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NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Proposed

Northlands concepts revealed—with no WRC

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COSTS REVEALED suing Pique last year

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

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26 From the Sea to Sky to Kharkiv Ukrainian-born Squamish woman offers lifeline to her hometown. - By Brandon Barrett

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NORTHERN EXPOSURE

Whistlerites got

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DANCING SPIRIT

As the Lil’wat Nation

their first look at proposed concepts for the Northlands on June 7—which

gathered for its first powwow since before the pandemic, one member

don’t include the Whistler Racket Club.

honoured her late husband, a champion dancer.

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COSTS REVEALED

The Resort Municipality

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GENERATIONAL TALENTS

Freestyle

of Whistler spent more than $28,000 taking legal action against Pique

Whistler alums Jessie Linton and Sam Cordell are taking the next step in

Newsmagazine last year, documents show.

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FOR THE BIRDS

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BACK TO THE POINT

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a birding destination with the Sea to Sky’s addition to the BC Bird Trail

some renovations, the Point Artist-Run Centre is planning a reopening

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COVER If there is a person who perfectly encapsulates the incredible courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people, it’s Stas Vishnevsky, who shot this powerful cover image. - Brandon Barrett 4 JUNE 9, 2022

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THIS WEEK IN PIQUE

Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS The exclusion of the popular Whistler Racket Club in proposed concepts

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for the Northlands represents a glaring omission, writes editor Braden Dupuis.

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week question the municipality’s decision to

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sue Pique Newsmagazine, and shame the provincial government for inaction on the Sea to Sky transit strike.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST If the 2030 Winter Olympics come to Whistler, Highway 99 north of the resort needs to be improved substantially, especially if events happen on the other side of the Coastal Mountains.

62 MAXED OUT With summer fast approaching, Max offers up his Whistler Rules for Happy Tourists and Even Happier Locals.

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25 THE OUTSIDER Vince Shuley shares some e-bike insights after spending some time on the pedals

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Lifestyle & Arts

36 EPICURIOUS Premier cocktail bar the Raven Room recently took home a trio of honours, including being named as one of Canada’s Best 50 Bars for 2022.

40 MUSEUM MUSINGS Some town centres grow organically as the population grows. Whistler was not one of those towns.

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OPENING REMARKS

No love for Whistler Racket Club in proposed Northlands concepts LAST YEAR, Pique’s editorial team took part in a public Zoom session hosted by the Whistler Public Library.

During the Q&A portion, a participant asked us which upcoming Whistler stories had us most excited.

I didn’t have to think long about my answer: the enhanced rezoning process for the Northlands was just getting underway, and was sure to be one of the most robust

BY BRADEN DUPUIS development processes in Whistler’s modern history (yes, I know—rezonings are not sexy, and I am a nerd).

But the Northlands discussion represents more than just a rezoning.

For as long as I’ve lived in Whistler, I’ve heard rumblings about the fabled “Holborn lands”—so named for the previous owner, the Holborn Group—and what they might eventually be used for.

Public engagement that took place last year related to the rezoning conjured a wide range of amateur, pie-in-the-sky proposals: a waterpark, or a bowling alley; a gun range; a parking complex (just to name a few).

This week we got our first look at a pair of site development concepts: “Northlands Village Green” and “The Boulevard” (read more on page 14—but spoiler alert: neither includes plans for an all-in-one waterpark/ bowling alley/gun range emporium).

Both concepts propose a mixedresidential development that includes townhouses and low- and mid-rise housing surrounding a “central naturalized area.”

Employee housing and community and commercial uses are proposed in a “community hub” located in the southeast portion of the site.

The concepts include minimal roadways, underground parking, and

connections to existing trails.

“The proposed development envisions an extension of the natural environment across the site, strengthening connection to Whistler Village, and animating the site with a mix of housing types and tenures and generous green space open to the public,” reads a report to council.

Both concepts are clean and sharp, and look like solid additions to Whistler Village. They’re also very preliminary, with much more community input to follow— including a full public hearing process.

But what the development doesn’t envision, apparently, is a future for the Whistler Racket Club (WRC)—at least not in its current form.

Nowhere in the 18-page staff report to council is the WRC mentioned, even in passing. Nor is it included in a 47-page supporting document detailing the concept proposals.

In fact, despite the longstanding nature of the WRC and its facilities, the word “tennis” appears in the documents just twice—both times in relation to potential table tennis amenities.

In a way, it feels like the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and Beedie are trying to wash their hands of a promise made more than three decades ago.

A brief history lesson: In 1988, developer Park Georgia owned the rights to the land, with the condition that it build a new tennis club complete with a stadium court, four indoor and 12 outdoor courts, and the capacity to host live televised events.

In 1993, Park Georgia built three indoor courts, seven outdoor courts and a dining facility (all currently operated by the WRC)—but those facilities were always meant to be temporary.

In 2002, the land was purchased by the Holborn Group, which in turn sold it to Beedie Developments in 2017.

When Beedie purchased the lands, it had no obligation to maintain the existing facilities once Whistler’s new Official Community Plan was adopted, and as Councillor Ralph Forsyth pointed out at the June 7 council meeting, a lot has changed in Whistler since the original promise was made in 1988, and other community needs may now take precedence in the

does surprise me is the RMOW’s apparent attempt, through omission, to downplay the importance of the club—and what it means to its members.

The concepts are preliminary, yes, but if you only read the RMOW staff report, you wouldn’t even know there is already a very popular recreational facility on the land, which seems like a glaring oversight.

Either way, those passionate pickleballers aren’t about to pop quietly into the night.

Dozens were in attendance for the June 7 council meeting, leading to a marathon Q&A session that included some good questions.

The Whistler Tennis Association, with the support of the Sea to Sky Pickleball Club, has also launched a petition in protest of the proposed designs (find it at change.org/SavetheWRC).

An open house for Phase 2 of the Northlands rezoning will be held at Myrtle Philip Community School on Monday, June 13 from 6 to 8 p.m.

The RMOW encourages all community members, including the WRC, to provide

[T]he complete lack of recognition for one of Whistler’s more popular community amenities ... is notable.

According to the staff report to council, Beedie has not proposed onsite recreation facilities in its concepts, and “their inclusion has only been contemplated as part of an offsite potential for amenity delivery.”

I suppose that’s not nothing, and as Mayor Jack Crompton pointed out (several times) at the June 7 council meeting, there is a long road ahead before final designs are landed on—but it’s far from a firm commitment that the WRC will continue to exist beyond the rezoning.

Northlands process.

All of that considered, the complete lack of recognition for one of Whistler’s more popular community amenities—one that has seen solid growth in recent years— is notable.

But I can’t say it’s surprising. Developers are always going to go with the proposal that makes the most financial sense to them, and incorporating the current WRC’s footprint into a development plan would severely hamper the site’s potential. What

input on the proposed designs.

“Recreation is part of the considerations for the site and will be weighed against other community needs that could be delivered as part of this process,” a municipal spokesperson said. “The engagement will also include several Council Committees including the Recreation and Leisure Committee to provide insight specific to the recreational needs of our community.”

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Democracy dies in complacency Last year I wanted to know the costs of the legal action against Pique Newsmagazine by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW).

This journey took me from writing a letter asking as a taxpayer for information, to being told no, to filing a Freedom of Information request, to being refused, to appealing with the BC Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), to speaking with the BC ombudsperson’s office, back to the OIPC and finally getting the information—$28,219.52 I could speak to the merits or lack thereof of the lawsuit initiated by council and the trampling of the press in Canada, but I’ll let Pique speak to that. Same with what a waste of taxpayer money this action was.

An investigator at the OIPC said to me that he told the RMOW they “should” release the information. The comment from the RMOW in its letter to me, “we have decided to release the total aggregate figure in the spirit of transparency within our community” is something else. If the RMOW wanted to be transparent, then this information would have been released at the time of my first request more than nine months ago.

Openness and transparency in government are the pillars of democracy and trust in our leaders. Why do we have to put

up with the secrecy, in-camera meetings, and the denial of reasonable requests for information? This is not just a Whistler issue.

John Horgan’s government is charging you a fee for just filing an FOI. Justin Trudeau’s government has adopted 72 secret orders-

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in-council—hidden from Parliament and Canadians—since coming to office. The Star Chamber is still alive and kicking 700 years later it seems.

Democracy dies in complacency.

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Socially, we know that mental health has taken a toll during and as a result of the pandemic inhibiting social interaction, access to work and learning opportunities, not to mention enjoying one’s community and regional environs.

As a parent with four children (14 to 21 years of age), accessing friends, jobs, community services and amenities has been something families like mine have looked forward to returning to. Alas, our kids are prevented from pursuing many regular activities due to the transit strike. My husband and I have had to add “family driving service” to our days (more than pre-strike) to ensure our young adults can get to and from work and see friends safely (especially at night and in the inclement weather). I wonder how the elderly or those with accessibility challenges are managing?

Environmentally, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was making great strides in recovering a climate action plan that favoured transit and active travel. Carbon emissions associated with single-occupancy vehicle driving for more than 136 days (as of June 6) will surely rack up our total emissions for this year. We are meant to be reducing our emissions by 50 per cent by 2030. We now have 7.5 years to turn this around!

Economically, six per cent of our personal provincial taxes go to paying for transportation services. Can taxpayers in Pemberton, Whistler and Squamish get a ~ 25-per-cent refund for the amount we have paid for no transit service?

It was not for lack of trying by some.

Kudos to RMOW Councillor Ralph Forsyth for at least trying to rally our council to cancel the BC Transit contract with the municipality and explore running our own shuttle service.

After all, our municipality pays for half the cost of bus service yet we are not involved in negotiations to ensure this service is resumed (i.e. institutional failure)!

Leadership takes courage, especially when it needs to disrupt the status quo like

when policy and contractual arrangements no longer work for the greater good. Whistler generates $1.3 million a day in tax revenue and 25 per cent of B.C.’s total tourism export revenue (RMOW Economic Highlights, 2021).

We have more than 15,000 people working in this community and need more. How do we expect workers to get to their jobs, let alone address the labour shortage in this town, when public transit is on strike? I am all for drivers having a living wage, where possible. But the old school of thought where a provincial government allows holding its taxpaying residents, workers and visitors “hostage” for this length of time and without binding arbitration is no longer acceptable.

We have to rethink the connections to critical policies that support climate action (e.g. environmental benefits achieved through functioning transit) along with the right to effective public transit for socio-economic benefits for taxpaying residents, workers and visitors of all ages.

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- ANN DUFFY

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The 2030 Winter Olympics offer another opportunity to upgrade Highway 99 THE CANADIAN OLYMPIC Committee has been working alongside several First Nations to create a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics for several months now, and

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discussions about what amenities might be delivered with such an event are starting to ramp up.

If the bid is successful, the Olympics would be held again in Whistler and Vancouver, and potentially Sun Peaks and Kamloops, which are expected to be announced as additional host municipalities in the coming months.

Admittedly, I’m pretty excited to see my hometown and the ski hill I grew up on being part of the Olympics, but I can’t help but worry a little about the state of Highway 99 north of Whistler if the Olympics were to come through.

Having moved to Whistler from Kamloops, I often drive on the highway, and the road is not exactly what I would call

an easy drive. With numerous switchbacks, single-lane bridges, blind corners, minimal passing lanes and extremely hazardous winter conditions, the highway from Whistler to Kamloops is one of the roughest in the province.

Every year there are stories of crashes on the 99 between Whistler and Cache Creek with numerous people losing their lives. During the atmospheric river last fall, five people tragically lost their lives to a rockslide on the road, and what scares me is that it just as easily could have been you or me.

My worry is if we were to have the Olympics tomorrow, the 99 would be overwhelmed in a matter of hours with all the traffic attempting to head from the Whistler events to those in Sun Peaks and back again. During the middle of winter, I can imagine the slew of dreadful stories if nothing is done to improve the road conditions.

But the Olympics offer an excellent opportunity to improve the highway from Whistler to Cache Creek, much like the Sea to Sky highway upgrades did before the 2010 Olympics.

In the lead-up to the Olympics, the province undertook a $600-million

upgrade to the highway between Vancouver and Whistler. This has remained one of the lasting positive legacies of the event.

The highway was made much safer by utilizing passing lanes and straightening out the rough corners. Prior to the upgrades, the Sea to Sky highway had a reputation for being a dangerous road, with numerous accidents and fatalities every year. After it was upgraded, its accidents and fatalities declined by more than 66 per cent. The highway went from about 200 crashes a year down to about 70.

The upgraded road also helped Squamish and Whistler become much more attractive places to live for residents of Metro Vancouver (though whether that is good or bad is another topic entirely).

The main thing is that numerous lives have been saved because the province put in the investment, which I’d argue has paid itself off several times over in economic growth in the region.

Precisely what upgrades are needed on Highway 99 between Whistler and Cache Creek is a conversation on its own, but with only eight years to go before 2030, that conversation needs to happen quickly.

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As a region, we need to figure out which bypasses need to be built, where passing lanes should be added, and what exactly should be done with the 99 through Whistler and the Pemberton Valley.

Eight years is a tight timeline to upgrade a highway these days; there needs to be consultation with First Nations, environmental reviews, and the construction itself needs to take place, all of which are timely endeavours.

The importance of this work was highlighted by the wildfires and floods B.C. experienced last year.

During the natural disasters that battered the province, Highway 99 offered one of two routes that remained a viable option for travelling to and from the Lower Mainland to the Interior. While the other routes were devastated by flooding or were closed during the wildfires, the amount of traffic on the Sea to Sky increased substantially.

