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32 HOT COMMODITY Work on the Mount Meager geothermal energy project continues, with proponents hoping to be up and running by 2025.

BUILDING BLOCKS Builders react to the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s new Green Building Policy, with some wondering if it’s too cost-prohibitive. THE RUNNING Mayor Jack Crompton is officially seeking a second term in this fall’s municipal election, with a campaign focused on housing, climate, and visitation management.

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46 AMATEUR HOUR Despite their amateur status, Squamish’s Peter Knott and Whistler’s Paris Boucher put their names alongside the pros at Crankworx Whistler.

52 KNOWLEDGE SHARING emhám, a collaborative series between Arts Whistler and the Lil’wat Nation’s Tszil Learning Centre, shares Indigenous art and knowledge.

16 MISSING PERSON Friends of Clorrica Riggs, missing since Tuesday, Aug. 23, are pleading for officials to use more resources in their attempt to locate her.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week point out that Truth and Reconciliation is not a one-day-a-year event, and shine a light on another successful Flag Stop.

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50 EPICURIOUS Meet the Whistler family behind Delicias Market, which launched a new made-to-order Mexican dessert delivery service last month. Environment & Adventure Lifestyle &

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Is the ever-expanding roster of streaming services contributing to a lack of cultural touchpoints we can connect over as a society?

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MUSEUM MUSINGS The biggest summer celebration in Whistler in the ’60s was named the “Regretta” because the community regretted that summer was coming to an end.

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THE OUTSIDER Banning commercial operators on Whistler’s River of Golden Dreams would be shortsighted, argues Vince Shuley.

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Going negative may get you the attention you crave, but it won’t engender respect (from me, at least, and in fact quite the opposite)—or sympathy, lest you find the roles reversed this fall, you on the other side trying your best, everyone else telling you how terrible you are. Judging from some of the deeply personal online comments I’ve seen about our own small-town elected officials, you’ll be lucky if they stop at terrible. ■

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While we will hear much about how bad certain things are, we will hear much less about how to fix them—or how to do so realistically, anyway. I don’t know these things for sure, of course (call it an informed guess gleaned from a decade of election coverage); I do hope to be proven wrong by at least a half dozen or more of our brave neighbours who put their names forward to run. But after seeing some of the early returns from our new council hopefuls, I felt obliged to issue this urgent appeal to reason. Please, candidates, for the love of municipal policy: do your homework. Running for local office is a commendable thing. You are putting yourself out there for the good of your community (hopefully), and opening yourself up to professional criticism and even deeply personal jabs. But signing your name to the nomination papers and collecting two supporting signatures is simply not enough. Whistlerites will not be well served by representatives who have not even bothered to familiarize themselves with our Official Community Plan, or the work already underway on things like housing and greenhouse gas emissions. If you don’t regularly attend or watch council meetings; have never pored over the Local Government Act; and are unfamiliar with Robert’s Rules—you’ve got some work to do.This is not an original appeal, by any stretch. Pique’s archives are dotted with similar missives from columnists and letter writers during elections past. And yet, it needs to be reiterated. Again and again, ad nauseam. This is not to say that new ideas are unwelcome; that untested voices should just stay quiet. Outside-the-box thinking should not be discouraged, but embraced and nourished— withinButreason.Whistlerites deserve representation that puts in the work. New, outside-thebox ideas are great, but they don’t do us any good if they neglect to account for the decades of hard work put in by councils and staff members of the past. It also behooves you to know what, exactly, municipal councils are responsible for, and where their authority ends. They can’t just build housing on any old piece of land (as has been enthusiastically suggested by more than one Whistler council hopeful of theTheypast).cannot (and in most cases should not) attempt to supersede other levels of government authority, or take on extra responsibilities we just do not have the budgetTheyfor. can’t wave a magic wand and solve all of Whistler’s problems, and many an armchair lawmaker has found themselves on the other side of the table, post election night, realizing like a slap across the face that their simplified solutions simply won’t cut it; that municipal councils are actually about compromise and teamwork, not a grandstanding ego trip. Said another way: it is very easy to be another critical, negative jerk behind a keyboard. It takes something else entirely to check your ego at the door, put your head down and be a positive force of change for our Incommunity.aninterview with Pique this week, incumbent Councillor Cathy Jewett, running for re-election this fall, urged for a respectful dialogue as the campaign gets underway. In the spirit of issuing pre-campaign appeals, I concur with that sentiment.

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WITH THE NOMINATION period for Whistler’s upcoming municipal election open now until Sept. 9, Whistler voters can expect a small of campaign announcements news of my bold predictions: Like 2018, we will end up with about 20 council candidates. Unlike that year, we will see at least two candidates for mayor. We will learn from said candidates that the housing situation in Whistler is not great, and that affordability is also an issue. Transportation, too, will be a point of focus, and did you hear? We need more doctors and child-care spaces.

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There are cultural heritage sites sacred to the Lil’wat7ul in and around Pemberton “farmlands.” Any mention of Indigenous people is limited to the story of John Currie, mentioning that he married a St’at’imc/ Shuswap woman named Seraphine Tlekenak— and for too long media and colonial storytelling have used the “married an Indigenous woman” as a make-believe reflection of acceptance and camaraderie between settlers and the original peoples of this land. Your article whitewashes the land farmers “acquired.” There’s nothing about the government pre-empting land and forcing the Lil’wat Nation onto tiny reserves mainly in flood zones with limited land fertility. Missing is the mention of restrictions made on Indigenous farmers, historically unable to build economic independence or the generational agricultural empires you write about because of land restrictions and an Indian Act that did not give them the freedom to leave reserve to sell their product. You are also missing any mention of the Lil’wat Nation Garden, Qwal’íma Nlep’cálten, and their goal of food sustainability and economic autonomy for the Lil’wat Nation. Truth and Reconciliation isn’t a one-daya-year event; and it reaches beyond the Arts and Culture section. To be effective it needs to be thought of consistently throughout the year. We write this letter with love for the journalists and editors. This is not a “cancelculture” letter, but one that asks you to do better as community leaders at the helm of information sharing. The journey to Truth and Reconciliation can sometimes be a difficult one that makes us take pause and look deeply into blind spots and ignorance inside of us. The path includes reporting the Truth, speaking up when it is not present, and caring for ourselves with love as we dismantle a system of hate and oppression that was built without so many consciously realizing it was there.

The Point Artist-Run Centre would like to thank the many community members and visitors who came out to support the 11th annual Flag Stop Theatre & Arts Festival in the first week of August. It was a big leap to take our two-day festival from the shore of Alta Lake to Rebagliati Park in Whistler Village, around the valley with a Pop-UpPerformance Bike Ride, and back to The Point for five days of festivities. is the mention of restrictions made on Indigenous farmers, historically unable to build economic independence or the generational agricultural empires you write about ...”

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Pique Newsmagazine missed the mark on Truth and Reconciliation in the Aug. 18 edition. In an edition that included a wonderful piece on the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre’s reconciliation canoe (thank you), you have eclipsed this good work with an uninformed and insensitive article on Pemberton farming. Yes, we understand the theme of “Farm Grown” was primarily about an agricultural change in the Pemberton Valley. We were disappointed not to see any mention of the Lil’wat Nation in the opening paragraph, or really any proper land acknowledgment.

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We were able to bring unique and original theatre, music, comedy, improv, dance and magic to a much wider audience. Visitors from places like Toronto and California (to name a few) came across live music by the Spiritual Warriors, Ndidi O, stand-up comedy by celebrated comic Erica Sigurdson, a series of one-act plays featuring local and visiting performers, and improv by some talented young local performers. With four days of sunshine, we couldn’t complain too much about having to postpone the Pop-Up-Performance Bike Ride by one week. The audience wheeled from Cross Country Connection along the Valley Trail stopping to enjoy comedy, dance, theatre and music acts, culminating with the 12-piece horn band Balkan Shmalkan at Wayside Park and the Lantern Boat Parade on Alta Lake. Returning to The Point for two nights of live theatre on the floating stage, comedy and bands in the lodge felt like a breeze after surmounting the many challenges of the “In Motion” festival. The final show with Dustin Bentall’s Blue Wranglers packing the house was a night to remember and a great send-off for this year’s festival. We’re looking forward to continuing the expanded format next year with a few tweaks and adjustments.

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A huge thank you to the sponsors who each presented one day of the festival: Stinky’s On the Stroll, Gibbons Whistler, Nesters Market, Stilhavn Real Estate Services and Aphrodite’s Organic Café & Pie Shop. Thanks also to the Government of B.C.’s Fairs, Festivals & Events Recovery Fund, and to the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s Festivals, Events and Animation department for their gracious support. Finally, a big shout-out to the many volunteers, crew and artists who help to create this unique annual festival. See you next year!

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NETFLIX. The list of streaming services competing for your attention is as lengthy as it has ever been, with major entertainment conglomerates consolidating their intellectual property as they try to stake their claim in an increasingly crowded streaming landscape. The plethora of streaming platforms creates the illusion of infinite choice, with a seemingly endless array of TV and movie titles available to watch right at your fingertips. But the truth is, most streaming services’ offerings these days pale in comparison to the brick-and-mortar rental stores of old. Let’s take Netflix, for instance, still the undisputed king of streaming, with 221 million subscribers: according to justwatch. com, the service currently counts 3,765 movie titles in the U.S. In its heyday in the late ’80s, a Blockbuster superstore would typically stock about 6,500 films—with the added bonus of being staffed by a team of geeks that could recommend a movie that suits you, instead of banking on a soulless algorithm to get it right. And sure, you could, like many of us already do, sign up for multiple services and presumably gain access to the same number of films or more that Blockbuster once did, but then you’re looking at shelling out even more money per month on entertainment, which is already proving too much for some users, if Netflix’s stagnant subscription numbers are any indication. (The streaming giant lost more than a million subscribers in the first two quarters of 2022, after years of amassing new users. One way Netflix plans to stem that tide is through its new, cheaper, ad-supported service, which seems to defeat the purpose of cutting the cable cord in the first place.)

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I first wrote about this topic in 2019, and although I do sometimes veer into old-man-yelling-at-clouds territory, this isn’t another missive about the good ole’ days of physical media (although as a print journalist with a passion for radio, I do seem to have a thing for dying mediums). It’s hard to deny the sheer convenience of streaming from thousands of titles at the click of a button, even if that selection is shrinking by the day. What concerns me above all else is how streaming is contributing to an already fractured entertainment landscape that leaves us with far fewer cultural touchpoints than we used to have. And in an age in which we tend to spend far more time focused on the rifts that divide us than the threads that tie us together, this is no small thing. Beyond sheer entertainment, the arts play an integral role in developing bonds and strengthening social cohesion, particularly as our society becomes increasingly fragmented along economic, political and cultural lines. What’s more is they help us interpret and understand ourselves and our society. Just think about any of the decidedly local arts events you’ve attended over the years, whether it’s the long-running Chairlift Revue (and its spiritual descendant, Laugh Out LIVE!), the 72-Hour Filmmaker Challenge, or cherished, sports-focused contests like Deep Summer and Deep Winter: at their best, they pluck from Whistler’s distinct culture and reflect it back, telling you something valuable about the place we call home. In an incredibly young town that is constantly welcoming new faces into the fold, these kinds of cultural connections are all the more essential. Even the pro sports arena, which had largely resisted the move to streaming due to technological and financial barriers, has become the new battleground for streaming services desperate to capitalize on the golden goose that is live programming. This year, Amazon will stream regular season NFL games—15 in all—for the first time, and is reportedly in a bidding war with Apple over NFL Sunday Ticket, while YouTube will continue its deal to stream select NBA and MLB games exclusively on its premium service. Meanwhile, industry analysts predict Disney is likely to spin off ESPN+ into its own separate streaming platform rather than offering it solely through its Disney Bundle. I don’t think it’s a coincidence this continued splintering seems to coincide with a growing anti-intellectualism in Western society. The public wants—or, at least, it’s told it wants—art that is long on style and short on substance, painted in broad strokes, with clearly defined heroes and villains, and simple, satisfying conclusions that aren’t going to make us think too hard when the lights come back on. The streaming wars should worry us out of more than mere inconvenience or escalating entertainment costs. In a time when the ties that bind us are as disparate as ever, we can’t afford to erode what little cultural connective tissue we have left. ■

The lengthy processing times are enough that longtime builder and chair of the Whistler Development Corp. Eric Martin believes it could incentivize owners to skip the permitting process altogether.

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The RMOW said the initial review process for both single-family and commercial/ multi-family permits is approximately 16 weeks, and four weeks for plumbing. For minor renovations, Deeks said permits in the City of Kelowna can be turned around in just days, while homeowners in Whistler can wait as long as eight months to get the greenlight. Of course, the RMOW has had to contend with its own set of external pressures as well. Demand for home renos exploded in the pandemic, adding to a permitting backlog at municipal hall that was only worsened by staff shortages, a series of complex and time-consuming land-use contract terminations mandated by the province, and a cyberattack last spring that took municipal services offline, reverting the permitting process back to pen and paper. (The RMOW continues to work on fully digitizing its building permit application process.)

“I wish that we could just move rapidly on these things,” he said. “When climate change turns us into a hot house and we won’t have skiing anymore, which is why we’re all here, why are we falling behind all these other municipalities just down the road?” Learn more at green-building-policy.land-use-and-development/planning/whistler.ca/business/ n Inc. B.C. Energy Step

As of Aug. 23, the RMOW said there are 59 development permits in process, which includes both active applications and “those where the applicant has temporarily stopped pursuing the permit for various reasons.” Handling that workload are five core staff, with a sixth on the way, as well as an additional four support staff, if needed. Development permits currently take three to six weeks to be assigned a file manager, the RMOW said, and processing times vary based on a number of factors, including the completeness of the application, the complexity of what is being proposed, and the responsiveness of the proponent.

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Whistler’s municipal hall has long been known in construction circles for its cautious approach to permitting, and the new Green Building Policy (GBP) is meant to improve on approval times by streamlining various development criteria checklists into one comprehensive list for buildings subject to rezoning.

THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY REACTS TO THE RMOW’S NEW GREEN BUILDING POLICY BY BRANDON BARRETT EARLIER THIS MONTH, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) unveiled its new draft Green Building Policy, developed in part to streamline the permit process at municipal hall and cut down on lengthy approval times. But Bob Deeks, owner of the awardwinning building firm, RDC Fine Homes, has his doubts. “That would be a miracle,” he said. “The permitting and development permit process in Whistler is a disaster. When you compare it to other jurisdictions as an average against the best, it’s unimaginable.”

“The GBP is administered at the rezoning stage of the development permit process and would only apply at the building permit stage for very large homes. For projects requiring only a development permit or building permit, with no rezoning, the requirement is simply to outline an approach to sustainability,” said a municipal spokesperson, in an email. An update to the RMOW’s existing policy from 2008, the new policy is “not a departure from how municipal hall administers the existing GBP,” the spokesperson went on. “The update was designed to align the policy with new standards, technologies, codes and municipal goals. It is also meant to simplify the review process and make the policy more performance-based, less prescriptive.”

In the building department, which counts four plan checkers and a plumbing inspector, plus one part-time and two fulltime building inspectors, there have been 524 building permit applications this year, plus 417 requests for property information.

