club, his memories of Ebacher are of someone who matched the energy of a rambunctious group of kids and helped stoke their fire for skiing. “He was my first contact with an organized ski program, and I remember he just had this energy that matched ours. He knew how to push us, challenge us and give us structure to keep us in line, too. And it was like everything I hoped it could be,” said Janyk. “He was the first one who pushed us to do 360s, to jump cliffs, but also pairing that with the fundamental skill development it really nurtured and fostered that love for the whole sport and for a work ethic with it.” While he is extremely proud of everything his former students have accomplished in the sport, for Ebacher, getting results or moving up the ranks was never a focus of his teachings. Instead, his lessons revolved building a love for the sport that would last a lifetime. And he believed that all started with respect: respect for the rules, respect for the mountain and respect for each other. “We had a bunch of rules … and if they did something wrong, then they would have to do pushups. But the thing is, those rules apply to the coaches as well. So I think it created that team spirit that even the coach wasn’t above all these rules. I guess it made

them feel that I respected them for who they were, and not because they’re little kids they owe me respect, I had to earn it, too. And I think that made that connection that much stronger,” he said. “I’ve always focused on trying to make lifetime skiers more than anything else. I think the thing I’m most proud of is just when I see kids that I coached like 32 years ago, skiing with their family up here and having their own kids in our program. That’s how [I know] we reached our goal, we got some lifelong skiers.” Ebacher actually stepped away from his role as a coach last year, opting to work for the mountain as a groomer this season instead. And while the mountain’s U10 and U12 ski programs will be in good hands with replacement Ian Stirk, after 30 plus years in the business, there is bound to be some advice Ebacher can pass down to his predecessors. When asked about that advice, Ebacher said to focus on the kids. Because, even though their parents might be the ones paying, the kids are the real customers. “I have some parents in the past that have tried to tell me what to do and, you know, I’m French Canadian and I’m very stubborn and unless you can prove I’m wrong, I’m not going to change the way I do things,” he said. “And so my answer to their request was, ‘is your kid happy to be skiing every weekend?’ Yes? OK, then he’s my customer. I know you’re paying, but if he’s happy, I think we’re doing the right thing.” n

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WITH A FULL YEAR to plan it, Whistler Off Road Cycling Association’s (WORCA) director of special events Quinn Lanzon believes the second iteration of the Back Forty race being held on Saturday, June 11, will be better than ever. The first ever Back Forty was supposed to happen in the spring of 2020, but after being forced to postpone for a year because of the pandemic, WORCA was finally able to get all the permissions needed to run the race in the fall of 2021. According to Lanzon, the idea behind the race was to capture the spirit of the long-running, Pemberton-based Nimby Fifty, which was discontinued in 2019. “One thing that the Nimby did was appeal to a really wide spectrum of riders. For more average and intermediate riders, it was like a benchmark. You’d train for it in the spring, and you’d go out and do it pretty early in the season and that would probably set you off for a good season of being in good shape. And then for more advanced riders it was really just a chance to push yourself because it was a challenging course, but a bit more laid back,” said Lanzon. “I was a huge fan of that race, I loved it. It was a good way to kick off the season. It was a really fun atmosphere and not a super common ride format. It was a cross-country race, but on really fun, proper mountain bike trails. So I wanted to bring the spirit of the Nimby Fifty to the trails of Whistler.” While the Nimby Fifty was a classic point-to-point race, the Back Forty is split into three legs, each approximately 10-kilometres long and involving a big climb, a lengthy descent and a crosscountry traversing section, taking riders from Function Junction to Rainbow Park. For participants of the race like WORCA’s president Dale Mikkelsen, who raced in the first-ever Back Forty last year as well as multiple Nimby Fifties in the years prior, the inaugural Back Forty was successful in its goal of capturing the spirit of the Nimby. However, with a few hiccups due to the short timeframe to put it on, Mikkelsen is excited to see how the race has improved with more planning time heading into year two. “I’m super excited. I think this is the evolution of the first year. We saw the Nimby Fifty sort of flex and change over time. I think that was the beauty of it, it wasn’t a static event and we’re trying to do the same thing where we understand what worked and what didn’t work and try to create and keep it interesting year over year and build a ridership, so I’m excited about that,” he said. “We’ve tweaked the course based on

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what we’ve learned last year to be both more fun and more challenging and I think now people that are returning have a baseline to sort of go, ‘OK that was hard, but now I’m ready for it.’” When race day finally rolls around on June 11, Mikkelsen said he’s “not after the enjoyment,” but instead his sole focus is on riding as fast as he can and beating his time from last year. According to Lanzon, this year’s race has been tweaked to improve the event in certain areas like more efficient start times for each leg to avoid logjams like last year, a less gruelling third stage, and a better layout which allows people to easily get to the après location at Meadow Park from the finish line without being shuttled. This year people will be able to pick up their plates at RideWrap in Function Junction, drop their bikes there and park their cars at the après location before being shuttled back to the starting point by Whistler Connection. Entry fee for the race is $99 with 75 per cent going directly to building new trails in Whistler. The other 25 per cent will go to the Indigenous Life Sport Academy to help train coaches and kick-start its summer mountain bike programs. With only about 100 racers last year, the event still raised about $8,000. This year, the goal is to increase that to $10,000. But if the rider limit of 200 is reached, Lanzon believes the event might even be able to raise upwards of $15,000 for the organization. If you are looking to get involved in the race, potential volunteers can email Lanzon at events@worca.com, while those looking to register for the race can do so at worca. com/the-back-forty. n

