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But the physical me won’t be attending this year.
But I had my share of casual, alcohol-induced embarrassments, anxiety-wracked mornings, and good days of production lost to hangover sickness.And after two decades of binge drinking, I came to the realization that alcohol was no longer adding anything
In an interview with Pique last week, Whistlerite and former Team Canada snowboarder Harrison Gray opened up about his own battle with addiction, and the role alcohol played in forming his identity.
On Saturday and Sunday, more than 40 breweries and cideries will fill Whistler Olympic Plaza for the WVBF’s main event, serving up a near-endless supply of craft-beer goodness, one miniature plastic cup at a time.
If you’re one of the millions who are re-examining their relationship with alcohol, it’s worth repeating: It’s OK not to drink. It’s OK to have hard discussions, and to be vulnerable. And it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help—it’s a sign of strength.
Someone’s always either landed a trick, or it’s a celebration, or it’s a failure. But it’s so linked. Any contract meeting, any trip, the first stop is always the beer store.”With this quote, Gray touches on one of the fundamental underpinnings of alcoholism; one that is constantly, almost subliminally reinforced by the world around us—the reverent weight
savour good times with friends in beautiful places.
But we can never stop having the hard conversations.“There’salways a lot of friends that we can call to drink beer. So I’m like, ‘Why can’t we call them for a talk or to go for a coffee?’” Gray told Pique
But if you’re one of the millions drowning in the depths of disillusionment, sinking ever deeper in the blackness and seeing no tract back to surface, know this: It’s OK not to drink. It can, and will, get better, if you want it to.
I won’t pretend it was easy. For many people, getting sober is the hardest thing they will ever do, and as is often noted, Whistler is a veritable minefield for the tempted.But14 months on, I don’t think I’ll ever drink again.
untainted world I could not for the life of me Eventually,understand. after an assortment of false starts, I found my way to that strange new world; sat down in the sunshine in awe of how much greener the grass was.
THIS WEEKEND MARKS the longawaited return of my absolute favourite Whistler event—for my money, the jewel in our little resort’s festival crown; the day drinker’s daydream; the thirsty man’s Crankworx: The Whistler Village Beer Festival (WVBF).
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special place in my heart since I first attended it in its second year in 2014. I’ve circled the date on my calendar every year since, and to see the tents dotting Whistler Olympic Plaza this weekend will bring a long-forgotten warmth to my heart (and possibly even a familiar flush to my face).
event this weekend, so I’ll be limbering up my limnology muscles instead.
I’m not alone in this endeavour, and far from it—the rise of the “sober curious” movement has been well documented in recent years, with more people seemingly choosing to ditch the booze every day— even here in Whistler.
This little fall festival has held a
“And so I really want to create a space that’s open and safe for people to start discussing their issues and just chat and start changing the stigma.”
So if you’re attending this year’s WVBF, please enjoy. Drink, be merry,
to mySo—andlife. at the risk of yada-yada-ing a lot of the juicy stuff here—I quit.
As a society, we’ve made great strides in recent years in reducing the stigma around mental health discussions.
It’s OK to have hard discussions, and to beAndvulnerable.it’snota sign of weakness to ask for help—it’s a sign of strength. n not to drink
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“It was how I defined myself. I was Harrison the snowboarder, or Harrison the skateboarder, or Harrison the guy who could drink the most beer,” he said. “And there was always a reason to drink.
That’s because last July, I made one of the best choices I’ve ever made, and for the past 14 months, I have been entirely alcohol-free.Iwasnever a horrible problem drinker, or a daily drinker (pandemic lockdown living being a worthy exception).
It’s not this way for everyone, of course. Many people apparently have stable and healthy relationships with alcohol. If that’s you, congratulations, and carry on.
Alcohol is so pervasive in our culture that the thought of giving it up can be legitimately terrifying for some—like walking naked into the pub; publicly admitting yourself lesser-than; or worst of all: losing a close and (presumably) reliable
The old me would have felt regret over missing my favourite event on the Whistler calendar. The new me is just happy to be here. It’s a small distinction, on the face of it. In reality it represents so muchYoumore.may be reading this and thinking it all too personal for an opinion piece, but that’s exactly the point.
It’s OK not to drink.
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And while I won’t be attending this year’s beer festival, that’s OK, too. I’ve got tickets to the Whistler Lakes Conservation Association’s LakeKeepers
But if you’re one of the millions who are re-examining their relationship with alcohol, it’s worth repeating:
Growingfriend. up in small-town Saskatchewan, alcohol was so prevalent in my upbringing and every day life that when I finally met people who had a different relationship with it, it came as a shock to me—a glimpse into an odd,
To the organizers, the festivalgoers, and the dozens of incredible breweries serving up the best of the best, I salute you—you are doing God’s work, and I will be there with you in spirit.
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“FREE Bike Parking,” the sign announced! Are you kidding me? These entirely clueless, lifeendangering [e-bikers]—and let’s be honest,
Slow down— the TrailValleyisnot a highway
This trail system was not built for commercial use. The aforementioned tour company group was totally lacking in awareness. After endangering our lives, we watched the 20 bikers gather at Rainbow beach and proceed to ride all over the dewy lawn, tearing up the grass and turning it
On Saturday, Sept. 10, my friend and I were walking from Lorimer to Rainbow Park when a swarm of e-bikes came flying up behind us. We turned to see a black bike armada descending upon us. We quickly jumped to the side of the trail, leaving half of the path open for the e-bikers. One would think it obvious that the bikes would use the open lane to pass us, but apparently it was not that obvious, as they headed straight for us rather than taking the open lane. There were 20 of them.
all the bikes that are speeding—are then rewarded for their negligent behaviour with free parking. I would suggest that the owners of the e-bike and bike rental companies build and bear the cost of their own non-pedestrian trail system before they kill someone.
into a muddy mess for the sunbathers. Two more bikes swerved past us, and we noticed the congratulatory sign posted on the trail.
A few weeks ago, I saw a daycare class of four- to five-year-olds holding hands and walking down the trail. Out of nowhere, a dozen bikers flew by, barely missing the children. It is only a matter of time until a 50-pound bike with a 150-pound rider strikes someone. Will it
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It’s time to limit bike access on the Valley Trail. We can pretend that this multi-use trail is a safe alternative for getting around Whistler, but with the patrons of e-bike tour companies using these paths as freeways and weaving around its pedestrians as gates, a simple walk can be life-threatening. The Valley Trail was designed and built as a multi-use trail before the e-bike existed.
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Which brings me to the Great Whistler Gondola Vaccine Mandate Petition of 2021. It was a terrible idea to try to ban the unvaccinated from going skiing. We know this to be 100-per-cent true in light of the fact that the 2021-2022 season went off without a hitch.
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In addition, at least 11 studies showed the risk of catching COVID in a gondola is miniscule.Andwe already knew that the vaccine did not stop transmission of COVID.
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But at some point in the summer I will encounter a herd of boaters in Explorer 200s or Kondor 2000s or other rubber duckies. They are rarely wearing PFDs, are usually drinking beer, can barely manoeuvre their craft, and are rarely paying attention. They go the same speed as the current and take up most of the river. I can’t get around them, and it’s difficult to get through them. No matter how loud I shout, they often don’t see me until one of them runs into me. Once the Explorers are coming down the river, I give up paddling the ROGD as it’s too muchThetrouble.commercial operators are not the problem on the ROGD, but they are an easily identifiable target for a petition. Owners of their own craft should not be hassled, and the commercial operators are not the problem, but what should be done about the real problem, the herds of people in their cheap inflatables? There are about five items required by Transport Canada for non-motorized watercraft under six metres long. The two useful things are a PFD for each boater and some sort of paddle. The Explorers do come with a very short
The Aug. 18 issue of Pique had an article that asks a good question (“Petition calls for ban of commercial boats on River of Golden Dreams—but are they the real problem?”).
“The people behind the petition recognize there is an over-use problem with the ROGD and are pointing to an easy target, but banning the commercial operators will not solve the problem.”
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The federal government is currently defending itself against a lawsuit mounted by Shaun Rickard and Karl Harrison, who claim the COVID-19 travel vaccine mandate is a violation under Canada’s Charter of Rights.
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I rarely have any problems with either of these types of boaters. I normally let them decide which side of the river they want and I’ll take the other side.
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Why were the petitioners so far removed from reality? Because they believed in the inherent truth and goodness of our government. It followed that if you needed to be vaccinated to board a plane, why not a gondola? Unfortunately, the travel vaccine mandate was not based on scientific evidence. Nor was the gondola petition.Martin
For many years I have paddled my kayak on Alta and Green lakes, and up the River of Golden Dreams (ROGD) from Green Lake to 21 Mile Creek (if the water level is high enough) and back down. I have often encountered boaters paddling their own craft: canoes, kayaks and stand-up paddleboards. They are frequently wearing PFDs, are not drinking, know how to manoeuvre their craft, and are paying attention to the river.
The people behind the petition recognize there is an over-use problem with the ROGD and are pointing to an easy target, but banning the commercial operators will not solve the problem.
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“There wasn’t a lot of evidence on that so, as a strategy as a whole, it has not been evaluated in the literature and therefore is not elaborated in the review,” she said, according to a transcript of her May 31 cross examination.
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be you or me, your friend or spouse, or a child that will be maimed or possibly killed?
Of course, enforcing the PFD requirement would be a problem. Would it be the RCMP, bylaw officers, or some other group?
It is fascinating stuff.
The testimony has revealed that the Canadian Government was not following the science when it implemented the travel vaccine mandate.Forexample, under cross examination, Dr. Lisa Waddell, senior epidemiologist, and team lead at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), admitted that requiring air travellers to be vaccinated was not one of PHAC’s “identified mitigation strategies.”
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And I have often met boaters with the commercial outfits, usually in canoes or kayaks. They are often accompanied by a guide, are wearing PFDs, are not drinking, have received instructions and are paying attention. They may not be very adept at managing their craft, but usually do OK.
paddle, which can turn the craft but doesn’t seem to be able to make it go straight anywhere.
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Becauseincluded.you can’t talk about the Queen and the monarchy without also discussing what both represent.
Adding to the emotional dissonance, Canada is now observing a two-week mourning period for its symbolic leader. Many government ministries are under a media blackout, meaning even basic requests are going unfulfilled, while on
Goodbye, Queen Elizabeth—you will be missed (by some)
As we move into the era of King Charles III, I remain optimistic that things in the world will improve. One can only hope our new king is reasonable, and doesn’t go as off-the-handle as Charles I and Charles II did, you know, what with the dissolving of parliament and all that jazz. n
Yet the monarchy still represents a unifying cultural force that, if nothing else, helps define Canadians from our
American friends. It has been one of the defining characteristics of Canada since the Thirteen Colonies decided they had had enough of the king.
BY WISLAROBERT
ON SEPT. 8, at about 10 a.m., while my morning Yorkshire Tea was beginning to lose its warmth, the breaking news of the death of Canada’s monarch crossed my desk. Queen Elizabeth II passed away.
This mixture of emotions permated my social media feeds, and it speaks to a conflict many of us are grappling with, myself included. GLE OD GE
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How to reconcile the two extremes, while also being respectful of the Queen’s passing? It’s a fine line to walk.
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For many, it was a sad day. Though the vast majority of Canadians never met our sovereign, we have grown accustomed to the familiar face that has graced our coins and portraits in our government offices for decades.My social media feed had mixed reactions to the news of the Queen’s death. It ranged from sad, sombre soliloquies harkening the loss of Her Highness to more frustrated anger at what the monarchy represents.Overthe last few days, I’ve seen many posts, from TikToks showing the Queen on her historic visits to Canada accompanied by sad music, to rants demanding the monarchy return diamonds and jewels to nations the British Empire colonized in
It’s impossible to divorce the British Empire from the monarchy; the two went
The legacy of the British Empire is complex. For some, the Empire meant riches, lands to farm, adventure, trade, and commerce. For many others, it was a legacy of skullduggery, stolen land, broken promises and generational trauma.
With the rise of Elizabeth II, the position of monarch became increasingly more of a figurehead role. Gone are the days when Canada had to send its legislation to London to be signed into law—Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau saw to that in 1982.
previous decades.
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This mixture of emotions permated my social media feeds, and it speaks to a conflict many of us are grappling with, myself
hand in hand for hundreds of years.
Sept. 13, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Monday, Sept. 19 will be a federal holiday and national day of mourning.Many have pointed to the Queen’s passing as the “end of an era,” and I’m inclined to believe that we are indeed at the end of the Second Elizabethan Era—a period of 70 years stretching from 1952 to 2022.Over those 70 years, the world changed immensely. The British Empire dissolved into more than 50 independent countries; the Cold War saw countless conflicts between and within nations, and the rise of Pax Americana happened over those 70 years.Love or hate the monarchy, Queen Elizabeth II was a constant through it all. I’m not sure how history will look at this period a hundred years from now. Will historians view it the same way we look at the Victorian or Georgian eras?
The RMOW will begin sending out mail ballot packages on Sept. 29. To be counted, your mail ballot must be received by the Chief Election Officer no later than 8 p.m. on Oct.
For the resort’s last (slightly) competitive race for mayor, you’d have to go back to 2011, an historic election for the community, when voters, frustrated over Whistler’s sluggish post-Olympic economy and the introduction of pay parking to the day lots, wiped the entire slate clean, still the only time since Whistler incorporated that not a single incumbent was returned to office. That year was effectively a threehorse race between Ralph Forsyth, who earned roughly 13 per cent of the vote; incumbent Ken Melamed, who earned roughly 16 per cent of the vote; and Nancy Wilhelm-Morden, who swept into office with nearly 68 per cent of the vote.
Advance15. voting in Pemberton takes place Saturday, Oct. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 5 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Wednesday, Oct. 12 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Pemberton and District Community Centre.
at that time was evident by the number of candidates who declared for council as well—25 hopefuls bidding for just six seats. Whistlerites won’t have quite that many options to choose from next month, with 16 council hopefuls throwing their hat in the ring: Anthony Butt, Tina James, Gordon Jeffrey, Brendan Ladner, Curtis Lapadat, Melinda Lopez, Rhonda Millikin, Jessie Morden, Jeff Murl, Gabriel Pliska, Sarah Rush, and Dawn Titus, along with incumbents Arthur De Jong, Jen Ford, Ralph Forsyth, and Cathy Jewett.
Newsmagazine is hosting an all-candidates forum at the Maury Young Arts Centre on Wednesday, Sept. 28.
In this century, Whistler has only cracked the 50-per-cent voter turnout mark twice: the aforementioned 2011 election, when 55 per cent of eligible voters took to the polls; and 2005, when 53 per cent did, no doubt bolstered by the resort having been awarded the 2010 Winter Olympics two years prior.
The low point for turnout came in 2014, with just 27 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot, followed by 32 per cent in 2018.