Along with cutting down on approval times, the GBP sets new sustainability performance requirements and guidelines for buildings in the resort. New developments necessitating rezoning, for instance, will be subject to efficiency standards that go a level beyond the current BC Energy Step Code requirements, which will be codified in the RMOW’s Building and Plumbing Bylaw. Martin argued the added layer makes it even tougher for builders in what is already a challenging and costly construction climate due to a number of factors, from staff shortages to supply-chain disruptions and rising inflation. “I keep hearing, and I’m hoping I hear it correctly, that the No. 1 issue here in Whistler is unaffordability. Everything we’re doing here is making building more expensive. That’s a huge concern to me,” he said. While an advocate for sustainable design, Martin questioned whether B.C. has done its homework when it comes to understanding the long-term implications of shifting its construction industry to ever-increasing green standards through the Step Code. “We’ve done it so fast, we don’t know what the effect on livability is, environmentally, and so on,” posited Martin. “Are we spending a whole bunch of money just for limited benefit? Could we spend the money better off somewhere else? For example, some of the materials we’re talking about using, what’s the energy component to produce those materials? What’s the net cost? I just think on the research side, we just don’t do enough. It’s too politicized.”EdgarDearden, owner of sustainable home building company GNAR Inc., disagrees that upping the environmental standards on home builds would be more costly in the long run. “I’ve dug into the budget on a recent project and the material costs of insulation was one or two per cent of the total construction cost. Insulation is cheap. What costs a lot is building complexity, and if you look around Whistler, there are a lot of complex buildings,” he said. “People just love to point to insulation and airtightness as a cost, but they don’t identify that the geometry of the building costs multiples more than insulation and airtightness will everForcost.”his part, Dearden mostly liked what he saw in Whistler’s new GBP, although he wants the policy to be applied to more than just development rezonings and large-scale building permits. He’d also be in favour of the RMOW raising its green-building requirements to more closely align with Passive House principles, a high-performance approach to construction that consumes up to 90 per cent less heating and cooling energy than conventional buildings.

“You know what? I’m sure it is, especially on minor projects,” he said. “Are people going to wait six, seven, eight months for a permit?”

WHISTLERITES WILL ELECT A NEW MAYOR AND COUNCIL ON OCT. 15 BY ROBERT WISLA IT’S OFFICIAL: Mayor Jack Crompton will seek a second term this October. The longtime Whistler elected official announced his re-election campaign for the Oct. 15 municipal election in a press release on Thursday, Sept. 1. “We can’t afford to stand still. I am laser focused on ensuring our community thrives, this nature is protected and our guests are inspired,” Crompton said in the release. “We must pull out all the stops so Whistler remains a place Whistler workers can call home.” Though his first term as mayor will be forever viewed through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic, Crompton said he is proud of Whistler’s response to recent events.

“We’ve increased the amount of free transit we’ve provided throughout this term. I’d like to see more of that,” he said. “We’ve worked hard to move people out of singleoccupant vehicles and into alternative modes. We have built infrastructure that supports commuting by foot and by bicycle. “We need to do a lot more of that kind of work. We need to fund a lot more of that kind of work.”

“Most people know that Whistler was built to host tourism. What isn’t as obvious is that we are better set up for winter than summer,” he said.

Regarding environmental action, Crompton wants the municipality to continue moving forward on the Big Moves Climate Strategy and work toward sustainable tourism.

First elected to council in 2011, Crompton served two terms before running for mayor in 2018, when he was elected by acclamation.Thenomination period runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 9, with the official campaign period taking place between Sept. 17 and Oct. 15. Follow Crompton’s campaign at jackcrompton.ca. n

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In response, the municipality has been working hard to ensure a positive summer guest experience in recent years, Crompton added. “We’ve expanded park capacity, improved village services and protected sensitive ecosystems. That is an iterative process, and we’re committed to learning as we go,” he said. “My goal is to ensure our team has all the tools they need to work in a worldclass way, which may mean limiting access to some areas of the valley or capping visitation during some times of the year. Whatever the specific action, our focus will be on making this a better place to be.”

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“We all rose to incredible challenges,” he said in the release. “To meet the many challenges ahead, we require that same kind of ‘all hands,’ community-wide response. I am committed to acting with the kind of optimism that has made Whistler all that it is. There are big things ahead and we will take bold action in response.” Crompton’s platform consists of three key planks: Bold Action on Housing; Big Moves on Climate; and Visitation Management.

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Some examples of “Big Moves” Crompton wants to move forward include adding to the Valley Trail and expanding transit throughout the municipality.

On growth and visitation, Crompton noted that Whistler has achieved its oncestated goal of becoming a four-season resort, which is putting noticeable pressure on popular destinations in the corridor.

“The next four years will be defined by housing, action on climate and management of our tourism economy,” Crompton said in an interview on Aug. 30. If reelected, Crompton plans six direct actions on housing: accelerate the completion of Cheakamus Crossing Phase 2; have the Whistler Development Corporation (WDC) begin work on the next “shovelready” site for employee housing; secure more land for future employee housing projects; work with business, community, and not-for-profits for housing projects on municipal land; deliver on infill housing policy in neighbourhoods; and work with the province and federal government on workforce housing projects in Whistler. “WDC has done great work preparing a shovel-ready site at Cheakamus Crossing,” Crompton“They’vesaid.also delivered revenue to the municipal housing reserves that we can use to build more. Accelerating the completion of Phase 2 means using that money to facilitate the quick construction of new buildings.”

“The Big Moves Strategy has a long list of actions ... Giving our team all the tools they need to put those to work is critical,” he said. “We’ve done the work of understanding what needs to be done. This next council must ensure our staff have the resources to do the work.”

“Most ski resorts are still primarily winter destinations. The challenge is that far fewer summer visitors find themselves on Whistler Blackcomb, which puts tremendous pressure on the valley, which is primarily managed by the municipality.”

Billings said Riggs’ family requested a second thermal scan this weekend. Police reportedly denied that request Monday.

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“We are now in a situation where there is no further ‘formal’ search planned,” the post read.

Riggs’ friends have also been tackling as many trails and as much terrain as they’ve been able to, in an attempt to retrace any steps she may have taken. “We only have the last known location of her vehicle to go on at this moment,” they said. “Along with the hard reality that she has been struggling with her mental health.” Loved ones have enlisted non-profit K9 search teams to continue the search. On Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 30, Billings launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for those volunteers’ expenses and accommodations in Whistler. “We believe this is our best chance at bringing Clorrica home,” Billings wrote in the campaign’s description. “Any excess of funds will be donated in Clorrica’s name to a local organization of her family’s choice.”

The GoFundMe raised more than $5,000 within its first six hours. Billings, Nordeen, Brien, Matthes, Standlund, Dunn and Bekei now ask Whistlerites to continue keeping an eye out for Riggs in Whistler and throughout the Sea to Sky corridor, to keep sharing her name and photo

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“We’re told that that service is a limited resource, and that the RCMP is not willing or able to deploy it again,” Billings wrote.

Riggs missing for more than a week, but loved ones aren’t giving up hope LAUNCHED TO SUPPORT ONGOING SEARCH FOR WHISTLER RESIDENT MISSING SINCE AUG. 23 BY MEGAN LALONDE CLORRICA RIGGS’ loved ones are appealing to the Whistler community for help finding a woman they describe as “the most kind, loving goof ball,” after authorities reportedly called off the search for the missing Thelocal.29-year-old was last seen more than a week ago, when she mentioned she was heading out for a walk at about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23. Her car was later found parked at the trailhead to Rainbow Lake, located on Alta Lake Road. “She is always ready for an adventure,” Riggs’ friends told Pique in an email. The group of seven friends—Kalina Billings, Amanda Nordeen, Ashley Brien, Natasha Matthes, April Standlund, Rachelle Dunn and Barnabas Bekei—drove to Whistler from Alberta after learning about Riggs’ disappearance. “Most of us have cherished her as our best friend for around [eight] years. She means the absolute world to all of us, and everyone she meets she changes their lives.” Riggs’ most recent communication with those friends came in the form of a text sent at 1:12 p.m. on Aug. 23, the day she went missing, that read, “love you.” “We are all holding that last message close to our hearts,” they said. Whistler RCMP first issued a news release asking for the public’s help to find Riggs on Wednesday morning. At the time, police said they were concerned about Riggs’ “mental wellness.” According to Billings, police conducted a thermal imaging survey of the Rainbow Lake area in the days following Riggs’ disappearance that ultimately proved unsuccessful, as temperatures in Whistler climbed into the low 30s from Aug. 23 to 25. Though Riggs’ friends described the 29-year-old as a smart, avid hiker who always remembered to tell someone where she was headed, “Clorrica very commonly left the beaten trail and would explore the woods. We’re all still concerned that Clorrica may have become injured in the dense woods, which we have not been able to effectively search on foot,” Billings wrote in a message to Pique. “An aerial thermal scan could help pinpoint Clorrica if she is injured and unable to seek help.”

“However, thermal imaging is likely the best way of finding Clorrica alive.

“We’re appealing that decision vigorously, but aren’t being given a satisfactory answer as to why this potentially life saving tool isn’t being used.” Billings claimed police stopped actively searching for Riggs on Aug. 25. Reached on Tuesday, Aug. 30, the Sea to Sky RCMP was unable to comment on the case before Pique’s print deadline the followingAccordingday. to a Facebook post written by an extended family member, Riggs was the subject of three “extensive” Whistler Search and Rescue missions conducted on foot and two helicopter grid searches over Rainbow Mountain, while a dog team headed out on both Aug. 23 and 24. Searchers have also used e-bikes and ATVs to scour the terrain, while a private helicopter took to the skies on Aug. 29 to survey the Rainbow Lake, Madeley Lake and Hanging Lake areas.

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Whistler RCMP asks anyone with any information about Riggs to contact the local detachment at 604-932-3044, or get in touch with Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS or solvecrime.ca to remain anonymous.

In the Citizen of the Year category, Carol Leacy, chair of the Whistler Health Care Foundation; Stella Harvey, author and founder of the Whistler Writers Festival; and Dave Williamson, principal and co-founder of environmental consulting firm Cascade Environmental, will vie for Whistler’s longest-runnning award.

In the Service Excellence for Large Business category, Quattro Restaurant, the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre and Blueshore Financial are up for the award, while Coast Mountain Brewing, Slope Side Supply and Cutting Edge Signs will vie for top honours in the Service Excellence Small Business category. The Whistler Excellence Awards are slated for Oct. 20 from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. Tickets are available at whistlerchamber.com.

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In the Emerging Business of the Year category, Alpine Learning, Picnic Whistler and Creekside Health were nominated, while Alpine Learning, Whistle Ride, and Stinger Boards & Foils are up for the Innovative Business of the Year Award.

WHISTLER’S BLACK-TIE AWARDS CEREMONY RETURNS TO THE FAIRMONT CHATEAU ON OCT. 20 BY BRANDON BARRETT THE NOMINEES for the first in-person Whistler Excellence Awards since the pandemic began have been unveiled. Whistler’s black-tie business and community awards ceremony returns to the Fairmont Chateau Whistler this fall, recognizing the resort’s best and brightest.

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Up for Business Person of the Year are Norm Mastalir, GM of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler; Jackie Dickinson, executive director of the Whistler Community Services Society; and Ian Ritz, founder of Chromag Star of the Year, which recognizes an individual under 40 who has demonstrated outstanding performance and career progression in a management or leadership role, are Shea Emry of the Whistler Racket Club; Moody Dan from the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre; and Alistair Cray, from Whistler Cooks, Hunter Gather, Fridge Full, and Cranked.

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The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Moguls and Velvet Underground were nominated in the Sustainability in Action Business category, which recognizes companies demonstrating ethical environmental business practices. In the Champion of the Arts category, which this year recognizes businesses instead of individuals, the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, the Audain Art Museum and regular arts booster Sushi Village were nominated.

CLORICA RIGGS FROM PAGE 16 and to keep raising awareness about her disappearance. They also encourage motorists and homeowners to check dash cams and home security cameras for footage of Riggs or her vehicle, a silver Toyota RAV4, captured between 1 and 5 p.m. on Aug. 23. Riggs is Caucasian with a fair complexion, brown eyes, long, straight brown hair and a slim build. She stands at five feet (152 centimetres) tall and weighs approximately 119 pounds (54 kilograms). She was last seen wearing black spandex Nike shorts, a dark blue top, teal running shoes, and carrying a black Helly Hansen backpack, with her teal green phone in hand. Riggs also has several easily identifiable tattoos on her arms and hands.Born in Maple Ridge, B.C., Riggs has spent most of her life in Calgary, but according to her friends, “her heart is always in travelling around the world.”

Riggs currently works for Whistler Blackcomb. She moved to the resort approximately eight months ago after spending some time with family in Vancouver, friends said, coming to Whistler in search of a change from her typical routine as a ticketed autobody technician, “and to have more access to travellers like her to fulfil her wanderlust.”

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Jewett—Whistler’s Citizen of the Year for 2016—was a founding member of both the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment and the Whistler Off Road Cycling Association. She has also served as chair of Communities That Care Whistler since 2014.

“One of the things that we’ve been trying to do is to get regional transit going. We know that No. 1 for dealing with greenhouse gases and carbon is that the passenger vehicles are a key factor,” she said, noting that Whistler currently has roughly 2,500 people commuting daily for work.

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“What we’re missing is front-line workers. We’ve been pretty successful with the Whistler Housing Authority model at getting more housing for people that have established themselves here, but we need housing for the people that are going to be here for one or two years.”

Cathy Jewett seeks re-election to Whistler council BY ROBERT WISLA CATHY JEWETT’S name will once again be on the ballot when Whistlerites head to the polls on Oct. 15. Jewett’s top priorities are affordability, housing, transportation and progress on climate change—”things that we know the town absolutely needs,” she said.

“We must get more people out of singleoccupancy vehicles and into mass transit.”

Of the election itself, Jewett said she hopes the candidates take the high road.

“The big difference between now and maybe 10 or so years ago is that the internet makes it easy for people to be negative towards people without facing them. I hope that people that have things to say, come to the all-candidates meetings and ask us these questions, and if they’ve got some pointed questions, email us—we’re interested in connecting.”

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The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) needs to make progress not only on housing, but affordability in general, Jewett said. Other issues on her agenda if re-elected include improving childcare and aging-in-place possibilities in the resort.

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Jewett first came to Whistler in 1976 for the winter season and ended up staying a lifetime. She spent most of her working life in the resort with Whistler Blackcomb Ski Patrol, retiring in 2019. Jewett was first elected to council in a 2017 by-election, and was re-elected for her first full term in 2018. Prior to her election, she volunteered on the Whistler Parent Advisory Council (PAC) as her two children attended local schools. She also chaired the District PAC for six years and was a director on the BC Confederation of PACs board for one year.

“Housing is the one issue that’s just so tough to tackle, because it’s so expensive, and if we don’t get help from higher levels of government, we can’t achieve it. Despite what some people think, we can’t just change zoning,” Jewett said. “One of the problems with changing zoning is that we have to be sure that any additional bed units would be protected for employees. Anytime we up-zone, we must ensure that our infrastructure will support the extra people. You can’t just keep growing and not ensure that you’ve got enough water and sewer and all the other things that support the population.”

Another critical issue for Jewett is implementing regional transit and improving bus service to reduce congestion and lower Whistler’s emissions.

“I hope we see people campaigning positively and respectfully and the community being respectful to the folks running,” she said.

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James would also like to see the number of short-term nightly rentals in the municipality further restricted, as she believes they are contributing to the lack of long-term rentals in the municipality.

Now, James hopes to be part of the solution by running for a council seat in the Oct. 15 municipal election. The local entrepreneur said she was inspired to run for office after seeing the effect the housing crisis is having on mental health and business viability.