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Flying high with nolo’s ALCOHOL-FREE BEER, WINE AND SPIRITS ARE GAINING GROUND WITH IMBIBERS OF ALL AGES ON INTERNET ARCHIVE (a super resource if you haven’t yet discovered it), you’ll find a 1926 special edition of the Vancouver Morning Star. Printed by rotogravure (a posh way of printing anything needing high-quality photos), it features industry, development and all sorts of signifiers of “progress” in an early B.C. The special edition devotes two full pages to the British Columbia Distillery Co. Ltd., at the time the largest distillery in Canada, known for its “popular Caledonia antique liqueur,” along with the then-multi-

BY GLENDA BARTOSH million-dollar brewing industry—all at least partially fuelled by the U.S. prohibition of the 1920s. It was double the space given over to B.C.’s pulp and paper industry. Photos include 13 huge tanks, each with a capacity of 7,000+ gallons, at Vancouver Brewing Co.—”a typical one of the several plants engaged in making a clean, healthful, satisfying beverage.” Note the lack of reference to any mention of alcohol. The feature also includes a quirky disclaimer: Neither the B.C. government nor the Board of Liquor Control, as it was called then, had anything to do with the publication of said risqué images. (That’s my tongue in my cheek there, in case you couldn’t tell.)

NOLO A GO-GO Local wine expert Michael Kompass at home in Squamish with a French 75 made with sparkling water instead of sparkling wine and Lumette!’s London Dry nolo gin. PHOTO BY PAUL KOMPASS

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Booze has always been big in B.C. despite any disclaimers. Think of the legendary rum runners who hid their boats in the Fraser River Delta after selling booze illegally to prohibition-bound Americans. Or the traditional B.C. resource workers, mostly single men from fishing boats, logging ops and mines, who made their way to the pubs and flophouses in what’s now Gastown to whoop it up and make up for worksites rendered booze-free for safety. Then there’s all the romance embedded in postwar, alcohol-fuelled culture. Bogie’s bar in Casablanca. Bond’s shaken, not stirred’s. And the many party-hardy aspects of resorts like Whistler, where a stylish drink or three has traditionally never been amiss. The Vancouver Sun reports that in 2020, each British Columbian downed the equivalent of 550 beers, a 20-year high. And don’t put all the blame on the pandemic. We’ve long been among the heaviest drinkers in Canada. But change is afoot, dear readers. Maybe it’s the latest scientific research linking booze to more and more health issues like dementia and heart disease. Like last week’s European Society of Cardiology study that showed what many countries consider a safe level of alcohol consumption to be linked to heart failure. (Alcohol is a long-known carcinogen with no risk-free consumption levels; we’ve just chosen to ignore that fact.) Maybe it’s an aging population finding it harder and harder to deal with the day after. Or, as Whistler’s Cathy Goddard of Lighthouse Visionary Strategies so nicely outlined in her 2019 Pique feature, maybe people are just getting “curiouser and curiouser” about revisiting their relationship with alcohol. Whatever the reasons, more and more people in B.C. and beyond are tapping into nolo (also spelled NOLO and NoLo)—any

usually alcoholized drinks that contain no or low alcohol. Personally, I started looking for decent nolo’s decades ago after I got malaria in Borneo and, yes, I was taking antimalarials. Malaria is tough on your brain, and liver, so after years of enjoying many a Tapley’s brew, I suddenly felt queasy after a mere sip of anything boozy. One downside was the lack of good alternatives, since creating good nolo’s is challenging, given how much taste and body depends on the alcohol. (The latest technology uses membrane separation to filter out ethanol and other undesirables.) Another downside was totally unexpected— in some contexts, I was treated like a weirdo for not wanting booze. Fortunately, things have evolved. According to New Scientist, the nolo beer market alone is worth US$9.5 billion globally with predictions it will grow 7.5 per cent a year until 2026. “It [nolo] is a very small part of our sales but I would say in the last few years it’s a building trend, and so in time it will get bigger and bigger,” says Michael Kompass, a sommelier, the Vintage Advice host on Whistler FM, and owner of Blackcomb Liquor Store in Upper Village, one of the more interesting of Whistler’s seven liquor stores. Michael started stocking nolo’s a few years back with a single option—O’Doul’s no-alcohol beer. “And now we’ve got about nine different products,” he says. Beyond nolo craft beers you might recognize, like Heineken, Red Racer and Phillips, Blackcomb Liquor Store can introduce you to some very good, very sophisticated zero-alcohol distilled botanical craft spirits. There’s Lumette! from Sheringham Distillery in Sooke, and the U.K.’s