In Whistler, the resort will have its first mayoral race in nearly a decade, after incumbent Jack Crompton ran unopposed in 2018 and was elected by acclamation. Along with Crompton, environmentalist and chef Marcus Culver and recycling supervisor and former mayoral candidate Brian Walker will be vying for the resort’s top elected position.
PEMBERTON
IN WHISTLER, THREE CANDIDATES WILL VIE FOR THE MAYOR’S CHAIR, WHILE 16 HOPEFULS WILL COMPETE FOR SIX COUNCIL SEATS
to 8 p.m. at Myrtle Philip Community School. On the two advance voting days, polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Whistler Public Library.
verbally withdrew from the race early in the Roundingcampaign.out the crop of 2022 mayoral candidates is longtime local businessowner Chadi Abouhalka, who will be seeking office for the first time.
Meanwhile, six council candidates will compete for four seats: Derek Graves, former councillor Jennie Helmer, Katrina Nightingale, Laura Ramsden and Eli Zysman, along with incumbent Ted Craddock. Melissa Ronayne is the only candidate for Pemberton school trustee, and will therefore be acclaimed to the role.
Rebecca Barley, Margo Vaughan and Meredith Garner are bidding for School District 48 electoral Area 4 trustee, while Celeste Bickford will be acclaimed as the sole candidate for trustee in School District 48’s electoral Area 5. No candidate has yet declared for School District 74 trustee in rural Area A.
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For resident voters who did not register online with Elections BC by Aug. 16, 2022, they will need to register in person on General Voting Day on Oct. 15, or at one of the advance voting opportunities on either Oct. 5 or 8.
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Up the highway in Pemberton, voters will see their first real mayoral race since 2008, when now-MLA Jordan Sturdy defeated former town councillor and current Pemberton Valley Lodge general manager David MacKenzie (who will be on the ballot again this Incumbentyear).
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In the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District it’s a serious case of déjà vu, as all four incumbent area directors are running unopposed.SalDeMare
Mayor Mike Richman, meanwhile, is facing his first real election campaign in 2022. Richman was elected by acclamation in 2018, and while Jerry Mohs’ name was also on the ballot in 2014, Mohs
With the nomination period for the upcoming municipal election ended Friday, Sept. 9 at 4 p.m., the corridor now has a full picture of the names that will be on the ballot when voters head to the polls on Oct. 15 (barring any dropouts before the Sept. 16 deadline, of course).
The polls are open in Whistler on Saturday, Oct. 15 for general voting from 8 a.m.
For the first time in Whistler, all electors, whether resident or not, are eligible to vote by mail ballot. Anyone wishing to do so must submit an application to vote by mail to the RMOW no later than 4 p.m. on Oct. 12. Applications are available at the front desk of municipal hall during regular business hours, or online at whistler.ca.
Pique will have profiles of all the remaining candidates yet to be covered leading up to election day on Oct. 15. For more election coverage, visit piquenewsmagazine.com.
To vote as a resident, you must be 18 years of age or older on General Voting Day, a Canadian citizen, and resident of B.C. for at least six months immediately before the day of registration, a resident of the RMOW, and not be disqualified from voting by law.
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will be acclaimed as Area A director, Vivian Birch-Jones as Area B director, Russell Mack as Area C director, and Tony Rainbow as Area D director.
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THE NOMINATION PAPERS are in and the cutoff to declare has come and gone, meaning it’s officially campaign season in the Sea to Sky.
The frustration in the community
ELECTION SEASON Municipal election candidates for Whistler, Pemberton and the SLRD have been finalized.
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Vying for Whistler’s two school trustee positions are incumbents Cynthia Higgins and Rachael Lythe, as well as Deb Bordignon.
HISTORICAL TURNOUT
The polls will be open on General Voting Day, Oct. 15, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., also at the community centre.
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A candidate for mayor in both ’05, when he placed last among seven hopefuls, with 15 votes, and ’08, when he placed third among five hopefuls, with 63 votes, Walker said he was encouraged by the fact Whistler will have an actual race for the mayor’s chair this fall after incumbent Jack Crompton ran unopposed in 2018.
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Known for booking regular music acts at the Hamilton pub he used to run, Walker is a big booster of the arts, and, if elected, said “If there is one thing I’m going to do as mayor,” it’s allowing busking on the Village Stroll.
THE FIRST TIME Brian Walker laid eyes on Whistler Village more than 30 years ago, he couldn’t help but liken it to another bustling commercial area in his former home of Hamilton, Ont.
“There is a frustration with council and some of the people at municipal hall that just aren’t on the ball enough to get these projects up and going here. We have to get going. There are things that need to be done and there’s just not enough action,” he said. “Infill housing isn’t the only thing we should do, but I really feel that infill housing will warm up our community, because I want staff living throughout the community, not just in areas for staff only.”
As Walker has watched service staff in Whistler struggle to make ends meet and find affordable accommodation, and businessowners being forced to slash operating hours due to significant gaps in staffing, he’s convinced the resort needs to shift how it views what he called its “greatest resource.”
Walker is a firm believer in having service staff living throughout the community, not just in designated staff housing, as it would help add vibrancy and a greater sense of belonging to Whistler’s neighbourhoods. Ramping up infill housing is one way he hopes to contribute to that goal.
“When I first saw Whistler, I saw Hess Village on steroids, to tell you the truth. I moved here to continue doing what I loved doing at Hess Village, but at the level of Whistler,” he said. “[Small business] is the crown jewel of our resort industry and I just want to see the thing thrive and survive.”
Mayoral candidate Brian Walker wants to take care of Whistler’s service staff
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“I’m a big proponent of live entertainment, I’m a big proponent of the arts. It’s just life,” he said.
Further addressing the resort’s staffing woes, Walker pitched a concept he first introduced years ago in the pages of Pique (Full disclosure: Walker wrote restaurant reviews in Pique for a period in the ’90s], called the University of Whistler, which he envisions as part training accreditation
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program, part employment directory that would connect qualified workers straight to employers.“Weshould set up an academy of service here, and we ought to have a website that has all the job descriptions of anything anyone does in this town. And what you could do is go onto this website and you could take a look at the job description and get yourself accredited if you read through and do a multiple choice questionnaire that shows you read this thing, and the more accreditation you get, the bigger of a draw you are to anyone who is a prospective employer,” he explained, noting it could be a municipal program. “So if you’re looking for a busboy, you can go on to this site and check all the people who have been accredited as busboys or dishwashers or general managers of restaurants, general managers of hotels, any of that stuff, and find people who have gone through the accreditation process.”
BY BRANDON BARRETT
“I think that everybody who is in business understands that if you work for somebody or run a business that there is such a thing as a performance appraisal,” he said. “That’s what elections are, they’re a performance appraisal. That’s how I feel about it. I almost ran in the last election against Jack and I was a little upset that anybody got in by acclamation. That’s not the way you run this thing. People should have to get up there and make their case.”
IN THE RUNNING Brian Walker.
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The current supervisor of Whistler’s two recycling yards, the 68-year-old is the former operator of the popular Hess Village tavern and live venue, Gown & Gavel, and co-founded a Hamilton business network, so he knows full well how crucial a satisfied front-line workforce is to the success of a community.“It’savital aspect of what we do here and it’s dying away,” he said.
“[Staff] are just as important as the guests that come here. We have to change our minds from housing people some place so they’re just a warm body that’s going to show up and do something, into actually reaching out and accommodating people in our service industry, because it’s just that important,” he said.
But for hundreds of participants who took to social media to air their grievances— including Whistler resident Allyson Sutton, who participated in the 152-km Forte distance—that wasn’t the case in 2022. This year, organizers reportedly cut the number
The event offers cyclists the choice between 152-kilometre, 122-km and 55-km courses between Vancouver and Whistler, with the vast majority participating in the 122-km route up the Sea to Sky Highway. It bills itself as a “fully supported” ride, promising participants a variety of designated rest stops fullystocked with food, water, first-aid supplies and mechanical support.
of rest stops down from five to four, placing the first stop about 70 kilometres into the ride near Porteau Cove, accessible only by climbing a steep hill that shot off from the official route along Highway 99. As the day went on, cyclists reported arriving at the first three rest stops only to find lengthy lines for water and food had largely run out. In some cases, the only snack available was unripe, green bananas.
In a follow-up statement posted the following day and emailed to participants, Fondo organizers said several factors led to “some riders [experiencing] poor access to food and longer than planned wait times for water.” According to the RBC GranFondo team, “Riders experienced strong headwinds throughout the day creating greater calorie demands than usual. In addition, we experienced late food supply challenges, placing a burden on remaining stocks. Alongside issues with volunteer recruitment for a record number of cyclists led to water distribution delays on a hot day.” n
“Previous years saw some great food with waffles and good energy bars, gels and chews, but this year there was a serious lack of decent eats. And lastly, there were huge lines for electrolytes, so long that I gave up and just took water at all the stops,” wrote one Theparticipant. lackof food was not only disappointing, but dangerous to cyclists’ health and safety, many argued. “This is not the type of ride you can do without the fuel you need,” wrote one Facebook user who identified themselves as a first-time rider.
THREE OF FOUR AID STATIONS ALONG 122-K ROUTE WERE DRAINED OF FOOD AND ELECTROLYTES—SAVE FOR A FEW ‘UNEATABLE GREEN BANANAS’—LONG BEFORE THOUSANDS OF RIDERS PASSED THROUGH, SAY CYCLISTS
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prompt some participants to liken the event to the infamous Fyre Festival, the disastrous Bahamanian music festival which made international headlines in 2017.
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But when she and her riding partner pulled up, she found the station, manned by Whistler’s Fresh St. Market, was stocked with fresh fruit, cold drinks, muffins, granola bars, and overthe-counter pain relievers. She credited store manager Mark Ball for continually heading back to the store and pulling items off the shelves in order to make sure riders were supplied with the fuel they needed to complete the final stretch to Whistler. “I just can’t thank him enough,” she said.
RBC GRANFONDO ORGANIZERS apologized and said they are taking responsibility after scores of cyclists spoke out about the unacceptable conditions they encountered on-course during the Saturday, Sept. 10 ride.
Sutton told Pique the fourth and final aid station was also mis-marked on the course map, leading to some confusion among riders.
Sutton also criticized organizers for wrapping up finish-line festivities at 4 p.m. sharp, when many participants were just arriving in Whistler after a long day in the saddle, facing heavy headwinds. Altogether, the mishaps were enough to
BY MEGAN LALONDE
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In a Facebook post published Sunday, the RBC GranFondo Team acknowledged “challenges” riders experienced at rest stops and said organizers were conducting an internal debrief “to understand what factors caused this situation to happen after years without incident,” the statement read.
Other participants offered shout-outs to volunteers who offered riders their own lunches once supplies ran dry, while some cyclists instead stopped at coffee shops or grocery stores along the route, further delaying their arrival at the finish line. Upon reaching Whistler Village, “My reward was an empty finish line, closing stalls, and no rider food,” one participant explained.
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As of Thursday, Sept. 8, family, friends and other volunteers who registered with search party organizers had explored 148 kilometres of terrain and clocked 5,413 metres of elevation on Rainbow Mountain over a total of 70 hours, with non-profit teams equipped with specially trained cadaver dogs set to continue those efforts over the weekend. Those statistics don’t account for the massive swaths of ground covered by police, Whistler Search and Rescue crews, drones and underwater cameras.
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One local is out $1,000 and police are investigating after an online sale gone wrong last week.
SPINNING TIRES EARNS MUSTANG DRIVER STUNTING TICKET
Included in that total was a car enthusiast who picked the wrong spot to re-enact Fast and Furious on Sunday, Sept. 11. According to a release, Whistler police received reports about the male driver of a blue Mustang observed “doing burnouts”
THE MOOD AMONG volunteers remains grim as the search for missing Whistler resident Clorrica Riggs surpasses the three-week mark.
Search continues for Whistler resident Cloricca Riggs, missing since Aug. 23
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surpassed its $5,000 goal to raise more than $13,800, or the many small, local businesses that have been willing to post a missing person poster in their windows. Whislife owner Matt Hall also reached out to Riggs’ family “a number of times” with offers of food, drinks and anything else searchers needed, while Riggs’ employer has reportedly helped provide food vouchers and hotel rooms for her family and non-profit search dog teams.
Her situation is indicative of larger mental-health issues within Whistler’s young community, a family member explained. While support services exist in Whistler, it is up to individuals to find them and seek them out—more proactive mental health support services, including from employers, could go a long way to helping those in need, they said.
Searchers have scoured hundreds of kilometres of terrain on the west side of the Whistler Valley, but have turned up no new signs of the 29-year-old Whistler Blackcomb employee since her silver RAV4 SUV was found parked at the Rainbow Lake trailhead on Alta Lake Road on Tuesday, Aug.
After finding evidence in the form of tire skid marks, police said they located and spoke with a “new driver, from out of area” who admitted to spinning his tires. Whistler RCMP impounded the motorist’s Mustang for seven days for “stunting,” and saddled him with a violation ticket for driving without due care and attention and driving contrary to restriction.
BY MEGAN LALONDE
In addition to the ongoing missing person file, Whistler RCMP counted a total of 137 files over the week spanning Sept. 6 to 12.
police explained at the time.
on Sundial Lane in Whistler Village.
The search for Riggs remains ongoing.
In a release issued Sept. 8, Sea to Sky RCMP confirmed Riggs remains missing. “The police coordinated search remains active daily, and includes Whistler Search and Rescue, volunteer searchers, some with search dogs, and RCMP searches on quads,”
However,23. that doesn’t mean there haven’t been heartening moments of gratitude for community members who have pulled together to help amid dire circumstances. For example, a new Whistler resident who got off a plane from Australia headed up the Sea to Sky highway and straight for the search site to offer his help, explained a family member of Riggs’ Pique spoke with last week—who described the man as “a beautiful human being”—a GoFundMe campaign that has
Riggs had been struggling with her mental health prior to her disappearance, according to friends and family.
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In a release, Whistler RCMP said police on Sept. 9 received a report about online fraud. Police said a local resident e-transferred the funds to purchase a phone they never ended up receiving. Worse, the complainant said the seller demanded even more money once the initial transfer had gone“Policethrough.continue following up with this matter,” a spokesperson for the detachment explained in the release. n
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“It’s the same standard that BCIT teaches through all of its courses, but what we have the opportunity to do is to bring in local case studies, so that the application of that theory relates to the students and their experiences,” said Cheyne.
welcomed the Lil’wat Nation into the fold this year. The three partners are collaborating to administer a pair of Indigenous and Intercultural Awareness courses in the coming months, led by instructor Yvonne Wallace. Part 1 will explore the First Nation’s history, traditions and culture over the course of one day, held at the Whistler Public Library, while the two-day Part 2 at the Squamish-Lil’wat Cultural Centre will focus on Indigenous and intercultural awareness in the workplace.
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BCIT has also created “micro-credentials,” which Dhaliwal described as shorter-thanusual courses that still offer credits counting towards a larger degree or diploma.