“During my time in Whistler, I have been homeless twice and have slept in my car while also running a successful business,” James said. “We must prioritize solving the housing crisis and supporting local businesses who cannot get staff because there is no housing.”

James, 60, has lived in Whistler for 19 years. She previously worked as a ski patroller for Whistler Blackcomb, and currently runs her own small business, Loka Yoga. James’ platform is focused on affordable housing, the environment and First Nations reconciliation. Policy-wise, James would like to see a space in Whistler or the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) created for people living in their vehicles that will provide them with access to washroom facilities and clean water, or space for the creation of tiny“Therehomes. must be somewhere that we could implement a place where people in RV’s, instead of them driving from place to place feeling very unsafe, a place where Whistler could keep an eye on it,” she said. “I think that would be a brilliant short-term solution, which could help in winter immensely.”

“I think we must all sit together rather than hide problems. We could work together and be the first ski resort to create something good for mental health, reconciliation, the environment, the trees, the bears, and housing. That’s what I believe.”

“This whole problem is all tied up with mental health, so it’s inspired me. I can’t stand by and watch anymore. I really can’t, because there are a lot of young people suffering in our town,” she said.

“When people are asking $5,000 for a house that they’re going to be chucked out of in a year, it’s not a solution. I think the government needs to sit down and discuss how they can create affordable housing for the workforce ... We need to set up a system and work together to try and create a way for our workforce to be able to stay here; otherwise, we’re not going to have a workforce.”

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“I want to stand up for the young people I see suffering greatly. You can live in paradise, but for some people, it can be like hell.”

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“If they’re allowing Airbnbs, that’s taking away housing, because that means the landlord will be getting $200 a night for the Airbnbs, which means people who want to live here permanently, our workforce isn’t going to have anywhere to live,” she said. “We can’t get any workforce. We have nowhere to put them, because all the Airbnbs now have tourists who are not our workforce.”James believes Whistler’s housing situation is unsustainable, and that the municipality needs to look at new ideas to solve the housing crisis.

NEWS WHISTLER Local business owner Tina James announces run for Whistler council WHISTLER WILL ELECT A NEW MAYOR AND COUNCIL ON OCT. 15 BY ROBERT WISLA FOR LOCAL BUSINESS owner Tina Pashumati James, the Whistler housing crisis is personal, for it was not long ago when she had to live out of her vehicle while running a business in town.

“It’s not just getting more housing, because the Whistler Housing Authority is trying to do the best they can, but I think we have to figure out ways to house people, so they are not living in chicken coops,” she said.

In addition to housing, James would like the municipality to engage in more consultation with the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations, as she believes the municipality needs to do more to advance reconciliation.

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To address the weather/climate change, De Jong believes the municipality needs to work harder to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, and said he is committed to not voting in favour of any new developments if they use natural gas. “A lot of our emissions come from commercial buildings,” he said. “It’s very high. It was at 24 per cent of our emissions. So I will not support any new commercial buildings that use natural gas, and that line is in the sand.”

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“With wildfires, I keep saying this, the most sustainable thing you can do is not lose our town to a wildfire. This is by far the No. 1 issue for me, and how do we do that? We need more community education, and we need to push for more funding from all levels of government,” he said. “We are a cash cow to the provincial and federal government, and we need to ask for more money back to protect our important assets.”

To lower the community’s emissions, De Jong believes the municipality needs to continue working on becoming a bikeand e-bike-friendly community and getting people out of single-occupancy vehicles and onto transit. “I often refer to Copenhagen or Amsterdam, and I think our community ... especially with the growth of e-bikes, we can do much more to stay out of our cars,” he said. As it relates to wildlands, De Jong wants the Resort Municipality of Whistler to completely ban any form of commercial logging within the municipality’s boundaries, with an exception for First Nations logging operations. On wellness, De Jong’s focus is on improving affordable housing, health-care, childcare, and affordability.

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For his money, De Jong still believes in the efficacy of the municipality’s bed unit“Icap.believe that we are built out,” he said. “I do not support any additional beds to our cap except for employee housing.”

“I had the privilege of being the rookie councillor last term, and learned greatly from my fellow, more experienced, councillors and staff, and so I feel like I’m a bit of a bridge this year,” De Jong said. “I can carry some of the experiences I learned from the councillors leaving, like Duane (Jackson) and John (Grills), whom I have huge respect for. We worked tight as a team.”DeJong, 62, was first elected in 2018, and has been a staple in local mountain and environmental circles for decades, serving 42 years as a ski patroller and later environmental consultant with Whistler Blackcomb. As he did in 2018, De Jong is focusing his campaign on his “Five Ws”: Wildfire, Weather, Wildlands, Wellness and Whistler.

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FIRST-TERM Whistler Councillor Arthur De Jong isn’t done yet. Feeling he hasn’t accomplished all he set out to, the self-proclaimed “rookie” of Whistler council will seek a second term in this fall’s municipal election.

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“In general, this is a really tough one, because we don’t have the budget authority to make these problems just go away,” he said. “I learned through the first term that it’s a ground game, and as a councillor, we must fight for every gain we can make with theseDeissues.”Jong’s final point, Whistler, is a general reference to the work of the Balance Model Initiative and projections of “unconstrained growth” that predict thousands of new residents and visitors— and all the related pressures that will come with that—if no actions are taken.

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BY BRANDON BARRETT GROWING UP in Whistler, immigration consultant Barbara Kolvekova got to see time and again the ways in which local women lift each other up in a sports town that has always leaned predominantly male in its makeup. “I think we have a lot of awesome female empowerment and a lot of women helping women and building each other up. I definitely felt that,” she said. “I grew up here, so I was here as a child, as a teenager, and now as a woman going through my professional career, I feel and see a lot of that support. I think that’s unique and that plays into this as well. It’s very much a women-helping-women project that we’re trying to put on more of a globalNow,scale.”the 29-year-old is building on that legacy through a project she’s volunteering for to build a women’s shelter in the Tanzanian town of Arusha. She’s also committed to raising an additional $2,000 through a GoFundMe campaign (after meeting her initial target of $1,250) that will go directly towards labour and construction costs. “I signed up, I volunteered, I booked a ticket and thought I should try to fundraise to create the biggest social impact possible,” Kolvekova said. The Whistlerite was first connected to the project through WNorth, a business networking and support organization for mid-career women founded by another local, Heather Odendaal, and from there, began to learn more about the Tanzanian-based NGO, Dare Women’s Foundation, that is leading the project.Founded in 2015 by Tanzanian native Maggie Duncan Simbeye, the NGO is dedicated to empowering Tanzanian women and girls, with a focus on rural areas, through poverty alleviation, economic empowerment, and gender equality, according to its website. According to the World Bank, 44 per cent of Tanzanian women aged 15 to 49 have experienced either physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner. The prevalence of spousal violence is highest in rural areas, at 52 per cent, compared to urban areas, at 45 per cent. Nearly 30 per cent of Tanzanian girls, meanwhile, will experience sexual violence by the age of 18.

“She experienced the abuse from her partner worsening when COVID hit and filed for divorce,” Kolvekova explained.

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It’s an issue that’s been getting more attention of late in the East African nation, which recently adopted its National Plan of Action to End Violence Against Women and Children, although those efforts are lagging “due to lack of core oversight, weak institutional capacities, and limited infrastructure,” according to the World Bank. Along with offering women fleeing gender-based violence a safe and supportive place to stay, the shelter is envisioned as “a place of empowerment,” said Kolvekova.

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“Women often remain in abusive relationships because they have nowhere to go or no means to support themselves economically.”

“She now takes in and supports women and children fleeing abuse in her own home. The shelter will help her expand what she is currently doing.”

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Once completed, the facility will be only the country’s second women’s shelter. Without a dedicated physical space, Simbeye, founder and director of the Dare Women’s Foundation, has resorted to taking women fleeing violence into her own home.

“I love that they have this idea of creating this program where the women have a chance to heal”

That means shelter staff will teach women skills in areas like agriculture and entrepreneurship that they can take back to their community and use to earn an independent income.

“I love that they have this idea of creating this program where the women have a chance to heal, but they are also going to be taught skills that they can bring back to their own community. It’s not a temporary Band-Aid fix,” Kolvekova added. “They want to actually empower them to earn their own income and then also bring that back to the community and hopefully create this really amazing domino effect.”

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“There are some things you have to know, but my experience has been if people are shown how to do something and how to do it correctly and what to watch for, they do a very good job because they care,” he said. Launched in 2009, the LakeKeepers program has made a concrete difference protecting lakes across the province. One example: citizen scientists trained through the program were taking samples from a lake near Victoria after concerns that houses with faulty septic tanks could be contaminating the lake. “The program found there was a problem,” Nordin said. “It was followed up to the point that they located where the problem septic tanks were and fixed them.” There are myriad issues that could impact the health of a lake.

LAKEKEEPERS TRAINING SLATED TO RUN SEPT. 17 AND 18 FOR LOCALS WHO WANT TO LEARN HOW TO TAKE SAMPLES, ASSESS ECOLOGY OF LOCAL LAKES BY ALYSSA NOEL LATE SUMMER might just be the perfect time for the Whistler Lakes Conservation Association to invite people to attend the LakeKeepers program, slated to run next month. After all, Whistlerites have just spent the last two months lounging by, swimming in, and paddling on the resort’s many picturesque lakes.

The upcoming one-and-a-half-day training course—running on Sept. 17 and 18—will train anyone with a passion for lakes how to understand lake ecology and health and then bring them on to Alta Lake for hands-on training with sampling equipment like dissolved oxygen, temperature meters, and water, biological and sediment samplers.

A scientific background is not required, said Nordin, who was the Provincial Limnologist for the B.C. Ministry of Environment for 29 years and a professor at the University of Victoria for four decades.

“We don’t need people with a technical background,” Nordin said. “Some of the best volunteers I’ve met are people like carpenters or accountants or just people who have some curiosity and who are very organized. The only prerequisite is interest.”

KEEP IT CLEAN LakeKeepers training, which enables regular residents to monitor lakes, will take place on Alta Lake Sept. 17 and 18.

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“Being close to water or being on water is just one of those human attractions,” said Rick Nordin, a limnologist (someone who studies fresh water systems) and director of the BC Lake Stewardship Society, the group that runs the LakeKeepers program. “I think water has a huge aesthetic appeal to people.”

“The population of Whistler has grown tremendously in the last 50 years. In general, that’s perceived as being the issue, and there are specific small issues as well,” he said. “The concern is preservation of the present water quality of the lakes. People just want to make sure that they don’t deteriorate.”

The LakeKeepers workshop will run on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. with a classroom session at The Point ArtistRun Centre, and on Sunday, Sept. 18 from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. for a field session on Alta Lake. Lunch and refreshments will be provided both days. The cost is $25 per person or free with the purchase of a membership to the Whistler Lakes Conservation Association. Register by Sept. 2 at bit.ly/3oWOCqv. n

“Every lake has a different kind of problem … Some lakes have problems with aquatic plants causing problems at beaches or boat launches, logging, agriculture, septic tanks, just general development in the watershed. Whenever you’re cutting down the forest and building roads, you get an issue,” Nordin said. In Whistler, that issue is likely development, he added.

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After citizen scientists collect the samples as part of the program, they’re sent to a lab in Vancouver for analysis. Then the data goes to the sampler, as well as the group they’re part of—in this instance, the Whistler Lakes Conservation Association—and potentially the Ministry of the Environment. The data is vetted and verified, then posted on the ministry database with copies sent to stewardship groups. The information is also part of data shared in the BC Lakes Stewardship Society’s reports.

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The BCGEU is B.C.’s largest union, representing about 33,000 public-service workers across the province. The union is pushing for wage increases that would cover inflation, which currently stands at eight per cent, well above the roughly 3.5-per-cent increase the province has offered.The BCGEU’s bargaining committee previously rejected the PSA’s offer of a 10.99-per-cent pay hike over three years, plus a one-per-cent cost-of-living adjustment and a $2,500 signing bonus.

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“Very good news on the positive resolution and swift conclusion to the strike,” said Eric Griffith, president of the Restaurant Association of Whistler (RAW). “Our stakeholders and those involved are grateful to both sides who were able to swiftly find resolution and help limit any disruptions to business and further impacts to the supply chain.” Earlier this week, RAW joined the growing chorus of hospitality professionals across the province warning of a looming alcohol shortage, yet another blow to a sector that was particularly hard hit by the pandemic, not to mention rising inflation and continued supplychain“Wedisruptions.purchase [alcohol] from the government and they are our supplier and they kind of dragged us into a fight that isn’t really ours,” said Griffith. “We’ve already been through the ringer the last three years as an industry, facing complete shutdowns, shortages of staff, and impacts on our revenue the whole way through.”

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“The union’s overtime ban has ended— effective immediately—and preparations are underway to stand down picket lines at BC Liquor Distribution Branch locations,” the union concluded, adding no further comment will be made. Picket lines were set up outside five branch locations in Delta, Richmond and Kamloops, as well as a wholesale customer centre in Victoria, prompting the province to ration the quantity of certain alcohol products consumers could purchase at one time. This has led to supplies running out at private beer and wine stores, BC Liquor Stores, and restaurants and pubs.

WHISTLER’S HOSPITALITY sector can breathe a collective sigh of relief as booze deliveries from the BC Liquor Distribution Branch are set to resume to restaurants, pubs and liquor stores across the province after the union representing public sector employees announced an end to strike action at government warehouses.

Norm Mastalir, GM of the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, said the strike hadn’t significantly impacted the luxury hotel’s event and conference business, as it typically stocks weeks worth of inventory, and was able to pick up specific products from local liquor stores whenever needed.

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The Fairmont GM added that extended job action would likely impact smaller hotels the Onmost.the heels of another strike that disproportionately impacted Whistler’s front-line workers—the corridor-wide transit strike that ended in June after 137 days—Griffith is in favour of privatizing B.C.’s liquor distribution system, akin to what Alberta already has in place. “We have a province nearby, Alberta, which has a privatized liquor distribution system, and there’s no chance of it failing. The privatized sector is never going to shoot itself in the foot by disrupting distribution to its customers,” he said. “It would never do that, so why are we in this situation where we’re dependent on a government monopoly to distribute our alcohol?”

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Jordan Sturdy, Liberal MLA for the Sea to Sky, echoed that sentiment, questioning a distribution system he feels is bogged down by red tape. “I understand the province’s need for revenue, but the system doesn’t function well. It’s a pretty clunky bureaucracy that is not really necessary,” he said. “Why does every piece of cannabis or every bottle of wine need to go into a government warehouse, in this opaque situation? “It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’ve never been a fan of this kind of distribution system. It doesn’t breed innovation. It doesn’t service the consumers and it creates situations where exactly this can happen. Every restaurant and hotel in the province of British Columbia is held hostage because of the nature of this system.”

“Following a return to the bargaining table, the BCGEU’s Public Service Bargaining Committee has stood down job action at BC Public Service worksites as a sign of good faith,” stated the BC General Employees’ Union in a brief statement Tuesday morning, Aug. 30. “The committee returned to the bargaining table with the BC Public Service Agency (PSA) last Thursday and has made significant progress. The two sides will continue to meet throughout the week, hoping to finalize a tentative agreement.

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“So far it’s just been a bit of an aggravation for us,” Mastalir said on Aug. 29, prior to the union’s announcement.