Seedlip, named for the traditional basket for tipping seeds into tilled soil. This botanical distiller creates lovely, unique flavours using ingredients like allspice, cardamom, citrus, mint—even peas and hay. “It’s almost like making a tea out of lemon peel or juniper... You take similar essences into your liquid, then you boil that and distil it, so some of the characteristics are able to pull through into your drink, but without any alcohol involved,” says Michael. “It’s interesting to see what’s come along, and it does seem to be a trend that’s growing, sometimes from a health perspective, sometimes from a lifestyle perspective, or sometimes just circumstantial—somebody has to be the driver and maybe it’s you tonight.” The store also carries good, flavoured sparkling water and mocktails from Vancouver’s Sparkmouth and another intriguing item—Cocktail Bomb Shop pastilles, another Canadian venture, which makes mocktail “bombs” in flavours like orange mojito that you can pop into sparkling water. Michael’s 14-year-old daughter, Scarlett, and 10-year-old son, Luke, have tried these. Which brings us to a whole other concept with nolo’s: What this next generation coming up is enjoying as a fun non-alcoholic, reduced-sugar option on special or celebratory occasions. For now, Luke isn’t that interested—yet, but they’ve earned Scarlett’s seal of approval. Cheers! Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who swears that Loxton in Australia makes the best nolo wine and Grolsch, founded in 1615 in The Netherlands, makes a great-tasting nolo beer. n

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‘Happy people, happy art’: Masseys leaving Whistler after nearly four decades POTTER VINCENT ‘BINTY’ MASSEY AND BASKET-WEAVER CHERYL LEFT INDELIBLE MARK ON RESORT COMMUNITY

BY BRANDON BARRETT CHERYL AND VINCENT “Binty” Massey never planned to grow old in Whistler. Hell, they weren’t even 100-percent sold on moving to Whistler when they did, some 37 years ago. The husband and wife had their eye on a property on the Sunshine Coast and, like so many of us who end up settling in the resort, a certain calculation was made. “[A lot in Whistler] was a little bit less than the cost of a waterfront house with five acres on the Sunshine Coast, so it was like, ‘OK, we get a little less property. We won’t be on the ocean, but we’ll be in Whistler and we’ve got friends there and it’s just really starting to take off with the new village and Blackcomb,’” recalls Cheryl. “It was this new, emerging, young community that still had the wildness to it, the lawlessness.” Nearly four decades later and the Masseys will finally get the oceanfront home of their dreams after the couple recently announced they would be leaving Whistler for the Sunshine Coast this summer. The decision was by no means an easy one, rooted partly in the stage of life they now find themselves in, and partly because of the ways the community they helped shape has changed for self-made artists like them. “Mountain culture is changing and then

MASSEY EXODUS Potter Vincent “Binty” Massey and basket-weaver and actress Cheryl Massey are leaving Whistler this summer after 37 years. PHOTO SUBMITTED

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the arts community seems to be changing,” Binty says. “The artists that I hang out with, two or three of them left town before us. When you start losing these creative people ahead of you, then you start to lose that soul.” As for how the resort shaped their work, Binty says that despite the inherent challenges to making it as an artist here, Whistler also afforded them the luxury of being able to play just as hard as they work. “Happy people, happy art,” he says. “We’re living this most awesome lifestyle where we can put down our potter’s wheel

“Yeah, I’m going to have to pick up my hammer,” he laughs. Binty has also been involved with Whistler Search and Rescue since 1989, and got to watch as the volunteer organization grew into one of the largest and most polished rescue crews in the province. “I’ve been a part of that team since we were a ragtag bunch of bush rats up here,” he says. “It educated me on mountain culture and mountain safety and a lot of things I didn’t know. I’d say it helped keep me alive.”

“Living in this community and building the great relationships we have, Whistler always has your back. When the chips are down, everybody rises to the occasion to take care of each other. It’s really so comforting. You always feel like you’ve got a safety net.” - CHERYL MASSEY

or clay and go ski for an afternoon or morning and then come back to our work. It really is the best of both worlds.” Binty was a fixture in the early years of the Whistler Arts Council (now Arts Whistler), and built his successful pottery and ceramics business quite literally from the ground up. He constructed the home studio both he and Cheryl work out of himself in 1985 (and later a gallery), and has already begun disassembling it to be rebuilt at their new property.

Cheryl, meanwhile, weaves intricate baskets using flora and fauna from the forests, lakes and oceans she has been inspired by. She was also deeply involved in the local grassroots theatre scene over the years, working with such Whistler luminaries as Angie Nolan and Michele Bush on a whole host of productions. “In the acting community, the opportunities that I had here as an actress were outstanding,” she says. “I just feel like I’ve worked with some incredibly talented,

hilarious, funny people and I’m so grateful for those opportunities that I’ve had.” Like most longtime locals will tell you, it may be the mountains that bring you here, but for the Masseys, it’s the people that made them stay. “Living in this community and building the great relationships we have, Whistler always has your back. When the chips are down, everybody rises to the occasion to take care of each other,” Cheryl says. “It’s really so comforting. You always feel like you’ve got a safety net.” But what happens when a town already transient enough as it is loses the kind of institutional knowledge and community fabric that longstanding locals like the Masseys bring? “There’s a few of us that have been leaving over the years that have been here that long that are taking those stories with them, and there’s a few that have passed in the meantime,” says Binty. “Regrettably, I feel like we may be leaving a giant hole here, and that’s what a lot of people are saying to us.” The Masseys’ gallery will remain open to buyers and well-wishers until the morning of June 5, although the couple will remain in town through July. And for anyone worried they won’t be back, have no fear: the Masseys might make use of your spare room. “For those that are staying, well, they’ve got to stay because we need a room to sleep in when we come back,” Cheryl says with a laugh. “There’s already a couple parties in September that I’ve got to come back for.” Learn more at vincentmasseypottery. com. n