“As we get more and more students into courses, then we can start expanding what types of courses we’re offering [in Whistler],” she added. “The long-term goal would be to [make it possible for] somebody to come to Whistler, work here, live here and get their full credentials.”BCITandThe Whistler Institute have also
BCIT’s Whistler courses are suitable for “anyone that’s looking for professional development opportunities,” said Cheyne, from those who are already in the workforce and aspiring to progress their career, to recent high school graduates looking to get ahead on post-secondary credits while spending a gap year in ReadWhistler.moreat whistlerinstitute.com/bcit. n
they deliver the course.”
Whistler Institute, BCIT, Lil’wat Nation team up to offer accredited post-secondary courses with a Sea to Sky-specific twist
“The original goal of the Memorandum of Understanding was to eliminate those time, cost and travel barriers,” said Cheyne, which typically mean “people have to move out of the area unless they’re studying online.”
The bookkeeping course kicked off earlier this month, with the others scheduled to begin in the coming weeks and months.
EVERY SO OFTEN , you’ll hear a longtime local joking about earning a degree from the metaphorical University of Whistler. If the Whistler Institute and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) have anything to say about it, the phrase might not necessarily be a joke for much longer.
PILOT PROJECT OFFERS WHISTLERITES THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN ABOUT EVERYTHING FROM BOOKKEEPING TO INDIGENOUS TRADITIONS WITHOUT LEAVING THE RESORT
Added BCIT program developer Sonia Dhaliwal: “Instructors having that local knowledge of what is going on here in a smaller community or resort town, versus in the city, it makes a huge difference in how
The courses include Bookkeeping for Small Business using Quickbooks; Managing Employee Performance and Conflict; Project Management Essentials; and Presenting & Analyzing Data with MS Excel in the Digital World. All will take place in the Whistler Chamber of Commerce boardroom, with each series of three-hour-long classes scheduled in the evenings and led by local instructors.
Part 1 “would be suitable for everyone to take to assist them on their path to reconciliation,” said Cheyne, while “the second part is dedicated more towards employers and businesses, about making the workplace more inviting and attractive to people from Indigenous communities.”
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The partnership itself, meanwhile, stems from a 2016 symposium that invited higher education providers to Whistler for a public discussion. Those conversations spun into a Memorandum of Understanding signed by BCIT and the Whistler Institute in 2019, representing their pledge to work on a pilot project that would deliver in-person business and leadership courses in Whistler.
applied in the workforce immediately,” she said, adding that the pilot project aligns with the Whistler Institute’s goal of enhancing educational opportunities for resort residents.
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The Whistler Institute’s ongoing partnership with Vancouver-based BCIT’s School of Business and Media is resulting in a slate of part-time, in-person, accredited business and leadership courses launching in the resort this fall, specifically designed with the Whistler community in mind. Course topics were chosen based on feedback collected in recent years, including through a labour workforce survey conducted by Whistler Personnel Solutions and the Whistler Chamber of Commerce in November 2021, explained Suki Cheyne, executive director of the Whistler Institute. “One of the overriding things that came out of that survey was demand for practical skills that could be
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SMALL BUSINESS OWNER Sarah Rush isn’t your typical Whistler council candidate. Unlike most people seeking a seat at the table, the 58-year-old dietician’s primary residence isn’t in Whistler, but the Lower Mainland. Rush has owned a second home in Whistler since 2016.
“Whistler can’t survive on just seasonal, temporary workers, and I worry that Whistler is just turning into a tourist town, without enough long-term Whistlerites arriving and staying around.”
“The Harrow Road affordable housing project is an exciting future prospect for families like mine, and kudos to Village Council and the provincial gover nment for working together to make affordable rentals a priority for Pemberton.
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Business owner Sarah Rush eyes Whistler council seat
here. How do we get money to build it? How do we buy the land?” she said. “I think we need a deeper dive into solutions and widen the net of options.”
“I’ve been hearing from a lot of locals that Whistler is losing a sense of community, and losing that middle ground, and that’s a concern because it needs a community to supply the permanent jobs.
“It is my hope that you see the need for change and bravely make a stand for the future of our community. It may be too little, too late for me and my family but I remain hopeful for our future.”
Home ownership is simply not in the cards for us, and we understand as renters we do not have the same level of home security a homeowner would.
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tackling the municipality’s housing crisis.
“Let’s look at every possible solution
“The point about being a second homeowner is that the number of second homes and tourist accommodation is significant in Whistler,” she said. “It surprised me when I realized there has never community,forhomeowner] representation onbeen [secondcouncil.”Rush’scampaignisfocusedonsupportsmallbusinesses,creatingasenseofmitigatingclimatechange and
You can learn more about Rush’s campaign at sarahrush.ca.
“We have been infor med the current owners of the home we rent are interested in selling the home this spring, and we are faced with the stark reality that we may have to relocate due to a lack of rental housing. This is heartbreaking for us and our six-year-old daughter, and we are only one of dozens of families in the same situation.
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But in a resort municipality like Whistler, having representation from a second homeowner is a needed point of view on council, Rush believes.
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Rush wants the province to do more to tackle Whistler’s housing crisis, and believes the municipality needs to focus on densifying housing closer to the village centre.
“If we don’t have enough housing, we won’t have the support industry and the support businesses. It’s not all about shops and restaurants, it’s about the electricians, the plumbers, the paving people, and if they can’t find housing, and we can’t support those businesses to thrive in Whistler, then they have to go to Pemberton or Squamish.”
“Whistler is the most expensive town to buy property in B.C., and I wonder if the province can’t step in a little bit more and help out, because it must be getting a considerable amount of property tax transfer dollars,” she said.
Rush believes the solution to the housing crisis requires outside-the-box solutions and a broad approach.
According to Rush, the housing crunch has resulted in businesses closing their doors due to a lack of staff, and resulted in more people choosing to live in neighbouring towns and commute to Whistler.
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“People want to move here, raise their families, be solid members of the community, work in our businesses and support our local economy.
Rush joins 15 other candidates in the race for Whistler’s six council seats.
“For me, the top priority ... I’m calling it a livable, sustainable Whistler for all, because I want to ensure that Whistler remains a place to call home as well as a thriving tourist resort,” she said.
“What I’m hearing is some of the businesses don’t have enough staff. So in the shoulder season, they have to shut, then the locals don’t have anywhere to go ... That’s a downward spiral, and we need to reverse that,” she said.
But the lack of rental housing is restricting our local businesses’ ability to recruit and retain staff Without people to work in our insurance agency, drugstore, and other local stores, our Village will continue to see services reduced and businesses close.
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IN THE RUNNING Sarah Rush.
“I think that Whistler needs to hold its hand up and say we need some more help from the province here.”
My family and I moved to the Pemberton Valley in 2016 and have settled into one of the most friendly, welcoming and beautiful villages in British Columbia. Despite having two incomes, my husband and I are priced out of the real estate market in our province.
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“If you know exactly how many projects you can go after in the budget, are there cost savings you can get amongst all of them? For example, material buys,” he said. “Or are there certain things that hold back the projects? For example, maybe there’s something that you could address better, like a shortage of certain workers, things to smooth out the process.”
“Strategy is something I think transfers from chess to other aspects of government,” he said. “And maybe some of this just isn’t publicized enough, but I’d like to see a little more strategy, a little more analysis [at the RMOW].”
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Electrical engineer Curtis Lapadat’s bid for Whistler council centres on efficiency
Transit is another area where Lapadat believes greater efficiencies can be achieved, particularly around route planning and frequency.Onthe all-important housing front, Lapadat believes Whistler could do better
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A former board member at the Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment, Lapadat credited the RMOW for its new Green Building Policy, which sets higher sustainability standards for new builds requiring rezoning.
its spending—even if that means foregoing certain planned projects in a given year if that can keep costs in check.
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“I got a little bit scared by that, thinking that there wasn’t a lot of cost containment going on. And so, given my experience with budgets, running a department in my old company, the skills are transferable,” Lapadat said.
TWO MAJOR FACTORS went into electrical engineer Curtis Lapadat’s decision to run for a seat at Whistler’s council table this fall. Diagnosed with prostate cancer a year and a half ago, the news “opened me up to the question: ‘What have I done and how can I make a big difference?’” recounts the 55-year-old.Theother?When the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW), last November, proposed a 6.72-per-cent property tax increase for 2022.
at making its case to both the provincial and federal governments for crucial grant money.“The federal and provincial governments have a view that we’re a rich town. And although there is some big money in town, there’s a lot of people that, for example, might own a $3.5-million home, but only make $100,000, $150,000 a year. If you look at current mortgage rates right now, you need an income of $240,000, roughly, to even get a $1-million mortgage,” he said. “In some ways, it looks like the federal programs are building houses in Ontario for people that are richer than people that are on the [Whistler Housing Authority] waitlist here. And so the question is: Can we get more of that money by explaining this to the federal and provincial governments for their housing programs? Because the WHA list is not rich.”
IN THE RUNNING Curtis Lapadat.
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An avid chess player, Lapadat hopes to bring his strategic thinking to muni hall if elected on Oct. 15.
An electrical engineer for 16 years, most recently for PMC-Sierra, Lapadat’s platform revolves around efficiency. He said he wants to bring both a “top-down” and “bottom-up” approach to how the municipality considers
Lapadat also wants to streamline approval times in the RMOW’s building department, which developers have consistently indicated can be bogged down in what they see as unnecessary red tape, as well as make it easier for new businesses to set up shop in the resort. The key, he said, is establishing the correct metrics to measure efficiencies and areas for improvement.
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“Never has so much been asked of our health-care system,” he said, noting 94 per cent of people got a first COVID-19 vaccination and 92 per cent got a second.
Much of that comes down to human resources, according to the health minister. That means more hires, more training, and reducing barriers for medical and healthcare professionals trained elsewhere.
Blackwell was in tears as he spoke of community members volunteering to take paramedic training to help out.
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SEEKING SOLUTIONS B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix speaks at the UBCM convention in Whistler on Sept. 13.
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residents, as do shortages of paramedic staff. Training firefighters to pick up the paramedic slack is not an option, she said.
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UBCM: B.C. health-care in crisis, municipal leaders tell Dix
Dix told the UBCM audience that B.C. needs more doctors, nurses and paramedics. He noted fewer people have a primary care physician than in the past.
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“We need the same numbers this fall,” he said of the next round.
He said health-care has seen multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the opioid overdose crisis, which in 2016 was declared a public health emergency by the B.C.
“The new normal is staffing shortages,” Fry Dixsaid.did not back down from assertions the system is in crisis.
‘NEVER HAS SO MUCH BEEN ASKED OF OUR HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM,’ SAID HEALTH MINISTER ADRIAN DIX.
groups of health-care professionals are available.Dixexplained doctors should not be working as social workers, that pharmacists’ extensive training should be better utilized to provide community care.
Portreturn.McNeill Mayor Gabriele Wickstrom said hospital closures create danger for area
He said while maintaining the B.C. system’s rigorous standards, “we need to support doctors when they come here.”
WHILE B.C. HEALTH Minister Adrian Dix says the province has weathered the COVID storm well and can respond to crises, municipal leaders say more has to happen andSpeakingfast. at the annual Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) convention in Whistler on Tuesday, Sept. 13, Clearwater Mayor Merlin Blackwell told delegates that his community has been hurt by repeated emergency room closures and ambulanceMeanwhile,shortages.Vancouver Councillor Pete Fry said closures at UBC have caused overflows into the city’s two main hospitals—Vancouver General and St. Paul’s—overflows which impact how well those facilities can handle cases coming from other parts of the province.
“Our heroic team of health-care workers are struggling,” he said, adding if one of the two ambulances leaves town to take a patient elsewhere, they don’t know when it might
“Burnout is real,” she said. “Our longterm community nurses are feeling useless and undervalued.” ■
However, he said, the local emergency department has been closed for 13 to 24 hours at times.
“We need to transform our system of health-care,” he said.
“Thisgovernment.isamajorproblem of our time,” he said.Dix said at the start of the pandemic, 30,000 surgeries had to be cancelled or postponed.Asthat happened, the system had to respond to the burdens presented by the immediate impacts of coronavirus, he said.
What he’s proposing is a move to building primary care networks where
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and never have a discernible thick nerve in the middle. These patterns will prove helpful in initial investigations, but with a small bit of experience and time, a certain “vibe” will prove fairly recognizable. Among leafy liverworts, there is an enormous amount of diversity. They can be nearly threadlike ( Cephalozia , Blepharostoma ), deeply coloured (Marsupella, Scapania, Nardia), coral-like (Gymnomitrion, Anthelia), densely leafy (Schistochilopsis, Barbilophozia), or with small, shingling leaves (Frullania, Ptilidium, Porella) to name a few characters. Fortunately, out of all the liverwort species recognized in B.C., about half can be found without leaving Whistler!
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Superficially, leafy liverworts may seem quite similar to mosses if there’s no sporophyte, however, in taking a closer look (perhaps aided by a hand-lens), their alluring forms come into focus and certain patterns become evident. Liverwort leaves are often arranged in three rows: one on either side of the shoot, and one reduced on the undersurface. The leaves themselves can be very rounded to variously lobed, but rarely end in one elongated and sharp tip,
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SEEING GREEN Bryophyte groups, from left to right: Mosses (Pogonatum contortum), liverworts (Gyrothyra underwoodiana), and hornworts (Anthoceros fusiformis).
Land Use Contract Discharge and Zoning Amendment Bylaw (4918 Horstman Lane) No. 2366, 2022 (the “proposed Bylaw”)
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Purpose and Subject Lands: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to discharge Land Use Contract (LUC) G2520 and apply the RS3 Zone to the subject lands known as 4918 Horstman Lane, shown on the map attached to this notice The proposed LUC discharge and rezoning will allow for the gross floor area (GFA) exclusions outlined in Part 5, Section 26 of Zoning and Parking Bylaw No 303, 2015 to apply to the subject lands These exclusions are not available under the LUC , but will be available if it is discharged
Bylaw Readings: Consideration of the first second and third readings of the proposed Bylaw will be at the Regular Council Meeting on September 20, 2022
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PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE you may find yourself outdoors in Whistler, you can scan your surroundings and discern patches of something small, green, and alive. In the forest, the logs and trees you encounter are often adorned with these organisms, and the soil surrounding you is likely blanketed by them. In urban or open areas, surveying rock and disturbed soil will yield an assortment of small cushions and turfs, and if you find yourself next to a cliff face or in an area with water, these little green organisms are unavoidable. To the average person, these tiny but omnipresent characters likely share the single name of “moss.” How much of an understatement is that, really?