MCDC is looking to create geothermal energy using steam from the volcano, located about 65 kilometres northwest of Pemberton. That energy would power an electrolyser that would then split the clean water (or H2O) apart into hydrogen and oxygen. The plan is to bring the resulting green hydrogen to market, where it can be sold and used to fuel—and help decarbonize—the heavy transportation industry.

As talks with the Lil’wat Nation and work on permits continues, MCDC is still on target to have both the power plant and hydrogen production up and running at Meager by 2025, said Dunn. Developers hope to begin drilling within the next 18 months. TOPIC

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“It was amazing,” said Dunn. “We had, we figured, over 1,000 people by noon, but there was probably over 1,500 people thatSlowvisited.”Food cyclists from across the corridor came armed with “lots of great questions,” he said, “about everything from environmental concerns to aspects of what kind of heat resource we had, to why hadn’t it been developed. We had an amazing opportunity to talk to people about the project, and the general feedback was quite positive.”

The Meager Creek Development Corporation plans to have its geothermal plant up and running by 2025.

In addition to advancing the permitting process, the MCDC team has spent a considerable chunk of the last year cleaning up what has historically been one of the most heavily-researched, promising geothermal sites in the country. That grunt work happened to reap a few rewards, Dunn explained. “One of the things we did find was over 2,500 metres of core,” he said, located in an old sea can that had been left at the site by previous researchers and developers. “We had a chance to document [the rock], photograph it, image it and retest, do analysis on it.” The find represents “a big win for the project” that only complements the “30 boxes of data” previous leaseholders handed over to Dunn and his partners when MCDC acquired the site, he added. Those historic datasets have “been a phenomenal windfall for the project, to understand what information was previously gathered [during] those previous drilling projects,” saidMCDCDunn. representatives previously appeared in front of Pemberton’s mayor and council in December to present their plans for the site. While Dunn acknowledged community feedback on the project has “been fairly quiet” up until this point, he said he’s noticed that “a lot of [people] are interested to see what’s going on with the project and want to know it’s moving forward.”

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“It’s been very busy,” said Craig Dunn, managing director of Meager Creek Development Corporation (MCDC) and president of WellDunn Exploration. So far, the MCDC team has moved forward with permitting under both the province’s Ministry of Forests and the BC Oil and Gas Commission’s geothermal file, with preliminary support from the Lil’watAccordingNation. to the Lil’wat’s website, the Nation is conducting several studies to better understand the impacts and benefits of the project, including a socioeconomic study, a traditional use study, an environmental assessment and archaeological assessments.

Pembertonians Dunn has spoken with have been, for the most part, “advocates for renewable energy developments and have asked some good questions while we’ve been in the community,” he said, “But [at the Slow Food Cycle], we got a really good feedback loop.” The MCDC team set up a station at the old Pemberton Meadows schoolhouse during the Slow Food Cycle on Aug. 21 to meet with community members, field questions about the project and offer some sweet, sweet air conditioning to cyclists battling the sizzling summer temperatures.

“We’verestored.hadto be very clear with folks that this is a very sensitive area, from some of the environmental impacts and as well as the safety hazards of driving down a logging road,” he said. “Many of the folks are a bit disappointed that the Meager Creek [hot springs] wouldn’t be back open to the public, but there’s a lot of very, very good reasons to minimize the impact back there. At the heyday, 30,000 people driving to the hot springs was not minimizing that impact.”

“Many of the folks are a bit disappointed that the Meager Creek [hot springs] wouldn’t be back open to the public, but there’s a lot of very, very good reasons to minimize the impact back there.”

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The developers also heard from more than a few Sea to Sky residents inquiring about the mountain itself, Dunn added, regarding everything from the catastrophic landslide that occurred 12 years ago to when access to the Meager Creek hot springs might be

A YEAR and a half after purchasing the geothermal lease to Mount Meager, the developers working to harness the natural resource and turn it into a clean fuel alternative are making progress.

A Lil’wat community survey will be sent to members to collect feedback on the project at Qw’elqw’elústen (Mount Meager), which is in Líl’wat territory. To date, MCDC has already conducted its own extensive environmental monitoring, investigating how its work could impact everything from anthropological sites to bears, goats and fisheries.

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One question brought up by Councillor Ted Craddock was regarding what type of businesses would be able to make use of the approximately 2,000 square feet of commercial space that won’t be used by SSCS, with his main concern being that he would like to see something of more value to the community than “just another coffee shop” using that space. SSCS director of housing Jessie Abraham responded by saying the allocated commercial space will be intended for businesses that are complementary to the community.

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Where the Orion complex has 1.5 parking spots per unit, the LiveShare project proposes less than 0.5 stalls per unit, and instead hopes to focus on communal services like rideshares and bicycle sharing to encourage people to live without a car. While Mayor Mike Richman wanted to address the letters at the Aug. 30 council meeting, he said they were “kind of ahead of the process a little bit,” as no development application has even been submitted for the projectHowever,yet. the community concerns are noted, and the letters will be saved for discussion when an application comes forward to council in the future. 2022

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“So that could include medical services, office services, administrative services, it could also include retail or some small food establishment that would support tenants or residents in the neighborhood,” she said. “So we do not have any tenants allocated for those commercial spaces yet, but it is something that we’ve included in our businessWhilecase.”theproject is trending positively towards ultimately being approved, there is still a long way to go and a lot of issues— raised by the community in two dialogue sessions in May—for council to iron out before full approval can be given. However, as was brought up the last time the development was before Pemberton’s Committee of the Whole on May 17, the funding attached to the project has a deadline, and hinges on the proposed zoning amendment being approved before the upcoming municipal election in October. The project’s zoning amendment will be brought back before council for its final readings on Sept. 20.

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VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) development services manager Scott McRae was back in front of mayor and council at the Aug. 30 meeting to provide the next steps in the application process for Sea to Sky Community Services’ (SSCS) affordable housing project located on the corner of Harrow Road and Highway 99. The five-storey project with 63 affordable housing units ranging from one- to three-bedrooms will also provide approximately 9,000 square feet of groundfloor commercial space for community use. Most of that space will be used for a new SSCS office, while the remaining space can be used for any neighbourhood-serving commercialCurrently,uses.the Harrow Road location is not zoned for a housing development. McRae’s report was to seek first and second readings—which were ultimately approved by council—on a zoning amendment to change the location’s commercial tourism zoning to a comprehensive development zone, which would allow for both the housing and commercial spaces in that location.

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The Lands File Number for this application is 2412602.

BY HARRISON BROOKS

Harrow Road affordable housing project inches toward approval

1) Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decision Database website at: https://comment.nrs .gov.bc.ca/applications

A public hearing is also scheduled for Monday, Sept. 19, where the community can share their opinions and concerns about the project with the developers as well as mayor and council.

Nine Pemberton residents, all of whom reside in the adjacent Orion building, have submitted letters to council opposing the LiveShare housing project proposed for 7340 Crabapple Court. The proposed 64-unit project would bring a unique co-living experience to its residents, which would “create collaborative living spaces that enable more meaningful, interwoven and connected lives,” according to LiveShare founder Jake McEwan during his presentation to the Committee of the Whole on Aug. 31, 2021. What this means for potential residents is approximately 300-square-foot micro units with kitchenettes, sleeping quarters and bathroom facilities, with largescale communal kitchen, dining, lounge and laundry facilities to be shared by the residents.However, not everyone in the community is convinced this style of living is the right fit for Pemberton. “I’ll just get right to it, it’s a terrible idea and the developers are absolutely clueless to the real-world issues that will be caused if this goes through,” wrote Gordon Pilling, homeowner in the Orion apartment complex and strata council president, in his letter to mayor and council dated Aug. 10. “Parking is the biggest issue by far … what these developers have proposed is a joke. There is absolutely no room for any additional parking anywhere near Crabapple Court. They have not realized or accounted for the fact that there will be no driveways at the new mountainside townhouse complex next door to Orion, meaning that those who don’t use their garages for parking or can’t fit a larger truck in their garage will be parking off site.”

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LAND ACT: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land

Take notice that Sweet Skills Mountain Bike Coaching & Personal Training Ltd. from Pember ton, BC, has applied to the Ministr y of Forests Lands Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development (FLNROD), Surrey for a Crown Land Tenure Application situated on Provincial Crown land located at Squamish, Whistler, Pember ton. The Lands File Number for this application is file #2412374. Comments on this application may be submitted in two ways: Online via the Applications and Reasons for Decision Database website at: ht tps://comment.nr s. go v. bc.ca/ applications By mail to the Senior Land Officer at 200 10428 153rd Street, Surrey, BC V3R 1E1 Comments will be received by the Ministr y of Forests Lands Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development until October 1, 2022. Comments received after this date may not be considered. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered par t of the public record. For infor mation, contact Infor mation Access Operations at the Ministr y of Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Ser vices in Victor ia at: www.gov.bc.ca/citz/iao/.

The climate crisis is the most serious, large-scale example. People found coal, oil and gas could be burned in factories, homes and automobiles, making life easier for many and generating massive profits in a consumerdriven system. Although there was some understanding of the “greenhouse effect” and potential to alter climate, many dismissed the idea that burning this carbon, stored and compressed over millennia in plant and animal matter, was anything but good. We can’t know everything, but we’re learning enough to realize that plundering Earth has consequences. Without plankton or trees or fungi, we wouldn’t have air to breathe. Everything we continue to learn about nature’s intricate balance shows we must recognize our place and care for the planet and its processes as if our lives depended on it. They do. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. ■

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SCIENCE MATTERSBYSUZUKIDAVID

We often get ahead of ourselves, viewing things in isolation and acting as if we have enough knowledge to “manage” and exploit forests, marine ecosystems and lands and waterways.

When Simard discovered alder trees can help pine forests by supplying nitrogen, she met resistance from industry foresters, who were accustomed to spraying alders as a “weed”Beyondspecies.their ability to share and communicate through chemical processes and fungal networks, trees “literally hold the world together,” as Wayne Grady and I wrote in Tree: A Life Story. “Their leaves receive the Sun’s energy for the benefit of all terrestrial creatures and transpire torrents of water vapour into the atmosphere. Their branches and trunks provide shelter, food, and habitat for mammals, birds, amphibians, insects, and other plants. And their roots anchor the mysterious underworld of rock and soil.” Through that rock and soil, the trees connect via fungal networks to other trees and plants. Fungi have been critical to the development of life, aid in decomposition and provide food and medicines. But we still only know of about one per cent of the estimated five million species, and only classified them as a separate “kingdom” from plants in the late 1960s. We often get ahead of ourselves, viewing things in isolation and acting as if we have enough knowledge to “manage” and exploit forests, marine ecosystems and lands and waterways. But the more we study the complex interconnections within nature and its processes, the more we realize we’ve been missing crucial knowledge about the cascading effects of our actions.

RESEARCHERS ONLY began to understand the “diel migration” a few decades ago. It’s “the largest routine migration of life on Earth,” Scientific American notes. About 10 billion tonnes of zooplankton— tiny sea animals like copepods, krill and fish larvae—ascend up to 1,000 metres every night (“diel” is from Latin for “day”—a 24-hour cycle), through varying temperatures, water pressures and other conditions, returning to the depths before daylight. They do it to feed on tiny plants, phytoplankton, under cover of darkness, hiding from predators during the day. Their movements are determined by sun, moon and clouds far above. The migration is more intricate and complex than first imagined, and has profound implications for understanding climate change and marine processes. Phytoplankton remove enormous amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but they release most of it back. When zooplankton eat phytoplankton, they transport the carbon to the ocean’s depths, where it can be stored for hundreds or thousands of years. How much gets transported and sequestered remains unknown, but it’s significant. “Better data will improve climate models, which in turn will improve understanding of how climate change will alter these organisms’ behaviours—and, subsequently, the climate again,” Scientific AmericanWestern says.science advances, but in some ways, it’s only starting to catch up to the knowledge of many Indigenous Peoples about ecosystems, including forests. The Western approach has long been to view a forest as a collection of individual trees, ranked according to their value as timber, along with “weed” species, or plants and trees with no economic value. Thanks to scientists like Suzanne Simard and others, we now understand forests are more like communities, with parent trees, younger trees, other flora and fungi communicating and sharing nutrients and warnings between species and among their own through intricate mycorrhizal networks and other means. As Merlin Sheldrake writes in Entangled Life, some plants even emit chemicals to attract parasitic wasps to prey on attacking aphids. The science upends the Darwinian notion of nature being about a competitive “survival of the fittest” and confirms knowledge that many Indigenous Peoples have long had, that everything is interconnected.

Everything matters in an interconnected world

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PEMBERTON Just steps away from the new soccer pitches, bike skills park, and Mackenzie Basin trails, you must see this bright, incredibly spacious 3.5 bed/2.5 bath Pemberton Plateau Townhome. The open plan living space is located on the top level to allow for maximum natural light. Enjoy your outdoor spaces from every level with 2 decks and a patio space that leads you to your green space at the back.

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Some examples of online petitions I’ve received (or seen shared on social media) in the past that I have chosen not to support, but had to open the link to make sure they were for real: Pronouns in Microsoft Teams!; Regulate BC’s Gas Prices; Build the Whistler Blackcomb Halfpipe; Keep the alpine lifts spinning on Whistler Mountain past closing day; Ban of commercial operators on Whistler’s River of Golden Dreams (ROGD). If you read the news in these pages or online in the last couple of weeks, you probably knew that last one was coming. If you haven’t got up to speed on the facts, check out the excellent reporting by Brandon Barrett in the Aug. 18 edition of Pique (“Petition calls for ban of commercial boats on River of Golden Dreams—but are they the real problem?”). I’ll be keeping to my own opinion for this column. What got me with this particular petition was that it targeted commercial operators on the ROGD, as if these two local companies were somehow dredging our precious river of its natural resources and clocking beavers over the head with paddles while they were at it. Sure, warm sunny days are busy for these operators, sending dozens of canoes and kayaks down Whistler’s favourite river. While I don’t work on Alta Lake or regularly float the ROGD, my daily dog walk route passes its banks. And with what I’ve witnessed, I’m not convinced banning these commercial operators (as the petition argues) is “the obvious solution.”

“Sign with a click” is the call to action. OK, that doesn’t sound too bad. Click. “Vince, can you chip in $3 to get this petition on the agenda?” Nope. Close tab. This is about as far as I get with most of these digital petitions, though on the rare occasion I will go the extra mile of emailing a template letter to the B.C. Government about an issue I’m very passionate about. However, the knock-on effect of engaging with these email marketing campaigns is that my inbox is now targeted for all sorts of causes. Some examples of online petitions that I’ve “supported” of late (with a click): Opposing a rescue dog ban by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency; Provincial Park Status for Duncan River Ancient Cedars; Protect access to abortion in Canada; Hey Tim Hortons, Accept Reusables Mugs Again!; End tax exemption for Catholic Church; Save B.C. Wolves.

A Global News story on Aug. 24 (no doubt triggered by said petition and Pique’s reporting) noted: “The municipality itself said a count of peak traffic on the river found about 70 per cent of watercraft were being used by the public, rather than commercial operators.” So shitcanning two local businesses and letting the public rampantly float the river with wall-to-wall floaties is the obvious solution? Something doesn’t add up there. I get that the ROGD is a sensitive ecosystem, and it’s terribly overloaded during the summer. Boats dragging in low water is no good for fish spawning channels, and trash is never good for anyone or anything. Having education and oversight over visitors choosing to experience Whistler’s most picturesque water activity is more important than ever.