As climate change is expected to worsen in Canada, natural disasters like those that hit the province in 2021 could become more prevalent. Fixing up the highway is just one step the province can take in being prepared for another disaster. n

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Whistler gets first look at pair of Northlands development concepts PLANS PROPOSE HOUSING, COMMERCIAL, OFFICES AND ‘COMMUNITY HUB’—BUT NO MENTION OF WHISTLER RACKET CLUB

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER GOT ITS first glimpse this week at a pair of development concepts proposed for Northlands Boulevard, and with no specific mention in the plans of the existing Whistler Racket Club (WRC), supporters were left wondering what the future holds for the popular facility.

On Tuesday, June 7, elected officials and the public got a high-level overview of the two project proposals for the 5.8-hectare site.

Both concepts floated by the developer, Beedie Living, feature a mixedresidential housing component, including townhouses, and low- and mid-rise housing bracketed by a central natural area. In both cases, employee housing and community and commercial uses were proposed in a “community hub” located on the southeast portion of the site, while roadways are minimized, and parking is mostly situated underground to maximize open, public space. Walking and cycling connections to the existing trail network are also emphasized.

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VOCAL CONTINGENT Around 70 people attended the Whistler council meeting on Tuesday, June 7, mostly supporters of the Whistler Racket Club.

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on a car-free central open space framed by development, with a 0.85-ha. natural area and pond, a landscaped knoll, 0.56-ha. public plaza, and mixed-use building that proposes retail and commercial use on the ground floor as well as a daycare adjacent to the building.

“The Boulevard” concept is organized into building enclaves defined by a central

townhouses on the northern and eastern portions of the site, four- and six-storey residential buildings in the southwest, and an 11-storey residential building in the northwest, which would make it among the tallest buildings in Whistler.

“Beedie has … been working closely with the RMOW, the Whistler Tennis Association (WTA) and the Whistler Racket Club (WRC)

“We want a commitment from the RMOW and the developer that tennis ... the delivery of a promise that has been lingering for 30 years, is going to be delivered to the community.”

- ROBERT LEBLANC

boulevard, a 0.68-ha. central natural area and pond, community pavilion with sheltered space that could be used for community events and gatherings, and a 0.36-ha. mixed-use community hub and plaza. The applicant also envisions a mixeduse building with retail and commercial on the ground floor, offices on the second and rental housing on the upper floors.

The proposed building heights in both concepts include two- to three-storey

over the last two years to determine if 4500 Northlands is the most appropriate location for a new racket sport facility,” said the developer in an emailed statement. “This next stage in the RMOW’s consultation process encourages public input on the two concepts and public amenities they can support (both on and offsite). We look forward to hearing from the public on this important topic and working with the RMOW.”

Although granular details on the exact uses and housing mix of the proposals were not firm at this early stage in the rezoning process, municipal staff confirmed that the maximum bed-unit potential for the parcel is 832, representing roughly 21 per cent of the 3,900 bed units comprising the village.

Working with RMOW staff, Beedie Living also laid out some of the potential possible uses at the site, and although a recreational amenity was addressed in the report, there was no specific mention of a racquet-sport facility, a glaring omission for the 70 some-odd supporters of the Whistler Racket Club who attended Tuesday’s meeting and contributed to a marathon question-and-answer period at the top of the night that lasted more than 80 minutes when all was said and done.

“A week ago when the plans were made public for the redevelopment of the site, my business was gone. The Whistler Racket Club, Combo Camps, gone. It didn’t exist,” said Jamie Grant, owner of the Whistler Racket Club Group, which leases the space the club sits on from Beedie Living.

Grant and his team took over operations of the club in early 2020, and grew membership from about 50 to 500 during the pandemic. The support for the club and, more generally, a racquet sport facility somewhere in the community, was obvious at Tuesday’s meeting. Dozens of supporters took to the podium, with young and old variously describing what the club has

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meant to them. There were teary-eyed teens who described growing up at the facility; senior pickleball players who talked about the vibrant social aspect of the club through COVID; and even a new property owner in Whistler who said his multimillion-dollar home “won’t be worth a dime” to him if he can’t play tennis.

But where the vocal contingent made numerous emotional appeals to council, they were repeatedly reminded of the procedural process at play. The RMOW adopted an “enhanced” rezoning process for the complex Northlands site, the last and most significant parcel of developable land in the village, adding an extra phase to the process that allows for more community engagement.

Throughout the night, Mayor Jack Crompton and staff reminded the assembled crowd that the rezoning was still in its early stages, and the public still has plenty of opportunity for feedback—including this Monday, June 13 at a Phase 2 open house—that will ultimately inform whatever decision council will make on the project.

“As long as I have been having conversations about the tennis lands, there has been a request from people who care about it saying we want to be involved early and often, and this is early and often, and I am proud of that,” said Crompton during the meeting. “I think that means our staff have heard that message loud and clear and decided we’re going to put together a process that is going to give people a lot of opportunities for input before we even get to first reading.”

Much of the talk Tuesday centred on what community amenities would be contributed as part of the project.

The current engagement stage is meant to inform the final amenity package, and could include the provision of onsite amenities and/or a contribution towards public benefits offsite. The staff report identifies employee housing, park space, childcare space, and office/medical space as potential onsite or in-kind amenities, while non-market housing and recreation facilities were identified as potential off-site amenities. Given the existing tennis facility covers about a third of the overall site, “it reduces the usable site area and presents challenges when exploring the various site designs and would require other elements of the proposal on the site to be changed or eliminated,” explained municipal planning manager John Chapman.

There is a long historical precedent

for tennis on the site, however. In 1988, developer Park Georgia owned the rights to the land with the condition that a worldclass, 16-court tennis facility be built (there were also plans for a spa and golf training academy onsite). Park Georgia built three indoor courts, seven outdoor courts and a dining area in 1993, although that facility, today operated by the WRC, was always meant to be temporary.

“We don’t want to come out any further behind in this process than how we started.

And how we started out was with the temporary facility, the 10-court facility, and the indoor courts we have right now are insufficient for market demand,” said Robert LeBlanc, director with the Whistler Tennis Association.

“We want a commitment from the RMOW and the developer that tennis and the delivery of a tennis facility, the delivery of a promise that has been lingering for 30 years, is going to be delivered to the community.”

For Grant, the failure to even mention tennis or the WRC anywhere in the staff report or associated documents represents a disappointing oversight.

“I was disappointed. I know it’s early in the process but to not even mention the new amenity or the current Whistler Racket Club and what plans there might be for it or not—it’s the uncertainty and kind of just being dismissed and ignored that I think has everyone a little anxious,” he said.

Although it was undoubtedly a contentious meeting on Tuesday, local officials were heartened to see such passionate engagement with the project, and urged the public to continue making their voices heard throughout the ongoing engagement phase.

“We’re just at the end of Phase 1 here, and so the opportunity will be at the public hearing where you can say exactly what you think and get it all off your chest and that informs our decision,” said Councillor Ralph Forsyth. “That’s part of the process.

Nothing is contrived; nothing is preconceived. It’s all done with your input all the way along.”

The public open house is set for Monday, June 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Myrtle Philip Community School. There will also be online drop-in sessions with the RMOW on June 13 and 22, and a month-long engagement process, including an online questionnaire available from June 8 to July 8.

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RMOW spent $28K suing Pique over last year’s cyber attack coverage ‘IT WAS AN EXPENSE WE FELT WE HAD TO INCUR,’ SAYS MAYOR

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE RESORT MUNICIPALITY of Whistler (RMOW) spent more than $28,000 in legal fees suing Pique in relation to its coverage of last year’s cyber attack, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

“It was an incredibly difficult and uncomfortable decision to make,” said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton of the decision to sue, in an interview last Thursday, June 2.

“Ultimately the protection of staff’s personal and private information guided the decision at the time. It was an expense we felt we had to incur.”

On April 28, 2021, the RMOW became aware of a cyber security breach after hackers took control of the municipality’s website, leaving a link to a site on the dark web and instructions to download the dark web browser, Tor. In response, the RMOW took its servers offline, handcuffing digital and email services at municipal hall for weeks.

In an April 30 post to the dark web, the

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criminals claimed to have accessed more than 800 gigabytes of RMOW data.

On May 20, Pique reported, in general terms, some of the information being leaked by the criminals on the dark web. That same day, the RMOW sued Pique, and applied for an injunction seeking to restrict what details the newsmagazine could publish about the attack, arguing that it was seeking to protect the privacy of its staff. Pique opposed the application, and the lawsuit generally, contending the matter was in the public interest and that the municipality should not be able to dictate what is or is not published in a story that concerns the RMOW. Although Supreme Court Justice Sandra Wilkinson declined the RMOW’s request for a temporary order restricting the publication’s coverage, noting she had “serious concerns” about the precedent it could set, the lawsuit continued.

“Our goal was never to stop the telling of the story,” Crompton said in last week’s interview. “Our goal was to stop the theft and sale of staff’s personal information.”

Then, on June 7, 2021, RMOW staff contacted Pique expressing an intention to issue a demand under the Freedom of

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with B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), and on May 30, received a reconsideration letter from the RMOW, which revealed the municipality paid $28,219.52 in applicable legal fees. That money came from the legal fees budget assigned to the RMOW’s legislative services department.

“The RMOW continues to assert that this information falls within the solicitor client privilege exception under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act s. 14, however we have decided to release the total aggregate figure in the spirit of transparency within our community,” the reconsideration letter read.

As a result of the commencing and then withdrawing of the lawsuit, the RMOW was required to pay a portion of Pique’s costs for the lawsuit, in addition to the RMOW’s own legal costs.

Pique’s Freedom of Information request for internal RMOW communications in the lead-up to the lawsuit, as well as related to Pique’s coverage of the attack, remains before the OIPC for review.

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Information and Protection of Privacy Act, which would seek to have the newsmagazine reveal what information it had from the ransomware attack and destroy or return records in Pique’s possession.

Pique informed the RMOW that it did not have any private RMOW employee information in its possession, and RMOW staff indicated they accepted that statement.

However, on June 11, the RMOW issued the demand. Pique objected, saying that such a demand required reasonable grounds to believe that the newsmagazine was in unauthorized possession of certain personal information belonging to the RMOW. On July 8, the RMOW stated in a press release that legal action was no longer required. Three weeks later, on July 26, the lawsuit was officially withdrawn.

On Sept. 22, 2021, Pique filed a Freedom of Information application requesting the total legal fees the RMOW paid in the suit, as well as any internal communications between staff in relation to Pique’s coverage of the attack.

Pique got back a heavily redacted response on Feb. 2, 2022, which did not include the total legal costs the municipality had incurred.

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Whistler will be added to BC Bird Trail this fall RESORT PRIMED TO GROW AS BIRDING DESTINATION—BUT CONSERVATIONISTS URGE PROPER MEASURES BE IMPLEMENTED

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BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER IS PRIMED to grow as a birding destination with the Sea to Sky’s addition to the BC Bird Trail this fall—but local conservationists urge the proper measures be put in place to ensure the protection of sensitive wildlife habitat.

The BC Bird Trail is a series of selfguided tours along the province’s Pacific Flyway designed and produced by regional destination marketing organizations, Destination British Columbia, Birds Canada, Indigenous Tourism BC, and creative consulting agency The Number. Launched in 2020, the project supports birding and birdwatching-focused travel, and today counts four different regional trails: Fraser Valley, South Fraser, Columbia Valley and Central Vancouver Island.

The Sea to Sky is set to become the newest addition to that list, with plans for both Whistler and Squamish portions of the trail.

“Joining the BC Bird Trail is a wonderful opportunity to encourage visitors and residents to respectfully discover nature and grow their appreciation of the Sea to Sky corridor’s biodiversity,” said Karen Goodwin, VP of destination and market development for Tourism Whistler (TW), one of the project’s stakeholder partners along with the Resort Municipality of Whistler, Whistler Blackcomb, the Whistler Naturalists, and Tourism Squamish.

“Tourism Whistler is working closely with our stakeholder partners … to create a meaningful and sustainable tourism experience for our guests, particularly during Whistler’s shoulder season.”

Birding has enjoyed a surge in popularity throughout the pandemic. Last May, the app eBird—one of the world’s largest databases for crowdsourced bird observations—announced it had surpassed 1 billion observations since launching 20 years ago. In Canada, submissions increased by 34 per cent in 2020.

Whistler is already something of a birding destination, as a home to a wide range of migratory and shorebird species, and given the sensitivity of birding hotspots such as Green Lake, local conservationists are hopeful the right measures are put in place to protect vital habitat.

“I do worry about driving people to areas where we know we have species that need that specific habitat,” said Claire Ruddy, executive director of the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment.

“We’ve seen over the last 10 years the impacts social media can have on really driving people to areas that aren’t necessarily designed for that.”

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some additional investments come out of the trail, such as more fencing along the Fitzsimmons delta walkway by Green Lake, and a stronger bylaw presence.

“Because we have so many members who are birders, anything that helps conserve birding habitat is a total win,” said the Naturalists’ Kristina Swerhun. “If they’re conserving it for the sake of visitors, then we don’t really care why it’s happening, just that it’s happening.”

BC Bird Trail creative director Jordan Stout noted that conservation forms one of the pillars of the program, and part of the goal is to drive birders to these locations during shoulder seasons. The project’s website and social media channels also feature important information on birding etiquette and the ecological value of the highlighted areas.

“We really do try to adhere to our core values of education, community and conservation,” Stout said. “Let’s focus on raising awareness in as many ways as we can and not just putting heads in beds to benefit the tourism organizations.”

Among the areas highlighted in Whistler for the trail are Green Lake and the Fitzsimmons delta, the local monthly bird walk route along the Valley Trail from Lorimer Road to Rainbow Park, and the alpine of Whistler Blackcomb. In Squamish, highlights include the estuary, Alice Lake and Brackendale Eagles Provincial Park.