Mosses belong to a group of plants recognized by botanists as bryophytes, and in Whistler, more than 400 species are known so far! Apart from the immense diversity of mosses themselves, there are two other large lineages of plants in this same non-vascular grouping: liverworts and hornworts. Although not as well known or abundant as mosses, liverworts may be recognizable to many due to the landscapingloving Marchantia polymorpha. Liverworts like these can take on distinctive forms, appearing like small, green straps or fish scales on the earth. While not uncommon sights, species with these forms do not represent a large portion of the total liverwort species in Whistler, rather, much of the diversity lies with their leafy cousins.
Over the years of Whistler BioBlitzes, naturalists have spent time exploring and documenting these enigmatic little plants, finding more than 300 species of moss, 100 species of liverwort, and one species of hornwort. I was fortunate to join this year’s BioBlitz, and was very pleased to spot the elusive hornwort. These bryophytes may appear similar to a liverwort, however are readily identifiable by the often present cylindrical sporophytes, or “horns” projecting straight upwards. These structures can develop so densely that they could appear like a strange grass, but are in truth highly unique in the plant kingdom. Although I was only exploring for a few days, the diversity I saw spanned millions of years, and all I had to do was bend down for a closer look. Longer than we can comprehend, these little guys have been stabilizing the soil for other life, maintaining water levels in their ecosystem, providing rich habitat for invertebrates and microorganisms, and offering seeds with the perfect substrates for germination.Theirworld is small, but if we take the time to bring ourselves into it, bryophytes will offer us an array of beautiful forms and captivating questions.
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Abouhalka would like to see a pool, noting that residents currently have to go all the way to Whistler to use its facilities, and that at the doorstep, he has been hearing from many people that they would like to see such a project
Pemberton’s new mayor will be tasked with guiding the community through a period of immense change. So, what does each candidate have to say about growth?
rapid growth needs to slow down, and a conversation about the Village’s future planning needs to take place.
“It looks to me like it’s moving a little too fast. As I’ve been talking with people, there’s a lot of people that have a lot of questions. I’m not sure if it’s the right location,” MacKenzie said.“Talking with seniors and people with low incomes, I know a lot of them don’t own automobiles, no transportation. So something a little closer to town, to our main village core, where it’s very walkable [would be better].”Abouhalka also pointed to issues with the location of the housing project, and believes another site would be better.
Richman pointed to the Harrow Road housing development —headed for a public hearing, date TBD following the Queen’s passing, before consideration of third reading—as an example of some of the work the municipality has done with the province to bring affordable housing to the village.
“It’s 63 units, which is a huge win for a community of our size, and underneath, at the bottom floor, would be the Sea to Sky Community Services that they provide,” he said.MacKenzie said he is generally in favour of affordable housing projects, but still has questions about the Harrow Road project.
Richman pointed out that the Village’s recreational master plan hasn’t been updated since 2014, and that it might be time to review and update the plan with community input to see what the community wants.
SPUD VALLEY’S THREE MAYORAL CANDIDATES TALK GROWTH, HOUSING AND RECREATION
MacKenzieundertaken.wasgenerally open to the idea of more recreational facilities in the municipality, but believes taxation and timing are key when undertaking such projects.“Ithink there’s always room for more [recreational facilities], and as I say, with the growth of our residential numbers, we need to make sure that we’ve got those services that match the needs of the community,” MacKenzieRichmansaid.was enthusiastic about adding more facilities to the municipality, pointing to his record during his time in office that saw the opening of new recreational facilities in the“Whenvillage.you look at a community like Pemberton, which is one of the youngest and fastest growing in the province, and an exceptionally active community, I don’t think you can overstate the importance of having recreation assets for our folks,” Richman
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“Whensaid.itcomes to indoor space, a gym, rink, pool, those sorts of facilities. I think it’s time we go back to the community on this one. They’ve been on the wish list here for many years, understandably.
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In Pemberton and beyond, housing represents perhaps the most complicated issue of the election. All three mayoral candidates admitted it’s a complex issue that requires a thoughtfulRichmanapproach.believes the municipality needs to continue working closely with the province and developers to identify the community’s housing needs and build what’s required.
“I think we need to look at some sort of a housing task force that brings all of the stakeholders to the table, and no idea is going to be a bad idea,” he said. “I think collectively, we need to put some people together at the table that can throw those ideas out there and figure out what policies we need to put in place.”
“The one aspect of a growing community like ours is understanding how to manage that growth,” he said. “With the change that comes, the growth that comes, [we have to] make sure it is in line with the values and character of our town, and what makes it so special and what drew us all here in the firstMacKenzieplace.” offered a similar sentiment.
“We need to rethink the way we’re moving. You cannot put your foot on the gas and go 100 miles an hour when you don’t know what’s in front of you,” he said. “We’re moving too far forward, too fast. When I moved here to the Village of Pemberton, there were 2,000 people. So to double that since 2007 is way too fast.”
AT ISSUE Pemberton’s mayoral candidates are off to the races ahead of the Oct. 15 municipal election.
There was also a common agreement among mayoral candidates that the village could use more recreational facilities, but what that will
“I want to make sure that as the growth rate happens—we’ve seen a lot of new housing starts, a lot of new people move into the community—but I want to make sure that we can balance that with the amenities and the infrastructure,” he said. “The amenities could be our recreational services, infrastructure, our wastewater treatment, our roadways, all of those things need to be taken into consideration to match that rate of growth that we’re experiencing.”
WHAT ABOUT REC?
OVER THE LAST five years, the Village of Pemberton experienced one of the most significant population surges in the province, growing an astounding 32.4 per cent between 2016 and 2021, rising from 2,574 to 3,407 people.On Oct. 15, Pemberton voters will elect a new mayor and council, led by one of three potential mayors: incumbent Mike Richman, former councillor David MacKenzie, and newcomer Chadi Abouhalka.
“In my mind, we haven’t been able to afford them until now. As our community grows, I think we need to look ahead and build a plan to bring in those indoor recreational assets, like a rink and a pool. So we should start that now.”
For Richman, the key to managing growth is to ensure the municipality is prepared with the proper infrastructure, while also maintaining the village’s unique character as it continues to grow.
HOW TO TACKLE HOUSING?
There has been movement on the housing file in Pemberton of late, though not fast enough for some.
[Editor’s note: The location for Sea to Sky Community Services’ Harrow Road project was landed on after years of consultation with the Village of Pemberton and a variety of landowners. BC Housing is committed to financing the project in its current location, including the purchase of the land, provided zoning is in place on the site.]
“If they put that up, automatically it’s going to block [views]. They’re putting it right at the entrance of the Glen, which means that it’s going to bottleneck the entrance of the town and bottleneck the entrance to the Glen,” Abouhalka said. “So it’s very bad, poor planning, and in that sense, we need to reassess certain things.”
“I think we really need to keep working very hard with the province to secure funds, and community groups, and bring projects to the valley that will fill [our needs], and to work with developers as they come in to make sure they understand the areas of need within our housing spectrum, and what kind of buildings we need,” Richman said. “We’ve done a housing needs assessment. We’re about to update it so that we can have those conversations with developers and really steer them in the direction of what Pemberton most needs.”
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For MacKenzie’s money, a unified approach is the Village’s best bet.
Abouhalka believes the municipality’s
How should Pemberton handle growth?
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constituents, but with colleagues across all levels of government so he could advocate for thoseAskedconstituents.todescribe the biggest challenges that Pemberton is currently facing, from his perspective, Graves said he “could lump them into short-term, medium-term and long-term” categories.
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So why does Graves believe he’s the right person to deal with things at the municipal level? His knowledge of the corridor and his experience watching it grow over the last three decades, for one, and a collaborative, reliable“Whatspirit.makes me, I think, a strong or viable candidate is having an open mind and looking across the broad spectrum of everyone’s needs,” he said. “Not just developers, not just programs, but everyone across the board, and hearing them … [I’m] willing to always talk to anyone.”
THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE VILLAGE OF LIONS BAY
That was about two decades ago. This time, he’s asking Pembertonians to hand him a slightly longer mandate when they head to the polls to elect a new municipal government on Oct. 15.
Graves was born in Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, before moving to Whistler in 1993 and then north to Pemberton four years later. He and his family have called the valley home ever since.
DEREK GRAVES MIGHT be a first-time candidate for Village of Pemberton council, but he once held the highest-ranking nonelected role within the municipality.
“The provincial and federal governments need to play larger roles … because it’s not just a local issue,” he added.
If elected, Graves said he’d use those skills to build relationships with not only his
IN THE RUNNING Pemberton council candidate Derek Graves and his dog, Gus.
Graves holds a degree in economics, but has spent most of his career working in accounting for the hospitality sector. Currently, he works for a financial institution. Those gigs have helped Graves develop “above average” people skills, he said.
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The Village of Lions Bay (the “Municipality”) is considering issuing Temporary Use Permit No 3080 20 02 (the Permit) for the property located at 305 Oceanview Drive and more particularly known and described as:
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“I’ve always looked for ways that I can help in the community, and being at the point in my life I’m at now … this is a good time for me to give it a go,” he said.
He and his wife, Corinne, have been heavily involved in the community over their 25 years in Pemberton, from minor hockey, soccer and football leagues and community theatre to Walks for Alzheimer’s and the Salvation Army kettle campaign. He also served as president of the Pemberton Lions Club. Now, with both kids grown up and out of the house—“we’re quote unquote empty nesters with our dog,” he said—Graves said he’s ready to accept more accountability and dedicate more energy to serving his neighbours.“I’vealways had an interest in civic, municipal politics,” he explained, including keeping up-to-date on Pemberton council meeting minutes. Even as a teenager, Graves recalls being inspired by his grandmother, who worked with BC Housing as a spokesperson for residents living in subsidized housing, and his parents, who helped build a seniors housing complex in his hometown of Nanaimo.
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Longtime Pembertonian Derek Graves running for council
THE ACCOUNTANT’S NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT FOR THE FIRST TIME WHEN BRITISH COLUMBIANS HEAD TO THE POLLS ON OCT. 15
The Council of the Village of Lions Bay has delegated its authority to issue temporary use permits to the Chief Administrative Officer (“CAO”), who will consider issuing Temporary Use Permit No 3080 20 02 on September 26, 2022 at 4 pm Before deciding whether or not to issue the Permit the CAO will consider written submissions on matters relevant to the issuance of the Permit, from persons who believe their interests may be affected by the Permit
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Technically, he was working as a contract accountant for the Village, and technically, he was only sworn in as acting Chief Administrative Officer for two weeks, while the then-CAO was on holiday—“It was quite amusing,” Graves admitted with a laugh—but it was still enough to give the now-57-year-old a peek behind the municipal government curtain.
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In general terms, the purpose of the proposed permit is to authorize Short Term Rentals on the Lands, pursuant to section 4 6 of Part IV of Zoning and Development Bylaw No 520, 2017, as amended
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The Lands are shown in bold outline on the map below
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“I enjoy talking to people, meeting people, listening to their point of view and at the end of the day helping people get either where they want to be or come to a mutually agreeable conclusion.”
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When it comes to housing and affordability issues in particular, Graves claims it shouldn’t fall solely on municipal governments to come up with solutions.
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Among the short-term issues he named development proposals, zoning and traffic management, while housing, aging-in-place and transportation are topics he would throw into the medium-term bucket. Long-term, he said, “there always has to be an eye to the future with services, infrastructure, water, sewer, recreation, and future development proposals that are perhaps way down the line, and planning [for them] now.” Traffic planning and the subdivision approval process are two areas he would prioritize as a councillor, Graves said.
Comments may be submitted using the online Comment Form on the webpage noted above, or submitted via email to cao@lionsbay ca, or via regular mail or in person at the Village Office, PO Box 141, 400 Centre Road, Lions Bay, BC, V0N 2E0, addressed to “CAO TUP” and submitted by 4 pm on Friday, September 23, 2022
A copy of the proposed permit may be inspected at the Reception Desk of Municipal Hall at 400 Centre Road, Lions Bay, BC, during regular office hours of 10:00 a m to 4:00 p m , from Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays, or online at lionsbay ca under “Planning and Development Services”
TWO-TERM COUNCILLOR AND BC EHS DIRECTOR SAYS SHE WANTS TO BETTER POSITION PEMBERTON TO MANAGE GROWING PAINS
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“We just have to make sure we’re aware of the interconnectedness and then ensuring that, embedded within our strategy, is also the conversation with the higher levels of government so they understand the impacts to us and what we can do to mitigate those impacts and, in fact, to make them better,” Helmer said. “I think we have to be really clear and obvious about the impacts of the growth and knowing that the growth is coming to the province everywhere. It’s not just Pemberton. So I think the timing is really good to have that conversation, because we’re not experiencing any new pressures, but I think where we can really lead the conversation is around what we do about them and how we make sure our community members and people who want to come here are well served.”
If elected, Helmer also wants to continue the work of prior councils on building lasting and meaningful relationships with the Lil’wat Nation and Mount Currie community. Key to that, she said, is not
simply paying lip service to reconciliation, but directly involving Lil’wat in the decision-making process.
population grew by almost a third between 2016 and 2021, with more than a quarter of the town’s residents falling between the ages of 30 and 39.
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“That, I think, is really the spirit of reconciliation,” said Helmer, whose last term on council ended in 2018. “It’s not just nodding towards it, but true integration, and making sure the decisions we make don’t negatively impact another community, like the Lil’wat Nation. Building up those relationships is part of that, and I certainly advocate for that and I think the blueprint
With the experience of her family’s multi-generational organic farm in mind, Helmer also discussed the importance of preserving the small-but-productive farmland Pemberton still has left.
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is already there.”
Former councillor Jennie Helmer’s campaign centres on advocacy
“We as a community have direct influence over some pieces and indirect influence over others. What I’ve noticed is we’ve spent a lot of time on the direct influences, and that makes sense, because that’s of course where our sphere of influence is,” said the 48-year-old director of clinical operations for BC Emergency Health Services. “But because the pressures now are so big and vast, I think we have to position ourselves with conversations around the pieces that we don’t directly influence,Pemberton’stoo.”
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“There is far more land within the [Squamish-Lillooet Regional District] that is agriculturally zoned, but the Village does have some and then, of course, we meet regularly as the Village with the SLRD and the Lil’wat Nation. So having those conversations and having a shared responsibility around understanding why it’s so important [is necessary].” n
AS A FORMER two-term councillor, Jennie Helmer knows first-hand just where the Village of Pemberton’s (VOP) purview begins and ends. But as Pemberton continues to grow at lightning speed, Helmer is of the mind that its elected leaders need to take a broader view of the pressures bearing down on the rural community.
“That leads into that food security piece, and making sure that we have land available to grow food on I think is the fundamental tenet there. That’s why the [Agricultural Land Reserve] is in place, and the value there is in ensuring whoever moves here, and to the province itself, can rely on it,” she noted. “We have infrastructure here and knowledge here that other places don’t have, so protecting that is important. It intertwines again with the conversation around what we have direct influence over at the Village versus what we’re having conversations on and advocating for.
That, of course, puts added strain on the community’s health-care, education and recreation landscapes, driving home how important it is for the VOP to voice those challenges to senior levels of government.