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Vince Shuley hopes to never be the subject of an online petition. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail.com or Instagram @whis_vince. BAIT

A COUPLE OF TIMES a week, my inbox receives a petition for something or other requesting my support; a modern, vastly more efficient, digital version of canvassing neighbourhood homes to garner support on a social, political or environmental issues.

Whistler’s mayor and council recognizes that, defending the commercial operators and turning the looking glass back onto the public—that 70 per cent of users, some of whom will treat the ROGD with the respect it deserves, some of whom simply want to join an alcohol-fuelled flotilla. Singling out commercial operators as the source of the ROGD’s ongoing overuse is shortsighted. Could we possibly ban public use and require all commercial operators to only sell guided tours? Or ticket the river to a maximum number of public and private vessels per day to give it a chance to heal? We live in a free country, but as we’ve demonstrated in the last few years, a lack of responsible citizenry means the freedom to explore this terrain comes with the caveat that natural attractions such as the ROGD are dying the death of a thousand cuts (or in this case, Unfortunately,floaties).

THE OUTSIDER

[A] lack of responsible citizenry means the freedom to explore this terrain comes with the caveat that natural attractions such as the ROGD are dying the death of a thousand cuts (or in this case, floaties).

Death by a thousand online petitions

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Banning commercial operators on Whistler’s River of Golden Dreams was the subject of a recent online petition. BY MIKE

not all good-willed petitions get it right, and can serve the agenda of the petition’s starter more than the cause itself. But with the all-too-easy, sign-with-a-click mechanic, the “support” for such petitions falls into the same trap of doing one’s own research by scrolling Facebook headlines. I’ve fallen into that trap, too, in the past, so I’m making the commitment to not sign any more online petitions without first independently verifying their facts. Maybe that will lead to a few less silly online petitions in my inbox.

FEATURE STORY Pique’s LABOUR LOOK-IN A LABOUR DAY EXAMINATION OF THE MANY PRESSURE POINTS EXACERBATING WHISTLER’S—AND B.C.’S— LABOUR SHORTAGE 42 SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

“You could have the best employer, but as we know, Whistler has affordability issues, so how are we addressing those? Because even the best employer can’t necessarily retain employees in an unaffordable community.”

The Chamber, Pique Newsmagazine and Arts Whistler are co-hosting an all-candidates meeting on Sept. 28 at the Maury Young Arts Centre, before Whistlerites head to the polls on Oct. 15.

With all that in mind, Whistler’s business sector had fully steeled itself this spring for what was predicted to be an exceptionally busy summer, as travel began to open up and the public was eager to get out and about after more than two years of COVID lockdowns and travel restrictions.

“We started working on this back in April around helping businesses access information now that the government has opened up the visas,” Chan notes. “But with the lead times, the processing times, how do we help businesses access the labour they need for the winter? We have to get ahead of these cycles.”

“We are looking at how the Chamber, along with other partnerships, can be a bit more of the driver of bringing talent to Whistler, providing development opportunities and then helping employers retain those employees for a longer period of time,” she explains. “I think it’s a new way to approach looking at labour within Whistler, rather than try the things we’ve always tried.”

Chan pointed to the push to support locally owned businesses that gained steam during the pandemic as an example of how the Chamber can help drive a deeper understanding of the issues Whistler’s business sector is contending with.

“It’s more than just shopping local,” she says. “It is really about people understanding the importance of employee housing to stable, dignified living for employees that work here in Whistler and drive the economy.”

By Brandon Barrett AS A GENERAL RULE, WHISTLER BUSINESS OWNERS ARE A FAIRLY ADAPTABLE BUNCH.

It’s the simple reality of operating in a resort town, what with its seasonal ebbs and flows, persistent staffing shortages, and the steep cost of doing business that comes with setting up shop in one of the most expensive communities in the country.

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The Chamber also intends to take on more of an advocacy role heading into this October’s municipal election. Using research gleaned from the Community Talent Plan, as well as results of a recent survey of local businesses, the Chamber will send each election candidate an information packet designed to help them “understand the true issues” facing Whistler’s workforce, primarily around housing and unaffordability, “and the influence they have primarily at the community retention level,” Chan says.

Though the BCGEU announced an end to targeted strike action at liquor distribution warehouses on Aug. 30 as the parties return to bargaining, the disruption forced business owners both in Whistler and beyond to consider ways to strengthen their supply chains locally to make them more resilient to external forces.

“What we saw was a great group of owners, operators, general managers that made decisions that needed to be made to do the best we could with the guest experience, given the staffing we have,” says entrepreneur Diana Chan, board chair of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce. “We were as well-equipped as we knew we were going to be heading into the summer. We anticipated the challenges that we’re having.” Many of those challenges should ring familiar to anyone who has followed the resort’s labour landscape over the years—except with the dial turned up to 11. Whistler continues to see the return of its seasonal, international workforce coming out of the pandemic, but with Canada’s immigration stream still clogged by a backlog of applications, that return has been more of a trickle than a deluge.

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“I don’t believe this problem is going away. We talk about labour within Whistler. This is not a Whistler-only problem. This is something all communities are experiencing. The supply chain is reliant not just on the manufacturers, the shipping getting it into the country, but we’re also going to start seeing the impact of getting supplies into the Sea to Sky, because of availability of truck drivers. That’s something we’re keeping our eye on,” says Chan, who lauded the Sea to Sky’s farmers for stepping up this summer to supply kitchens across the corridor.

The Chamber also continues its search for its new executive director, after Melissa Pace announced in April she was stepping down from the position she had served in since 2017.

Then, fuelled by the pandemic, there’s an ongoing reckoning so many are having with their relationship to work. We’ve already seen the steady shift to a remote-work environment, and those that still clock in at their place of employment are rethinking what they get out of a job that goes beyond a paycheque, something resort employers have long been cognizant of, offering an array of perks— from staff housing to ski passes—to help attract and retain long-term staff. But 2022 has come with its fair share of surprises, even for the savvy resort business owners that have come to expect the unexpected. Between a four-month transit strike that hit Whistler’s front-line workers the hardest, historic supply-chain issues only exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and, just in the past two weeks, a strike of roughly 33,000 BC General Employees’ Union members dealing yet another blow to an already battered hospitality sector (see related story on page 31), it has been a flurry of factors largely out of the hands of the business community.

The Chamber is getting creative in its own ways to help its members weather the storm. A newly drafted Community Talent Plan is just weeks away from being rolled out to the resort, representing a shift in how Whistler approaches labour as a whole, Chan posits.

“With the strike, it’s one of those unfortunate [situations] where it’s having a very significant impact on food and beverage, without any control,” says Chan, referencing how the job action has targeted BC Liquor Distribution Branches, stifling the supply of alcohol to restaurants and hotels. “There is little influence other than the advocacy efforts that are happening across multiple associations on the government to do something about this.”

“We’re trying to keep an eye and understand these things, but those are the ones where, without the control or ability to stop it, we’re looking at leaders who are getting very creative. We talk about resiliency, adaptability, creativity, and we’re seeing that from all levels of management and leadership across the resort.”

THE GREAT RESIGNATION COMES TO CANADA

Tens of thousands of Canadians were able to celebrate Labour Day this year by not setting their alarm clocks. They didn’t need to get up early the next day because they are now retired. In July, Statistics Canada reported that 300,000 cent increase from the same period the year prior. The retirement wave was part of the Great Resignation that had been expected during the pandemic, but came about a year later than expected. That large number of retirements in a single year, coupled with a sharp drop in immigration in 2020, is putting an intense squeeze on the Canadian labour market. From emergency room physicians and nurses to delivery drivers, there simply aren’t enough skilled workers right now.

“People who are already in Canada, we are converting them from non-permanent resident to immigrant,” Antunes says. “That changes nothing in terms of the pool of workers.”Whilea recession might ease the labour shortage temporarily, the draining of the pool of working-aged Canadians is a long-term trend that promises to get worse, warns RBC BetweenEconomics.2016 and 2021, the number of Canadians aged 65 and older was around 7 million—18 per cent of the Canadian population—according to Statistics Canada, and 22 per cent of working-age Canadians are now between the ages of 55 to 64.

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“In the last 12 months, 46 per cent of those managers have on-boarded employees who had previously retired and returned to the workforce,” Shekhtman says. “It was incredible to see that amount of people that are coming back.”

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“I think they think that everybody’s replaceable,” Spence says. “But there’s a ton of corporate and institutional memory that walks out the door every time somebody retires.”

Helen Spence, founder of Top Sixty Over Sixty, does consulting for older workers who want to continue working or re-enter the workforce. She said many Canadians who reach 65 look forward to having a break from work. But after they have had a year or two of full retirement, many retirees are willing and able to go back to work, at least part-time. Others might simply want to slow down a bit.

“There are many people who’d be perfectly happy to stay in their company or in their business and have reduced time, and not be paid as much,” Spence says. Not all employers recognize the value of older, experienced workers, however, and still prefer younger ones in their recruiting. It’s a mindset Spence says employers might need to rethink, as the labour pool continues to shrink.

While Canada registered more than 400,000 immigrants in 2021, the numbers can be misleading, because a lot of those new immigrants were already in the country as students or temporary foreign workers.

“The tail-end of the baby boom is at its peak right now,” Antunes says. “The problem is right now. Over the next five or six years, we’re going to see these folks really leave a gap as they leave the workforce.”

While there may still be a bias against older workers among some managers, others appear to be willing to tap this growing human resources pool.

Of those retirees who returned to work, 50 per cent to part-time. to labour replaceable,” of Despite and says In a Canadians had retired in the previous 12 months—a 30-per-

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From her experience, Spence said whether an employee decides to continue working after 65 or not “has everything to do with who the employer is and what the flexibility issuesDespiteare.” their skills and experience, older workers can often find it difficult to find a job, she says.

“The big, big difference between where we are today and 2019, for instance, is that immigration was cut over the last two years, and that’s had a significant impact on the supply of workers,” says Pedro Antunes, chief economist for the Conference Board of Canada.

In other words, one-fifth of working-age Canadians are set to retire over the next decade, and Canada’s birth rate has not been high enough to fill that vacuum.

“It takes two years for an older person to find a job, for the most part, and it’s much more difficult for women than it is for men,” Spence says.

In resource sectors, companies have been investing in skills training for First Nations with some success. While the employment rate for Indigenous Canadians has improved slightly over the last 10 years, First Nations represent a potential human resources pool that is still largelyAnotheruntapped.demographic that employers may need to start tapping is seniors. With baby boomers living longer than previous generations (an average of nine years longer than North Americans in 1921), many boomers could continue working well past 65—provided they want to, and provided there are incentives to do so.

“Retirees are returning to the workforce,” says Mike Shekhtman, regional director for Robert Half recruitment agency.Ina recent survey, Robert Half interviewed 900 senior managers across Canada.

Some employers are trying to avoid this problem this by offering signing bonuses, rather than higher base wages. Of the managers recently surveyed, Robert Half found 31 per cent are offering some form of bonus. Some also offer perks, like free parking or gym memberships. ■

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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem, hoping to tame inflation with rising bank rates, and fearful of accelerating inflation, recently urged employers to refrain from hiking wages, to the great ire of unionized labour.

“We did a recent one,” Scott says. “The results were 24 per cent of the candidates consider, now, flexibility and remote working opportunities to be the most important benefit that they can get from their new employer.

“Wage pressures are building—they accelerated to 5.2 per cent year over year in June, up notably from 3.9 per cent a month earlier,” the chamber says. “This will only add to broader cost pressures for Canadian businesses, and the numbers will likely keep rising in the context of even higher inflation. This will make things particularly tricky for small and medium-

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In such a competitive labour market, many employers feel pressure to offer higher wages and salaries. But that can create real problems in an organization. Paying a new employee the same, or more, as someone who has been with the organization for years is a recipe for discontent.

Canadians are already starting to see labour strife, as unions demand wage increases commensurate with inflation.Inmid-August, for example, the BC Government Employees Union (BCGEU) began job action, after rejecting an offer of an 11-per-cent pay increase over three years, plus a $2,500 bonus per worker. The BCGEU says the Public Service Agency failed to meet union demands for cost of living provisions to address inflation.

As for whether retirees even want to come out of retirement, some may find they have no choice, when they find their pensions and savings just don’t cover their living expenses. “I think, if they had their druthers, they would only work part-time,” Spence says. “But I think a lot of people are working full-time because look at inflation. People are running out of money faster than they thought.” One barrier to seniors working part-time is health benefits, which increase in importance as people get older.

Call it the inflation feedback loop. Rapidly rising prices for consumer goods invariably put pressure on employers to hike wages, which adds to the inflation cycle. This pressure isn’t as intense when unemployment is high, but in a tight labour market, it’s inevitable. And the current labour market is tight as a drum.

like Hootsuite laying off employees, programmers, engineers, data analysts and

According to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, employers were looking to fill 1 million job vacancies this summer. The result is predictable.

FEATURE STORY came back full-time; the rest came back either part-time or as consultants and mentors.

In a recent survey, Robert Half found only two per cent of tech company managers planned to eliminate positions this year, while 40 per cent said they would be hiring new employees, and 50 per cent said they’d be filling vacant positions.

“Typically what people want, in aging, what they want in benefits

In July, Canada’s unemployment rate was just 4.9 per cent, while B.C.’s was 4.7 per cent. In B.C., for business, finance and administrative positions, the unemployment rate is just two per cent, says Mike Shekhtman, regional director for Robert Half recruitment agency. “So we’re looking at full employment for many specialized positions,” he says. “Over the past 18 months, we saw such an acceleration coming out of the pandemic across multiple industries, when we saw unemployment reaching all-time lows.”

“We’re encouraging organizations to offer benefits to their part-time workforce to help retain retirees because a lot of organizations do not offer their benefits to part-time workers,” says Lauren Florko, associate director of human capital for the Conference Board of Canada. their benefits is typically what’s not covered.”

One particularly “hot” space where demand far exceeds supply of workers is digital marketing, Shekhtman says.

Many who re-entered the workforce had new demands, like the option to work remotely, according to recent Impact Recruitment polling.

Job recruiters are also seeing more employers willing to hire outside their immediate geographic region.

INFLATION PLUS FULL EMPLOYMENT EQUALS WAGE PRESSURES

Michael Scott, vice-president of Impact Recruitment’s building division, which works with real estate developers, builders and building managers, says there are labour shortages “right across the board” in every area.

The COVID-19 pandemic worsened an already tightening labour market. Some workers took advantage of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to stop working altogether for a time.

And despite recent headlines about high-tech companies

“For us, a silver lining of the pandemic is that companies have realized that, for a segment of the market, some positions can be done remotely,” Shekhtman says.

“There’s a challenge for many organizations, where they’re very much concerned about internal equity,” Shekhtman says. “So maybe the base salary is not something that they can have a lot of flexibility with.”

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“I wasn’t really expecting to do well, and when I found out that I got first and I beat some of those big girls, I was so excited.”

DESPITE THEIR AMATEUR STATUS, SQUAMISH’S PETER KNOTT AND WHISTLER’S PARIS BOUCHER PUT THEIR NAMES ALONGSIDE THE PROS AT CRANKWORX WHISTLER BY HARRISON BROOKS WHEN CRANKWORX Whistler rolls into the village each year, it is impossible to miss. With the huge Red Bull Joyride features built into Whistler Mountain Bike Park’s Boneyard, massive structures erected as home-base for the large-scale brand sponsors, and more people than even seems possible walking through the Village Stroll, it’s clearly the town’s premier event. Amongst all the hype and infrastructure that comes with the festival, one of the biggest aspects of the 10-day event— regardless of if you are a starstruck kid or a longtime mountain bike enthusiast—is the presence of some of the biggest names in the mountain biking world.