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Grant Lawrence returns to Desolation Sound AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, MUSICIAN AND CBC RADIO REGULAR WILL BE READING AT JUNE 16 WHISTLER WRITERS FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER

BY BRANDON BARRETT AN OYSTER FARMER once told Grant Lawrence something that has served as an essential lesson throughout his career as a writer, musician, and radio broadcaster: Misfits have the best stories. “The reason is because they don’t quite fit into regular society and there’s a reason for that, whether it be humorous or dark or anything else,” Lawrence says. It’s been more than a decade since the CBC Radio regular and lead singer of The Smugglers first introduced the cast of unforgettable misfits he met growing up at his family’s cabin on Desolation Sound, along the Sunshine Coast. A surprise success, 2010’s award-winning Adventures in Solitude breathed life into the zany characters that dotted the inlet and populated Lawrence’s teen years as a selfdescribed “nerdy little kid.” There was The Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, and The Spaghetti Bandit, all of whom are revisited in Lawrence’s anticipated sequel, Return to Solitude, published this spring. And while his debut memoir also shared the story of Lawrence’s own upbringing alongside his Desolation Sound neighbours, this time around he takes more of a backseat. “It’s almost a stretch to call it a memoir now. In a weird way, I’ve almost become a secondary character in my own book,” he explains. “In the first book, I meet all of these real-life characters, like The Cougar Lady, Russell the Hermit, Bernard the German, and in this new book, they kind of take over in a way. Their stories, at least to me, are so fascinating that they warranted more pages and more ink than me.” At the same time, Lawrence himself has grown since the publication of Adventures in Solitude. He’s older, wiser. A husband and a father. “I’ve become a parent. I’m no longer the footloose, fancy-free, beer-guzzling, kayaking dude who just swims and snorkels all day long,” he says. “I have to faithfully look after these little kids with my wife, and so my solitude has narrowed.” After the breakout success of his debut—he has since gone on to publish two more bestselling adult books, along with a children’s book released last year— Lawrence’s publisher wanted a quick sequel to bank on the buzz. “I come from the music industry and know you have your whole life to write your first record, and then there’s a reason they call the second album the sophomore jinx. It’s usually because it’s rushed,” he says. “So I had to basically wait for the Desolation Sound stories to pile up.” And pile up they did. Lawrence

highlights the story of the late Bernard the German, whose exploits and untimely demise in the intervening years proved stranger and more compelling than anything he could have come up with himself. “If you walked into a Hollywood producer’s office and pitched it, they’d go, ‘There’s no way that would ever happen,’” Lawrence says. Without giving too much away, Bernard had a major health scare that convinced him “he had more of the world to see” than Desolation Sound. So he sold his ramshackle cabin and bought a sailboat, determined to sail around the globe. Then, his health issues returned, but undaunted— “He’d rather be sick on a sailboat than sick in a hospital,” Lawrence says—he carried on, eventually landing in a small village on the Pacific Island of Fiji that in many ways resembled his former Sunshine Coast community. It was there that he met a dark and bizarre end. “He was a larger-than-life guy so in a way his death was the only way Bernard could have gone out,” Lawrence recalls. “I’ll say this: his death involved the beach, the ocean and Fiji.” This latest book was also an opportunity for the writer to explore his own relationship to solitude, something we’ve all been engaged in to varying degrees over the past couple years. “It redefined the pleasures and the reward of solitude in situations like that,” he says. “But then at the same time, on the flipside of that, I do these live touring shows where I get to share the stories of solitude somewhat ironically to these theatres that are often full of people and it’s been a joy, a total joy, to be able to get back into a theatre filled with human beings clapping, laughing, singing. “I think a lot of people who went up to Desolation Sound thinking they needed to get away from society and thinking that they needed to live alone realized how much they actually missed and needed other people in their lives.” Lawrence will be at the Maury Young Arts Centre on June 16 from 7 to 9 p.m. as part of An Evening of Stories & Songs in the Mountains, the spring fundraiser for the Whistler Writers Festival. Also reading are Louise B. Halfe, Plains Cree writer, National Poet Laureate and author of Bear Bones & Feathers; Chad Sayers, author of Overexposure: A Story About a Skier; and Jasmine Sealy, Barbadian-Canadian author of The Island of Forgetting. Woven throughout the evening will be songs by Dustin Bentall and the Blue Wranglers. In-person tickets are $25, while virtual tickets are $10, available at whistlerwritersfest. com/spring-reading-series. n