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cosmology.Astrophysicist
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ALMOST WEEKLY, WE’RE glimpsing deeper into our universe through increasingly fine-tuned telescopes and lenses. Astronomers recently released the most detailed images of the distant Orion Nebula—1,300 light years away. Earlier in summer, they discovered 21 “white dwarf” candidate stars and the most distant galaxy ever observed.
Although we find ourselves in between two poles of uncertainty—the infinitesimally small and the infinitely grand—our (even nominal) understanding of quantum mechanics can help us gain perspective.
As writer Marilynne Robinson says, we should look to “sciences whose terms and
Surprisingly, when the lens is flipped to observe the underpinnings of life rather than the galaxy’s outer limits, there’s even less certainty.In
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To start, we can embrace, with humility, the realization that we’re far from fully understanding, and will likely never fully understand, the mechanisms that determine nature and reality. Science is not absolute, but we can learn to thrive within this lack of certainty. It can help us to approach the world with more curiosity and wonder.
Adam Frank and colleagues say the scientific shift changed the historical observer status assigned to the scientist. He writes that we can no longer expect to know the world “in itself, outside our ways of seeing and acting on things. Experience is just as fundamental to scientific knowledge as the physical reality it reveals.”
“Physics ought not to concern itself with reality, but rather with what we can say about reality.”
As Heisenberg explains, “When we speak of the science of our era, we are talking about our relationship with nature, not as objective, detached observers, but as actors in a game between man and the world.”
methods can overturn the assumptions of the inquirers” rather than that which “simply insists on the truth value of its assumptions.”
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamin Labatut describes how the arrival of quantum mechanics upended the linear path that, up to that point, had exponentially increased our scientific success in reducing the world to smaller and smaller known pieces.
Labatut writes, “Physics ought not to concern itself with reality, but rather with what we can say about reality.” What we say about reality is, in other words, our stories, borne from our relationships with the world(s) around us.
The amount we have to learn is endless— as vast as the universe, or multiple universes, in which we and our planet spin. It’s exciting and sometimes discomfiting to realize how much we don’t yet know.
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Finding our place along the grand scale
At a conference in 1927 of the world’s greatest scientists, Labatut explains, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr presented their startling vision of quantum mechanics. It
David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Boreal Project Manager Rachel Plotkin. n
describes how “An electron is not in any fixed place until it is measured; it is only in that instant that it appears. Before being measured, it has no attributes; prior to observation, it cannot even be conceived of.” Through this discovery, scientific thinkers came face to face with the limits of our capacity to fully understand life’s building blocks in concrete terms.Heisenberg also introduced the “uncertainty principle,” which states that the position and momentum of a particle can’t both be measured with precision. The more accurately you know one value, the less accurately you know the other.
Quantum mechanics changed the trajectory of science. As Wikipedia explains, “Quantum mechanics describes nature in a way that is different from how we usually think about science. It tells us how likely to happen some things are, rather than telling us that they certainly will happen.” Although its arrival changed the reductionist nature of some scientific paths, its inherent uncertainty didn’t make it less valuable. Quantum mechanics is foundational to chemistry and
And we can act in accordance with what we do know, such as our ever-expanding appreciation of the profound interactions that make life possible—from the elaborate mycelial networks underground to the global carbon cycle, from quantum to cosmic. We continually observe our world and describe it back to each other, revising understandings overOurtime.experiences will always be a part of our “reality.” The two cannot be teased apart. And we always face uncertainty. But in the absence of certainty there lies probability, between countless series of possible outcomes. Collectively we can change the world, by striving for the best of what is possible, through our relationships with nature and each other.
- BENJAMIN LABATUT
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[S]ailing isn’t just for Russian oligarchs or well-to-do, greyhaired members of high society with sweaters tied around their shoulders.
I USED TO think sailing was just for rich folk and their families. The only way to get time on an ocean-faring watercraft was to have a private school friend whose dad owned a boat, or something like that. Unlike the (relatively) more accessible
recreational pastimes such as overlanding, for example, sailing—or “cruising,” as I’ve learned is the term for multi-day or longer boat adventures—requires an investment equivalent to purchasing a home. This is probably why people tend to think of sailboat owners as multi-car-owning, multi-homeowners. If you’ve ever taken one of those cute little False Creek Ferries in Vancouver and stepped off at Quayside Marina by Yaletown, you’ve probably walked past the behemoth vessels that reinforce this stereotype. But what I’ve learned in the last few years is that sailing isn’t just for Russian oligarchs or well-to-do, grey-haired members of high society with sweaters tied around their shoulders. There’s a whole subculture of aspiring younger sailors who are selling the owned stake of their homes (or foregoing homeownership altogether) in favour of live-aboard boat life. Two of my friends, a couple who resided in Whistler for the better part of 10 years, did exactly that.
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From my conversations with these friends, boat life can bring experiences that you simply can’t get anywhere else. It’s also not for everyone, with the small living space, lack of reliable moorage (especially for live-aboard folk) and the never-ending list of boat upkeep tasks. But that all comes with the territory, and the rewards are worth
Navigating the complex currents and shores of B.C.’s coast requires years of study and careful exploration.
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of the coast without cell coverage. For the winter months, they’ve found a slip (that’s a floating parking spot for boats) within a ferry ride of Vancouver where they wait out the dark and rainy months of the year. They’ll sometimes go sailing from this base in fall and winter, as that is when you have the stronger and more consistent winds on B.C.’s south coast, which make for the most exciting sailing. But you don’t want to get too ambitious in unpredictable weather in this part of the world. Huge currents, whirlpools, rapids, and enormous, hulldamaging trees floating just under the
We dropped anchor for the night off the edge of Nelson Island near the mouth of Jervis Inlet with about half a dozen other vessels enjoying the sunniest part of the long weekend. The next morning we woke up to light rain, and shortly after setting off, we spotted a pod of orca whales in the distance. We motored through a tight passage heading northeast and proceeded to make our way further up the inlet to Hotham Sound. After dropping anchor again (and stern tying to make sure we didn’t drift into any rocks at low tide), the sun greeted us again for chill deck hangs and swimming in the ocean water. Sleeping comfortably, on the final day we motored back down Jervis Inlet and took a shortcut through the Agamemnon Channel back to Madeira Park with everyone having a go at the helm. The drive back to Langdale and the ferry ride back to the mainland were not nearly as exciting.
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pretty fast, and it felt like it) was pretty exhilarating—I was just glad that I wasn’t in charge of keeping us afloat.
SEAFARING
of the bigger pieces of the puzzle is how to work full-time and live on a boat. My friends are both remote-primary workers, and they stay connected online via Starlink when they venture into areas
I don’t know if I’ll ever be a boat owner, but I know I’ll need a really good reason to turn down an opportunity to sail on one again. Next time I’d like to be a more useful deckhand, so maybe I’ll finally hit up the Whistler Sailing Association for the basics, or Squamish Sailing Ventures for learning some sea-faring navigation skills. Mountains are great, but there’s a lot more coastline in the world to explore.
water (aptly called deadheads) are just a few of the hazards that line B.C.’s rocky coast.When spring arrives, my friends carefully watch the weather and wind patterns and start to look for ideal cruising windows. Stocking up their boat with food and fuel (all big sailboats need engines) they’ll venture throughout B.C.’s Gulf Islands, explore the dozens of inlets and sounds on the mainland and find absolutely stunning spots to drop anchor. They work for the week, explore islands via dinghy or paddleboard, go for hikes ashore, and
Vince Shuley would like to thank his friends Tom and Vicky for a glorious weekend aboard Curio. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider email vince.shuley@gmail. com or Instagram @whis_vince. n
generally enjoy the best of what boat life has to Myoffer.partner and I were able to join our friends for one of these cruising trips over the Labour Day long weekend earlier this month.Catching a ferry to Langdale and then driving up to meet them at their mooring at Madeira Park on the Sunshine Coast, we climbed aboard their Beneteau Oceanis and were treated to some unusually strong wind conditions for a warm summer weekend. Having a 50-foot vessel bank over while travelling at nine knots (I was told this is
FEATURE STORY 40 SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
BY VINCE SHULEY
PHOTOS BY A. COOPER, COURTESY OF WVBF
Beer festivals are not just for flannel-adorned, bearded, hipster craft-beer nerds anymore. Inclusion and accessibility is top of mind across the craft beer industry as it balloons beyond the niche it once was. With so many more bars and restaurants serving craft beer than even five years ago, festivals need more than just great beer to get people through the gate. Being able to bring your non-beerloving (or gluten-intolerant) friends to enjoy ciders and seltzers is one way. The other is to make the event as much about entertainment as it is about beer.
“IT’S FABULOUS to see events coming back this year,” says Ann Marie Lauer, the operations manager leading the beer festival’s organizing efforts for the fourth time. “We’ve often considered (WVBF) to be the last party of the summer. If you can mix beer, music, food and mountains, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
In addition to some of Whistler’s favourite local artists such as The Hairfarmers, Red Chair, DJ Stache and JennaMae & The Groove Selection, the music lineup will be headlined by two-timeJuno-winning indie rockers The Strumbellas on Saturday, Sept. 17, followed by Fernie’s quintessential, ski-town “Stoke Folk” band Shred Kelly. Dancing will be optional, but strongly encouraged.
“We wanted to bring the music up a notch this year as a celebration of the return of WVBF after so much time away,” says Lauer. “It adds another element to the festival, it gets people excited to be outdoors celebrating
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Some challenging years for beer
The Whistler Village Beer Festival (WVBF) returns this weekend to Olympic Plaza, giving visitors and locals alike one more kick at the can at a beloved summer celebration. After a two-year hiatus, the crew at Gibbons Hospitality Group are ready to get beer in hands of patrons and welcome more than 40 breweries and cideries back to Whistler.
“The [breweries] were really excited because they wanted to showcase a mainstay, a seasonal and maybe even a specialty beer,” says Laurer. “They get a chance to play around a bit more and it gives our attendees even more things to try. Plus, the brewers get to talk about more beer.”
–WILLIAM BOSTWICK
Much ado about music
The footprint of the WVBF Main Event grounds are expanding a bit this year to give both patrons and breweries enough space to get the most out of the weekend. And while the number of craft beer breweries is slightly down compared to years past, the number of unique beverages getting poured has gone up. Each brewery, cidery and seltzery (yes, it’s a word) is allowed to pour three lines rather than two as they did in previous years.
“That was very unfortunate, because there was no interruption to the [macro] foreign and domestic beer supply, such as Molson, Labatt and Sleeman, since those breweries deliver [to BC Liquor stores] on their own,” says Ken Beattie, executive director of the BC Craft Brewers Guild. “The craft beer market was losing volume. Smaller breweries were asked to bring in more product, but it was nowhere near the
While the province’s hospitality industry is hoping to put the last couple of years of rolling pandemic shutdowns and venue capacity restrictions behind them, the challenges are far from over for B.C.’s craft brewers. Strike action from Aug. 15 to 30 at BC Liquor Distribution Branch warehouses throttled alcohol supply for almost all food and beverage venues across the province. Keg beer sales went unhindered (as those kegs are delivered directly by breweries or their contracted distributors), but BC Liquor Store shelves were looking far emptier. A caveat of this shortage was that it affected mostly large B.C. craft breweries that ship in large quantities, such as Whistler Brewing Company, Steamworks and Phillips. Smaller breweries, such as Coast Mountain Brewing, Backcountry Brewing and Pemberton Brewing, could still deliver stock themselves, stretching their capacity to produce enough beer beyond contracts already in place.
“Humankindwasbuiltonbeer.Fromtheworld’sfirstwritingtoitsfirstlaws,inrituals,social,religious,andpolitical,civilizationissoakedinbeer.”
craft beer in B.C. Everyone loves having music there, we’ve got hundreds of videos of people dancing. It’s a good time.”
Further up the supply chain, news hasn’t been exactly sparkling over the last couple of years, either. Canada’s droughtaffected 2021 barley growing season was one of the worst in a generation, with dismal results in terms of both the quantity and quality of the barley crop in Western Canada, according to the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. Barley prices increased by an average of 40 per cent, which affected craft brewers especially, since they rarely use corn or other fermentable adjuncts like their macro brewing counterparts. Whistler’s Coast Mountain Brewing sources the majority of its high-quality brewing malt from Germany’s southern state of Bavaria, but that price hike was even more
A global scarcity of aluminum cans drove packaging prices up, as did the rising costs of fuel and transportation. And let’s not forget about general inflation and a labour shortage that won’t let up. Yet despite a seemingly dire landscape for aspiring craft brewers, the industry is hanging on. One boon of the pandemic was that it forced the province’s hand to relax a few key liquor laws.
made perfect sense,” says Beattie. “Keep people outside, keep people employed and keep people safe. In the first year of the pandemic there were over 20 breweries that opened in B.C. In the second year, there were just under 20. There hasn’t been the number of breweries that have closed that people may think, and the breweries that did close, in general, have been purchased and reopened [by new investors] very quickly.”
music artists such as Bedouin Soundclash, Titus Bank, Half Moon Run, Missy D and Skratch Bastid. Interestingly, organizers labelled the event as a “craft beer and music festival” on their website and promotional materials. It also had 11 specialty food trucks and chef pop-ups offering everything from Texas barbecue to oyster shucking. So, is the purist beer nerd gathering moving over to make way for a more food- and entertainment-focused atmosphere?
“If you were a small brewery or tasting room in the past, you would go to a lot of festivals because that was your marketing dollars, where people could try your beer,” says Beattie. “Staffing a team from a brewery to attend festivals is harder these days and the expense of attending is high. Many breweries invested in canning lines during COVID so they could sell online and might be thinking, ‘Maybe we don’t need to go to all the festivals we used to go to.’
pronounced.“In2021, a 25-kilogram bag of Weyermann base malt was $42 a bag,” says Kevin Winter, co-owner and head brewer at Coast Mountain Brewing. “Today, that same bag is $64. We use anywhere between 12 to 18 bags of grain per batch and we’re brewing about seven to 10 times a week. So it’s a big jump in costs, but luckily our base malt supply has been pretty constant.”
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“We were lobbying for a change to the patio liquor laws prior to COVID, then it just
market lost by B.C. craft breweries overall. There are certainly big breweries in the Lower Mainland that have had to lay off staff because of the strike.”
With beer festivals needing to adapt as much as the breweries they invite, what will the future of these events look like? The Vancouver Craft Beer Week (VCBW) festival on July 9 and 10, at the PNE Fairgrounds, came close to selling out and featured notable
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“Majority of ticket holders are from the Lower Mainland,” says Lauer. “The second biggest attendance is a tie between Vancouver Island and the Okanagan. We know Whistler is going to take care of them.”Theother motivation for breweries to attend is the prizes. Rather than dustgathering trophies, WVBF continues to award top breweries with draft lines at some of the most popular Gibbons venues. If you’ve walked past a busy Black’s Pub recently, it’s not hard to see the value of a contracted beer line to a craft brewery looking to grow its sales.