Knott beat his seeding time by 2.7 seconds and found himself standing on the podium’s second step when all was said and done. Both riders took a similar approach to Crankworx 2022, entering their events just for fun to see where they would stack up against the pros—but their approaches to the sport itself couldn’t be more different. For Boucher, who views mountain biking as just a fun hobby in her free time and questions whether she has the “mindset for competitive racing,” she may just look back at her run at Crankworx as a fun, onetime experience with no desire to pursue a racing career outside of the occasional random event. As for Knott, who grew up in the competitive race scene, spending time on the junior World Cup circuit before taking a break to focus on his education, the podium finish might be the push he needs to get back into competitive racing for good and try his hand at some World Cup races next season. “It definitely does make me want to take it more seriously. I guess with the way things have been going this year, I’ve had a lot of my competitors and a lot of my friends asking me why I’m not doing the World Cup circuit, and I don’t really have a good answer,” said Knott. “I’m almost at the point now where I’m getting bullied into going to the World Cups next year. But ... bullied in a good way, because I also want to do it. I guess I’ve just never really had the belief that I had the ability to perform better than those guys until very recently. So I mean, hell yeah. Bring it on.” Coming off a win at the Stevie Smith Memorial Downhill race this past weekend at Mount Washington, Knott plans to attend a couple more races around B.C. in September before switching his focus to training to get in shape for his attempt to join the World Cup circuit in 2023. And while Boucher doesn’t have any plans to do the same anytime soon, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t still have goals in the sport. Over the years, she hopes to continue progressing and start checking off more things from her Whistler Mountain Bike Park bucket list.

Two local standouts from Crankworx’s return to Whistler this year include 20-year-old Whistlerite Paris Boucher and 27-year-old Peter Knott, of Squamish. Boucher, racing in the Senior Open category of the Air DH event, took the win with a time of 4:44.411, which would have been good enough for fifth place in the pro category ahead of well-known names like Sechelt’s 17-year-old phenom Gracey Hemstreet and Australia’s Harriet Burbidge-Smith.“Iwasn’treally expecting to do that well, and when I found out that I got first and I beat some of those big girls, I was so excited,” said Boucher. “It was just really neat. It wasn’t what I was expecting, so it was a really nice surprise. It was just like, a cool feeling, knowing that I’m capable of that.”

And while there is no doubt those athletes are the ones drawing in the thousands upon thousands of spectators, the pro side isn’t the only thing Crankworx is about. It’s also about bringing together the entire mountain biking community, from kids to amateurs to pros, and all the “Cinderella stories” that come along with local riders having a chance to line up in the start gates with the big dogs, according to managing director Darren Kinnaird.

Sea to Sky amateurs shine on Whistler’s biggest MTB stage

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Similarly for Knott, who was born in Australia and moved to the Sea to Sky in 2019, seeing his name land in a podium position in the Pro Men’s category of the Canadian Open Downhill wasn’t something he expected when he lined up for the seeding run the day prior to Sunday’s race. “I felt really comfortable. I felt like I was riding pretty good and yeah, came down in seeding and saw I was sitting in third. I kind of thought that maybe something went wrong with the timing because I didn’t really think I was going to be putting up pace with the top boys, but I guess it was real,” he said. “The next day I thought, well, this is a golden opportunity. And I knew that all I needed to do was put it all together and just make it down clean and I guess that’s exactly what happened. Everything kind of went into place.”

“I guess I just always want to progress and learn more tricks. I always start the season with a bucket list. So this year I’ve had a few trails that I wanted to cross off and some tricks and stuff. So if I can just keep progressing, I think that’d be really cool, just for myself,” she said. “Next, I want to start whipping Crabapple [Hits]. I’ve been riding the trail a bit more recently, and I’ve started trying to carve up the lip on the last jump, but it’s so scary. But that’s what I’m focused on right now. Also, I want to do suicides. That would be really cool. I want to be like a stylish rider, that’s kind of my goal.” n

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AFTER GROWING UP WATCHING CRANKWORX AS KIDS, WHISTLER’S JAKE POLITO AND ETHAN DONOHOE HAD THE CHANCE TO COMPETE ON ONE OF THE EVENT’S BIGGEST STAGES

WHIP IT Whistler’s Jake Polito gets sideways in the Official Whip-Off World Championships at Crankworx Whistler.

“I heard that maybe they have wildcard spots and that they would accept some this year possibly. And they decided to let a few kids in this year, so that was definitely a highlight,” said Polito. “It was really cool. I’ve always watched it as a young kid. It’s really cool to just ride with pros, there’s just a huge crowd, and I made it into the finals.

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Coming up through the Kidsworx and CWNEXT events over the years, for Polito and Donohoe, Crankworx was always more about the spectacle and getting a front-row seat to watch some of the best riders in the world. But now, being a little older, and after two years without the event in Whistler, the feeling around Crankworx has changed a little. While the excitement for the event is still there for the two of them, it has shifted from that of a fan, to that of a racer getting ready to compete. Even though the two are still competing in the junior divisions and aren’t quite shoulder-to-shoulder with the big dogs just yet, this year represented a stepping stone for the two to branch out and try more events than ever before. And that proved to be a successful endeavour for the pair, as Polito, in the U17 category, finished second in the Canadian Open Downhill, fifth in the Dual Slalom and third in the Air DH, and was featured in Matt Tongue’s video submission in Dirt Diaries. Meanwhile, Donohoe, competing in the U19 category, rode to 11th in the Canadian Open and Dual Slalom events, a seventh-place finish in Pump Track and a third-place finish in Air DH. But the highlight of the whole week was being selected for a wildcard spot in the Official Whip-Off World Championships, in which both Polito and Donohoe competed for the first time.

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“And I should be invited next year as well, because I made it into the finals … so really excited about that.”

FOR MANY PRO mountain bikers, the Crankworx World Tour can often be just another stop on the schedule—a chance to travel to cool places, make some money and party along the way, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the rest of their professional schedule too much. But for a select group of people who get to call Whistler their hometown, Crankworx means so much more than that. It can be the source of passion for the sport that lasts a lifetime, and a place they aspire to one day be. Whistler’s Jake Polito and Ethan Donohoe are two members of that select group. Like many Whistler kids, Polito, 16, and Donohoe, 17, have been riding bikes for as long as they can remember. Following the usual transition from balance bikes and tricycles to their first park laps and races, the two slowly grew a love for the sport of mountain biking. And while that passion was natural given their surroundings, having the biggest mountain biking festival in the world right in their own backyard was a key driver in the path both Polito and Donohoe found themselves“[Crankworx]on. has meant a lot to me. It’s always been the highlight of every summer,” said Donohoe. “It helped [grow a passion for the sport] a lot. I would always see videos of pro riders riding trails in the park in Whistler and then I would want to go out and try that myself. When I was younger, I’d just be so stoked to see somebody that I knew in the line if they were a pro, and then at Crankworx, obviously, I’d go to all the signing sessions, too.”

And the only thing better than rubbing shoulders with the pros in front of thousands of fans, according to Donohoe, was being able to do it with one of his oldest friends in Polito. The two grew up right down the street from each other and have been riding—and building “sketchy jumps” in the backyard—together since Day 1. “It felt awesome to be a part of that. I’ve wanted to do the Whip-Off forever, so as soon as I got that email back from Crankworx, I was super stoked,” said Donohoe. “And it was awesome [to do it with Jake]. The crowd was going crazy for him, so that was awesome to see. We didn’t know what to expect, but had one of the best days ever together. It was so good.” n

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“The idea was one different dessert each week,” Ramirez explained, but word of mouth meant she’d often hear from Whistlerites looking to try the same orders their friends had raved about the previous week. Now, the same recipe is offered for two weeks in a row before Ramirez and Gutierrez switch it up. Keeping Whistler’s high cost of living in mind, Ramirez is also committed to keeping prices affordable to make sure the occasional sweet treat is within everyone’s reach.

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CANADIANS’ COLLECTIVE obsession with Mexican cuisine has long been apparent. Well, our obsession with Americanized tacos, burritos, quesadillas, guacamole, margaritas, Coronas and the occasional churro, to be a little more specific. But while tacos might be a staple on every chain-restaurant menu from Vancouver to Halifax—I write this as someone who spent the better part of their university years working at an Ontario TexMex chain known for their fajitas, where the corporate policy encouraged staff to greet guests with a truly cringeworthy “Howdy, y’all”—it’s likely a safe bet that the vast majority of Canadians, if pressed, couldn’t name a traditional Mexican dessert. (Aside from the aforementioned churro, obviously.)It’ssomething

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“Mexico is beautiful—I love my country,” said Ramirez, but the safety a life in B.C. provided proved too enticing to pass up. One challenge of living in a Canadian resort town? Procuring the right ingredients Ramirez needed to cook her favourite traditional Mexican dishes. “It’s so complicated to find Mexican products, like tortillas, tomatillos, dried chilies,” she Ramirezexplained. and her family found themselves heading to Vancouver to find the products more often than they’d like, a process that became even more difficult during the COVID-19 pandemic. So, they thought, “Maybe a lot of Mexican families here in Whistler are in the same situation,” Ramirez said. They wanted to create an easier way for other Mexicans in Canada—or just neighbours looking to cook authentic Mexican meals—to find those same products. Enter Delicias Market. Ramirez and her family decided to found the online store almost two years ago, at the end of 2020.

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Sweet Bites shines a light on the sweeter side of Mexican cuisine

“We started with big dreams, because we want people to know the delicious, sweet side of Mexico, about the desserts,” she said. Eventually, Ramirez added, she and her family would like to expand the online market into a bakery and storefront.

“Many people like Mexican food. In Whistler, Vancouver … you find only the [savoury] food,” Ramirez explained.

“Mexico has another side, another delicious thing, and those are the desserts.” Ramirez moved to the resort from Mexico City a little under a decade ago. She followed in the footsteps of her mom, who immigrated to Whistler about 13 years ago.

Whistlerites Isabel Ramirez and Sergio Gutierrez are serving up homemade Mexican desserts through their new weekly delivery service.

The virtual marketplace offers everything from sweets and sodas to sauces, spices, beans, peppers and more. Those products are available to ship across Canada, but orders from Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton will be delivered the next business day. Ramirez sources her products from an importer in Burnaby. Earlier this summer, that side hustle took a sweet turn. “I feel so proud about my country. I love Mexico, it has beautiful things. One thing in this part [of the world], it has only the salty [Mexican] foods, all the same. The desserts are different,” Ramirez said. “I said, ‘well, the people love the desserts, I love to cook, my desserts are very good— they are delicious,” she added with a laugh. “So why not? Why not show the people?” Every week for the past couple of months, Ramirez has invited Whistlerites to place orders for a specific Mexican dessert up until 3 p.m. on Tuesdays. She and her husband then spend their Wednesdays baking the orders, while her mom takes care of the couple’s two young daughters—one two-and-a-half and the other five months— before delivering those homemade, fresh-out-of-the-oven orders throughout the Whistler community Wednesday evenings. “It’s a pretty good team,” Ramirez said of the family affair. It started with mosaico tres leches jellies, featuring four different flavours of jellies suspended in a jelly cream, topped with fresh fruit and served in cups. Next, Ramirez offered up cheese cubiletes, a pastry with a shortbread crust filled with a mixture of condensed milk, vanilla and cream cheese, garnished with a cherry and a sprig of mint. In August, Sweet Bites offered up chocoflan, slices of chocolate cake topped with—you guessed it—flan.

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Whistlerites Isabel Ramirez and her husband, Sergio Gutierrez, are working to change with their newest venture, a weekly made-to-order dessert delivery service called Sweet Bites by Delicias Market.

“That is the dream, but we can try.”

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“[T]o go see other nations and have a connection with our culture, it gives it a little bit more meaning.”

“We partnered with Ts’zil Learning Centre in Mount Currie and we’ve written this grant to present a series that celebrates Indigenous art, knowledge, knowledge sharing, and storytelling in the community,” Osborne says. Events and performances include: The Nt’ákmen Calendar with Holly Bikadi/ Gathering Medicine & Walking With Plants with Leigh Joseph on Sept. 8. It will be based on Mount Currie resident Holly Bikadi’s book, The Nt’ákmen Calendar, which explores harvesting food and medicine plants. That will be followed by a film called Walking With Plants, co-directed by Squamish Nation ethnobotanist, researcher, and entrepreneur, Leigh Joseph (whose ancestral name is Styawat).

AN EVENING WITH RUSSELL WALLACE AND TILLICUM SHANTIE ON SEPT. 29. Lil’wat Nation composer, producer, and traditional singer, Russell Wallace, will perform jazz arrangements of both original and St’át’imc songs with guitarist Tony Wilson.

X AAYDA (HAIDA) AND SK_WX_WÚ7MESH (SQUAMISH) STORIES AND SONGS WITH KUNG JAADEE ON SEPT. 22. Jaadee, a professional storyteller, author and educator, shares stories of famous Haida and Squamish legends. She will also bring her drum, sing Haida songs and teach a few basic words in Xaad Kil, the Haida language.

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“It’s really nice to see everyone back in the building, having fun, bringing their friends to see the artwork on the walls.”

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Submissions ranged from 3D to mixed media and more traditional paintings, along with established artists and a healthy dose of newbies. “I think the small format is really accessible,” Osborne says. “We get a lot of people trying out submitting to an exhibit for the first time. Then we have really known artists who come back year after year.”

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A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SEVEN SACRED TEACHINGS ON SEPT. 15. James Darin Corbiere, an Anishinaabe retired teacher and former police officer, explores the teachings of Love, Honesty, Courage, Truth, Humility, Respect and Wisdom from their language of origin: Aanishinaabemowin.

Whistler’s smallest art show returns on Sept. 1. The Teeny Tiny Show-Size Does Matter, is back in The Gallery at the Maury Young Arts Centre with more than 200 small canvases from 80 Sea to Sky artists. While the show itself is always a draw, Osborne says Arts Whistler is particularly excited to be able to gather in person again for The Art Party on Sept. 16. “It just makes you happy,” she says of the three-inch-by-three-inch canvases.

“We love to work with Lil’wat Nation and Squamish Nation and the cultural centre here in Whistler,” she says. “It’s always going to be part of our planning going forward to have Indigenous programming throughout the year.”

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BY ALYSSA NOEL ARTS WHISTLER and the Lil’wat Nation’s Ts’zil Learning Centre are kicking off September with a new series focused on Indigenous art and knowledge. Running every Thursday through the month, emhám begins with award-winning reggae-rockers The Spiritual Warriors playing a free show on Sept. 1 at Lakeside Park at 6 p.m.

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Ts’zil, meanwhile, contributed ideas for the series in conversations with Arts Whistler before they created the lineup, says Helena Edmonds (whose traditional name is “[I’mKík7ak).looking forward to] all of it,” she says with a laugh. “We have our nations there [in the lineup] and to go see other nations and have a connection with our culture, it gives it a little bit more meaning.” But, in particular, A Better Understanding of the Seven Sacred Teachings has already inspired her. “With Seven Sacred Teachings we said, ‘We should get this transcribed in our language,’ and we’re getting that done with the Lil’wat language authority,” she adds. The series comes on the heels of other shows that focused on local Indigenous artists, including Yvonne Wallace’s onewoman show, útszan, which was partly in the Lil’wat language, Ucwalmicwts, and Lil’wat visual artist Levi Nelson’s solo exhibit, After the Blast, both in 2019. Showcasing Indigenous talent is an important part of Arts Whistler’s programming, Osborne says.