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Sam Roberts kicks off jam-packed Whistler Summer Concert Series A DOZEN LIVE SHOWS ARE PLANNED FOR OLYMPIC PLAZA THIS JULY AND AUGUST

BY BRANDON BARRETT OLYMPIC PLAZA will once again be the place to be for live music this summer with the return of the Whistler Summer Concert Series, which will feature a dozen shows across July and August. The free concert series organized by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) will return July 1 after a two-year hiatus. “This is an impressive lineup of musicians and performers from across Canada, and beyond,” said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton in a release. “No matter who is headlining, both locals and visitors are going to love being together, immersed in the energy of a large-scale, music-driven event in one of our community’s most beautiful outdoor venues. We can’t wait to welcome everyone back to this iconic Whistler experience, with the help of the Province of British Columbia.” Produced by the RMOW and funded by the Municipal and Regional District Tax, also known as the hotel tax, the first show, set for Canada Day, will see the return of the Sam Roberts Band, the Montreal rock ‘n’ rollers who played the inaugural edition of the Whistler Summer Concert Series in 2011.

A week later, on July 7, Vancouver DJ duo The Funk Hunters will hit the stage with their signature brand of electronic music influenced by old-school funk, soul and hip-hop. Then, on July 8, platinum-selling vocal powerhouse Serena Ryder brings her electric live show and raw songwriting to Whistler. The singer-songwriter has earned numerous accolades in her career, including the Canada’s Walk of Fame Allan Slaight Music Impact Honour and seven Juno wins. July 14 sees the return of Polaris Prizenominated indie rock darlings, Stars, who will bring more than 20 years and a deep catalogue to the Olympic Plaza Stage. The following week, July 14, welcomes another regular Whistler performer, Barney Bentall, lead singer of the platinum-selling, award-winning band, Legendary Hearts. The 66-year-old singer-songwriter just released his second solo record, Cosmic Dreamer. Canada’s Drag Race alumnus Tynomi Banks will perform on July 21 alongside Vancouver supergroup, The Bratpack, made up of fellow drag artists Kendall Gender, Gia Metric and Synthia Kiss. The following night, July 22, Grammywinning artist and producer Chin Injeti takes to the stage with a special guest,

up-and-coming Ethiopian-born, Whistlerbased artist, ZADA. The pair has worked closely together in the past two years, and ZADA will be performing her neo-soullaced tracks at her first hometown show with a full band. Then, on July 28, Yukon viral sensation Gurdeep Pandher will entertain Whistlerites

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with his Bhangra dance stylings, which have delighted online audiences the world over during the pandemic. Pandher will share tips on finding joy in darkness, and lead an interactive dance lesson for the audience. The next night, July 29, Toronto’s crowd-pleasing Choir! Choir! Choir! will return to Olympic Plaza to lead attendees through some classic tunes. Not your

momma’s choral group, Choir! Choir! Choir! has amassed a vibrant following online, with tens of millions of views on some of its YouTube videos. Multi-instrumentalist Ron Artis II & The Truth plays on Aug. 4, bringing with him a wealth of experience performing and collaborating with such notable industry names as Mick Fleetwood, Jack Johnson and Booker T. Jones. On Aug. 18, DJ Shub, considered the godfather of PowwowStep, which fuses electronic dance with traditional Indigenous music, will be playing from his chart-topping album, War Club Live. From the groundbreaking group A Tribe Called Red, DJ Shub will be spinning alongside special gusts and Indigenous dancers in full regalia. The final show of the summer, on Aug. 25, will bring together the original James Brown band to perform their horndriven funk instrumentals. Known as the hardest working band in show business, the J.B.s will get feet moving with the unique musical stylings of the Godfather of Funk. The 12 live shows will all start at 6:30 p.m. with live DJs, before headliners hit the stage at 7:30 p.m. Complimentary bike parking will be available for those who cycle to the show. n

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Getting into gear: Have bike, will ride BY JILLIAN ROBERTS LIKE MUCH OF the Whistler community, we at the museum have the Whistler Mountain Bike Park on our minds. When talking about the history of the bike park we often hear that mountain bike design and rider ability had to catch up before the bike park could take off. Thanks to generous funding from 100 Women of Whistler, and the local community who have been generous with their time, we have heard some great reflections on that recently through oral histories. Not interested in road biking, Jim Kennedy, or Jimbo, was inspired to buy a mountain bike after watching ET, and one scene in particular where characters ride bikes through the forest. Purchasing one of the first bikes when Dores Burma opened the door to Summit Cycles in 1983, Jim was the proud new owner of a $500 Nishiki Bushwacker. Not everyone was thrilled with his purchase, however. Mountain bike riders regularly copped abuse in the Village in regards to their choice of transport, as expletive-laced shouts of “get a real bike” rang out. In the mid-1980s, long before the bike park opened, Jimbo and friends were taking their bikes up the gondola to mid-station to ride down as part of a stag party. Luckily for them, a friend was working at mid-station, and with much encouragement let them stay on until the top of the mountain. A group filled with many former downhill racers, the ride was fast, wild and they didn’t see a single other person. Starting on snow and then following Jolly Green Giant, Jimbo remembers, “we were on these bikes, just handbrakes, no shocks or anything like that. By the time you got down your