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boom of their own, perhaps the three- to four-per-cent easy-drinker is the next hazy? Or maybe, it’ll come down to a battle of the “crispy“Rightboi.”now, the biggest trend is lagers,” says Winter. “People want clean and crisp beers again, and they want it from their local craftWithbreweries.”asmany as 120 different taps pouring at the WVBF, festivalgoers should have a suitable sample size to conduct their ownWhateversurvey. beverage is pouring or music playing, the goal of the WVBF hasn’t changed: it’s about bringing people together for a good time. Weather in September is as unpredictable as the West Coast gets, but that’s not going to stop people revelling with the liquid long considered a gift from the gods.
The Master Crafters: Holy Grail of Pale Ale takes place Friday, Sept. 16 at Longhorn Saloon from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. The identities of attending breweries are kept secret, with simple number identification and Longhorn sta doing the pouring. Try all and vote for your favourite in a blind tasting. An event for the beer nerds indeed.
“Balance is what makes a perfect pale ale. When you are drinking the perfect pale ale (none better than Firestone Walker in California) nothing should stand out. It should just be a perfect guzzling beer. There should be nothing holding it back from just getting poured down your gullet except for the carbonation bite. I’ve always been in search of making the ‘perfect’ pale ale and have yet to do so 23 years into my brewing career. That’s how hard it is to make it amazing.”
With non-alcoholic beers having had a
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“The trend I see mostly these days is lower gravity beers,” says Derick Franche, brewmaster at High Mountain Brewing inside the Brewhouse Whistler. “I think Shaketown in North Vancouver is a perfect example of that. They’re making three-per-cent (ABV) beers whereas a few years ago those style beers would be almost unsellable. From what I’ve observed, young people are drinking far less than people of our generation.”
So what’s the ace the WVBF has up its sleeve to keep both patrons and breweries coming back? Easy. It’s in Whistler. Few beer festivals can match the resort’s blend of beautiful mountain setting, vibrant dining scene, nightlife and outdoor recreation (recreation is recommended before imbibing, of course).
Before you enter the gates of the WVBF, you may ask yourself: what’s everyone drinking these days? Mega-hopped beers have had their day. The hazy craze lingers, but many IPA fans are gravitating back to traditional West Coast styles or embracing new experiments like the cold IPA (an IPA fermented at lower temperatures, closer to the temperatures you would ferment lagers). Fruit-forward sours got a lot of non-craft drinkers into the craft brewing mix and still have a strong fanbase. But across the industry, the biggest trends are on the lighter side.
The kind of cool thing is, there are so many new breweries, so you’ll likely see some new faces at the fests you attend.”
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It was the first time the event returned to the Sea to Sky after a three-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, drawing a record crowd of approximately 6,800 riders. The majority chose to tackle the more than 2,100 metres of elevation along the 122-km GranFondo course, though participants can also opt to ride the 55-km Medio course, an out-and-back route from Whistler Village to Whistler Olympic Park, or challenge themselves to the 152km Forte event, which throws in a trip up Cypress Mountain on top of the already arduous Fondo course.
Abby Edison – Vancouver - 5:41:06
MOST CYCLISTS RIDING in Saturday, Sept. 10’s RBC GranFondo Whistler would have trained for months—or headed out for a long ride or two, at least—before setting out on the gruelling, 122-kilometre trek from Stanley Park to Whistler Village. Not Stefan Koch.
AFTER ‘SPONTANEOUS’ DECISION TO REGISTER, LOCAL STEFAN KOCH FINISHED 160TH OUT OF 4,422 RIDERS IN THE 122-KM DIVISION
Peter Krumins – Tacoma - 4:47:55
Koch, who admitted to being an avid mountain biker, set an ambitious goal of completing the ride in three hours and 45 minutes. “But we had so much headwind,” he said. “It was crazy, especially from Squamish onwards.”
He said he didn’t experience any of the frustrating supply shortages many riders reported experiencing at most of the four aid stations along the course (flip to page 16 to read more about those), mostly because he never planned to stop at any in the first place. Instead, Koch packed enough snacks to refuel every hour while two litres of water lasted him the whole 122 kilometres.“Theother real advantage … I felt is that I [was] riding home,” explained Koch, who moved to the resort from Germany in 2013. “For me, especially when I passed B.O.B., I knew [the finish line] was like 37 kilometres from there, so I cranked up the pace, and then when you roll into Function, I just got out of the saddle and gave it everything I had. In the end I almost cramped on the turn into the Village. But I’m really stoked with my effort.”
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Ashley Weber – Kelowna - 4:42:45
Amanda Lau – Vancouver – 5:44.05
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Joseph Bloodworth – Seattle – 1:45:03
Kersey – Vernon – 3:28:12
Hannah Ross – Squamish – 2:07:18
The obstacle was evident in the posted results: In 2019, the last time the event took place, the top male riders crossed the finish line just under the three hour, 15 minute mark, while the fastest women clocked in at around three-and-a-half hours.
Thomas Ford – Vancouver - 3:38:18
Luke Hubner - Qualicum Beach - 3:28:36
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Brenna Pauly – Victoria – 3:56:44
hour mark. The last rider to cross the finish line Saturday (riding in the men’s 70+ category) crossed in just over 10 hours, 15 minutes—“They’re the real heroes,” KochDespitequipped.the gusty conditions, Koch said he “really enjoyed the entire race,” from the sunrise ride over the Lions Gate Bridge to rolling past cheering crowds over the Whistler Village finish line.
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Nurit Altman – Toronto – 2:03:59
Madeleine Pollock – N. Vancouver3:59:14
“It wasn’t even my own bike,” said the Whistler resident and first-time Fondo rider with a laugh. “I don’t have any road bikeHeexperience.”signedup one week prior to the ride, only once he was confident the sunshine predicted in the forecast would stick around. The 43-year-old software engineer arrived at Brockton Point at 6:40 a.m. on Saturday, 20 minutes before his event’s start time, with a bike borrowed from a friend and equipped with U.K.style brakes, to boot. “It was a little bit hectic,” he said.
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Colin Eriks – Vancouver - 4:29:30
Torin Halvorson – Victoria 3:37:45
FONDO FAN Whistler local Stefan Koch was one of the thousands of cyclists who rode from Vancouver’s Stanley Park to Whistler Village as part of the 2022 RBC GranFondo.
posted results, making him the 160th rider out of 4,422 to cross the Fondo finish line, and 21st out of the 390 riders in his men’s age 40-44 division. That also made him the fastest Whistlerite (or rider that listed Whistler as their home city, at least) to complete the Fondo’s 122-km course.
Bonnie Hatswell – W. Vancouver – 1:51:39
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However, Mother Nature served up some challenging conditions for the thousands of cyclists that took to Highway 99 on Saturday. In addition to those stronger-than-usual headwinds blowing down the Sea to Sky corridor, temperatures in Whistler soared to a high of 30 C on Sept. 10, according to Environment Canada.
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Sarah Van Dam - Victoria 3:45:49
Ethan Smith – Pender Island – 1:43:36
This year, the fastest riders finished the 122-km course in just under threeand-a-half hours, while most of the top women inched closer toward the four-
Jen Petersen – Vancouver - 3:55:09
Medio – 55 km
Wes Campbell – Courtenay - 1:44:31
Nadia Gontova – Vancouver -3:53.45
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Kris Yip - Prince George - 3:38:19
Koch offered thanks in particular to Dylan Layzell, who lent him the bike, and friends Dan Harmon and Sara Redondo for the “exceptional support.” Koch said he would encourage everyone to sign up for the challenge and complete the ride at their own pace.
Brooke Davis - Shoreline, Wash. - 3:49:51
Alexander Fraser-Maraun – Vancouver - Cole3:27:01Glover
Still, Koch managed to crush the course in four hours, seven minutes and 36 seconds, according to the event’s officially
Forte – 152 km
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“The last 22 K took me seven-and-a-half hours—maybe more,” she said. “I wouldn’t even call it a walk. That runnable service road to get the 9 K to the finish, that’s my jam, but I couldn’t move.”
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“I’ve been in a three-plus-year injury cycle,” added Scholz, who lived around the Sea to Sky corridor for years but now calls Lillooet home. “I don’t love racing, but I do it a few times a year.”
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While she was somewhat prepared— thanks to training for a running trip to Chamonix to tackle part of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc course with friends for fun—she hadn’t followed a proper plan, which made her nervous at the starting line.
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Still, she crossed the finish line in first place for women in 30 hours, 20 minutes and 40 seconds, with more than a two-hour lead over Sawna Guadarrama (32:45:57) in second place. Nichole Abma came in third at 34:03:10.“Iknew this was a doable 28-, 29-[hour race] for me, but you don’t know what’s going to hit you. That’s the fun of ultramarathons,” Scholz said. “You’ve got to manage the shit and the best manager wins.”
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“I get goosebumps talking about it,” he said. “When it’s that big of a race, I tell myself even in the last 20 K something could happen where you may lose it. I think it was about 6 K of a descent back down to the finish line— that’s when it started clicking in, as long as I don’t fall and hit my head, I should be OK. That’s when I realized it might work out.”
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A highlight was the first station at Jane Lakes around the 63-km mark. “A lot of the people I ended up running with, we weren’t trying to stay together or not stay together, it was just awesome,” she said. “We got to see the full moon reflecting off the lake at dusk. It wasOfstunning.”coursethere were challenges to the 161-kilometre race, with its 9,050 metres of elevation. For Scholz, they hit with a mere 22 km left in the race.
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These potatoes were such hot items that even a bargain couldn’t keep the ski bums from pilfering them. Danielle Phelan remembers when the price went over $4 for the first time, and soon after IGA began requiring customers pre-pay at the counter because too many folks would get their precious potato, load it up at the selfserve topping bar, and then bounce. (IGA eventually stopped allowing customers load up their own potato.)
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up yourself!” wrote one tater nostalgist on Facebook. (Here’s where I have to admit I haven’t been able to pin down the exact price of this thrifty meal deal. What seems obvious is it went up over time. I have heard it go for as low as $2 back in the early ’00s, all the way up to $5.99 before it was discontinued a few years ago. Most consistently, I heard it was $4.20, which is the price tag I remember most vividly, and clearly the most Whistler-appropriate. #LegalizeIt. Oh wait.)
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FOR YEARS, THE MARKETPLACE IGA SERVED AN IMPOSSIBLY CHEAP, FULLY LOADED BAKED POTATO; NOW LOCALS ARE CALLING FOR ITS GLORIOUS RETURN
EVERY SO OFTEN, a post will pop up on the Whistler Winter or Summer Facebook group, where much of the community’s
For the unfamiliar, let’s get you up to speed. For years, the IGA deli counter offered a baked potato with all the fixings you might expect: a healthy sprinkling of cheddar cheese, baked to gooey goodness, offset by a dollop of sour cream, garnished with crunchy bacon bits and sharp green onion. There was also an option to get a ladle of piping hot chili poured over top instead of the classic sour cream-bacongreen-onion combo.
“No matter how hard your day was, or what Whistler could throw at you, the loaded baked potato at IGA was there for you. It was there for you when landlords and friends were not. It was there for you when the snow and sunshine were not. It was there when everything around you was falling to pieces. It was there,” he wrote. “Many a time after being screamed at by guests through work, for things that were not my fault, the potato would cure my woes and soothe my soul. I miss them so much and I am sure so many others do too.”
“Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.”
For years, Marketplace IGA’s fully
“It was just all the ingredients, in the right quantities. Specifically, you’ve got to get enough cheese. Somehow they found a way to combine each ingredient to exactly the right amount,” said local musician Helen Hamilton, who was inspired recently to recreate the IGA baked potato at home. It didn’t quite come out as planned. “I tried to recreate it, but I didn’t bake the potato for long enough,” she said. “It was kinda soggy. The IGA potato was somehow perfectly crisp on the outside and fluffy on the inside.”It’shard to know how much of the baked potato’s near-mythic status is due to some sort of culinary wizardry on behalf of the hard-working folks behind the IGA deli counter—I mean, it’s a baked potato, how hard could it be?—or if it’s the sheer fact that it was a hearty, filling meal you could still get for under $5 in a town where bargains are rare and ample kitchen space even“Thisrarer.meal was the meal of Gods back when it was $3.50 and you could load it
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watercooler talk takes place these days, to lament the loss of a local icon: the fully loaded baked potato from the Marketplace IGA, which has since rebranded to Fresh St. Market.One such post caught my eye a few weeks back. It read, simply: Bring back IGA baked potatoes. Like clockwork, I watched as the likes piled up and the comments waxed poetic about this starchy stand-by that fed many a broke Whistlerite over the years. Seeing the outpouring of appreciation, I decided it was high time I dug a bit deeper into why this humble meal has seemed to gain such reverent status among local ski bums. So I posted to the same Facebook group, asking for potato proselytizers to share their opinions, and lo and behold, almost 250 likes, dozens of comments, and even a few heartfelt DMs later, and I can
This is something I was somewhat taken aback by in the flurry of responses I got from spud aficionados. Many talked about the baked potato in almost religious tones, which, initially, I took for the kind of wink-wink irony that usually accompanies these kinds of innocuous food stories. And certainly, many of the responses were just that: a bit of harmless online
“You had to pre-pay at the till, then go to the deli and show your receipt to receive the sacred potato,” recalled Phelan, who is such a fan of IGA’s meal deal that she cabbed herself to and from the Marketplace store the morning after her 21st birthday just to get“Itone.nourished my soul.”
fun. (I personally liked the guy who called on Whistler’s election candidates to make the baked potato “a keystone municipal election issue.” I did reach out to a contact at Fresh St. to inquire about the possibility of bringing the baked potato back, but sadly, did not get a response by press time. The dream lives on.)
But, at a certain point, all the jokes and hyperbole circle back around into something more genuine. The lowly potato has for generations been a symbol of resilience, resourcefulness, humility and comfort. And in a town that is not only just down the road from one of the most productive patches of potato-growing land on the continent, but is also filled to the brim with overworked, underpaid front-line staff who barely have two nickels to rub together on a good day, it’s no wonder that IGA’s fully loaded baked potato has fully loaded itself into Whistlerites’ hearts.
But don’t take it from me. Avowed local “potato connoisseur” Robbie Stewart said it better than I ever could, so I’ll leave you with some of the inspired potato prose he generously shared with Pique
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“I experienced church violence as a child, put it that way,” says Corbiere, who is Anishinaabe from Wiikwemkoong First Nation, Manitoulin Island, Ont. “As I get older now, I look back and reflect on all these things that have happened to me in my life and how it changed or it sculpted or created my life up until now. Because I was always afraid, I became a police officer. My experience in policing was to make sure that people were taken care of. That was my philosophy.”Hewasnot an enforcer, nor did he agree with the tactic of handing out tickets to meet quotas. After moving back to his home reserve to work as an officer for one year, his position was terminated.
where he earned a degree in biology and trained to be a teacher.