With birding the usual domain of an older, wealthier demographic, Stout said another of the project’s goals is to introduce birding to a wider audience.

“It’s a pocket of folks who tend to be older, whiter and wealthier. Those people already exist and they already travel,” he explained.

“We’re promoting this as something of an entry point and educational opportunity for people of all backgrounds to discover birding.”

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‘I can actually feel secure’: WHA waitlisters stake claim to new Cheakamus Crossing units TWENTY-NINE APARTMENTS IN THE NEW MOUNT FEE DEVELOPMENT RELEASED OVER THE WEEKEND, 25 REMAIN

BY MEGAN LALONDE AFTER FIRST LANDING in the resort in 2008, Dulce Agcopra can finally call herself a Whistler homeowner.

The immigration consultant is among the several local employees who managed to snap up one of 29 newly-released Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) units in Cheakamus Crossing during a sales event held over the weekend.

“I have been fortunate to have really amazing landlords in the 15 years I’ve lived here, which I know not everyone is … but it does feel amazing to know that I can actually feel secure in the place that I have and maybe even think about getting a dog, or growing a family,” she said.

Agcopra got the call that a unit was available—if she wanted it—five years after adding her name to the WHA purchase list in 2017. Agcopra was No. 285 on WHA’s master waitlist and No. 64 on a waitlist to purchase a two-bedroom in Cheakamus Crossing, specifically, when she was invited to view a show suite during an open house in mid-May.

Now, she and her partner will move into the bright, airy two-bedroom apartment— which features vaulted ceilings and is located on the building’s top floor—when construction on the project is completed next winter.

“I believe this building is also very energy efficient, so that’s great, and hopefully in the

this much needed new employee-restricted housing—the purchasers’ excitement and joy in securing housing in Whistler is contagious,” said Eric Martin, president of Whistler 2020 Development Corporation (WDC), in a release.

“Whistler’s mayor and council should get a lot of credit for its vision related to residentrestricted housing initiatives and supporting

“It does feel amazing to know that I can actually feel secure in the place that I have...”

- DULCE AGCOPRA

future, I hope to get an electric car and they have electric charging stations, so it’s got a lot of things going for it,” said Agcopra. “Plus, it’s right next to the river and the trails.”

The launch of the 29 units at 1360 Mount Fee Road represents the second phase of the development, following the recent sellout of all 46 homes in the first employee-restricted building at nearby 1340 Mount Fee Road in early April.

“We are very pleased to be able to provide

WDC’s work in building new rental and ownership housing,” he added.

There are 25 more employee-restricted units on Mount Fee Road that remain unclaimed, all of which are due to be released at a final sales event on Saturday, June 18.

Upon its completion, this extension of Whistler’s Cheakamus Crossing neighbourhood will see the addition of two new four-storey buildings offering a variety of one, two, and three-bedroom apartments. Both

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buildings feature elevator access and a shared underground parkade, and are anticipated to be move-in-ready in late summer 2022 and winter 2022-23, respectively.

Each home must be its owners’ primary residence, and ownership is restricted to qualified Whistler residents registered on the WHA waitlist. Purchase prices for the remaining one-bedroom apartments range from $330,000 to $335,000, while twobedroom units are priced between $415,000 and $435,000. The limited number of threebedroom layouts are all already spoken for.

After years spent living with housemates and in rentals, Agcopra said she’s just looking forward to having a space to call her own.

Currently, she lives in a two-bedroom unit on the bottom floor of a home in Alpine.

“We’re pretty good as far as where we’re living at the moment, but obviously we want something more permanent,” said Agcopra.

“Before that I lived in share houses. Now that I’m married, I don’t want to go back to a share house situation.”

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Whistler adopts new electric vehicle strategy COUNCIL BRIEFS: PLUMBING AND BUILDING PERMIT FEE INCREASES CONSIDERED; COUNCIL HEARS UPDATE ON STEP CODE

BY ROBERT WISLA THE RESORT MUNICIPALITY of Whistler (RMOW) voted to adopt a new electric vehicle strategy at the June 7 council meeting.

The new strategy puts forward a range of measures that could help with increasing the uptake of emission-free transportation, with the goal to have 50 per cent of cars registered in Whistler be electric vehicles by 2030.

In 2020, Whistler council adopted the Climate Action Big Moves Strategy and a new climate target of reducing Whistler’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50 per cent below 2007 levels by 2030.

The 2030 goal will be challenging to achieve, especially as the municipality has continued to grow, both in population and visitation. Tackling emissions from vehicles is the most significant step the municipality can take to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Currently, passenger vehicles are the most significant contributor to emissions in the municipality, accounting for about 54 per cent of Whistler’s total emissions in 2019.

“Our priority to lower these emissions

is to get people out of the car. We want to prioritize preferred modes of transportation: walking, biking, transit, and so on. So that’s why our first Big Move is to get people out of the car with the goal that half of the trips are by active transportation or transit,” said RMOW climate action coordinator Luisa

second Big Move target, “and to do so, we have to take a lot of different aspects into account and realize competing priorities,” Burhenne said.

The measures put forward in the new strategy are to be completed in the short-, medium- and long-term. The

“That’s why our second Big Move goal is to have 50 per cent of all cars in Whistler [be] zero-emission vehicles by 2030.”

- LUISA BURHENNE

Burhenne in a presentation to council.

“We realize that there will still be people driving in cars, and we do need to tackle these emissions as well. That’s why our second Big Move goal is to have 50 per cent of all cars in Whistler [be] zero-emission vehicles by 2030.”

The goal of the Whistler EV strategy is to identify actions and create a strategic, coordinated approach to achieving the

short-term measures include developing a zero-emissions municipal fleet strategy, increasing education to the community and industry about the benefits of EVs, and expanding the EV charging network in the municipality.

Thanks to a recently approved CleanBC grant, the EV charging network will receive an expansion of 41 charging locations across the Sea to Sky, with many of these located

in Whistler. Long-term, the municipality hopes to have 348 Level 2 or 87 DC fast chargers, or an equivalent combination of the two in the municipality to keep up as more people transition to EVs. The difference in the number of charging stations required has to do with how quickly the systems can fill up an EV. A DC fast charger can charge an EV from empty to full in as little as an hour compared to three to six hours on a Level 2 charger.

The longer-term measures include some larger goals that will require cooperation with other levels of government and industry partners. This includes advocating for high-impact senior government policies, training and capacity building for electricians and electrification of school and transit buses.

The RMOW and Tourism Whistler conducted a survey to understand some of the concerns residents and tourists have around EV use, which received 1,440 responses, giving staff a better understanding of some of the challenges that EV owners encounter in the municipality.

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NEWS WHISTLER << FROM PAGE 19 Through the survey, some concerns were raised from residents who live in stratas that cited a lack of access to home charging and barriers to retrofitting their buildings.

The municipal strategy aims to have 100 per cent of stratas undergo an EV-ready plan by 2030. This is on top of advocating for the provincial government to adopt “right to charge” legislation that would amend the BC Strata Property Act and require strata councils to accommodate reasonable requests from residents for EV-charging infrastructure.

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PLUMBING AND BUILDING PERMIT FEE INCREASES CONSIDERED Building and plumbing permit fees in Whistler could potentially be rising soon.

At its June 7 meeting, council moved a motion for staff to look into amending the current building and plumbing permitting fees bylaw to increase fees.

The exact amendment to the bylaw will be decided and brought to council at a future date, but the general direction is that the building and plumbing fees should be increased in the municipality.

The last increase to building permit fees occurred in 2012, said RMOW building department manager Melissa Hollis.

“Over the past 10 years, the permitting process and resources required to support this has changed significantly. However, applications have become more complex and involve increased amount of staff time to review and process as well as requiring more resources to support inspections and regulatory reviews.

“The construction industry has also evolved in the community over the past decade. Current fees are not comparable with many other communities in the local area. With RMOW fee structure being significantly lower, an amendment to the fees will adjust for this disparity and make it a more equitable fee.”

With that in mind, “an analysis of permit fees and changes required needs to be conducted to continue to support the additional resources and staff time required to continue to sustain and improve the appropriate level of service to the community,” Hollis said.

According to the report to council, “staff anticipate that changes to fees detailed in the current Schedule B could be in the range of a 25- to 40-per-cent increase in order to

align with comparable local communities and provide enough additional funding resources to support improved service to the community.”

The additional revenue would go towards tackling the current permitting backlog the municipality is facing by increasing available staff resources.

COUNCIL HEARS UPDATE ON STEP CODE The goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from buildings in Whistler moved one step ahead as Whistler’s mayor and council heard an update on staff progress of adopting the BC Energy Step Code for buildings at the June 7 council meeting.

Buildings are one of the largest emitters of GHG in the municipality, accounting for 38 per cent of Whistler’s emissions in 2019.

When the pandemic reduced car usage in 2020, that figure rose to more than 50 per cent.

The Step Code is an optional compliance path in the BC Building Code that local governments may use to incentivize or require a level of energy efficiency in a new construction that goes above and beyond the requirements of the BC Building Code.

In 2018, the RMOW amended its building and plumbing regulation bylaw, effectively

moving Whistler straight to Step 3 of the Step Code for smaller, less complex residential buildings.

In 2032, the provincial government will require all municipalities in the province to adopt the building Step Code measures.

The new plans were to be approved in the summer of 2022, with the implementation of a new bylaw at the beginning of 2023, however, this has been delayed by staff, who want to see what the new Step Code rules the province will announce will look like.

According to RMOW climate action coordinator Luisa Burhenne, the main difference between the provincial and municipal approach that has been drafted is that the provincial approach allows the RMOW to cap emissions from the entire building.

“While we put a lot of effort into drafting our approach, and we’re very diligent in stakeholder engagement and making sure everyone is on board, we also feel that there are many advantages of adopting the provincial approach because the provincial approach is much more detailed,” she said.

“They outline specific greenhouse gas targets for different buildings by use ... and they have different greenhouse gas intensities for building time. Ultimately, we feel that the provincial approach is potentially more effective in achieving our goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions of new buildings going forward.” n

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STEEP CLIMB Whistlerite Aaron Mittler pictured on the Crowsnest Highway during a previous GearUp4CF ride. He and his team have raised more than $500,000 for Cystic Fibrosis over the last decade.

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Whistler cyclist riding from White Rock to Chilliwack for Cystic Fibrosis TEAM ‘LYCRA FOR LUCY’ HAS RAISED MORE THAN HALF A MILLION DOLLARS OVER 10 YEARS OF GEARUP4CF

BY MEGAN LALONDE WHISTLERITE AARON MITTLER is no stranger to big climbs on a bike.

Every year for almost a decade, he has made the two-day trip heading “straight up the side of a mountain” from White Rock to Manning Park as part of GearUp4CF, the annual charity cycling event raising funds for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Canada.

The second half of the route in particular “is a very difficult ride,” he said.

But when his breathing starts getting heavier, “nothing gives you inspiration like someone who’s riding it with a set of someone else’s lungs inside them,” he added.

“They’ve had a lung transplant, and you’re sort of complaining and trying to get up the mountain and thinking about quitting, and you look over and see someone doing that and it’s like, ‘Well, I better get my act together.’”

Mittler always has another motivating factor getting him through the more gruelling parts of the ride, too: his nine-year-old daughter Lucy, who was diagnosed with the fatal genetic disorder as a newborn living in Ontario. The progressive condition primarily affects the lungs and the digestive system.

“No parent wants to get a call like that,” he said.

But the family was fortunately introduced to “an amazing team” at SickKids Hospital in Toronto, Mittler said, including a nurse practitioner, a doctor who is “one of the world’s leading researchers” for CF, a physiotherapist and a nutritionist.

“It was a bit overwhelming,” he said.

“We went from very upset and devastated to quite optimistic and really sort of happy and grateful for the resources that we had living in Canada.”

Though Cystic Fibrosis does not currently have a cure, patient outcomes have “dramatically improved” in recent decades,

due in part to Canadian research funded by CF Canada, Mittler explained.

“In the ’50s, kids with CF wouldn’t get to see kindergarten … The median age [expectancy] is now in the 50s, but there’s a high degree of variability,” said Mittler, adding that a large portion of CF patients still won’t make it to 30.

The GearUp4CF tradition began with “three intrepid friends” of Mittler’s immediately following Lucy’s diagnosis.

“Some friends of mine from Vancouver called me up and they said, ‘Listen, we want to do something, we looked up the local charity and we’re going to do a ride,’” he said. “It was really amazing—when something crummy happens to you, you sort of find out who your friends are. It was a really awesome moment for us.”

Mittler joined them the next year.

Ahead of their 10th annual ride this year, the crew has grown to about 15 riders and has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the foundation.

This year, team “Lycra for Lucy” has already surpassed its $15,000 fundraising goal, meaning the longtime crew will officially cross the $500,000-donated-todate threshold when they set off from White Rock on June 25. (This year’s GearUp4CF event will be a one-day ride finishing in Chilliwack rather than Manning Park, due to highway damage that is still present following last year’s flooding.)

The annual ride “is sort of like my therapy and how I deal with the whole situation. It’s where I pour my energy and angst and anxiety about everything, is into doing this,” said Mittler. “It feels really good. It feels at least like I’m doing something to help a really difficult situation for Lucy.”

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Lil’wat Nation powwow returns after two-year absence LIL’WAT’S MAUREEN ANDY HONOURS LATE HUSBAND, CHAMPION DANCER GEORGE ABBOTT

BY ROBERT WISLA OVER THE FIRST weekend of June, hundreds of people came together at the U’ll’us Community Complex in Mount Currie to dance and celebrate together in person at the first Lil’wat Nation powwow since the pandemic cancelled the annual event two years ago.