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hands were just seized.” Additionally, the rim brakes could get so hot they would burn or cause the tires to blow. So to ride more comfortably the bike technology had to catch up. A few years later, the Kamikaze Descent, part of Labatt’s Can-Am Challenge in 1989, followed the 15-kilometre service road down from the top of Blackcomb Mountain, still no features involved. When Backroads Mountain Bike Adventures started to offer commercial downhill tours on Whistler Mountain, many of the trails ridden were still the gravel access roads dotting the mountain, although Eric Wight and other passionate individuals had started to build some mountain-bike-specific trails across the mountain. The opening day of the bike park in 1996 saw 500 keen riders take to the lifts. When Intrawest took over Whistler Blackcomb in 1998, the company was convinced, with much lobbying, to further invest in the bike park. However, rider ability and gear still had some catching up to do. After the first staff demo day an employee from Guest Relations remarked, “after trying the trails I couldn’t believe some of the people who had been getting on the lifts, even the greens are much harder than we were led to believe. We warn people that they need enclosed, appropriate footwear and I’ve seen people in slip-on flats go up, completely unprepared for what they are about to do.” Today it is recommended that every rider has a full face helmet, gloves, armour and a full suspension downhill bike. Some things change while others stay the same. A commonly heard adage in the 1990s was “you can tell if someone is a Whistler local because their bike is worth more than their car.” In many cases this still rings true today. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Who loves the truth better than you Aries people? Who has the greatest potential to speak the real story in every situation, even when it requires extra courage? Who has more fun than you in discovering and defining and expressing the raw facts? In my Book of Life, you Rams are radiant beacons of candor—the people I go to when I need accuracy and honesty. And all I’m saying here will be especially crucial in the coming weeks. The whole world needs concentrated doses of your authenticity. Now read this pep talk from Aries philosopher St. Catherine of Siena: “Let the truth be your delight; let it always be in your mouth, and proclaim it when it is needed. Proclaim it lovingly and to everyone, especially those you love with a special love—but with a certain congeniality.” TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Before the 20th century, you couldn’t buy a loaf of bread that was already sliced into thin pieces. Then in 1912, the American inventor Otto Frederick Rohwedder developed a slicing machine. But all his work, including the blueprints and the machine prototypes, was destroyed in a fire. He had to seek new funding and begin again. Sixteen years later, his innovation was finally ready for broad public use. Within five years, most of the bread in the U.S. was sold sliced. What does this have to do with you? I am picking up an Otto Frederick Rohwedder vibe when I turn my visions to you, Taurus. I suspect that in the coming months, you, too, will fulfil a postponed dream. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A blogger named Sweetlikeacherry reminds us, “Some epiphanies are only possible when you put away your phone and go completely offline for a while.” She adds that sometimes you also need to at least partially avoid your phone and the internet if you hope to incubate new visions of the future and unlock important discoveries in your creative work and summon your untamed genius. According to my astrological analysis, all these possibilities are especially likely and necessary for you in the coming weeks. I trust you will carry out the necessary liberations to take full advantage. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Poet Carolyn Kizer (1925– 2014) won a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry. She was smart! But when she was young and still studying her craft in college, a professor objected to one of her poems. He said, “You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic.” Kizer was incensed at such ignorance. She testified, “I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.” Judging from the astrological omens, I suspect you may have comparable showdowns headed your way. I advise you to be like Kizer. You are the only one who truly knows the proper subjects of your quest. No one else has the right or the insight to tell you what your work (or play) should be about. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author James Baldwin said it wasn’t often “that two people can laugh and make love, too—make love because they are laughing and laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there.” Your assignment, Leo, is to be the exception to Baldwin’s rule during the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there’s a high possibility that interesting eros can converge with humorous fun in a glorious synergy. You will have a knack for conjuring up ribald encounters and jovial orgasms. Your intuition will guide you to shed the solemnity from your bliss and replace it with sunny, carefree cheer. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m worried you will overindulge in your pursuit of perfection during the coming weeks. It’s fine to be exquisitely skilful and masterful; I hope you do that. But if you get obsessed with flawlessness, you will risk undoing your good intentions. As an antidote, I offer you two pieces of advice. The first is from actor and activist Jane Fonda. She said, “We are