Looking ahead, he hopes to add more videos like the A Better Understanding of the Seven Sacred Teachings to his YouTube as well.“I’m looking forward to coming up [to Whistler] to do this presentation,” he adds. “This is the first in-person presentation I’ve done on these teachings to an audience like this … I’m really excited about that.”
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But the version of those teachings people most encounter is Westernized, and different than the original, which was created by Corbiere’s“Whenancestors.webreak down the words according to the feeling or the ideas that are contained within those words, it has a completely different meaning than what we would expect,” he says.
As part of that job, Corbiere found himself delving into the Seven Sacred Teachings, which are plastered all over classrooms in Canada, highlighting love, honesty, courage, truth, humility, respect and wisdom.
JAMES DARIN CORBIERE’S resumé might seem like an eclectic collection of unrelated careers, but when you hear his life story, you realize there’s actually a neat line connecting it all.
“The artwork was a way for me to get rid of all the stuff I was carrying inside, to let a lot of that go,” he says. “There’s still stuff there, plastered to the walls that I’ve got to scrape off, but generally speaking the artwork has been cathartic and healing.”
From policeman to language teacher to writer and artist, Corbiere (or Waab Shki Makwa) has brought the same (sometimes secretly) subversive approach to each of those roles.
Of course, growing up with the language, Corbiere also understood the nuances and pronunciation of many words as well.
While he wasn’t certified as a language teacher, he was hired in Sault Ste. Marie.
But that session is just one project Corbiere, now based in Cowichan Bay, is working on.
“One night, I came home and I had a pen
“I became a language teacher and I tried to infuse Indigenous philosophies wherever I could,” he says. “One of the things I like to say is that I tried to decolonize things in secret. The police, the justice system, I wasn’t an enforcer. And in the classroom I wasn’t big on exams or performance assessments, things like that. I was more interested in ‘what did you learn?’ not ‘what did you remember that you can regurgitate on an exam?’”
One example: honesty. His students would often define that as “not to tell a lie.”
Using culture and language to dig into the Seven Sacred Teachings
LANGUAGE LESSONS James Darin Corbiere is sharing his session A Better Understanding of the Seven Sacred Teachings, honed from his years as a language teacher, at the Maury Young Arts Centre on Thursday, Sept. 15
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“Yes, that’s correct, but what does it
“We’reseries.talking about some simple concepts that will help with the relationships that you have, not just with other people, but with the earth, with the animals and all the other things that are around us,” he says.
In 2015, after turning 50, he decided to go on a fast quest—which men typically embark upon in their teen years—in search of his purpose. In his youth, he had been able to see colours around people, but that had long been stamped out.
ARTIST, TEACHER, AND FORMER POLICEMAN JAMES DARIN CORBIERE OFFERS SESSION IN WHISTLER ON SEPT. 15
mean in terms of the depth or idea behind it? So what I’ll do is go to the word, which is gwayakwaadiziwin. And I break down each of those components. A lot gets lost in translation, but when you see the bigger picture, it’s a better understanding of what honesty really means,” he says.
“My understanding of the Anishinaabe language isn’t the best—I would probably say I’m 25-per-cent literate in terms of the language,” he says. “But that’s 25 per cent more than most people have.”
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So, Corbiere decided to attend university,
in my pocket and I had some of this wood out in my basement. I went into a flashback. At some point, I must have smashed a few things. Sometimes, that’s what I do. But the pen broke and the ink leaked onto this chunk of an ash that was laying there. That would be a defining moment, because that’s when these images started to appear, the lights turned back on so to speak. That basically began my Corbiereartwork.”hascontinued working on white ash with various types of ink, but he’s also created a graphic novel and a game based on Truth and Reconciliation.
Corbiere is now set to take his lessons on the Seven Sacred Teachings—condensed from weeks in the classroom into 45 minutes—and share them with the public in-person for the first time at the Maury Young Arts Centre as part of this month’s emhám
A Better Understanding of The Seven Sacred Teachings takes place on Thursday, Sept. 15 at the Maury Young Arts Centre. Tickets are $10 with the night including a musical performance from Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback.
His vision during this journey: a sasquatch, sitting on a rock, saying “underneath here, there’s treasure, but you’re going to have to work hard, you’re going to have to really dig to get to Corbiereit.” interpreted that as digging through his childhood trauma. A month later, that manifested in him wanting to build a boat like the kind elders in his community would set out on to go fishing.
Anyone who loves to sink their teeth into language and nuance will enjoy the Austen-esque double-edged wordplay that the women use to signal their underlying motives and intentions.
BY KATE HESKETT
Set in ancient India, the story begins in the narrative present, when Yasodhara’s presumed-dead husband inexplicably walks out of the forest after a 10-year absence, spreading a new religion he calls “The Middle Way,” and plunging Yasodhara’s future into uncertainty.
matter too much what a woman thinks or believes. Though Yasodhara finds elements of Siddhartha’s Middle Way compelling, as the bearer of the consequences of his actions, she struggles to reconcile the pain and irreparable damage he causes in her life with his puritanical quest for enlightenment.Anintimate tale of love, loss and personal growth set against the backdrop of history, Mansions of the Moon is immersive and full of details that bring to life the time and place of 600 BCE. Selvadurai uses the Pali language for the local words, and the book comes with a pronunciation and glossary guide, as well as a map of ancient India and a historical note explaining the governing hierarchies and power structures of the tribal republics and vassal states.
But as the years pass, Siddhartha’s continual spiritual and moral questioning wear on her faith, and she finds herself morally adrift in a world where it doesn’t
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Mansions of the Moon: an intimate tale of love, loss, and personal growth
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR of Funny Boy and The Hungry Ghosts, Shyam Selvadurai returns after more than a decade with Mansions of the Moon, an exploration of the early life of the man who would become the “Buddha,” as seen through the eyes of Yasodhara, the wife he abandoned in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment.
The reader is then taken back in time to the world of Yasodhara’s youth. At 16, she agrees to marry her intelligent and politically savvy cousin, Siddhartha Gautama. Unbeknownst to her, or her family, his sudden proposal is a reaction against the seeds of philosophical and spiritual discontent that have already begun to take hold.
Married life comes with challenges, the first of which is a relocation away from the capital city and everyone Yasodhara knows and loves, to an obscure northern province.
Initially isolated and overwhelmed, she seeks the support of a local deity and soon finds connection and contentment working the land. An intelligent young woman, Yasodhara is constantly frustrated and constrained by the actions and desires of her male relatives. She resents her forced reliance on others, yet seeks to make the most of the life she has been born into.
BOOK REVIEW: AUTHOR SHYAM SELVADURAI ATTENDS WHISTLER WRITERS FESTIVAL ON OCT. 14
Through the lens of one married couple, Mansions of the Moon captures the intellectual and spiritual turmoil of the time that changed human thought with ideas that are still relevant today.
Kate Heskett is a writer, poet and canoe guide, happily stuck in the Whistler bubble.
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MIDDLE MAN Best-selling author Shyam Selvadurai is taking part in the Whistler Writers Festival on Oct. 14 with his new book Mansions of the Moon
Yasodhara describes the Mansions of the Moon as a spiritual stop-over for the departed on their way to the Land of the Fathers, a container space for souls in limbo. The reader is left with the indelible impression of Yasodhara forever trapped, walking the empty halls, haunted by the ghosts of what might have been.
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WHAT’S IN A NAME While the Whistler Museum does not yet have a name for the woman pictured, many people shared their fond memories of Blackcomb’s giant cookies when this photo was posted online.
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Not all of the images, however, are quite so obviously staged, and seem to be promoting Blackcomb Mountain simply by capturing what was happening on and around the mountain. These images include many events that were hosted on Blackcomb, such as Freestyle World Cups, Kids Kamp events, Can Am bike races, and the wellremembered celebrity Suitcase Races. There are also images of people paragliding with Parawest Paragliding, the company that Janet and Joris Moschard operated off of Blackcomb Mountain in the early 1990s, and street entertainers organized by the Whistler Resort Association drawing crowds both at the base of Blackcomb Mountain and throughout Whistler Village.
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If you haven’t been to a Naming Night before, the format is pretty simple. At 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22, we’ll be posting about 100 images around the museum that we need more information about, including the series of Blackcomb staff. Everyone is welcome to come help us fill in the blanks, whether you recognize a face, a place, or an event, by writing the information on a Post-it and sticking it to the image. This information will then be added to the image’s entry in our database, making it much more likely that the image will be included when someone searches for a specific person, place or event in our database or online galleries. We’ve also had hundreds of names added to our images by people across the world since moving Naming Night online in 2020, so if you’re not able to make it to the museum, we will also be posting the images on our Facebook page on Friday, Sept. 23. Whether in-person or virtually, we hope to see
Amongst all of these images, there are also a series of images of Blackcomb staff and staff events from the early 1990s. These are the images to which we are hoping to add more information (specifically names) at our next Naming Night at the Museum.
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The Blackcomb Mountain Collection includes more than 22,000 promotional and candid images taken by more than 30 photographers between 1980 and 1998. This period covers the mountain’s opening and its years in competition with neighbouring Whistler Mountain up until the two merged under Intrawest. Some of the photographers are well known for their work in the area, including Greg Griffith, Chris Speedie (of Toad Hall fame), and Paul Morrison, while others are perhaps better known for their work on Blackcomb Mountain, such as Hugh Smythe (then the president of Blackcomb Skiing Enterprises) and David Perry (then in Blackcomb Mountain’s marketing department).Thecontent included in the Blackcomb Mountain Collection varies widely. There are, of course, a lot of images of people skiing and, in the later years, snowboarding. There are also many images that were created to promote Blackcomb Mountain—so they show people (often hired models) happily wearing ski gear in the sun, sharing a meal at one of Blackcomb’s restaurants, or eating giant cookies outside in the snow. There are also images of mountain facilities, retail stores, and a lot of Blackcomb-branded clothing.
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IF YOU FOLLOW the Whistler Museum on social media, you will probably have noticed more images of Blackcomb Mountain appearing over the past year or so as we’ve been working to digitize the Blackcomb Mountain Collection. We’ve been sharing some of the more eye-catching and informative images that we’ve come across while digitizing. Next week we’ll be sharing even more of the Blackcomb Mountain Collection images in the hope of adding more information to the images.
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1 HYDRATION STATION A Whistler Blackcomb employee found the perfect spot to stash his post-race brews during the resort’s annual end-of-summer McConkey’s Cup staff bike race. PHOTO BY OISIN MCHUGH COURTESY OF WHISTLER BLACKCOMB. FUNCTIONAL FASHION Whistler Paintertainment performer Maxine’s golf-themed attire doubled as a doughnut tray during the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation’s Telus Golf Classic after-party on Friday night, Sept. 9. PHOTO SUBMITTED. GOING New Creekside Gondola cabins have been spotted at Whistler Mountain’s southern base as the construction continues on Whistler Blackcomb’s newest gondola. BY GEORGIA BUTLER. WAM BAM Local ultrarunners Maude Cyr and Sharon Carney all smiles at Alpine Meadows 100-kilometre race morning. ladies Waldorf School Grade
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launch date or grand opening. Now all you have to do is create a big, crisp emptiness where the next phase will have plenty of room to germinate. The best way to do that is to finish the old process as completely as possible.
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CANCER June 21-July 22 “Poetry is a life-cherishing force,” said Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, who published 33 volumes of poetry and read hundreds of other poets. Her statement isn’t true for everyone, of course. To reach the point where reading poetry provides our souls with nourishment, we may have to work hard to learn how to appreciate it. Some of us don’t have the leisure or temperament to do so. In any case, Cancerian, what are your life-cherishing forces? What influences inspire you to know and feel all that’s most precious about your time on Earth? Now would be an excellent time to ruminate on those treasures—and take steps to nurture them with tender ingenuity.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21 “Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked,” said Sagittarian author Elizabeth Berg. I suspect her theory will be true for you in the coming weeks. You have done an adroit job of formulating your intentions and collecting the information you need to carry out your intentions. What may be best now is to relax your focus as you make room for life to respond to your diligent preparations. “I’m a great believer in luck,” said my Uncle Ned. “I’ve found that the harder I work, the more luck I have.” He was correct, but it’s also true that luck sometimes surges your way when you’ve taken a break from your hard work
LIBRA Sept. 23-Oct. 22 According to Libran poet T. S. Eliot, “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” Those are your guiding thoughts for the coming days, Libra. You’re almost ready to start fresh; you’re on the verge of being able to start planning your
AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18 Aquarian author Richard Ford has advice for writers: “Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.” I will amend his counsel to apply to all of you non-writers, as well. By my reckoning, the coming weeks will be prime time to be gleefully honest as you identify what causes commotions in your heart. Why should you do that? Because it will lead you to the good decisions you need to make in the coming months. As you attend to this holy homework, I suggest you direct the following invitation to the universe: “Beguile me, mystify me, delight me, fascinate me, and rouse me to feel deep, delicious feelings.”
PISCES Feb. 19-March 20 “I am lonely, yet not everybody will do,” observed Piscean author Anaïs Nin. “Some people fill the gaps, and others emphasize my loneliness,” she concluded. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Pisces, it’s your task right now to identify which people intensify your loneliness and which really do fill the gaps. And then devote yourself with extra care to cultivating your connections with the gapfillers. Loneliness is sometimes a good thing—a state that helps you renew and deepen your communion with your deep self. But I don’t belief that’s your assignment these days. Instead, you’ll be wise to experience intimacy that enriches your sense of feeling at home in the world. You’ll thrive by consorting with allies who sweeten your love of Homework:life.
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ARIES March 21 - April 19 My reader Monica Ballard has this advice for you Aries folks: “If you don’t vividly ask for and eagerly welcome the gifts the Universe has in store for you, you may have to settle for trinkets and baubles. So never settle.” That’s always useful counsel for you Rams. And in the coming weeks, you will be wise to heed it with extra intensity. Here’s a good metaphor to spur you on: Don’t fill up on junk snacks or glitzy hors d’oeuvres. Instead, hold out for gourmet feasts featuring healthy, delectable entrées.
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VIRGO Aug. 23-Sept. 22 It’s impossible to be perfect. It’s neither healthy nor productive to obsess on perfectionism. You know these things. You understand you can’t afford to get bogged down in overthinking and overreaching and overpolishing. And when you are at your best, you sublimate such manic urges. You transform them into the elegant intention to clarify and refine and refresh. With grace and care, you express useful beauty instead of aiming for hyper-immaculate precision. I believe that in the coming weeks, dear Virgo, you will be a master of these services—skilled at performing them for yourself and others.
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TAURUS April 20 - May 20 I will remind you about a potential superpower that is your birthright to develop: You can help people to act in service to the deepest truths and strongest love. You can even teach them how to do it. Have you been ripening this talent in 2022? Have you been bringing it more to the forefront of your relationships? I hope so. The coming months will stir you to go further than ever before in expressing this gift. For best results, take a vow to nurture the deepest truths and strongest love in all your thoughts and dealings with others.