“For us, it’s really exciting when we can do something new and step outside of what we do year over year,” says Imogen Osborne, programming director with Arts Whistler. The series came together quickly after Arts Whistler secured a BC Arts Council grant.

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In addition, government programs helped soften the impact of the pandemic, HeckCorporateadded. sponsorships also increased to $1.7 million in 2021, up from $1.2 million in 2020, accounting for 45 per cent of the total revenue, including 21-per-cent cash and 24-per-cent in-kind contributions. Public support, meanwhile, accounted for 41 per cent, up from 20 per cent in 2020, while earned revenue was 10 per cent.

Attendance was up slightly from 2020, with about 73 per cent of attendees, both online and in-person, hailing from British Columbia.“Wehad 21.5 per cent originating from elsewhere in Canada, and with our industry talent talks and event programming accessible at an international level, we attracted even more viewers from around the globe, including attendance from the U.S., U.K., Germany, Mexico, France, Australia, South Africa, and even Malta.”

Whistler Film Festival saw improved finances, attendance in 2021

Those were just a few of the highlights from the Whistler Film Festival Society’s (WFFS) annual general meeting, held online on Wednesday, Aug. 24. “It was our 21st year of operation and it was definitely another one that kept us on our toes as we delivered essentially what was one-and-a-half festivals by doing a hybrid online and in-person event,” said Angela Heck, executive director of the WFFS. “We’ve learned a lot through the 2020 online edition and couple that with our previous history of a solid in-person program, we married the two together and made some significant changes to the way we designed and delivered the film and industry programming through our talent programs and our 365-degree, year-round programming, all the while living up to our reputation as Canada’s coolest film festival.”

“Overall revenue increased significantly from the previous year which is understandable as it was an online-only year and cash revenue correspondingly increased to reflect this hybrid event,” Heck said. “This included an increase in grants, which reflected new grant opportunities, and sponsorships also increased dramatically, signalling a relative return to normalcy and an interest in live events.”

While the festival attracted 14,085 attendees across all of its programming— which included online and in-person films—and saw revenues of $1.9 million, it also had to contend with an ongoing pandemic, as well as major flooding closing highways and impacting shipping.

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The content summit, meanwhile, attracted 1,110 attendees and 149 industry leaders over its 10-day run. WFFS saw revenues of $1,906,165 and expenses of $1,702,295, amounting to a $203,870 surplus for the year.

“[W]ith our industry talent talks and event programming accessible at an international level, we attracted even more viewers from around the globe.”

“We secured a total of 80 sponsors and funders, which was up from 73 in 2020,” Heck said. “We were fortunate enough to secure several new sponsors in 2021 … We benefited greatly from our community of supporters and an aggressive fundraising and restructuring campaign over the past three years to address some legacy debt. This effort has allowed the organization to accept access to new investments for our programs and helped us to stabilize year-round operations.”

LAST YEAR’S WFF STILL CONTENDED WITH PANDEMIC CHALLENGES, BUT SAW UPSWING FROM 2020 BY ALYSSA NOEL

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The WFFS also added new board members during the meeting. They include: Tracey Friesen, managing vice president of the BC Producers Branch, CMPA; Karla Laird, director, member services and communications for UBCP/ ACTRA; Kerry Moraes-Suguiyama, executive in charge of Indigenous Language Production, APTN; and Steven Thibault, COO, BRON Media Corporation. They join: Susan Brouse, Ann Chiasson, Roger Soane, Daniel Cruz, Shauna Hardy, Nathaniel Lyman, and Rob Larson. The organization also recently hired Erin Mussolum as manager of operations. Looking ahead, Heck announced the 2022 event would remain hybrid online and in-person, set to run Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 in Whistler and online from Dec. 5 to Jan. 2, 2023.

THE 2021 INSTALMENT of the Whistler Film Festival was marked by significant wins but also, once again, marred by challenges.

“Overall, at the end of our fiscal year, our financial position is much stronger and we really look forward to sharing announcements for the upcoming year very shortly,” she said. n

“Then there would be egg-throwing contests, pie-eating contests, and tug of wars where they had two wharves and two teams and the losing team got pulled into the water. The pie-eating contest was always huckleberry pies, so it was hilarious, because people would end up with blue faces. It was a good time. The sailboat races were a big deal.”

FOR MANY PEOPLE, the Labour Day long weekend marks the end of the summer; school holidays are over and the days are getting noticeably colder and shorter. Knowing the warm days are coming to an end may bring a sense of sadness to some. This feeling was even more palpable in the community of Alta Lake, where the population increased in the summer months and life revolved around the lake—fishing, swimming and sailing. The biggest community celebration ran over the September long weekend, and was named the “Regretta”—because the community regretted that summer was coming to an end.

Prizes and trophies were presented for both the serious and not-so-serious competitions. Renate Bareham, née Ples, grew up in Alta Lake and remembers winning a hand mirror in the log-rolling competition. This celebration of summer brought as many as 100 residents and weekenders together for a day in the sun, which was quite the turnout for a small community. Throughout the 10 or so years that the Regretta ran, it certainly left an impression on all those lucky enough to take part. n

The annual Alta Lake ‘Regretta’

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“We would have the three-legged race where two people tie their inside leg together and you have to run, [and] the sack race where you’d get in a potato sack and you had to hop,” she recalled.

The Alta Lake Sailing Club ran out of Cypress Lodge and regattas were held each long weekend throughout the summer. Opening the sailing season was the Jelly Fish Race held on the May long weekend, followed by the Dominion Day Derby held on July 1. But the biggest event of them all was the annual Regretta held on Labour Day weekend, starting in 1965. The Regretta was a day-long celebration that incorporated sailing races, as well as fun contests and activities for children and adults alike. Alta Lake became a colourful display of sailing craft with Sabots, Davidson D12s, Flying Juniors, Enterprises, Hobie Cats and Catamarans all popular. Sabots were the first boat of choice, as the eight-foot sailing dinghies were light enough to carry up the bank for storage at the end of the summer. Along with the regular regatta races, fun races and obstacle courses kept both participants and spectators entertained. “Repel all boarders” was an obstacle race with up to five people on board vying to get through the course the fastest without any “pirates” boarding the boats or losing any crew members. There were also “free-for-all races” that allowed splashing and tipping— any tactics to delay the other racers were encouraged.Therewere many amusing activities for the “landlubbers” too, often organized by Florence Peterson. In a recent oral history interview with the Whistler Museum, Carol Fairhurst, whose parents owned Cypress Lodge, remembered the event fondly.

Another activity from the Regretta that should definitely be brought back, if only for entertainment purposes, is the Alta Lake polevaulting contest. The aim of this competition was to launch yourself high into the air over the lake and land in an inner tube.

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LET THEM EAT PIE Pie-eating contests were an important part of the summer regattas.

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PHOTO SUBMITTED 4 LEGO LEGENDS The Whistler Museum looked more like LEGOLAND when the museum’s 26th Annual Building Competition got underway this year on Saturday, Aug. 29.

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PHOTO SUBMITTED 5 BULB BUDDIES Volunteers from Whistler’s Friends of the Library help sort and bag hundreds of tulip and daffodil spring bulbs donated annually by the Resort Municipality of Whistler, the Fairmont, Brew Creek, Whistler Landscaping and Pika’s Gardeners. The bulbs will be for sale by donation on Saturdays throughout the month of September, with proceeds supporting the Whistler Library.

PHOTO SUBMITTED 2 DIAMOND DOUG Whistler’s Doug Ryan, left, celebrated his 50th birthday at the Raven Room on Sunday, Aug. 28 with DJs Surgeon and Vinyl Ritchie spinning a few classics for the occasion.

1 TANTALUS TENT Heading to an alpine lake in the Sea to Sky’s Tantalus range is one way to beat hot August temperatures.

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PHOTO SUBMITTED 3 AHOY, MATEY The Whistler Sailing Association welcomed clubs from all over B.C. to Alta Lake over the weekend for its annual Regatta, held on Aug. 27 and 28. Pictured is Whistler’s Adrianna Griese, 13, who took home the win in the Optimist Class

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “My own curiosity and interest are insatiable,” wrote Cancerian author Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). Inspired by the wealth of influences she absorbed, she created an array of poetry, plays, novels, essays, and translations—including the famous poem that graces the pedestal of America’s Statue of Liberty. I recommend her as a role model for you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. I think you’re ripe for an expansion and deepening of your curiosity. You will benefit from cultivating an enthusiastic quest for new information and fresh influences. Here’s a mantra for you: “I am wildly innocent as I vivify my soul’s education.”

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A blogger who calls herself HellFresh writes, “Open and raw communication with your partners and allies may be uncomfortable and feel awkward and vulnerable, but it solves so many problems that can’t be solved any other way.” Having spent years studying the demanding arts of intimate relationship, I agree with her. She adds, “The idea that was sold to us is ‘love is effortless and you should communicate telepathically with your partner.’ That’s false.” I propose, Pisces, that you fortify yourself with these truths as you enter the Reinvent Your Relationships Phase of your astrological cycle.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Blogger Scott Williams writes, “There are two kinds of magic. One comes from the heroic leap, the upward surge of energy, the explosive arc that burns bright across the sky. The other kind is the slow accretion of effort: the water-on-stone method, the soft root of the plant that splits the sidewalk, the constant wind that scours the mountain clean.” Can you guess which type of magic will be your specialty in the coming weeks, Leo? It will be the laborious, slow accretion of effort. And that is precisely what will work best for the tasks that are most important for you to accomplish.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn novelist Marcia Douglas writes books about the history of her people in Jamaica. In one passage, she writes, “My grandmother used to tell stories about women that change into birds and lizards. One day, a church-going man dared to laugh at her; he said it was too much for him to swallow. My grandmother looked at him and said, ‘I bet you believe Jesus turned water into wine.’” My purpose in telling you this, Capricorn, is to encourage you to nurture and celebrate your own fantastic tales. Life isn’t all about reasonableness and pragmatism. You need myth and magic to thrive. You require the gifts of imagination and art and lyrical flights of fancy. This is especially true now. To paraphrase David Byrne, now is a perfect time to refrain from making too much sense.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In her book Tales From Earthsea, Libra-born Ursula K. Le Guin wrote, “What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” I trust you’re embodying those truths right now. You’re in a phase of your cycle when you can’t afford to remain unchanged. You need to enthusiastically and purposefully engage in dissolutions that will prepare the way for your rebirth in the weeks after your birthday. The process might sometimes feel strenuous, but it should ultimately be great fun.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In his poem “Autobiographia Literaria,” Aries-born Frank O’Hara wrote, “When I was a child, I played in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. If anyone was looking for me, I hid behind a tree and cried out, ‘I am an orphan.’” Over the years, though, O’Hara underwent a marvellous transformation. This is how his poem ends: “And here I am, the centre of all beauty! Writing these poems! Imagine!” In the coming months, Aries, I suspect that you, too, will have the potency to outgrow and transcend a sadness or awkwardness from your own past. The shadow of an old source of suffering may not disappear completely, but I bet it will lose much of its power to diminish you.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his poem “Auguries of Innocence,” William Blake (1757–1827) championed the ability “to see a World in a Grain of Sand. And a Heaven in a Wild Flower. Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you are primed to do just that in the coming days. You have the power to discern the sacred in the midst of mundane events. The magic and mystery of life will shine from every little thing you encounter. So I will love it if you deliver the following message to a person you care for: “Now I see that the beauty I had not been able to find in the world is in you.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?” Virgo-born Mary Oliver asks that question to start one of her poems. She spends the rest of the poem speculating on possible answers. At the end, she concludes she mostly longs to be an “empty, waiting, pure, speechless receptacle.” Such a state of being might work well for a poet with lots of time on her hands, but I don’t recommend it for you in the coming weeks. Instead, I hope you’ll be profuse, active, busy, experimental, and expressive. That’s the best way to celebrate the fact that you are now freer to be yourself than you have been in a while.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As a Scorpio, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was rarely guilty of oversimplification. Like any intelligent person, he could hold contradictory ideas in his mind without feeling compelled to seek more superficial truths. He wrote, “The causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.” I hope you will draw inspiration from his example in the coming weeks, dear Scorpio. I trust you will resist the temptation to reduce colourful mysteries to straightforward explanations. There will always be at least three sides to every story. I invite you to relish glorious paradoxes and fertile enigmas.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time,” said philosopher Bertrand Russell. I will add that the time you enjoy wasting is often essential to your well-being. For the sake of your sanity and health, you periodically need to temporarily shed your ambitions and avoid as many of your responsibilities as you safely can. During these interludes of refreshing emptiness, you recharge your precious life energy. You become like a fallow field allowing fertile nutrients to regenerate. In my astrological opinion, now is one of these revitalizing phases for you.

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Roland’s Pub & Red Door Bistro are looking for a Chef de Partie.

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• Assist in creating daily food specials, soups and menu development Apply in person to 2129 Lake Placid Road in Creekside or email resume to info@rolandswhistler.com

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Roland’s Creekside Pub needs line cooks. Full time and part time available. Experience required. Starting wage based on experience, minimum $18/hr plus tips. Extended Medical & Dental after 3 months full time. Ski pass financing, staff discounts, staff meal each shift, and work with the coolest crew in Creekside. Apply in person or email resume to info@rolandswhistler.com

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RED DOOR BISTRO & ROLANDS PUB KITCHENS Prepping and cooking during service in Red Door Bistro on any station. (3 nights). Ensure all food safety cooking and cooling standards and sanitation protocols are within Vancouver Coastal Health Guidelines. Assist in maintaining cleanliness & organization of fridges, freezers, shelves, floors and work stations in both kitchens. Assist in hiring and training of new staff on all procedures to maintain consistency.

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Sachi Sushi is hiring experienced Japanese Chefs in Whistler.

• Instruct Kitchen Helpers and Cooks in preparation, cooking, and presentation of food. Assist Head Chef and supervise cooks and kitchen helpers. Inspecting ingredients for quality and freshness and supervising all food preparation. Create new menu, recipes, and specials. Work as a team and ensure orders are completed in a timely manner. Completion of secondary school and 2 years of cook/chef experienceFull-time, Permanent All season, 30+ hours per week • $26.50 per hour. Language of work is English Benefits: 4% vacation pay Start date: As soon as possible. Address: 106 – 4359 Main Street, Whistler, BC, V8E 1B5 Apply by email at sushikoba@shaw.ca

• Plan menu and ensure food meets quality standards. Estimate food requirements and estimate food and labour costs.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 65 classiﬁeds.piquenewsmagazine.com BUY RENT WORK FIX DRIVE SELL NightHouseRoomHOUSEKEEPINGAttendantAttendantHouseAttendant WE OFFER AMAZING EMPLOYEE PERKS & BENEFITS! Staff Accommodation Life & Leisure Program Extended Health FreeBenefitsOn-Site Staff FreeParkingStaff Meals Tuition DiscountTeamoutletsFood50%ProgramRetirementProgramReimbursementSavingsDiscountinour&BeverageMemberTravel (including Friends & Family Benefits) Join the Team !! HILTON WHISTLER RESORT & SPA FOOD & BEVERAGE Casual Banquet Server Bartender BanquetAssistantLEADERSHIPReservationsRESERVATIONSCoordinatorPOSITIONSF&BManagerManager Chef1st2ndDishwasherCULINARYMaintenanceENGINEERINGTechnicianCookCookdePartie Email your cover letter and resume to hr@hiltonwhistler com Teppan Village is hiring Japanese Teppanyaki Chefs in Whistler. JOB DUTIES: • Prepare and cook Teppanyaki and other Japanese food including Sushi. • Ensure food meets quality standards. • Estimate food requirements and cooking time. • Instruct Kitchen Helpers and Cooks in preparation, cooking, and presentation of food. • Assist Head Chef and supervise cooks and kitchen helpers. • Inspecting ingredients for quality and freshness and supervising all food preparation. • Create new menu, recipes and specials. • Ensure to provide excellent live cooking presentation and customer services at the Teppanyaki bar. • Work as a team and ensure orders are completed in timely manner. • Ensure Teppan cooking presentations are performed in most safe environment. QUALIFICATIONS: • Completion of High School and 2-3 years of experience as a cook/chef. • Experience as a Teppanyaki Cook/Chef an asset. • Good understanding of Japanese food and Teppanyaki food. All season, Permanent Full-time, 30+ hours per week $26.50 per hour 4% vacation pay Start Date: As soon as possible. Language of work is English Address: 301-4293 Mountain Square, Whistler, BC, V8E 1B8 Apply by email at teppanvillage@shaw.ca

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• A Criminal Record Check is required.