not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.” The second counsel is from philosopher and psychologist William James, who wrote, “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Author Mustafa Mahmoud described the signs of love between two people: 1. feeling a comfortable familiarity; 2. having no urge or need to lie; 3. being natural, not trying to be different from who one is; 4. having little or no possibility of being embarrassed in front of the other person; 5. experiencing silence as delicious, not alienating; 6. enjoying the act of listening to the other person. I bring these pointers to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a favourable time to define and redefine your understandings about the signs of love. How do you feel about Mahmoud’s ideas? Are there any more you would like to add? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “We do not love each other without changing each other,” wrote author Madeleine L’Engle. Meditate on that gem, Scorpio. Now is a perfect time for you and your loved ones to acknowledge, honour, and celebrate the ways your love has changed each other. It may be true that some transformations have been less than ideal. If that’s the case, the coming weeks will be a favourable time to correct those trends. As for the positive changes that you and your allies have stimulated in each other: I hope you will name them and pledge to keep doing more of that good work. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other,” wrote Sagittarian novelist Jane Austen. Sagittarian politician Stacey Abrams said, “From the moment I enter a room, I am clear about how I intend to be treated and how I intend to engage.” You’ll be wise to cultivate those attitudes in the next seven weeks, Sagittarius. It’s high time for you to raise your self-respect in ways that inspire others to elevate their appreciation and regard for you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1963, Jim Munro and Alice Munro founded Munro’s Books, a store in Victoria, British Columbia. After being on the job for a few months, Alice found she was not impressed with many of the products they sold. “I can write better books than this,” she told Jim. Five years later, she published her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades. Fourteen books later, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Will the coming months bring your equivalent of Alice Munro’s pivotal resolution? I suspect they could. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything,” proclaimed performance artist Marina Abramovic. Amen to that righteous attitude! I hope you will embrace it in the coming weeks. I hope your heart and imagination will reveal all you need to know to bring tender fresh streams of true love to the essential activities of your life. Now is an excellent time to redefine the meaning of the word “love” so it applies to all your relationships and pursuits. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A homeless woman in a wheelchair stopped where I was sitting outside a café. She was pushing her belongings in a small shopping cart. “Would you like to go dancing?” she said to me. “There’s a nearby park that has a great grassy dance floor.” “Maybe another day,” I told her. “My energy is low. I’ve had a lot of personal challenges lately.” I’m sure the expression on my face was less-than-ebullient. “Cheer up, mister,” she told me. “I’m psychic, and I can tell you for sure that you will live a long life and have many more fine adventures. I’ll be in the park if you change your mind.” My mood instantly brightened. “Thanks!” I yelled toward her as she rolled away. Now I predict that you, Pisces, will have comparable experiences in the coming days. Are you willing to welcome uplifting surprises? Homework: If there were a clone of you, what alternate life might they be living? Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com.

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Notice of Public Hearing LAND USE CONTRACT TERMINATION BYLAW (BLACKCOMB COMMERCIAL) NO. 2351, 2022 Wednesday, June 8, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m. Via Zoom Online/ Telephone

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:

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.

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Examining solutions to the Whistler housing crisis LET’S SEE... where were we? Oh yeah, solutions to Whistler’s housing “crisis.” Observing current thinking along these lines suggests there are three avenues to pursue. First is the somewhat childish response to monsters in the closet. If I cover my eyes—metaphorically speaking—I won’t see a problem and therefore don’t need a solution. If this seems absurd, it may come as a surprise to discover it was a major theme in previous administrations ‘round these parts. More on that later. The second response is more along the lines of following the status quo. Whistler

BY G.D. MAXWELL has been successful at housing the number of workers it has aimed for—albeit not nearly enough, many, particularly those with businesses in sore need of workerbees, would say—and current market conditions notwithstanding, has had moderate success at doing so affordably. So why fix what ain’t broken? The third response is to give up any hope of keeping a lid on growth and the town’s ultimate size. Abandon all bed unit caps, ye who enter here. This Grow Baby, Grow scenario would see the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) petition the province to expand its borders north and south and, while we’re dreaming, embrace what at least one proponent sees as the solution to our transportation problem—over-and-under the highway thereby doubling its capacity. No, I’m not kidding, and I don’t believe he was either, scary as that may sound. I’m told the current bed unit cap is somewhere around 69,000. I remember when it was but a wee toddler of only 52,000. That it has expanded is due, in part, to including employee-restricted beds, formerly not counted, and BU Creep. Whatever the number is, any artificial limit to growth has an incontrovertible effect. It limits supply, which, in the face of continued demand, leads to higher prices. I was recently simultaneously horrified to hear a small condo in Gondola Village was listed in excess of $900,000 and happy for a friend who owns one. Worse, at least for the political landscape, the only way a limit to growth has any chance of working is if it limits all growth, not just a metric like bed units. Limiting all growth means not everyone who wants to live here can live here. Sorry, we’re full. Get on the I Want to Live in Whistler waitlist. It also means not everyone who wants to start a business here can do so. Unless, perhaps, it’s a one-person business, because we’ve just limited the potential pool of workerbees. That this model has no precedent I know

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of doesn’t mean it can’t work. But believing it will is beginning to feel more like faith than reality. But let’s assume we don’t abandon the concept. Whistler is a victim of its success. People want to live here. People with great wealth want to buy and build homes here. They aren’t necessarily the people who want to live here but they want a home here. Some retire here. Some just want to visit. Some want to work here... from home... for businesses far away. Some people want to live and work here. They’re probably not the ones who will buy homes here. At least not until their number comes up on WHA’s waitlist. Market housing has changed since Whistler was a misty-eyed dream. People who built homes with suites decades ago are dwindling in numbers. If they haven’t already decommissioned their suite whomever buys their home certainly will.

goods and services available here. And most importantly, they are enjoying an unprecedented increase in value of their homes. Seed money used for employeerestricted housing initially came from the muni’s employee service charge bylaw. As inadequate as it was, it was levied against businesses since businesses were where the demand for employees came from. But with the changing demographic of market homeowners—and especially with the explosion of trophy homes only infrequently lived in—those very homes generate demand for many employees: contractors, labourers, service workers, servers, the entire landscape of workerbees. So why shouldn’t they pay? Worried about fairness? Okay, how about an opt-out tax. If you live and work here for a Whistler business, you can dodge the tax. If you have a suite and house employee(s), ditto.