Between June 3 and 5, dancers came from across the province to perform in front of a crowd dressed in full regalia, with prize money given out to the best dancers.

For Maureen Andy (Sawa7a), the Lil’wat powwow has a special place in her heart.

Her small business Eye-nez Healingtouch sponsored the men’s prairie chicken dance with a $1,000 prize in memory of her late husband, George Abbott, who helped bring the powwow to Lil’wat Nation in the 1980s.

Abbott helped start the Vancouver Friendship Centre, as well as the Lillooet and Lil’wat powwows between the 1970s and 1980s, Andy said.

“When we moved here to Lil’wat, in 1984, he started the powwow here, and it’s been ongoing ever since,” she said.

The Lil’wat and the Stl’atl’imx people held their traditional dances and community gatherings for hundreds of

DANCING SPIRIT Dancers line up in the centre of the gymnasium at the annual Lil’wat Nation powwow.

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years, long before European powers claimed and settled the territory.

Between 1885 and 1951, cultural gatherings were banned across Canada under Section 149 of the Indian Act. This became known as the Potlatch Ban. First Nations people found participating in potlatches or powwows could be sentenced to up to two months in jail for first offenders and three months for second offenders.

After the ban was ended in 1952, there was

some Lil’wat people from fishing on Lillooet Lake. This, along with other outstanding grievances, led the Nation to blockade a road in the area.

Abbott was a part of the Nlaka’pamux people. He danced as part of a group from the Daybreak Star Indian Cultural Centre in Seattle, Wash., with whom he travelled to Europe and won 1st place in 12 of 13 countries.

“So the Nlaka’pamux, the Thompson people, were our natural enemies in that

“The dancers [at this year’s powwow] were very beautiful, very powerful, very awesome…”

- MAUREEN ANDY

a movement from First Nations youth who wanted to rejuvenate the cultural tradition and bring back the dancing celebration.

“Any of our cultural ways were banned, and we could be either jailed or shot, so we were doing it underground,” said Andy.

“We were just part of the spiritual reawakening—the spiritual revolution that was going along ... if you’ve read any of our histories, all of that was ripped away, and hidden and taken away, so it had to be re-energized.”

Abbott first met Andy in 1975 during an armed blockade in Lil’wat territory. In 1975, the Department of Fisheries blocked

time,” Andy said.

“It was 100 years since they made peace.

We made peace between our peoples. So he asked for my hand in marriage from my mother, Marie Leo. She agreed, and then he came to talk to me, and I agreed.”

For Andy, the prairie chicken dance is special, because that was the style of dance Abbott was the best at.

“He was a champion of that prairie chicken dance. He used to send the boys into the bush to study before they could dance because they had to know the moves of the bird. So that’s what the dancing is all about, and that’s what we’re looking for in

the championship,” said Andy.

“The dancers [at this year’s powwow] were very beautiful, very powerful, very awesome, and they could tell that they hadn’t really known what it meant. When you do the prairie chicken dance, you go really low to the floor, like your wings are touching the floor, and then you raise your hackles and then your tail feathers and then your head so high.”

Andy’s son Eagle ended up choosing the winner, Stan Green Sr., an elder from the Lower Mainland.

Abbott passed away in 2012, “as a direct result” of the court disclosures concerning his abuse in the residential school system, Andy said.

“When he had to stand up in court and repeat and repeat and repeat, for two weeks, what had been done to him, it killed his spirit,” she said. “Then within a year, he was dead. So it was a terrible thing, and it’s a terrible truth that has happened to many of the ones that had to go to court for it.”

It was only fitting that Abbott’s life and memory were honoured at a powwow, an event so meaningful to him, where his real spirit was on full display.

“When he did the powwows ... he would get the food, he would get everything that was necessary. He’d always say, ‘do it with a good heart or not at all,’” Andy said.

“Everything was done with laughter and volunteering and making sure that people had their comfort and had their joy from all the dancing and all the blessings that went with it.” n

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Pemberton prepping National Truth and Reconciliation Day commemorations VILLAGE STAFF WILL ROLL OUT EDUCATIONAL AND SYMBOLIC ACTIONS FOR THE SEPT. 30 STATUTORY HOLIDAY

BY HARRISON BROOKS A PRESENTATION to the Village of Pemberton’s (VOP) Committee of the Whole (COW) on June 7 highlighted ways the community can acknowledge this year’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day on September 30.

“Honouring this day is one step in our journey for reconciliation,” said VOP executive assistant Lyndsey Anic in her presentation. “It can feel like a small step, but at the moment any action that we can take towards reconciliation and to understanding the trauma suffered by the Indigenous Canadians is an important step.”

Last year, the federal government passed legislation to establish the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a statutory holiday, which was officially adopted as a holiday for Pemberton by mayor and council during the meeting on August 31, 2021.

Along with the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, September 30 also represents Orange Shirt Day; both meant to honour the lost children and survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities.

Anic’s presentation proposed eight actions for the committee to consider.

Among them were plans to increase awareness and education of residential schools, reconciliation and the meaning of Orange Shirt Day through messaging on the town’s website and reading lists available for adults and children through the public library. The actions also aimed to foster collaboration with the Lil’wat Nation and the Nukw7antwal Regional Gathering’s Organizing Committee on the best ways to commemorate the day in the future, and the best practices for land acknowledgments and cultural safety and humility training for new council members.

While Councillor Leah Noble liked the ideas presented, like painting some of the town’s crosswalks orange and lowering the town’s flags to half-mast in remembrance of lives lost in the residential school system, her main concern is she doesn’t want to get stuck in a cycle of acknowledgment without action.

“We need actionable things that council and community members can do on a daily basis. I just would like to make sure we don’t park it at acknowledgement and symbolism,” she said.

Mayor Mike Richman agreed with Noble’s concerns, pointing to some of the conversations that he has been a part of at

the Nukw7antwal Organizing Committee, in which similar questions were asked like, “what more can we do?” And “how do we bring this to the community level?”

“It’s really a lot of acknowledgement and continued learning, sharing of that learning right down to the community, so to me, that’s where I would like to deep-dive further. How do we share these events? That’s something I want to explore again at Nukw7antwal. We’ve done good work at that table, unfortunately that table hasn’t been together for a long, long time. But we were getting to a point where I thought some good work and some honest conversations were happening,” said Richman.

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Falling under the plan of bringing awareness to the community level, down the road Richman would also like council to consider changes to signage as the town builds new infrastructure to highlight things like First Nations landmarks, history and language.

Richman also brought up his desire for Action 43 from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), outlined in its 2015 report, which calls upon “federal, provincial, territorial, and municipal governments to fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as the framework for reconciliation” to be bookmarked for discussion when a new council is in place after the upcoming municipal election.

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Bitten by the e-bike bug IT WAS THE SUMMER of 2004 when I first rode an electric-powered, pedal-assisted bike. I was working an office admin job at a small property management company in London, England, trying to save enough money to go travelling in Europe (like all the other Australians). My employer’s office

BY VINCE SHULEY was in Kensington in the central-west part of the city, where traffic and parking was always an issue. While I’d use the tube to quickly get around other parts of the city to show various properties (or flats, as the British call them), for local spots, I’d jump on the boss’ bike. It was an old single-speed, banana-seat cruiser with a rear hub motor that would engage when you pedalled, likely an aftermarket modification. Being a wellto-do London man, my boss wouldn’t want to arrive sweaty or have his pants crinkled by too much pedalling effort. The congestion of London streets was his main reason for owning an e-bike. Environmental awareness was still catching on in his circles.

Electrification is now in its boom period.

Everything from cars and trucks to chainsaws and leaf blowers to snowmobiles and zipline trolleys is getting the e-treatment. The most noticeable of these in Whistler, of course, is bikes. In particular, commuter and utility e-bikes.

RadWagons—those cargo e-bikes that can fit a couple of toddlers on the back and a bag of groceries on the front—are out in

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force this spring. As families and couples try to scale down to one-car households, e-bikes are becoming more affordable and practical.

So much so it’s already getting the Kens and Karens chirping about how they’re a menace on the Valley Trail.

I haven’t pulled the trigger on purchasing a utility e-bike yet, but I did help a friend put one together and was able to give the bike a few solid test rides. Here’s a run down of my experience.

My friend was on vacation in Mexico, so she redirected the delivery of her new RadExpand 5 ($1,849) to my house. Not unexpectedly, the delivery was weeks late and had already involved several customer service calls. When it did arrive, the package was about 50-per-cent bulkier than a normal bike box and what felt like about

I plugged in all the electrical signal cables and began charging the battery. The whole process took about an hour.

The RadExpand is a folding commuter bike, so with a couple of quick release points it folds down to be conveniently stored or stowed in the back of an SUV. While I didn’t require this feature during my few weeks of using this e-bike, I can see how it would benefit people in condo buildings or RV enthusiasts looking for short-range travel when on the road.

The 500-watt geared hub motor had a surprising amount of kick to it, the power accessed from either pedal-assist or a twist throttle. Given I was mostly doing short errand trips to the post office and grocery store, I wasn’t worried about running out of charge, so I kept it in full-power mode

But after almost ramming the bike into my parked truck in the driveway, I realized that full power should really only be used when you’re on open roads, not when parking the bike or dodging strollers and dogs on the Valley Trail.

80-per-cent heavier. The FedEx driver asked for help to get it off the truck and through my front door.

Assembling the bike was pretty easy, with most of it already done at the factory.

A small bag of tools and a comprehensive owner’s manual shipped with the bike along with quick references to YouTube assembly videos. The only extra tools I needed were a 15mm pedal wrench, a tube of bike grease and a floor pump, all of which I had on hand. After attaching the handlebars, seat, pedals, lights and fenders,

pretty much the whole time. But after almost ramming the bike into my parked truck in the driveway, I realized that full power should really only be used when you’re on open roads, not when parking the bike or dodging strollers and dogs on the Valley Trail. For clarity, I didn’t ride this bike on the Valley Trail, since the (more fun) full-power option seemed a bit fast and unsafe.

I wasn’t able to test the max 125kg (275lb) payload capacity, but I did load the front basket with a couple of hefty grocery bags.

The basket mounts directly to the frame (not the fork or handlebars), so the load sits still as you turn corners. With that extra power coming from the rear hub, hauling around heavy loads of cargo didn’t really affect handling too much, partly because the bike itself is quite heavy. Don’t plan on lifting one up stairs around town.

So… would I buy one? Given I live pretty close to the village already and work from home, an e-bike wouldn’t benefit me as much as someone who works in Function Junction and lives at the top of the Alpine Way hill. The RadWagons are awesome for families dropping kids off at school or daycare, since the kids get a kick out of cruising on them with their own handlebars to hold on to.

Rad Power Bikes is of course not the only company making these bikes, they’re just one of the more popular brands in North America. Take a look on a couple of websites and you’ll soon be inundated with paid digital advertising from the many different e-bike brands.

With Specialized launching its cargo e-bike brand Globe and dozens more manufacturers getting in on the electrification boom, it won’t be long before these e-bikes are in every household. If money was no object, I’d pick up a Surly Big Easy ($7,099), a longtail electric cargo bike described as the “18-wheeler of the cargo bike world, minus the diesel fumes.” This bike can tow a trailer to haul furniture—a true car-replacement vehicle.

I’ve read many headlines lately stating the world doesn’t need more electric cars as much as it needs more electric bikes.

Whistler should be ready for the transition.

Vince Shuley had a Rad time on the e-bike.

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From the Sea to Sky to

Kharkiv, Kharkiv, a ray of hope hope UkrainianUkrainianborn Squamish woman womanoffers offers lifeline lifeline to her hometown

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n Feb. 24, as news of Vladimir Putin’s cruel and brazen invasion of Ukraine shocked the world, Dasha Axelsson watched in horror as footage of Russian missiles raining down and tanks rolling into sovereign territory began flooding her TV. But for the 44-year-old Squamish resident, the scenes of devastation evoked an even deeper feeling in her, difficult to describe but overwhelming nonetheless.

It was something she hadn’t felt in years, something she likely didn’t know was still inside her. But there it was.

“You know, I moved here as a teenager, so my life here, hardly anything reminds me of my life there. But then all of a sudden, I was almost transported,” she remembers.

“My heart, that part that was asleep, just became alive. It was quite intense and it was immediate.”

Born in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, when the industrial, cultural, educational and scientific hub still flew the red and gold sickled flag of the Soviet Union, Dasha, like so many modern Ukrainians, grew up straddling two distinct yet closely connected worlds. She understands both Ukrainian and Russian and counts numerous Russian friends and family, some of whom she has stopped speaking to since the war broke out, yet another example of how Putin’s propaganda machine has torn families and loved ones apart.

But, on that day, there was not even a shred of doubt as to who she was—still is: a proud Ukrainian and native Kharkivchani.

Some of the Kharkiv residents Stas Vishnevsky has delivered goods to during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“That was the biggest thing, just realizing that was my home,” she says.

Almost instantly, Dasha began reconnecting with old friends back home, people she hadn’t spoken to in years.

“All of a sudden I was on WhatsApp, on Skype, checking in, trying to figure out if they’re gonna stay, if they’re gonna go,” she says. “All of a sudden those connections just exploded.”

She watched news of the war obsessively and started following dozens of Ukrainians on social media to better understand the situation.

From her vantage point in Canada, Dasha discovered she was well equipped to coordinate logistics for Ukrainians on the ground, many of whom didn’t have access to timely or accurate information in their rush to flee the conflict.

“The chat got super busy because it was that coordination of trying to connect people with different resources,” she explains. “My cousin lives in Germany, who knew some people who knew, for example, an evacuation [centre] and said, ‘Oh, that person is going to help them if they reach this city.’ So then I would relay that information to somebody else. So all of these phone numbers and evacuations were almost, in some ways, better managed abroad.”