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CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19 Tips to get the most out of the next six weeks: 1. Be the cautiously optimistic voice of reason. Be the methodical motivator who prods and inspires. Organize as you uplift. Encourage others as you build efficiency. 2. Don’t take other people’s apparent stupidity or rudeness as personal affronts. Try to understand how the suffering they have endured may have led to their behaviour. 3. Be your own father. Guide yourself as a wise and benevolent male elder would. 4. Seek new ways to experience euphoria and enchantment, with an emphasis on what pleasures will also make you healthier.
GEMINI May 21 - June 20 Your mind is sometimes a lush and beautiful maze that you get lost in. Is that a problem? Now and then it is, yes. But just as often, it’s an entertaining blessing. As you wander around amidst the lavish finery, not quite sure of where you are or where you’re going, you often make discoveries that rouse your half-dormant potentials. You luckily stumble into unforeseen insights you didn’t realize you needed to know. I believe the description I just articulated fits your current ramble through the amazing maze. My advice: Don’t be in a mad rush to escape. Allow this dizzying but dazzling expedition to offer you all its rich teachings.
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LEO July 23-Aug. 22 Please promise me you will respect and revere your glorious star power in the coming weeks. I feel it’s important, both to you and those whose lives you touch, that you exalt and exult in your access to your magnificence. For everyone’s benefit, you should play freely with the art of being majestic and regal and sovereign. To do this right, you must refrain from indulging in trivial wishes, passing fancies, and minor attractions. You must give yourself to what’s stellar. You must serve your holiest longings, your riveting dreams, and your thrilling hopes.
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SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21 Now and then, you slip into phases when you’re poised on the brink of either self-damage or self-discovery. You wobble and lurch on the borderline where self-undoing vies with selfcreation. Whenever this situation arises, here are key questions to ask yourself: Is there a strategy you can implement to ensure that you glide into self-discovery and self-creation? Is there a homing thought that will lure you away from the perverse temptations of self-damage and self-undoing? The answers to these queries are always yes—if you regard love as your top priority and if you serve the cause of love over every other consideration.
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• $21-35/hour (wage is reviewed in 6-month periods)
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• Extended health plan available.
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I’d hoped the totally irrelevant Greens would have the courage to fold the party and blend silently into either the Liberal or NDP camps since their sole ace up the sleeve, the environment and its own fight for survival had been embraced by all parties, including the Conservative Party, albeit with an inexplicable blend of misgiving and denial.
Yawn.But wait. Elizabeth May to the rescue. Rescue? Yes, Liz is running again for top Greenie. But with a twist. And a threat. The threat is to leave the Greens and sit as an Independent, along with Morrice, who joined in the Lizzie Fit, if the party postpones the leadership race because of the turmoil described above.
So Pierre was coronated and graciously had his wife introduce him. She did such an admirable job of channelling Horatio Alger, presenting both herself and PP as colourful, rags-to-riches, jus’ plain folk, even I thought I may have misjudged him as an opportunistic populist catering to the rabidButright.Ididn’t. He’s still mini Maxime... but with a better haircut. The protest convoy folks are still his kind of people. He still believes Conservatives can learn a lot from Quebec nationalists, vigourously assert their rights and grievances against Ottawa and, “stand up to wokeism,” by which I presume he means ignoring the Constitutional rights of English Quebecers, discriminating against non-Christian religions and forcing immigrants to subjugate their cultures to the pure laine way of life in La Belle Province.
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Four of the leadership hopefuls and Mike Morrice, one of the Green MPs, issued a joint statement condemning the party’s president, Lorraine Rekmans, not long ago. In response, Ms. Rekmans resigned her post.
She had carelessly tossed out the wrong pronoun. She entered a social purgatory from which there is no salvation, no return, no forgiveness.
I almost found myself saying it—certainly thinking it—when I read about the latest federal Green Party (RIP) machinations.Actually, I was somewhat surprised to discover there still was a federal Green Party. Who knew? I thought I remembered them shuffling off into oblivion when they dumped their most recent leader, Annamie Paul, after she and the “leadership” of the party held a circular firing squad as a result of her epic defeat in the last election. For those of you who don’t remember—and who could blame you—Ms. Paul led (sic) the party to the event horizon of death, garnering a mere two per cent of the popular vote, down from its former seven per cent, in the 2021 election. In her own Toronto riding, Ms. Paul came in a distant fourth.
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I was wrong. Apparently there is a campaign, race being too strong a word, for leader of the Greens. There are actually six people who would like to lead the Greens. And if you really want to show off your depth of political trivia, there are still two Green MPs. They hold caucus in a littleused parliamentary closet.
In a letter obtained by the Canadian Press, Ms. Rekmans claimed her optimism for the Greens had died, that the party had, “no vision for a better future, but only an effort to look back and settle old scores... while the planet burns.”
Observers who follow the Green Party— both of them—were of the opinion the party couldn’t sink any lower than its 2021 tiff over Israel and the Palestinians that saw Jenica Atwin, one of three Green MPs, cross the aisle and join the Liberals after
Oh dear.
I BRIDLE EVERY time I hear or read the word “woke.” Partly because I don’t know what it means... exactly. Partly because the people who use it don’t seem to know, either. But ignorance being bliss, it doesn’t stop them from tossing it about, generally as an epithet, generally as a right-of-centre put down for anything and everything perceived of as left-of-centre or “progressive,” another word whose meaning I’m not entirely certain
Her crime? She “mis-gendered” the party’s interim leader, Amita Kuttner, in a Zoom meeting. Kuttner—and I’m not about to assign either pronoun or identifying title—is transgender and nonbinary. Fair enough; everyone gets to forge their own path through the minefield of genderality.
Ms. Rekmans issued an immediate apology for her faux pas, but apparently that was not enough. She had committed the most grievous of transgressions. She had made a human mistake. She had carelessly tossed out the wrong pronoun. She entered a social purgatory from which there is no salvation, no return, no forgiveness.
part of the membership attacked Ms. Paul’s pro-Israel stance while they favoured the Palestinians, terming the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza apartheid. I’d go into more detail but only at the risk of putting you to sleep.
The twist is Liz only wants to be a co-leader. She and Jonathan Pedneault, a 32-year-old human-rights activist from Quebec, are both in the leadership race and have formed a mutual admiration society, both agreeing if either is elected leader she or he will appoint the other as co-leader. Kind of a job-sharing thing, because only one can actually lead the party while the other gives it CPR to keep it from completely dying.
As if that’s not enough political soap opera, officials with the Conservative
Party, shortly after the Queen died, said they’d “rethink” how they’d announce their new leader the coming Saturday. With the country going into a period of official mourning, the leadership organizing committee vowed to respect the protocols and find an, “appropriate, respectful way” to celebrate the coronation of Pierre Poilievre.
And just to be fair, the Liberals, or at least Justin Trudeau, spun the Wacky Wheel of Political Fortune when he announced he planned to lead the Liberals into the next election. While not quite dead man walking, JT currently has more baggage than a jumbo jet bound for a holiday destination. Blissfully, he’s as unaware of it as he has been of so many things, so many times, over and over again in his scandal-plagued leadership.Atthis point—and I won’t go near the insanity of Danielle Smith’s run for leader of Alberta’s UCP—I’m ready to roll up a Pique and smack the first person who says we get the politics we deserve.
Thatof.said,
It didn’t take long for them to realize the appropriate, respectful way was to shamelessly leverage the commentary about the Queen’s unwavering commitment to country, a phrase heard over and over again at the Saturday night gala. Heck, they’d
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already rented the convention centre space and sold a whack of tickets... and after all, the Queen was dead, long live the king.
None of us deserve this.
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After working as a Real Estate Assistant and gaining invaluable experience she can’t wait to continue her Real Estate Career as a licensed advisor. She is very hardworking and passionate about Real Estate in the Sea to Sky community. Maddi can’t wait to exceed your expectations in assisting you in your Real Estate sale or purchase.
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A concentrated, young professional working towards being the perennial name in Luxury Real Estate in the Sea To Sky corridor. Being the first baby born in Whistler, and his father owning a high-end construction business, Jeremy intricately understands the growing market and brings a rare and unique perspective to this world-class resort. Jeremy came into the business identifying multiple issues in the real estate industry - particularly in the realm of marketing and service, and plans to elevate the entire process from the ground up. Tailoring his interpersonal and marketing skills towards real estate, he promises to exceed client expectations and deliver long-lasting results.
Over the past 20 years, Carmyn has enjoyed a diverse career in sales and marketing of Fine Art, Financial Services, Beauty and Aviation. After moving to Whistler in 2016 from Vancouver, she became a local entrepreneur, and owned and operated two successful businesses with her husband and longtime Whistler local: Trevor Hopkins. Their professional endeavors, passion for the local arts and love of the mountain lifestyle have resulted in strong ties to the community. The common denominator that links Carmyn’s career path together is delivering the highest quality in products, services, and experiences to her clients. Whether you are interested in Whistler as an investment or a place to call home, Carmyn is excited to share this four seasons resort town with you.
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Maddi was fortunate enough to be born and raised in Whistler. Growing up in such a special place never taken for granted and being involved in the Whistler community has always been important to her. After a few years away attending University for English and Psychology, the mountains were calling her back. Now she is so excited to use her expert local knowledge to help clients achieve their Real Estate goals and dreams.
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Sam Surowy is a born and raised Whistler local, whose family has deep roots in the community. After travelling abroad for university and spending time overseas in her early 20’s, she realized that there really is ‘no place like home’. Sam has a passion for creating the bespoke hospitality experience that comes from having grown up immersed in Whistler’s international tourism culture. She has spent the last decade working in hospitality, marketing, and design; sharing her love for great food, wine, and the world class service that Whistler is known for. When she is not working, she can be found enjoying the fabulous activities that the Sea to Sky has to offer. With a unique insight to the Whistler community, Sam will help you find your next dream home!
PEMBERTON OFFICE 1411 Portage Road, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L1 604.894.6616 or Toll Free 1.888.689.0070 WHISTLER OFFICE 106 - 7015 Nesters Road, Whistler, BC V8E 0X1 604.932.2300 or Toll Free 1.888.689.0070 *PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORPORATION remax-whistler.com Property Management remaxseatoskypm.com Dave Sharpe 604.902.2779 Kristi McMillin 778.899.8992 Madison Perry 778.919.7653 #115D - 2020 London Lane $205,000 Welcome to Evolution #115D, a beautifully appointed, fully furnished and equipped 1-bedroom resort home that effortlessly blends contemporary style with a cozy mountain feel. Enjoy gorgeous views of the forest from your deck on the quiet side of the building. Quarter Ownership. 99 - Highway 99 $4,500,000 A very rare, once in a lifetime opportunity to own a legacy estate property within the Resort Municipality of Whistler. This 26.2 acre parcel along the Cheakamus River is for sale for the first time ever. Bring your vision for the future, because this large property is the perfect place for your secluded Whistler dream home. Denise Brown 604.902.2033 Doug Treleaven 604.905.8626 #366 - 4090 Whistler Way $377,000 This is a unique suite that sleeps 2. Owners can upgrade to a larger suite during personal stays if needed. King Heavenly bed, gas fireplace, work station, modern galley-style kitchen fully equipped for in-suite convenience, spa-like bath with shower-tub combination and a large, paved patio to enjoy southern views over the Whistler Golf Course driving range. #221 - 4338 Main Street $1,495,000 COURT ORDERED SALE This 2 bedroom 2 bath is in the heart of the village. Just steps from Olympic Plaza, shops, stores and of course Pure bread !! This south facing unit is bathed in Sun year round and has great views of Whistler Mtn . Tyndall stone has its own newly renovated pool and hot tub area for you to enjoy after a hard day of playing in Whistler. #354 - 4314 Main Street $1,475,000 This 2 bed 2 bath offers views up Whistler and Blackcomb mountain, perfect to check the weather report. Living on the stroll, you are just steps toward worldclass dining, shopping, hiking/biking, and skiing; leave your car in the secure underground parking and secure your toys in the ski/bike storage. Meg McLean* 604.907.2223 Mike Nauss 604.932.9586 #238 - 4314 Main Street $1,099,000 This fully renovated, 1 bed/1bath Phase 1 property gives you the freedom to choose. Secure underground parking means you can park up and stroll to all of the amenities that Whistler is famous for - ski lifts, bike trails, hiking, markets, restaurants and shopping - all literally at your doorstep. #4J - 2300 Nordic Drive $349,000 At Natures Door is a 2nd to none lifestyle!! This home includes 3 spacious Bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, media room, and fully furnished right down to the place mats and towels. Offering its own private hot tub, bbq, as well as being Ski in, Ski out, directly onto the Dave Murray Olympic run. Richard Grenfell 604.902.4260 #35 - 1450 Vine Road $839,000 This 2 bedroom 2 bathroom townhome in the popular Peaks complex in Pemberton comes with an oversized single garage, and unique to this unit there is also room to park 2 vehicles in front of the unit, allowing space for all the toys to be safely stored inside. Sally Warner* 604.905.6326 9129 Riverside Drive $4,489,000 Spectacular home in WedgeWoods Whistler on a large 1.438 acre foot lot which drops down to the Green River. With over 5,000 square feet, there is room for a large extended family or 2 families to enjoy their own space. Some of many features include energy efficient heat/airconditioning system; floor heat in all of the bathrooms, central vacuum... and more! #106 - 3300 Ptarmigan Place $1,799,000 The beautiful floor plan will grab your attention with high vaulted ceilings, in the living room & bedrooms that streams in the natural light. Located by Alpha Lake / Park with tennis courts, beach and children’s play area for your summer fun. Walking distance to Creekside Gondola and all the wonderful amenities Creekside has to offer. Matt Kusiak 604.935.0762 .59.522 Sherry Baker* 604.932.1315 #6 - 2200 Taylor Way $2,499,000 This beautiful residence is sure to grab your attention. High vaulted ceilings in the living room and bedrooms create a spacious ambiance filled with natural light. The open main living area plus additional den/family room/flex space makes this townhome perfect for the entire family. 3.5 231 3D Tour - rem.ax/35peaks SOLD 22 New Listing Andrew King 604.932.0703 1352 Greenwood Street $1,679,000 3.5 bedrooms and 2 Bathroom in the main home, with a large, private 1 bedroom suite. Home feature’s a flowing floor plan with vaulted ceilings in the living area, and the open concept dining and kitchen leads off to an oversized deck overlooking the spacious backyard, perfect for kids and pets to play! Open House Saturday 1 - 3 pm 4.5 3D Tour - rem.ax/30powderview3D Tour - rem.ax/238eagle 3D Tour - rem.ax/6baseline3D Tour - rem.ax/9129riverside 3D Tour - rem.ax/221tyndall 3D Tour - rem.ax/115evolution