Sorry, we’re full. Get on the I Want to Live in Whistler waitlist.

The RMOW can’t force people to either maintain or build suites for workers. What they can do is tax owners of market homes to help fund the construction of employee housing. Whenever I float this idea, some people complain it unfairly harms Vancouverites who helped build the town, many of whom have moved here in their retirement. But does it? They’ve enjoyed the increasing success of this town. They’ve enjoyed the skiing, the Valley Trail, the expansion of

People who own Resort Land already pay a tax—by another name—to Tourism Whistler. They pay to market the resort, which benefits them because they own Resort Land property. We can debate the continuing need to market Whistler now that it has profile, but let’s not. Let’s consider a surcharge that feeds funds for employee-restricted housing. Again, owners have benefited from and driven demand for those underhoused workers. These crazy ideas only begin to address

employee housing. As outlined in the provincially-mandated housing report, which only skims the surface of new housing needs in town. It doesn’t address social housing, emergency housing, seniors’ housing, or housing for vulnerable populations. These housing needs are the monster in the closet variety. There has been an unstated policy within the RMOW to pretend they don’t exist. Until Covid struck, there was also a belief at the most senior staff level that there was no need for a food bank in Whistler. Social housing policy is envisioned in Whistler’s Official Community Plan. But one advocate for social housing said the response of senior RMOW staff was just because there is a policy doesn’t mean it has to be done. This is true. Perhaps the textbook example is the award-winning emergency response plan the City of New Orleans had. When Hurricane Katrina hit, it seemed no one in charge had read it, or if they had, didn’t think it had to be done just because it was in the plan. I don’t pretend to have answers. I don’t know if our Whistler Standard means we can’t hope to build affordable housing. I don’t know how we close the gates, halt business expansion or house vulnerable townies. I believe the answers will only come through a robust engagement of the people who live here. We need to have an open and freewheeling dialogue on our limits to growth and the implications thereof... or whether we have limits. We need to decide who we’re going to try and house and how we’re going to do that. If we can’t figure out how to live with success, we probably won’t have to for very long. Maybe that should be the next council’s No. 1 priority. ■

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8220 Rainbow Drive

$3,000,000

Located in exclusive, Spring Creek there are 4 bedrooms plus media room/gym with open living on the top floor to take advantage of beautiful views out generous windows all around. The Bone Structure, premium steel framed, home makes for extra energy efficiency, incredible design options and healthy living environment.

1/17th interest (3 weeks) Bring the whole family to the BEST location in Whistler at the best times of the year. This 1400ft 2 bedroom with den has ample space for the whole family to spread out. This unit sleeps 8 comfortably. Ski in ski out at Woodrun offers the best of shared ownership.

Meet the local families of Whistler in Alpine Meadows. 8220 Rainbow Drive is the perfect family home with space for everyone ready to decorate to your personal taste. 6 bedrooms + large loft & a 2 bedroom suite, 3 full baths & a powder room over 3,500 sf. Open parking on a flat 10,140 sf lot. Plenty of space to add a garage.

Dave Beattie*

Dave Sharpe

Denise Brown

604.905.8855

604.902.2779

604.902.2033

3D Tour - rem.ax/115evolution

#64 - 1188 Main St. - Squamish

$1,099,000

#115D - 2020 London Lane

$221,000

7633 Seven O’Clock Drive

$689,000

Attractive 3 bedroom 2 bath at Soleil at the Coastal Village is the place you want to call home. No traffic, no downtown noise, no home like it. Soleil is the last complex beside the estuary to the ocean. Location, location, location. A five minute stroll to the restaurants and shops of downtown.

Welcome to Evolution #115D, a beautifully appointed, fully furnished and equipped 1-bedroom resort home that effortlessly blends contemporary style with a cozy mountain feel. Enjoy gorgeous views of the forest from your deck on the quiet side of the building. Quarter Ownership.

Enjoy all day sun and sweeping views of Mount Currie with a ready to build geotechnically engineered structural lot. Build your dream home on this 12,163 sq ft lot that is zoned for a suite. Access all the outdoor features of the Sunstone neighbourhood with green space, nature trails, bike path, with close proximity to Pemberton and a 20 minute drive to Whistler.

Doug Treleaven

Kristi McMillin

Laddie Hannam

604.905.8626

WHISTLER OFFICE 106 - 7015 Nesters Road, Whistler, BC V8E 0X1 604.932.2300 or Toll Free 1.888.689.0070 *PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION

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778.899.8992

604.603.7672

PEMBERTON OFFICE 1411 Portage Road, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L1 604.894.6616 or Toll Free 1.888.689.0070