A public health nurse in Squamish, it’s clear Dasha has an inherent desire to help others. And that pull grew even stronger as the war waged on. As Russian troops advanced on Kharkiv and shelling became a regular part of life in Ukraine’s second largest city, she would look for any sight of her old neighbourhood or buildings she recognized that had been destroyed.

It wasn’t long before Dasha knew she had to do more.

‘Now all Ukrainians have become a single organism’ One of the people Dasha has talked with regularly throughout the war is Kyiv resident Inna Petrikova, 40, an old family friend and communications specialist, who initially escaped to Poland with her seven-year-old disabled son, Luka.

With a little help from Dasha (and Google Translate), Inna answered a few of my questions, describing the incredible resilience of her fellow Ukrainians, how it felt watching from afar as her home was being bombed to rubble, and why she made the decision to return.

When the reality set in that Russia was actually invading, Inna, like hundreds of thousands of others, headed for the Polish border, where some Ukrainians stood in line for hours, if not days, for a chance at safety.

“Strictly speaking, the very process of leaving Ukraine for Poland in a private car was hampered only by the lack of sufficient fuel—and a very large number of people who wanted to cross the border,” she relays.

The evacuation was further complicated by the fact trains in major urban centres such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Sumy were nearly always full. People took turns sitting, including children, who slept in shifts because there weren’t enough seats. The Russian military has also taken the unimaginably callous step of bombing railways and train stations, often packed with civilians, so trains rarely run at night, only adding to the congestion.

The Polish people, memories of Nazi Germany’s cataclysmic blitzkrieg at the

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“It “It was was unbearable unbearable to to read read the the news news in in Poland.

Poland. Tears Tears and and anger. anger. Fear Fear for for those those in in Ukraine.

Ukraine.

And And thoughts thoughts on on the the future future of of Ukraine.”

Ukraine.”

INNA PETRIKOVA

dawn of the Second World War no doubt so suffice to say she has witnessed her still top of mind, have welcomed Ukrainian fair share of atrocities. But as she admits, refugees with open arms, and Inna has “in principle, reading the news is harder nothing but positive things to say about her than doing it. reception there.

“When you are in a situation, it is clear “Everyone helped the Ukrainians, what is happening,” she adds. “It is difficult especially those who crossed the border on to read the news. It was unbearable to read foot. Volunteers gave hot tea, fed and sent the news in Poland. Tears and anger. Fear us to places where you can spend the night,” for those in Ukraine. And thoughts on the she recalls. future of Ukraine.”

That extended to her child, who As a fellow journalist, I was curious attended an inclusive Kindergarten and what Inna thought of Putin’s blatantly worked with rehabilitation specialists false narrative of the invasion—endlessly for his condition throughout their short parroted by state media—as a peacekeeping stay. (Dasha also contacted U.S. company mission to liberate ethnic Russians, TheraTogs, which agreed to send Inna’s particularly in the eastern parts of son a full-body orthotic undergarment Ukraine, and free them from the neo-Nazi for children with complex neuromotor government in Kyiv, a tactic the Russian disorders free of charge.) president has leaned on before.

“Poland provided the maximum In spite of pockets of Russian sympathy, opportunities for my child,” Inna says. “On especially among older generations of the whole, Poland has become a ‘way of life’ Ukrainians who came of age in an era for Ukrainians.” of Soviet expansionism, Inna says there Inna is a former military journalist who are very few who still believe Putin’s covered Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, propaganda.

“Those people who are in places that war has not touched directly can read the news, they help refugees, volunteer, help armed forces in whichever way they can and they know exactly that we are attacked by Russians, led by this despot, Putin,” she says. “The whole world saw images of destruction by Russian shelling.

Kharkiv, Nikolaev, Kyiv, Mariupol—images of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, places where they shot civilians after tying them up and left their bodies in the street. The world knows about children who were raped and killed. They raped boys and girls, they raped and killed the elderly. This is some kind of inhuman behaviour. Even animals don’t do that.”

Understandably, Inna says most Ukrainians aren’t too concerned with Russian falsehoods these days. They have much bigger things to worry about.

“Our mission is to protect our homeland, protect the world from what we call ‘Russicism,’” she says. “After our victory,

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the Hague tribunal awaits. We know that after World War Two there were many trials and propaganda was used and many claimed they did not know what was going on. I hope justice will put everything in its proper place.”

After several weeks in Poland, Inna understood her proper place was back in her homeland, and she returned to Kyiv with her son last month. You would think the decision to re-enter an active warzone would come with at least some consternation, but in what I’ve learned is a resolve typical of Ukrainians, Inna says the choice was an easy one.

“It is very difficult for me to be out of context. For me, I feel much better to be inside a situation. Because this is my home. My country. My husband, my friends and colleagues are fighting for her independence. I’m back to help as best I can,” she says. “Now all Ukrainians have become a single organism, which is doing everything possible to resist the military aggression of the crazy dictator Putin and his fascist Russia against our homeland.”

Now that she’s back, Inna says a typical day for her is the same as it is for most Ukrainians who aren’t fighting on the frontlines. She works when she can and spends virtually every waking moment outside of that volunteering, supporting in whatever way she’s able. On the way to work, she might pick up a parcel, whether it’s thermal imagers, tactical equipment, batteries for walkie-talkies—whatever is needed for the fight. On breaks at work, she contacts people like Dasha around the world to arrange for more supplies to be sent. Then she rushes off to send the parcel she picked up that morning. Back at home, she does more of the same, writing post after post online pleading for help.

“My day is simple,” she says.

‘Am I ready to die?

I didn’t even think about it’ In those first few heartwrenching days of the invasion, Dasha donated to major aid organizations like the Red Cross that were

helping on the ground.

Then, through her friend Inna, Dasha started hearing stories of a restaurateur in her hometown of Kharkiv who was delivering desperately needed supplies directly to other Ukrainians, many of whom are elderly and unable—or unwilling—to leave the city.

Members of Dasha’s own family fell into this category, refusing to evacuate even after their loved ones’ repeated urgings.

“I thought, which 90-year-old person is going to be able to do that?” she says. “I guess a lot of them don’t have family abroad, or don’t have family in the same city.

They’ve been living there their whole lives. And then it just clicked to me that pain, that there are these seniors there that were either World War Two vets themselves, or they were children of the war, and now they have to end their life like that? That completely destroyed me.”

So when Stas Vishneksky, an IsraeliUkrainian businessman, reached out directly to Dasha for support, she jumped at the chance. Prior to the war, the 44-yearold owned a chain of pizzerias, but since Feb. 24, he has spent every day—save for Easter, which he took off to spend with his mom—connecting with Ukrainians across the region to drop off pretty much anything they need. He has even dipped into his own savings and delivers everything from crucial medication, groceries and prepared meals (“You have no idea how many potatoes I’ve peeled,” he told Dasha one day) to kids’ toys and washing machines.

He even converted the basement of one of his restaurants into a makeshift shelter for people with nowhere else to go.

“People like that are really hard to find,” Dasha says. “To find somebody who does this at that kind of level, I don’t know anybody like that. So I felt like if he can do that, then I can try to promote him and support him.”

Stas’ commitment to the cause has put him in some precarious situations. Some of the areas he travels through are plagued by fighting, with only a small number of volunteers venturing there. Dasha tells me he sent her a video one day that was interrupted by the boom of an artillery shell striking a nearby building. Stas wasn’t fazed.

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“Am I ready to die? I didn’t even think about it and don’t think about it. All the will of the Lord,” he says.

An Israeli citizen, Stas could have left when the invasion began, but wanted to stay and help. He tells me he dreams of the war every night, images of death and carnage filling his sleep. And yet, relatively speaking, he knows he’s lucky.

“Compared to the grief and loss of other people, I’m generally fine. Physical and mental health is normal with emotional problems,” he says. “Ordinary life ended on February 24. Since February 24, all days pass like a nightmare; without two sleeping pills, I can’t sleep.”

What keeps him going is the reaction he gets from the people he helps, the sweet, old babusyas he delivers medication to, the kids in the children’s ward, injured from shelling, whose eyes lit up when they saw the toys he brought them.

“The main motivator [to] not stop and move on were the tears of people from gratitude for my work,” he says. “Sometimes the number of those in need and the inability to help everyone [made me want to] give up, but I take a deep breath and move on. When I see the sincere tears of old people from gratitude for my help, when I hear the laughter and smile of a child for the sweets and toys that I bring, then of course I feel peace and understanding that I risk my life not in vain.”

In many ways, the work that Stas is doing is nearly impossible for large NGOs, which lack the mobility and, let’s face it, reckless abandon that Stas possesses.

Oftentimes, aid organizations will only operate in warzones if there is an established humanitarian corridor, which Russia has notoriously

disrespected, making it difficult for them to reach the same embattled areas that people like Stas do.

Then there’s the trust factor. Average Ukrainians have been wary of volunteers that seem to materialize out of the ether.

Without naming names, Stas told Dasha about a high-profile organization that swooped in to Ukraine for a week, cooked some meals for citizens, did the mandatory photoshoot for their socials, and then left.

Certain areas have also been closed off to aid groups—but not to Stas.

“Many bloggers entering neighbourhoods doing PR … got upset when I was passing a checkpoint, but the soldiers told them, ‘This man has been coming here since early March and you just showed up today,’” Stas relayed to Dasha.

Trust seems to be equally important to Stas himself. Although Dasha has told him he no longer has to do this, he still sends her a daily report of how the money she helped raise is being spent—replete with photos of grateful Ukrainians receiving their goods.

“I report to Dasha every day because I understand that people who transfer money should know exactly what they are going for. Although Dasha does not ask for this, it is so right for me,” says Stas. “I would be very happy to work with charitable organizations but in my experience and [from] my appeals to them, there is a lot of theft.”

So far, Dasha has raised about $12,000 for Stas, mostly from friends, family and local Squamoleans who have kindly opened their wallets. She has been astonished at the generosity so far, but knows that she needs to scale up if the support is to continue.

“Our circle is now dry so taking it wide is really the only way to keep going,” she says.

Dasha is also aware of the potential for trepidation in what she’s doing. As opposed to using crowdfunding platforms, which commonly take a fee and require a long-term funding target, she sends Stas the money she’s raised on a weekly basis directly through PayPal or e-transfer. That’s why she sends out regular newsletters telling funders and anyone interested what Stas has been doing, and says she’s willing to talk with anyone who may have questions or concerns.

“It’s just me. I wanted to make sure that it’s built on trust,” she says.

“I haven’t really reached out to anybody except for friends.

And I don’t know how to do that because [Stas is] not a registered organization, so you’re not going get any tax receipts, so it seems like it just has to be based on trust, really.”

For anyone interested, Dasha can be reached via email at HelpStasUkraine@axelsson.ca. Or you can donate to Stas directly at his website: kharkiv.help-me. in.ua.

The Sea to Sky Ukrainians group on Facebook is also a great way to stay up to date on other local efforts to support Ukraine. n

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Pair of former Freestyle Whistler athletes make national team JESSIE LINTON, SAM CORDELL ARE TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN THEIR CAREERS AND JOINING TEAM CANADA’S NEXTGEN SQUAD

BY HARRISON BROOKS THE SEA TO SKY contingent on Team Canada’s freestyle mogul team got a little bit stronger last week with the announcement that Freestyle Whistler alums Jessie Linton and Sam Cordell are joining the team.

“It’s so exciting because I feel like there’s so many Quebec skiers and we’ve been a bit low on B.C. skiers in the past, and now to see so many of us and how strong B.C. is it’s quite exciting,” said Linton about her and Cordell joining Pemberton’s Brendan Kelly, Whistler’s Sofiane Gagnon and Squamish’s Jordan Kober on the team.

“It’s just amazing. I’ve been over the moon ever since [I got the call]. It’s a really exciting next step in my career and I can’t wait for the future things to come.”

Still early in their ski careers, both 20-year-old Linton and 21-year-old Cordell’s journeys to Team Canada have been extremely similar. Born in Vancouver one year apart, they each started freestyle skiing in Whistler at a young age. Both

GOING NATIONAL Jessie Linton (middle) and Sam Cordell (left) pose with coach Josh Kober after an event at Apex Mountain Resort in 2021.

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skiers then made the jump to the B.C. Mogul Team at 15 years old and attended their first Junior World Ski Championships in 2019. Each skier then capped off their first post-pandemic season with their best years yet, which included Nor Am Cup podiums and multiple strong finishes at the national level.

However, out of all the highlights and podiums so far in their careers, both Linton

Cordell. “Traditionally, moguls has been really dominated by French Canadians and people from Quebec. So it’s nice to have a bunch of westerners with us, people that we’ve known for a long time, so it’s not as drastic of a change.

“We have the best skiing in the country and produce a lot of the best skiers just by virtue of our terrain, and that’s not even mentioning the awesome programs

“We have the best skiing in the country and produce a lot of the best skiers just by virtue of our terrain, and that’s not even mentioning the awesome programs provincially and regionally.”

- SAM CORDELL

and Cordell agree that getting the call from Team Canada head coach Jim Schiman, telling them they made Team Canada, tops the list. And being able to take that next step together makes the news even better.

“It’s really awesome to be with Jessie.

Also, our friend Sam from the Alberta team made it up as well. We’re super close with him, so that’s nice too,” said

provincially and regionally. So I think it’s awesome to have more of a balance of people and it’s good for Canada as a whole to have different people involved.”

Long-term, both Cordell and Linton have their sights set on making the Olympics one day. But for now, with the next Olympics still four years away, they plan on taking things one step at a time and

soaking up as much as they can from their new coaches and teammates like Mikaël Kingsbury and the Dufour-Lapointe sisters, Chloe and Justine, who have dominated the sport for years. “[I’m going to] be an absolute sponge with all my coaches’ advice and everything and just put 100 per cent in every single training run and go really hard in the gym and just keep that passion going,” said Linton.