BC Liquor Store Sales Associates may be required to operate a variety of mechanical and hand-operated equipment, in addition to handling large volumes of bottles as part of the LDB’s recycling program.

Auxiliary positions are not permanent full-time but can lead to permanent full-time opportunities with a very competitive total compensation package, including a comprehensive pension plan, medical and dental coverage (including massage and physiotherapy), tuition reimbursement and scholarship programs, and access to public service employee benefits including career support services, financial and legal services, and employee and family counselling.

• Be able to legally work in Canada

For exciting and challenging retail opportunities, please apply online at: Orhttp://bcliquorstores.prevueaps.ca/pages/openings/applyinpersonat:WhistlerMarketplace101-4360 Lorimer Rd, Whistler

We believe that our people are our greatest asset. Being a reputable employer with programs of skills training and professional development are what attract candidates to BC Liquor Stores, while our progressive, forward-thinking culture is why employees with a growth mindset thrive.

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• Be able to perform physically demanding work, including lifting 20-25 kg boxes

Sales Associates Positions Available! EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

• Have a valid Serving It Right Certificate™

• Be at least 19 years of age

• Be able to demonstrate aptitude for cashier and related duties, including calculations

On November 1, 2021 the BC Public Service announced the COVID-19 Vaccination Policy that defines the conditions and expectations for BC Public Service employees regarding vaccination against COVID-19. Among other possible measures, proof of vaccination will be required. It is a term of acceptance of employment that you agree to comply with all vaccination requirements that apply to the public service. More information can be found here: well-being/health/covid-19/covid-19-vaccination-policy-for-bc-public-service-employeeshttps://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/careers-myhr/all-employees/safety-health-

Auxiliary positions are on-call, meaning hours of work are not guaranteed and subject to availability. Some auxiliary employees may not initially work a full 35-hour week, but with more hours worked and more seniority gained, more opportunities for more hours of work will follow.

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To be eligible, applicants must meet the following qualification requirements:

Sports/news reporter Pique Newsmagazine Pique Newsmagazine has a rare opportunity for an experienced and committed journalist to cover local sports, news and mountain culture in North America’s premier mountain resort.

Rates of Pay as of April 11, 2021: Auxiliary Sales Associate - $19.45 per hour Seasonal Sales Associate - $18.08 per hour

We employ nearly 5,000 people in over 200 communities and have been named one of BC’s Top Employers 14 times over for offering exceptional places to work rooted in values of fairness and respect, work-life balance, and inclusion and diversity.

Results.’ is all about providing a valued service, building strong relationships with our stakeholders, and achieving greater results for the province.

The LDB is one of two branches of government responsible for the cannabis and liquor industry of B.C. We operate the wholesale distribution of beverage alcohol within the province, as well as the household retail brand of BC Liquor Stores.

REQUIREMENTS: Pitch, write, edit and post stories. Take photos and videos that are eye-catching, clear and Assistengaging.newsroom colleagues in creating social posts across channels—Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok, as well as monitor comments and direct messages on those Assistplatforms.newsroom colleagues in monitoring Google Trends and analytic tools to make improvements to both coverage and digital publishing practices. You are passionate about sports and community journalism, and know what makes a compelling community news story. You have experience covering various beats, including community events, elections and governments at all levels.

• Be able to communicate effectively and professionally with the public

We are dedicated to the highest quality of customer service, delivered with friendliness, individual pride, initiative, and retail passion! If you fit this description and you are prepared to work in a fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply to become a part of the Whistler area BC Liquor Stores.

THE ESSENTIALS OF WHAT WE OFFER:

QUALIFICATIONS: Journalism degree, diploma or equivalent program. Familiarity or willingness to learn audience engagement concepts, including social media storytelling and SEO. Proficiency in digital photography. Knowledge of CP style. Knowledge of InDesign and newspaper layout. Ability to work efficiently, in a deadline-driven environment, both independently and constructively in collaboration with a wider team when required.

• Be able to provide excellent customer service

At the Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) our vision of ‘Service. Relationships.

• Competitive salary • Comprehensive health and dental coverage and extended benefits, including recreational perks.

• Ongoing training and support. Located in the mountain resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, Pique Newsmagazine is the unequivocal leader in reporting, interpreting and understanding the culture of the Coast Mountains and what it means to those who live, work and play in Whistler. At 27 years young, we’ve established ourselves as the locals’ publication that’s inquisitive and edgy, provoking conversation and building community. With our peers we’re acknowledged perennial winners at the BC & Yukon Community NewsMedia Awards (BCYCNA) and Canadian Community Newspaper Awards (CCNA) for general excellence and reporting categories, as well as several Webster Awards honours over the years. To apply, send your resume, clippings, or other relevant materials, as well as a cover letter making the case for why we should hire you, by 4 p.m. on Sept. 7, 2022 to editor Braden Dupuis at bdupuis@piquenewsmagazine.com.

Part-time or Full-time positions available.

Please call 604-935-8771 or straightlineplumbingandheating@gmail.comemailformoreinformation.

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applicants being considered for an interview will be contacted. Please reply with a cover letter and resume to hr@listelhotel.com is now hiring for Guest Service Agent This dynamic role include the following Perks and Benefits: • Competitive Wages and Extended Benefits • Wages starting from $20 per hour, plus Commissions • Signing Bonus and Seasonal Bonuses • Discounted F&B and Hotel Stays STAFF HOUSING AVAILABLE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES PIQUENEWSMAGAZINE.COM/JOBS THE FIRST PLACE TO LOOK FOR LOCAL JOB OPENINGS PLAY HERE » piquenewsmagazine.com/jobs Roland’s Pub is looking for bussers and dishwashers. Full time or part time available. $17-$18/hr to start, plus tips, staff meal every shift, and discounts in Roland’s Pub. Extended Medical & Dental benefits for full time staff after 3 months. Apply in person or email resume to info@rolandswhistler.com

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The site and work details: The site is a remote work site located approximately 120 minutes out of Pemberton and Harrison Hot Spring (the marshalling points); Employees’ work schedule is 8 days on and 6 days off at 10 hours per day for a total of 80 working hours per two (2) week period. Travel time between the marshalling point and the site is included in these hours; Employees are provided with a pickup truck for travel between the marshalling point and site and for use on site; Employees are provided with furnished accommodation while working on site: cable TV, telephones and internet access are available; Employees are provided with a Living out Allowance for each day they are on site. Your skills, our requirements! Grade 12 education or equivalent; Must possess a valid Class 5 BC driver’s license (class 1 is an asset); Minimum of 3 years working experience with heavy equipment operations, is required; Experience with 4-wheel drives and ATVs, is required; Experience with boat and/or crane trucks, is an asset; Experience as an industrial mechanic or electrician, is an asset; Experience with hydro plant operations is an asset. to contribute to building a better world; Competitive wages; Group benefits with 100% paid premiums (medical/dental/vision/extended health/RRSP/ESPP/PTO); Career development opportunities; Ongoing training; position is based at our hydroelectric power plants at the North end of Harrison Lake. to commit to further education relevant to the role (Innergex provides formal and in-house training, as required). is an equal opportunity employer that values each person’s unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents. Innergex is committed to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment and bases all employment decisions on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. The key to our success as a global company is to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. www.innergex.com Please note that only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. We are looking to hire another member to our team at Straightline.

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68 SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 classifieds. piquenewsmagazine.com Book your classiﬁed ad online by 3pm Tuesday Job ID: #OPS1249 Title: Equipment Operator Location: Harrison Lake, BC Do you have working experience with heavy equipment operations? Are you interested in renewable energy? Do you want to be part of a growing company and a team of experienced professionals? Why should you join our team? Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. is an independent renewable energy producer with an extensive and growing portfolio of assets in Canada, the United States, France and Chile. The Corporation develops, acquires, owns and operates hydroelectric facilities, wind farms, solar farms and energy storage facilities. For more than 30 years, Innergex has believed in a world where abundant renewable energy promotes healthier communities and creates shared prosperity. We are convinced that generating power from renewable sources will lead the way to a better world. We remain committed to responsible growth that balances people, our planet, and prosperity. We believe in offering an engaging, inclusive and supportive work environment where each team member can thrive. Your contribution! • Reporting to the Assistant Manager – Operations and Maintenance, the Equipment Operator will work together with the Operations team and be responsible for the following primary duties: Your day-to-day! • Safe and efficient operation of on-site mobile equipment (excavator, backhoe, boats etc.); • Light maintenance, cleaning, and routine servicing of mobile equipment, and coordination of significant equipment maintenance; • Assist Plant Operators and Managers to carry out all actions required to optimize the output and production of the power plants; • Participate in monitoring and execution of a Preventative Maintenance program for facility equipment; • Participate in the daily work planning and operations activities; • Assist any specialized contractors needed to perform maintenance and repairs of the facilities; • Adhere to and work within the Occupational Health and Safety standards at Innergex.

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74 SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 “Freedom is Slavery” -George Orwell, 1984 THIS WEEKEND is Labour Day. If you’re visiting from south of the border, that is not a typo. Different country; different currency; different spelling; same meaning; longest undefended border—unless you count all those armed, uniformed border security people.Labour Day was created to celebrate, well, labour. Not the kind of labour that made all our lives possible. We celebrate that labour on Mother’s Day, although it wouldn’t be a bad idea to call mom up this weekend and thank her for her labour. If nothing else, it’ll confuse her. Labour Day raises a glass to work, to the hard-working men and women, to the not-so-hard working, to the self-identified, maybe working whatever. Labour Day therefore constitutes the most ironic statutory holiday on the books, unless you want to get into the argument or controversy over the irony of celebrating Christmas nowhere near the time of year Jesus Christ could have actually been born… and I don’t care to go there, thank you. Among other things, we celebrate the New Year. We celebrate St. Valentine, the Easter bunny, Queen Victoria, Canada, B.C., and Thanksgiving. We celebrate those things because of their historical and/or social importance, coincidental timing, remaining religious overtones and because on one level or another, celebrating them makes us feel good. We do not celebrate labour because we enjoy labouring. In the diminishing sense history still has any meaning in the world of fake everything, we don’t actually celebrate labour at all. We celebrate the concept of the labouring class. Therein lies part of the irony. We give working persons the day off to celebrate their labour, which is to say all their days Labouron.Day was created at a time in the misty past when workingmen and women were considered, if not important, at least valuable. They created the wealth that made what was then called the First World the place people from the Third World wanted to sneak into. Even the folks they made all that money for, the captains of industry, the financiers, the monopolists, the indolent wealthy, understood their value. Of course that didn’t stop them from calling in the goons to bust them up when they tried to organize for better wages and working conditions, but at least they gave them a holiday once a year. Noblesse oblige The ultimate irony though is how thoroughly, how completely the very people who have profited most from the labours of others have managed to vilify them and convince almost everyone else—including the labourers themselves—to buy into that myth. As a society, we’ve come to speak of labour unions in the same distasteful tones we use when discussing loathsome diseases. We blame them for what Sam Gompers, early head of the American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organizations, said was their raison d’être: wanting more. More of the wealth their labour creates, more of the increased productivity wrung out of them by management, more of the North American dream of a better life for themselves and their children. But to give labour more, management and corporate shareholders would have to take less, an option that’s become simply unacceptable in the greed-fuelled zeitgeist of the past five decades. In order to justify keeping more for themselves and sharing less with labour, it was necessary to create a fiction to justify their raw greed. The fiction was this: All the ills of the capitalist system—not perfect, but better than anything else—can be laid at the feet of labour.Why did General Motors and General Electric almost go bankrupt? Because of labour’s overly-generous, unfunded pensions management was “forced” to give them when profits were big and times were good. It had nothing to do with the management decisions at GM to continue to build crappy cars no one wanted to buy, to resist innovation because of the investment in outdated plants, to continue to pay themselves big salaries, bigger bonuses and rich pensions, none of which were cut in the name of austerity. Ditto GE, but adding in their forays into unprofitable lines of Whybusiness.areso many North American towns facing bankruptcy? Same overlygenerous pensions. They too are unfunded because the people elected and hired to run those towns preferred to spend the tax dollars they might have used to fund those pensions.Labour never bankrupted a company. Failure and bankruptcy are the exclusive domain of management’s myopia, greed and bad decision-making. That they’ve been so successful in creating and spreading the big lie that it’s labour’s fault undoubtedly has Joseph Goebbels smiling in hell. They spread the lie with the help of governments that believed in no value higher than economic gain at any cost, and certainly no value lower than that of collective bargaining rights. They spread the lie with the help of middle management who want so desperately to become top management they don’t really understand they too are simply labour dressed up in suits. Now they are seeing their own jobs—those high-power, high-paying service jobs our economy was going to be about once we sent manufacturing offshore to the developing world—outsourced. They’re seeing their own salaries under downward pressure and their own labour so completely devalued that they are quickly becoming the new slave class, tethered 24/7 to their “smart” phones that have extinguished the line between work time and personal time. They no longer understand all they have to trade for their dreams of the corner suite is their own precious lives. Joke’s on you, chumps. The game is rigged and the house is always the winner. All the gains in worker productivity have gone to the guys at the top and their bagmen. They’re the only ones who believe a just society, a civil society, a caring society is one where they make 400 or 600 times as much as the poor schmucks who labour for their one-day-a-year holiday. They’ll continue to reward themselves and spread the big lie that whatever goes wrong is labour’s fault. They’ll continue to see their compensation go up as everyone else’s goes down. They’ll continue to outsource, downsize, raid pension funds, and run to governments to bail out their bad decisions until… until we stop letting them. When that happens, I’ll celebrate LabourUntilDay.then, it’s just another day in the life of Tiny Town. It’s a day many will be working to serve you breakfast, make your beds, clean your rooms, rent you a bike, sell you a lift ticket, flip your burger, bring you a couple of cold ones, manicure your golf courses, fix your boo-boos, give you directions, entertain your limited attention span, sell you a T-shirt and try our hardest to make this a pleasurable weekend for you before you trundle off to your own work on Tuesday.Butdo enjoy. ■

The game is rigged and the house always wins

BY MAXWELLG.D.

We give working persons the day off to celebrate their labour, which is to say all their days on.

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