“I’m a very competitive person and I’m really observative of my teammates. So I think it’s going to be really good for me. I’ve already been watching my teammates and looking at how they train and how they take in information and how they use it. It’s been really eye-opening to me and also made me realize that next level of intensity. Being around those World Cup athletes is just so exciting.”

While training for the upcoming season has already begun, Cordell and Linton are as excited for next ski season as they have ever been and can’t wait to see their progress when competitions get underway.

With one Nor Am Cup podium under each of their belts so far, each skier hopes to build on that success in 2023 and, if everything goes right, potentially even make the cut for their first World Cup appearances. n

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Pemberton Secondary wins mountain bike provincials IN THE FIRST YEAR BACK SINCE THE PANDEMIC, PEMBERTON EDGED OUT WHISTLER’S TEAM FOR THE 2022 CHAMPIONSHIP

BY HARRISON BROOKS ON FRIDAY, May 27, at the Jordie Lunn Bike Park in Langford, Pemberton Secondary School’s mountain bike team rode their way to victory at the BC School Sports High School Mountain Biking Provincial Championships in the Overall Team category—the school’s first win since 2017.

While excitement for the win was high, it wasn’t exactly expected, according to Grade 9 student Sam Tierney, a rookie on the team.

“It’s super exciting for sure. I don’t think anyone on the team really expected us to win provincials because the whole year we had been beaten by other schools. But yeah, it was a pretty great feeling,” he said. “I think everybody on race day just went out there and did their best and everybody was super consistent with getting pretty high placings.”

The provincial championships consist of two events, cross-country and enduro, which are then split into men’s and women’s categories for Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, and Seniors, which consists of both Grade 11 and 12 students.

As the only remaining member of the team from before the pandemic, Grade 11

head coach Nicole Jean had different answers.

While each undoubtedly contributed to the win, Teitzel credits the team’s success to the amount of practice they did, with the whole team getting together each Monday to ride together. Meanwhile, Tierney believes the win stemmed from the consistent riding across the board and gave a shoutout to the team’s girls—Abbie Glavas, Emily Wilson, Rebecca Beaton and Violet Cleland—who all performed extremely well in their respective categories.

But according to Jean, along with the points gained from having more girls on the team than other schools, it was a simple coaching decision, keeping the team motivated, that pushed them over the top.

“We always do very well in the enduro because the kids love going downhill in our area … but nobody particularly loves the cross-country event in the morning. So there was a little bit of talk about just sort of finishing it but not trying too hard and saving themselves for the enduro event,” she said. “But I dissuaded them from that, which was a good idea because you get the same number of points in the crosscountry race as you do in the enduro and it really paid off.”

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student Sami Teitzel, who also competes in solo competitions around B.C. in the summer, was just happy to be back in the team environment again and celebrating the win with his schoolmates.

“It was super fun. It’s cool seeing all the new people who weren’t on the team when I first started and it’s cool to see that it’s back up almost completely to where it was before COVID,” said Teitzel. “I’d say I’m a bit more team-oriented at the school events and a bit more about having fun with everybody, whereas at the BC Cups you have to focus a lot more on what you’re doing, but I like the energy of both. They’re different but both really fun.”

When asked about the keys to success for the team, each of Teitzel, Tierney and

Pemberton Secondary finished the event with 563 total points, edging out secondplace Whistler Secondary by more than 100.

And with most of the team eligible to return, the bar has been set and the whole team is looking to repeat as provincial champions next year in Castlegar.

“We are really looking forward to next year already. It’s in Castlegar and I told the kids to scope out fun places to stop along the way to ride because we try to make it not just a race event, we try to do some local rides to get a feel of the different communities and the riding in the different communities,” said Jean.

“But if they can do the same thing again next year and we can enjoy ourselves and no one gets hurt, that would be great.” n

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Whistler Sea Wolves host first meet since 2019 EVENT OFFERS OPPORTUNITY FOR CLUB’S YOUNGER MEMBERS TO GET THEIR FIRST SWIM MEET EXPERIENCE

BY HARRISON BROOKS IT WAS ALL smiles and fun at the Meadow Park Sports Centre on May 28 and 29 as the Whistler Sea Wolves Swim Club hosted its first meet since 2019.

“The whole event went really well. We haven’t run one in two seasons, which is basically three years for us, so we were a little worried about running this thing, but parents stepped up and the kids had a great time. We had 145 kids from five clubs, some great swimming happened, it just went really well,” said Sea Wolves meet manager David Higgins.

“The kids were very excited. We have a lot of kids who haven’t really seen what a swim meet looks like, a lot of parents haven’t seen what a swim meet looks like, so they get the full experience of a swim meet, and for the kids, the swimming is ultimately secondary because they all get to hang around with their buddies then go do a swim.”

Leading the way for the Sea Wolves was 17-year-old Kieran Higgins, son of David and head coach Brandi Higgins, who ended the day with a first-place finish in the 200metre individual medley and a couple fifth-place finishes in the 50m breaststroke

and 100m backstroke.

While there was some competition in the higher age groups, the meet in Whistler was more of a stepping-stone type event designed for the less competitive swimmers to make their times to qualify for bigger swim meets around the province.

However, according to Brandi, it was still good practice for Kieran to be put to the

water he steps up and takes it into that next level of racing.”

But Kieran wasn’t the only Whistler swimmer to have a good day. In fact, the Sea Wolves saw 183 “best times” throughout the event—a testament to the amount of growth and improvement the kids showed over the past two years while they’ve been stuck only training.

“It was very obvious that they grew and improved. I think from a team standpoint it was a great team builder...”

- BRANDI HIGGINS

test after a few years of being the fastest kid in his home pool.

“He performed really well. He’s kind of been the fastest, biggest kid in the water for a couple years now, so being challenged on his home turf was a really good push for him,” said Brandi.

“Hollyburn brought some pretty quick kids that were his age group and they pushed, and he stepped up. That’s one of the things that we’ve been impressed with is that when he’s been challenged in the

“It was very obvious that they grew and improved. I think from a team standpoint it was a great team builder in that over COVID the kids didn’t really get to interact between age groups before,” said Brandi.

“But one of the things about swim meets is you’ve got the seven-year-olds with the 17-year-olds and they hang out and support each other and cheer each other on. So that was really great to see that interaction between all the age groups.”

Other standouts from the event for the

Whistler Sea Wolves included Maggy Smith, in the 11-12 girls category, who finished first in the 50m freestyle, second in the 100m backstroke and third in the 200m individual medley. In the same age group, Olivia Persson also walked away with a couple podiums with a third in the 50m freestyle and a first in the 100m backstroke.

In the U10 age group, Charlotte Maclennan finished second in the 50m freestyle and third in the 100m backstroke, while Jack Hally finished first in both the 100m backstroke and 50m freestyle.

With the season winding down soon, one of the last events for the club will be a threeday swim meet in Kamloops this weekend, where the 12 participating swimmers from the club will try to make the times necessary to qualify for the divisional and provincial meets later this year.

“The season is almost done, so we have two weeks of practice left and if they qualify for divisionals or provincials they’ll keep going for the rest of the season,” said Brandi. “[My expectations] are that we’re having fun and keep improving, and then going forward just knowing we have a lot of new kids coming in and they are all very strong, so if we can channel that strength and fitness into swimming that would be fantastic.” n

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Recent honours for Raven Room a welcome surprise after COVID COCKTAIL BAR NAMED ONE OF CANADA’S BEST 50 BARS FOR 2022 THE OWNERSHIP TEAM behind The Raven Room only had about 15 months of operations under their belts when COVID hit in early 2020, not exactly the trajectory a new bar wants to take as it’s trying to gain a footing in the market.

BY BRANDON BARRETT “It’s felt like we were a Year-1 business for three years, just being a year and three months old when we went into the pandemic,” says co-owner Steph Redmond.

“This is feeling like we’re coming out on the other side of it with lots to celebrate.”

The Raven Room enjoyed a trio of recent honours, further proof that the premier cocktail bar has officially arrived—and the industry is taking notice. Recently ranked

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35th on Canada’s Best 50 Bars list for 2022, it was a welcome development for the Pan Pacific Village Centre Hotel bar known for its creative cocktails and gourmet, latenight bites.

“We were so proud and incredibly shocked,” Redmond says. “It kind of came out of nowhere for us. It was a really beautiful surprise after what has been a pretty tough three years.”

(The cocktail bar wasn’t the only Whistler spot that was recently honoured: Canada’s 100 Best, which also selects the country’s Top 50 bars, named the Bearfoot Bistro (73rd) and Araxi (89th) to its annual list of 100 best restaurants.)

The Raven Room was also recently nominated as a Top 10 regional honouree for Best International Hotel Bar as part of the 2022 Spirited Awards, with the winners announced next month at the awards gala and conference held in New Orleans. Luckily enough, Redmond and her fellow owners—husband Jason, along with Brandi and Luke Woodnutt—had already booked a trip to Louisiana for the industry conference, joining a Whistler contingent that will also include owners and staff from

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“It’s going to be even sweeter to be down there and actually be a part of it and to be able to carry that nomination with us while we enjoy the conference,” Redmond says.

Last but not least, bartender Dani Crowley just won the Giffard West Cup competition for her “American Pie”themed cocktail that mimics the flavours of strawberry rhubarb pie. The international bartending competition hosted by French liqueur and syrup maker Giffard celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and asked participants to create a cocktail based off of a particular song or music that inspires their life behind the bar. Redmond says judges will decide later this week between Crowley and the East Cup winner on who will head to Angers, France for the finals in September.

The accolades come at the perfect time for the team, Redmond adds, which had to keep on evolving through the flurry of restrictions brought on by COVID. “It was a lot of not knowing what was around the corner. I hate the word pivot, but there were lots of pivots to pivots,”

she says. “We were closed at 10 p.m. and late-night was our thing, so then we started doing brunch. Then the late-night hours came back. You’re just constantly adapting and as a new business, we didn’t quite know if we were going to make it.

“It’s incredible to actually come out the other end and find fireworks here.”

Part of the owners’ goal in starting the Raven Room was to elevate the game as far as cocktails go in Whistler, and it’s thanks to that high standard that the bar has gained so much recognition across the industry.

But like any successful resort business, it is the locals that have helped turn the Raven Room into what it is today.

“It’s incredible how much word of mouth is still a huge part of our marketing and how industry in Whistler sends people our way all the time,” says Redmond.

“We’re just so honoured to have so many people that back us in the community and that is showcased all the time with who is coming through the door and how they heard of us.”

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Welcoming Whistler back to the new-andimproved Point POINT ARTIST-RUN CENTRE HOSTING MULTIDISCIPLINARY REOPENING CELEBRATION JUNE 17 AFTER WINTER OF RENOS

BY MEGAN LALONDE THE SMALL CABIN on the western shores of Alta Lake has served a few different purposes since it was built sometime around 60 years ago by Whistler pioneer Dick Fairhurst.

First, it operated as a guest lodge before eventually turning into a hostel in the ’70s.

The land itself had welcomed tourists to the area years before that, with adventurous travellers flocking to a series of lakeside cabins as early as the 1920s. But since 2011, locals have known it as The Point ArtistRun Centre.

Now, the space is gearing up to host a reopening event on Friday, June 17, welcoming the community back to the Centre after it closed its doors for a slate of renovations over the winter.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) wanted to keep the municipally owned building “in good repair,” said The Point’s artistic director Stephen Vogler, “so there were some things that it needed; some

BACK TO THE POINT Renovations at the newlook Point Artist-Run Centre will be on full display on June 17 for a reopening event featuring art, live music and theatrical performances.

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sprucing up and some improvements.”

The upgrades are “not huge changes,” he added, but include refinished floors, a fresh coat of paint, new lighting and electrical upgrades, to name a few.

RMOW staff “were really good [about] working with us and allowing us to have input, because we like to try to keep—and I’m sure they do too—that sort of funky

return for the first time.

On June 17, the community is invited to take in a visual art show curated by Whistler painter Lisa Geddes, before being treated to a performance from Pemberton musician Austin Ross. Rounding out the evening will be a series of short monologues written by North Vancouver playwright John McGie and performed by a roster of Whistler,

“There’s never been any kind of security of our position there, but we are just now working out a longterm operating agreement with the RMOW.” - STEPHEN VOGLER

heritage aspect combined with arts-centre feel to it,” he said. “Because we’ve really come to love the place over the 11 years that we’ve been operating in there.”

The Centre has already welcomed a few groups in for music classes, theatre rehearsals and Whistler Film Festival screenwriters labs since the renovations were completed, but its official unveiling will see an audience

Squamish and Vancouver actors.

The evening will begin at 4 p.m. with the free art reception featuring the works of 10 artists including Geddes, Atty Gell, Julie Hamilton, Jeff Heintzman, Roberta Horn, Hugh Kearney, Stephanie Lowe, Andrea Mueller, Christina Nick and Allison van Gruen, before the ticketed portion of the event kicks off at 6 p.m.

Ross’ set will be followed by McGie’s Chair Series featuring actors Brandon Barrett, Kathy Daniels, Warde Troyer, Susan Hutchinson, Sara Marrocco, Brodie Prescott and Amy Reid.

A cash bar and snacks for purchase will be available. Tickets are for sale at thepointartists.com for $20.

It’s far from the first time McGie’s Chair Series has appeared on The Point’s stage.

The “incredibly prolific writer” asks “each actor for one word, and then he creates their monologue based on that one word,” Vogler explained.

These are exactly the kinds of events and performances that Vogler hopes will fill The Point for decades to come. Ahead of its “busiest summer ever planned,” Vogler said the Centre’s years-long casual arrangement with the RMOW is also taking on a more permanent structure in 2022.

“There’s never been any kind of security of our position there, but we are just now working out a long-term operating agreement with the RMOW, which we’ll have hopefully completed … by this coming fall,” Vogler explained.

“That will give us more security there and we can plan a bit more in terms of looking forward as an artist-run centre, and still including the community in other programming as well. It’s exciting times for The Point right now.” n

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PAGE TURNA Thirty-two-year-old Newcastle resident Cade Turna—who, funnily enough, has worked as a bookseller for the past decade—became Armchair Books’ 1 millionth recorded customer on Thursday, June 2.

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Whistler’s Armchair Books records its 1 millionth customer CADE TURNA, A BOOKSELLER FROM THE U.K., WON $100 GIFTCARD ON HER SHORT TRIP TO WHISTLER

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER’S BELOVED, long-running bookstore, Armchair Books, officially recorded its 1 millionth customer last week, and, as fate would have it, it was a fellow bookseller who took home the distinction.

Cade Turna, 32, was visiting Whistler from the U.K. on Thursday, June 2, when she made her second stop to the village store in less than 24 hours. The day prior, the Newcastle native had purchased the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s fantasy series, Mistborn, and enjoyed it so much that she returned the following day to pick up the next instalment.

“I was totally shocked,” she says when reached by phone from the Vancouver airport waiting to board her flight back to England. “I went back, and I can’t pass up a bookstore at the best of times, so I was browsing for ages anyway. Then I went to get the second [book in the series] and [the clerk] was like, ‘Don’t go anywhere. You’ve won.’ Then I got very excited again.”

A 10-year employee of U.K. bookstore chain Waterstones, it felt destined that Turna took home the honour, along with a $100 gift card.

“It could have been anyone,” says Armchair owner Dan Ellis. “Honestly, it could have been a local, it could have been someone from Arkansas—it could have been anyone that walked in here. It could have been someone buying a newspaper, and it just turned out to be this woman who was visiting and she works in a bookstore.”

Although Turna marked the 1 millionth recorded customer, technically speaking, the shop has served more bookworms than that since Ellis’ mom first opened the store out of its original location in 1982. However, it wasn’t until 2001 that Armchair switched to a computerized system, when the official tally began.

For Turna, an admitted bibliophile,

Armchair was like an oasis in the desert. After spending much of her Western Canadian trip on solo hikes in the wilderness, Armchair was the first bookstore she came across—and it couldn’t have come at a more fortuitous time.

“I love going to bookstores. To be honest, it’s a horrible addiction,” she says. “It was the first bookstore I’d seen in Canada, because I’ve been in Canada for a few weeks now.

And I’d been to Calgary, Jasper, Sun Peaks and then Whistler, and was like, ‘Ooh finally, a bookstore.’

“As soon as I found it, I was so happy.

Bookstores are my little happy place.”

This year marks Armchair Books’ 40th anniversary, and the small-but-mighty shop shows no signs of slowing down, despite the doomsayers’ predictions for years now that the independent bookshop would soon become a thing of the past in the face of online retail giants like Amazon and the rise of the e-reader.

In fact, to hear Ellis tell it, the shop is thriving, thanks to both its dedicated Sea to Sky fanbase and its steady flow of visitors.

“Yeah, we had a lean time, for sure, because of the e-reader, but eventually people realized that having a book in their hands, to feel the pages, is a better reading experience than having a digital device in their lap,” he explains. “On top of that, I think there’s just a growing sense that any owner-operated business is more valuable than a corporate giant, because they are in a community, they contribute to a community, they give character to a community, whereas the big companies don’t. I think that sentiment has grown and grown and grown.”

With her flying across the pond the following day, you can be sure Turna made good use of her gift card, coming away with four books and a sticker. But it wasn’t just her prodigious haul that left her with the warmfuzzies.

“There was a ladder on the wall and I asked if I could stand on the ladder to reach books, and [the clerk] said yes. I can’t tell you how happy that made me,” she says. n

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION The current Whistler Village site in November 1979. The copper beams of Tapley’s Pub can be seen in the middle left. Hearthstone Lodge and Blackcomb Lodge are also under construction. The first completed building in the Village was the Public Service Building (top right), and the old Myrtle Philip Community School is on the top left.

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Designing a community

BY JILLIAN ROBERTS SOME TOWN CENTRES grow organically as the population grows. Whistler was not one of those towns. Instead, Whistler was carefully planned to ensure the growth of a vibrant, happy and healthy community.

If you have recently been enjoying some of the few moments of spring sun on one of Whistler’s many patios, you can thank Eldon Beck, the early council, and Whistler’s planning and project management team.

Incorporated in 1975 as the first resort municipality in B.C., the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was an experiment that gave local officials far more control of the land, development and community than was typical for a municipality. When Phase 1 of the Town Centre went to development bid in 1978, the 12 parcels had strict covenants for use and planning restrictions attached.

It was also divided into small parcels to ensure that local owner-developers could buy land parcels, keeping it in the community and ensuring that one large conglomerate would not and could not buy the whole village.

A community is not complete without local people, and much research went into how best to entice residents and visitors alike into the village and make sure the centre of town was full of life. According to Jim Moodie, from the project management team of Sutcliffe, Griggs and Moodie, who were tasked with preparing the development plan for the Town Centre, “We didn’t want a whole strip of T-shirt shops.”

The location of the grocery store, drug store, hardware store and liquor store were carefully placed to ensure local residents had a purpose for going into the village.

They can still be found in their original locations. Additionally, Tapley’s Pub opened in its current location in January

1981. As the first pub in the Town Centre, it was important to open Tapley’s Pub early in the development process to ensure that the construction workers had somewhere to go that would encourage them to stay in the village during their leisure time.

To further ensure there would be enough people to support the businesses, mixed-use rental and residential housing was required to be built over most of the commercial premises. In planning, building height and roof angle were specified to maximize the natural sunlight, and patio locations were carefully laid out. Unsurprisingly, this level of control and direction was not popular with some developers who, throughout the construction of all phases of the village, tried to be the exception—offering more money to get an exemption from building residential rooms, underground parking, or to keep their outdoor patio closed. However, the covenants for each build were clearly and carefully laid out from the beginning, leaving little room for interpretation, and each completed stage of Whistler Village is very similar to the final plans, even down to how people walk through the Village Stroll.

Beck’s design for Whistler Village was intended to feel connected to nature, with the stroll set out to create a natural flow of people, encouraging people to slow down and spend time with one another. Similar to a meandering river, where the Village Stroll gets wider you often see people slow down and gather as they stop to talk to friends or take in their surroundings, exactly as the planners hoped.

As Whistler ticked into the 1980s, the Village was coming along nicely with the development of Phase 1 well underway.

However, there were dark economic clouds on the horizon. Soon the Canadian economy would tank, skyrocketing interest rates by over 20 per cent and temporarily halting the formerly-booming development, creating new challenges for the fledgling Whistler Village. n

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PROM PIC A few members of Whistler Secondary School’s graduating class before heading off to prom on Thursday, June 2. PHOTO BY ROB KNAPTON. 2 POWWOW PERFORMANCE Lil’wat Nation dancers perform during a celebration RUNNING WILD Pique sales manager Susan Hutchinson poses with her finishers medal after crossing the 10K course finish line at the Whistler Half Marathon on Sunday, June 5. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 CAR RALLY CREW This crew was part of the crowd that braved the rain for the Pemberton Off Road Rebels’ 41st annual 4x4 rally, held near the Green River motocross track on June 4 and 5. PHOTO BY ELISE DORE. 5 SCRATCHING POST A very happy looking black bear found the perfect scratching post at a Whistler construction site this week. PHOTO BY MITCHELL GROPPER. 6 CONSTRUCTION ZONE Creekside is looking a little different without 1

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gondola towers, as seen during a rare sunny day on Tuesday, June 7. PHOTO BY GEORGIA BUTLER.

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ARIES March 21 - April 19 “It takes a spasm of love to write a poem,” wrote Aries author Erica Jong. I will add that it takes a spasm of love to fix a problem with someone you care about. It also takes a spasm of love to act with kindness when you don’t feel kind. A spasm of love is helpful when you need to act with integrity in a confusing situation and when you want to heal the past so it doesn’t plague the future. All the above advice should be useful for you in the coming weeks, Aries. Are there any other variations you can think of? Fill in the blank in the next sentence: It takes a spasm of love to _______.

TAURUS April 20 - May 27 “The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our badness as what is best in us,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. When I read that ambitious epigram, I didn’t know what he was referring to. By “badness,” did he mean the ugly, pathological parts of us? That couldn’t be right. So I read scholars who had studied the great philosopher. Their interpretation: Nietzsche believed the urges that some religions seek to inhibit are actually healthy for us. We should celebrate, not suppress, our inclinations to enjoy sensual delights and lusty living.

In fact, we should define them as being the best in us. I encourage you Bulls to do just that in the coming weeks.

It’s a favourable time to intensify your devotion to joy, pleasure, and revelry.

GEMINI May 21 - June 20 It’s an excellent time to correct and uplift your self-image. I invite you to speak the following affirmations aloud: “I am not damaged. I am not on the wrong path. I am not inept or ignorant or off-kilter. The truth is, I am learning how to live. I am learning how to be a soulful human and I am doing a reasonably good job at that task. I do a lot of things really well. I’m getting to know myself better every day.

I constantly surprise myself with how skilled I am at adjusting to life’s constant changes. I AM AMAZED AT HOW MUCH PROGRESS I HAVE MADE IN LEARNING HOW TO LIVE.” CANCER June 21-July 22 In the Tibetan language, the term nyingdu-la means “most honoured poison of my heart.” Many of us know at least one person who fits that description: an enemy we love to hate or a loved one who keeps tweaking our destiny or a paradoxical ally who is both hurtful and helpful. According to my analysis, it’s time for you to transform your relationship with a certain nyingdu-la in your life. The bond between you might have generated vital lessons for you. But now it’s time for a re-evaluation and redefinition.

LEO July 23-Aug. 22 “Don’t pray for the rain to stop,” advises Leo poet Wendell Berry. “Pray for good luck fishing when the river floods.” That’s useful advice for you, my dear. The situation you’re in could turn out to be a case of either weird luck or good luck. And how you interpret the situation may have a big impact on which kind of luck it brings. I urge you to define the potential opportunities that are brewing and concentrate on feeding them.

VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 Virgo writer Julio Cortázar (1914–1984) once remarked, “How tiring it gets being the same person all the time.” That’s surprising. In fact, Cortázar was an innovative and influential author who wrote more than 30 books in four genres and lived for extended periods in five countries. It’s hard to imagine him ever being bored by his multifaceted self. Even if you’re not a superstar like Cortázar, Virgo, I expect you will be highly entertained and amused by your life in the coming weeks. I bet you will be even more interesting than usual. Best of all, you will learn many fresh secrets about your mysterious soul.

LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 The blogger Frogbestfriend says, “One of the biggest problems with society nowadays is that I am so, so sleepy.” Frogbestfriend is humorously suggesting that his inability to maintain good sleep habits is rooted in civilization’s dysfunctions. He’s right, of course! Many of our seemingly personal problems are

at least partially rooted in the pathological ways the whole world operates. Our culture influences us to do things that aren’t always healthy and wise. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because now is a favourable time to meditate on society’s crazy-making effects on you.

Now is also a pivotal moment to heal yourself of those crazy-making effects.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Poet Maggie Smith writes, “We talk so much of light. Please let me speak on behalf of the good dark. Let us talk more of how dark the beginning of a day is.” I offer her proposal as a fertile theme for your meditations. Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Scorpios are most skilled at teasing out the good stuff from shadows and secrets and twilight. And your potency in these matters is even higher than usual right now. Do us all a favour and find the hidden redemptions and potential regenerations.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 When actors and other creative people in film win Oscars at the Academy Awards ceremony, they come onstage and deliver short talks, acknowledging their honour. These speeches often include expressions of gratitude. An analysis revealed that over the years, Sagittarian director Steven Spielberg has been thanked by winners more often than anyone else—even more than God. Based on my reading of astrological omens, I believe you deserve that level of appreciation in the coming weeks. Please show this horoscope to everyone you know who may be willing to carry out my mandate. Be proactive in collecting tribute, credit, and favours.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 In the ancient Greek story of Odysseus, the hero leaves his home in Ithaka to fight in the Trojan War. When the conflict is over, he yearns to return to the beloved life he left behind. But his journey takes 10 years. His tests and travails are many. The 20th-century Greek poet C. P. Cavafy offered advice to Odysseus at the beginning of his quest: “As you set out for Ithaka, hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery … Keep Ithaca always in your mind.

Arriving there is what you’re destined for. But don’t hurry the journey. Better if it lasts for years, so you’re old by the time you reach the island, wealthy with all you’ve gained on the way.” As you begin your new phase of returning home, Capricorn, I invite you to keep Cavafy’s thoughts in mind. (Read the poem: tinyurl.com/HomeToIthaka.

Translated by Edmund Keeley.)

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 “I have never, ever, EVER met anyone who has regretted following their heart,” writes life coach Marie Forleo. But what exactly does she mean by “following their heart”? Does that mean ignoring cautions offered by your mind? Not necessarily.

Does it require you to ignore everyone’s opinions about what you should do? Possibly. When you follow your heart, must you sacrifice money and status and security? In some cases, yes. But in other cases, following your heart may ultimately enhance your relationship with money and status and security. Anyway, Aquarius. I hope I’ve inspired you to meditate on what it means to follow your heart—and how you can do that intensely during the coming months.

PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 Actor and author Jenny Slate testifies, “As the image of myself becomes sharper in my brain and more precious, I feel less afraid that someone else will erase me by denying me love.” That is the single best inspirational message I can offer you right now. In the coming months, you will earn the right and the capacity to make the same declaration. Your selfdefinition will become progressively clearer and stronger.

And this waxing superpower will enable you to conquer at least some of your fear about not getting enough love.

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Whistler Rules for Happy Tourists and Even Happier Locals WITH THE OFFICIAL end of ski season, Whistler has doffed its guise as ski resort and enthusiastically embraced its increasingly important alter ego as Mountain Resort. Not certain whether there’ll be people skiing and boarding up on Horstman Glacier this summer, working on jumps, bumps, hits and sporting raccoon tans, but if there is, they’ll be outliers, standouts in a sea of humanity pursuing the dreams of summer and licking ice cream cones.

Summer’s here and the time is right for… for… whatever.

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BY G.D. MAXWELL unfortunate, single-minded, obsessive addicts who, when asked, “Whaddya do all summer?” says, “Golf!”—blurred, dulled, lost in the miasma of all the possibilities warm weather and long days bring.

Summer’s not just like winter with more sunlight. Summer’s different. Summer puzzles with its smorg of possible things to do.

The people who come to Whistler are different in this Other Season, formerly known as the Off-Season. Different still in summer.

Winter tourists, though coming from around the world, tend to be fairly homogenous. Something like 99 per cent of them—convention floaters excepted—come to ski or snowboard, or at least come with someone who plans to spend their time that way. Winter tourists are passionate, perhaps even single-minded, obsessive addicts. They speak the language of skiing regardless of whatever other language they may speak. The hardest decision they have to make each day is Whistler or Blackcomb.

After that, it’s all downhill.

The No. 1 thing to do here in winter is slide downhill. There is no No. 2. There are other things to do, sleds to ride, treks to zip, shoes to snow, rants to rest, but they’re either sideshows or ancillary activities that need to get done to get on with the main event.

Because we all slide downhill, we live the illusion of one big happy family. There are cultural differences. Europeans do tend to ignore lift lines, Brits tip lightly, if at all, but we are cultural soulmates.

It takes summertime to remind us just how different—yes, even strange— the customs of the outside world may be.

Summertime in tourist land is, if nothing else, a cultural gruel of people very different from you and me. Okay, me. But at least I’m honest about it and get out of town lest I cause some disturbance.

Summer is when we, the collective service industry “we,” need to be at our sharpest, our most obsequious, our most

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servile. There are two reasons for that. Lack of focus on the one hand, and heightened expectations on the other. This one-two punch is amplified by the two additional factors. The first is volume: more tourists come to do whatever they’ve come to do here in summer than in winter. The second is we encounter them more frequently because they tend to wander away from the compound, er, village, more than winter tourists; they bleed into every corner of town and there is no escaping them.

Perhaps this is a good place to remind tourists of one overriding fact: We love you. Each and every one of you. Regardless of where you’re from, how culturally uncomfortable you might be with the concept of tipping, how many questions

and, yes, even liked. You like us, don’t you?

Say you do. It’s important to us. Because of this national obsession, Canada is a net exporter of comedians and comedy. We want to make people laugh. If they laugh, they like us, right?

When we travel to your country, we will abide by the time-honoured cliché of doing in Rome as Romans do. We will cover our heads, uncover our heads, bow, stand erect, say please and thank you, not demand comfort foods and smile as we try your national dish of deep-fried ants in saliva reduction, and generally try to be modest and unassuming. If we do, you’ll like us, right?

But when you come to our country, we wouldn’t dream of asking you to do as

We want you to be exactly who you are. We want you to be comfortable, feel at home, follow your traditions. you have, you are why we’re here. Okay, that’s not exactly true. We’re here to have fun and avoid the troubling reality you’ve come here to escape. But we couldn’t do that without you and for that we are truly grateful.

But we live the Canadian Paradox and sometimes it’s more than we can manage.

The Canadian Paradox is rooted in our universal desire to be modest, unassuming

we do, whatever that is. We want you to be exactly who you are. We want you to be comfortable, feel at home, follow your traditions. If you feel good, we feel good.

And hopefully, you’ll like us.

Of course, that attitude kind of defeats the purpose of travel—assuming at least part of the reason we travel is to immerse ourselves in foreign cultures—but that’s okay. Lord knows things can get way too

foreign sometimes. And we do still have this national debate about what, really, our culture is anyway.

But tourism is informed by local rules, rules of the road, so to speak. As the whole concept of remote corners of the world becomes, well, remote, and more people from more places in the world travel to other places in the world, some places have found adopting basic rules of engagement a useful way to avoid ugly cultural clashes.

I’ll grab the initiative and offer my own Whistler Rules for Happy Tourists and Even Happier Locals. There aren’t many. And, since we are Canadian, you can ignore them if it makes you happy. As long as you like us.

Rule No. 1: Unless you have a debilitating fear of heights, go to the top of the mountains. You should do this for two reasons. To get a magnificent view and, more importantly, to have whatever heated, family squabble you’re going to have in a semi-private gondola. The ride up or down is the time to fight about what you’re going to do next. The middle of the village isn’t. It offends our everybody-please-have-a-goodtime ethos to see you fight in the village.

Rule No. 2: The only dress code in Whistler is gold… or platinum or any colour your credit card comes in.

Rule No. 3: You have to do something.

Every day. It should involve a Waiver of Liability.

Rule No. 4: You have to buy 2010 Olympic souvenirs. At least one of them has to be an Inukshuk. And yes, if you’d like to, you can buy the one at the Roundhouse.

Yes, we’ll ship.

That’s it. Too many rules and you won’t like us. You do like us, don’t you? ■

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Nick Swinburne *PREC

604-932-8899 Rob Boyd

CREEKSIDE 2 - 2174 Sarajevo Drive Gondola Village. Affordable fully renovated home with one bedroom and a loft. Mountain view surronds. Steps to the Creekside Gondola and local commercials. Nightly and monthly rental allowed. $899,000

Ruby Jiang

GREEN LAKE ESTATES 8437 Golden Bear Place Summer beside the lake! On the edge of Green Lake/ River of Golden Dream. Unobstructed VIEWS. Private & exclusive. Architectural masterpiece. 5Bed/4Bath, open-concept living, chef’s kitchen, wet bar, billiards/rec room, 5 fireplaces, hot tub. Quintessential Whistler! $10,799,000

604-935-9172 Gina Daggett

CREEKSIDE 16 - 1200 Alta Lake Road Unit #16 Twin Lakes is the perfect 4 season get away or full time residence that Whistler has to offer. Enjoy the residents only private beach on Alpha Lake in the sizzling summer months where you can swim, float with friends, canoe, paddle board or bask in the sun. $1,549,000

778-834-2002 Maggi Thornhill *PREC

NEW TO MARKET

778-998-2357

CREEKSIDE H205 – 1400 Alta Lake Road Well estabished Tamarisk condo complex, 2 bedroom / 1 bathroom and extra den/ storage. Bright corner condo, 2 parking passes. Alpha Lake & Valley Trail access. 3DTour: my.matterport.com/ show/?m=chtzj8RfVJM $839,000

604-905-8199 Kathy White

604-616-6933

NEW TO MARKET

LILLOOET 288 Hollywood Cres Stunning mountain views from all angles abound in this meticulously maintained 5 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom 2,600 + sq ft home. 800 sq ft deck with 12’x24’ pergola and hot tub and double car 25’ x 30’ detached garage & workshop, on 0.56 acres. $879,000

Katie Marsh

EMERALD ESTATES 9488 Emerald Drive QUIET, PRIVATE LOT – Get creative and design a dream home on this unique 11,729‘ lot. Full sun, huge views, over $200k in site prep, landscaping, services installed.

Call for more info and brochure. $2,096,000

PEMBERTON 1484 Lupin St Enjoy all day sun with Mount Currie views from the spacious fenced yard, large deck of this this well maintained 4 bdrm home in the vibrant ‘Glen’ neighbourhood. New kitchen, double garage, lots of extra parking, storage shed and a 1bdrm suite. $1,439,000

604-902-9505 Suzanne Wilson

SQUAMISH 2011 Garibaldi Way GARIBALDI ESTATES , Great location!

The home offers an efficient layout with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a den below along with 2 bedroom revenue suite, there is ample parking for all vehicles and toys. $1,899,000

604-966-8454 Angie Vazquez *PREC

Whistler Village Shop

Squamish Station Shop

36-4314 Main Street · Whistler BC V8E 1A8 · Phone +1 604-932-1875

150-1200 Hunter Place · Squamish BC V8B 0G8 · Phone +1 778-733-0611

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Engel & Völkers Whistler

Each brokerage independently owned and operated. *PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION

778-318-5900

3D Tour - rem.ax/3133tyrol

3133 Tyrol Crescent

3D Tour - rem.ax/413alpenglow

$3,099,000

Enjoy mountain living at its finest! This 4.5 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom cabin has been tastefully updated and well cared for. Located in the highly desired Alta Vista neighborhood, this beautiful home offers convenient access to the Village, Alta Lake, and all Whistler offers.

Madison Perry

4.5

778.919.7653

#6 - 2200 Taylor Way

This 4th floor studio with views of Sproat Mountain is a perfect little getaway and revenue generator. Located in the middle of Whistler Village, steps from Olympic Plaza, food and shopping, and a short walk from the ski hill. Complex includes a pool, hot tub and exercise room, and secure underground parking. Opportunity for excellent annual revenues.

Matt Chiasson

SOLD

8345 Mountain View Drive

$4,488,000

5

604.905.9337

3D Tour - rem.ax/1418delta

#1418 - 4308 Main Street

.5

604.935.9171

1865 Highway 99 - Pemberton

8019 Nicklaus North Blvd.

Meg McLean*

$6,299,000

6

604.905.6326

3

604.907.2223

3D Tour - rem.ax/6baseline

With an absolutely stunning location on the 15th hole of the Nicklaus North golf course, this 5 bedroom and den home features truly spectacular lake and mountain views. Relax in the open plan living dining area with floor to ceiling windows to enjoy the breathtaking views or soak up the sun and the views from one of the 2 beautiful sundecks or from the garden patio.

Sally Warner*

$4,150,000

Have you ever dreamed about owning your own hobby farm in the Sea to Sky? Sunset Ranch is a stunning property you need to see to believe the 360 degree Mountain & Valley views with all day sun. Each handcrafted detail tells a story with much thought and consideration behind it so there is a place for everything, no clutter, and a design mix of old & new. Come fall in love!

3D Tour - rem.ax/8019nicklaus

Walk in and embrace the eye catching panoramic view of our beautiful mountains and valley below. Situated below street level this 5 bedroom 3 bathroom home on 3 levels is a classic Whistler chalet. This allows for an easy walk from the car to the kitchen, dining and living area on the main floor.

Michael d’Artois

$449,000

3D Tour - rem.ax/1865hwy99

#6 - 2200 Taylor Way

$2,575,000

The beautiful floor plan will grab your attention with high vaulted ceilings, in the living room & bedrooms that streams in the natural light. Located by Alpha Lake / Park with tennis courts, beach and children’s play area for your summer fun. Walking distance to Creekside Gondola and all the wonderful amenities Creekside has to offer.

Sherry Baker*

3.5

604.932.1315

3D Tour - rem.ax/1489balsam2

$490,000

1489 Balsam Street

$1,750,000

#602 - 4050 Whistler Way

$299,000

Spacious and flowing 1 bedroom floor plan with full kitchen, in-suite laundry and balcony with Northeast exposure, an abundance of natural light and mountain views. Cozy up by the fireplace after a day on the mountains or relax on the unique window bench to read a book while soaking in the light from the large window of the primary bedroom.

This custom constructed home on a beautiful street in The Glen neighborhood in Pemberton has many custom features that were well planned out during construction.

This home has a beautifully landscaped yard with mature trees, shrubs & established flower beds plus raspberry bushes and it is fully irrigated and easy to maintain.

One of the best hotels for accessing both mountains and Whistler Village. Enjoy everything this award winning Hilton Resort & Spa hotel has to offer: heated outdoor pool/hot tub, spa, 24hr fitness centre, tennis courts, parking, pub, dine in service and more! Unlimited owner usage (19% fee applies), or rent through The Hilton and collect consistent revenue.

Ursula Morel*

Alexi Hamilton

Anastasia Skryabina

5

778.938.7383

4

604.902.3291

604.902.3292

.5

3D Tour - rem.ax/2227brandy

#205B - 2036 London Lane

$208,000

2227 Brandywine Way

$1,795,000

Lot 15 Pineridge Drive - Bralorne

$145,000

Fantastic one bedroom quarter ownership opportunity in Legends Lodge at the Creekside base of Whistler Mountain. The ski slopes and mountain bike park are literally at your doorstep with shopping, dining, Alpha and Nita Lake and the Valley Trail all within easy walking distance.

Facing the ski slopes, you can check the snow conditions from your own home.

Conveniently located, spacious half duplex in Bayshores. You will appreciate easy access to the Whistler Creekside lifts, shops and restaurants as well as Alpha Lake Park.

This half duplex features 3 bedrooms, an enclosed loft, 2.5 bathrooms and potential additional accommodation.

This sloping lot is bordered by acres of crown land to the West. This lot is lightly treed and south facing. Incredible mountain views in all directions and you are only minutes from downtown and On the Fly Country Market, the Church,Museum and the Bralorne Pub. This is the capital of winter AND summer recreation.Stake your claim in Beautiful Bralorne BC Today!

Bob Cameron*

Dave Beattie*

Dave Sharpe

604.935.2214

1

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

remax-whistler.com Property Management remaxseatoskypm.com

604.905.8855

3.5

604.902.2779

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